Essays About musicology

Performing Musicology

by Ellen T. Harris There have been many calls recently to teach by doing, to show the research process rather than merely recite results. It is difficult to open a copy of The Chronicle without finding at least one article… Read More

The Great Dispute

We have reached the 50th anniversary of a memorable dialogue on the nature of American musicology. It began with Joseph Kerman’s “A Profile for American Musicology” as delivered at the annual meeting of the American Musicological Society, 27 December 1964, and continued through volume 18 of the Society’s Journal. Its… Read More

Music & Diplomacy in Review

by Rebekah Ahrendt, Mark Ferraguto, and Damien Mahiet Musical diplomacy seems to be everywhere today. From US Department of State programs like Next Level or OneBeat, to concert diplomacy in India and Pakistan, to the… Read More

LA-land

OK, we confess to finding the following, from this morning’s LA Times, to be the most perplexing (“confusing,” the students would say) passage about musicology we remember reading: Because laws when Gaye wrote the song allowed only the sheet… Read More