The Decline of Serialism and the New Romanticism: Control and Chance in the New Music

01 October 1979 The wisest thing to do is to open one's ears immediately and hear a sound suddenly before one's thinking has a chance to turn it into something logical, abstract, or symbolical.1 The mention of the word "romanticism" has, for the greater portion of our...

Help Wanted? Exploring Altruism in a Music Conservatory through Positive Social Deviance

23 March 2018 The purpose of this project was to explore student reactions to altruism in the affective context of a music conservatory. Through a series of scenarios designed to breach social norms, the author gauged conservatory students’ willingness to accept...

The Fairbank Collection

01 October 1976 The Newberry Library, Chicago, contains a distinguished music collection, rare book, manuscript, and print holdings, and archives relevant both to the United States (and its Indian populations) and to the city of Chicago. Thus it is understandable that...

Carissimi’s [i]Jephte[/i] and Jesuit Spirituality

01 April 2019 Abstract The lament that ends Jacomo Carissimi’s Jephte is frequently anthologized and taught in undergraduate surveys, and is justly famous for its emotional impact. Although it is generally thought to have been composed for performance at the...

Connecting Music to Ethics

30 November 2018 Many features of music contribute to its positive potential for promoting social harmony. But music’s influence on human interaction is not entirely benign. I consider features of music that enable it to serve such contrary projects, beginning by...

The Toscanini Memorial Archives at The New York Public Library

01 October 1977 It may seem perverse to begin a report like this with one negative, let alone two, but experience has shown that it is wise to correct from the start two common misapprehensions about the Toscanini Memorial Archives. First, the Toscanini Memorial...

World Music and Ethnomusicology - Understanding the Differences

30 April 1992 (with a capital M), which is "the study of music in all its ramifications." World Music -- Past, Present, and Future Robert E. Brown, San Diego State University Origin and Background of the Terminology To my knowledge, the origin of the term world music...

The Promotion and Tenure Process in CMS Members’ Music Units

20 September 2018 Abstract To increase understanding of the promotion and tenure process for music professors, the CMS Academic Citizenship Committee studied four aspects of the topic: the promotion and tenure process; expectations for excellence in teaching,...

Dis-moi, Daphénéo… Erik Satie’s Path to Modernism

01 October 2011 Throughout the twentieth-century musical composition was characterized by the evolution of two distinct traditions that developed simultaneously and in opposition to one another. As a number of critics and historians have noted, these traditions...

Cultural Influences of Organ Music Composed by African American Women

01 June 2015 Cultural Influences on Organ Music Written By African American Women 1 Abstract In this paper, major events in African American history are described and contrasted with the history of organ music written by African American women in the twentieth- and...

Building a Conceptual Model of Independent Studio Production in Undergraduate Music Technology Courses Through Authentic Assessment

01 October 2024 Abstract In this article, the authors put forward a Conceptual Model of Independent Studio Production (ISP) in undergraduate music technology courses. Independent Studio Production reflects the increasingly multifaceted nature of the recording...

Performance Practices and Rehearsal Techniques

01 October 1969 This paper was read originally at the Eleventh Annual Meeting of the Society held in New Haven, Connecticut, December 27-29, 1968 as part of a ROUND TABLE discussion concerning "Rehearsal Techniques and Historical Performance Practice." The other...

Not Without a Grievance: Thomas Wentworth Higginson, the Suffrage Movement, and the Reception of Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel

01 October 2024 Abstract In an 1882 article in the American suffrage newspaper, The Woman’s Journal, Thomas Wentworth Higginson expressed outrage that the Mendelssohn family had discouraged Fanny Hensel from composing and that her music had been published under Felix...

Remixing Western Music History

01 May 2023 Abstract The problem faced by music historians of how (or whether) to impart reverence for music created through the institutions of imperialism, patriarchy, colonialism, and slavery is not a new one; nevertheless, as decolonizing initiatives take hold...

Waging the Peace: Bernard Herrmann and [i]The Day the Earth Stood Still[/i]

01 October 2009 The movie that gave us the phrase, “Klaatu! Barada! Nikto!” is not only an important science-fiction film, but also arguably one of the most significant films of the 1950s. Furthermore, it elevated the emerging genre of cinematic science-fiction above...

College Music Appreciation: Pedagogical Approaches and Preliminary Findings

01 October 1996 Up until the mid 1980s it was not uncommon to encounter students beginning music appreciation courses who could read notation and articulate perceptions about musical works using appropriate terminology. College was the time to build on their prior...

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...

Creating Music Curricula of the Future: Preparing Undergraduate Music Students to Engage

27 September 2017 “Be Prepared” — Boy Scout and Girl Guide motto The concept of preparation implies readiness for as many eventualities as possible. Robert Baden-Powell, who inspired the Boy Scout movement with his book, Scouting for Boys, described preparation as being...

Music in General Studies: A Look at Content and Method

01 October 1986 For the last three or four years, Music in General Studies has been a primary topic of discussion and writing. The report of the College Music Society's 1981 Wingspread conference sought to encourage interest toward ". . . developing discerning...

Defending Music Theory in a Multicultural Curriculum

02 October 2006 Defending Music Theory in a Multicultural Curriculum1 Music theory has served as the foundation for undergraduate music curricula in the United States for much of the past century. Within many music departments, it has been used to introduce students...