The Star-Spangled Banner
It is, finally, the 200th birthday of the Star-Spangled Banner. Big doings in Baltimore, of course. Read More
Articles
Why do the Amish sing?
by D. Rose Elder Professor Elder wrote this post for the JHU Press Blog at Johns Hopkins University Press, where it appeared on 11… Read More
Our First Birthday, or, Back to School 2014–15
This blog reckons its formal beginning (after some alpha- and beta-testing) as the start of the academic year, 2013–14. Read More
All by Myself
by Axel Klein NOTE: Musicologists working in Paris archives always raise their eyebrows when stumbling across the exotic name O’Kelly, as inevitably they do. Here… Read More
Portrait of Jim Pruett
by William F. Prizer James Pruett (1932–2014) Chief, Music Division, Library of Congress Professor of Music,… Read More
JAMS 67/2 (Summer 2014)
Volume 67, no. 2, of the Journal of the American Musicological Society—or JAMS, as… Read More
Flashmobs, cont’d.
Mark your calendars? We are informed that: “On J. S. Bach’s 330th birthday, Saturday, March 21, 2015,… Read More
Music for Soccer
by Mark Brill The recently concluded soccer World Cup provided a compelling visual and aural… Read More
What I Do in Musicology
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by Janie Cole NOTE: The AMS Newsletter of the American Musicological Society features a series of reflections from musicologists who have pursued non-tenure-track careers. We… Read More
Four-Handed Monsters
by Adrian Daub It seems strange to talk about four-hand piano playing as a lost art or a forgotten practice, given how frequently those of… Read More
C. P. E. Bach (II):Another Year, Another Anniversary
by David Schulenberg Four years ago, while many of us were celebrating the two hundredth… Read More
Copland as Good Neighbor
Note: The next installment of the AMS-Library of Congress Lecture Series will be on 7 October in the Library of Congress’s Coolidge Auditorium. Carol… Read More
C. P. E. Bach at 300
by Annette Richards In the 300th anniversary year of the birth of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714–1788), the music of this experimental, ambitious, and ever-elusive… Read More
Reading Matter
The American Musicological Society awards publication subventions for books and editions in all fields of music scholarship. Twenty-eight books were recently granted $44,000 in funds… Read More
At the Brink in NYC
We wish all the constituencies—musicians, patrons, donors, board, the city of New York—well as they seek to honor the Metropolitan Opera’s stated mission to provide… Read More
Cipriano de Rore at the Crossroads
by Jessie Ann Owens One wag answered the invitation Katelijne Schiltz and I extended to read a paper by… Read More
Elements of Style
by D. Kern Holoman DISCLAIMER: the curator of Musicology Now here promotes his own book. This situation could be avoided if we had more incoming… Read More
Lorin Maazel (1930–2014)
New York Philharmonic The death, at his home in Virginia, of Lorin Maazel follows the losses in short… Read More
After The Rite
by Maureen A. Carr After the Rite: Stravinsky’s Path to Neoclassicism (1914–1925) (Oxford UP,… Read More