Paper reviews previous attempts at devising methods of encoding music for input to a computer. A practicable standard is defined and illustrated. (Author)

The teaching of music should be approached in a manner that will impart to students moral and intellectual, i.e., cultural values. (CK)

Presents an annotated bibliography of music written specifically for young children or for occasions in which the child's enjoyment of the music is of primary importance. (MP)

Subjects (96 undergraduate music students) were given freedom to alter pitch levels, tempos, and timbral qualities of tape recordings of 12 familiar and unfamiliar piano solos. Subject responses were analyzed for accuracy, as well as for preference directions. (Author/SJL)

Composer Jack Beeson discusses the distinctively American themes and music of his operas and comments on opera composition in general, matters of style, and the televising of opera. This article is part of a theme issue on opera. (SJL)

Describes the structural similarities inherent in musical and linguistic compositions and how they reflect basic human impulses and principles of effective composition. Uses Bach's "Passacaglia" to illustrate the characteristics of good composition. (JMF)

Considers silence and the dimensions of sound. (Editor/RK)

Addresses the rhetorical functioning of musical form through a study of the interrelationships among musical, poetic, and structural facets of Leonard Bernstein's Third Symphony. Argues that the symphony's appeal rests in its empowering of human agents by enacting a transcendent rebirth achieved through a series of lateral transformations.…

Article suggested a method for exposing children to quality music so they can develop discriminatory listening skills, and also a real love for music. (Author/RK)

Article provided two lists of works for string orchestra and symphonic orchestra as part of one of the projects of the MENC Bicentennial Commission. (Editor)

Author examined some of the ways that the art of composition is applied in jazz through concentrating on three figures - Jelly Roll Morton, Duke Ellington, and Thelonious Monk. (Editor/RK)

Article evaluated the character and compositions of the eccentric French artists, Erik Satie. (RK)

Article provided a profile of the American composer, Charles Wakefield Cadman, one of the first American composers completely educated in this country. (Author/RK)

The appearance of the golden section at many points of Beethoven's and Bartok's music is discussed. (MP)