Ives and Yale: The Enduring Influence of a College Experience

01 October 1999 Ives, 20; and Jan Swafford, Charles Ives: A Life with Music (New York: W. W. Norton, 1996), 11-12. 4Memos, 281. 5J. Peter Burkholder, Charles Ives: The Ideas Behind the Music (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1985), 77. 6Feder, Charles Ives, 20. 7Ralph...

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...

Changing the Stories We Tell: Repertoires, Narratives, Materials, Goals, and Strategies in Teaching Music History

01 October 2009 Cross, Classroom Assessment, 2nd ed. 28See Novak, Patterson, Gavrin, and Christian, Just-In-Time Teaching. authors: J. Peter Burkholder author_ids: 675 authors: J. Peter Burkholder author_ids: 675

Music History at Ten Years a Minute

01 October 2004 we are all painfully aware of how much information we need to cram into limited time-frames of our curricula. As J. Peter Burkholder succinctly states the problem: The most significant issue for teachers of undergraduate music history and literature...

Strengthening the “History” in “Music History”: An Argument for Broadening the Cross-disciplinary Base in Musicological Studies

01 October 2009 as I know, this textbook has not been revised. Second, I refer to the 2006 edition of A History of Western Music by J. Peter Burkholder, Donald Grout, and Claude Palisca, a revision of a publication that goes back to 1960. This is the standard textbook...

Early Music Matters: Revitalizing the Survey through a Contextual Approach[sup]1[/sup]

20 September 2020 music pre-1750, an overwhelming amount of information to ask an undergraduate music major to digest in one semester.10J. Peter Burkholder, Donald Jay Grout, and Claude V. Palisca, A History of Western Music, 9th ed. (New York: W. W. Norton & Company,...

Curricular Ideas for Music History and Literature

31 August 2001 reinforcing the skills and tools that will allow them to understand any repertoire in historical terms. authors: J. Peter Burkholder author_ids: 675 authors: J. Peter Burkholder author_ids: 675

Writing About LGBTQ Issues

01 March 2009 These days, it seems everywhere one turns, issues and themes related to sexuality are in evidence. Movies from the unlikeliest of sources are circulating the country on gay themes—A Jihad for Love—that deals with the problems faced by gay men and...

Remixing Western Music History

01 May 2023 associated with the peer-review process, budget issues, and copyright laws can make change vexingly slow.10J. Peter Burkholder, “Stewarding a Shared Resource: A Response to Paul Luongo,” Journal of Music History Pedagogy 12, no. 1 (2022): 41–43,...

Uncovering and Teaching the Process of Analysis to Undergraduate Music Theory Students

20 September 2018 see the project’s website (http://www.decodingthedisciplines.org) for an up-to-date bibliography. In music, J. Peter Burkholder has reported on his experiences decoding the discipline of music history in “Decoding the Discipline of Music History for Our...

A Reevaluation of Isorhythm in the "Old Corpus" of the Montpellier Codex

01 October 2011 I. At present, many textbooks and dictionaries on the history of music depict the development of isorhythm as a phenomenon of fourteenth- and early fifteenth-century music.1 By glossing over the presence of isorhythmic techniques in thirteenth-century...

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...

Concept-Based Pedagogy and its Application in the Private Clarinet Studio

01 April 2019 Abstract Educators are no longer the keepers of content. With the increase in accessibility to technology and the internet, teachers need to show students how to think critically and use facts to influence their own independence and creativity in the...

Music as Life-Saving Project: Venezuela’s El Sistema in American Neo-Idealistic Imagination

28 April 2014 Abstract The U.S. reception of El Sistema has been, for the most part, enthusiastic, as reflected in numerous media articles and the literature of prominent advocates such as Tricia Tunstall. An analysis of these sources points to a tendency on the...

On the Mission of CMS

01 March 1997 the Board adopted a new Mission Statement for The College Music Society. The wording was worked out by Board members J. Peter Burkholder (musicology) and Robert Weirich (performance), who deserve special thanks, but it draws together ideas from the...

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

01 May 2021 shared their thoughts in the journal, more than can be recounted here. But we might mention esteemed scholars like: J. Peter Burkholder, Susan McClary, Robert M. Trotter, Anthony Seeger, Douglass Seaton, Kay Kaufman Shelemay, Barry S. Brook, H. Wiley...