108. Back to School
The four years I was in the Air Force Band were also the four years that I was a student at the Catholic University of America, although for the purpose of thes...
Author: David Whitwell
109. The University of Montana
During my fourth year in the Air Force and at Catholic University, along with finishing the dissertation and everything else, there remained the problem of find...
110. Ormandy as I Knew Him
During the Spring of 1967 I made the decision to resign from the University of Montana in order to explore orchestral conducting. Actually I had at this time an...
111. Residence in Vienna, 1968–1969
During the Spring of 1967–1968 when I was attending all the rehearsals of the Philadelphia Orchestra, Lorin Maazel came as a guest conductor for six weeks. He w...
Preface
I believe it can be said that a consensus of philosophers for more than 2,000 years has defined Music as being a special language for communicating feelings and...
Chapter 1
Why does the “Missing Link” in Music Education exist? In the education of children’s literacy, the first stage we teach is the alphabet, the individual letters ...
Chapter 2
The Appearance of Music in Early Man Since the bicameral nature is found in so many early life forms, we cannot help but wonder when and in what form Music firs...
Chapter 3
The Shift to Finding Emotional Meaning in Performance It was during the Renaissance that composers and performers began to understand that the higher purpose of...
Chapter 4
Where exactly is Emotion found in Music? The immediate answer to this question is: in the Melody, something which is clearly evident in all music from the most ...
Chapter 5
Toward a new Philosophy of Music Education Along with the return to the emphasis of performance there appeared in the nineteenth century the earliest music scho...