Item 1 - On musical education at the American University

95 pages (89 numbered), typed with edits. Edits include typed annotations, hand-written annotations in black ink and pencil, re-typed paragraphs attached to pages with paper clips, and complete pages re-typed to incorporate such re-written sections.

Zuckerkandl explores why there is such "widespread dissatisfaction with musical education in the American college." He asserts that the American music education system was adopted from nineteenth-century Europe and explores problems with this practice. Specifically, Zuckerkandl asserts that European schools were concerned with producing professional musicians rather than listeners or audiences. Nineteenth-century German education thus "fits less perfectly the needs of twentieth-century America," where the "chief demand is for an understanding of the music made."

• English

St. John's, Box 1, Folder 9

The linked documents are thematically related to Zuckerkandl, Victor. 1944. “Music Education in the Liberal Arts College.” Harvard Educational Review 14 (December–January): 49–58.

Date suggested by a quotation on p. 88 from General Education in a Free Society: Report of the Harvard Committee (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1945).