The Contemporary Chamber Ensemble in Residence at Rutgers University

01 October 1966 its responsibility for informing the audience about the works and composers played on these concerts. For each work, Martin Picker, who gives the twentieth century music course at Rutgers, provided detailed program notes that served both as preparation...

[i]Musicology[/i], by Frank Ll. Harrison, Mantle Hood, and Claude V. Palisca

01 October 1964 volume in The Princeton Studies. Both are hopeful signs of the advancing maturity of American musicology. authors: Martin Picker author_ids: 1235 authors: Martin Picker author_ids: 1235

“Oh My Son!”: The Musical Origins and Function of King David’s Lamentation

01 October 2009 Introduction In his 1981 article “Prince Henry as Absalom in David’s Lamentations” Irving Godt examined a group of seventeenth-century English settings based on King David’s laments for his son Absalom and his friend Jonathan.1 On the basis of the...

". . . Our Daily Bread"

01 October 1972 the earliest in wide use, and still one of the more literate, is An Introduction to Music by Martin Bernstein and Martin Picker (7). First published in 1937 by Bernstein alone, it recently appeared in an expanded 682-page fourth edition (1972) with more...