Of Sound Minds and Tuning Forks: Charcot’s Acoustic Experiments at the Salpêtrière
Plate 20, Iconographie… Read More
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Exotic Reflections
by Ralph Locke I have long been intrigued by the problem of how music relates to what is widely called “the exotic.” By “the exotic”… Read More
Dear Abbé
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Professional musicologists offer answers and advice. Free. CHERS LECTEURS, CHÈRES LECTRICES: The photograph is… Read More
Dear Abbé
Professional musicologists offer answers and advice. Free. DEAR ABBÉ: Do you know who this… Read More
The Voice Returns: New Season, Same Blind Spot?
by William Cheng William Cheng’s essay first appeared in Pacific Standard, 25 September 2015. Season 9 of NBC’s The Voice… Read More
David G. Hughes (1926–2015)
A memorial for Professor Hughes takes place Sunday, 4 October 2015 at 4:00 PM EDT, in John Knowles Paine Concert Hall on the Harvard Campus. Read More
Harold Arlen: Music From Way Up High
by Walter Rimler Harold Arlen was part of a community of songwriters who were friends and supporters of each other’s work. “We were always… Read More
Curators in the Musical Museum: The Case of Haydn
by Bryan Proksch The idea that the canon of musical works is a sort of museum—an idea advanced by Lydia Goehr, Peter Burkholder, and others—makes… Read More
Letter from Florence
Jessie Ann Owens writes: I am fortunate to be a visiting professor at Villa I Tatti this semester, and to rediscover the beauty of the… Read More
That Debate, again
by Bonnie Gordon 2015 is a big year for fiftieth anniversaries in music. In 1965 Bob Dylan went electric at the Newport Folk festival, members… Read More
Criticizing Your Friends
We asked the critic Bernard Jacobson to reflect on his book Star Turns and Cameo Appearances, to be released in December. Read More
Oops
We managed to publish two pieces just now before their scheduled time, and before the editorial process was complete. We’ve pulled them down with the… Read More
Growing the Database of Women Songwriters, 1890-1930
by Christopher Reynolds Two years ago I published an article in Notes (69 [2013]: 671-87): “Documenting the Zenith of Women Song Composers: A Database of… Read More
A Profile for Public Musicology
by Drew Massey As my co-editor Kern has noted, 2015 marks the fiftieth anniversary of a pivotal moment in musicology: the Kerman-Lowinsky debates… Read More
Losses
by D. Kern Holoman Robert Commanday(1922-2015)San Francisco Conservatory To ponder the successive losses… Read More
Putting Scholarship into (Art) Practice
NOTE: The third annual President’s Endowed Plenary Lecture at the Annual Meeting of the American Musicological Society will be delivered at 5:30 p.m. on… Read More
Mariah Carey in Vegas: Going for the High
by William Cheng This essay first appeared in Ryot, 29 July 2015, and was reposted by the… Read More
Hildegard’s Cosmos, cont’d.
Margot Fassler, Keough-Hesburgh Professor of Music History and Liturgy at the University of Notre Dame, presented the AMS President’s Endowed Plenary Lecture on 6 November… Read More
Boulez Turns 90, Scholarship on Boulez Turns 60
by Jonathan Goldman Last March 26th was not only the 188th anniversary of Beethoven’s death but also the 90th birthday of that most influential of… Read More
Transforming Musicology
A Report from Britain by Carolin Rindfleisch As a three-year project funded under the British Arts and Humanities Research Council’s… Read More