Word: woodworth
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Wallace Woodworth, James Edward Ditson Professor of Music, has managed to include some sound suggestions for raising the status of music in America in an otherwise rather trivial survey of various aspects of the American musical world...
...music very seriously or think much about its importance; the book could arouse such people from semi-indifference. But this is not a book of broad interest. The reader who knows nothing about music will be uninterested in the specific problems of music teaching, music reviewing, and musicology which Woodworth tackles. And the serious listener will find himself bored, perhaps insulted, by Woodworth's not very eloquent statements telling him now music can uplift his soul and how he should be tolerant of twentieth century dissonances...
...Woodworth is at his best in The World of Music when he makes specific proposals for improved music programs in schools and colleges and for more federal support of the arts...
...tone music, but should deal with a more specific group of compositions, emphasizing listening assignments rather than a textbook. Listening courses should study the sonorities of instruments, the texture of chamber music, and composers' individual peculiarities of style, and should stress the difference between program and non-program music. Woodworth also applies some of James Conant's ideas in pleading for more and better music teachers...
...Arts and Government" chapter, Woodworth outlines (unfortunately, only briefly) a few of the modest bills on aid to the arts which have met Congressional apathy or hostility and urges their passage. He advocates expanding federally-backed musical performances to include college and conservatory musicians, with more emphasis on domestic programs instead of only "cultural exchange." Another proposal is a federal Department of Education and the Arts, splitting up the present Health, Education, and Welfare Department...