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Perchance to Stream
Almost every day in the right hand column of this blog, under the heading The Blogosphere, you will see a link to the latest post by Charles T. Downey in his blog Ionarts (“Something Other than...
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SAX200@ Museum of Musical Instruments, Brussels
by Christopher Brent MurrayTwo hundred years ago this November, Antoine-Joseph Sax, called Adolphe, was born in Dinant. Today, the Museum of Musical Instruments in Brussels, or MIM,<1> has...
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The Schenker Correspondence
by William DrabkinHeinrich Schenker: Selected Correspondence, ed. Ian Bent, David Bretherton, and Willliam Drabkin (Boydell Press, 2014), is the product of a long-established Schenker documentation...
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Those EuroStagings: Opera at Will
by Laurenz LüttekenThis post originally appeared, in German, in the Neue Zürcher Zeitung of 24 September 2014, in print and digital formats, under the title “Oper der Beliebigkeiten.” We are grateful...
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Life with Friends
by Ellen T. HarrisIn my book George Frideric Handel: A Life with Friends (W. W. Norton, 2014), I look at Handel’s music and life in relation to the lives of six identifiable friends: Joseph Goupy and...
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The Jordi Savall Phenomenon
by Charles T. DowneyThe giants of the early music movement of the 1970s have reached their golden years, a fact brought home in the last couple years by the passing of Gustav Leonhardt and Christopher...
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The Rebirth of the Charles Ives House
by Michael AccinnoPreservationists rush to save Charles Ives’s endangered Connecticut house.Over the past two years, the familiar rallying cry that has surrounded the sale of Charles Ives’s residence...
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On Copland, Beyoncé, and the Question of Musical Politics
by Annegret FauserSeventy years ago today, Aaron Copland and Martha Graham’s ballet, Appalachian Spring, had its premiere at the Coolidge Auditorium of the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. As I am...
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Schenker Documents Online
by Ian BentWithin Schenker’s vast Nachlass is a mass of documentation that reveals his “human” side, neglected by scholars for half a century after his death in 1935: his private life, his psychology,...
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New Perspectives on the Germania Musical Society
NOTE: “‘A program not greatly to their credit’: Finding New Perspectives on the Germania Musical Society through the American Memory Sheet Music Collection” was the title of Nancy Newman's Library of...
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Tombeau de Rameau
by Gina RiveraNOTE: This is the first of two reflections on the Rameau year 2014.What could anyone possibly say to a composer dead some 250 years? Two international delegations have convened in 2014 to...
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Bogus Bach Theory Gets Media Singing
The story of a wife’s neglected genius finds a willing audience, despite a nearly total lack of evidenceby Tim CavanaughNOTE: This article first appeared in National Review Online of 24 October 2014...
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Echoes: the Meeting in Milwaukee
In early November musicologists and theorists converged on Milwaukee from all over North America (and not a few points more distant still: Europe, China, Australia, Indonesia ... ) for the joint...
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The Bizet Catalogue
Washington University in St. Louis and the distinguished 19th-century music historian Hugh Macdonald have announced the online publication of the first comprehensive Bizet Catalogue,HERE. The project...
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Honors 2014
Each year, the American Musicological Society names as Honorary Members longstanding members who have made outstanding contributions to further the society's objectives and the field of musical...
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A Major Crisis
by Steven IlaganNOTE: For a holiday offering we republish this post from Steven Ilagan's column “Tunespoon” as it appeared in the California Aggie campus newspaper (e-edition) on 13 November 2014,...
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The Eastman Studies
by Ralph P. LockeA recent post on this blog mentioned “the staggeringly weighty displays of recent books” at the annual meeting of the American Musical Society (Milwaukee, 6–9 November 2014)....
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Interview: Christopher Reynolds
We are pleased to present the first of several video interviews reflecting on American musicology. Christopher Reynolds, immediate past president of the American Musicological Society, considers...
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William Scheide 1914-2014
Bill Scheide was known to musicians everywhere as owner of the Haussman portrait (second version, 1748) of J. S. Bach, widely known as “the Scheide Bach portrait.” It hung in his living room, where it...
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Interview: Ellen T. Harris
The second of our video interviews reflecting on American musicology features Ellen T. Harris, who became president of the American Musicological Society in November 2014. Cuepoints:00:22 on Handel and...
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