Special Problems in Teaching Music Appreciation

01 October 1968 course. As always, the editor of SYMPOSIUM welcomes comments from readers concerning this subject. In addition to Philip Friedheim, the other participants in the Symposium were Jeanne Bamberger (University of Chicago), Robert K. Beckwith (Bowdoin...

Program and Sonority: An Essay in Analysis of the "Queen Mab" Scherzo from Berlioz's Romeo and Juliet

01 October 1988 Kalmus, 1948), 184. 8Berlioz, Treatise on Instrumentation, 29. 9In an interesting study of Berlioz's use of rhythm, Philip Friedheim suggests that Berlioz associated different meters with different emotional states. According to Friedheim, 3-8 signifies...

A Survey of Recent Publications Relating to Nineteenth-Century Music and Musicians

01 October 1969 Anyone who has taught a course on romantic music deplores the scarcity of suitable texts. Not only is there no outstanding survey of the period, but with few exceptions we cannot even resort to completely reliable studies of particular genres or...

The Appreciation of Music

01 October 1968 in the Symposium were Robert K. Beckwith (Bowdoin College), Henry Leland Clarke (University of Washington), and Philip Friedheim (Hunter College). Their articles also appear in College Music Symposium, Volume 8. "An impression which simply flows in at...

Music Appreciation

01 October 1968 in the Symposium were Jeanne Bamberger (University of Chicago), Henry Leland Clarke (University of Washington), and Philip Friedheim (Hunter College). Their articles also appear in College Music Symposium, Volume 8. I The basic objective of a course in...

Studies in Listening

01 October 1968 participants in the Symposium were Jeanne Bamberger (University of Chicago), Robert K. Beckwith (Bowdoin College), and Philip Friedheim (Hunter College). Their articles also appear in College Music Symposium, Volume 8. Of course, students not planning...

Six Case Studies in New American Music: A Postmodern Portrait Gallery

01 October 1990 Introduction This article is a sequel to "The Politics of Definition in New Music," which appeared in the previous issue of the College Music Symposium. In that article, the struggle between modernist and minimalist aesthetics was explored, with an aim...