{"title":"Project Lessons in Orchestration","authors":"Will Earhart","doi":"10.2307/3382961","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/3382961","url":null,"abstract":"Project Lessons in Orchestration, by Arthur E. Heacox. (Oliver Ditson Company.) Many good treatises on orchestration have been written, but it has remained for Professor Heacox to give us a thoroughly practical yet comprehensive and musicianly textbook. Nothing that has come to my notice can adequately take its place. Moreover, that place is a basic one. It is precisely the sort of work that should prove most effective and helpful to nine-tenths of the thousands who constitute the classes in orchestration in our music schools. They would learn, instead of yearn, by the use of this book. Its excellence springs from many factors, all consistent and all integrated in a clear-cut method that arises out of easy familiarity and long teaching experience. First, the method is pedagogically sound and modern \"project lessons,\" skillful and clever, form the course from the very first. Then there is elimination of profundities that would only fill the mind of the learner with confusion and discouragement and that are usually included (when they are) for no better reason than that the author wishes to forefend himself gaainst suspicion of superficiality or ignorance, no matter whether the pupil profits or suffers by his inappropriate display of erudition. And the result here is not superficial, it is lucid and stimulating. At no point are the higher peaks of the art of scoring absent from the horizon; but the learner properly fixes his attention upon his present ascending steps through the foothills. There is nothing new in the book, of course, but there is a deal of the old that never got itself said so clearly before. The things that every competent composer for orchestra knows are said here. The things that even many competent composers do not know but that are usually included in books on the subject are left unsaid. But not unsuggested! Allusion, quotation, bibliography, directions for extension study, are such that no teacher could follow Professor Heacox in teaching the course without adding those overtones that in all study must be brought in to give proper character and richness to the fundamentals. It is an admirable book and appears destined to extraordinarily wide use. WILL EARHART. * * *","PeriodicalId":252616,"journal":{"name":"Music Supervisors' Journal","volume":"134 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1929-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116569729","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Dryads' Kisses","authors":"Will Earhart","doi":"10.2307/3382967","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/3382967","url":null,"abstract":"not trained composers. In consequence their tunes have an individuality, an original, unlooked-for charm, that one finds ordinarily only in folk-songs. Occasionally, of course, such innocence leads to melodic crookedness and awkwardness, as in the approach to the cadential tonic now and then. At those moments the writers probably grew conscious that they were composing. In the main, however, the tunes gain only strength and originality from the lack of conscious \"composing\" effort: and one can omit the tunes that are crooked and still have an exceptionally large number left for use, for the little, inexpensively printed book contains eightyfour songs. It remains to be said that the words are as good as the tunes, and in the same way. As the authors and Mr. Giddings are right in their preference for brevity, this adds to a list of virtues quite sufficient to lift the unassuming volume to a very high place among late rote-song books.","PeriodicalId":252616,"journal":{"name":"Music Supervisors' Journal","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1929-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130527449","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Emperor's Clothes","authors":"Will Earhart","doi":"10.2307/3382529","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/3382529","url":null,"abstract":"A RECENT Ontario survey ' reported a continuing decline in the numbers of family physicians who provide intra-partum maternity care. Physicians who at one time practised obstetrics most often cited interference with personal and family life as the reason for discontinuing this component of their practice, although concerns about competence and the number of annual deliveries needed to maintain skills were also frequently mentioned. Physicians who had never provided maternity care gave inadequate training as the main reason for their decision not to become involved. It seems ironic that such dramatic changes are taking place at the same time that evidence2-4 is accumulating that the obstetric care provided to lowrisk patients by generalists is at least as safe as, if not safer than, the equivalent care provided by specialists. In this month's issue Drs. Reynolds (page 1937) and Hogg (page 1943) discuss the significance of these changing patterns of practice and their implications for patient care. Their arguments that family physicians do indeed have a contribution to make to maternity care are, I think, bolstered by the other papers in this issue written by family doctors that demonstrate a wide range of experience and knowledge in this area of medicine. What accounts for the discrepancy between the views ofmany family physicians about their obstetric abilities and the evidence that suggests that they provide care that is, by any measure, adequate? What factors might undermine the confidence physicians must have in their knowledge and skills to continue delivering maternity care? Robert Chase,5 writing in the New England Journal of Medicine, provides what I think might be a partial answer to this question. He argues that medical specialties, such as obstetrics, go through a characteristic life cycle ofdevelopment. In the first place, as a result of interest in a particular field, a group with apparently special skills comes together, and forms an organization to provide mutual support and a forum for the exchange of ideas. Membership in the organization then becomes a mark of distinction in the field, and in order to substantiate that recognition, certification of excellence becomes established. Institutions with responsibility for the quality of health care then accept certification as evidence of competence and move to limit the provision of care in the field to those who are so certified. A consequence of this series of events, Chase comments, is that as a specialty develops and gains recognition, certification becomes a permit to practise. Non-specialists then begin to have doubts about their competence to deal with anything in that special area, doubts that are reinforced by the actions of health-care institutions in attempting to limit practice. Non-specialists begin to refer both complex and simple problems to a certified specialist, and this step, in turn, tends to diminish the non-specialists' own competence by reducing their exposure an","PeriodicalId":252616,"journal":{"name":"Music Supervisors' Journal","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1928-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125571234","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Children's Concerts in Kansas City","authors":"M. Lowry","doi":"10.1177/155924722801500212","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/155924722801500212","url":null,"abstract":"NOTE: It is the plan of the general chairman of the Conference Committee on Music Appreciation to present a series of articles covering the fields on which the various sub-committees are working. Miss Lowry is chairman of the sub-committee on children's concerts; her group expects to make an extensive survey of such concerts in the United States and to report its findings from time to time in these columns.—A. K.","PeriodicalId":252616,"journal":{"name":"Music Supervisors' Journal","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1928-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124369009","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ascertaining Attitudes in Music","authors":"Edward P. Rutledge","doi":"10.1177/155924722801500223","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/155924722801500223","url":null,"abstract":"NOTE: In a general educational survey measurement program recently applied to the schools of the state of Florida one item which was included was a twenty minute music test for grades four to ten. Besides the four types of tests which purported to measure knowledge, there was a group of questions, not counted in making up the mark or score, which sought to ascertain the attitude of the children toward various aspects of music. The replies which were presented on the 324 papers turned in were studied by Mr. Rutledge and submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for initiation into the professional fraternity Phi Delta Kappa in Teachers College, Columbia University, in the summer of 1928. His material, presented below, is valuable in itself and very suggestive of further studies which must be made before we shall be in possession of all the facts we need for revising our courses of study. That this study is only a beginning is evidenced by the fact that the entire music test, including the questions discussed herein, is being radically revised.—P. W. D.","PeriodicalId":252616,"journal":{"name":"Music Supervisors' Journal","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1928-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132664735","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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