Preface to a Graduate Course in the History of Music Theory

01 October 1982 who have written in English, German, and the Romance languages, but even so one must cope with the fact—alluded to by Arthur Mendel (1968, p. 149)—that "We call a 'theorist' everyone who ever set words on paper about music." To select from this...

Mozart’s Violin Concerto in D Major, K. 271a/271i: A “Dubious” Work that is Nevertheless Worthy of Study

15 May 2024 Biography. Stanford: Stanford University Press. Einstein, Alfred. 1945. Mozart: His Character, His Work. Translated by Arthur Mendel and Nathan Broder. New York: Oxford University Press. Eisen, Cliff, and Simon P. Keefe. 2006. The Cambridge Mozart...

Some New Editions and Paperbacks

01 October 1967 A Short History of Opera, by Donald Jay Grout. The Bach Reader, by Hans T. David and Arthur Mendel (ed.). Donald Jay Grout's A Short History of Opera, a standard reference work since its initial appearance in 1947, is now available in a revised edition...

Documentary Evidence Concerning the Aria "Ich folge dir gleichfalls" from Bach's St. John Passion

01 October 1965 1Alfred Dürr, "Zur Chronologie der Leipziger Vokalwerke J.S. Bachs," in Bach-Jahrbuch, 1957. 2Hans T. David and Arthur Mendel, Editors, The Bach Reader, New York, 1945, pp. 162-163. 3Johann Sebastian Bach und das Musikleben Leipzigs im 18. Jahrhundert;...

Paul Hindemith's Philosophy of Music and the Role of [i]The Four Temperaments[/i]

01 October 2011 Introductory remarks for the new version of the song cycle and English translation of the poems from the German by Arthur Mendel. New York: Associated Music Publishers, 1954. Original version in German published Mainz: B. Schott's Söhne, 1923. ________....

Music Historiography in the Classroom

01 October 1979 synthetic; that is, it is both a specialized branch of music and specialized branch of history at one and the same time. Arthur Mendel has expressed this mutual dependence this way: "We study music in order to understand history; we also study history...

On the Matter of a Doctor's Degree for Composers

01 October 1963 This article was part of a Symposium entitled The Doctorate in Composition. Other contributors to this Symposium were Arthur Mendel, Henry Leland Clarke, Robert Middleton, George Rochberg, Peter Eliot Stone, and Henry Weinberg. Their articles also...

Early Music and Paul Hindemith (1895-1963) in the United States: A Centenary Evaluation

01 October 1996 school of musicologists (and composers) who placed Beethoven at the zenith of the musical pantheon.78 Yet, it was Arthur Mendel, arch-proponent of positivist musicology in the United States, who regarded Hindemith's interpretations as extremely...

C. P. E. Bach His Mark

01 October 1979 facsimiles of this page see Walter Gerstenberg, Musikerhandschriften (Zurich, 1960), plate 70, and Hans T. David and Arthur Mendel, The Bach Reader (New York, 1945; rev. 1966), facing p. 256. 12David and Mendel, op. cit., p. 198. 13Ibid., p. 266 ff....

J.S. Bach Teaches Us How to Compose: Four Pattern Preludes of the Well-Tempered Clavier

01 October 1998 of the complete title page to J. S. Bach's manuscript of the Inventions appears in The Bach Reader, ed. Hans David and Arthur Mendel (New York: W. W. Norton, 1945; revised ed. 1966), 86, as well as in some editions. Laurence Dreyfus explores the concept...

Music in the Elementary and Secondary School: Report of the Committee

01 October 1963 attended the MENC Convention in Chicago in March, 1962, of which Allen Britton was president. G.W. Woodworth and Arthur Mendel (Princeton), chairman of the AMS Committee, attended the two-day conference of the Bennington Institute for High School...

The Doctorate in Composition

01 October 1963 This article was part of a Symposium entitled The Doctorate in Composition. Other contributors to this Symposium were Edward E. Lowinsky, Henry Leland Clarke, Robert Middleton, George Rochberg, Peter Eliot Stone, and Henry Weinberg. Their articles also...

An Ethnomusicologist's Reflections on "Complexity" and "Participation" in Music

01 October 1977 demands. Ethnomusicologists cannot confine their theoretical concerns to the difficulties of the project discussed by Arthur Mendel in a paraphrase of Croce: Do you wish to understand the true history of the Missa Pange lingua? Try, if you can, to...

Beyond "Bach-Centrism": Historiographic Perspectives on Johann Sebastian Bach and Seventeenth-Century Music

01 October 1993 noted, all translations are my own. 17This spelling occurs frequently in eighteenth-century sources. 18Hans T. David and Arthur Mendel, eds., The Bach Reader, rev. ed. (New York: W. W. Norton and Company, 1966), 441. 19Ibid., 216. 20Hans-Joachim...

Towards a History of Absolute Pitch Recognition

01 October 1987 the visual effect of the key signature and not on pitch per se since pitch had not yet been standardized. (According to Arthur Mendel, the first organized attempt at establishing a standard pitch was the recommendation of a' = 440 by the Deutsche...

Transition and Retransition in Mozart's Sonata-Type Movements

01 October 1986 information concerning J.C. Bach's influence on Mozart, see Alfred Einstein, Mozart: His Character, His Work, trans. Arthur Mendel and Nathan Broder (New York: Oxford University Press, 1962), 218-20. 4Louise Cuyler, The Symphony (New York: Harcourt...

Mozart's Real Joke

01 October 1986 ed. Albert Dunning (Cassel: Bärenreiter, 1976), 223-54. 2Alfred Einstein, Mozart: His Character, His Work, trans. Arthur Mendel and Nathan Broder, corrected ed. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1962), 161. 3Both catalogues reprinted as Wolfgang...

Make the Doctor of Music an Earned Degree

01 October 1963 part of a Symposium entitled The Doctorate in Composition. Other contributors to this Symposium were Edward E. Lowinsky, Arthur Mendel, Robert Middleton, George Rochberg, Peter Eliot Stone, and Henry Weinberg. Their articles also appear in SYMPOSIUM...

Musicomp 76 and the State of DARMS

01 October 1977 and Allen Forte), computer methods for the preparation of critical editions of Renaissance music (Thomas Hall and Arthur Mendel), thematic indexing and low-cost computer printing of simple melodies (Harry B. Lincoln), and a computer-oriented system for...

A Musicologist Defends the D.M.A.

01 October 1976 to scholars. Quite simply, the existence of the D.M.A. recognizes the essential nature of degrees in academia: as Arthur Mendel pointed out in these pages more than ten years ago, the degree is a license to teach.3 Let me stress that I would never...