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Dear Abbé

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ABBÉ’S HOLIDAY It’s that time of year again… Sugar Plum Fairies… Messiah… holiday concerts (with… Read More

Just For The Love of It

Amateurs, Professionals, and the British Early Music Movement by Nick Wilson Many aspects of the British early music movement (“Early Music”) continue to… Read More

Honors

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

Dear Abbé

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Professional musicologists offer answers and advice. Free. DEAR ABBÉ: Why is… Read More

Whither the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées?

by Cesar Leal Gabriel Astruc Inaugurated on April 30, 1913, the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées is an… Read More

Fiddling in the “Last Best West”

by David Gramit We don’t know much about the fiddler preserved in this turn-of-the-century… Read More

Schütz as 20th-Century Invention

by Bettina Varwig Of course Heinrich Schütz was born in the late sixteenth century and… Read More

Anne of Green Gables and the Lost Art of Recitation

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by Marian Wilson Kimber In the much-loved Anne of Green Gables, the students of Miss Stacey “get up a concert.” The… Read More

For Benjamin Britten, Upon the Centenary of His Birth

by Byron Adams “Blessed Cecilia, appear in visions To all musicians, appear and inspire . . .”… Read More

Benjamin Britten: Centenary Reflections (1)

by Paul Banks NOTE: Byron Adams’s “For Benjamin Britten, Upon the Centenary of His Birth,” will appear next in this series. Read More

Camelot

Editor’s note: November 22 this year is Benjamin Britten’s 100th birthday, to be commemorated in a series of posts beginning… Read More

Now Available: the NYNME Archive

Peter Maxwell Davies: Eight Songs for a Mad King Jayn Rosenfeld, flute Jean… Read More

Public Musicology . . . 1939

by Carol A. Hess The questions explored at the session on “Public Musicology” during the American Musicological Society’s recent meeting in Pittsburgh were hardly new. Read More

Gershwin′s “Clara” in Pittsburgh

Richard Crawford A capacity audience of some 500 musicologists provided the final musical illustration of… Read More

Repeat from the Beginning!

In 1914, at the height of a successful career as concert pianist, Donald Francis Tovey (1875–1940) became the [John] Reid Professor of Music at the… Read More

Musicology Now at 3 Months

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Today marks the 3-month anniversary of this blog, not counting the beta-testing last March. People seem to enjoy it, and we’ve enjoyed putting it together. Read More

Dear Abbé

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Professional musicologists offer answers and advice. Free.* DEAR ABBÉ: I was doing some… Read More

Scandals and Scores (2013 edition)

by Ryan Minor Another summer, another scandal: for opera scholars, Wagner fans, and perhaps anyone who reads newspapers, this was the summer of Frank Castorf’s… Read More

Colin Davis in Boston

by Margo Miller Colin Davis died 14 April 2013 in London at the age of 85. Read More

New Beethoven Research

by David B. Levy With the Spring 2007 issue of Beethoven Forum (vol. 14, no. 2), the journal which had started with such promise in… Read More