“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...

A Report on Music in Canadian Universities

01 October 1968 There are in Canada, at this moment, some twenty-four universities and colleges offering undergraduate degrees in music; seven offer master's degrees, and four, doctorates. The country has a scant twenty million people, but even in relation to this...