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Pauline Alderman PhD. (b. January 16, 1893 in Lafayette, Oregon - d. October 11, 1983 in Los Angeles, California) was an American musicologist and composer. She was the founder and the first Chairwoman of the Department of Music History and Literature (musicology) at the University of Southern California, between 1952-60.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=''Pauline Alderman First Chairwoman of the Department of Musicology'' )〕 ==Biography== Alderman received training in piano and organ, as well as in English and German literature in her youth. Her first teaching career started at the McMinnville junior high school in 1916 where she taught English literature. Alderman further taught history and music in Portland and attended summer music classes at the University of California in Berkeley in 1918. Between 1920-23 she became a student of Carolyn Alchin, while she was teaching at the Ellison-White Conservatory of Music, then newly founded Conservatory in Portland. Alderman attended New York Institute of Musical Art (later Juilliard School of Music), where she was a student of Percy Goetschius, in 1923. A year later, she started to teach piano, music theory and history of music at the Pomona College in Claremont, California. Later, from 1928 to 1930, she taught at the University of Washington, then music and literature at the University of Southern California (USC) in Los Angeles, where she earned her PhD degree. Alderman had classes with Arnold Schönberg. She moved to Europe in 1938, where she decided to take lessons from Donald Francis Tovey at the University of Edinburgh. Later at the University of Strasbourg. Completing her studies she returned to Los Angeles in 1940, where she was back teaching at the University of Southern California. (USC) While teaching, she had composition lessons with Ernst Toch and Lucien Cailliet. Alderman presented her dissertation at USC which she named it ''Antoine Bad Set and the Air de Cour''. In year 1952, she became the first Chairwoman of the Department of Music History and Literature which she founded, until her retirement in 1960. USC in its publication, ''Musicology at USC, A Handbook for Graduate Students 2007–2008'', wrote: Alderman, in addition to her songs, composed an opera ''Bombasto Furioso''〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=''Bombasto Furioso'' )〕 (1938) and the operetta ''Come On Over'' (1940), which won the ASCAP Award for 1940, the first time the prize was won by a woman. The International Congress on Women in Music sponsored by International Alliance for Women in Music has established the Pauline Alderman Award for musicological and journalistic works on women in music in 1982.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=''Pauline Alderman Award'' )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Pauline Alderman」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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