Comprehensive Musicianship in the Contemporary Music Project's Southern Region Institutes for Music in Contemporary Education

Abstract

This study offers a historical perspective of the implementation of Comprehensive Musicianship from 1966 through 1968 in the five colleges and universities that formed the Southern Region of the Contemporary Music Projects Institutes for Music in Contemporary Education (IMCE) program: East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina; Florida State University, Tallahassee; George Peabody College for Teachers, Nashville, Tennessee; University of Georgia, Athens; and University of Kentucky, Lexington.

Diverse realizations of Comprehensive Musicianship were fostered among the Southern Region IMCE institutions, ranging from East Carolina University's integrated theory-history courses for freshmen, sophomores, and juniors to the University of Georgia's small-scale experiment on the use of composition as part of sophomore theory instruction. Although the IMCE program influenced music faculty members in the Southern Region schools to confront important issues about college training in musicianship, the long-term effects of the program were minimal in the five schools.

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