Changing the Stories We Tell: Repertoires, Narratives, Materials, Goals, and Strategies in Teaching Music History

01 October 2009 As The College Music Society reaches its fiftieth anniversary, it is fitting that we look back on developments in college music teaching over its first fifty years. In the teaching of music history, I see five major areas of change during that time:...

[i]Beethoven and the Construction of Genius: Musical Politics in Vienna, 1792-1803[/i], by Tia Nora

28 February 1997 well-theorized avenue into thinking about the standing and significance of composers from Hildegard to Hendrix. authors: Mary Hunter author_ids: 1039 authors: Mary Hunter author_ids: 1039

Envisioning a Scholarship of Teaching and Learning for the Music Discipline

01 October 2003 For most of us employed in schools, colleges, and departments of music in higher education in the United States, teaching is a matter of intuition. Often we are good teachers; we can be engaging in the studio or classroom, and we can point to our high...

Beyond Intro: Further Roles for Music in the Liberal Arts Core

27 August 2012 of a course listed with the prefix MU-. This out-of-the-box teaching can catch the students off-guard in productive ways. Mary Hunter accurately characterizes many liberal arts students' approach to their music courses: Students in liberal arts colleges...

Employment Matters in Higher Jazz Education

13 May 2026 Introduction Employment research is a ubiquitous feature in contemporary policy, economic, and business sectors. The higher education sector in the United States has tracked employment data for many decades, aided by organizations such as the American...

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...

Multi-Linear Continuity and "Songs to the Dark Virgin" by Florence Price [1888-1953]

01 May 2023 Abstract The poem “Songs to the Dark Virgin,” composed by Langston Hughes and included in his 1926 volume The Weary Blues, presents an obscure and complex text that seems to address an ambiguous second-person entity, the “Dark Virgin.” In this article...

A New Learned Society for Music Theory

01 October 1978 A developing movement of several years came to fruition on November 19, 1977, at Evanston, Illinois, with establishment of the Society for Music Theory. The new organization was established by formal action of approximately 150 music theorists...

Four Songs by Margaret McClure Stitt

01 October 1983 Margaret McClure Stitt's contribution to the literature of song has not received the recognition it deserves. In her own circle, which included a number of woman's clubs and music clubs in Cincinnati and nearby cities, Mrs. Stitt was well-known, loved,...

Causes and Cures of Poor Intonation: Applications of Audiological and Psychological Research

01 October 1986 To deal with a student's poor intonation appropriately, a teacher must know the specific cause of the problem. Many causes exist, most of which can be fairly easily detected (if not always so easily eliminated). These include lack of practice, lack of...

Edward T. Cone's [i]The Composer's Voice[/i]: Cone's "Personae" and the Analysis of Opera

01 October 1989 see W A. Mozart, 2 vols. (Leipzig, 1956), 2: 669. 11This section has benefited from suggestions by Elizabeth Hudson, Mary Hunter, Roger Parker, and Richard Will. 12See, for example, Jonathan Culler, Structuralist Poetics (Ithaca, 1975), 82-83, 233-35;...