The German Model in Music Curricula

01 October 1990 the symptoms of a disease but not its underlying cause. I thought no more about it until I read an article by Professor Jon Appleton1 of Dartmouth lamenting conditions many colleges and universities face, namely dwindling enrollments, concern over the...

Expanding Frames of Reference: Teaching the History of Electro-Acoustic Music

01 October 2006 Collins, 1996. Larry the O. "Building Character." Electronic Musician 21:4 (2005): 154. Leider, Colby. "Observations Re: Jon Appleton." Journal SEAMUS 17:1-2 (2005): 1. Mann, Brian. "A Response to Kivy: Music and 'Music Appreciation' in the...

The State of Electronic Music: 1972

01 October 1972 The field of electronic music grew so rapidly during the last fifteen years that composers and listeners came to expect that its role in our musical culture, like our economy, could only expand. I choose the comparison to the economy because there is a...

The Composer in Academia: Reflections on a Theme of Stravinsky

01 October 1970 and the world of the university," to which he adds, "For myself, I have always liked teaching." William J. Mitchell Jon Appleton Milton Babbitt William Bergsma Howard Boatwright Elliott Carter Paul Creston Ingolf Dahl Cecil Effinger Ross Lee Finney...

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...