“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...

Paying Attention to Music and Baseball: Listening to the Savannah Bananas

13 May 2026 In 1956, Ford Frick, the Commissioner of Major League Baseball, tried to woo music fans to pay more attention to baseball. Writing in Music Journal, Frick hoped that his “comparison of music and baseball should be of interest to devotees of both of...

The Standards Challenge

30 April 1994 to our art and our work. It can be a major engine of progress. It is a tool in our hands. What will we do? authors: Samuel H. Hope author_ids: 1121 authors: Samuel H. Hope author_ids: 1121

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...

Beyond "Bach-Centrism": Historiographic Perspectives on Johann Sebastian Bach and Seventeenth-Century Music

01 October 1993 Beyond "Bach-Centrism": Historiographic Perspectives on Johann Sebastian Bach and Seventeenth-Century Music1 In connection with the preparation of an article on Bach's early works,2 I recently have examined books and essays of all kinds, some intended...

Cultural Influences of Organ Music Composed by African American Women

01 June 2015 Cultural Influences on Organ Music Written By African American Women 1 Abstract In this paper, major events in African American history are described and contrasted with the history of organ music written by African American women in the twentieth- and...

The Report of the Commission on the Future of Higher Education: Implications for Musicians

30 April 2007 a mastery learning style check-list, containing bits of information that students must be able to produce for a test. Samuel H. Hope, Executive Director of the National Association of Schools of Music (NASM), has written at great length about the...

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...

An Ethnomusicologist's Reflections on "Complexity" and "Participation" in Music

01 October 1977 I. "One of the distinctive facts about contemporary history is that it is world history and that the forces shaping it cannot be understood unless we are prepared to adopt world-wide perspectives; and this means not merely supplementing our...