[i]Beethoven's Critics: Aesthetic Dilemmas and Resolutions During the Composer's Lifetime[/i], by Robin Wallace

01 October 1988 Beethoven's Critics: Aesthetic Dilemmas and Resolutions During the Composer's Lifetime, by Robin Wallace. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986. viii + 184 pp. ISBN 0521386349. It was prudent of Robin Wallace to advise the reader that this book...

[i]Choral Music: A Symposium[/i], edited by Arthur Jacobs

01 October 1964 Choral Music: A Symposium. Edited by Arthur Jacobs. Baltimore: Penguin Books, Inc., 1963. [444 p., 16mo; $1.85] As the foregoing pages show, the choral repertory is both older and broader than that of the symphony orchestra or opera house. For most...

Music in Medieval Medical Practice: Speculations and Certainties

01 October 2000 In its most cherished formative texts, both sacred and secular, the medieval world encountered the notion that music had measurable therapeutic value. From the story of David and Saul, perhaps the oldest account of applied music therapy that we...

Women Orchestral Conductors in America: The Struggle for Acceptance—An Historical View from the Nineteenth Century to the Present

01 October 1998 Introduction Orchestral conducting has been the latest door of opportunity to open for women in the field of music. Although women have been actively involved in performance, composition, teaching, and patronage from the history of the ancient Greeks...

Music Iconography and Medieval Performance Practice

01 October 1991 Introduction This study of iconography and performance practice is divided into two parts. Part I deals with the definition of iconography and its relationship to performance practice. Part II outlines some general principles necessary to the study of...

Teaching Introductory Music Courses with a "More Comprehensive Perspective"

01 October 1990 Any college teacher who teaches an introductory music course to general students—the kind of course that has long been called "music appreciation"—can benefit from reading the 1989 CMS Report Number 7: Music in the Undergraduate Curriculum: A...