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Gluck's Nationality
by Eric SchneemanNOTE: 2014 marks the Gluck tercentenary and the bicentenary of The Star-Spangled Banner. We treat the latter in a forthcoming post.In November 2013, I received a very nice letter from...
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Conference Report: Video Game Music
by Ryan ThompsonI enjoyed speaking at the inaugural North American Conference on Video Game Music, which took place at Youngstown State University during the holiday weekend of January 17–20....
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To Be or Not:Is “The Star-Spangled Banner” Really Based on an Old English...
by Mark ClagueAs we approach the September 14, 2014, bicentennial of the United States national anthem, online resources about the anthem's history are multiplying. Such replication in the case of “The...
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Listening to Downton Abbey (part 1)
by Michael AccinnoSpoiler Alert: This post treats Series 4, Episode 3 (US Episode 2) of Downton Abbey, which was broadcast by UK network ITV on 6 October,2013 and by US network PBS on 12 January...
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Let’s Make a Deal:The Beatles, Ed Sullivan, and the British Invasion
by John CovachNew York promoter Sid Bernstein called himself “the man who brought the Beatles to America.”<1> Bernstein’s oft-told story of how he came to book the Beatles for two performances...
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What I Do in Musicology
by Laurence LibinNOTE: The AMS Newsletter of the American Musicological Society features a series of reflections from musicologists who have pursued non-tenure-track careers. We are pleased to...
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Music & Disability Studies: An Introduction
by Blake HoweCurious about disability, but unsure of what it is? This is a short primer on the field of Disability Studies, and covers some basic principles especially relevant for musicologists and...
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Pop Orientalism
by W. Anthony Sheppard NOTE: Here we post Tony Sheppard's recent TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) talk "Pop Orientalism: Tin Pan Alley to Taiwan Today." (Wikipedia entry on TED and TEDx HERE.)...
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Pete Seeger (1919–2014)
by Judith TickTo me Pete Seeger was his stepmother’s stepson. Ruth, he called her—her own children called her Dio—and I liked the warm way he said her name, sometimes as in “Father and Ruth.” Of course...
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Bach in Weimar: the Bach-Haus petition
by Robert L. MarshallThe best source for information about the proposal to create a Bach memorial on the site of his original home can be found at: www.bachhausweimar.de . It shows various options,...
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Remembering Howard Mayer Brown
by Ellen T. Harris NOTE: February 20, 2014, is the twenty-first anniversary of the death of the distinguished American musicologist Howard Mayer Brown (1930–93). Ellen Harris presented these remarks at...
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20 Feet From Stardom: Entertainment or History?
by Andrew Flory NOTE: The 86th Academy Awards will be presented on March 2, 2014. The film treated here is nominated for Best Documentary Feature. Where falls the line between history and entertainment...
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On the Lecture-Recital
by Michael J. Puri“What do you do?” “I teach music.”“That's great! What instrument do you play?”Sound familiar? No matter how many times I am asked the second question, it always flummoxes me. My...
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New Videos: Louise Talma / Before Rap
Kendra Preston Leonard: “Meaning and Myth in Louise Talma’s First Period Works”The American Musicological Society and the Music Division of the Library of Congress present lectures highlighting...
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Dear Abbé
Professional musicologists offer answers and advice. Free.DEAR ABBÉ:Anent Mark Clague's post on the Star-Spangled Banner, I note that the Star Spangled Music Foundation and blog are administered by one...
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Pop Triumphalism Redux, Neoliberal Aesthetics, and the Austerity Agenda: A...
by John HalleNOTE: a longer version of this response appears at Professor Halle’s website, HERE.A central point of my piece “The Last Symphony” is that in its late, neoliberal form which we are now...
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Reflections on Contemporary Ellingtonia
by John HowlandDuke Ellington’s 1999 centennial, as I observe in the current issue of Musical Quarterly (Fall/Winter 2013), fostered a wave of new research. Most recently, Terry Teachout published his...
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NOTE: the thread--Robert Fink: How I Got OverJohn Halle: Pop Triumphalism Redux, a response to Robert FinkProf. Fink concludes:Rather than prolong the back-and-forth over “pop triumphalism,” I’d simply...
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Indexing Psalms and Music
by Meridith MurrayThose of us who are church musicians are always looking for new insights into sacred texts. Music scholarship can help us find and carry these discoveries to our choirs,...
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