Confronting the Dilemmas of Higher Music Education: Is There a Will to Change?

17 August 2015 the following: Recalling Milton Babbitt’s 1958 High Fidelity article, “Who Cares if You Listen?,” he notes that Gunther Schuller, Christopher Rouse, Kevin Puts, and others are among “those who have strengthened a conviction among young composers that...

[i]Duke Ellington[/i], by James Lincoln Collier

01 October 1988 As it stands, Collier makes no reference to discographies by Walter Bruyninckx and Brian Rust, or to commentaries by Gunther Schuller (in Early Jazz), and Larry Gushee (in liner notes for the Smithsonian's Duke Ellington 1940 album), all items one would...

Bernstein's Senior Thesis At Harvard: The Roots of a Lifelong Search to Discover an American Identity

01 October 2008 Joy of Music, 94-119.) A Young People's Concerts lecture entitled "Jazz in the Concert Hall" (March 11, 1964) featured Gunther Schuller conducting his own Journey into Jazz, Copland performing his own Piano Concerto, and Bernstein conducting Larry...

Jazz in American Education Today

01 October 1989 the other hand, jazz history, research, and analysis are not well developed. Despite the presence of such scholars as Gunther Schuller at New England Conservatory during the 1970s, and presently Dan Morgenstern and myself at Rutgers, and David Joyner at...

Julius Weiss: Scott Joplin's First Piano Teacher

01 October 1979 and Treemonisha" (in libretto pamphlet), Joplin, Treemonisha, recording, Houston Grand Opera Production, conducted by Gunther Schuller; DGG 2707 083. 3E. Power Biggs, liner notes, Scott Joplin on the Pedal Harpsichord, recording; Columbia M32495. 4The...

The New Music Ensemble in the University

01 October 1978 The private teacher has a tremendous responsibility in this regard. It is too often the case that many students, as Gunther Schuller states, have been subjected to older concepts of teaching and thereby indoctrinated with the notion that new music is...

Campus Focus: A Curriculum for Understanding Music through Discovery and Discussion—The Yale Music Curriculum Project

01 October 1969 Palisca. Program Music: A survey from Vivaldi to Schönberg, by L.B. Plantinga. American Music: jazz, Charles Ives, Gunther Schuller, James Drew, by James Drew. Classroom discussion is stimulated through a series of graded problems, mainly in the form of...

Americans on American Music

01 October 1968 W.W. Norton, 1966). Few professional musicologists have concerned themselves with jazz or related music. A composer, Gunther Schuller, has published the first volume of a two-volume work on jazz that is the first serious style-critical study: Early Jazz...