The Ins and Outs of Teaching Composition: 1957-2007

01 October 2009 I conducted for this project with four major composer-teachers: Paul Lansky,1 Bernard Rands,2 Roger Reynolds3 and Judith Lang Zaimont.4 I am going to set the stage by considering the growth of composition programs, the shifts in their demographics, and...

Imagining the Composer Today

01 October 2007 Keillor's favorite goodbye: let's be sure to do GOOD work, and— by all and every means—keep in touch. authors: Judith Lang Zaimont author_ids: 372 authors: Judith Lang Zaimont author_ids: 372

Rereading Absence: Women in Medieval and Renaissance Music

01 October 1998 Benign Neglect of Women Composers?" in The Musical Woman: An International Perspective: Volume II: 1984-85, ed. Judith Lang Zaimont (New York: Greenwood Press, 1987), 445-469. Their focus on women composers to the exclusion of women's other roles would...

Music Education in Historical Perspective: Status, Non-Musicians, and the Role of Women

01 October 1992 In a fundamental sense, all musicians are educators, whether we acknowledge it or even intend it.1 It is our students and purposes that vary. Consequently, the music education profession traditionally refers to only those individuals who prepare music...

[i]Reflections on American Music: The Twentieth Century and The New Millennium[/i], edited by James R. Heintze and Michael Saffle

01 October 2003 Music Scholarship" by Josephine R. B. Wright; and "'A Closed Fist' from Spirals (for violin, viola, and cello)" by Judith Lang Zaimont. A detailed index and eleven illustrations complete this volume. While it is impossible to summarize and critique all...