by Christopher Reynolds Two years ago I published an article in Notes (69 [2013]: 671-87): “Documenting the Zenith of Women Song Composers: A Database of Songs Published in the United States and the British Commonwealth, ca. 1890-1930.” My intention was to call attention to my database of women song composers… Read More
Margot Fassler, Keough-Hesburgh Professor of Music History and Liturgy at the University of Notre Dame, presented the AMS President’s Endowed Plenary Lecture on 6 November 2014 at the American Musicological Society’s annual meeting in Milwaukee. The talk was entitled “Hildegard’s Cosmos and Its Music: Making a Digital Model for the… Read More
A Report from Britain by Carolin Rindfleisch As a three-year project funded under the British Arts and Humanities Research Council’s Digital Transformations scheme, Transforming Musicology is part of a broader effort to understand how digital technologies and digital… Read More
by Ryan Raul Bañagale This past March witnessed the debut of a new public musicology endeavor called the Critical Karaoke Radio Project. Founded at Colorado College by playwright and hip-hop professor Idris Goodwin, novelist and literary critic Steven… Read More
by Richard Freedman Last week in New York City hundreds of members of the International Association for Music Libraries (IAML) and international Musicological Society (IMS) gathered for a week’s worth of presentations, meetings, and discussion to consider “Music Research in… Read More
A joint congress of the International Association of Music Libraries (IAML) and the International Musicological Society (IMS) is underway at the Juilliard School in New York City. It lasts just short of a full week, with a packed agenda. … Read More
by Danielle and Eric Fosler-Lussier During the Cold War, thousands of musicians from the United States traveled the world under the sponsorship of the State Department’s Cultural Presentations program. This program was not straightforward political propaganda, though… Read More
Washington University in St. Louis and the distinguished 19th-century music historian Hugh Macdonald have announced the online publication of the first comprehensive Bizet Catalogue, HERE. The project was designed, from the outset, as a website, allowing corrections, revisions, and updating as they become… Read More
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 (Duchemin) in Paris in the years between 1549 and 1568, offering facsimiles and modern editions of almost 400 chansons by such composers as Clément Janequin,… Read More