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

01 October 2001 review of Nineteenth-Century Piano Music, ed. R. Larry Todd, in College Music Symposium 31 (1991): 141-2. authors: Lora Deahl author_ids: 897 authors: Lora Deahl author_ids: 897

Beyond Childhood: Poulenc, [i]La courte paille[/i], and the Aural Envelope

01 October 2009 Such an approach required learning materials that were age-appropriate, easily grasped, and presented in sequence. As Lora Deahl has noted, Album für die Jugend meets Rousseau’s criteria, including his seminal concept of “learning readiness.” In her...

International Students in Music: Crossing Boundaries

01 October 2001 By the end of the century, the relative merits of German and American training for pianists was a debatable topic. Lora Deahl's article in this issue of College Music Symposium quotes sources that reproach German training for emphasizing the development...