2013: the Stats
Happy New Year! Here are the 2013 statistics for Musicology Now, formally launched in August 2013. Read More
Articles
Perséphone
Perséphone was a mélodrame (with speakers, vocal soloists, chorus, dance troupe, and orchestra) premiered at… Read More
Festschriften 2013
by Michael Accinno Friends, pupils, and colleagues honored, during 2013, three distinguished American musicologists with Festschriften saluting lifetime achievement. Jane Bernstein… Read More
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