The Function of Dynamics in the Music of Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven: Some Implications for the Performer

01 October 1976 advocated eloquently in the College Music Symposium and elsewhere by performer-musicologists such as George Houle and Denis Stevens.1 This article continues their endeavor, but it is more of a demonstration than a pep talk. It is, of course, a limited...

Rehearsals in the Renaissance and Baroque

01 October 1969 This paper was read originally at the Eleventh Annual Meeting of the Society held in New Haven, Connecticut, December 27-29, 1968 as part of a ROUND TABLE discussion concerning "Rehearsal Techniques and Historical Performance Practice." The other...

Lower Music and Higher Education in the 1970's

01 October 1972 Symposium Volume 11 offers the results of a Symposium sponsored jointly by the American Musicological Society and The College Music Society on November 7, 1970, at Toronto, the topic being "Music and Higher Education in the 1970's." Most of the...

Performance Practice in Baroque Vocal Music

01 October 1978 Reduced to its quintessential form, the question most frequently asked concerning Baroque concerts and recordings over the past twenty-five years would be as follows: "How does one manage to impart an easy and natural flow to the music, so that the...

Women Conductors on the Orchestral Podium: Pedagogical and Professional Implications

01 October 2008 Introduction Recent discussions about women's experiences in the orchestral profession1 have revealed the gendered politics behind many of the generally accepted norms and customs in the orchestral tradition. With the bourgeoning of feminist...

Performing Fourteenth-Century Music

01 October 1969 Historical Performance Practice." The other participants, whose papers were also included in SYMPOSIUM Volume 9, were DENIS STEVENS, Professor of Music at Columbia University and Artistic Director of the Accademia Monteverdiana; ALFRED MANN, Professor...

Handelian Rehearsal and Performance Practice

01 October 1969 whose papers were also included in SYMPOSIUM Volume 9, were JOHN REEVES WHITE, Conductor of the New York Pro Musica; DENIS STEVENS, Professor of Music at Columbia University and Artistic Director of the Accademia Monteverdiana; and FRANKLIN ZIMMERMAN,...

A Survey of Recent Publications Relating to Nineteenth-Century Music and Musicians

01 October 1969 concerned with song include A History of Song (1960), prepared by several different writers under the guidance of Denis Stevens. Unfortunately it is inadequate. The Penguin Book of Lieder (1964, in paperback), edited by S.S. Prawer, includes texts to...

Performance Practices and Rehearsal Techniques

01 October 1969 whose papers were also included in SYMPOSIUM Volume 9, were JOHN REEVES WHITE, Conductor of the New York Pro Musica; DENIS STEVENS, Professor of Music at Columbia University and Artistic Director of the Accademia Monteverdiana; and ALFRED MANN,...

Historical Anthologies of Music—A Review and Critique

01 October 1970 their plan for a set of recordings. Only now, twenty-four years later, are recordings slowly coming into being. Denis Stevens has begun a History of European Music (Orpheus Records) with Nos. 1-41 of the first volume, while a second set of discs has...