Redeeming Alma: The Songs of Alma Mahler

01 October 2004 Introduction History has not always been kind to Alma Mahler. Upon reading her obituary in December, 1964, the politically-incorrect songwriter Tom Lehrer penned these words about her relationship with Gustav Mahler: Their marriage, however, was...

Feminist and Non-Western Perspectives in the Music Theory Classroom: A Study of John Harbison's Mirabai Songs

01 October 2002 John Harbison's Mirabai Songs are musical settings of six poems by an Indian princess, Mirabai Rathor, who lived during the first half of the sixteenth century.1 Written in 1982, the songs were originally conceived for soprano and piano, and later...

Why Music Critics Disagree

01 October 1983 Critics disagree. It is not important nor perhaps even desirable that they cease doing so. Rather, it is important that they and their readers understand why they do so. Disagreements stemming from stupidity or ill-will on the part of one of the...