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
We are pleased to present the first of several video interviews reflecting on American musicology. Christopher Reynolds, immediate past president of the American Musicological Society, considers initiatives undertaken during his term of office and what he sees as the state of the discipline today. 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
Richard Crawford A capacity audience of some 500 musicologists provided the final musical illustration of Richard Crawford′s plenary address to the American Musicological Society, “Mr. Gershwin′s Catfish Row Spirituals.” Reading from a handout that gave the 17-bar refrain, and forewarned by what Crawford called a… Read More
by Christopher Reynolds The American Musicological Society is pleased to announce an endowed plenary lecture to take place at its annual national meetings in November. The President’s Endowed Plenary Lecture will be given each year by a music scholar of particular… Read More