Musical Pattern Perception

01 October 1979 How the human mind structures its complex environment is a topic that has been explored for generations by individuals from a wide variety of disciplines. Musicians now seem to be generally aware that pattern perception is highly relevant to their...

William Schuman Interview

01 October 1995 PREFACE The circumstances surrounding the William Schuman Interview are fascinating when I look back over events that took place almost thirty years ago. In December 1965 I wrote William Schuman at Lincoln Center inviting him to contribute an essay on...

The Show Choir Movement: Uses and Abuses—A Symposium

01 October 1983 POSITION STATEMENT BY PETER TIBORIS University of Southwestern Louisiana What is a show choir? I believe it to have the following characteristics: (1) SATB Membership of 20-30 performers, (2) Repertoire primarily from the "Top-Forty," (3) Use of...

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...

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...

Claude Debussy's Gamelan

27 August 2012 Introduction The year 1889 marked the 100th anniversary of the French Revolution and the nation celebrated with the Paris Exposition Universelle, an extraordinary World's Fair. The importance of the event was emphasized by the construction of the...

Three Models of Leadership

29 February 2008 The Committee on Administration presented a session at the national meeting in Salt Lake last November to a standing-room-only audience. Titled Herding Cats or Thrown to the Wolves? Leadership and the Department Chair, the session focused on approaches...

Music as Organic Evolution: Schoenberg's Mythic Springboard Into the Future

01 October 1993 Although long an archetype of modern thought, biological evolution's eminent role has not always been an appropriate one: its convenience as a cover for all manner of processive change has often been abused. Arenas of thought once presumed accountable...

Paul Hindemith's Philosophy of Music and the Role of [i]The Four Temperaments[/i]

01 October 2011 Paul Hindemith formulated his philosophy of music upon two "basic and unalterable musical values," the one, Augustinian, the other, Boethian. He defined the latter as the "power of music, its ethos . . . brought into action upon our mind"; the former,...

Zen and the Art of Leadership: Thoughts for Young Music Administrators

01 January 2008 Richard Green, Chair of the Department of Music at Miami University of Ohio, was the first chair of the Committee on Administration when it was founded in 2003. He is a tireless advocate for promoting administrative work as a stimulating, worthwhile,...

Action for Art

01 October 1976 The years 1975 and 1976 have more than a little in common with 1939, the year of my graduation from the Eastman School of Music. At that time the country was still suffering from the effects of the Great Depression, and already the ominous march of...