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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The Collegium Musicum: Complacency or Commitment?
Considering the more than 1300 different colleges, universities, conservatories, schools of music, and community colleges listed in the 1972-1974 CMS Directory, it is a bit disconcerting to find that only 197 faculty members list themselves as...
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Building on Tonic: Integrating Information Literacy into the Music Curriculum
"You never know what is enough until you know what is more than enough." William Blake1 "You mean you can't take less," said the Hatter, "it's very easy to take more than nothing." Lewis Carroll2 ". . . the prime objective of all educational programs...
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Where the Dark and Light Folks Meet: Race and the Mythology, Politics and Business of Jazz, by Randall Sandke. Scarecrow, 2010. 275 pages with index and notes. Clothbound; ISBN 978-0-8108-6652-2; $40. Randall Sandke's Where the Dark and Light Folks...
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Oxford University Press, 2013 ISBN-13: 978-0199857234 How do we choose music for our students to study as part of their coursework in music theory? I think many theory instructors would recognize a (perhaps transparent) priority for exposing students...
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from 75 to 97; faculty vitality range of 46 to 84) from a national random sample of 745 ranked music professors. The College Music Society’s Review Committee, charged by the Executive Director Robby Gunstream, evaluated the 1995 instrument for...
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Anything Goes? Composition at the Turn of the Century
Editors's Note: See below for A Response by Nancy Van de Vate A Response by Elliott Schwartz A Response by Jeremy Beck Composers today live in a pluralistic age. The profusion of different styles as well as the vast resources of music history at their...
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Today About Symposium What is College Music Symposium? College Music Symposium is the premier journal of The College Music Society. The journal was published in printed form for 50 years (1961-2010 )and included scholarly and historical articles,...
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Like many colleges and universities, the University of Southwestern Louisiana (USL) has employed a means for assessing the productivity of its faculty for several years. In this system, each member of the faculty must complete a three-page "Faculty...
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Abstract The rise of East German musical culture after the devastation of WWII is an intriguing facet of contemporary European history. Of particular interest are the Jewish artists, including composer Paul Dessau (1896-1979) and Yiddish folk singer...
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Jazz in American Education Today
Persons concerned about the future of the arts and aware that the arts are essential to the continuance of culture were thrilled with past Secretary Of Education William Bennett's recent report on James Madison High School, in which he stated that all...
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There is a cliche concerning music, and music in music education, that deserves to be repeated because it contains an exquisite truth about the use of music, and the music experience. It is a cliché which fortifies us in music education when we begin...
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Higher education is facing a challenge of responding to the rapid changes in the society. Student demographics and technology are two of the most notable changes having significant influences on higher education. Changes in student demographics imply...
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Assessment-Driven Collaborative Learning
We Need To Change The Way We Teach There is no way around it! We need to change the way we teach higher education courses, whether in the humanities or the sciences. The reasons are many and varied. First, the time available to courses has drastically...
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The Report of the Commission on the Future of Higher Education: Implications for Musicians
Education calls. Music has much to offer the education of every person, and if we dont make this point, who will? The College Music Society has been in the forefront over the past five years of considering what you can do with a degree in music. This...
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Improving Teaching and Testing Through Item Analysis
This paper is addressed primarily to those teachers of music history and music theory who, like myself, have had no professional training in education.1 Although there is every reason to believe that learning more about music can result in better music...
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Confronting the Dilemmas of Higher Music Education: Is There a Will to Change?
Review: The Crisis of Classical Music in America: Lessons from a Life in the Education of Musicians: Robert Freeman Rowman and Littlefield, 2014, ISBN 978-1-4422-3301-0 To lead is to live dangerously because . . . when you lead people through difficult...
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Recommended Course Additions to the Higher Education Music Curriculum
Editor's Note: The following recommendations have been compiled by The College Music Society's Committee on Careers Outside the Academy. Contributing authors include Michael Drapkin, Chair of the Committee, and Committee members Astrid Baumgardner,...
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Developing Community-Based Music Initiatives
in developing new avenues for performance, audience development, and music education. Though many members of The College Music Society can find some degree of support for such activities from their home institutions, working with communities beyond our...
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"Community-Services" Music in California's Community Colleges
Several sections of the California State Education Code, that awesome mountain of print in whose shadow the state's 94 community colleges must operate, provide for a wide range of other-than-academic activities to be sponsored by those colleges for the...
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1994 Robert M. Trotter Lecture We are at an important historical moment, in which music scholarship is undergoing redefinition and reevaluation. There are major changes in the field: First, university resources are being reduced while greater demands...
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