“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...

The Performer as College Music Teacher

01 October 1976 Up to now we have thought of the performer-as-teacher in the following terms: 1) The performer is a person of special talents in playing, singing, conducting. These talents have been developed by unremitting discipline in practice and have been refined...

Music Therapy in Handel's England: Browne's Medicina Musica (1729)

01 October 1985 The development of contemporary uses for music in therapy is generally attributed to the twentieth century or even the late nineteenth century; however, a text on the subject was published in 1729. The book, Medicina Musica, or, a Mechanical Essay on...

Critical Language and Musical Thought in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

01 October 1987 Critical Language and Musical Thought in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries1 Though the worth of interdisciplinary approaches to the study and teaching of music history is generally assumed, in practice our efforts to relate music to the other...