There's Room for Us All

01 October 2000 assign me to respond to "In Support of Art" because he thought it would irritate the ethnomusicologist in me? Well, Richard Franko Goldman did present a point of view strongly, writing with a self-righteous tone and a bit of hand-wringing, trying to...

Music as Life-Saving Project: Venezuela’s El Sistema in American Neo-Idealistic Imagination

28 April 2014 influence of writers like Dwight and Mathews reaches well into the twentieth century; in 1976, composer and critic Richard Franko Goldman, writing for College Music Symposium, explicitly refers to the “German idealist philosophers,” and to “many others...

Preserving Musical Cultures - Contemplations and Confessions

01 October 1999 difficulty and with great sacrifice. My attention was recently drawn to an article in College Music Symposium by Richard Franko Goldman, published in 1976. It's an eloquent plea in behalf of the courage to be judgmental; of understanding that art at its...

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

01 October 1964 of Handel" (Arthur Jacobs); the "Viennese Classical Period" (Roger Fiske); "After Handel—in Britain and America" (Richard Franko Goldman); "The French Revolution: Beethoven and Berlioz" (J.H. Elliot); "The Oratorio and Cantata Market: Britain, Germany,...

The College Band Directors National Association and Aesthetic Education

31 May 2013 lack of original wind literature and an over-reliance on transcriptions. This had been underscored pointedly when Richard Franko Goldman wrote in 1946 that without transcriptions, “the bulk of the band’s serious repertory vanishes.”31 Just a year later,...

More Than A Drummer Boy's War: A Historical View of Musicians in the American Civil War

01 October 2002 63Francis A. Lord and Arthur Wise, Bands and Drummer Boys, 99. 64Harry H. Hall, Johnny Reb Band from Salem, 94. 65Richard Franko Goldman, The Wind Band: Its Literature and Technique (Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1961; reprinted Westport, Conn.: Greenwood...

In Support of Art

01 October 1976 This is an abridged version of an address prepared for the CMS meeting in Rochester on Nov. 14, 1975. Not long ago, I received an interesting circular from a group known as "Advocates for the Arts." I should like to quote, verbatim, the first two...

The Music of Elliott Carter

01 October 1982 works can be found in Abraham Skulsky, American Composers Alliance Bulletin, Vol. 3, No. 2 (1957), pp. 2-11; and Richard Franko Goldman, "The Music of Elliott Carter," Musical Quarterly 43 (1957), 151-70. 2Record liner notes, Columbia Recording MS 7191....

[i]Linear-Derived Harmony[/i], by Arthur Komar

01 October 1993 of past eras, the only other modern harmony books I know of even remotely similar to Komar's are the well-known Richard Franko Goldman, Harmony in Western Music (Norton, 1965) and the little-known Leland Smith, Handbook of Harmonic Analysis (Stanford...