Handelian Rehearsal and Performance Practice

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...

RCMI/CUNY: The Research Center for Musical Iconography of the City University of New York

01 October 1973 The Research Center for Musical Iconography was established in the spring of 1972 under the auspices of the Ph.D. Program in Music at the City University of New York, to augment the facilities for music research within the University and to serve as...

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...

A New Concept in the Teaching of Opera

01 October 1977 A traditional course in opera, whether for music or non-music students, is generally based on the standard repertoire of Italian, French, and German works. Such a course tends to focus on the musical score at the expense of the complete story and the...

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,...

Dear Re: A Glimpse into the Six Songs of Rachmaninoff's Opus 38

01 October 1984 Dear Re: A Glimpse into the Six Songs of Rachmaninoff's Opus 38 Written by Anne Simpson Symposium Volume 24 Was Sergei's fondness for "Re" an affaire de coeur or an affaire de sentiments? It does not matter, for it brought to fruition six beauteous...

Survivor from Darmstadt

01 October 1985 One of the most marvelous descriptions of the scandalous reception which greeted the 1913 premiere of Stravinsky's Le Sacre du printemps was that of the critic van Vechten who, completely caught up in the excitement of the moment, neglected to notice...

Feminist Scholarship and the Field of Musicology: I

01 October 1989 Feminist Scholarship and the Field of Musicology: I1 In a study entitled Feminist Scholarship: Kindling in the Groves of Academe, five authors surveyed recent scholarship in the fields of anthropology, education, history, literature, and philosophy in...

Women as Leaders of Collegiate Bands, 1850-1980

01 October 1998 June 6, 1661 . . . Called upon this morning by Lieutenant Lambert who is now made captain of the Norwich and he and I went down by water to Greenwich, in our way observing and discoursing upon the things of a ship, he telling me all I asked him, which...

Response to Frederick Bashour

01 October 1999 Dr. Bashour has a sure grasp of modal history as well as the jazz repertory, its techniques and jargon, so I welcome his response. He does a splendid job of confirming the initial premise of my argument, that the Miles Davis pieces don't live up to the...

There's Room for Us All

01 October 2000 Irritations. Did our esteemed editor assign me to respond to "In Support of Art" because he thought it would irritate the ethnomusicologist in me? Well, Richard Franko Goldman did present a point of view strongly, writing with a self-righteous tone and...

Problems of Tempo in Puccini's Arias

01 October 2000 The problems of tempo in Puccini's soprano arias are surprisingly vexing for performers, given that the composer provided many indications in his scores, including many metronome markings, and supervised the preparation of several singers who went on...

Debussy's Canope as Narrative Form

01 October 2002 I Claude Debussy's twenty-four Préludes are among the composer's last and best-known works for piano. They were composed and published in two books of twelve; Book 1 was published in 1910 and Book 2 in 1913. These preludes are well known for the unique...

In Praise of Mentors

01 October 2003 2002 Robert M. Trotter Lecture, presented at the CMS National Conference in Kansas City on September 27, 2002. Before beginning my prepared remarks, I wish to pay tribute to two musician/teachers whom I truly consider to be personal mentors. One is...

Analysis for Performance: Teaching a Method for Practical Application

02 October 2006 One of the more difficult tasks facing the college music theory teacher is linking analysis with performance. Too often students do not understand the connection between the analytical techniques they learn in theory classes and the decisions they make...

The Shock of the Familiar: Hearing Ourselves in Others' Voices

02 October 2006 Introduction1 Thank you, President Harding, the Board of Directors, and members of The College Music Society. I was truly honored, and unnerved, when Tayloe approached me about delivering the Robert Trotter Lecture at your annual meeting. You see, I've...

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]The Concise Oxford History of Music[/i], by Gerald Abraham

01 October 1980 The Concise Oxford History of Music, by Gerald Abraham. London, New York and Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1979. 968 pp. ISBN 0-19-311319-8. A "concise" history? That might seem an odd designation for this blockbuster volume. Yet compared to the...

[i]New Oxford History of Music[/i], vol. 9: [i]Romanticism (1830-1890)[/i], edited by Gerald Abraham

01 October 1991 New Oxford History of Music, vol. 9: Romanticism (1830-1890), edited by Gerald Abraham. Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press, 1990. xx + 935 pp. ISBN 0-19-316309-8. It takes temerity these days to write a history of music. The very nature of...

"O Brother": Creative Uses of Film in Teaching Oral Traditions

31 October 2003 Ever since the film Amadeus created an unprecedented interest among college students in the music of Mozart, music teachers have been aware that popular films can entice university students into learning about new topics. I myself was part of that...