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Camelot
Editor's note: November 22 this year is Benjamin Britten’s 100th birthday, to be commemorated in a series of posts beginning tomorrow. For people of my generation—60-somethings—that date has another,...
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Benjamin Britten: Centenary Reflections (1)
by Paul BanksNOTE: Byron Adams's “For Benjamin Britten, Upon the Centenary of His Birth,” will appear next in this series.Ben and Peter. And Aaron.As we celebrate the centenary of the birth of Benjamin...
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For Benjamin Britten, Upon the Centenary of His Birth
by Byron Adams“Blessed Cecilia, appear in visionsTo all musicians, appear and inspire . . .”(promotional)Edward Benjamin Britten was born on 22 November 1913, a day remembered in Great Britain as a...
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Anne of Green Gables and the Lost Art of Recitation
by Marian Wilson KimberIn the much-loved Anne of Green Gables, the students of Miss Stacey “get up a concert.” The “concert” in the 1908 novel by L. M. Montgomery consists of more than just music—it...
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Schütz as 20th-Century Invention
by Bettina VarwigOf course Heinrich Schütz was born in the late sixteenth century and died 87 years later in the seventeenth: 1585–1672, to be precise. But the Schütz familiar from our standard history...
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Fiddling in the “Last Best West”
by David Gramit We don’t know much about the fiddler preserved in this turn-of-the-century photo from the Provincial Archives of Alberta (nor about the woman who peers evocatively from the shadows of...
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Whither the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées?
by Cesar LealGabriel AstrucInaugurated on April 30, 1913, the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées is an icon of Parisian modernist architecture as well as a significant landmark in the history of music. It...
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Dear Abbé
Professional musicologists offer answers and advice. Free.DEAR ABBÉ:Why is the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées not in the Champs-Élysées? IGOR, MAURICE, and...
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Honors
Each year, the American Musicological Society names as Honorary Members longstanding members who have made outstanding contributions to further our objectives and the field of musical scholarship. This...
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Just For The Love of It
Amateurs, Professionals, and the British Early Music Movementby Nick WilsonMany aspects of the British early music movement (“Early Music”) continue to intrigue. One thinks of the authenticity debate;...
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Dear Abbé
ABBÉ'S HOLIDAY It's that time of year again... Sugar Plum Fairies... Messiah... holiday concerts (with and without celebrity readings of The Night Before Christmas—by the way, there's an app for that)...
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Festschriften 2013
by Michael AccinnoFriends, pupils, and colleagues honored, during 2013, three distinguished American musicologists with Festschriften saluting lifetime achievement.Jane BernsteinEllen RosandThomas...
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Perséphone
Perséphone was a mélodrame (with speakers, vocal soloists, chorus, dance troupe, and orchestra) premiered at the Paris Opéra on 30 April 1934 by Ida Rubinstein's ballet company. The libretto was by...
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Happy New Year!Here are the 2013 statistics for Musicology Now, formally launched in August 2013.as of 12:00 noon PST, December 31, 2013Pageviews: 30,215Daily hits: roughly 250 Audience by...
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How I Got Over
by Robert FinkA complicated skirmish over musical form under capitalism appears to have broken out recently amongst the leftist intelligentsia. The opening provocation, from The New Republic, was an...
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Rapper's Delight
by Loren KajikawaEditor's note: Loren Kajikawa's lecture “Before Rap: DJs, MCs, and Pre-1979 Hip Hop Performances” was delivered on 25 September, 2013 as part of the AMS / Rock and Roll Hall of Fame...
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The Composers’ Forum: Favorite Moments
by Melissa J. de GraafThe Composers’ Forum was a weekly series of new and contemporary music concerts sponsored by the Federal Music Project and Works Progress Administration (WPA). It showcased such...
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Publisher's Corner: In Praise of the Elevator Pitch
by Mary C. FrancisScholars, why is your writing and research important to your readers?If you can’t answer that question with conviction, in two sentences or less, I hope this post will persuade you to...
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Who Was M. D. Herter Norton?
by Michael OchsEvery musicologist is familiar with the firm of W. W. Norton, publisher of the time-honored Music in Western Civilization by Paul Henry Lang, published in 1941 and actively in print for...
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Dear Abbé
Professional musicologists offer answers and advice. Free.DEAR ABBÉ:What does the W. W. stand for, and who was this M. D. Herter Norton, anyway? H. M....
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