Your Turn to Lead: Cultivating Student Leadership in Music Theory and Aural Skills

13 May 2026 Introduction Universities and colleges aspire to equip students for leadership in their professions, and institutions frequently include leadership education in their statements of mission and purpose. According to Susan Komives and Matthew Sowcik...

Women Orchestral Conductors in America: The Struggle for Acceptance—An Historical View from the Nineteenth Century to the Present

01 October 1998 Introduction Orchestral conducting has been the latest door of opportunity to open for women in the field of music. Although women have been actively involved in performance, composition, teaching, and patronage from the history of the ancient Greeks...

Rereading Absence: Women in Medieval and Renaissance Music

01 October 1998 During the last twenty years, a consideration of the roles of women and minorities in musical life has become increasingly central to the study of music. The "canon" of old has proven to have porous boundaries, with works by women composers and by...

The Contemporary Performing Ensemble

01 October 1968 Within the last decade, a new phenomenon has come to prominence in American universities and colleges: the chamber ensemble, usually of professional quality, dedicated to the performance of contemporary music. Although the number of such ensembles is...

Introducing the Learning Portfolio into Music Theory Core Pedagogy

01 October 2011 Introduction Undergraduate music programs at North American institutions of higher learning typically require music majors to complete successfully a core grouping of theory courses in order to fulfill degree requirements. These courses are considered...

A Taxonomy of Sentence Structures

07 August 2014 Abstract In his 1967 Fundamentals of Musical Composition, Arnold Schonberg described the sentence as a basic tool for organizing themes. Over the past thirty years, a growing number of scholars have been reexamining Schoenberg's concept of the sentence...

Equity and Cultural Access in Arts Education

01 January 1994 I became Chairman of NARAS in 1985, and its first full-time President in 1987. We are a 35-year-old organization that represents over 9,000 members. These people are songwriters, musicians, producers, engineers, and many other creative and technical...

Performance Inquiry and Cognitive Science: A Search for Common Ground

01 October 2008 Introduction The last decade has offered a surge in scholarship on music performance. Scholars interested in music performance can draw from a range of perspectives. Ethnomusicologists examine the performed activity of music1 as a social and cultural...

Sixteenth-Century Conception of Harmony

01 October 1979 Modern musicians generally employ the term harmony in reference to the structure, function, and interrelationships of simultaneously combined musical tones. Thus narrowly defined, the term serves as part of a highly specialized, technical vocabulary...

Music Historiography in the Classroom

01 October 1979 For the teacher of music history, no less than the teacher of any other subject, the selection of materials and methods for class use is an important decision. For the beginning instructor, the problem is especially acute, as he or she has no...