Coping with Economic Crisis: Music Programs in the 90s

01 January 1993 awareness of both our artistic successes and our fiscal problems, to build alliances, to rally support. authors: Patricia Taylor Lee author_ids: 1134 authors: Patricia Taylor Lee author_ids: 1134

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...

The Shock of the Familiar: Hearing Ourselves in Others' Voices

02 October 2006 Introduction1 Thank you, President Harding, the Board of Directors, and members of The College Music Society. I was truly honored, and unnerved, when Tayloe approached me about delivering the Robert Trotter Lecture at your annual meeting. You see, I've...

“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...

Women Conductors on the Orchestral Podium: Pedagogical and Professional Implications

01 October 2008 Introduction Recent discussions about women's experiences in the orchestral profession1 have revealed the gendered politics behind many of the generally accepted norms and customs in the orchestral tradition. With the bourgeoning of feminist...