The difficulties surrounding any attempt to make a profit out of great music are discussed. (CK)

Records a conversation between American composer Aaron Copland and Malcolm E. Besson, editor of Music Educators Journal. Mr. Copland discusses teaching, American music, and notes the greater number of composers writing today, and the livelier atmosphere of college music departments. (DS)

After giving an historical picture of music, the author points out the new directions and changes of music. (MF)

Black music of African and Afro-American peoples is particularly attuned to sounds, has a metronome sense, and is analyzed through use of a density referent by which students become involved in musical compositon. (RK)

Music and English departments at Stephen T. Austin State University, Texas, combine efforts to teach writing skills and music appreciation. (DS)

Group experiments in communication through movement, through temporal relationships to music, and through spatial relationship to the visual arts. (DS)

One teaching idea that has served to develop aesthetic sensitivity within the performance program involves the utilization of conducting by all students as a means of developing musical perception and responsiveness. (Author)

Views the arts as sharing basic concepts central to aesthetic experience. Encourages aesthetic education in order to humanize character. (DS)

Proposes seminar on ethnomusicology as a reference for studying world music. (DS)