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NSAM
is an organization of schools, colleges, and universities
that offer music studies. Founded in 1924, it has
584 institutional members. It established threshold
standards for undergraduate and graduate degrees and other
credentials. Institutional membership is obtained
and continued through the peer-review process of accreditation.
NASM provides statistical information, professional development,
and policy analysis services. It also makes available
for purchase many helpful publications, including a listing
of accredit institutions.
Music
is a profession requiring talent, knowledge, skill, and
dedication. Employment depends almost entirely on demonstrated
competence. Success is based primarily on work rather than
on credentials. Experience tells us that music, though dependent
on talent, inspiration, and creativity, requires much more
to function as a significant spiritual and educational force.
Talent without skills, inspiration without knowledge, and
creativity without technique can account for little but
lost potential. The primary purpose of schools of music
is to help individual students turn talent, inspiration,
creativity, and dedication into significant potential for
service to the development of musical culture in its multiple
dimensions. Therefore, the focus of NASM's work is on issues
of musical content and educational substance as applied
to the preparation of music professionals... (Read
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The
Society for Music Theory was established in 1977 in order
to promote music theory as both a scholarly and a pedagogical
discipline. Currently there are about 750 members from around
the world, and about 300 institutions subscribe to our semiannual
journal, Music Theory Spectrum. The goals of the
SMT include fostering the development of all aspects of
the discipline of music theory, including research and teaching.
It provides forums for the presentation of research, including
workshops and other aspects of professional development;
and it both supports and encourages pre-professionals in
their pursuit of a career in music theory.
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