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  • The Ins and Outs of Teaching Composition: 1957-2007

    and for changes in diversity and gender in the demographics of students and faculty. No such luck! Neither The College Music Society, nor the National Association of Schools of Music, nor the Center for Research in Black Music could provide what I was...

  • Women as Leaders of Collegiate Bands, 1850-1980

    June 6, 1661 . . . Called upon this morning by Lieutenant Lambert who is now made captain of the Norwich and he and I went down by water to Greenwich, in our way observing and discoursing upon the things of a ship, he telling me all I asked him, which...

  • The Quality of Life and the Education of the Musical Amateur

    of qualified instrumentalists have other full-time jobs and only occasionally work as musicians (pp. 187-88). The College Music Society Directory of Music Faculties in Colleges and Universities, U.S. and Canada, 1970-72, listed 14,500 music faculty...

  • Arts/Worth, a Project of the National Council of the Arts in Education

    The National Council of the Arts in Education is a federation of twenty-one national organizations* concerned with all the arts involved in our educational system at every level from kindergarten through college. It held its first national conference...

  • The Ballad Style in the Early Music of the Beatles

    The role of popular music in the college curriculum has always been somewhat vague and ill-defined. When, in the late 1960s, college courses in popular music were added to the traditional offerings in western art music, ethnomusicology, and jazz, the...

  • Overview to Music, Business, and Peace

    The articles in this special issue are specifically devoted to the relationship between music, business, and peace. This conversation has been the aim of two Music, Business, and Peace (MBP) conferences at Indiana University led by university scholars...

  • Women’s Perceptions of Advancement Opportunities in Higher Education Music Settings: A Mixed Methods Study

    tenured, tenure-leading, and non-tenure track positions. We distributed the survey instrument to 2,917 members of the College Music Society (CMS) and 1,690 members of the National Association for Music Education (NAfME) who identified as teaching...

  • The Kindergarten Approach to Arranging Music: Using Technology to Stimulate Creativity

    Introduction At the 2013 ATMI National Conference, the CMS/ATMI Music Technology Lecture treated attendees to the research of Mitchel Resnick. In his lecture, Resnick, who directs the Lifelong Kindergarten Group at the Massachusetts Institute of...

  • "Integrated Music Learning" and Improvisation: Teaching Musicianship and Theory Through "Menus, Maps, and Models"

    Applying a Theory of Expressive Meaning in the Written- and Aural-Theory Classrooms, at the 1994 meeting of the College Music Society, featured two papers that discussed further pedagogical applications of the theory: one by Robert Hurwitz and myself...

  • Music Appreciation Materials I

    Michael L. Masterson, Northwest College (Wyoming) Because most Music Appreciation textbooks focus on the historical development of Western Art music, the professor who wants to help students find meaning in music of many styles from diverse cultures,...

  • Music History at Ten Years a Minute

    As educators, we are all painfully aware of how much information we need to cram into limited time-frames of our curricula. As J. Peter Burkholder succinctly states the problem: The most significant issue for teachers of undergraduate music history and...

  • Four Songs by Margaret McClure Stitt

    Margaret McClure Stitt's contribution to the literature of song has not received the recognition it deserves. In her own circle, which included a number of woman's clubs and music clubs in Cincinnati and nearby cities, Mrs. Stitt was well-known, loved,...

  • Julius Weiss: Scott Joplin's First Piano Teacher

    In writing musical biographies and in tracing the influence of one musical generation upon another, musicologists have traditionally spent considerable time and effort to investigate teacher-student relationships. Until recently this seems to have been...

  • An Essay on Word Painting

    An Essay on Word Painting1 Any meaningful attempt to appreciate a piece of vocal music must begin with its text, if it has one.2 Listener, analyst, critic and performer must all take the text as their starting point for the simple and obvious reason...

  • The Ninth Semester: Preparing Undergraduates to Function as Professional Musicians in the 21st Century

    Abstract There has been much discussion and research in recent years about the types of careers our recent music graduates have been leading. Scholarly work suggests that the current undergraduate curriculum may not prepare musicians to function...

  • The Changing Face of Music as Career

    Recently, I met an enthusiastic young lady who signed up for my summer piano course. She was quick to share her desire to study music, her love of singing, and some of the music notes written in ink on her body. She left for a meeting with her advisor...

  • Preface to a Graduate Course in the History of Music Theory

    As a doctoral degree certifies (among other things) to a breadth of knowledge in the field, one requirement for the Ph.D. in music theory should be a scholarly course surveying the history of theory. To decide on this requirement, however, is easier...

  • Edward T. Cone's [i]The Composer's Voice[/i] - Introduction: [i]The Composer's Voice[/i] as Music Theory

    Edward T. Cone's book The Composer's Voice is an important and distinctive contribution to recent music scholarship, but it has received relatively little public discussion.1 The following papers show the potential fruitfulness of the book by...

  • An Outsider’s Guide to Classical Music: Teaching the Western Canon as “Other”

    elbowing them in mid-concert to ask, “Quick, where are we in the form!” (from remarks presented at The College Music Society Institute for Music History Pedagogy at Butler University, Indianapolis, IN, June 10, 2006). Such a call to analytical...

  • [i]The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music[/i], by Bruno Nettl and Ruth M. Stone, advisory editors, James Porter and Timothy Rice, founding editors

    The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music, by Bruno Nettl and Ruth M. Stone, advisory editors, James Porter and Timothy Rice, founding editors. New York: Garland, Routledge, 1998-2002. 10 vols. What if you need to learn about "world music," but you...