Five subdivisions comprise this volume. The introduction provides a brief overview of the history of the American Musicological Society. The next three sections review three symposia, the first of which--Musicology and the Computer I--was held in April 1965 and dealt with three of the major areas of computer applications to musicology: analysis,…

Reviews three books about John Coltrane and notes that these three works illustrate that the field of black music biography is marred by an unconscionable trendiness. (Author/AM)

Summarizes five articles from the JOURNAL OF RESEARCH IN MUSIC EDUCATION which deal with various aspects of the history of American music education. Articles include "Revisionist Historians: Writers Reflected in Their Writings"; "A Comparison of Syllabic Methods for Improving Rhythm Literacy;" and "Edgar B. Gordon: A Pioneer in Media Music…

Points out a number of aspects and dimensions of performance anxiety and describes some of the methods that have been proposed for managing these difficulties, including drug therapy. Notes there is little knowledge about the long-term effects of drug therapies. Behavioral interventions and frequent performance experience are commonly used, but…

Until it was investigated in 1938 hearings by the House Un-American Activities Committee, the Federal Theatre (created in 1935) provided unprecedented opportunity for Black artists and musicians. Leonard de Paur, whose musical career survived the hearings and subsequent closing of the Theatre, credits this institution for making possible his…

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)

Examines whether musicians who rehearse and perform a musical selection perceive tension in the music differently than do listeners who have not had the performance experience. Indicates that the experience of performing did not seem to greatly affect perception of tension as measured in this study. (DSK)

The difficulty that older listeners experience understanding conversational speech may be related to their limited ability to use information present in the silent intervals (i.e., temporal gaps) between dynamic speech sounds. When temporal gaps are present between nonspeech stimuli that are spectrally invariant (e.g., noise bands or sinusoids),…

The view that the musician conveys the expressiveness of music she performs by undergoing those emotions and showing them, or by simulating such things, is implausible. If expressiveness is an objective property possessed literally by musical patterns and structures, or if it supervenes on such properties, the performer conveys that expressiveness…

The prism concert concept was introduced in this country at the Eastman School of Music in 1975. The development of Eastman's inaugural prism concert is commonly attributed to Donald Hunsberger and Gustav Meier, conductors of the wind ensemble and orchestra, respectively. The basic idea is that different styles of music performed by different…

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) is the ultimate child prodigy. It is said that Mozart, after attending a service at the Vatican, wrote down an entire sacred piece of music after one hearing. There are countless examples of the amazing feats that Mozart accomplished through his childhood, not to mention his huge compositional output throughout…

In teaching band or orchestra, a teachers often find that beginning and intermediate trumpet players may have trouble reaching notes in the instrument's higher register. In this article, the author offers some ideas and techniques that teachers can use in helping students achieve good sound as they head for the high notes. Producing high-register…

The aim of this study was to investigate the physiological responses of long-term hospitalized children when exposed to live music. Twenty-one paediatric patients at Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital, London, between 3 months and 14 years of age, took part in the study. They were all long-term patients with cardiac and/or respiratory…