Musical Performance as a Humanistic Study

01 October 1964 required work within a single department, or in closely related departments exceed 42 credit hours. In this article by Putnam Aldrich, along with the one by William Newman, both scholars and performers enter a plea for credit for "applied music." Also...

Can Music Performance Be A Liberal Study?

01 October 1971 fuel for one fire or the other, perhaps the driest tinder being the essays of Martin A. Sherman, William S. Newman, Putnam Aldrich, and Klaus Liepmann.3 As a practicing performer with an abiding faith in liberal education and, more recently, as a music...

Performance as an Avenue to Educational Realities in Music

01 October 1964 Basic Piano Program at Harvard where performance is required without credit toward the degree, and William Newman and Putnam Aldrich, both scholars and performers, enter a plea for credit for "applied music." All four articles appear in SYMPOSIUM Volume...

The Basic Piano Program at Harvard University

01 October 1964 discussion, John Kirkpatrick provides a philosophic basis for performance in humanistic study, and William Newman and Putnam Aldrich, both scholars and performers, enter a plea for credit for "applied music." All four articles appear in SYMPOSIUM Volume...

A Vote for Applied Music in the Undergraduate Liberal Arts Music Program

01 October 1964 or in closely related departments exceed 42 credit hours. In this article by William Newman, along with the one by Putnam Aldrich, both scholars and performers enter a plea for credit for "applied music." Also in this discussion, John Kirkpatrick...

Performance: The Profession and Preparation for It

01 October 1974 thinking leading to the skill of making out the structure of a piece of music is another gift of speculation. Putnam Aldrich used to ask his students, "What is the fundamental idea of this piece?" The search for the answer could take his students...

Approaching Musical Classicism—Understanding Styles and Style Change in Eighteenth-Century Instrumental Music

01 October 1980 I Historical/stylistic periods in music are both useful and perplexing concepts; they simultaneously clarify and hinder one's perception of a given period and a given work. Part of the difficulty arises from a general lack of agreement as to what...