“Oh My Son!”: The Musical Origins and Function of King David’s Lamentation

01 October 2009 Introduction In his 1981 article “Prince Henry as Absalom in David’s Lamentations” Irving Godt examined a group of seventeenth-century English settings based on King David’s laments for his son Absalom and his friend Jonathan.1 On the basis of the...

The New Arts Education

01 October 1976 The directions that the arts are taking in public education are endemic to what is or should be taking place in teacher preparation. This is truer today than it used to be just a few years ago. With the current drop in enrollments at every level of the...