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Preparing for Pride and Performance in the Professoriate
It gives me great personal pleasure to deliver the Robert Trotter Lecture to this annual meeting of The College Music Society. You see, exactly 25 years ago this month, I was fortunate to have the first of what would become a series of informal,...
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Music Matters: Curricular Change During Times of Institutional Stress
This latter effort was supported by a rich body of research on educating the 21st century musician. Prominently, The College Music Society convened a task force in 2014 to identify strategies to improve outcomes for music majors toward “successful...
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Teaching Seventeenth-Century Concepts of Musical Form and Expression: An Aspect of Baroque Music
(London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1968). 1This article was presented as part of a panel at the Annual Meeting of The College Music Society, Miami 1986. 2Seven historical periods if the instructor feels the necessity to divide the twentieth century...
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American Pluralism, the University, and Ethnomusicology: Some Comments on Their Interrelationships
Ethnomusicology seems to have survived another quarter-century and appears to be concluding the millennium on an upswing. The word ethnic is no longer rejected by the comparative musicologists and, on the contrary, promises to be one of the burgeoning...
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American Music in Music Courses
First Performances in America to 1900 (Works with Orchestra), Bibliographies in American Music No.4 (published for the College Music Society by Information Coordinators, Inc., Detroit, 1979). 7Julius Mattfield, A Handbook of American Operatic Premieres,...
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The Bachelor of Music Degree and the Marketplace
Higher education in the United States has traditionally encompassed both the idea of the liberal arts and the concept of professional education aimed at preparing individuals for a specific vocation. These somewhat incompatible ideas coexist in many...
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that many are eager to discuss teaching techniques, although direct access to such conversations is minimal. The College Music Society has sponsored a variety of professional development activities and workshops, including those on teaching world music,...
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Jenny Lind and P. T. Barnum: A Success Story of Music, Business, and Philanthropy
Abstract Soprano Jenny Lind (1820–87), known as the “Swedish Nightingale,” toured the United States in 1850 under the auspices of “America’s Greatest Showman” and self-proclaimed “Prince of Humbug,” P. T. Barnum (1810–91). The tour was a phenomenal...
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in years to come. Here I echo the sentiment with which Dale Olsen concluded his essay from the 1994 volume of The College Music Society Newsletter, “World Music and Ethnomusicology—Understanding the Differences”: briefly, the occasional trouble we may...
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Teaching Music History: An Interview with William Kimmel
William Kimmel was born in Dayton, Ohio in 1908. He went to college in Naperville, Illinois, receiving his A.B. degree from North Central College. He received his M.M. and Ph.D degrees from the Eastman School of Music in 1935 and 1942 respectively....
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Employment Matters in Higher Jazz Education
distribution, a database of jazz faculty email addresses was created using the institutional directories from the College Music Society. These directories are available to members and provide a list of institutions that employ faculty with...
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Ethnomusicology and Critical Pedagogy as Cultural Work: Reflections on Teaching and Fieldwork
[T]he curriculum is collapsing under the force of these contradictions, for it is no longer capable of dealing with the new power/knowledge relations that shape the subject. (Morton and Zavarzadeh 1991: 2) In this essay, I will explore some possible...
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Why is There Such a Mismatch between Academia and the Music Industry?
an honor to be invited to give the keynote address for this ground breaking, and long overdue, summit between the College Music Society and the National Association of Music Merchants. I am curious to know how many of you have already visited the...
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Music Improvisation in Higher Education
Abstract While music educators and administrators have increasingly voiced support for improvisation as an integral component of music education in recent decades, research reveals a continuing discrepancy between this viewpoint and evidence of...
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Abstract In this article I examine the developing role performance has played in ethnomusicological research and teaching from the early days of our field until the present. Until well into the 1950s ethnomusicologists primarily concerned themselves...
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Needs for Research in Black-American Music
Traditionally, the American musicologist engaged in historical research has concentrated upon the scientific study of art music in the western European tradition, focusing his attention primarily upon the "great musical work" produced by great masters...
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“Shot Into the Air Like a Rocket”: Climax in the Lieder of Alma Mahler
Abstract The appropriation of musical climax as an act of subversion became a common claim in feminist analysis of music by women composers. The focus on the tension and release in Western classical music has been called out as overtly masculine and...
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Abstract In today’s music world, a wide variety of music styles and traditions demand that musicians improvise to some degree. To best prepare musicians for successful careers as performers and teachers in the 21st-century global society, teaching...
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“And when his hand he had stretch’d forth To mine, with pleasant looks, whence I was cheer’d, Into that secret place he led me on.”1 Venturing across disciplines in musical practice and pedagogy is often seen as a path fraught with peril, yet the...
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Appreciation Without Apologies
Admit it: music appreciation is square. In the recent film comedy School of Rock, when a bumbling rocker somehow gets a job teaching at a stuffy prep school and begins teaching classes in "rock history and appreciation," what's funny is how the film...
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