In an effort to research the supply and demand of modern music, the author organized the Modern Listeners' Record Club, a mail order club devoted exclusively to modern recordings. (AP)

Mass media has made it possible for all members of the public to listen to and enjoy good music. (CK)

Attempts to relate subjective emotional quality with specific vocal production techniques of Hupa Brush Dance songs. (ERB)

Reviews the life of Hungarian composer Bela Bartok, with emphasis on his collection and use of ethnic music sources. (SJL)

In this article, the author describes the evolution of a promising practice, his story of how he developed theory out of his teaching experiences. He tells his story in support of educators who struggle to bring meaning, joy, and understanding to children who are currently being stifled by prescriptive and restrictive regulatory mandates that…

The author states that among the various approaches to music education, her dialectical and epistemological view offers a way of thinking about music and education and deciding how to go forward in teaching and learning music. In this article, she shows how this particular philosophical perspective can play out in teaching for the development of…

The style of a set of nursery tunes are described in terms of a generative rule system. It is found that there are many parallels between music and sentence structure. These parallels may reflect man's perceptual and cognitive capacities. (Author/DEP)

From a supertoy for the gifted to a musical sketchpad for the ordinary student--the computer is becoming an intriguing new learning tool. (Editor)

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)