American Philosophical Society
Overview page. Subjects: United States History.
First scientific society in America, founded at Philadelphia (1743) by Franklin, its first president. His successors were Rittenhouse and Jefferson. The Society issues Transactions,...
List, George
in Oxford Music Online
January 2001; p ublished online January 2001 .
Reference Entry. Subjects: Contemporary Music. 366 words.
(Harold)
(b Tucson, AZ, Feb 9, 1911). American ethnomusicologist. He was educated at the Juilliard School of Music, receiving a diploma in flute performance in 1933. He...
Kurath, Gertrude Prokosch
in Oxford Music Online
January 2001; p ublished online January 2001 .
Reference Entry. Subjects: Contemporary Music. 446 words.
(Tula)
(b Chicago, Aug 19, 1903; d Aug 1, 1992). American ethnomusicologist. She studied at Bryn Mawr College (BA 1922, MA in art history 1928), concurrently receiving training in...
Kremenliev, Boris
in Oxford Music Online
January 2001; p ublished online January 2001 .
Reference Entry. Subjects: Contemporary Music. 448 words.
(b Razlog, Bulgaria, May 23, 1911; d Los Angeles, April 25, 1988). American composer and ethnomusicologist. He came to the USA in 1929 and studied at DePaul University, Chicago (BM...
Crocker, Richard L(incoln)
in Oxford Music Online
January 2001; p ublished online January 2001 .
Reference Entry. Subjects: Contemporary Music. 482 words.
(b Roxbury, MA, Feb 17, 1927). American musicologist. He took the BA as Scholar of the House (Philosophical Orations) from Yale College in 1950, and completed the doctorate under...
Theosophy
in Oxford Music Online
November 2013; p ublished online May 2016 .
Reference Entry. Subjects: Musical Structures, Styles, and Techniques; Music and Religion; Romantic Music. 548 words.
Generally defined as a religion-philosophy-science, founded by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (b Russia [now Ukraine], 1831; d 1891). Blavatsky first came to the United States on 7 July...
