Making the Music Major Relevant at Liberal Arts Colleges

18 August 2014 The CMS Task Force on the Undergraduate Music Major, convened in 2013 by Patricia Shehan Campbell (University of Washington) and chaired by David Meyers (University of Minnesota), is engaged in a two-year examination of undergraduate music programs.1...

How Much and How Little Has Changed? Evolution In Theory Teaching

01 October 2000 the relevant strands. One of the most convincing testaments to the CM philosophy is the accumulative strength of the College Music Society whose very premise is based on the synergistic advantage of mutual support among individual music disciplines....

A Review of the 1963 Yale Seminar

01 October 2009 The early years of The College Music Society, the 1960s, were a time when a considerable amount of attention was being given to pre-collegiate and professional education. The reason for this was the national concern about the country’s scientific...

The Changing Curriculum: Curricular Considerations for the 1970's

01 October 1972 It is essential that we find new approaches to a music curriculum that will serve contemporary needs. The very survival of music as a significant force in western society may well depend upon it. At a time in history when we have an astonishing access...

Outreach Responsibilities of the Music in Higher Education Community

01 January 2005 can in the years ahead share experiences and explore creative possibilities. To explore one avenue of possibility, The College Music Society conducted in San Francisco an outreach project that took portions of the CMS conference program into the...

Writing About LGBTQ Issues

01 March 2009 These days, it seems everywhere one turns, issues and themes related to sexuality are in evidence. Movies from the unlikeliest of sources are circulating the country on gay themes—A Jihad for Love—that deals with the problems faced by gay men and...

Repertoire Choices in the Classroom: A Music Theory Teacher’s Perspective

27 August 2012 Gena R. Greher's recent article in this journal (CMS 49-50, 2010) arguing for the use of rap music in the classroom prompted me to reflect on the music I use in my own classroom and my reasons for using it. That music is almost exclusively Western art...

[i]Cultivating Music in America: Women Patrons and Activists since 1860[/i], edited by Ralph P. Locke and Cyrilla Barr; [i]Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge: American Patron of Music[/i], by Cyrilla Barr

01 October 1999 Cultivating Music in America: Women Patrons and Activists since 1860, edited by Ralph P. Locke and Cyrilla Barr. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997. xi + 357 pp. ISBN 0-520-08395-4. Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge: American Patron of Music, by...

Preparing Teachers to Educate Citizens for Tomorrow's World

01 October 1972 If young people in our schools are to have opportunities for exposure to and study of the musics of many cultures, then teacher preparation during this decade of the 70's must place emphasis on significant contact with ethnic musics, both in...

Music Theory's Negativisms, Fallacies, Divisions, and Needs

01 October 1977 The Art, the Profession, and the Future, which was read at a plenary session of the national conferences of The College Music Society and the American Musicological Society, in Washington, D.C., on November 6, 1976. The other papers read in the session...

Research Applications in Music CAI

01 October 1981 This article was co-authored by Professor Killam and her colleagues at North Texas State University: Philip Baczewski, Antoinette Corbet, Paul Edward Dworak, Jana Kubitza, Michael Morgan, and Lawrence Woodruff. INTRODUCTION Computer-assisted...

Memory Problems for Musical Performers

01 October 1978 A fear of memory loss is extremely common among performers. Many are loath to admit to it, as if to do so would cause it to happen. Whether acknowledged or not, the anxiety is evident in dreams, jokes, and off-hand comments which express the sense of...

The UW-River Falls Commissioned Composer Project

01 October 1984 The University of Wisconsin-River Falls, created over a century ago as a state-supported normal school, has progressed, like so many similar institutions, from state collegehood toward a designation as an "emerging" institution during the 1960s and,...

Philosophy and the Teacher of Music

01 October 1977 Philosophizing is a normal human pursuit. It involves a perfectly normal search for what men honestly deem to be real, true, and of value. It cuts across all of man's behaviors and beliefs, from naturalism to supernaturalism, including matters of...

Current Pressure Points, Curriculum, and Moving Forward

01 January 2016 as launching the Society for Music Theory Pedagogy, which could be aligned with the Society for Music Theory or the College Music Society. I can say, based on my attendance at such conferences that it is the non-specialists who go out of their way to...

Towards Future Leadership in America’s Music Schools

23 September 2017 markedly decreased,3While I have not run the numbers on this, nationally, it is clear from the employment lists of the College Music Society that those lists are a lot shorter than they used to be. Further, The Chronicle of Higher Education has printed...

Students Speak: Diversity in the Pedagogical Practices of Music in Higher Education

08 July 2014 Additional Arthors: David Aarons, Claire Anderson, Ne Myo Aung, Maren Haynes, Christina Kowalski-Holien, Kait LaPorte, Jocelyn Moon, Subhash Prajapahti, Julia Vilharlahti, and Patricia Shehan Campbell The musical world is not flat. Diversity is a...

The Committee on Academic Citizenship: An Initiative of The College Music Society

01 October 2009 Introduction The College Music Society’s initiative on Academic Citizenship—the final piece in the Society’s larger initiative on Career Services—was unveiled at the Salt Lake City annual meeting on November 15, 2007. A three-member working group (Anne...

A Different View: "On Miles and the Modes"

01 October 1999 As one of the scholars cited on the first page of William Thomson's article,1 I am writing to point out several inaccuracies contained therein, and to offer an alternative interpretation of the author's principal point, in which he suggests...

Redefining the College Music Infrastructure

01 January 1996 scholarship onto the World Wide Web. The musical community is lagging behind other disciplines, and I call upon the College Music Society to help music scholars get organized and take advantage of the Internet. Let's help all music scholars get their...