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The American Musicological Society is committed to the principle of the inclusion and access for all its members, and rejects as unethical discrimination against anyone on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, disability, age, sexual orientation, ideology, or field of scholarship.

Officers

Jane Bernstein, President
Anne Walters Robertson, President-elect
Honey Meconi, Vice President
Michael Beckerman, Vice President-elect (begins 7 November 2010)
James Ladewig, Treasurer
Pamela F. Starr, Secretary


Directors-at-Large

Term 2009-10
Joseph Auner
Marcia J. Citron
Martha Feldman

Term 2010-11
Anna Maria Busse Berger
Susan Cook
Lloyd Whitesell

 

Term 2011-12 (begins 7 November 2010)
Bonnie Blackburn
Wendy Heller
James Parakilas

Executive Director

Robert Judd

AMS Council

Mary Natvig, Secretary 2009-10

Members at-Large

Term 2008-10 Term 2009-11 Term 2010-12
Theodore Albrecht
Maureen Carr
Anna Harwell Celenza
Amanda Eubanks Winkler
Mary C. Francis
Christine Getz
Lynn Hooker
Tammy Kernodle
Roe-Min Kok
Rebecca Maloy
Beverly Stein
Jennifer Thomas
Mary H. Wagner
Steven M. Whiting
Laurel E. Zeiss
Sally Bick
Margaret Butler
Alessandra Campana
Paul Corneilson
Danielle Fosler-Lussier
Sylvia Kahan
Kevin Karnes
John Koegel
Kendra Preston Leonard
Dorothea Link
Judith Peraino
Nina Treadwell
Jessica Waldoff
Holly Watkins
Pamela Whitcomb
David Ake
Olivia Bloechl
Laura Buch
Maribeth Clark
David Ferris
Olga Haldey
Marjorie Hirsch
Lori Kruckenberg
Brian Locke
Stephen Meyer
Ryan Minor
David Rothenberg
Steven Swayne
Susan Thomas
Alexandra Wilson


Chapter Members

Term 2008-10

Term 2009-11

Term 2010-12

Allegheny
Vicki Stroeher

Midwest
Brian Hart

South-Central
Terry Klefstad

Southeast
Siegwart Reichwald

Southern
Valerie Goertzen

Capital
Ronit Seter

Greater New York
William E. Hettrick

Mid-Atlantic
vacant

NY State-St. Lawrence
David Rosen

New England
Richard Bunbury

Northern California
Nicholas Mathew

Pacific Northwest
Michelle Fillion

Pacific Southwest
Derek Katz

Rocky Mountain
Amy Holbrook

Southwest
Kimberlyn Montford



Student Members

Term 2009-10
Term 2010-11

Allegheny: Matthew Henderson
Capital: Frank Latino
Greater New York: Jonathan Waxman
Mid-Atlantic: vacant
Midwest: Michele Fuchs
New England: Reba Wissner
NY State-St. Lawrence: Graham Freeman
Northern California: Lydia Lynn Mayne
Pacific Northwest: Daniel Mahlberg
Pacific Southwest: Michael Joiner
Rocky Mountain: Trudi Wright
South-Central: Sarah Dietsche-Ford
Southeast: Daniel Guberman
Southern: Philip Klepacki
Southwest: Candice Aipperspach

Allegheny: vacant
Capital: Karen Uslin
Greater New York: Rachael Brungard
Mid-Atlantic: vacant
Midwest: vacant
New England: Heather deSavage
NY State-St. Lawrence: vacant
Northern California: Emily Frey
Pacific Northwest: Helena Kopchik
Pacific Southwest: Richard Brown
Rocky Mountain: Holly Focht
South-Central: Erica Rumbley
Southeast: Stephen Pysnik
Southern: John D. Spilker
Southwest: Randy Kinnett

Honorary Members

Honorary Membership is a status conferred upon members in accordance with the AMS By-laws, III.A.5: "Honorary members shall be long-standing members of the Society who have made outstanding contributions to furthering its stated object and whom the Society wishes to honor." The selection process

George Herzog (1901–1983) 1962   Barry S. Brook (1918–1997) 1997
Ernst C. Krohn (1888–1975) 1970   Jan LaRue (1918–2004) 1998
Charles Seeger (1886–1979) 1970   Leonard G. Ratner (1916– ) 1998
Willi Apel (1893–1988) 1971   Richard Crawford (1935– ) 1999
Karl Geiringer (1899–1989) 1971   Maynard Solomon (1930– ) 1999
Donald Jay Grout (1902–1987) 1971   Daniel Heartz (1928– ) 2000
Paul Henry Lang (1901–1991) 1971   Janet Knapp (1922– ) 2000
Dragan Plamenac (1895–1983) 1971   H. Colin Slim (1929– ) 2001
Gustave Reese (1899–1977) 1971   Robert Stevenson (1916– ) 2001
Oliver Strunk (1901–1980) 1971   Richard Crocker (1927– ) 2002
Edward Lowinsky (1908–1985) 1975   Kenneth Levy (1927– ) 2002
Arthur Mendel (1905–1979) 1975   Robert L. Marshall (1939– ) 2003
Armen Carapetyan (1908–1992) 1979   Howard Smither (1925– ) 2003
Otto E. Albrecht (1899–1984) 1980   Philip Gossett (1941–   ) 2004
Nino Pirrotta (1908–1998) 1980   Ellen Rosand (1940–   ) 2004
William S. Newman (1912–2000) 1981   Ruth A. Solie (1940–   ) 2005
Vincent Duckles (1913–1985) 1982   Glenn Watkins (1927–   ) 2005
Alvin H. Johnson (1914–2000) 1985   Reinhold Brinkman (1934– ) 2006
Leonard B. Meyer (1918–2007) 1987   Frank D'Accone (1931– ) 2006
John M. Ward (1917– ) 1988   Samuel Floyd (1937– ) 2006
Howard Mayer Brown (1930–1993) 1989   David G. Hughes (1926– ) 2006
Claude V. Palisca (1921–2001) 1991   Rebecca Baltzer (1940–) 2007
Eileen J. Southern (1920–2002) 1991   James Webster (1942– ) 2007
Charles Hamm (1925– ) 1993   Wye Jamison Allanbrook (1943–2010) 2008
Lewis Lockwood (1930– ) 1993   Jessie Ann Owens (1950– ) 2008
H. Wiley Hitchcock (1923–2007) 1994   Vivian Perlis (1928– ) 2008
James Haar (1929– ) 1995   Lawrence F. Bernstein (1939– ) 2009
Joseph Kerman (1924– ) 1995   Anthony Newcomb (1941– ) 2009
Bruno Nettl (1930– ) 1995   Rose Rosengard Subotnik (1942– ) 2009
William W. Austin (1920–2000) 1996      
Harold S. Powers (1928–2007) 1996      
Leo Treitler (1931– ) 1996      

Corresponding Members

Corresponding Membership is a status conferred upon scholars in accordance with the AMS By-laws, III.A.6: "Corresponding members shall be persons who, at the time of their election, are nationals of countries other than Canada or the United States of America and who have made particularly notable contributions to furthering the stated object of the Society and whom the Society wishes to honor." The selection process

Guido Adler (1855–1941) 1937   Alfred Dürr (1918– ) 1988
Arnold A. Bake (1899–1963) 1937   Winton Dean (1916– ) 1989
Giacomo Benvenuti (1885–1943) 1937   Pierluigi Petrobelli (1932– ) 1989
Charles van den Borren (1874–1966) 1937   Alan Tyson (1926–2000) 1991
Edward J. Dent (1876–1957) 1937   Andrew Porter (1928– ) 1993
Anselm Hughes (1889–1974) 1937   Ursula Günther (1927–2006) 1994
André Pirro (1869–1943) 1937   Stanley Sadie (1930–2005) 1994
Percy A. Scholes (1877–1958) 1937   Margaret Bent (1940– ) 1995
H. J. W. Tillyard (1881–1968) 1937   Lorenzo Bianconi (1946– ) 1995
Luiz Heitor Corrêa de Azevedo (1905–1992)
1942   Reinhard Strohm (1942– ) 1995
Kurt Francisco Lange (1903–1997) 1943   Michel Huglo (1921– ) 1997
Egon Wellesz (1885–1974) 1947   David Fallows (1945– ) 1999
Friedrich Blume (1893–1975) 1952   Paolo Fabbri (1948– ) 2000
Suzanne Clercx-Lejeune (1910–1985) 1952   Julian Rushton (1941– ) 2000
Guido M. Gatti (1892–1973) 1952   Wulf Arlt (1938– ) 2001
Geoffrey Sharp (1914–1974) 1952   Giulio Cattin (1929– ) 2001
Knud Jeppesen (1892–1974) 1970   John Deathridge (1944– ) 2002
Geneviève Thibault (1902–1975) 1970   David Hiley (1947– ) 2002
François Lesure (1923–2001) 1979   Silke Leopold (1948– ) 2003
Gerald Abraham (1904–1988) 1980   Margaret Kartomi (1940– ) 2004
Kurt von Fischer (1913–2004) 1980   Bonnie Blackburn (1939– ) 2006
Frank Harrison (1905–1987) 1981   Hermann Danuser (1946– ) 2006
Jens Peter Larsen (1902–1988) 1981   Don Harrán (1936– ) 2006
René Lenaerts (1902–1992) 1981   Bathia Churgin (1928– ) 2007
Dénes R. Bartha (1908–1993) 1982   Friedhelm Krummacher (1936– ) 2007
Ludwig Finscher (1930– ) 1982   Catherine Massip (1946– ) 2008
Claudio Sartori (1913–1994) 1983   Richard Middleton (1945– ) 2008
Carl Dahlhaus (1928–1989) 1984   Jean-Jacques Eigeldinger (1940– ) 2009
László Somfai (1934– ) 1986   Eva Rieger (1940– ) 2009

Past Presidents

Otto Kinkeldey 1935-36   Charles Hamm 1973-74
Carl Engel 1937-38   Janet Knapp 1975-76
Carleton Sprague Smith 1939-40   James Haar 1977-78
Otto Kinkeldey 1941-42   Howard Mayer Brown 1979-80
Glen Haydon 1943-44   Howard E. Smither 1981-82
Charles Seeger 1945-46   Richard Crawford 1983-84
George S. Dickinson 1947-48   Margaret Bent 1985-86
Curt Sachs 1949-50   Lewis Lockwood 1987-88
Gustave Reese 1951-52   H. Colin Slim 1989-90
Donald Jay Grout 1953-54   H. Wiley Hitchcock 1991-92
Karl Geiringer 1955-56   Ellen Rosand 1993-94
J. Murray Barbour 1957-58   Philip Gossett 1995-96
Oliver Strunk 1959-60   James Webster 1997-98
Donald Jay Grout 1961-62   Ruth A. Solie 1999-2000
Nathan Broder 1963-64   Jessie Ann Owens 2001-02
William Mitchell 1965-66   Wye J. Allanbrook 2003
Jan LaRue 1967-68   J. Peter Burkholder 2003-04
William S. Newman 1969-70   Elaine Sisman 2005-06
Claude V. Palisca 1971-72   Charles M. Atkinson 2007-08

Journal of the American Musicological Society

JAMS Home Page at the University of California Press

Guidelines for those wishing to submit articles or books for review

Kate van Orden, Editor-in-Chief

Carlo Caballero, Review Editor

Louise Goldberg, Assistant Editor

Leon Chisholm, Elaine Hild,
Editorial Assistants

Editorial Board

Linda Phyllis Austern
Thomas Bauman
M. Jennifer Bloxam
Stefano Castelvecchi
Lawrence Earp
Ellen Harris
Robert Holzer
Steven Huebner
Brian Hyer
Travis A. Jackson
Klára Móricz
Mitchell Morris
Simon Morrison
Sanna Pederson
Martin Scherzinger
Judy Tsou

AMS Staff and Delegates

AMS Archives, Marjorie Hassen, Archivist
AMS-L Moderating Team: Melissa Goldsmith, Kendra Preston Leonard, James Zychowicz
AMS Studies in Music, Christopher Reynolds, Editor

AMS Delegate to ACLS, Ruth Solie
AMS Representative to the U.S. RILM Board, John Wagstaff
AMS Representative to the National Recording Preservation Board, José Bowen, Mark Katz
AMS Representative to the National Association of Schools of Music, Douglass Seaton
Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology, Peter Slemon, Interim-Director
Grove Music Online Advisory Panel, J. Peter Burkholder