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Ballerinas, Acrobats, and Dancing Dogs: Parisian Ballet at the Fin de Siècle
By Sarah Gutsche-MillerDance history has some deeply entrenched myths. One is that ballet has always been an aristocratic art form, created and performed for the elite in Europe’s foremost opera...
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Musicology Research Takes an Unexpected Turn After the Death of Japanese...
By Mia Gormandy Panoramais the largest steelband competition in the world held every year during the carnival season in Trinidad and Tobago. It features the steelpan, the national instrument of...
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"...Those Who Would Dedicate Themselves to Music": A Dispatch from the Front...
By Ellen ExnerTitle page from Quantz's Versuch...Image Credit: http://www.buechel-baur.deI recently took a voluntary leap off the university tenure track to begin teaching at a major conservatory,...
View ArticleMN Salutes the 2016 Grove Spoof Article Winners
We here at Musicology Now are proud to salute Caroline Potter, Eric Saylor, and Daniel Melamed for their submissions to the 2016 Grove Music Spoof Contest. If you haven't already learned about the...
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Exhibition Review: Vigée Le Brun, Woman Artist in Revolutionary France (The...
By Julia DoeThis spring the Metropolitan Museum of Art presents a retrospective of the paintings of Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun (1755-1842). One of the outstanding portraitists of the eighteenth...
View ArticleFlorence Foster Jenkins: a user’s guide to aging the female voice
Jennifer Fleeger has written a post over at OUPBlog about how the forthcoming film about Florence Foster Jenkins starring Meryl Streep asks us to consider the unique confluence of age, passion, (lack...
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Bump the Triangle: Empowering Urban Youth Through African Diasporic Music and...
by Georgiary BledsoeImage Credit: http://www.bumpthetriangle.org/When I successfully applied for the AMS Howard Mayer Brown Fellowship during graduate studies at Duke, I expressed the hope that my...
View ArticleAMS Member Simon Morrison on Music During an Election Season
AMS Member and Princeton Professor Simon Morrison recently published an article in TIME about this year's presidential candidates and their...
View ArticleDavid Stowe on the Sacred Harp at OUP Blog
In case you missed it, David Stowe recently wrote an interesting post about new contributions to the Sacred Harp at OUPBlog. Check it out!
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A Magical Substance Flows Into Me: Recording the Limits of Public Musicology
by Michael FigueroaIt isn’t often that musicology serves as a topic for feature-length films, but the artist Jumana Manna has turned her camera toward the research of Robert Lachmann in A Magical...
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Launch of New Professional Choral Group: Ora
by Victoria Cooper, Director, Cooper Digital Publishing LtdORA - "...a musical comet..."As many of my AMS colleagues know, in 2015 I retired from my position as Senior Commissioning Editor of music and...
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What do All These Beatles Covers Tell Us?
by Christopher ReynoldsPhoto Credit: Library of Congress, Digital Id cph.3c11094Studies of cover songs have deservedly proliferated in the last decade. Singers and groups are understood to shape their...
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Saariaho’s L’amour de loin: First Woman Composer in a Century at the...
by Ronit SeterKaija Saariaho was in an understandably anxious mood when I interviewed her on Saturday morning, 14 November 2015. It was the third day of the AMS Louisville meeting, which coincided with...
View ArticleAlex Ross on Music & Violence
In case you haven't already seen it, Alex Ross's piece in the current New Yorkerincludes in its discussion research AMS Member Suzanne Cusick alongside other scholars.
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Michael Ochs on Di Goldene Kale
From AMS Member Michael Ochs, a post on his work to bring Di goldene kale back to the stage, from the the Digital Yiddish Theater Project.
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Reflection on Music & Activism in the Wake of Orlando
by Matthew JonesSince the Pulse Nightclub shootings on 12 June 2016, I’ve been thinking a lot about the roles of music and musicology in political activism. How can music soothe individual, collective,...
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Music do I hear?
Ross Duffin discusses the types of musical arrangements featured in Shakespeare's theater in a wonderful post featured on the Oxford University Press Blog. Click here for the link and for more...
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Florence Foster Jenkins Collection at Schubertiade Music & Arts
Schubertiade Music & Arts (a former employer of one of MN's curators) is offering a special collection of material about Florence Foster Jenkins on the occasion of the premiere of the biopic...
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Pokémon GO: The Music
by Simon MorrisonMy office at Princeton University became a point of pilgrimage this summer. Tourists, pre-frosh campers, local teens, procrastinating grad students, and even my own five year old...
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Care-Oriented Musicology
by William ChengArt by Jess Landau (2016)The following is an excerpt from the Introduction to the author’s Just Vibrations: The Purpose of Sounding Good (University of Michigan Press, 2016, foreword by...
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