[i]Opera[/i], by Charles Hamm

01 October 1966 Opera, by Charles Hamm. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1966. xii, 245 pp. Charles Hamm begins his preface with the words, "This is a book about opera, not operas." He lists, of course, the two books which come immediately to mind: Grout's A Short History of...

Connecting Music to Ethics

30 November 2018 1959 some people found “crooners more evil than gangsters.”2Crane Brinton, A History of Western Morals, 16. According to Charles Hamm, a Florida judge prepared warrants to arrest Elvis for impairing the morals of minors.3Charles Hamm, Yesterdays—Popular...

Amerigrove's Pedigree: On [i]The New Grove Dictionary of American Music[/i]

01 October 1987 folk music to another writer, thus leaving uncovered, in Music in the United States, a large chapter of the story.31 Charles Hamm's Music in the New World (New York: Norton, 1983), the most recent general history, brings a full range of musicological...

Celebrating 60 Years of the [i]Symposium[/i] (1961-2021): Learning from our Past

01 May 2021 that is focused on “change, innovation, and relevance”—topics still addressed today (Hood 1971). That same year, Charles Hamm lamented that music in academe was too disconnected from the interests of students: …our lack of concern for and involvement...

The Use of Cooperative Action Learning to Increase Music Appreciation Students' Listening Skills

01 October 2004 Listening dominates our culture's musical involvement, and therefore music listening education is increasingly important. College level music appreciation classes provide an opportunity to teach listening skills to a wide range of students who are...

Stephen Foster and His Publishers, Revisited

01 October 1988 mounted recently, based on an increasing understanding of Foster's place in the American popular scene of mid-century. Charles Hamm has suggested that Foster had a broad knowledge of the song literature of his day, and that the simplicity of his style...

A Stylistic Analysis of Selected Pop Songs, 1965-1984

01 October 1987 of Popular Music Recordings: Pleasingness, Familiarity, and Chart Performance," Psychology of Music 14 (1986):33-43. 8Charles Hamm, "Some Thoughts on the Measurement of Popularity in Music," in Popular Music Perspectives, ed. David Horn and Philip Tagg...

Music and Higher Education in the 1970's: A Needed Change in Attitude

01 October 1971 This paper was part of a panel presentation for The College Music Society at the University of Toronto on November 7, 1970 entitled Music and Higher Education in the 1970's. Chairman of the panel was William J. Mitchell. The other panelists were Mantle...

Music Curricula in the '70's

01 October 1971 Music and Higher Education in the 1970's. Chairman of the panel was William J. Mitchell. The other panelists were Charles Hamm, Mantle Hood, James Haar, Claude V. Palisca, and Robert J. Werner. Abstracts of the papers they presentedas well as Mitchell's...

Music Teacher Education in America (1753-1840): A Look at One of its Three Sources

01 October 1991 willingly leave it now, before 10 o'clock and exchange it for a better." See also, Levy, "Music's Proper Place," 23-24; Charles Hamm, Music in the New World (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1983), 414; and Gilbert Chase, America's Music: From...

Star-Spangled Bibliography

01 October 1972 the study of cultural institutions and all levels of musical and artistic expression within them"? Perhaps Mantle Hood, Charles Hamm, and especially Claude Palisca will be amused to learn the direction my thoughts took upon reading their timely...

Music and World Events Since 1945: A Graduate Seminar

17 March 2015 Introduction The course, Music and World Events Since 1945, is a graduate multidisciplinary seminar centering on works by major composers in direct response to world events such as war, disease, protest, human rights movements, and environmental...

Music and Higher Education in the 1970's

01 October 1971 at the University of Toronto on November 7, 1970 entitled Music and Higher Education in the 1970's. The panelists were Charles Hamm, Mantle Hood, James Haar, Claude V. Palisca, Robert J. Werner, and Neal Zaslaw. Abstracts of the papers they presented...

[i]The American Musical Landscape[/i], by Richard Crawford

01 October 1993 in which the story of American music has been told over almost a century-and-a-half, from George Hood (1846) through Charles Hamm (1983), Gilbert Chase (1955/R1987), and H. Wiley Hitchcock (1969/R1988). I say "significantly" because Crawford's work...

Graduate Education of the Musician-Teacher

01 October 1971 Music and Higher Education in the 1970's. Chairman of the panel was William J. Mitchell. The other panelists were Charles Hamm, Mantle Hood, James Haar, Claude V. Palisca, and Neal Zaslaw. Abstracts of the papers they presentedas well as Mitchell's...

Opportunities for Intracultural and Interdisciplinary Study

01 October 1971 Music and Higher Education in the 1970's. Chairman of the panel was William J. Mitchell. The other panelists were Charles Hamm, Mantle Hood, James Haar, Robert J. Werner, and Neal Zaslaw. Abstracts of the papers they presentedas well as Mitchell's...

The Ph.D. in Music: An Affirmation of Traditional Values

01 October 1971 Music and Higher Education in the 1970's. Chairman of the panel was William J. Mitchell. The other panelists were Charles Hamm, Mantle Hood, Claude V. Palisca, Robert J. Werner, and Neal Zaslaw. Abstracts of the papers they presentedas well as...

Musical Literacy in the 1970's

01 October 1971 Music and Higher Education in the 1970's. Chairman of the panel was William J. Mitchell. The other panelists were Charles Hamm, James Haar, Claude V. Palisca, Robert J. Werner, and Neal Zaslaw. Abstracts of the papers they presentedas well as Mitchell's...