Creativity: Who? What? Why Not?

22 April 2026 Editor’s note: This essay is based on the author’s talk at the CMS Think-Tank Summit—Ideas into Action: Reimagining Music Schools for 2026 and Beyond at the Moores School of Music, University of Houston on January 16-18, 2026. Proceedings of the Summit...

A New Learned Society for Music Theory

01 October 1978 A developing movement of several years came to fruition on November 19, 1977, at Evanston, Illinois, with establishment of the Society for Music Theory. The new organization was established by formal action of approximately 150 music theorists...

Music Curricula in the '70's

01 October 1971 panel was William J. Mitchell. The other panelists were Charles Hamm, Mantle Hood, James Haar, Claude V. Palisca, and Robert J. Werner. Abstracts of the papers they presentedas well as Mitchell's introductory remarkswere also included in Symposium...

Opportunities for Intracultural and Interdisciplinary Study

01 October 1971 1970's. Chairman of the panel was William J. Mitchell. The other panelists were Charles Hamm, Mantle Hood, James Haar, Robert J. Werner, and Neal Zaslaw. Abstracts of the papers they presentedas well as Mitchell's introductory remarkswere also included...

The Ph.D. in Music: An Affirmation of Traditional Values

01 October 1971 Chairman of the panel was William J. Mitchell. The other panelists were Charles Hamm, Mantle Hood, Claude V. Palisca, Robert J. Werner, and Neal Zaslaw. Abstracts of the papers they presentedas well as Mitchell's introductory remarkswere also included...

Musical Literacy in the 1970's

01 October 1971 Chairman of the panel was William J. Mitchell. The other panelists were Charles Hamm, James Haar, Claude V. Palisca, Robert J. Werner, and Neal Zaslaw. Abstracts of the papers they presentedas well as Mitchell's introductory remarkswere also included in...

Music and Higher Education in the 1970's: A Needed Change in Attitude

01 October 1971 Chairman of the panel was William J. Mitchell. The other panelists were Mantle Hood, James Haar, Claude V. Palisca, Robert J. Werner, and Neal Zaslaw. Abstracts of the papers they presentedas well as Mitchell's introductory remarkswere also included in...

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Youth and Cultural Change

01 October 1977 of ISME and UNESCO in addition to his responsibilities as Director of the Institute of Music Sociology in Vienna. ROBERT J. WERNER University of Arizona In 1970, an international research project was launched, dealing with the changing patterns of young...