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Cooperation, Community, and Co-Ops in a Global Era (International and Cultural Psychology)
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Globalization pressures have made cooperation on a global scale both necessary and possible. But cooperation is not easy in a world dominated by individual, cultural, and national selfish interests. The opposition to cooperation means that cooperation is not natural, but must be instituted through an intellectual and social struggle against countervailing forces. This book discusses issues that are necessary to describe the nature of cooperation and how it can be promoted as a social and ethical ideal amidst a sea of competing interests. Dr. Ratner uses the framework of cooperativism, that is the system of social institutions, social philosophy, cultural psychology and politics that promotes cooperation, as a starting point. Elements of cooperativism are derived from a rigorous analysis of various sources, including the needs of tendencies of human culture and human psychology.
(Music, in however primitive a stage of development it may...)
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Musical Instruments, with Seventy-Eight Illustrations
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The Music of the Most Ancient Nations: Particularly of the Assyrians, Egyptians and Hebrews; With Special Reference to Recent Discoveries in Western Asia and in Egypt 1909
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Carl Engel was a French-born American pianist, musicologist and publisher from Paris. He was also a writer on music for The Musical Quarterly, and chief of the Music Division of the Library of Congress.
Background
He was born in Paris, France, one of at least three children of German parents, Joseph C. and Gertrude (Seeger) Engel. He came of a musical family. One of his great-grandfathers, Joseph Kroll, founded Kroll's Etablissement, a Berlin concert garden for summer opera, which Engel's grandfather J. C. Engel helped make internationally famous.
Education
Young Engel, a Catholic by upbringing, studied at humanistic Gymnasiums in Germany and attended classes at the universities of Strassburg and Munich, specializing in music, philosophy, and literature.
He studied violin with Fabian Rehfeld (Berlin), piano with Lina Schmalhausen (Strassburg), and composition with Ludwig Thuille (Munich).
Career
When Engel moved to the United States with his family in 1905, he had already begun to publish his compositions. He quickly became a part of the musical world of New York and in the first winter was given a performance of his song cycle, "Rub iy t of a Persian Kitten, " with text by Oliver Herford [Supp. 1].
In 1909 Engel went to Boston to discuss some of his compositions with Charles Martin Loeffler [Supp. 1] of the Boston Symphony, and remained to become adviser and editor on the staff of the Boston Music Company, founded in 1885 by the younger Gustave Schirmer.
Over the next twelve years Engel directed the publishing policy of the firm and continued his own composing of piano, violin, and vocal works, which included "Perfumes, " for the piano, and "Triptych, " for violin and piano (1920).
During these years he also began writing criticism and reviews for the Atlantic Monthly and the Boston Transcript, his wit and musical judgment attracting wide attention. A thoroughly trained and highly gifted musician, Engel was called from Boston to the Library of Congress in Washington as chief of the Music Division, a position he held from January 1, 1922, until June 30, 1934.
As the brilliant successor to Oscar G. T. Sonneck, he maintained the collections and service at the highest level. Believing that the library's function should be not only to collect music but also to make it heard, Engel encouraged Mrs. Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge in her organizing of the chamber music concerts given at the Freer Gallery of Art (1924) and in her later establishment (1925) of a permanent foundation to provide musical performances under the auspices of the Library of Congress.
He also established (1929) the Friends of Music in the Library of Congress, through which he secured many gifts. Wishing to preserve the varied musical traditions of the country, he instituted (1928) the collection and recording of American folk songs and ballads, then a largely neglected field of scholarship. He worked tirelessly to promote the study of music in America, his effort to induce universities to add musicology courses to their curricula being particularly effective. His urbane annual reports set a new standard for serious reading made pleasurable.
In 1929 Engel succeeded Oscar Sonneck as editor of the Musical Quarterly, for which he wrote many scintillating articles. His "Views and Reviews" in this journal were brilliant, witty, and well reasoned; they were the despair of those whom he attacked, the glory of those whom he praised. His more formal articles for the magazine were equally expert, products of a master pen and a penetrating mind.
From 1929 to 1932 Engel was given leave of absence from the Library of Congress to become president of the New York music publishing house of G. Schirmer, Inc. He was urged to take the presidency on a permanent basis, and though reluctant to leave the congenial scholarly setting of the Library of Congress, he ultimately accepted.
He directed this important firm from 1934 until his death. In addition to his writings in the Musical Quarterly, Engel issued two volumes of essays on musical topics, Alla Breve (1921) and Discords Mingled (1931), besides contributing to many musical and other journals. His administrative and literary responsibilities unfortunately left him little time for writing music.
He was a thoroughly accomplished composer, whose works were more French than German in idiom and impressionistic in effect. Several piano solos and a number of songs, particularly settings for poems by Amy Lowell --with whom he had established a friendship early in his Boston stay--attest to his creative sensitivity.
Engel became an American citizen in 1917.
Engel died at his home in New York City in 1944 at the age of sixty. His body was cremated and the ashes scattered.
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Views
He was widely read in French, German, English, and American literature, and this broad cultural background widened his sympathies as a critic of music and musical trends.
Membership
He was a member of the American Musicological Society.
Personality
He was also helpful, understanding, and encouraging toward younger colleagues.
In person Engel was extremely temperamental, calm and placid at one moment, at another fiery, exuberant, sarcastic, or bitter, but his warm heart and a fundamental sense of fairness endeared him to his colleagues.
Connections
On July 29, 1916, he married Abigail Josephine Carey of Boston; they had one daughter, Lisette.