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by Nancy Rao In my book Chinatown Opera Theater in North America (University of Illinois… Read More

Book Preview: Music After the Fall: Modern Composition and Culture Since 1989 (University of California Press, 2017). … Read More

by Peter Bennett In my Spring 2016 JAMS article, “Hearing King David in Early Modern France: Politics, Prayer, and Louis XIII’s Musique de la Chambre,”… Read More

[Ed. Note: An incredible THANK YOU to our illustrious team of bloggers: Dan Blim, James Deaville, Dana… Read More

The curatorial team for Musicology Now is pleased to present its first-ever live-blog event: Music and the Inauguration of Donald Trump. We have a team of… Read More

by James Deaville The inauguration events of 2017 afford… Read More

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[Ed. Note: This essay is the fourth in a series of inauguration-related posts leading up to the presidential inauguration on January… Read More

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[Ed. Note: This essay is the third in a series of inauguration-related posts leading up to the presidential inauguration on January… Read More

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[Ed. Note: This essay is the second in a series of inauguration-related posts leading up to the presidential inauguration on January… Read More

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[Ed. Note: This essay is the first in a series of inauguration-related posts leading up to the presidential inauguration on January… Read More

By Naomi Graber It is a truth universally acknowledged that the Star Wars saga is inherently Wagnerian (Kalinak, 1992;… Read More

By Brooke McCorkle“We have hope. Rebellions are built on hope,” quips… Read More

By Frank Lehman When approaching franchises that boast networks of leitmotifs, I find it helpful to bring in the use/mention distinction from… Read More

By James Buhler  Composing the music for Rogue One would inevitably be a thankless task. Though many composers have written Star Wars music for games,… Read More

Musicology Now is pleased to present in the coming days the first in an ongoing series of “quick takes” to recently released music. Read More

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Bubblegum pop poster boy. Sophisticated soul singer. Political critic. Reluctant gay icon. Covert philanthropist. These are some of the epithets attached to … Read More

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(New Years fireworks over Pikes Peak, Lars Leber Photography) As we all… Read More

by Linda Shaver-Gleason It’s like looking into a mirror. It seems… Read More

by Kristen Turner picture of Drury as Faust taken from a program for the May 5, 1902 performance of… Read More

by Lawrence Kramer The Thought of Music (2016) is the third volume in a trilogy of books on musical… Read More

Book Preview: Chinatown Opera Theater in North America by Nancy Rao

Louis XIII Update: Further Thoughts on the Exaudiat te Dominus

Live Blog Event: Music and the Inauguration of Donald Trump

Inaugural Live Blog Preview

Sound at the Inauguration: A Listener’s Guide

Donald Trump, Jackie Evancho, and the Performance of Embattled Whiteness

The Band Plays On

Another Counter-Inaugural Concert

Lieder of the Free World: Music and Military at Barack Obama’s 2008 Inaugural Concert

Quick Takes on Rogue One: Putting the Opera Back in “Space Opera”

Quick Takes on Rogue One: Requiem For Rogues

Quick Takes on Rogue One: Leitmotivic Use vs. Mention

Quick Takes on Rogue One: Michael Giacchino’s Sacrifice

Introducing “Quick Takes”

George Michael’s Queer Masculinity: An Exploration and an Elegy

Happy New Year from Musicology Now

Not Another Music History Blog! Public Musicology on the Internet

Theodore Drury and the Dilemmas of Race, Class, and Music at the Opera House

Thoughts on “The Thought of Music”