Schütz as 20th-Century Invention
by Bettina Varwig Of course Heinrich Schütz was born in the late sixteenth century and… Read More
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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
Verdi at 200 (2)
by Philip Gossett Editor’s note: This is the second in a series of posts commemorating Verdi’s bicentennial. Roger Parker’s piece is available… Read More
Beethoven IX : the App
by Andrew Dell’Antonio There’s something about Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony that inspires complex engagement. Long before the current Beethoven’s 9th Symphony app (TouchPress/Deutsche… Read More
Verdi at 200 (1)
by Roger Parker Ed. note: Verdi’s 200th birthday is Wednesday, 9 October. Or maybe Thursday. Read More
JMHP : from the editor
by C. Matthew Balensuela As the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Music History Pedagogy I… Read More
Music Lessons
by Bonnie Gordon This week Mark Oppenheimer of the New Republic wrote a provocative essay called “Stop Forcing Your Kids to… Read More