1. Edith Pauline Alderman was an American musicologist and composer.
12 Facts About Pauline Alderman
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Pauline Alderman was the founder and the first Chairwoman of the Department of Music History and Literature at the University of Southern California, between 1952 and 1960.
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Pauline Alderman graduated from Washington High School in Portland, Oregon.
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Pauline Alderman's first teaching career started at the McMinnville junior high school in 1916 where she taught English literature.
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Pauline Alderman further taught history and music in Portland and attended summer music classes at the University of California, Berkeley in Berkeley, California in 1918.
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Pauline Alderman attended New York Institute of Musical Art, where she was a student of Percy Goetschius, in 1923.
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Pauline Alderman moved to Europe in 1938, where she decided to take lessons from Donald Francis Tovey at the University of Edinburgh.
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Pauline Alderman moved to at the University of Strasbourg for doctoral studies.
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Pauline Alderman returned to Los Angeles in 1940, where she was back teaching at the University of Southern California.
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Pauline Alderman presented her dissertation at USC which she named Antoine Boesset and the Air de Cour and in 1946 she received the first PhD degree in music at USC.
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Pauline Alderman's researches were interrupted when war descended upon Europe, whereupon she returned to Los Angeles and to USC.
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Pauline Alderman was the founder of the Department of Music History and Literature and its Chair from 1952 until her retirement in 1960.