Teaching Music History: An Interview with William Kimmel

01 October 1980 William Kimmel was born in Dayton, Ohio in 1908. He went to college in Naperville, Illinois, receiving his A.B. degree from North Central College. He received his M.M. and Ph.D degrees from the Eastman School of Music in 1935 and 1942 respectively....

And Now We Begin—A Survey of Recent Theory Texts

01 October 1973 The 1960s were a time for reexamination of the aims, contents and methods of college courses designed to teach music theory, and, as a corollary, of the texts intended for those courses. Several factors contributed to the creation of a "crisis in the...

The Indian Music Debate and "American" Music in the Progressive Era

01 October 1997 A little over a hundred years ago, composers and music critics in the United States launched a debate about the viability of an idiomatically American music and whether its roots could be found in folk music. One of the roots under discussion was music...

Let's Ditch the Expression

11 April 2025 I’ve never forgotten. “What I want? I want? Who cares what I want? It’s your piece now.” Boy, was he right. authors: William Fried author_ids: 272015 authors: William Fried author_ids: 272015

Women Orchestral Conductors in America: The Struggle for Acceptance—An Historical View from the Nineteenth Century to the Present

01 October 1998 Introduction Orchestral conducting has been the latest door of opportunity to open for women in the field of music. Although women have been actively involved in performance, composition, teaching, and patronage from the history of the ancient Greeks...

Laptop Usage in the Classroom

02 November 2016 Introduction In recent years, the debate over the use of laptops in the classroom has become more vocal due to the affordability of technology, the widespread availability of Wi-Fi throughout most universities, and the students’ expectations that those...

Women as Leaders of Collegiate Bands, 1850-1980

01 October 1998 June 6, 1661 . . . Called upon this morning by Lieutenant Lambert who is now made captain of the Norwich and he and I went down by water to Greenwich, in our way observing and discoursing upon the things of a ship, he telling me all I asked him, which...

The Woman in the Music (On Feminism as Theory and Practice)

01 October 2000 The Woman in the Music 1 (On Feminism as Theory and Practice) At night in any kind of light, in twilight, candlelight, lamplight, and worst of all by moonlight, it becomes bars! The outside pattern, I mean, and the woman behind it is as plain as can...