Paying Attention to Music and Baseball: Listening to the Savannah Bananas

13 May 2026 In 1956, Ford Frick, the Commissioner of Major League Baseball, tried to woo music fans to pay more attention to baseball. Writing in Music Journal, Frick hoped that his “comparison of music and baseball should be of interest to devotees of both of...

Yale's DMA: A Progress Report

01 October 1978 Such a program goes far in assuring the integrity of the degree and thus the health of the profession. authors: Harold E. Samuel author_ids: 1353 authors: Harold E. Samuel author_ids: 1353

Multi-Linear Continuity and "Songs to the Dark Virgin" by Florence Price [1888-1953]

01 May 2023 Abstract The poem “Songs to the Dark Virgin,” composed by Langston Hughes and included in his 1926 volume The Weary Blues, presents an obscure and complex text that seems to address an ambiguous second-person entity, the “Dark Virgin.” In this article...

Cultural Influences of Organ Music Composed by African American Women

01 June 2015 Cultural Influences on Organ Music Written By African American Women 1 Abstract In this paper, major events in African American history are described and contrasted with the history of organ music written by African American women in the twentieth- and...

Employment Matters in Higher Jazz Education

13 May 2026 Introduction Employment research is a ubiquitous feature in contemporary policy, economic, and business sectors. The higher education sector in the United States has tracked employment data for many decades, aided by organizations such as the American...

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

01 October 1991 Press, 1987), 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,...

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...

Music as Organic Evolution: Schoenberg's Mythic Springboard Into the Future

01 October 1993 Although long an archetype of modern thought, biological evolution's eminent role has not always been an appropriate one: its convenience as a cover for all manner of processive change has often been abused. Arenas of thought once presumed accountable...

A Survey of Music Anthologies

01 October 1979 The purpose of this article is to provide the reader with a survey of anthologies of music published since 1965. Prior to this date, the classroom teacher had access to only a few compilations of music. These included, for example, Albert Wier's...

Music Therapy in Handel's England: Browne's Medicina Musica (1729)

01 October 1985 The development of contemporary uses for music in therapy is generally attributed to the twentieth century or even the late nineteenth century; however, a text on the subject was published in 1729. The book, Medicina Musica, or, a Mechanical Essay on...

A Study in Jazz Historiography: [i]The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz[/i]

01 October 1989 A Study in Jazz Historiography: The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz * The word monumental has been overused in recent years in connection with the New Grove Dictionaries, but there seems to be no adequate substitute for describing the new addition to the...