[Ed. Note: The following paper was presented by Mark Burford of Reed College as part of the special session on “Race Ethnicity, and the Profession” at the AMS Meeting in Vancouver, British Columbia. It is the first of three papers that form Musicology Now‘s first “Colloquy.” … Read More
NOTE: The third annual President’s Endowed Plenary Lecture at the Annual Meeting of the American Musicological Society will be delivered at 5:30 p.m. on Thursday, 12 November 2015, in Lexington, Kentucy, at the Galt House Hotel (140 North Fourth Street). The public is invited. George E. Lewis has titled… Read More
The American Musicological Society meets in Louisville KY this upcoming 12–15 November. Louisville has a long and impressive commitment to music (see our previous post on the Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition), perhaps most notably in the… Read More
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, Indonesia … ) for the joint annual meetings of the American Musicological Society and Society for Music Theory. On October 30, just as folks were… Read More
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 second annual President’s Endowed Plenary Lecture at the upcoming annual meeting of the American Musicological Society in November. Fassler’s topic is “Hildegard’s Cosmos and Its… Read More
by Stephen C. Meyer At the forthcoming annual meeting of the American Musicological Society in Pittsburgh I will conclude my three-year term on the AMS Teaching Fund Committee by presenting this year’s award. The various applications that I read in the course of these three… Read More