[i]The World of Music[/i], by David Willoughby

31 January 2014 The World of Music, David Willoughby. 7th edition. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2012. ISBN: 978-0078025167 In his book The World of Music, David Willoughby, former head of the Music Department at Susquehanna University, presents a concise, yet comprehensive,...

Review Essay of Five Music Appreciation Textbooks

01 October 1997 Machlis and Kristine Forney. New York: W. W. Norton, 1995. xxii + 515 pp. ISBN 0-393-96682-8. The World of Music, by David Willoughby. Madison, Wisconsin: Brown and Benchmark, 1996. xv + 381 pp. ISBN 0-697-25838-6. ISBNs are for book alone. All texts...

MGS: Possibilities for Phase 2

28 February 2007 and what CMS can do to assist music departments and schools achieve success with similar expanded programs. authors: David Willoughby author_ids: 546 authors: David Willoughby author_ids: 546

Music in General Studies - Perspectives and Prospects

31 August 2004 with innovative and successful MGS efforts through continued dialog, perhaps through the CMS Newsletter! authors: David Willoughby author_ids: 546 authors: David Willoughby author_ids: 546

MGS -- Enrichment Possibilities Through Videos

30 April 1992 and a commitment to using them as an integral part of teaching, they will enhance the learning process. authors: David Willoughby author_ids: 546 authors: David Willoughby author_ids: 546

[i]Introducing American Folk Music[/i], by Kip Lornell

01 October 1992 It will also be beneficial in courses that emphasize the links between folk and American popular music. authors: David Willoughby author_ids: 546 authors: David Willoughby author_ids: 546

Comprehensive Musicianship: Some Encouraging Words

01 October 1982 in cooperation with the Center for the Teaching Professions and Northwestern University, January 22-24, 1973. authors: David Willoughby author_ids: 546 authors: David Willoughby author_ids: 546

Music Appreciation Materials I

31 October 2000 We looked together for a text that taught many kinds of music and that would connect with American students. We found David Willoughby's The World of Music, a McGraw-Hill text, which works quite well in giving students listening experiences and...

CMS, MGS, and Wingspread

30 April 2006 the CMS Newsletter, or the CMS website. The Next Phase: CMS and Music in General Studies (MGS) In 1980, when David Willoughby joined the CMS Board, the position of Member-at-Large for Music in General Education (MGE) was renamed Music in General Studies...

The Teacher's Guide to Recent Recordings of Music by Black Composers

01 October 1973 This discography is restricted to "concert" music by composers of African ancestry, regardless of the country of their birth. I acknowledge immediately that several of the figures listed are represented on recordings by works in other genres (e.g.,...

Teaching Introductory Music Courses with a "More Comprehensive Perspective"

01 October 1990 alive by altering the familiar and domesticating the unfamiliar. A good example of how this function can be served is David Willoughby's The World of Music (Dubuque: Wm. C. Brown, 1990)—not coincidentally, almost the only recent appreciation textbook...

Reflections on CMP 6

01 October 1972 with our ideals. The present article offers a series of comments on CMP 6,1 a recently published booklet written by David Willoughby, which gives the clearest idea yet of what the Project stands for. No attempt is made here to touch on every aspect of...

Changing the Stories We Tell: Repertoires, Narratives, Materials, Goals, and Strategies in Teaching Music History

01 October 2009 As The College Music Society reaches its fiftieth anniversary, it is fitting that we look back on developments in college music teaching over its first fifty years. In the teaching of music history, I see five major areas of change during that time:...

A Web-Assisted Approach to the Music Listening Class

01 October 2000 created a smaller class size more suitable for discussion. Each week, the students were expected to: read a chapter in David Willoughby's The World of Music (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1999; fourth edition) and listen to the corresponding musical examples...

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...

Past Editors

10 May 2013 Douglass Seaton Volumes 34 through 37, 1994 - May 1997 K Marie Stolba Volumes 37 through 46, September 1997 - May 2006 David Willoughby Volume 46 through 51, September 2006 - May 2011 Ann Sears authors: The College Music Society author_ids: 786 authors:...

Ruminations on the Center for Black Music Research

01 October 2008 of and participants in the CMP, as it was called, were stalwarts in The College Music Society—individuals such as David Willoughby, Robert Werner, Robert Trotter, and others. The College Music Society’s support was, as usual, correct and in the...

College-Community Partnerships: The Engaged Campus

01 January 2002 John Buccheri; Board member for Music in General Studies Anthony Rauche; Past-President and current Newsletter Editor David Willoughby; and Tayloe Harding, Chair of the Committee on Advocacy. The team participated in a series of working sessions and...

On the Mission of The College Music Society

31 August 1997 history, I hope I have demonstrated the need at least for some regularly scheduled ferries, and a telephone or two. David Willoughby, Editor of the CMS Newsletter, included the following statement in his guidelines for submitting lead articles to the...