The Lessons of Faustus

01 October 1981 Thomas Mann's novel Doctor Faustus1 spotlights one of the most critical interfaces between traditional and new music as seen by the community of German intellectuals living in southern California in the early 1940s. Its composer/hero Adrian Leverkn,...

Preface to a Graduate Course in the History of Music Theory

01 October 1982 As a doctoral degree certifies (among other things) to a breadth of knowledge in the field, one requirement for the Ph.D. in music theory should be a scholarly course surveying the history of theory. To decide on this requirement, however, is easier...

A Response to Kivy: Music and "Music Appreciation" in the Undergraduate Liberal Arts Curriculum

01 October 1999 I Allegro Spiritoso There is absolutely no justification at all . . . for insisting that well educated humanities students learn music in the way that music faculties today are required to teach them. Peter Kivy, "Music and the Liberal Education" I...

Handelian Rehearsal and Performance Practice

01 October 1969 This paper was read originally at the Eleventh Annual Meeting of the Society held in New Haven, Connecticut, December 27-29, 1968 as part of a ROUND TABLE discussion concerning "Rehearsal Techniques and Historical Performance Practice." The other...

Performance Practices and Rehearsal Techniques

01 October 1969 DENIS STEVENS, Professor of Music at Columbia University and Artistic Director of the Accademia Monteverdiana; and ALFRED MANN, Professor of Music at Rutgers University and Director of the Bethlehem Bach Choir. Mr. Zimmerman also served as Chairman of...

Voice Leading and Harmony as Expressive Devices in the Early Music of the Beatles: She Loves You

01 October 1993 A recent issue of Popular Music contains a review of Tim Riley's armchair listening guide to the Beatles, Tell Me Why, that concludes with the following statement: "No amount of academic analysing could capture the sheer geniality, innocence and barely...

Performing Fourteenth-Century Music

01 October 1969 9, were DENIS STEVENS, Professor of Music at Columbia University and Artistic Director of the Accademia Monteverdiana; ALFRED MANN, Professor of Music at Rutgers University and Director of the Bethlehem Bach Choir; and FRANKLIN ZIMMERMAN, Professor of...

Rehearsals in the Renaissance and Baroque

01 October 1969 whose papers were also included in SYMPOSIUM Volume 9, were JOHN REEVES WHITE, Conductor of the New York Pro Musica; ALFRED MANN, Professor of Music at Rutgers University and Director of the Bethlehem Bach Choir; and FRANKLIN ZIMMERMAN, Professor of...

Approaching Musical Classicism—Understanding Styles and Style Change in Eighteenth-Century Instrumental Music

01 October 1980 I Historical/stylistic periods in music are both useful and perplexing concepts; they simultaneously clarify and hinder one's perception of a given period and a given work. Part of the difficulty arises from a general lack of agreement as to what...

[i]Current Musicology[/i], edited by Austin Clarkson

01 October 1965 trouve chanson and the philosophy of T.W. Adorno; here are featured established scholars such as Edward A. Lippman and Alfred Mann as well as writers whose names are new to the tables of contents of musicological magazines. There will undoubtedly be...