Rehearsals in the Renaissance and Baroque

01 October 1969 This paper was read originally at the Eleventh Annual Meeting of the Society held in New Haven, Connecticut, December 27-29, 1968 as part of a ROUND TABLE discussion concerning "Rehearsal Techniques and Historical Performance Practice." The other...

Performance and the Laborde Chansonnier: Authenticity of Multiplicities—The Manuscript, Repertory, and Enigmas

01 October 1970 This paper was part of a panel entitled "Performance and the Laborde Chansonnier: Authenticity of Multiplicities" which was presented for The College Music Society at Baldwin-Wallace College, November 8, 1969. The moderator was Robert Austin Warner....

Two-Piano Music Around Beethoven's Time: Its Significance for the College Teacher

01 October 1977 College music instructors face an ongoing challenge to provide their students with experiences that will lead to growth in musicianship. An effective means to achieve this growth is through ensemble performance. Such active music making with others is...

Some Aspects of Organization in Schoenberg's Book of the Hanging Gardens, Opus 15

01 October 1979 H.H. Stuckenschmidt, writing of Schoenberg's Book of the Hanging Gardens, characterizes thus the impact of this song cycle: "An irrevocable step has been taken; with the Georgelieder the whole of modern music has entered upon a new phase of...

Paradigms in the History of Ethnomusicology

01 October 1979 A friend accompanied me to a meeting of the Society for Ethnomusicology. "Good Heavens, it certainly is colorful," was his comment upon seeing professorial-looking types delivering papers in one room, a group of dashiki-clad Africans giving their all...

The Renaissance of Sir Arthur Sullivan

01 October 1981 When the authoritative work on unjustly neglected composers is written, a prominent chapter will surely have to be devoted to Victorian England's Wunderkind, Arthur Sullivan (1842-1900). Despite the fact that he is one of the very few British composers...

Four Songs by Margaret McClure Stitt

01 October 1983 Margaret McClure Stitt's contribution to the literature of song has not received the recognition it deserves. In her own circle, which included a number of woman's clubs and music clubs in Cincinnati and nearby cities, Mrs. Stitt was well-known, loved,...

Towards a History of Absolute Pitch Recognition

01 October 1987 Absolute pitch recognition, more commonly known as "perfect pitch," has been a controversial subject for much of the past century.1 Is the faculty inborn or is it acquired? Is it a measure of musical talent? The recent literature is filled with...

[i]Idea[/i] and Analysis: Aspects of Unification in Musical Explanation

01 October 1990 Idea and Analysis: Aspects of Unification in Musical Explanation1 I myself consider the totality of a piece as the idea: the idea which its creator wanted to present. (Arnold Schoenberg, "New Music, Outmoded Music, Style and Idea (1946)," Style and...

Musical Puerto Rico: Microcosm in the Mainstream

01 October 1999 The Fifth Annual Robert Trotter Lecture The College Music Society Fajardo, Puerto Rico October 23, 1998 Keynote Address to the 1998 Conference Thank you and good morning, President Seaton; colleagues, guests; friends all. . . . I am as saddened as...

Changing Lives with Recorded Sound: Recordings and Profound Musical Experiences

01 October 2002 Lecture delivered at the annual meeting of The College Music Society, November 17, 2001, in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Introduction It is a great honor to be standing before you to deliver the annual Robert M. Trotter Lecture. It is also rather daunting,...

Bridging Musical Worlds: An Assessment of Music Workshops Abroad

01 October 2002 Steven Cornelius, David Harnish, Mary Natvig, Jason Dooley, Melissa Jungers Introduction (Cornelius, Harnish) The traditional classroom setting offers any number of organizational benefits. By successfully managing that environment, teachers control...

Johanna Kinkel's Chopin als Komponist and Other Musical Writings: Untapped Source Readings in the History of Romantic Music

01 October 2003 In the year 1831, the music critic for Iris Ludwig Rellstab covered the Bonn Gesangverein's performance of Don Giovanni directed by the twenty-one-year-old Johanna Kinkel (then Mockel). In his review, he wrote that "the director, strictly speaking, was...

A Survey of Burnout Among University Music Faculty

01 October 2007 According to Vandenberghe and Huberman, burnout is "a crisis of overworked and disillusioned human service workers."1 This syndrome has been extended to members of the teaching profession and has been categorized into three distinct and measurable...

Women Conductors on the Orchestral Podium: Pedagogical and Professional Implications

01 October 2008 Introduction Recent discussions about women's experiences in the orchestral profession1 have revealed the gendered politics behind many of the generally accepted norms and customs in the orchestral tradition. With the bourgeoning of feminist...

[i]Analysis[/i], by Ian Bent with William Drabkin; [i]Music Analysis in Theory and Practice[/i], by Jonathan Dunsby and Arnold Whittall

01 October 1988 Analysis, by Ian Bent with William Drabkin. New York: W.W. Norton, 1987. 184 pp. ISBN: 0393024474 Music Analysis in Theory and Practice, by Jonathan Dunsby and Arnold Whittall. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1988. 250 pp. ISBN: 0300037139 The two...

Leading from Behind: An Essay on Academic Leadership

31 October 2007 Few college-level music faculty members enter the profession with the primary aspiration of becoming an administrator. Yet some of us are ultimately either enticed into or thrust into administrative positions. We were chosen for these positions, I...

Crossing Over with Integrity

04 November 2013 “And when his hand he had stretch’d forth To mine, with pleasant looks, whence I was cheer’d, Into that secret place he led me on.”1 Venturing across disciplines in musical practice and pedagogy is often seen as a path fraught with peril, yet the...

[i]Ethnomusicology Scholarship and Teaching[/i] - Second Thoughts: A Short Personal Anthology

26 August 2014 Abstract The history of ethnomusicology since ca. 1950 is explored from a personal perspective by contemplating ways in which the author (seeing himself as an exemplar of the profession as a whole) has changed directions and attitudes on several major...

Redefining Music Appreciation: Exploring the Power of Music

01 June 2015 Abstract How might we create a world empowered by music? How might we change our culture to accept music as an innate intelligence and assist others in discovering the joy, enchantment, mystery, and power of music in their daily lives? Answers to these...