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
Articles
JAMS 68/1: Spring 2015
Volume 68, no. 1, of the Journal of the American Musicological Society—or JAMS, as it… Read More
Musicology and the Entrepreneurship of Ideas (II)
by Christopher J. Smith Part 2 of 2 parts. In July 2007, in a blog-comment, I argued for the philosophic and practical value of… Read More
Musicology and the Entrepreneurship of Ideas (I)
by Christopher J. Smith Part 1 of 2 parts. It is a truism that… Read More
Weighing In on Copyright
by John Philip Sousa Anent the “Blurred Lines” controversy, an excerpt from Sousa’s (possibly prescient) rant “The Menace of Mechanical Music,” Appleton’s Magazine 8… Read More
Sad, Lonely Weeping
by Dale Cockrell Note: Our sister Society for American Music held its 2015 annual meeting in Sacramento, 4–8 March. Among the featured events was… Read More
Blurry
by Joanna Demers Justice Los Angeles County Courthouse The Williams v. Bridgeport [i.e.,… Read More
Great Escape
on Normandy’s coast a century ago, Claude Debussy fled the war and composed his final piano masterpiece by Sudip Bose This essay… Read More
Happy Birthday, Handel and Haydn Society!
by Teresa M. Neff March 24, 2015, proclaims the Mayor, is H+H Day in Boston, just one part of… Read More
The Pillage of Europe’s Bells
Plundered bells on the Hamburg dock in Germany, August 1945 National Archives and Records… Read More
Blurred Lines, Ur-Lines, and Color Lines
by Robert Fink Nothing puts musicology in the headlines like a big, juicy verdict in a musical copyright case. And they don’t come much juicier… Read More
Dr. Sarmast’s Music School
Ahmad Naser Sarmast We learn from multiple sources of the continuing recovery of Ahmad Sarmast,… Read More
Harvard Calling
Deborah Borda We applaud the good sense of Harvard University in engaging Deborah Borda, and… Read More
SMT-V
(Not to be confused with SMTV Live.) Our chums at the Society for Music Theory have unveiled no. 1 of their Videocast Journal of… Read More
Who Wants to be a Millionaire?
by Christopher Little Herewith, the first of several posts on Louisville, which will host the national meeting of the American Musicological Society in November. It’s… Read More
Red-Carpet Rollout
Our associates at the Society for American Music and Cambridge University Press saw… Read More
Trippett, Wagner, and the Leverhulme Trust
Musicologist David Trippett, winner of the American Musicological Society’s 2014 Lewis Lockwood Prize for Wagner’s… Read More
Public Musicology, cont’d.
by Amanda Sewell Musicologists and music scholars from around the world convened at Westminster Choir College of Rider University for a conference called The… Read More
Nostalgia (dept. of Grammy Awards)
The editor of Reminisce magazine, with Sunday’s Grammy Awards in mind, rightly thought we would be interested in their collection of vintage radio and… Read More