A Billy Joel Conference this Fall
by Ryan Bañagale Billy Joel in 2009. Photo Credit: David Shankbone The first-ever… Read More
Articles
An Interview with Edward Kilenyi, Jr. (1910-2000) – Part II
This is Part II of Bálint András Varga’s interview with virtuoso pianist Edward Kilenyi Jr. For Part I, please click here. Read More
An Interview with Edward Kilenyi, Jr. (1910-2000) – Part I
We are pleased to be able to print for the first time in English another essay omitted for reasons of space from Bálint András Varga’s … Read More
Kimberly Francis in Conversation with David Conte on Nadia Boulanger
Our friends over at the OUP Blog have an interesting interview with David Conte… Read More
Amplifications
Lily E. Hirsch writes to remind us that: In my book Music in American Crime Prevention and Punishment (Univ. of Michigan… Read More
Music Therapy and Arts Based Research
In case you missed it, there is an interesting interview with Jane Edwards about… Read More
An Interview with Sol Hurok (1888-1974)
The following interview was omitted for reasons of space from a collection of extended interviews with musicians Bálint András Varga, From Boulanger to Stockhausen… Read More
The Perils of Public Musicology
by Bonnie Gordon The online community of the American Musicological Society is currently exploding around a post by Pierpaolo… Read More
Musicology, Freedom, and the Uses of Anger
by William Cheng Audre Lorde (1934-1992) “Each of us is more than the worst thing we’ve ever done.” –… Read More
Don Giovanni Goes to Prison: Teaching Opera Behind Bars
Editorial Update: Comments for this Post are Now Closed. Please continue the conversation on social media, or in the posts elaborating on these issues… Read More
Music Shorthand, or How To Capture Sound circa 1833
By Mackenzie Pierce Sound decays. Once its vibrations drop below the audible capacity of the human ear, it survives only as memory, trace, or reproduction. Read More
The Attractiveness of Musical Riddles
By Katelijne Schiltz What has one eye but cannot see? Yes, I confess: this is a silly riddle, and its solution—a needle—is rather trivial. But… Read More
Rethinking the Early Modern
by Martha Feldman In 2014-15 the faculty in the Department of Music at the University of Chicago where I teach decided to boil its eight… Read More
Sounds Funny?
The editors of Grove Music are inviting submissions to their third Spoof Article Contest: more information can be found at Anna-Lise Santella’s announcement … Read More
Joseph Joachim Conference in Boston, June 2016
by Robert W. Eshbach John Singer Sargent, portrait of Joachim.Art Gallery of Ontario… Read More
William Cheng on Disability
We here at MN thought our readers would like to know that AMS Member William Cheng recently appeared on the Washington Post’s… Read More
David Bowie’s Final Descent
by Christopher Doll The incomparable David Bowie died of liver cancer on January 10, 2016. His twenty-fifth and final studio album,… Read More
David Bowie Remembered
The well known scholar John Covach has a remembrance of David Bowie on CNN. Read the article here. Read More
Robert Craft Remembered
by Mark De Voto Craft with Stravinsky, 1964. Image credit: New York Times… Read More
Choreographies of Listening: Some Thoughts from Doing Jazz History while Having a Body
By Christopher J. Wells Like many jazz scholars, I spend a lot of time engaging in critical historiography, contemplating the effects of the sedimental layers… Read More