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...

Robert Schumann's Album for the Young and the Coming of Age of Nineteenth-Century Piano Pedagogy

01 October 2001 In 1843, Robert Schumann noted that his highly original if slightly bizarre piano cycles of the 1830s had not endeared him to the public or to his publishers. He regretfully conceded that the financial responsibilities of supporting a wife and family...

Enumeration of Dissonance in the Masses of Palestrina

01 October 1983 86. 8Soderlund, op. cit., p. 70. 9H. AtKisson, Basic Counterpoint (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1956), pp. 142-44. authors: John R. Hanson author_ids: 1283 authors: John R. Hanson author_ids: 1283

Help Wanted? Exploring Altruism in a Music Conservatory through Positive Social Deviance

23 March 2018 The purpose of this project was to explore student reactions to altruism in the affective context of a music conservatory. Through a series of scenarios designed to breach social norms, the author gauged conservatory students’ willingness to accept...

Reclaiming the Liberal Arts in a Disrupted World Order: A Case for the B.A. in Music

13 May 2026 “Achievement comes to denote the sort of thing that a well-planned machine can do better than a human being can, and the main effect of education, the achieving of a life of rich significance, drops by the wayside.” — John Dewey, Democracy and...

Counterpoint, Cantus Firmus, and Canon

01 October 1977 The use of a borrowed cantus firmus as the basis for a composition has played an important role in our western musical tradition, both in the development of musical composition and in the pedagogy of counterpoint. One of the manifestations of this...

The Composer in Academia: Reflections on a Theme of Stravinsky

01 October 1970 Bobby Klein photo—Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. "I would warn young composers too, Americans especially, against university teaching. . . ."Igor Stravinsky Editor's Foreword Even a glance at the twenty-three essays that follow will suffice to show that a...

The D.A.: An Alternative Doctoral Pattern for the Arts

01 October 1986 Major changes in the education of prospective college music faculty were advocated at the 1984 Dearborn Conference on Music in General Studies. The arguments were valid and well presented as a statement of the problem, but somewhat less so when it came...