Honors 2014
Each year, the American Musicological Society names as Honorary Members longstanding members who have made outstanding contributions to further the society’s objectives and the field… Read More
Articles
The Bizet Catalogue
Washington University in St. Louis and the distinguished 19th-century music historian Hugh Macdonald have announced the online publication of… Read More
Echoes: the Meeting in Milwaukee
In early November musicologists and theorists converged on Milwaukee from all over North America (and not a few points more distant still: Europe, China, Australia,… Read More
Bogus Bach Theory Gets Media Singing
The story of a wife’s neglected genius finds a willing audience, despite a nearly total lack of evidence by Tim Cavanaugh… Read More
Tombeau de Rameau
by Gina Rivera NOTE: This is the first of two reflections on the Rameau year 2014. What could anyone possibly say to a composer… Read More
New Perspectives on the Germania Musical Society
NOTE: “‘A program not greatly to their credit’: Finding New Perspectives on the Germania Musical Society through the American Memory Sheet Music Collection” was the… Read More
Schenker Documents Online
General Editors: Ian Bent, William Drabkin by Ian Bent Within Schenker’s vast Nachlass is a mass of documentation that reveals his “human”… Read More
On Copland, Beyoncé, and the Question of Musical Politics
by Annegret Fauser Seventy years ago today, Aaron Copland and Martha Graham’s ballet, Appalachian Spring, had its premiere at… Read More
The Rebirth of the Charles Ives House
by Michael Accinno Preservationists rush to save Charles Ives’s endangered Connecticut house. Over the past two years, the familiar rallying cry that has surrounded… Read More
The Jordi Savall Phenomenon
by Charles T. Downey The giants of the early music movement of the 1970s have reached their golden years, a fact brought home in the… Read More
Life with Friends
by Ellen T. Harris In my book George Frideric Handel: A Life with Friends (W. W. Read More
Those EuroStagings: Opera at Will
by Laurenz Lütteken This post originally appeared, in German, in the Neue Zürcher Zeitung of 24 September 2014, in print and digital formats, under… Read More
The Schenker Correspondence
by William Drabkin Heinrich Schenker: Selected Correspondence, ed. Ian Bent, David Bretherton, and Willliam… Read More
SAX200@ Museum of Musical Instruments, Brussels
by Christopher Brent Murray Two hundred years ago this November, Antoine-Joseph Sax, called Adolphe, was born in Dinant. Today, the Museum of Musical Instruments in… Read More
Perchance to Stream
Almost every day in the right hand column of this blog, under the heading The Blogosphere, you will see a link to the latest post… Read More
Hildegard’s Cosmic Egg
by Margot Fassler and Christian Jara NOTE: Margot Fassler, Keough-Hesburgh Professor of Music History and Liturgy at the University of Notre Dame, will present the… Read More
The Franchomme Project
by Louise Dubin Auguste Franchomme (1808–84) was perhaps the most admired French cellist of his… Read More
Lost Voices
a project directed by Richard Freedman and Philippe Vendrix The Lost Voices Project centers on 16 sets of part-books published by Nicolas Du Chemin… Read More
Patronage, the Canon, and how the game is still afoot
by DKH I was sufficiently annoyed by Bob Freeman’s post in the Chronicle of Higher Education‘s blog last month (“Needed: A Revolution in Musical… Read More
Sound Play
by William Cheng NOTE. Sound Play: Video Games and the Musical Imagination was published by Oxford University Press in May 2014. Here is… Read More