William Cheng on Disability
We here at MN thought our readers would like to know that AMS Member William Cheng recently appeared on the Washington Post's blog PostEverything, with a post "I’m a musician who can’t play music...
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Joseph Joachim Conference in Boston, June 2016
by Robert W. EshbachJohn Singer Sargent, portrait of Joachim.Art Gallery of Ontario TorontoJoseph Joachim is widely acknowledged to have been one of the most important musicians of the long 19th...
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Sounds Funny?
The editors of Grove Music are inviting submissions to their third Spoof Article Contest: more information can be found at Anna-Lise Santella's announcement here at the OUP blog. Calling all...
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Rethinking the Early Modern
by Martha FeldmanIn 2014-15 the faculty in the Department of Music at the University of Chicago where I teach decided to boil its eight graduate proseminars in music history down to four. Given the...
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The Attractiveness of Musical Riddles
By Katelijne SchiltzWhat has one eye but cannot see?Yes, I confess: this is a silly riddle, and its solution—a needle—is rather trivial. But we somehow feel attracted to it nevertheless, because it is...
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Music Shorthand, or How To Capture Sound circa 1833
By Mackenzie PierceSound decays. Once its vibrations drop below the audible capacity of the human ear, it survives only as memory, trace, or reproduction. The history of this physical reality, however,...
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Don Giovanni Goes to Prison: Teaching Opera Behind Bars
By Pierpaolo PolzonettiWhen Bard College asked me to teach a three-hour class on Haydn’s Creation at Eastern Correctional Facility, I did not know what to expect. I accepted out of curiosity. Eastern...
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Musicology, Freedom, and the Uses of Anger
by William ChengAudre Lorde (1934-1992)“Each of us is more than the worst thing we’ve ever done.” – Bryan Stevenson (on working with the incarcerated), Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and RedemptionFast...
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The Perils of Public Musicology
by Bonnie GordonThe online community of the American Musicological Society is currently exploding around a post by Pierpaolo Polzonetti called “Don Giovanni Goes to Prison.” The post, about teaching...
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An Interview with Sol Hurok (1888-1974)
The following interview was omitted for reasons of space from a collection of extended interviews with musicians Bálint András Varga, From Boulanger to Stockhausen (University of Rochester Press,...
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Music Therapy and Arts Based Research
In case you missed it, there is an interesting interview with Jane Edwards about Arts Based research over at the Oxford University Press Blog. Check it out!
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Amplifications
Lily E. Hirsch writes to remind us that:In my book Music in American Crime Prevention and Punishment (Univ. of Michigan Press, 2012), I explored the historical and current connection between enduring...
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Kimberly Francis in Conversation with David Conte on Nadia Boulanger
Our friends over at the OUP Blog have an interesting interview with David Conte about his studies with Nadia Boulanger, the renowned French pedagogue.
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An Interview with Edward Kilenyi, Jr. (1910-2000) - Part I
We are pleased to be able to print for the first time in English another essay omitted for reasons of space from Bálint András Varga's From Boulanger to Stockhausen (University of Rochester Press,...
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An Interview with Edward Kilenyi, Jr. (1910-2000) - Part II
This is Part II of Bálint András Varga's interview with virtuoso pianist Edward Kilenyi Jr. For Part I, please click here.Concert poster for Kilenyi's performance with the Toledo Symphony Orchestra....
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A Billy Joel Conference this Fall
by Ryan Bañagale Billy Joel in 2009. Photo Credit: David ShankboneThe first-ever academic conference dedicated to the music and lyrics of Billy Joel takes place this fall at Colorado College. But this...
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A Gift of Frottole
by Anne MacNeilAnne MacNeil and Molly Bourne during filming in Isabella d'Este's Giardino Segreto, 11 May 2015. Courtesy of Daniela Ferrari.I would like to offer you a gift—not of madrigals and...
View ArticleThe legacy of the Japanese anti-nuclear movement
OUP Blog has an interesting post by Noriko Manabe about how music has been used in protests following the Fukushima disaster. Check it out!
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On Letters, “Discovery,” and Cooperation
by Rebekah AhrendtBack in the summer of 2012, I was researching a French-language theater troupe that worked in The Hague at the turn of the eighteenth century. I ran across a short article written by...
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The Long, Sexist History of ‘Shrill’ Women
by William Cheng(Cross posted from http://time.com/4268325/history-calling-women-shrill/)In a 1926 survey about talk radio, a ratio of 100 to 1 respondents preferred male hosts to female hosts. Women,...
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