Students Evaluate Music Theory Courses: A Reddit Community Survey

20 September 2018 with new curricular concepts?” A trifecta of American composers responded: Milton Babbitt, Howard Boatwright, and Andrew Imbrie. Each framed the ‘crisis’ and its solutions through the lenses of their respective compositional schools of thought, each...

The Composer in Academia: Reflections on a Theme of Stravinsky

01 October 1970 William Bergsma Howard Boatwright Elliott Carter Paul Creston Ingolf Dahl Cecil Effinger Ross Lee Finney Carlisle Floyd Andrew Imbrie Ellis B. Kohs Leo Kraft Lawrence K. Moss John Pozdro Gardner Read George Rochberg Seymour Shifrin Halsey Stevens Lester...

Patterning Beyond Hypermeter

01 October 1992 however, put the music back "in phase" with the previous four-bar hypermetric scheme. That is, if a listener adopts what Andrew Imbrie has called a "conservative" stance, and continues to count in fours from m. 7 through m. 33, the four-bar groups that...

The Crisis in Theory Teaching: A Grain of Salt

01 October 1965 This article was part of a Symposium entitled The Crisis in Theory Teaching. The other authors were A. Tillman Merritt, Howard Boatwright, and Milton Babbitt. Their articles also appear in SYMPOSIUM Volume 5. This discussion intends to convey to our...

Undergraduate Training in Music Theory

01 October 1965 This article was part of a Symposium entitled The Crisis in Theory Teaching. The other authors were Andrew Imbrie, Howard Boatwright, and Milton Babbitt. Their articles also appear in SYMPOSIUM Volume 5. This discussion intends to convey to our readers...

The Crisis in Theory Teaching

01 October 1965 This article was part of a Symposium entitled The Crisis in Theory Teaching. The other authors were A. Tillman Merritt, Andrew Imbrie, and Milton Babbitt. Their articles also appear in SYMPOSIUM Volume 5. This discussion intends to convey to our...

Some Observations on Music Lexicography

01 October 1971 worthless. Of George Rochberg, for example, the statement is made that "his compositions include two symphonies". Andrew Imbrie is given a somewhat fuller treatment: "His compositions include a violin concerto, choral music, and chamber music, mostly in...

And Now We Begin—A Survey of Recent Theory Texts

01 October 1973 The 1960s were a time for reexamination of the aims, contents and methods of college courses designed to teach music theory, and, as a corollary, of the texts intended for those courses. Several factors contributed to the creation of a "crisis in the...

The Fairbank Collection

01 October 1976 The Newberry Library, Chicago, contains a distinguished music collection, rare book, manuscript, and print holdings, and archives relevant both to the United States (and its Indian populations) and to the city of Chicago. Thus it is understandable that...

A New Approach to Species Counterpoint

01 October 1981 musical style. Each composer took Fux's description and put it to his own use. This is hardly news; in SYMPOSIUM of 1965 Andrew Imbrie writes that what Beethoven learned from Fux was "not mastery of Palestrina's style, or even Fux's; but mastery of...