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...stated in the second paragraph of the article that Dr. Southern's departure "will leave the University without a scholar in ethnomusicology." The study of ethnomusicology as a branch of the department of music has had course offerings at the undergraduate and graudate levels for many years, taught by Pian, Prof. John M. Ward (retired last year), and myself. The chief upper-level course for those interested in the field is Music 185, Topics in Ethnomusicology, offered every year since 1979, most often jointly by Pian, Shapiro and Ward (thus affording an extraordinary student-teacher ratio!), and varying...
Both Southern and office-mate Rulan C. Pian, professor of East Asian languages and civilizations and of music, say they believe the Music Department to be more democratic than many other departments that have a higher proportion of men. "I think the Music Department is one of the friendliest departments toward women professors and minority professors. We have three women. There is no other department like it," Pian says...
...School of Education's Graduate Society last night presented medals to three alumnae: Margaret Atwood, novelist and poet; Rulan Chao Pian '44, professor of East Asian Languages and Civilization and of Music; and Alice M. Rivlin, director of the Congressional Budget Office...
...believe that I belong to an extinct species--the Radcliffe Ph.D.," Pian said last night, adding "I'm very proud of that...
...Pian, who has taught at Harvard since 1947, was a visiting professor of music at Hong Kong's Chung Chi College last year...