"Music as a Pursuit for Men": Accompanied Keyboard Music as Domestic Recreation in England

01 October 1990 Contribution to the History of Chamber Music with Obbligato Keyboard," (Ph.D. diss., University of Pennsylvania. 1979); Howard Irving, "The Piano Trio in London from 1791 to 1800," (Ph.D. diss., Louisiana State University, 1980); and Michelle Fillion,...

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...

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...

The Indian Music Debate and "American" Music in the Progressive Era

01 October 1997 A little over a hundred years ago, composers and music critics in the United States launched a debate about the viability of an idiomatically American music and whether its roots could be found in folk music. One of the roots under discussion was music...

“Oh My Son!”: The Musical Origins and Function of King David’s Lamentation

01 October 2009 Introduction In his 1981 article “Prince Henry as Absalom in David’s Lamentations” Irving Godt examined a group of seventeenth-century English settings based on King David’s laments for his son Absalom and his friend Jonathan.1 On the basis of the...

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

01 October 1991 In his address at the formation of the Society for Music Teacher Education in San Antonio in 1982, Charles Leonhard described American music teacher education as "a hybrid growing out of three traditions in higher education: the liberal arts tradition,...

Defending Music Theory in a Multicultural Curriculum

02 October 2006 Defending Music Theory in a Multicultural Curriculum1 Music theory has served as the foundation for undergraduate music curricula in the United States for much of the past century. Within many music departments, it has been used to introduce students...

A Brief History of Composers' Groups in the United States

01 October 1980 From a hasty perusal of this year's CMS program (1979), I can only conclude that there are but few of us reckless generalists still about, ready to cover the entire history of a country's musical activity, or at least one part of it, in something like...

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

01 October 2008 Sometime in March 1939 Leonard Bernstein, then a Harvard University senior, wrote a letter to his former piano teacher and future secretarial assistant Helen Coates on Stillman Infirmary letterhead.2 After a day which found him prostrate as a "victime...