The Ethnomusicology of Music Learning and Teaching

01 October 2003 Ethnomusicology, for at least the last forty years, has been primarily an idiographic discipline. That is, ethnomusicologists' research has focused on the description of particular music systems and music cultures at the expense of either nomothetic...

John Abraham Fisher's Music for the Opening of Macbeth

01 October 1986 witches. 11This is "Scene III. Mount Ida. Venus and the Graces, to whom she complains of the Loss of her Son." authors: Paul F. Rice author_ids: 1243 authors: Paul F. Rice author_ids: 1243

[i]Ethnomusicology Scholarship and Teaching[/i] - “The Song Is You”: From External to Internal in Ethnomusicological Performance

26 August 2014 Abstract In this article I examine the developing role performance has played in ethnomusicological research and teaching from the early days of our field until the present. Until well into the 1950s ethnomusicologists primarily concerned themselves...

“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...

The Promotion and Tenure Process in CMS Members’ Music Units

20 September 2018 Abstract To increase understanding of the promotion and tenure process for music professors, the CMS Academic Citizenship Committee studied four aspects of the topic: the promotion and tenure process; expectations for excellence in teaching,...