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Mozart's Grace
by Scott BurnhamPerfection, revelation, incarnation, grace, redemption. Such metaphors resonate throughout the history of Mozart reception. We probably should not be surprised at their ubiquity, the...
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Dear Abbé
Professional musicologists offer answers and advice. Free.DEAR ABBÉ: I am 8 years old and have been dancing in The Nutcracker since my first pink tutu. Some of my little friends say Tchaikovsky is...
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1914: The Christmas Truce
by Carol A. Hess Among the many things World War I left in its wake is an impressive and diverse body of musical works. The first commercially successful antiwar song in history, Al Piantadosi’s “I...
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JAMS 67/3 (Fall 2014)
Volume 67, no. 3, of the Journal of the American Musicological Society—or JAMS, as it is familiarly known—is now live online. Two of the articles (Candelaria, Mundy) and the section Digital and...
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Interview: Simon Morrison
The third of our video interviews reflecting on American musicology features Simon Morrison, the noted Prokofiev specialist, reflecting on his recent work in Russia toward a history of the...
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Happy New Year!Here are the 2014 statistics for Musicology Now, formally launched in August 2013, and today completing its first full calendar year.Total number of posts, 2014: 112Pageviews, since...
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On Adémar de Chabannes (989–1034)
James Grier, professor of music history at the University of Western Ontario, has been working on music and liturgy in medieval Aquitaine for more than two decades—notably on the contributions of the...
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Leon Botstein on the Liberal Arts
Learning is like sex, and other reasons the liberal arts will remain relevantby Leon BotsteinThis article first appeared in the Hechinger Report, HERE (with numerous links), and is republished with...
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Interview: Richard Taruskin
The fourth and last in this series of video interviews reflecting on American musicology features Richard Taruskin, interviewed by Beth E. Levy.(At one point Professor Taruskin salutes his mentor Joel...
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"Musicology" Turns 100
by Matthew WerleyWaldo Selden PrattIn January 1915, the American seminary professor Waldo S. Pratt (1857–1939) coined the term “musicology” on p. 1 of the inaugural issue of The Musical Quarterly....
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Where's Waldo?
More on Waldo Selden Pratt . . . In The Musical Times, September 1939 (no. 1159, p. 684)—Percy A. Scholes notes his death:WALDO SELDEN PRATT, on July 31 [1939], at the age of eighty-one. He began life...
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Figuring Rameau
by Thomas Christensen 2014, as Gina Rivera reminds us in her posting from November 2014, was the year Jean-Philippe Rameau got his turn in the recent spate of composer celebrations.The 250thanniversary...
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Dear Abbé
Professional musicologists offer answers and advice. Free.DEAR ABBÉ:Do you know who these gentlemen are? BOB J. IN BRUNSWICK DEAR BOB:Yes. Do...
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Dear Abbé
Professional musicologists offer answers and advice. Free.CHERS LECTEURS, CHÈRES LECTRICES:The first photograph is of Claude Palisca, a former president of the American Musicological Society. It...
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We Still Have Work To Do!
An Open Letter to Young Musicologistsby Amy C. BealDid positivism end before women really made it into the history books? I've been wondering that a lot lately. Carla Bley (2012)photo Michael HoefnerA...
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Virgil and Lenny
their words about music defined an eraby John von Rhein Note: John von Rhein's essay originally appeared in The Chicago Tribune of 13 January 2015, full text HERE. Herewith an excerpt: They don't make...
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Nostalgia (dept. of Grammy Awards)
The editor ofReminiscemagazine, with Sunday's Grammy Awards in mind, rightly thought we would be interested in their collection of vintage radio and record ads that they have assembled for the...
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Public Musicology, cont'd.
by Amanda SewellMusicologists and music scholars from around the world convened at Westminster Choir College of Rider University for a conference called The Past, Present, and Future of Public...
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Trippett, Wagner, and the Leverhulme Trust
Musicologist David Trippett, winner of the American Musicological Society's 2014 Lewis Lockwood Prize for Wagner's Melodies: Aesthetics and Materialism in German Musical Identity (Cambridge University...
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Red-Carpet Rollout
Our associates at the Society for American Music and Cambridge University Press saw fit to promote the “Oscar-worthy” special issue of their journal with a pretty good deal. Read on.An Oscar-Worthy...
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