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...

Employment Matters in Higher Jazz Education

13 May 2026 Introduction Employment research is a ubiquitous feature in contemporary policy, economic, and business sectors. The higher education sector in the United States has tracked employment data for many decades, aided by organizations such as the American...

Zoltán Kodály As Musician-Educator Exemplar: A Critique

01 October 1980 and with our collective efforts, it should be possible actually to meet this goal rather than merely verbalize it. 1Samuel D. Miller, "Guido d'Arezzo, Medieval Musician and Educator," Journal of Research in Music Education, Fall, 1973. 2Carl Orff,...

A Theory of Musicality as it Correlates to General Intelligence

01 October 1977 The dawn of the twentieth century witnessed a remarkable, rather sudden burst of psychological research activities centering around predictive measurement of human mental function and potential. Until late in the 1800s, psychology had not yet become an...

Interesting Lies and Curious Truths About Carl Ruggles

01 October 1979 I suppose all of us as we get older tend to shade the truth a little about our backgrounds. To push and pull the facts a tiny bit, to suit the image we wish to create. But I doubt very much that many of us would create startling new myths about...

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,...

Edward T. Cone's [i]The Composer's Voice[/i]: Agency in Instrumental Music and Song

01 October 1989 In Musical Form and Musical Performance, Edward T. Cone states that "artistic quality is intentionally produced esthetic quality"; the so-called intentional fallacy is "no fallacyunless it is the fallacy of believing that there is an intentional...

Waging the Peace: Bernard Herrmann and [i]The Day the Earth Stood Still[/i]

01 October 2009 The movie that gave us the phrase, “Klaatu! Barada! Nikto!” is not only an important science-fiction film, but also arguably one of the most significant films of the 1950s. Furthermore, it elevated the emerging genre of cinematic science-fiction above...