Defending Music Theory in a Multicultural Curriculum

02 October 2006 Defending Music Theory in a Multicultural Curriculum1 Music theory has served as the foundation for undergraduate music curricula in the United States for much of the past century. Within many music departments, it has been used to introduce students...

Can Music Performance Be A Liberal Study?

01 October 1971 Music Society's Symposium has supplied fuel for one fire or the other, perhaps the driest tinder being the essays of Martin A. Sherman, William S. Newman, Putnam Aldrich, and Klaus Liepmann.3 As a practicing performer with an abiding faith in liberal...

". . . Our Daily Bread"

01 October 1972 There is a greater need than pianoforte teachers and singing teachers, and that is a numerous company of writers and talkers who shall teach the people how to listen to music so that it shall not pass through their heads like a vast tonal...

The Fairbank Collection

01 October 1976 The Newberry Library, Chicago, contains a distinguished music collection, rare book, manuscript, and print holdings, and archives relevant both to the United States (and its Indian populations) and to the city of Chicago. Thus it is understandable that...

Music in the Liberal Arts Curriculum

01 October 1963 Paul Henry Lang's oft-quoted admonition "Let us face squarely the fact that until it (the college) grasps the historical, esthetic, and stylistic problems of music, our college music education will remain in its present state of essential dilletantism"...