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
Articles
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
Horses
The “grand carrousel du roi”—a pageant-like affair with horses, music, and fireworks—presented in the Place Royale (Place des Vosges, Paris) during… Read More
George and Ira Gershwin Critical Edition
by Mark Clague An aesthetic that spotlights the spontaneity of performance and invites infinite arrangement might seem strange territory for a scholarly edition. The music… Read More
AMS Plenary Lecture: Richard Crawford on Gershwin
by Christopher Reynolds The American Musicological Society is pleased to announce an endowed plenary lecture to… Read More
Debussy at 150
by Jann Pasler Debussy by Nadar On the 150th anniversary of Debussy’s birth, new perspectives… Read More
In Englands green & pleasant Land
To judge from video footage of Last Night of the Proms, 2013, the “dark Satanic Mills” that William Blake… Read More
Bellini alla Malibran
by Hilary Poriss In the autumn of 1832, when Maria Malibran (1808–36) was at the height of her fame—recognized… Read More
The H word
Humanities. A summer of glossy manifestos and thoroughgoing press response kicked off when Harvard published its treatise on the future of arts and humanities there. Read More
Pedagogically Speaking
by Stephen C. Meyer At the forthcoming annual meeting of the American Musicological Society in Pittsburgh I will conclude my… Read More
Connecting
Once connected to the news each morning (unlike certain New Yorkers last week), I try… Read More
Big (Bad) Data
by Robert Fink The effect of “big data” on the humanities is a hot topic in intellectual circles these days, and every so often, the… Read More
Katherine Bergeron, musicologist, named President of Connecticut College
Connecticut College Music historian Katherine Bergeron has been named 11th president of Connecticut College in New London, it was… Read More
Prokofiev on the Train
by Kevin Bartig On the evening of 8 February 1930, a train spirited Prokofiev and his wife Lina south from New York City. The cloudy… Read More
Preview: Louise Talma in Her Youth
by Kendra Preston Leonard On September 24 at the Library of Congress, I’ll give a talk on American composer Louise Talma (c. 1906–1996), her youth,… Read More
Birth Announcements and Other Current Events
Version 1.6.0 of music21, the noted suite of tools for computer-aided research, was released by… Read More
Shape Notes, Billings, and American Modernisms
by Will Robin24 July 2013 Note: Will Robin’s piece for NewMusicBox begins with Charles… Read More