Musicology and the Entrepreneurship of Ideas (II)
by Christopher J. Smith Part 2 of 2 parts. In July 2007, in a blog-comment, I argued for the philosophic and practical value of… Read More
Articles by Kevin Romoser
Musicology and the Entrepreneurship of Ideas (I)
by Christopher J. Smith Part 1 of 2 parts. It is a truism that… Read More
Weighing In on Copyright
by John Philip Sousa Anent the “Blurred Lines” controversy, an excerpt from Sousa’s (possibly prescient) rant “The Menace of Mechanical Music,” Appleton’s Magazine 8… Read More
Sad, Lonely Weeping
by Dale Cockrell Note: Our sister Society for American Music held its 2015 annual meeting in Sacramento, 4–8 March. Among the featured events was… Read More
Blurry
by Joanna Demers Justice Los Angeles County Courthouse The Williams v. Bridgeport [i.e.,… Read More
Great Escape
on Normandy’s coast a century ago, Claude Debussy fled the war and composed his final piano masterpiece by Sudip Bose This essay… Read More
Happy Birthday, Handel and Haydn Society!
by Teresa M. Neff March 24, 2015, proclaims the Mayor, is H+H Day in Boston, just one part of… Read More
The Pillage of Europe’s Bells
Plundered bells on the Hamburg dock in Germany, August 1945 National Archives and Records… Read More
Blurred Lines, Ur-Lines, and Color Lines
by Robert Fink Nothing puts musicology in the headlines like a big, juicy verdict in a musical copyright case. And they don’t come much juicier… Read More