In this paper, the author had noticed that classroom teachers often use learning centers successfully. She doesn't know many music teachers who have implemented them, but many seem to have an interest. Perhaps music educators have overlooked learning centers because of whole-group curricular requirements, or perhaps centers are not often used…

Writing and speaking are essential means of understanding, studying, and sharing music in the Western art music tradition. The papers presented in this symposium were the outgrowth of authors' dialogue during the summer of 2004. Each of them worked independently, yet each of them was also aware of the direction, the themes, and the ways of the…

This paper recounts the history of jazz music in the United States and its passage from despised, marginal entertainment to the solid respect conferred by academe. The author asserts that such respect has little to do with music and a great deal to do with class, race, jobs, and money. The first extracurricular college jazz band at North Texas…

Author presented for consideration the position that the importance of mass media music (FM, AM, juke box, TV, film, etc.) might not be so much in its music as in the musical systems represented by that music. (Author/RK)

Author surveyed developments in American composition covering the years from the close of the Second World War to roughly 1960. (Editor/RK)

Author considered developments in musical composition over the past fifteen years, including the composer's condition. (Editor/RK)

Begin with a musical theme and kids feel "safe" in talking about good and bad feelings. (Editor)

Lists artist alphabetically and, separately, current LP sources. (CH)

This study was designed to show that preferences for musical stimuli varying in complexity are in part determined by the range of complexity to which the subject adapts. (Author)

Article provided a colorful account of the development of Latin American music from the blending of European, African, and Indian elements through the contributions of early composers to the effect of folk music and instruments on contemporary composers. (Editor/RK)

The author considers the manner in which children develop awareness of varieties of sound, pitch, and rhythm, and provides an outline for use in a class project in musical composition. (IM)

It's a far cry from Segovia and Julian Bream to a fully-fledged guitar orchestra. Author reports on a new phenomenon in guitar teaching and a new vocation for guitarists. (Editor/RK)

John Heiss, a teacher and composer, describes how he came to write "Songs of Nature," a song cycle with text by nineteenth-century American poets. Heiss believes that, though a composer must know his craft, there should be room for intuition and the emotions in the creative process. (CS)

Problems encountered by women conductors and composers in their struggles toward achievement and recognition are discussed. (RM)

"A special interest of mine is the way in which music reflects political and social history. Recently, I was able to explore this connection with a group of high school students." (Editor)