Concept-Based Pedagogy and its Application in the Private Clarinet Studio

01 April 2019 Abstract Educators are no longer the keepers of content. With the increase in accessibility to technology and the internet, teachers need to show students how to think critically and use facts to influence their own independence and creativity in the...

The Symbiosis of Teaching and Research: A Forum

01 October 2004 J. Peter Burkholder, with H. Wiley Hitchcock, Brooklyn College, City University of New York; Susan McClary, University of California, Los Angeles; Kay Kaufman Shelemay, Harvard University Introduction J. Peter Burkholder At the November 2003 annual...

Interesting Lies and Curious Truths About Carl Ruggles

01 October 1979 so much that his grandfather had sailed. This paper with slight variations was given at the 21st Annual Meeting of the College Music Society in St. Louis, Missouri, on October 28, 1978. 1John Kirkpatrick, "The Evolution of Carl Ruggles," Perspectives of...

Music Education in Higher Education: 1974

01 October 1974 Most of us in college teaching seldom seem to have the time to pause and consider what changes have taken place over the last decade, and what trends are evident. Ten years ago Lyndon Johnson had just become President, the student strikes and demands...

Cross-Fertilization of Conservatory and College on the American Campus

01 October 1967 Pump-priming, hopefully with federal and foundation help and competition, seems the only answer and possibly the College Music Society could serve as a clearing-house and provide much-needed stimulants. It seems clear that all aspects of music should be...

The Development, Implementation, and Supervision of Online Music Theory Courses

24 May 2016 Colleges and universities are under increasing pressure to develop online courses for a variety of classes that have traditionally been offered only through face-to-face (F2F) classroom instruction.1 The process of developing these online classes, as...

Paideia con Salsa: Charles Keil, Groovology, and the Undergraduate Music Curriculum

14 September 2015 transmission system. RM/LH: One of our goals is to bring some of your key concepts to wider attention in the College Music Society. One that leaps out as a real conceptual core for you is this notion of “groovology.” Can you talk about this? CK: I’m...

The Function of Dynamics in the Music of Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven: Some Implications for the Performer

01 October 1976 Most agree that ties between music theory, history, aesthetics and performance are not often clear in the conservatory and college training of young musicians. The advantages of such an integration have already been advocated eloquently in the College...

The Eighteenth Century as a Music-Historical Epoch: A Different Argument for the Proposition

01 October 1987 In the Autumn of 1966, my first term as a teacher, it fell to me to offer a graduate course on "Music in the Eighteenth Century." It was part of a two-year-plus sequence of courses at the University of Chicago, conceived as a comprehensive, if...

The Arts in Higher Education: New Meaning for a New Decade

01 October 1980 Higher education is embarking on a particularly difficult journey as it approaches the 1980s. Its role as a vital force in society is being challenged, and the arts as well as other academic areas and services provided by the postsecondary community...

Teaching Composers to Write for the Stage: A New Master’s Degree Program at The Catholic University of America

01 October 2009 Introduction: Genesis of the Program In teaching composition, I frequently say to my students, when they do not know what to write next in a piece, “Go back and look at what you have already written. Chances are that the idea for what to do next will...

Reflections on CMP 6

01 October 1972 Since the mission of The College Music Society is to act as a forum for the exchange of ideas in the profession, it is quite natural that the pages of Symposium should continue to be open to discussion of the Contemporary Music Project, the philosophy...

Music and Advertising in Seventeen Magazine, 1944-1981

20 September 2019 Abstract Music had a prominent place in Seventeen from its first issue in September 1944, and music’s importance in the magazine reflects music’s importance in the lives of girls from the 1940s through the present day. Building on previous work by...

Gender, Ideology, and Structure: Pedagogical Approaches to the Music of Karin Rehnqvist

01 October 2004 gives them the right to make their own mental photocopies."20 1This paper was presented in different versions at the College Music Society annual meeting in Santa Fe, NM, November 15-18, 2001, and at the Society for Music Theory annual meeting in...

In Praise of Mentors

01 October 2003 2002 Robert M. Trotter Lecture, presented at the CMS National Conference in Kansas City on September 27, 2002. Before beginning my prepared remarks, I wish to pay tribute to two musician/teachers whom I truly consider to be personal mentors. One is...

Creativity in the College Music Classroom: Guidelines for Effective Integration

12 September 2016 in the nature and availability of music careers should inspire us to try to maximize our students’ inventiveness. The College Music Society’s Task Force on the Undergraduate Music Major noted the importance of creativity in global music-making, but...

A Response to Olivier Urbain and an Exploration of How Music May Serve as a Nudge for More Ethical and Peaceful Business Behavior

30 November 2018 In this response, I have nothing particularly critical to provide nor do I have the space to respond to all of the valid and essential questions he asks about business and peace. Those questions set the agenda for conversations that will unfold over a...

The Entrepreneurship Curriculum for Music Students: Thoughts Towards a Consensus

03 October 2005 The increasing importance of professional development is one of the most dynamic trends emerging in the arts within higher education. Publicly funded institutions in particular are increasingly relying on entrepreneurship as a means to prepare students...

Letter to the Editor from Gridley, Mark

01 October 2011 Dear Editor of College Music Symposium: Thank you for giving me the opportunity to reply to Brian Harker's article: "In Defense of Context in Jazz History: A Response to Mark Gridley" (CMS 48, pp. 157-159), which referred to my article in the previous...

Design for Change: Creating Significant Learning Experiences in the Music Classroom

02 October 2006 Education in music is most sovereign, because more than anything else rhythm and harmony find their way to the inmost soul and take strongest hold upon it, bringing with them and imparting grace, if one is rightly trained, and otherwise the...