Mathematic Techniques in Music History

01 October 1978 number theory would not accord them."6 There is no better illustration of this position than some work recently done by Edith Borroff of SUNY at Binghamton. (See her article in this volume of Symposium.) Her computer project with respect to latent...

An Early Electro-Magnetic Experiment

01 October 1979 letter of May 21, 1968. 13Letter from Mr. D. Whitfield Hardy of Delray Beach, Florida, dated December 12, 1968. authors: Edith Borroff author_ids: 1083 authors: Edith Borroff author_ids: 1083

Verisimilitude and the Operatic Set Piece

01 October 1984 forth by Alfred Einstein. Edith Mathis sings the title role. 17Lang, p. 848. 18Crocker, p. 473. 19Lang, p. 837. authors: Edith Borroff author_ids: 1083 authors: Edith Borroff author_ids: 1083

Preparing for the Future of Music

01 January 1998 The Philadelphia Story, in deep admiration of the fluent mobility of her yacht, sighing, "My but she was yare!" authors: Edith Borroff author_ids: 1083 authors: Edith Borroff author_ids: 1083

American Music in Music Courses

01 October 1985 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1968), pp. 109, 226-30. The Gaultier reference is on page 229. authors: Edith Borroff author_ids: 1083 authors: Edith Borroff author_ids: 1083

Women Composers: Reminiscence and History

01 October 1975 The Revelations of Divine Love. Trans. James Walsh, S.J. (London, 1961). 6Bari Watkins, "Women and History," p. 20. 7Cf. Edith Borroff, An Introduction to Elisabeth-Claude Jacquet de La Guerre (Brooklyn, N.Y., 1966). 8For all of these composers (and...

The Choralcelo: One Uniquely American Instrument

01 October 1982 cloister is taken into consideration. 5Letter of August 11, 1980. 6Ibid. 7Letter of January 21, 1981. 8Ibid. authors: Edith Borroff author_ids: 1083 authors: Edith Borroff author_ids: 1083

A Conference on Women in Music: A Progress Report

01 October 1982 lot more women's music to be heard than anyone had imagined, and that it can stand proudly as the equal of any. authors: Edith Borroff author_ids: 1083 authors: Edith Borroff author_ids: 1083

Celebrating 60 Years of the [i]Symposium[/i] (1961-2021): Learning from our Past

01 May 2021 American music, and Afro-American music cannot help but benefit from this change in attitude” (Southern 1973). In 1998 Edith Borroff discussed “Preparing for the Future of Music,” as she reviewed historic cycles and speculated that a new unknown type of...

Music Historiography in the Classroom

01 October 1979 from acknowledging the difficulty of generalization, particularly when all the facts are not in. Both D.J. Grout and Edith Borroff are admirably cautious about generalizations, but both continue to attempt them and to accept the possibility of their...

[i]Louise Farrenc, 1804-1875: Composer, Performer, Scholar[/i], by Bea Friedland

01 October 1981 reading public. Biographies of women composers, however, have been very few and far between. Not since the slim volume Edith Borroff published on Elizabeth Jacquet de La Guerre in 1966 has a substantial work dealt with a woman composer. Surely this...

A Report from the First National Congress on Women in Music

01 October 1982 Courses in the history of women in music have become more acceptable and available in colleges and universities throughout the country, but faculty faced with teaching in this field still find that they are charting new areas. There are no precedents,...

Performance and the Laborde Chansonnier: Authenticity of Multiplicities—The Medium

01 October 1970 This paper was part of a panel entitled "Performance and the Laborde Chansonnier: Authenticity of Multiplicities" which was presented for The College Music Society at Baldwin-Wallace College, November 8, 1969. The moderator was Robert Austin Warner....

The Fairbank Collection

01 October 1976 The Newberry Library, Chicago, contains a distinguished music collection, rare book, manuscript, and print holdings, and archives relevant both to the United States (and its Indian populations) and to the city of Chicago. Thus it is understandable that...

Ancient Acoustical Theory and a Pre-Pythagorean Comma

01 October 1978 Philosophical, acoustical, and numerical considerations were not separate in the ancient world. They could be separated neither from each other nor from the overriding symbolism which informed and at times united them. It is difficult enough to embrace...

A Survey of Music History Texts

01 October 1974 and presented in alphabetical order by the author. There are some fine texts currently available for the music major. Edith Borroff's Music in Europe and the United States, A History (Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall, 1971) is comprehensive, accurate,...

Integrating Music by Women into the Music History Sequence

01 October 1985 illustrative of "le grand siècle" and by far more vivid to students than the biography of Couperin. (For more here, see Edith Borroff's Introduction.) Patronized directly by Louis XIV, this commoner was given the very finest of educations in royal...

Performance and the Laborde Chansonnier: Authenticity of Multiplicities—Ornamentation and Other Performance Problems

01 October 1970 November 8, 1969. The moderator was Robert Austin Warner. The other panelists were Gwynn S. McPeek, David Crawford, and Edith Borroff. Their papers also appear in SYMPOSIUM Volume 10. By and large, there is little difference between the performance...

Performance and the Laborde Chansonnier: Authenticity of Multiplicities—Musica Ficta

01 October 1970 College, November 8, 1969. The moderator was Robert Austin Warner. The other panelists were Gwynn S. McPeek, Edith Borroff, and John W. Grubbs. Their papers also appear in SYMPOSIUM Volume 10. Bertrand Russell once claimed that all philosophical systems...

Performance and the Laborde Chansonnier: Authenticity of Multiplicities—The Manuscript, Repertory, and Enigmas

01 October 1970 College, November 8, 1969. The moderator was Robert Austin Warner. The other panelists were David Crawford, Edith Borroff, and John W. Grubbs. Their papers also appear in SYMPOSIUM Volume 10. At the outset we should explain just what was sent to the...