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What Was Adelina Patti Smoking?
By Hilary PorissOne would assume that of all the leisure activities out there, smoking would probably rank among the least popular with opera stars. After all, today few singers in their right minds...
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What Can Classical Music Tell Us About Trigger Warnings?
By Drew Massey Tony Matelli's Sleepwalker, discussed below. Photo credit: boston.comAs part of my renewed effort to put more “now” into Musicology Now, last month I started writing a post about...
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Thoughts on Performing Gender, Place, and Emotion in Music
By Fiona Magowan and Louise WrazenThrough its alliance with anthropology, ethnomusicology relies on field research that involves sustained contact with people making and experiencing music, anywhere....
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Paris
A message from the American Musicological Society:The AMS sends heartfelt sympathy and good wishes to our colleagues and friends in France after the tragic and terrible events in Paris last Friday...
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Beethoven’s Turks
by Neal ZaslawReflecting on recent events in Europe, Professor Zaslaw has kindly forwarded these thoughts, which first appeared in a Festschrift for Professor Ebisawa Bin on his 80th birthday (Tokyo,...
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Interview: Lewis Lockwood
We are pleased to present the first of two video interviews prepared during the American Musicological Society's national meeting in Louisville earlier this month. Here Lewis Lockwood talks with...
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Why You Really Can Forge a Musical Work
by Frederick ReeceThe concept of authorship casts two long shadows across western creative culture: plagiarism and forgery. In the realm of music history, the first of these twin transgressions against...
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AMS Honors 2015
Each year, the American Musicological Society names as Honorary Members longstanding members who have made outstanding contributions to further the society's objectives and the field of musical...
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Bach went home to Leipzig
By Christoph WolffThe musician, scholar, bibliophile, and philanthropist William Hurd Scheide, a 1936 Princeton University alumnus who died on November 14, 2014 at age 100, left his extraordinary...
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Longplayers
By Alexander RehdingY2K hysteria: Time Magazine on January 18, 1999.This is a good time, fifteen years into the new millennium, to look back at the phenomenon of millennial music. The dust from the...
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The Classroom and Public Musicology
By Samuel DorfLast month after delivering a pre-performance lecture on Dayton Opera’s recent production of Madame Butterfly I lingered in the hall for a good twenty minutes chatting with patrons about...
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May the ruach be with you! Di goldene kale returns to theaters
We here at Musicology Now would like to salute Michael Ochs, who edited and restored Joseph Rumshinsky's Di goldene kale (The Golden Bride) for publication next year by A-R Editions for the American...
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For and Against Example 5.7
by Anna ZayaruznayaThere is a small but distinct possibility that my Example 5.7 is the stupidest thing ever recorded in a studio. It lasts about 5 seconds and comprises the four-measure midpoint of...
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Interview: Carol A. Hess and Elisabeth Le Guin
Here is the second of two video interviews prepared during the American Musicological Society's national meeting in Louisville in November 2015. Don M. Randel talks with Carol A. Hess and Elisabeth Le...
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Dear Abbé
Professional musicologists offer answers and advice. Free.DEAR ABBÉ: What sort of seasonal music was on your mind there at the Monasterio?...
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Reading the Blank Pages
by Evan MacCarthyThis past June, at the Vatican Library, while examining three fifteenth-century manuscripts containing copies of a musical treatise by the composer and music theorist Ugolino of...
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Choreographies of Listening: Some Thoughts from Doing Jazz History while...
By Christopher J. WellsLike many jazz scholars, I spend a lot of time engaging in critical historiography, contemplating the effects of the sedimental layers of ideology that have accumulated over...
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Robert Craft Remembered
by Mark De VotoCraft with Stravinsky, 1964. Image credit: New York TimesI’d like to put in a word or two of remembrance of Robert Craft, who died on November 10 at the age of 92. We weren’t close...
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David Bowie Remembered
The well known scholar John Covach has a remembrance of David Bowie on CNN. Read the article here.
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David Bowie's Final Descent
by Christopher DollThe incomparable David Bowie died of liver cancer on January 10, 2016. His twenty-fifth and final studio album,★(or Blackstar), was released two days prior on January 8, Bowie’s 69th...
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