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:...

Women and Music: A History, edited by Karin Pendle

01 October 1992 forebears were completely absent from the curriculum—certainly from the second edition of A History of Western Music by Donald J. Grout (W. W. Norton, 1973). As a monumental distillation of scholarship, "Grout"—as the book is familiarly known—carried a...

Teaching Seventeenth-Century Concepts of Musical Form and Expression: An Aspect of Baroque Music

01 October 1987 Teaching Seventeenth-Century Concepts of Musical Form and Expression: An Aspect of Baroque Music1 For decades there have been proposals to update, improve, and to achieve greater student interest in college music history courses. Rare, however, is the...

Music Historiography in the Classroom

01 October 1979 For the teacher of music history, no less than the teacher of any other subject, the selection of materials and methods for class use is an important decision. For the beginning instructor, the problem is especially acute, as he or she has no...

Early Music Matters: Revitalizing the Survey through a Contextual Approach[sup]1[/sup]

20 September 2020 Abstract The early music segment of the Western music history survey is an important opportunity to reach out to undergraduate music students before they become the music educators, performers, and advocates for music in our communities. In such...

A Reevaluation of Isorhythm in the "Old Corpus" of the Montpellier Codex

01 October 2011 edited by Tess Knighton and David Fallows, 114-119. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. Burkholder, J. Peter, Donald J. Grout, and Claude V. Palisca, A History of Western Music, 8th ed. New York: W.W. Norton, 2010. Everist, Mark. French Motets in...

Concept-Based Pedagogy and its Application in the Private Clarinet Studio

01 April 2019 Abstract Educators are no longer the keepers of content. With the increase in accessibility to technology and the internet, teachers need to show students how to think critically and use facts to influence their own independence and creativity in the...

Undergraduate Preparation for Graduate Study in Music

01 October 1967 each generation are needed and it must be said that their task becomes more difficult with each generation that passes. DONALD J. GROUT Cornell University Ithaca, New York Critical Observations Concerning the Preparation of Candidates for Doctoral...

Rereading Absence: Women in Medieval and Renaissance Music

01 October 1998 During the last twenty years, a consideration of the roles of women and minorities in musical life has become increasingly central to the study of music. The "canon" of old has proven to have porous boundaries, with works by women composers and by...

Strengthening the “History” in “Music History”: An Argument for Broadening the Cross-disciplinary Base in Musicological Studies

01 October 2009 This paper is the result of years of teaching both music history and world history. Formally a musicologist by training, my experience with the world history curriculum has afforded me a broad perspective of Europe’s position in the context of the...

Music History at Ten Years a Minute

01 October 2004 as are not reissued on CD. 10Burkholder, Study and Listening Guide [to Grout/Palisca] (New York: Norton, 2001); Donald J. Grout and Claude Palisca, A History of Western Music, 6th ed. (New York: Norton, 2001). Burkholder has in fact been contracted to...

Historical Approach: No. 13, "Ich folge dir gleichfalls" from Bach Passion according to St. John

01 October 1965 This article was originally part of a Round Table discussion entitled Four Approaches to the Understanding of a Single Musical WorkThe Aria "Ich folge dir gleichfalls" from the St. John Passion of J.S. Bach, which took place at the seventh annual...

Remixing Western Music History

01 May 2023 Abstract The problem faced by music historians of how (or whether) to impart reverence for music created through the institutions of imperialism, patriarchy, colonialism, and slavery is not a new one; nevertheless, as decolonizing initiatives take hold...

Musical Performance and Scholarship in Higher Education

01 October 1981 In higher education today there exists an apparent dilemma involving the role and function of the performing musician as a member of the university community. The purpose of this article is to present and explicate the problem and to suggest a way to...

Documentary Evidence Concerning the Aria "Ich folge dir gleichfalls" from Bach's St. John Passion

01 October 1965 the seventh annual meeting of the Society held in Washington, D.C., December 28-30, 1964. The other participants were Donald J. Grout, Edward T. Cone, and Edward A. Lippman. Their articles also appear in SYMPOSIUM Volume 5. The earliest surviving...

The Musical World of Hildegard of Bingen

01 October 1998 Hildegard's life (1098-1179) spans most of the twelfth century, one of the richest and most fascinating periods in cultural and intellectual history. Among the distinguished personages of this century are Dante Alighieri, Peter Abelard and his wife...

A Practical Application of an Eighteenth-Century Aesthetic: The Development of Pestalozzian Education

01 October 1986 21Monroe, History of Education, 581. 22Jean-Jacques Rousseau, "mélodie," in his Dictionnaire de musique, as cited in Donald J. Grout, A History of Western Music, rev. ed. (New York: Norton, 1973), 451. 23Oliver Strunk, Source Readings in Music History:...

A Survey of Music History Texts

01 October 1974 refined." Adopted by 726 schools in 1970 alone, A History of Western Music (New York: W.W. Norton, 1960; rev. 1973) by Donald J. Grout probably is best-known to music history instructors. In 1973 it was expanded to 760 pages to include 135 musical...

An Interpretation of Bach's "Ich folge dir gleichfalls"

01 October 1965 meeting of the Society held in Washington, D.C., December 28-30, 1964. The other participants were Arthur Mendel, Donald J. Grout, and Edward T. Cone. Their articles also appear in SYMPOSIUM Volume 5. Since a musical work is written in a social and...

On the Structure of Ich folge dir

01 October 1965 meeting of the Society held in Washington, D.C., December 28-30, 1964. The other participants were Arthur Mendel, Donald J. Grout, and Edward A. Lippman. Their articles also appear in SYMPOSIUM Volume 5. If, as I believe, structural analysis represents...