Music Research in the Digital Age
A joint congress of the International Association of Music Libraries (IAML) and the International Musicological Society (IMS) is underway… Read More
Articles
Handel and the Royal African Company
by David Hunter NOTE: Dr. Hunter’s work has been featured in recent weeks on BBC (“In Search of the Black Mozart,”… Read More
Blind Auditions, Meritocracy, and the American Dream
American musicologist Will Cheng has published an interesting think piece in the Huffington Post, to which we refer our readership: William Cheng, “Meritocracy’s… Read More
Leonardo’s Lira
by Ross W. Duffin Professor Duffin’s now widely reported essay suggesting the identity of the lira da braccio player in Marcantonio… Read More
Rethinking Historical Data: A Foray into Digital Humanities
by Danielle and Eric Fosler-Lussier During the Cold War, thousands of musicians… Read More
India: Pioneering Musical Encounters
by Nalini Ghuman A grainy old photograph taken more than a century ago in Adyar, South Chennai, in Tamil Nadu, opens a revelatory window onto… Read More
Harry Partch Happenings
by Andrew Granade Harry Partch, 1967 William Gedney Photographs and WritingsDavid M. Rubenstein Library… Read More
Sara Levy’s World
by Nancy Sinkoff Anton Graff: portrait of one of the Itzig sisters,probably Sara… Read More
Now Playing: Saturday, 9-5 EST
The Kennedy Center / Aspen Institute Arts Summit:The Road Forward Website HERE. Saturday’s summit features conversations, live performances, town-hall… Read More
Dresden, 1845-46
by Christopher Reynolds Professor Reynolds here reflects on the genesis of Wagner, Schumann, and the Lessons of Beethoven’s Ninth (University of California Press,… Read More
The Transactional Castrato
by Martha Feldman Excerpt from The Castrato: Reflections on Natures and Kinds, drawn from the Ernest Bloch Lectures (University of California Press, 2015). The… Read More
8 May 1945
Victory in Europe, or V-E Day, was proclaimed after the military surrenders in Reims on 7… Read More
Medieval Music in Africa
by Anna Maria Busse Berger Anna Maria Busse Berger (Photo Gregory Urquiaga) NOTE: Anna Maria… Read More
TLS 1 May 2015: Schubert, Tchaikovsky, Botstein, Morrison
The cover of this week’s Times Literary Supplement (1 May 2015) features content from American… Read More
New Acquisitions at the Newberry
Here is a selection of the recent acquisitions in music made possible by The Newberry’s Howard Mayer Brown / Roger Weiss Rare Book Fund. Read More
Brahms, Clara, and Op. 78.
by Paul Berry NOTE: The following excerpt from Brahms Among Friends (Oxford UP, 2014) treats the Violin Sonata, op. 78, and its connections with Clara… Read More
Lilacs
Library of Congress 1 When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom’d, And the great star early droop’d in… Read More
Carla Zecher Named Executive Director, Renaissance Society of America
Carla Zecher, a member of the American Musicological Society, has been named Executive Director of… Read More
Ruth Tatlow on Mrs. Bach
What seems to us (and many others) a cogent and measured assessment by Ruth Tatlow of the Mrs Bach brouhaha (see Tim Cavanaugh’s essay,… Read More
JAMS 68/1: Spring 2015
Volume 68, no. 1, of the Journal of the American Musicological Society—or JAMS, as it… Read More