Heritage Band of the Midwest Digital Audio Archives: 40-Plus Years of Volunteer Dedication to International Wind Band Music

28 April 2017 VISIT THE AUDIO ARCHIVE Abstract The Heritage Band of the Midwest (HBM), also know as the “Bunny Band,” is an all-volunteer ensemble of musicians that gather once a year during Easter week for three days to record an album of lesser-known wind band...

Mentor to a Profession: A Tribute to Robert M. Trotter

01 October 1995 4Ibid., 36. 5Unpublished paper, Contemporary Music Project presentation, Seattle, Washington, April, 1968. authors: Robert J. Werner author_ids: 212 authors: Robert J. Werner author_ids: 212

The College Music Society: A Distinguished History, A Challenging Future

01 October 2009 Higher Education, 5. 9Harding, “Where Is CMS in 2006-2007?,” 1. 10Weirich, “The President’s Page.” 11Ibid. authors: Robert J. Werner author_ids: 212 authors: Robert J. Werner author_ids: 212

Diabolical Dances and Rhythmic Poetry: Interpreting and Performing Franz Liszt’s Metric Conflicts

28 October 2025 Editor, Scholarship and Research James A. Grymes Expand Article The technical and musical difficulties of Franz Liszt’s piano music are well known to pianists and non-pianists alike. Such difficulties have been discussed in diverse venues from...

A Time to Review Standards

30 April 2005 norms. Well, now is the time to lay such beliefs aside and join in this exercise of shared responsibility. authors: Robert J. Werner author_ids: 212 authors: Robert J. Werner author_ids: 212

Wingspread's Continuing Challenge for Faculty and Administrators

30 April 2006 for both faculty and administrators, this has an even greater urgency now than it had twenty five years ago. authors: Robert J. Werner author_ids: 212 authors: Robert J. Werner author_ids: 212

“Oh My Son!”: The Musical Origins and Function of King David’s Lamentation

01 October 2009 Introduction In his 1981 article “Prince Henry as Absalom in David’s Lamentations” Irving Godt examined a group of seventeenth-century English settings based on King David’s laments for his son Absalom and his friend Jonathan.1 On the basis of the...

A Review of the 1963 Yale Seminar

01 October 2009 Woodworth, “Report,” 16. A Review of the 1963 Yale Seminar 2Bodegraven, letter to Keppel, August 7, 1964. authors: Robert J. Werner author_ids: 212 authors: Robert J. Werner author_ids: 212

A Shared Commitment: CMS and ISME

31 August 2003 music in their professional and personal lives. This is truly a shared commitment of which both can be proud. authors: Robert J. Werner author_ids: 212 authors: Robert J. Werner author_ids: 212

Preface to a Graduate Course in the History of Music Theory

01 October 1982 As a doctoral degree certifies (among other things) to a breadth of knowledge in the field, one requirement for the Ph.D. in music theory should be a scholarly course surveying the history of theory. To decide on this requirement, however, is easier...

Ruminations on the Center for Black Music Research

01 October 2008 The Society’s invitation to speak about relationships between the Center for Black Music Research and the profession at-large is a distinct honor. I am delighted today to have the opportunity to outline a scholarly and musical journey that has taken...

A Commentary on the Education of Composers

30 April 2001 who might then bring these experiences as the basis for the training of composers for this new century. authors: Robert J. Werner author_ids: 212 authors: Robert J. Werner author_ids: 212

Who Speaks for Music in Higher Education?

31 December 1993 self-critical and self-regulatory? Can we review, reform, and regulate ourselves before others do it for us? authors: Robert J. Werner author_ids: 212 authors: Robert J. Werner author_ids: 212

From the Member-at-Large for Music in General Studies

01 December 1994 Robert M. Trotter was the first Board Member for Music in General Studies, appointed to the position by President Robert J. Werner after its creation by the Board. Professor Trotter did much to define the area of Music in General Studies and to lead the...

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...

From Faculty Member to Department Chair: Making the Transition to Administration

28 April 2014 Traditional and Emerging Expectations, 2nd ed. Bolton, MA: Anker Publishing Company, 2006. Miller, Fredrick, Robert J. Werner, and James William Hipp. Musical Chairs: A Management Handbook for Music Executives in Higher Education. Missoula, MT: Collegse...

Graduate Education of the Musician-Teacher

01 October 1971 This paper was part of a panel presentation for The College Music Society at the University of Toronto on November 7, 1970 entitled Music and Higher Education in the 1970's. Chairman of the panel was William J. Mitchell. The other panelists were...

Reviews of Books on Jazz

01 October 2003 The Cambridge Companion to Jazz. Edited by Mervyn Cooke and David Horn. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. 403 p. ISBN 0-521-66320-2 (cloth); ISBN 0-521-66388-1 (paper). Jazz and the Germans: Essays on the Influence of "Hot" American Idioms...

Comparative Theory: A Systematic Approach to the Study of World Music

01 October 1972 There are few signs that composers and music theorists have participated with more than faint enthusiasm in the current and widespread move to make the study of non-Western music a basic component in American university practice. Most of my colleagues...

Music and Higher Education in the 1970's

01 October 1971 Music and Higher Education in the 1970's. The panelists were Charles Hamm, Mantle Hood, James Haar, Claude V. Palisca, Robert J. Werner, and Neal Zaslaw. Abstracts of the papers they presented were also included in Symposium Volume 11. For those of us...