More Than A Drummer Boy's War: A Historical View of Musicians in the American Civil War

01 October 2002 grounds of Arlington National Cemetery. 49Kenneth A. Bernard, Lincoln and the Music, 22-23. 50Julius A. Leinbach and Donald M. McCorkle, "Regiment Band of the Twenty-Sixth North Carolina," Civil War History IV/3 (Sept, 1958), 233. 51H. W. Schwartz,...

College Music Symposium: A Reflection on the Past and a Step into the Future

02 May 2013 all-encompassing perspective of issues, concerns, and scholarly work in music in higher education, became a reality. Donald M. McCorkle, first editor of Symposium, stated the purpose and the goal of the journal in his editorial in volume 1, published in...

Past Editors

10 May 2013 Scholarship and Research Volumes 1 and 2, 1961 - 1962 Donald M. McCorkle Volumes 3 through 6, 1963 - 1966 Henry W. Kaufman Volumes 7 through 9, 1967 - 1969 Philip Nelson Volume 10, 1970 Donald M. McCorkle Volume 11, 1971 George Buelow Volume 12,1972...

Needs for Research in Black-American Music

01 October 1973 will be properly equipped for the task of according to Afro-American music its due acclaim and dignity. 1See Donald M. McCorkle, "Finding a Place for American Studies in American Musicology," Journal of the American Musicological Society, XIX (1966),...

Campus Focus: On Finding A Niche—The CMS Faculty Placement Service

01 October 1969 Traditionally, annual meetings of professional societies offer the best access to the proverbial "slave market," where academic recruiting and placement of faculty are carried on in a feverish pace amidst the rugged schedules of the convention...

The Composer in Academia: Reflections on a Theme of Stravinsky

01 October 1970 Bobby Klein photo—Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. "I would warn young composers too, Americans especially, against university teaching. . . ."Igor Stravinsky Editor's Foreword Even a glance at the twenty-three essays that follow will suffice to show that a...

Welcome from the General Editor

22 May 2017 Music Society, was first issued in 1961 with a unique purpose that was not duplicated elsewhere. As the first editor Donald M. McCorkle noted, the Symposium was established as a “different sort of scholarly journal,” a provocative publication that “cut...