Should Ethnomusicology be Abolished?

01 October 1977 Ethnomusicology Interest Group at the 19th Annual Meeting of the College Music Society, Washington D.C., November 1976 FREDRIC LIEBERMAN University of Washington One of the world's natural wonders is the consistent way in which social organizations...

Mathematic Techniques in Music History

01 October 1978 to powers of 2 and 3. An interesting example of a 2p3q computer program, run in 1972 by the Sinomusicologist Fredric Lieberman, can be seen in Table 1. TABLE I. THE LIEBERMAN PRINTOUT A useful aspect of this program is its inclusiveness. Lieberman had...

On [i]Symposium[/i] at 40

01 November 1999 importance in the development of American ethnomusicology, with contributions by Stephen Blum, Robert Werner, and Fredric Lieberman. The latter paper, entitled "Should Ethnomusicology be Abolished," along with insightful responses by professors Eugene...

An Undergraduate Curriculum in Ethnomusicology at Brown University

01 October 1971 In 1968 Brown University initiated a program in ethnomusicology with three main goals: 1. to develop strength in the area of East Asian musical cultures, thus complementing the University's East Asian Language and Area Center, 2. to balance the area...

Comparative Theory: A Systematic Approach to the Study of World Music

01 October 1972 There are few signs that composers and music theorists have participated with more than faint enthusiasm in the current and widespread move to make the study of non-Western music a basic component in American university practice. Most of my colleagues...

Toru Takemitsu and the Unity of Opposites

01 October 1990 of F4 strongly resonate with C5, heightening emphasis on C5 evident throughout the passage. 22Toru Takemitsu quoted in Fredric Lieberman, "Contemporary Japanese Composition: Its Relationship to Concepts of Traditional Oriental Musics" (M.A. thesis,...