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...

[i]Choral Music: A Symposium[/i], edited by Arthur Jacobs

01 October 1964 Charles Reid, Dika Newlin, Gerald Seaman, Ernest Bradbury, Rollo H. Myers, Peter J. Pirie, and Robert Sabin. authors: Philip F. Nelson author_ids: 216 authors: Philip F. Nelson author_ids: 216

“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...

Musical Pattern Perception

01 October 1979 How the human mind structures its complex environment is a topic that has been explored for generations by individuals from a wide variety of disciplines. Musicians now seem to be generally aware that pattern perception is highly relevant to their...

Yale's DMA: A Progress Report

01 October 1978 the recital. The original plan called only for the latter. Beginning in 1974, the second year the DMA was awarded, Philip F. Nelson, who in 1970 succeeded Luther Noss as Dean of the School of Music, initiated the oral examination as a defense of the...