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C. P. E. Bach at 300
by Annette RichardsIn the 300th anniversary year of the birth of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714–1788), the music of this experimental, ambitious, and ever-elusive composer continues to baffle and...
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Copland as Good Neighbor
Note: The next installment of the AMS-Library of Congress Lecture Series will be on 7 October in the Library of Congress’s Coolidge Auditorium. Carol Hess’s lecture is titled “Copland as Good Neighbor:...
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C. P. E. Bach (II):Another Year, Another Anniversary
Four years ago, while many of us were celebrating the two hundredth birthdays of Chopin and Schumann, a smaller number were observing the three hundredth birthday of another composer-keyboardist:...
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Dear Abbé
Professional musicologists offer answers and advice. Free.DEAR ABBÉ:I was recently working at the Boston Public Library and spotted fifteen familiar names hewn in the stone of the Central Library...
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Four-Handed Monsters
by Adrian DaubIt seems strange to talk about four-hand piano playing as a lost art or a forgotten practice, given how frequently those of us who make music or think about music professionally still sit...
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What I Do in Musicology
by Janie ColeNOTE: 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 co-publish...
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Music for Soccer
by Mark BrillThe recently concluded soccer World Cup provided a compelling visual and aural spectacle, combining fine, engrossing, and at times even mordant soccer with music and sounds that were often...
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Flashmobs, cont'd.
Mark your calendars? We are informed that:“On J. S. Bach’s 330th birthday, Saturday, March 21, 2015, musicians around the world will unite to perform Bach for free in subways and public spaces,...
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JAMS 67/2 (Summer 2014)
Volume 67, no. 2, of the Journal of the American Musicological Society—or JAMS, as it is familiarly known—is now live online. All four articles include embedded multimedia; two of the four are...
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Portrait of Jim Pruett
by William F. PrizerJames Pruett(1932–2014)Chief, Music Division, Library of CongressProfessor of Music, UNC Chapel HillPhoto: Arthur FellerNOTE: I post this essay, adapted from the August 2014...
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All by Myself
by Axel KleinNOTE: Musicologists working in Paris archives always raise their eyebrows when stumbling across the exotic name O'Kelly, as inevitably they do. Here Axel Klein gets the family story...
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Our First Birthday, or, Back to School 2014–15
This blog reckons its formal beginning (after some alpha- and beta-testing) as the start of the academic year, 2013–14. Right now you're within a couple of clicks of everything we've published: expand...
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Why do the Amish sing?
by D. Rose ElderProfessor Elder wrote this post for the JHU Press Blog at Johns Hopkins University Press, where it appeared on 11 August 2014—and simultaneously on the Amish Wisdom Blog. Her book Why...
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It is, finally, the 200th birthday of the Star-Spangled Banner. Big doings in Baltimore, of course. There were no respondents to our challenge to ascertain the connection, if any, between Francis Scott...
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75 Years Ago
An International Musicology Congress, hosted by the nascent American Musicological Society, took place 11–16 September 1939 in New York. Two letters from well-known musicologists unable to attend give...
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Sound Play
by William Cheng NOTE. Sound Play: Video Games and the Musical Imagination was published by Oxford University Press in May 2014. Here is an excerpt.Around the same time my dad dropped a Nintendo...
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Patronage, the Canon, and how the game is still afoot
by DKHI was sufficiently annoyed by Bob Freeman's post in the Chronicle of Higher Education's blog last month (“Needed: A Revolution in Musical Training,” 29 August 2014), to have begun a response....
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Lost Voices
a project directed by Richard Freedman and Philippe VendrixThe Lost Voices Project centers on 16 sets of part-books published by Nicolas Du Chemin (Duchemin) in Paris in the years between 1549 and...
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The Franchomme Project
by Louise DubinAuguste Franchomme (1808–84) was perhaps the most admired French cellist of his time. Born in Lille in 1808, he came to Paris in 1825 with almost no money and won the Conservatoire’s...
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Hildegard's Cosmic Egg
by Margot Fassler and Christian JaraNOTE: Margot Fassler, Keough-Hesburgh Professor of Music History and Liturgy at the University of Notre Dame, will present the second annual President's Endowed...
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