Collaborative Strategic Planning on Behalf of Education in Music

01 November 2005 it new birth, much like a 21st century middle ages and resulting renaissance. As none of the current membership of The College Music Society will be alive to scroll away in the musical monasteries of our late century, the Society at large has chosen to...

Music Teacher Shortage! Time for Crisis or for Change?, Part I

30 April 2002 shortage in public schools, music education vacancies in higher education are growing as well. Based on data from the College Music Society music vacancy lists, music education positions have had the greatest growth compared to all other positions since...

Why Have We Failed?

31 December 1970 Another question needs raising: when will the official organizational representatives of the profession such as the College Music Society and the American Musicological Society take the initiative to insist that the art of music requires a practical...

Brooklyn College—American Musicological Society and Music Library Association Translations Center

01 October 1968 American Musicological Society and Music Library Association Translations Center* A Translations Center for musicological studies and documents has been established as a joint enterprise of the American Musicological Society and the Music Library...

Enhancing Music Appreciation with Scholarship

01 October 1970 The present article arose, in part, as a personal response to the Society's recent focus upon teaching music to the general student at the undergraduate level. The viewpoints expressed on "Music Appreciation" in Volume VIII of SYMPOSIUM, as well as at...

Harmonious Collaborations: The Art of Making Music Happen in a Small Department

01 September 2009 The College Music Society serves a broad constituency. Collectively, one of its biggest blocks may be that of faculty in small music departments, those numerous programs with ten, thirty, or fifty majors. Programs in this cohort face challenges...

Retirements and Demand for Ph.D.s in Music, 1988-2000

01 October 1989 one—or methodologically refined versions of it—would seem justified as a way of meeting that need.4 REFERENCES The College Music Society. Directory of Music Faculties in Colleges and Universities, U.S. and Canada 1986-88. Boulder, 1987. Daigle, Stephen,...

[i]Sound Play: Video Games and the Musical Imagination[/i], by William Cheng

11 August 2015 Sound Play: Video Games and the Musical Imagination, by William Cheng. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. ISBN: 0199969973. Video games have spawned sizable communities of devoted fans, professional gamers, and casual players, to the extent that...

Professional Experiences that Make a Difference

01 November 2000 This is my final "President's Comments" essay as my tenure as President of The College Music Society comes to an end. I wish to thank everyone who responded to my last nine essays. I hope this final one will not be seen as a farewell, but rather as...

Reviews of Books on Art Song

01 October 2003 Schubert's Late Lieder: Beyond the Song Cycles, by Susan Youens. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002. 426 p. ISBN 0-521-79314-9 Roger Quilter: His Life and Music, by Valerie Langfield. Woodbridge, Suffolk and Rochester, New York:...

Who Speaks for Music in Higher Education?

31 December 1993 symbols do not encompass the full range of human expression." This has always been a guiding principle for The College Music Society and its predecessors, coming as it did from the union of The College Music Association and The Society for Music in the...

An Electronic Music Bookshelf

01 October 1969 Within the last few years, literature about electronic music has proliferated. Some of this literature is highly technical, and is useful chiefly to experienced practitioners of the art; it will find its place most logically on a special bookshelf...

Interdependent Music Teachers -- Umbrellas, Parasols, and Parachutes

30 April 1998 with our environments. Long before CMS began selling dark blue umbrellas at the national Convention in Cleveland, The College Music Society had gained a reputation as an "umbrella organization." Although umbrellas can isolate people and remove them from...

Music Theory Pedagogy Panel: "Analysis and Performance Across the Canon"

01 October 2007 College Music Society 2005 Meeting, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada 1. Kristin Wendland, "The Allure of Tango: Grafting Traditional Performance Practice and Style onto Art-Tangos" 2. Jocelyn Neal, "When Recollection is All We've Got: Analytical Exploration...

It's A Pitch

22 September 2014 to my love of music. I enjoy my business activities and I love being a clarinetist, and throughout my tenure with the College Music Society, I’ve used that knowledge to deliver myriad papers, seminars, panel discussions, conferences, and speeches that...

Where is CMS in 2006-2007?

31 October 2006 By the time most of The College Music Society membership reads this September Newsletter the 49th Annual Meeting of CMS in San Antonio will be over and the Society’s attention will be focused upon the commemoration its first fifty years during the...

An Interview with Thomas A. Brantigan: Beta Blockers and Musicians – A Thirty-Year Retrospective

01 October 2011 One of the benefits of a career in music is working with inspiring colleagues. These individuals promote artistic growth, offer pedagogical insights, and present different perspectives on professional issues. Thomas A. Brantigan is currently Director...

Cornell Glee Club in Russia

31 December 1961 This article reflects a panel that was part of a Symposium entitled College Music Abroad, which took place at the December 29, 1961, session of the CMS annual conference, Salem College, Winston-Salem, N.C. The other panelists were Elliot Forbes, Iva...

The Team-Sport Approach to Performing Ensembles

01 October 1978 In these days of shrinking student enrollment and possibly diminishing monetary support for the fine arts in the community, it would seem an appropriate time to re-assess our attitudes toward the function of music within a school environment as well as...

Women and Music: A History, edited by Karin Pendle

01 October 1992 supplementary materials. In a purely practical sense, then, the book marks a milestone. It grew out of the work of The College Music Society's Committee on the Status of Women, bringing CMS activism directly into the classroom. Yet beyond the symbolic...