Amerigrove's Pedigree: On [i]The New Grove Dictionary of American Music[/i]

01 October 1987 Amerigrove's Pedigree: On The New Grove Dictionary of American Music, ed. H. Wiley Hitchcock and Stanley Sadie, with Susan Feder as editorial coordinator The study of music in the United States has a history of its own that now stretches back nearly a...

The Symbiosis of Teaching and Research: A Forum

01 October 2004 J. Peter Burkholder, with H. Wiley Hitchcock, Brooklyn College, City University of New York; Susan McClary, University of California, Los Angeles; Kay Kaufman Shelemay, Harvard University Introduction J. Peter Burkholder At the November 2003 annual...

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

01 October 2002 America's Music: From the Pilgrims to the Present, 3rd ed. (Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1987); H. Wiley Hitchcock, Music in the United States: A Historical Introduction, 3rd ed. (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1988); Daniel...

Composing a Sound: Giacinto Scelsi’s L’âme ailée / L’âme ouverte for violin solo

22 December 2017 all the fluctuating overtones and noises incidental to the sustaining of such a seemingly simple drone. Musicologist H. Wiley Hitchcock has remarked that this piece “revealed to those who continued to listen a whole inner world of fluctuating overtones...

Americans on American Music

01 October 1968 Americans have been writing about the history of music, and about the history of American music, for almost a hundred years. As we approach the centenary we might well ask ourselves such questions as these: How have American music historians regarded...

Music Education in Historical Perspective: Status, Non-Musicians, and the Role of Women

01 October 1992 Journal 50, no. 4 (1964): 39-41. 31James W. Pruett and Pamela Bristah, "Education in Music: Higher Education," in H. Wiley Hitchcock and Stanley Sadie, eds., vol. 2, The New Grove Dictionary of American Music (London: Macmillan Press, 1986), 17-21....

Ives and Yale: The Enduring Influence of a College Experience

01 October 1999 by James B. Sinclair. This paper originated as the keynote address for the conference, on 3 April 1998. Thanks to H. Wiley Hitchcock for reading and commenting on an earlier draft, and to James Sinclair for providing me with a draft of his Descriptive...

Reassessing a Recital Heritage

01 October 1977 several works which are listed as part of the valuable Da Capo Press reprints of Earlier American Music (edited by H. Wiley Hitchcock) have, as a matter of fact, not yet been published (as of this writing, Chadwick's Songs and Foote's Quintet among...

Composition Before Rameau: Harmony, Figured Bass, and Style in the Baroque

01 October 1984 moreover, Caccini, unlike John Dowland, is not known to have left any polyphonic settings of his own solo songs, as H. Wiley Hitchcock notes in his article "Caccini," The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (1980), III, p. 579. 21See Agostino...

Music Teacher Education in America (1753-1840): A Look at One of its Three Sources

01 October 1991 341-342, 344-345, and 380-381. 5The New Harvard Dictionary of Music, 1986, s.v. "Conservatory," by Harold E. Samuel. 6H. Wiley Hitchcock, Music in the United States, 3rd ed. (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1988), 141. 7The term, "normal school,"...

Early Music and Paul Hindemith (1895-1963) in the United States: A Centenary Evaluation

01 October 1996 57Howard Boatwright, "Hindemith as a Teacher in America," Yale Alumni Magazine (December 1964), 20. 58Ian Kemp and H. Wiley Hitchcock, "Paul Hindemith," New Grove American Music (1986) Vol. II, 392. 59Lukas Foss, "In Memoriam: Paul Hindemith,"...

[i]The American Musical Landscape[/i], by Richard Crawford

01 October 1993 almost a century-and-a-half, from George Hood (1846) through Charles Hamm (1983), Gilbert Chase (1955/R1987), and H. Wiley Hitchcock (1969/R1988). I say "significantly" because Crawford's work makes it utterly clear that as a historian peers in through...

Carissimi’s [i]Jephte[/i] and Jesuit Spirituality

01 April 2019 Abstract The lament that ends Jacomo Carissimi’s Jephte is frequently anthologized and taught in undergraduate surveys, and is justly famous for its emotional impact. Although it is generally thought to have been composed for performance at the...

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

01 May 2021 Burkholder, Susan McClary, Robert M. Trotter, Anthony Seeger, Douglass Seaton, Kay Kaufman Shelemay, Barry S. Brook, H. Wiley Hitchcock, Ruth Stone, Stephen Blum, David Schulenberg, Vincent Duckles, Susan C. Cook, Clifford Madsen, Claude V. Palisca,...