Music in General Studies - Perspectives and Prospects

31 August 2004 Perspectives inform or remind readers about the beginnings of the MGS emphasis within CMS (1977-1985), including curricular issues that were emphasized in workshops, convention presentations, and published articles during the 1980s. Much of the...

Redefining Success: Perspectives on the Education of Performers

01 October 2000 foundation of secure musicianship. As I look at the above list of goals, I realize that it reflects basic goals of The College Music Society as faculty members seek to put together the specializations of musicians in higher education and to create a...

The Implementation of National Standards in the Arts for American K-12 Education

31 August 1993 will not maintain a consistent approach long enough to be effective at that.) Professional organizations, such as The College Music Society, Music Educators National Conference, and their counterparts in the other arts disciplines, will be critical to...

The Teacher's Guide to Recent Recordings of Music by Black Composers

01 October 1973 This discography is restricted to "concert" music by composers of African ancestry, regardless of the country of their birth. I acknowledge immediately that several of the figures listed are represented on recordings by works in other genres (e.g.,...

[i]Introducing American Folk Music[/i], by Kip Lornell

01 October 1992 and publications emanating from professional organizations such as the Music Educators National Conference and The College Music Society reveal that a growing number of college teachers want to approach the study of music through repertoire as it exists...

The Creativity of One: A Core-Course Model for Music Theory

15 November 2022 Music theory and musicianship courses provide students with vocabulary, tools, and skills to discuss and perform music intellectually. In the past few years, there have been numerous conversations around changing the music theory sequence and the role...

Education in the Twenty-First Century

30 April 2001 As a musicologist, I frequently think about my role in both music and general education. What is the role of musicology and music history in college education? Is there a difference between musicology and music history? If so, which is more in tune...

A New Learned Society for Music Theory

01 October 1978 participating in the Second National Conference on Music Theory, held in conjunction with the annual convention of the College Music Society. CMS, through actions of its Executive Board during the past year, provided critical support at all stages of...

Black Music Matters

01 May 2021 Many music organizations, conferences, and schools have been struggling to find an appropriate response to the Black Lives Matter movement as it pertains to music. Musical communities, classroom music teachers, college professors, professional...

Prelude: Music Entrepreneurship in Perspective and Remembrances of CMS’s 2010 Summit

05 November 2023 and Remembrances of CMS’s 2010 Summit Welcome to this special edition of Forum featuring essays revisiting the College Music Society’s (CMS) 2010 Summit entitled Music Entrepreneurship Education: Catching the Second Wave. This event took place at the...

Iconography of the Viol: The Soloist in Baroque Portraits

01 October 1980 Iconography of the viol was the theme of the special project for the 1978-79 academic year sponsored by the Research Center for Musical Iconography. Based at City University of New York, the Research Center is the American branch of RIdIM, the...

Sketch of a Foundation for Music Theory Today

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...

Graduate Student Viewpoint: The State (Or Death?) of the Art

28 February 1993 is to be the slightest chance that this music can be revitalized, action must be taken now. Societies such as The College Music Society need to bring concern for the state of art music and the stagnation of other fine musics to the forefront at...

Education In Music for All Individuals is Every Musician’s Responsibility

01 September 2005 Why must education in music for all individuals be the responsibility of every musician? The reason is that maximizing education in music for all individuals is the best way to insure the establishment of a culture of living in and through music to...

The Manifesto in Motion: Change Comes to Undergraduate Music Studies

29 November 2016 Over two years have passed since submission of the Manifesto by the CMS Task Force on the Undergraduate Music Major to colleagues who educate music majors in colleges, conservatories, and universities. It was an earnest and sometimes all-consuming...

Campus Focus: On Finding A Niche—The CMS Faculty Placement Service

01 October 1969 about 12,000 music teachers employed in academic institutions in the United States; 1,500 of them are members of The College Music Society. Obviously, the CMS has good reason to consider the whole problem of faculty placement to be one of its most...

Performance and the Laborde Chansonnier: Authenticity of Multiplicities—The Manuscript, Repertory, and Enigmas

01 October 1970 a panel entitled "Performance and the Laborde Chansonnier: Authenticity of Multiplicities" which was presented for The College Music Society at Baldwin-Wallace College, November 8, 1969. The moderator was Robert Austin Warner. The other panelists were...

Integrating Music by Women into the Music History Sequence

01 October 1985 Without question, specialized university courses on women composers have served and continue to serve vital purposes. Most importantly, they introduce a corpus of excellent music to advanced students, many of whom will become teachers and may share...

Technology for the Teachers Who Teach the Teachers

30 April 2006 to improve its awareness and skills in music technology. For the past eight years, Illinois State University and The College Music Society have hosted an intensive one-week music technology training institute in June tailored to meet the pedagogical...

Beyond Ethnomusicology and Cultural Diversity: Normalizing World Musics in the Curriculum

30 September 1999 The problem In spite of long-standing debates over canons, the liberal arts, and Eurocentric curricula proceeding elsewhere in the academy, music departments have proved fairly resistant to the post-modernist inspired intellectual revolution. The term...