The Small-College Music Department

1965 ◽  
Vol 51 (4) ◽  
pp. 107
Author(s):  
Don L. Bisdorf

2001 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 136-143
Author(s):  
Mark C Zeigler ◽  
Jack A Taylor

The purpose of the study was to investigate the effects of a tinnitus awareness survey on the hearing conservation behaviors of freshman music majors (as measured 30 weeks later with a follow-up survey). The surveys were distributed to students at a large school of music in a public university (n = 200) and a small music department in a private university (n = 48). More than half the students (58.9%) claimed to have tinnitus at some level. The most frequent response to what caused their tinnitus was “not sure,” followed by “exposure to noise over an extended period of time.” Most students (64.2% to 95%) did not wear hearing protection during rehearsals, concerts, or loud non-performance-related activities. In the follow-up survey, the majority (86.0%) said they did not change their use of hearing protection devices (including those students with tinnitus), but the students in the small college claimed to use significantly more protection than the students in the large college. Since the students in the small college received additional specific examples of tinnitus problems when completing the preliminary survey, it was concluded that more examples might be necessary to raise the awareness of factors leading to tinnitus. The result could be a positive change in the students’ use of hearing protection.



1965 ◽  
Vol 51 (4) ◽  
pp. 107-110
Author(s):  
Don L. Bisdorf


1963 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eugenia Hanfmann ◽  
Richard M. Jones ◽  
Elliot Baker ◽  
Leo Kovar


2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katherine A. Becker ◽  
Jeana L. Magyar-Moe ◽  
Christina A. Burek ◽  
Amber K. McDougal ◽  
Autumn N. McKeel




Author(s):  
Allison Robbins

This chapter concludes the volume with a study of Hollywood’s commercial approach to making musicals. Focusing on the 1936 movie adaptation of Anything Goes, the chapter looks at its production environment, one in which interpolations were common, song sales mattered more than wit, and risqué content was frowned upon, a combination that proved deadly for Porter’s score. Although some of Porter’s songs were retained, the studio’s music department head Nathaniel Finston assigned Leo Robin, Richard Whiting, and several others to write some new numbers for the film. In the context of a Hollywood in which studios capitalized on purchasing publishing companies and then copyrighting new songs by (usually, staff) Hollywood songwriters to in-house publishing firms, it is unsurprising for the chapter to conclude that faithful film adaptations are unlikely. Hollywood was devoted to commercial music while Broadway was divorced from it; and fidelity to Broadway’s canonized songwriters ran contrary to the commercial goals of Hollywood’s tunesmiths. Such tensions run throughout this book and help to explain the culture behind the unsettling but fascinating phenomenon of the stage-to-screen musical adaptation.



1901 ◽  
Vol 53 (6) ◽  
pp. 86-86
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