Assuming the is required, and college is required, and music is required, and society is required, the following 530 results were found.
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Abstract The recruitment and retention of music education majors from underrepresented populations are emerging as crucial focal points in music education discourse. As the field collectively grapples with the urgency of addressing these concerns,...
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The Fragmentation of the Music Education Profession
The majority of American music teachers belong to one or more of the many music education professional organizations that exist today. The organizations are dedicated to serving such specialized interests as elementary school music methodology, band,...
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Abstract This paper is the second in a two-part series conducted by the College Music Society Council on Music Education investigating the recruitment and retention of students from underrepresented populations into undergraduate music teacher...
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Feminist Scholarship and the Field of Musicology: I
Feminist Scholarship and the Field of Musicology: I1 In a study entitled Feminist Scholarship: Kindling in the Groves of Academe, five authors surveyed recent scholarship in the fields of anthropology, education, history, literature, and philosophy in...
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Performing Arts: The Economic Dilemma. A Study of Problems Common to Theater, Opera, Music and Dance, by William J. Baumol and William G. Bowen. New York: The Twentieth Century Fund, 1966. 582 pp. [$7.50] It is a thesis of this study that the root of...
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Non-Music Major Participation in College and University Ensembles
Abstract What would it take for you to participate? is a central question with which colleges and universities that offer programs in music must engage. Music teaching and learning research largely focuses on K-12 students and on individuals who intend...
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The Music Industry, Musical Industry, and Dirty (Blond) Work
A Dirty Blond Show I’m home on a Saturday afternoon in Hampton, Connecticut and my band has a Blondie covers gig tonight in New York City. I give myself a strong coffee and four hours and for what Google Maps predicts is a three-hour drive (traffic...
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The Musical World of Hildegard of Bingen
Hildegard's life (1098-1179) spans most of the twelfth century, one of the richest and most fascinating periods in cultural and intellectual history. Among the distinguished personages of this century are Dante Alighieri, Peter Abelard and his wife...
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Americans have been writing about the history of music, and about the history of American music, for almost a hundred years. As we approach the centenary we might well ask ourselves such questions as these: How have American music historians regarded...
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Music Therapy in Handel's England: Browne's Medicina Musica (1729)
The development of contemporary uses for music in therapy is generally attributed to the twentieth century or even the late nineteenth century; however, a text on the subject was published in 1729. The book, Medicina Musica, or, a Mechanical Essay on...
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Contour and Melodic Structure in Two Homophonic Instrumental Works by Anton Webern
The subject of musical contour has received a growing amount of attention in recent years.1 In part this stems from a recognition that contour is one of the features that most engage a listener; a melody's shape is often more memorable than its...
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A Brief History of Composers' Groups in the United States
From a hasty perusal of this year's CMS program (1979), I can only conclude that there are but few of us reckless generalists still about, ready to cover the entire history of a country's musical activity, or at least one part of it, in something like...
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Feminist Scholarship and the Field of Musicology: II
In Part I of this article (which appeared in College Music Symposium 29 [1989], 81-92), I assessed the impact of feminist methods and perspectives on the field of American musicology and summarized what we have learned from the various studies about...
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Music in General Studies: A Look at Content and Method
three or four years, Music in General Studies has been a primary topic of discussion and writing. The report of the College Music Society's 1981 Wingspread conference sought to encourage interest toward ". . . developing discerning judgment about and...
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Hiring Criteria for Applied Music Faculty at U. S. Colleges and Universities
only indirectly with this issue.1 One exception is a study by LeRoy Pogemiller, who studied positions announced in the College Music Society's Music Faculty Vacancy Lists.2 This study, though, reports mostly on non-applied areas. The present essay...
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The Use of Cooperative Action Learning to Increase Music Appreciation Students' Listening Skills
Listening dominates our culture's musical involvement, and therefore music listening education is increasingly important. College level music appreciation classes provide an opportunity to teach listening skills to a wide range of students who are...
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Although I have been in orchestra and glee club a long time, I have learned more in these few weeks than ever before. This is what one student wrote after beginning a course with Mildred Trevvett at the Governor Thomas Johnson High School in Frederick,...
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College Applied Faculty: The Disjunction of Performer, Teacher, and Educator
College applied studio teaching has been examined, evaluated, and criticized in recent decades, but it has remained in place, unchanged in most ways due to the inherent “conserving” nature of the music conservatory, or to what Schlueter refers to as an...
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Music Teacher Education in America (1753-1840): A Look at One of its Three Sources
In his address at the formation of the Society for Music Teacher Education in San Antonio in 1982, Charles Leonhard described American music teacher education as "a hybrid growing out of three traditions in higher education: the liberal arts tradition,...
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And Now We Begin—A Survey of Recent Theory Texts
The 1960s were a time for reexamination of the aims, contents and methods of college courses designed to teach music theory, and, as a corollary, of the texts intended for those courses. Several factors contributed to the creation of a "crisis in the...
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