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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Redeeming Alma: The Songs of Alma Mahler
too, had a creative spirit. Nevertheless, when I presented portions of this essay at the 2002 Annual Meeting of The College Music Society, I discovered that a number of my colleagues were unaware of her work. Thus, another look at Alma is warranted. A...
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“Oh My Son!”: The Musical Origins and Function of King David’s Lamentation
Introduction In his 1981 article “Prince Henry as Absalom in David’s Lamentations” Irving Godt examined a group of seventeenth-century English settings based on King David’s laments for his son Absalom and his friend Jonathan.1 On the basis of the...
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in conjunction with certain curricular studies undertaken by such groups as the Contemporary Music Project and the College Music Society. In part, "comprehensive musicianship" implies a serious questioning of the limited pedagogical value of the "mutual...
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The CMS Amidst National Societies
its constituent members, and responsible organizations will seek out this field for investigation. In addressing the College Music Society, I realize that I am speaking to the converted. In fact, this is one of the reasons that I accepted this...
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Microcomputer-Based Teaching—Computer-Assisted Instruction in Music Comes of Age
It is the author's perception that there has always been a certain eagerness among musicians to experiment with technology. The converse also holds true, as technologists historically have been intrigued with the production and modification of sound....
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Dear Catherine, Visiting America for the first time after having spent your childhood in Germany and the greater part of your adult life in England, you were predictably both disappointed and exhilarated by what you saw here. You were also often...
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Critics disagree. It is not important nor perhaps even desirable that they cease doing so. Rather, it is important that they and their readers understand why they do so. Disagreements stemming from stupidity or ill-will on the part of one of the...
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Changing Lives with Recorded Sound: Recordings and Profound Musical Experiences
Lecture delivered at the annual meeting of The College Music Society, November 17, 2001, in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Introduction It is a great honor to be standing before you to deliver the annual Robert M. Trotter Lecture. It is also rather daunting,...
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Remembering American Composer Arthur Farwell and His Family: An Interview with His Son, Jonathan
Arthur George Farwell (1872-1952) was instrumental in helping to develop an American style of musical composition for the twentieth century. I became aware of Farwell and his historical importance when I met Ms. Jeanne Behrend in the 1980’s in...
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Meeting Community and Campus Needs through Service Learning and Beginning Music Theory
This is a story of making connections. Several years ago, the entire faculty at Birmingham-Southern College was charged with redesigning the curriculum to strengthen it, and to take the opportunity to think creatively and deeply about how to accomplish...
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On the Mission of The College Music Society
The College Music Society was founded in the late 1950s, by a committee of college and university music professors led by Harvard's G. Wallace Woodworth. This was a time when the nation's largely new university music departments were getting staffed by...
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Should Ethnomusicology be Abolished?
Position Papers for the Ethnomusicology Interest Group at the 19th Annual Meeting of the College Music Society, Washington D.C., November 1976 FREDRIC LIEBERMAN University of Washington One of the world's natural wonders is the consistent way in which...
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Author-Supplied Metadata for Music Composition Dissertations in ProQuest
composition degrees was compiled using the program index in the 2002-2003, 2005-2006, and 2012-2013 editions of The College Music Society Directory of Music Faculties in Colleges and Universities, U.S. and Canada. The list included all programs labeled...
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Teaching Introductory Music Courses with a "More Comprehensive Perspective"
Any college teacher who teaches an introductory music course to general students—the kind of course that has long been called "music appreciation"—can benefit from reading the 1989 CMS Report Number 7: Music in the Undergraduate Curriculum: A...
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Secrets of The Studio: Changes In Performance Teaching
conservatory or university school of music or liberal-arts college from the past fifty years—the lifetime of The College Music Society—reveals that the course offerings and the structure of requirements in performance look distinctly less changed than...
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Music Faculty at Work in the Academy: Job Crafting
Abstract Music faculty members have unique roles in the academy with the dual emphases on artistic and scholarly work expected in their teaching, service, and research. We analyzed responses from a national sample of ranked music professors to the...
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students who already have doctorates from their institutions. A familiar phrase in the job openings announced by the College Music Society, for example, is "doctorate required." Thus Yale's MMAs rightfully worry that without a doctorate doors will be...
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A Brief History of Computer-Assisted Instruction in Music
in the national conferences of ADCIS. During 1979 a cooperative affiliation was formed between NCCBMI and the College Music Society. During the last three years much of the activity in music CAI has focused on courseware development and experimentation...
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Beyond Childhood: Poulenc, [i]La courte paille[/i], and the Aural Envelope
Introduction: Evoking Childhood Musically Carnival of the Animals. Children’s Corner. Mother Goose. Musical depictions of the childhood experience have attracted a wide spectrum of composers, reaching an apex in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries....
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The College Music Society Music Theory Undergraduate Core Curriculum Survey - 2000
Introduction A few years ago, Pamela L. Poulin, College Music Society Executive Board Member for Music Theory and Chair of the Music Theory Advisory Committee, asked me, as a member of the Committee, to conduct a survey of undergraduate music theory...
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