Music as Life-Saving Project: Venezuela’s El Sistema in American Neo-Idealistic Imagination

28 April 2014 Abstract The U.S. reception of El Sistema has been, for the most part, enthusiastic, as reflected in numerous media articles and the literature of prominent advocates such as Tricia Tunstall. An analysis of these sources points to a tendency on the...

Musical Experience in Contemporary Life

01 October 1977 MATERIALS, FORMS, AND IDEAS The story is told of a Chinese emperor who, when he heard the music of a newly improved lute with added strings made by one of his subjects, was moved to tears. After a time with great reluctance and resignation he...

The Pedagogy of Early, Twentieth-Century Music: Ideas for a Classroom Discussion based on a Multi-Faceted Analysis of Scriabin's Op. 31, No. 4.

29 November 2016 Abstract The literature of the early part of the twentieth-century poses a unique set of pedagogical challenges when introducing it to the undergraduate population. On the one hand, there are elements that continue in the common-practice tradition,...

The Composer in Academia: Reflections on a Theme of Stravinsky

01 October 1970 Bobby Klein photo—Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. "I would warn young composers too, Americans especially, against university teaching. . . ."Igor Stravinsky Editor's Foreword Even a glance at the twenty-three essays that follow will suffice to show that a...

Conducting a Liberatory Pedagogy: Empowering the Music Apprentice as a Knowledge Producer in the Classroom

01 March 2022 Abstract Music instruction in the college and the conservatory is dominated by the ancient master-apprentice model of instruction, which has problematic cultural and pedagogical ramifications. This essay first investigates apprenticeship from...

Carissimi’s [i]Jephte[/i] and Jesuit Spirituality

01 April 2019 Abstract The lament that ends Jacomo Carissimi’s Jephte is frequently anthologized and taught in undergraduate surveys, and is justly famous for its emotional impact. Although it is generally thought to have been composed for performance at 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...

A Re-examination of Teacher Training in Music

31 December 1960 hand with a drastic realignment of the forces destined to determine its future. Surely, at this crucial juncture the College Music Society would fail in its self-imposed task, were it to remain silent and inactive. We should at least go on record in...

A Response to Kivy: Music and "Music Appreciation" in the Undergraduate Liberal Arts Curriculum

01 October 1999 can be seen in its recent publication, The Eastman Colloquium on Teaching Music as a Liberal Art (Missoula: The College Music Society, 1996). 4Kivy's statement that instruction in performance and musicianship is "traditionally given only in the...

Students Evaluate Music Theory Courses: A Reddit Community Survey

20 September 2018 point of view, collapsed completely with the beginning of twentieth century music. In 1965 the Journal of the College Music Society posed the following question in a special issue entitled “The Crisis in Theory Teaching:” “In view of the great advances...

Interviews with Music Alumni to Inform Curriculum and Practice: A Case Study

15 November 2022 study from its foundations: A manifesto for progressive change in the undergraduate preparation of music majors. The College Music Society. Retrieved November 19, 2020, from https://www.music.org/pdf/pubs/tfumm/TFUMM.pdf Campbell, P. S. (2014b). Music...

Uncovering and Teaching the Process of Analysis to Undergraduate Music Theory Students

20 September 2018 its Foundations: A Manifesto for Progressive Change in the Undergraduate Preparation of Music Majors,” Report from the College Music Society Task Force on the Undergraduate Music Major,...

Shostakovich's Preludes and Fugues: Fashioning Identities, Representing Relationships

02 October 2006 Mark Mazullo, with Chloe Kiritz and Adam Nelson1 The "Loyal Son" Some thirty years after Stalin's Minister of Culture Andrey Zhdanov ushered in the era of Socialist Realism in the Soviet arts by pronouncing, at the Writer's Congress of 1934, that "the...

Saying Something Else: Improvisation and Music-Play Facilitation in a Medical Ethnomusicology Program for Children on the Autism Spectrum

01 October 2008 Studies of social and interactive processes in music improvisation constitute an important dimension of contemporary ethnomusicological research.1 The range of topics, issues, and traditions addressed is vast, yet one may identify across this...

Paul Hindemith's Philosophy of Music and the Role of [i]The Four Temperaments[/i]

01 October 2011 Paul Hindemith formulated his philosophy of music upon two "basic and unalterable musical values," the one, Augustinian, the other, Boethian. He defined the latter as the "power of music, its ethos . . . brought into action upon our mind"; the former,...

The College Band Directors National Association and Aesthetic Education

31 May 2013 Abstract Founded in 1941, the College Band Directors National Association (CBDNA) has been the primary professional organization for wind conductors for well over fifty years. Given the longstanding connection between college and university bands and...

The Crystallization of the New, New Music at UCSD

01 October 2011 1. Ever-New California In 1966 work began on widening the road leading from a sleepy San Diego beach community, La Jolla Shores, up to the area where an infant university, the University of California San Diego (UCSD), was quickly developing. The road...

[i]Ethnomusicology Scholarship and Teaching[/i] - Neurodiversity and the Ethnomusicology of Autism

25 August 2014 for ethnomusicologists. The following passage from an article by Dale Olsen in the May 1992 issue of the College Music Society Newsletter offers an example: Many Music Departments and Schools of Music in the United States have increasingly been...

The National Assessment in Music: Assessed

01 October 1977 During the last decade the Educational Commission of the States has sponsored an ongoing project entitled "The National Assessment of Educational Progress."1 Developed in collaboration with the National Center for Educational Statistics of the...

Approaching Musical Classicism—Understanding Styles and Style Change in Eighteenth-Century Instrumental Music

01 October 1980 I Historical/stylistic periods in music are both useful and perplexing concepts; they simultaneously clarify and hinder one's perception of a given period and a given work. Part of the difficulty arises from a general lack of agreement as to what...