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Reading the Blank Pages

by Evan MacCarthy This past June, at the Vatican Library, while examining three fifteenth-century manuscripts containing copies of a musical treatise by the composer and… Read More

Dear Abbé

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Professional musicologists offer answers and advice. Free. DEAR ABBÉ: What sort of seasonal… Read More

For and Against Example 5.7

by Anna Zayaruznaya There is a small but distinct possibility that my Example 5.7 is the stupidest thing ever recorded in a studio. It lasts… Read More

Longplayers

By Alexander Rehding Y2K hysteria: Time Magazine on January 18, 1999. This is a good… Read More

Bach went home to Leipzig

By Christoph Wolff The musician, scholar, bibliophile, and philanthropist William Hurd Scheide, a 1936 Princeton University alumnus who died on November 14, 2014 at… Read More

AMS Honors 2015

Each year, the American Musicological Society names as Honorary Members longstanding members who have made outstanding contributions to further the society’s objectives and the field… Read More

Interview: Lewis Lockwood

We are pleased to present the first of two video interviews prepared during the American Musicological Society’s national meeting in Louisville earlier this month. Here… Read More

Beethoven’s Turks

by Neal Zaslaw Reflecting on recent events in Europe, Professor Zaslaw has kindly forwarded these thoughts, which first appeared in a Festschrift for Professor Ebisawa… Read More

Paris

A message from the American Musicological Society: The AMS sends heartfelt sympathy and good wishes to our colleagues and friends in France after the… Read More