AMS: Musicology in the News

Newly published: Assessment of scholarly communication, with case study in music

Thu, 4 Feb 2010 17:08:43 -0500

"Since 2005, the Center for Studies in Higher Education (CSHE), with generous funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, has been conducting research to understand the needs and practices of faculty for in-progress scholarly communication (i.e., forms of communication employed as research is being executed) as well as archival publication. The complete results of our work can be found at the Future of Scholarly Communication’s project website. This report brings together the responses of 160 interviewees across 45, mostly elite, research institutions to closely examine scholarly needs and values in seven selected academic fields: archaeology, astrophysics, biology, economics, history, music, and political science."

University of Michigan to sponsor Motown-at-50 symposium

Thu, 4 Feb 2010 17:07:27 -0500

“Michigan Celebrates Motown: The Symposium” is to be presented Feb. 18-19 by the university’s music school, African-American studies center and other departments. (Story from the Detroit Free Press)

AMS Program and Performance Committees begin work

Sat, 16 Jan 2010 08:03:31 -0500

Over six hundred proposals for papers or performances were received at the AMS office prior to the 15 January deadline. The committees now begin their evaluation work.

Boris von Haken on Eggebrecht (in English)

Wed, 13 Jan 2010 10:08:44 -0500

"Musicology and mass execution: During World War II, the famous German musicologist Hans Heinrich Eggebrecht belonged to the Feldgendarmerie division 683, which committed horrific murders on the Crimean peninsular. By Boris von Haken." [translation of the article that first appeared in Die Zeit, 20 December 2009]

Soon to be published: JAMS 62/3

Fri, 8 Jan 2010 13:01:21 -0500

JAMS 62/3, Fall 2009, will be published soon. Included in this issue:

Articles:

Joshua Rifkin, "The Creation of the Medici Codex"
Daniel Chua, "Beethoven's Other Humanism"
Kevin C. Karnes, "Wagner, Klimt, and the Metaphysics of Creativity in fin-de-siecle Vienna"

Reviews:

Richard Taruskin, The Oxford History of Western Music, reviewed by Mark Everist
Martha Feldman, Opera and Sovereignty, reviewed by Mary Hunter
John Worthen, Robert Schumann, reviewed by Yael Braunschweig
Jeffrey S. Sposato, The Price of Assimilation, reviewed by Daniel Beller-McKenna
Laurent Aubert, The Music of the Other, reviewed by Timothy Rice
Jean-Luc Nancy, Listening, reviewed by Roger Grant

Online access will be available at http://caliber.ucpress.net/loi/jams. AMS members may access JAMS online via the members-only login: http://www.ams-net.org/login.php

NYT: At Colleges, Humanities Job Outlook Gets Bleaker

Fri, 18 Dec 2009 13:30:43 -0500

Graduate students in languages and literature may face a sharp decline in faculty positions as the recession forces cutbacks in university hiring.

By TAMAR LEWIN, December 18, 2009

British Library digitizes Byrd and Handel manuscripts

Fri, 18 Dec 2009 13:29:19 -0500

'My Ladye Nevells Booke', the 16th-century manuscript of William Byrd’s keyboard music, has been digitized by the British Library together with excerpts from Handel’s draft score of Messiah.

NYT: Report from the recent theory symposium on black-metal music

Wed, 16 Dec 2009 16:01:03 -0500

"Thank You, Professor, That Was Putrid", By BEN RATLIFF, Published: December 15, 2009

“Hideous Gnosis,” a six-hour theory symposium on black-metal music, commenced on Saturday at Public Assembly.

Univ. of Mary Washington performs rarely-heard Haydn

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 10:15:50 -0500

AMS member Stephen Fisher's 1976 discovery recently performed at UMW.

AMS Announces New Accessibility Policy

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 13:15:56 -0500

Recognizing the contributions that scholars with disabilities have made and continue to make to the field of musicology, and in keeping with its commitment to the principles of inclusiveness and equal access, the American Musicological Society has adopted these guidelines.

AMS Lands Grant from Mellon Foundation

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 13:15:10 -0500

At its seventy-fifth anniversary business meeting in Philadelphia 14 November 2009, the American Musicological Society (AMS) announced receipt of a $200,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to assist in the publication of first books in musicology by scholars in the early stages of their career.

AHJ AMS 50 Fellowship: Deadline 15 December

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 22:50:51 -0500

AHJ AMS 50 Fellowships are awarded solely on the basis of academic merit. Winners receive a twelve-month stipend, currently set at $19,000.

Howard Mayer Brown Fellowships: deadline 15 December

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 11:23:25 -0500

Applications are now accepted for this AMS fellowship. Please note the deadline, earlier than in previous years.

H. C. Robbins Landon, 1926-2009

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 07:37:54 -0500

Haydn scholar H. C. Robbins Landon died 20 November 2009 in Rabastens France.

NYT: Mozart Operas in Facsimile

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 06:26:34 -0500

Arts / Music

The Magic Pen: Mozart Operas Up Close

By MATTHEW GUREWITSCH

Published: November 22, 2009

With the publication of “The Magic Flute,” a series of bibliophile facsimiles of the seven most important Mozart operas is complete.

AMS Awards Presented in Philadelphia

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:44:54 -0500

Follow the link for the full details on all honors and awards presented at the AMS meeting in Philadelphia, 14 Nov 2009.

Jean-Jacques Nattiez Receives SSRC Top Honor

Fri, 6 Nov 2009 06:13:30 -0800

"The 2009 SSHRC Gold Medal for Achievement in Research, which awards $100,000 to an individual whose leadership, dedication and originality of thought have significantly advanced understanding in his or her field of research, was given to Jean-Jacques Nattiez of the Faculty of Music at the Université de Montréal."

Scores of Beverly Sills at the Music Division of NYPL

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 10:39:45 -0400

Beverly Sills's scores have come to the Music Division of the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. There are about 45 of them. They're not ready for access yet. Once cataloged and put in preservation enclosures they will be available for all to see.

NYT: Pandora's Song Decoders

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 13:37:22 -0400

"By breaking music down into its component parts, Pandora Internet radio tries to figure out what kind of music you — not your social group, heroes or aspirational self — really like."

From the Harvard Gazette: Computational Geometry Unlocks a Musica Phylogeny

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 10:46:08 -0400

"Does Bo Diddley rule the world?

"Though he died last year, the iconic singer and guitarist of American blues and rock still rules the rhythms of the world, says computer scientist Godfried Toussaint. Toussaint uses complex algorithms to ferret where the rhythms of world music came from — in the same way an evolutionary biologist might hunt for the origins of, say, an arthropod body part.

"Diddley’s instrument of power is the clave son, a pattern of beats so compelling, said Toussaint, that in the past 50 or 60 years it 'has captured the entire planet.'..."

Now online: Brook, Catalog of the French Symphony in the Second Half of the 18th Century

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 09:16:17 -0400

The Versailles Center for Baroque Music has updated their database to include Barry S. Brook's Catalogue de la symphonie française dans la seconde moitié du XVIIIe siècle, which includes 1,202 works and 166 collections.

Glarean's Dodecachordon Available Online at University of Kentucky

Mon, 12 Oct 2009 11:58:33 -0400

The University of Kentucky is pleased to announce that digital images of every page of its copy of Glarean's Dodecachordon, heavily annotated by the author, are now available at http://name.kdl.kyvl.org/dodbk . (Please note that the images are available in two formats: high resolution pdfs, each about 18 megabytes, and reduced resolution pdfs, each about 1 megabyte).

This volume forms part of the Cortot collection of treatises (for an inventory of the portion of this collection, more than 300 volumes, that resides at the University of Kentucky, see the link on this page: http://www.uky.edu/FineArts/Music/musicology/resources/library.php ).

If you have any questions or comments, please do not hesitate to contact me. Jonathan Glixon
jonathan.glixon at uky.edu

AMS Studies Editor Christopher Reynolds wins 2009 Kurt Weill Prize

Thu, 8 Oct 2009 06:34:01 -0400

A $2,000 Kurt Weill Prize for outstanding article has been awarded to Christopher Reynolds, Professor of Musicology, University of California, Davis, for his article, "Porgy and Bess: 'An American Wozzeck'" (Journal of the Society for American Music, Volume 1, Number 1, 2007).

AMS vacancy: Executive Editor, Music of the United States of America

Tue, 6 Oct 2009 10:35:17 -0400

The American Musicological Society seeks an Executive Editor for MUSA, a national series of scholarly editions funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the University of Michigan, as well as the AMS.

AMS Philadelphia 2009: Program and Abstracts now at web site

Fri, 25 Sep 2009 11:25:21 -0400

PDF versions of the final program and abstracts are now available.

New research by Boris von Haken reveals grim details about Hans Heinrich Eggebrecht's Nazi service

Wed, 23 Sep 2009 09:20:20 -0400

In his lecture “Holocaust und Musikwissenschaft: Zur Biographie von Hans Heinrich Eggebrecht” held on 17 September 2009 at the annual meeting of the Gesellschaft für Musikforschung held in Tübingen, Boris von Haken showed that Eggebrecht belonged to a commando unit directly responsible for the murder of many thousands of Jews at Simferopol in the Crimea in December 1941 during World War II. Rudolf Pallmann, who served as commander of the 3rd company of the Feldgendarmerieabteilung 683, was sentenced to seven times life imprisonment in 1969. After the war, Eggebrecht lied about the nature of his military service, and went on to a prominent career as Professor of Musicology at the University of Freiburg and main editor of the journal Archiv für Musikwissenschaft.

Haken’s research will appear as a book, Holocaust und Musikwissenschaft: Biographische Untersuchungen zu Hans Heinrich Eggebrecht (München: Allitera Verlag) in 2010.

[The link provided leads to the schedule of events for the conference; further information about the paper will be reported as it ermerges.--ed.]

Early Music Scholars Competition, courtesy of Chalice Consort

Fri, 18 Sep 2009 08:55:05 -0400

The Early Music Scholars Competition (EMSC) is a competition presented by Chalice Consort to foster the discovery of early music choral scores.

Follow the link for full details.

New issue of Current Musicology Now Available

Wed, 16 Sep 2009 10:03:28 -0400

Current Musicology 87 (Spring 2009)

Articles on opera and film by Melina Esse, Benjamin Binder, Lydia Goehr, and Theo Cateforis...

Conf. on Minimalist Music: Report from the field

Sat, 12 Sep 2009 07:53:36 -0400

Report by Galen Brown on the Second International Conference on Minimalist Music, held 2-6 September in Kansas City.

OUP appoints Deane Root Editor in Chief of Grove Music Online

Thu, 10 Sep 2009 21:07:28 -0400

"Dr. Root, Professor of Music and Director of the Center for American Music at the University of Pittsburgh, is an ideal fit for the position and brings with him a wealth of experience as a professor, scholar, and librarian...."

Taruskin OHWM reviewed in The Economist

Thu, 10 Sep 2009 09:11:29 -0400

"...A refreshingly open-ended view of contemporary music-making that puts many of his predecessors, Burney among them, to shame."

New blog: The Taruskin Challenge

Thu, 10 Sep 2009 09:00:11 -0400

"Two grad students blog their way through the most monumental musicological work in generations."

Online musicology courses now available at Boston University

Tue, 8 Sep 2009 10:50:58 -0400

"Doctor of Musical Arts in Music Education -- The Boston University School of Music has launched a distance education program that introduces a time-honored music education curriculum combined with musicology and music history to music educators around the world."

Podcast: Eastman musicologist Roger Freitas on his new book

Tue, 1 Sep 2009 09:25:36 -0400

AMS member Roger Freitas discusses his new book, Portrait of a Castrato: Politics, Patronage, and Music in the Life of Atto Melani (Cambridge University Press, 2009) on WXXI, the public radio station in Rochester, New York. Nine-minute version Twenty-minute version

Digital collection: Duke Univ., The Classical String Quartet

Fri, 28 Aug 2009 11:56:45 -0400

The Classical String Quartet, 1770-1840, presents images of parts for about 40 collections of quartets, including considerable material never available in modern edition or in facsimile. The sets are conveniently presented as pdfs of about 11 to 80 MBs in size. (Thanks to Tom Moore for this news)

Minsk to host Modern Musicology in the World of Science Symposium

Fri, 28 Aug 2009 11:03:39 -0400

MINSK, 27 August (BelTA) – An international symposium, "Modern Musicology in the World of Science," will take place in Minsk 29 August-4 September.

AMS web site: new design now live

Thu, 27 Aug 2009 18:23:59 -0400

The AMS web site new design was launched today.

David Drew, d. 25 July 2009

Mon, 17 Aug 2009 08:32:39 -0400

"Mr. Drew was a music critic and musicologist who rescued the work of Kurt Weill from neglect and promoted him to his present position as an important 20th-century composer."

Kofi Agawu receives Frank Llewellyn Harrison Prize

Mon, 17 Aug 2009 06:40:57 -0400

The Society for Musicology in Ireland's Harrison Medal “recognizes musical scholarship of international distinction; it honours the highest musicological endeavour and salutes the leadership the candidate has exerted on the international musicological community.” AMS member Kofi Agawu teaches at Princeton University.

Kerry McCarthy on the Byrd Festival

Mon, 17 Aug 2009 06:37:29 -0400

Portland, Ore.'s, William Byrd Festival is in full swing-- this story features AMS member Kerry McCarthy.

Google Books and Creative Commons agree

Fri, 14 Aug 2009 08:11:27 -0400

[This agreement is good news for supporters of open access to scholarship.]

"Rightsholders who want to distribute their CC-licensed books more widely can choose to allow readers around the world to download, use, and share their work via Google Books.

"Creative Commons licenses make it easier for authors and publishers to tell readers whether and how they can use copyrighted books. You can grant your readers the right to share the work or to modify and remix it. You can decide whether commercial use is okay. There's even an option to dedicate your book to the public domain."

Hildegard of Bingen online: Wiesbaden Codex

Fri, 14 Aug 2009 07:08:08 -0400

The Wiesbaden Codex (also “Riesencodex“: giant codex, or “chain codex”), is the central legacy of Hildegard of Bingen. 481 fols.

"Riccardo" Wagner, the Mascot of Venice

Fri, 7 Aug 2009 08:33:08 -0400

Review by R. J. Stove of John W. Barker's Wagner and Venice (Univ. of Rochester Press, 2008; ISBN 978-1580462884) in the most recent Catholic Herald: "In evaluating Wagner's Venetian years, Barker has hit upon an area that even now remains under-explored, no doubt because Italian musicology in general is something of an academic Cinderella. The relevant sources have lain in Italian libraries for more than a century; but Barker is often the first writer, and almost always the first writer in English, to draw on them. As a consequence, myths which chronicler after chronicler have blithely and lazily repeated crumble to dust at Barker's archival touch."

More tributes to Michael Steinberg

Wed, 29 Jul 2009 09:09:37 -0400

Click above for the tribute at NPR (includes one of Michael's recordings: "Steinberg's Appreciation of the Symphony").

Click here for the obit at the New York Times by Anthony Tommasini.

American Classics on sale at Naxos

Wed, 29 Jul 2009 08:59:28 -0400

Naxos is currently discounting their entire American Classics series: over 300 albums of 20th and 21st century works by American composers. With the discount most download albums are $5.24. Over 150 classical labels are in the store, including Naive, Ondine, Naxos, DaCapo, Capriccio, Nimbus, and Delos.

Michael Steinberg, 1928-2009

Tue, 28 Jul 2009 08:47:19 -0400

AMS member Michael Steinberg died Sunday 26 July 2009. He was 80. The SF Chronicle obit (linked above) is by Joshua Kosman.

Michael Long on the cinema of Michael Jackson

Tue, 28 Jul 2009 06:31:01 -0400

"Beautiful Monster: The Cinema of Michael Jackson"-- at the U. Cal Press blog.

Aug. 2009 AMS Newsletter now available

Thu, 23 Jul 2009 15:33:20 -0400

See the new Newsletter for lots of information on AMS Philadelphia 2009, including the preliminary program; and also for AMS Indianapolis 2010 calls for papers and performances.

Jose Bowen on teaching without machines, in this week's Chronicle

Mon, 20 Jul 2009 11:21:05 -0400

AMS member José A. Bowen, dean at Southern Methodist University, got a write-up in this week's Chronicle regarding his proposal to teach without machines:

"More than anything else, Mr. Bowen wants to discourage professors from using PowerPoint, because they often lean on the slide-display program as a crutch rather than using it as a creative tool. Class time should be reserved for discussion, he contends, especially now that students can download lectures online and find libraries of information on the Web. When students reflect on their college years later in life, they're going to remember challenging debates and talks with their professors. Lively interactions are what teaching is all about, he says, but those give-and-takes are discouraged by preset collections of slides."

Podcast: Eastman Musicologist Ralph P. Locke about the Problems and Delights of Musical Exoticism

Mon, 20 Jul 2009 08:48:52 -0400

Ralph P. Locke was interviewed by the Rochester public-radio station WXXI-FM. Discussion centered on his new book Musical Exoticism: Images and Reflections (Cambridge University Press). Seven-minute edited version Full 25-minute version

International Summer School in Systematic, Comparative and Cognitive Musicology

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 11:50:14 -0400

"The International Summer School in Systematic, Comparative and Cognitive Musicology (ISSSCCM) will take place in Jyväskylä, starting on the 5th of August. The theme of the summer school is Music in Context - Cognition, Embodiment & Culture..."

Report from the E-Science for Musicology Conference

Tue, 7 Jul 2009 06:37:33 -0400

The Edinborough conference E-Science for musicology ended last week, and Arts-Humanities.net has posted a summary of presentations by Richard Lewis (organizer), David Bretherton, Frans Wiering, and Ichiro Fujinaga.

NEA survey: attendance at art & culture events by college grads is down across the board

Thu, 18 Jun 2009 06:29:46 -0400

Story from Inside Higher Ed., pointing to the NEA survey released 15 June 2009: "Americans who are college educated remain more likely than other Americans to participate in the arts, according to a survey released Monday by the National Endowment for the Arts. But the survey -- conducted periodically by the agency -- finds significant declines in the percentages of college-educated Americans who reported that they had attended arts related events. Compared to the NEA's 1982 survey, the steepest decline was in ballet, which that year was seen by 11.0 percent of college-educated adults, but in 2008 was seen by only 6.3 percent. Declines were seen in every type of art considered: jazz (from 19.4 percent to 14.9 percent); classical music (33.1 percent to 20.1 percent); opera (8.0 percent to 5.2 percent); musicals (40.5 percent to 32.7 percent); non-musical plays (30.2 percent to 19.8 percent); and art museums (49.2 percent to 44.5 percent)."

Now available: Joan Retallack's lecture "John Cage's Anarchic Harmony"

Sat, 13 Jun 2009 08:10:41 -0400

Lecture given at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, 22 April 2009 (MP3, 55 minutes). See http://www.writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Retallack.html for more info (scroll to the bottom).

UC Berkeley establishes Philip Brett Fund for LGBT studies

Sat, 13 Jun 2009 08:08:08 -0400

"Berkeley has just launched the Philip Brett LGBT Fund, the campus's first fellowship endowment designed to support LGBT-related research by graduate students studying in any field..."

International Library of African Music at Rhodes University goes digital

Fri, 12 Jun 2009 09:52:12 -0400

"AN AMBITIOUS Eastern Cape project to digitise indigenous African music dating back to the 1930s is helping to introduce rare traditional tunes to a new generation..."

Culture.Hu: Musicology Institute Opens Haydn Exhibition

Tue, 9 Jun 2009 08:01:26 -0400

"The Hungarian Academy of Sciences' Institute of Musicology on Tuesday 9 June 2009 opened an exhibition called Joseph Haydn and Hungary in the newly renovated spaces of its Music History Museum to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the death of the composer who spent some of his best years as a musician in the court of the noble Hungarian Esterházy family..."

Steven Plank wins Binkley Award

Sat, 6 Jun 2009 07:48:00 -0400

AMS member Steven Plank receives Early Music Association award "in honor of his outstanding achievements in performance and scholarship as director of the Collegium Musicum at Oberlin College."

Roger Scruton on musicology, the humanities, and the loss of critical judgment in higher education

Sat, 6 Jun 2009 07:19:03 -0400

"Criticism of [adolescents'] music by anybody who is outside the gang is offensive—an existential affront, which threatens their core experience of social membership. This attitude makes judgment all but impossible, and it is one reason why departments of musicology are now “into” pop music and Heavy Metal, and refrain from creating the impression among their students that they regard the Western canon as anything more than a piece of musical history..."

Jan Swafford at Slate: Why you should listen to Charles Ives

Thu, 4 Jun 2009 23:06:57 -0400

"The Symphony No. 4 is a work of universal religion, made from the concrete stuff of everyday American music and life but leaving our gaze turned upward..."

Obama nominates James Leach as Chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities

Wed, 3 Jun 2009 15:39:00 -0400

"President Obama today said he would nominate former Republican congressman Jim Leach, who represented Iowa for 30 years, as the new chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

"During his terms in the House of Representatives Leach founded and served as the co-chair of the Congressional Humanities Caucus..."

"33 Variations" Review in Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Fri, 29 May 2009 10:31:47 -0400

Gwen Orel: "In '33 Variations,' which just closed last weekend, Jane Fonda gave a solid performance and looked very glamorous for a fatally ill musicologist. If only her role were more interesting..."

Seven Centuries in Twenty-nine Seconds

Fri, 29 May 2009 09:27:24 -0400

Staff at NPR's "All Things Considered" recently invited Quire Cleveland’s president, Ross Duffin, to compose some trixies in an early-music style. Duffin composed six of them, ranging in style from 13th-century organum to Carl Orff’s well-known 1936 composition “Carmina Burana.” And he recruited the members of Quire Cleveland, as well as faculty of Case Western Reserve University’s Early Music Program, to record them. Here’s what he came up with...

Kyle Gann on how to write program notes

Wed, 27 May 2009 11:46:36 -0400

"A student, preparing for her senior recital, asked me how to write program notes, and I knew just what to tell her. I'll pass on my recipe..."

Bruce Phillips on Nigel Fortune and Vernon Handley

Tue, 26 May 2009 09:04:17 -0400

AMS member Bruce Phillips writes about the confluence of memorial services for Nigel Fortune and Vernon Handley on May 1st. (Includes links to obituaries.)

Africa: Jazz (allafrica.com story)

Fri, 22 May 2009 10:21:31 -0400

Gwen Ansell writes, "When an African nation reflects America in its music, there's often puzzlement or anger that "authenticity" has been squeezed out by an alien modernism, and in the scholarly establishment here, the assertion of nationalism is usually assumed to entail the rejection of these "foreign" sounds.

"Recent studies in musicology have suggested a different analysis. As US scholar Ingrid Monson and others have noted, what's going on may not be copying in any crude sense, but the very African technique of signification..."

Ralph Locke on "Wagner's Durable Ring Cycle"

Fri, 22 May 2009 10:17:19 -0400

In From beyond the Stave (the music-book blog of publishing house Boydell and Brewer), AMS member Ralph Locke discusses the ongoing significance of the Ring Cycle. This article was occasioned by the new Los Angeles Opera's multi-year Ring project and upcoming festival.

Developments in forensic musicology

Tue, 19 May 2009 08:10:14 -0400

This story describes how general listener observations re similarities in music tunes is affecting the legal scene re copyright infringement of pop songs.

Alex Ross on Yale Baroque Opera Project: Cavalli, Giasone

Mon, 18 May 2009 20:26:13 -0400

AMS members Ellen Rosand (director of YBOP) and Wendy Heller are quoted in this New Yorker article. See Alex Ross's blog for links to Youtube recordings.

Britten Thematic Catalogue

Wed, 13 May 2009 09:48:58 -0400

Online-only thematic catalogue currently in progress. (Thanks to Bob Kosofsky for his Twitter alert!)

AMS Election Results

Wed, 13 May 2009 08:21:51 -0400

Elected: Anne Walters Robertson, President; Pamela F. Starr, Secretary; Anna Maria Busse Berger, Susan Cook, and Lloyd Whitesell, Directors-at-Large.

Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music presents Wagner & Cinema Festival June 2009

Tue, 12 May 2009 11:43:24 -0400

"The festival features a series of free lectures, performances and presentations that explore the relationship between film and the titanic masterworks of German composer Richard Wagner. CCM faculty will be joined by guest experts from academia, filmmaking, the national media and the professional performing arts."

Elizabeth Bergman on the New York Mahler cycle

Tue, 12 May 2009 11:41:39 -0400

All the Mahler symphonies, now through May 17. AMS member Elizabeth Bergman wrote this piece on the Mahlers in New York for Playbill.

Katherine Bergeron, "The Dean of Song"

Fri, 8 May 2009 18:38:36 -0400

Katherine Bergeron, AMS member and Dean at Brown University, together with her husband and class, created a two-disk original album as a means to help students think critically. After the above link expires (5 June) the restricted-access but long-term link is http://chronicle.com/weekly/v55/i35/35a00602.htm.

Music and Torture in this week's Chronicle Review

Tue, 5 May 2009 11:22:25 -0400

Lara Pelligrinelli: "Discord: The Politics of Music in the War on Terrorism" [with quotations from a number of AMS members]:

http://chronicle.com/temp/reprint.php?id=s5p7nx5t8rhq3mq8yh20plrj8kjdt88m

Ilias Chrissochoidis: "Composed in Hyprocrisy: Music, Torture, and the Drama of American Musicology" [author is an AMS member]:

http://chronicle.com/temp/reprint.php?id=38ph4r4hflprlg0vpg5gbz7g8h0ptsvy

[both above links give free access till 1 June. After that, see www.chronicle.com/review]

National Humanities Center names two musicologists as fellows 2009-10

Sat, 2 May 2009 08:26:17 -0400

From the NHC announcement:

Katherine K. Preston (Musicology, College of William and Mary), Against the Grain: Women Managers and English Opera in Late Nineteenth-Century America (William J. Bouwsma Fellowship)

Richard James Will (Musicology, University of Virginia), Mozart Live: Performance, Media, and Reinvention in Classical Music (ACLS Burkhardt Fellowship)

Sana Pederson's new review at H-Net of Susan Youens, "Heinrich Henie and the Lied"

Tue, 28 Apr 2009 09:46:21 -0400

Online-only review of of Youens's 2007 book, ISBN 978-0-521-82374-6.

AMS 2009 Directory currently in the mail

Mon, 27 Apr 2009 10:24:12 -0400

The AMS Directory is now in the hands of the USPS and should reach members soon.

JAMS 62/1 now available

Mon, 27 Apr 2009 10:22:35 -0400

Link to the online version. The print version is being processed at the mailers now.

Jeffrey Magee's Library of Congress Lecture now available as webcast

Mon, 27 Apr 2009 10:17:59 -0400

Topic: "Now It Can Be Told: The Unknown Irving Berlin". Includes musical excerpts that were performed live at the lecture.

AMS at Amazon.com

Thu, 9 Apr 2009 11:15:12 -0400

The AMS has set up an Amazon store -- see award winners and subvention recipients here.

AMS members receive Society for American Music Lowens Memorial Book Award

Thu, 9 Apr 2009 11:09:19 -0400

Denise Von Glahn and Michael Broyles of The Florida State University College of Music received the SAM "best book" prize for "Leo Ornstein: Modernist Dilemmas, Personal Choices" (Indiana University Press, 2007),

AMS members receive Guggenheim Fellowships

Thu, 9 Apr 2009 11:03:52 -0400

Thomas Brothers (Duke University), Ingrid Monson (Harvard University), and Alexander Rehding (Harvard University) were among Guggenheim Fellowship recipients announced today.

"33 Variations" in The New Yorker

Wed, 1 Apr 2009 13:56:53 -0400

William Kinderman and Katherine Syers were interviewed for this New Yorker "Talk of the Town" piece on "33 Variations."

More reviews of "33 Variations"

Wed, 11 Mar 2009 08:44:40 -0400

Reviews appeared today in the Hartford Courant and the Los Angeles Times.

Moises Kaufman's play "33 Variations" Opens on Broadway

Tue, 10 Mar 2009 09:13:05 -0400

The main character of the play, portayed by Jane Fonda, is a musicologist working on Beethoven'ts Diabelli Variations. See the Feb. 2009 AMS Newsletter, p. 19 for more background. See the NYTimes web site for a video interview with Moises Kaufman and Jane Fonda. See also the review at ArtsJournal. See also the article "Musicology on the Broadway Stage" at Live on Music by Anthony Tommasini.

Leonard Bernstein's Workroom acquired by Indiana University

Mon, 9 Mar 2009 09:20:44 -0400

"Leonard Bernstein’s children have donated the carefully preserved contents of his main composing studio to Indiana University, which has promised to recreate the space..."

Florida State University: online world music course and NCAA scandal

Fri, 6 Mar 2009 15:58:17 -0500

Exams for the online course "Music Cultures of the World–Music of Tribal and Folk Culture" were improperly taken by over sixty students involved in ten NCAA sports at FSU in 2006 and 2007. The NCAA has ordered forfeits and suspension as a result.

Iakovos Nafpliotis recordings of Byzantine music now available

Fri, 6 Mar 2009 06:47:23 -0500

ISTANBUL - The legendary name in Byzantine religious music, Iakovos Nafpliotis’ 60 priceless gramophone records, released by Orfeon-Oden music company in 1914, have been found and collected by Kalan Music for the first time 90 years later.

First Audio Music Library guarantees eternity of San’ani music

Fri, 6 Mar 2009 06:45:12 -0500

"Mohammed Barakat, a musicology professor at [Yemen's] Sana’a University, found it difficult to collect accurate data for his musicological research concerning Sana’ani songs. He was unable to find enough documents to support his research and discovered that many references had been lost. However, this problem would have come to an end as soon as he knew that the Musical Audio Library was launched at the Cultural Center in Sana’a last Monday..."

Southern Miss to offer free music appreciation class

Wed, 4 Mar 2009 09:48:29 -0500

The University of Southern Mississippi School of Music offers a free weekly music appreciation class to the general public beginning Wednesday.

The course is designed for beginners, seasoned concert-goers, and everyone in between who desires to listen more critically. Directing the course is Southern Miss professor of musicology [and AMS member] Edward Hafer. Graduate students in the field of musicology will assist in teaching course subjects.

Ralph P. Locke on Los Angeles Opera's Ring Cycle

Mon, 23 Feb 2009 11:18:47 -0500

AMS member Ralph P. Locke addresses the impact of Wagner's theories and operatic output on subsequent composers, including those who wrote film scores.

Florence Price, Symphonies 1 & 3, Now Available

Wed, 18 Feb 2009 06:39:55 -0500

This volume, edited by Rae Linda Brown, is the latest in the AMS series Music of the United States of America. AMS members may purchase the volume at at 25% discount through A-R Editions.

Elaine Sisman on Blanning, "The Triumph of Music"

Mon, 2 Feb 2009 20:01:56 -0500

"Tim Blanning is a distinguished British historian who has been writing about the principal transformations in 18th-century European politics and culture for nearly 35 years. This book gathers the strands of his previous observations about the changing role of the arts in European society of that era, scattered over several books and especially significant in his 2002 The Culture of Power and the Power of Culture. He then amplifies them, bringing the historical narrative up to the present, to argue that music has 'triumphed' above all the arts...."

SoundSCAPE, 14-26 July 2009

Wed, 28 Jan 2009 11:02:34 -0500

AMS member Judith Lochhead is resident musicologist at this year's soundSCAPE (new music festival) in Pavia.

Newly found Mozart score to get French performance

Mon, 26 Jan 2009 08:47:31 -0500

"A newly found score by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is to get its first public performance next Thursday in western France, where it lay undiscovered in a library archive for over a century...."

The Top One Hundred Musicology Blogs

Fri, 23 Jan 2009 16:37:36 -0500

"The list is broken down into the categories of Musicology, Academics & Education, Technology, Music History, Music Present & Future, Music Industry, Musicians, Classical, Opera & Orchestra, Culture, and Musical Analysis..."

Alec Baldwin Joins NY Phil

Mon, 19 Jan 2009 08:53:37 -0500

"The Golden Globe winner was signed up this week as the presenter of the New York Philharmonic's weekly broadcasts, injecting a welcome dose of A-list glamour to the NY Phil's venerable concert series..."

Music Searches of US RISM Data via Themefinder Now Available

Thu, 15 Jan 2009 10:11:45 -0500

The Center for Computer Assisted Research in the Humanities at Stanford University has added all data belonging to the US RISM Project at Harvard University to Themefinder, its online music incipit search application.

Questions about the newly-available data may be directed to Sarah Adams (sjadams at fas.harvard.edu) or Eleanor Selfridge-Field (esfield at stanford.edu).

New York Times: Listening to Schroeder: ‘Peanuts’ Scholars Find Messages in Cartoon’s Scores

Wed, 14 Jan 2009 22:24:45 -0500

by April Dembosky: "Musicologists and art curators have learned that there was much more than a punch line to Charles Schulz's invocation of Beethoven’s music. 'If you don’t read music and you can't identify the music in the strips, then you lose out on some of the meaning,' said [AMS member] William Meredith, the director of the Ira F. Brilliant Center for Beethoven Studies at San Jose State University, who has studied hundreds of Beethoven-themed 'Peanuts' strips..."

Canadian Music Centre: CentreStreams, access to Canadian Classical Music

Fri, 19 Dec 2008 11:47:46 -0500

Web site "designed to provide music enthusiasts across Canada (and abroad) with online streaming access to a catalog of over 8,000 contemporary classical works by Canadian composers."

Vanderbilt Univ. course: "Stealing in Music City, USA"

Fri, 19 Dec 2008 10:25:37 -0500

Taught by music librarians concerned about music file sharing. The final project is available at Youtube.

The Nation: David Schiff on Gayle Sherwood Magee, Ives Reconsidered

Fri, 19 Dec 2008 10:17:44 -0500

"Magee's book is a model of contemporary musicology, sympathetically sober in its judgments and interdisciplinary in its methods...."

Youtube symphony: classical music at youtube

Thu, 4 Dec 2008 09:45:07 -0500

Youtube has commissined Tan Dun to work on this internet symphony; Michael Tilson Thomas will conduct a live performance in April 2009. (Thanks to Maureen Buja for drawing attn to this!)

Musicological resources in Kolkata (India) now available online

Mon, 17 Nov 2008 08:43:18 -0500

Taylor & Francis publishers are setting up a digital library in Kolkata to include "5 million pages of rare study material for students of South Asia," including musicology materials.

George Lewis in this week's Chronicle of Higher Education

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 12:45:09 -0500

AMS member (and Cultural Diversity Committee co-chair) George E. Lewis (Columbia University) is featured in the Chronicle of Higher Education, issue dated 14 November 2008: "George E. Lewis believes that an opportunity for a fresh understanding of jazz-related experimentalism emerged in the 1990s, with a new kind of writing about music that took its lead from cultural and literary studies..."

Electroacoustic Music Studies Asia Network

Thu, 13 Nov 2008 13:14:32 -0500

An email mailing list has been set up as an outcome of the CEMC/EMSAN Day in Beijing. It will be a link between researchers interested in electroacoustic music in East Asia.

Wye Jamison Allanbrook and Alexander Silbiger receive Mellon Grants

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 14:16:43 -0500

AMS honorary member Wye Jamison Allanbrook and AMS member Alexander Silbiger were among those recently awarded Emeritus Fellowships from theAndrew W. Mellon Foundation.

AMS Awards, Nashville 2008

Mon, 10 Nov 2008 10:34:18 -0500

See the list of honorary and corresponding members, and book, article, performance, and other awards presented in Nashville, 8 November 2008.

ASCAP Deems Taylor Awards 2008

Thu, 23 Oct 2008 08:41:31 -0400

AMS members were honored in the 41st annual ASCAP Deems Taylor Award announcements as follows:

bruce d. mcclung for Lady in the Dark: Biography of a Musical, published by Oxford University PressHoward Pollack for George Gershwin: His Life and Works, published by University of California Press (also an AMS subvention recipient)

Laurie Stras for her article, "White Face, Black Voice: Race, Gender, and Region in the Music of Boswell Sisters," published by the Journal of the Society for American Music

Berta Joncus on Bach's Violin Partitas

Sat, 18 Oct 2008 08:32:24 -0400

AMS member Berta Joncus on "CD Review (building a library)," BBC Radio 3, discussing the recordings available for the violin partitas of Bach. Audio playback of the recording available only Oct. 18 to 26 (recommendations will remain at the BBC 3 Web site as static text). Begins at the 31-minute mark of this 3 1/2-hr broadcast.

Anna Magdalena Bach: composer of the cello suites?

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 09:10:11 -0400

Associate Professor Martin Jarvis of Charles Darwin University is set to present the provocative theory to the international forensic science community at the International Symposium on the Forensic Sciences in Melbourne...

Roberta Freund-Schwartz receives 2008 Award for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research

Thu, 9 Oct 2008 17:42:43 -0400

Schwartz, associate professor of musicology at the University of Kansas, recently received the 2008 Award for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research for her book about the transmission of American blues to the United Kingdom in the 1960s...

AMS member Anne Walters Robertson Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Thu, 9 Oct 2008 09:55:32 -0400

CAMBRIDGE, MA - Anne Robertson, Clare Dux Swift Distinguished Service Professor of Music at the University of Chicago, will be inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences at a ceremony here on Saturday, October 11. The program to officially welcome the Academy's the 228th class of Fellows celebrates cutting edge research and scholarship, artistic accomplishment and exemplary service to society.

New Mozart piece of music found in French library

Fri, 19 Sep 2008 08:57:21 -0400

"A French museum has found a previously unknown piece of music handwritten by Mozart, a researcher [Ulrich Leisinger] said Thursday. The 18th century melody sketch is missing the harmony and instrumentation but was described as an important find..." [Thanks to James Parsons for sending this item]

Puccini Conference at National Taiwan Normal University

Wed, 10 Sep 2008 08:53:34 -0400

"That an academic conference on the operas of Puccini should take place in Taipei might at first sight seem unlikely...."

Gene Anderson wins Best Research in Recorded Jazz

Fri, 5 Sep 2008 08:37:46 -0400

Gene Anderson's The Original Hot Five Recordings of Louis Armstrong, the latest title in the CMS Sourcebooks in American Music series published by Pendragon Press, is a winner in the category Best Research in Recorded Jazz Music of the 2007 Association for Recorded Sound Collections Awards for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research. The goal of the ARSC Awards program is to recognize and draw attention to the finest work now being published in the field of recorded sound research. More details about ARSC, its awards, and conference may be found on the ARSC website (see link on title). More details about Anderson’s book can be found at on the Pendragon Press website, www.pendragonpress.com/

World premiere of Sergei Prokofiev's Romeo & Juliet

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 10:36:36 -0400

The restoration of the original 1935 version of Prokofiev's ballet Romeo and Juliet with happy ending was premiered at the Bard Festival 4 July 2008, and will be touring over the next year. The restoration is the work of musicologist Simon Morrison (Princeton University).

A Musical Google?

Mon, 7 Jul 2008 15:45:29 -0400

"Music technology is already well on the way to future applications, like a "musical Google" in which the user can retrieve music files from the Internet simply by humming a melody or providing an audio sample..."

Philip Gossett on Rossini's Figaro

Mon, 7 Jul 2008 15:19:20 -0400

"Local interest" story in the Lower Hudson Journal News, in conjunction with the July 18 opening of Figaro at the Caramoor International Music Festival, Katonah NY.

Musicology in Nature

Mon, 7 Jul 2008 15:15:56 -0400

Over the last two months, Nature has published a series of essays about the latest scientific research into music, and now that the series is complete, it has been made available as a free PDF...

Musicology at High Point University

Wed, 2 Jul 2008 15:58:29 -0400

"Not everyone is thrilled to hear Brahms and Beethoven on the way to class, but President Nido R. Qubein thinks it is important to expose students to a little high culture. He does, however, make a concession to their musical tastes. 'On the weekends,' he says, 'we funk it up.'..."

Linda Fairtile's Reconstructed Puccini Opera

Tue, 1 Jul 2008 11:56:34 -0400

On June 25, AMS member Linda Fairtile was in the audience at the Torino, Italy, opera house for the first modern performance of Puccini's “Edgar” in its original form, the result of her extensive work recreating the piece.

Alex Ross on Suzanne Cusick's JSAM article on music in detention camps

Wed, 11 Jun 2008 09:18:26 -0400

Alex Ross (music critic of the New Yorker and author of the The Rest is Noise) discussed Suzanne Cusick's article "'You are in a place that is out of this world...': Music in the Detention Camps of the 'Global War on Terror'" (Journal of the Society for American Music 2/1) in the 29 May 2008 edition of the The New Yorker’s blog.

Muzio Clementi's Opera Omnia, an Italian National Edition

Thu, 5 Jun 2008 22:53:48 -0400

On 20 March 2008, the Opera Omnia of Muzio Clementi was promoted by Italian ministerial decree to the status of National Edition. See the web site for details on the editorial board, volumes that will appear soon, and the parallel series of books (Quaderni) relating to Clementi's life, work, and times. The first volume, Clementi's correspondence (ed. David Rowland) is scheduled to be published later this year.

Franz Liszt and musical life today: video interview with musicologist Ralph Locke

Tue, 27 May 2008 09:23:42 -0400

Polyphonic.org ("the orchestra musician forum") has just uploaded a 45-minute video interview with musicologist Ralph Locke.

Locke, in discussion with music critic Greg Sandow, explores Franz Liszt's little-known eight proposals (1835) for improving musical life in the Paris of his day. He also offers suggestions about ways in which musicology can enrich a listener's understanding of music today and can help keep classical-music performance vital.

Summaries of the video's segments are printed below the video, so the user can choose which ones to "jump" to. The publications by Locke that are being discussed are also cited on-screen for users who may wish to read further.

Hugh McElrath, 1922-2008

Thu, 15 May 2008 18:38:47 -0400

Hugh T. McElrath, longtime music professor at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, died May 8 at his winter home in Penney Farms, Fla....

World Armenian Congress announces musicology competition

Mon, 12 May 2008 10:37:30 -0400

Topic: "New prospects of the development of Armenian Musicology". Prize: $15,000.

Mary Berry, 1917-2008

Mon, 12 May 2008 10:25:03 -0400

Mary Berry, highly influential in reviving Gregorian Chant, died 1 May 2008, anged 90.

Carolyn Abbate Joins University of Pennsylvania Faculty as Professor of Music

Mon, 12 May 2008 10:23:17 -0400

Carolyn Abbate, who ranks among the world’s foremost musicologists, has been appointed the Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Music at the University of Pennsylvania, effective July 1...

National Humanities Center Names Fellows for 2008-09

Tue, 6 May 2008 13:19:29 -0400

Two recipients are oriented to musicological topics:

Laurent Marc Dubois (History, Duke University), The Banjo: A Cultural History (Duke Endowment Fellowship)

Christian Thorau (Musicology, University of Music and Performing Arts, Frankfurt), Guided Listening and the Touristic Gaze-The Emergence of 'Musical Baedekers' (William J. Bouwsma Fellowship)

Philip Gossett receives award for Divas & Scholars

Mon, 5 May 2008 10:12:23 -0400

At the University of Chicago Press’ annual award ceremony on Thursday, April 24, President Zimmer presented the 2008 Gordon J. Laing Prize to Philip Gossett for his 2006 book, Divas and Scholars: Performing Italian Opera. Gossett’s book has been widely lauded for its dazzling account of how opera comes to the stage.

Hofstra establishes endowed chair in Sikh musical traditions

Mon, 5 May 2008 10:10:15 -0400

Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY – President Stuart Rabinowitz today announced the creation of an endowed chair in the Department of Religion for the study and teaching of Sikh musical traditions.

Cleveland Johnson Appointed Director of Thomas J. Watson Fellowship Program

Mon, 28 Apr 2008 14:41:21 -0400

Musicologist Cleveland T. Johnson, professor of music and past dean of the DePauw University School of Music, has been appointed director of the Thomas J. Watson Fellowship Program...

Milos Velimirovic, 1922-2008

Mon, 28 Apr 2008 14:38:28 -0400

Milos Milorad Velimirovic died at the age of 85 on Friday April 18, 2008, in Bridgewater, Virginia. He taught history of music courses with a specialization in Byzantine Musicology at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville from 1973 until 1993.

Musicology Dept. at Punjab University threatened by Islamic activists

Tue, 22 Apr 2008 08:06:54 -0400

"The Punjab University's (PU) Department of Musicology in collaboration with the Lahore Arts Council has arranged a musical performance to be held on Monday 4/21... The PU Islami Jamiat Talaba (IJT) activists denounced the PU administration for holding the event. They said, 'Musical education is against Islam and we will not allow anyone to hold such activities on campus.'"

International Association for Jazz Education declares bankruptcy

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 12:48:27 -0400

The IAJE Board has voted to file for bankruptcy under Chapter 7 of the Federal Bankruptcy Law.

Claremont's Fiske Museum of musical instruments sold

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 10:39:33 -0400

"The museum had limited visiting hours at its home in the windowless basement of Bridges Auditorium for three decades, and then it closed altogether 16 months ago, partly because of a lack of upkeep funds. Now, almost the entire batch -- harpsichords, pianos, clarinets, banjos and cymbals -- will leave its home in Claremont and be sold for an undisclosed price to a music museum under construction in Arizona."

Victor Coelho on what's wrong with undergraduate education

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 09:34:59 -0400

Victor Coelho, AMS member and associate provost at Boston University, on at today's "Constructing the New Humanist in Undergraduate Education" conference.

Society for American Music Award Announcements

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 09:29:43 -0400

SAM has announced its annual awards, several of which went to AMS members:

Irving Lowens Book Award: Anne Danielsen (University of Oslo), Presence and Pleasure: The Funk Grooves of James Brown and Parliament (Wesleyan University Press)

Irving Lowens Article Award: AMS member Leta E. Miller (University of California Santa Cruz), “Henry Cowell and John Cage: Intersections and Influences, 1933-1941,” Journal of the American Musicological Society, Vol. 59, No. 1

Wiley Housewright Dissertation Award: AMS member Drew Davies,“The Italianized Frontier: Music at Durango Cathedral, Español Culture, and Aesthetics of Devotion in Eighteenth-Century New Spain” (University of Chicago)

Mark Tucker Award for Outstanding Conference Paper: AMS member Loren Kajikawa (UCLA), “Eminem’s ‘My Name Is’: Signifyin(g) Whiteness, Rearticulating Race.”

Lifetime Achievement Award: Bill C. Malone

Honorary Members: Riders In The Sky

Peter Burkholder receives IU Multicultural Understanding Award

Mon, 14 Apr 2008 10:09:54 -0400

The Indiana University Commission on Multicultural Understanding (COMU) will honor five individuals, including musicologist J. Peter Burkholder.

Malena Kuss launches new book

Mon, 14 Apr 2008 10:09:21 -0400

Argentine researcher Malena Kuss of the International Musicological Society Board of Directors will launch the second volume of a historic encyclopedia about Latin American and Caribbean music in Havana on April 18...

Musicology colloquia in Havana

Mon, 14 Apr 2008 10:06:22 -0400

Researcher Evguenia Roubina, Founding Member of the Mexican Academy of Science, Art, Technology and Humanities will give a lecture on Tuesday on new sources of study of orchestral new-Hispanic music...

Taruskin on Stravinsky's Songs

Mon, 14 Apr 2008 09:17:56 -0400

"General Interest" article in the NY Times 13/4/2008, with ref. to performance of the complete songs at the Morgan Library Thursday 17 April 2008.

Top 50 Classical Music Blogs

Mon, 7 Apr 2008 10:06:35 -0400

Courtesy of www.classicalconvert.com. This provides a good list of classical music blogs, whether or not you care about the rankings!

Marianne Kielian-Gilbert receives IU Distinguished Scholar Award

Fri, 4 Apr 2008 14:38:21 -0400

Indiana University Office of Women's Affairs: The Distinguished Scholar Award goes to an outstanding scholar whose work involves efforts to enhance women's lives through research, teaching or service...

Inventoriana: Digital Manuscripts

Fri, 28 Mar 2008 09:04:47 -0400

An innovative, Web-based tool called Inventoriana is enabling scholars to collaborate on indexing and annotating digital library materials, such as liturgical manuscripts, with exciting results. Harvard medievalists have embraced the software, and it was recently used in a seminar on Ambrosian chant taught by Professor Tom Kelly. It was created by AMS member Drew Massey.

Thailand's First Music School

Thu, 27 Mar 2008 10:03:33 -0400

Mahidol University. "The College of Music originated from a master's degree programme in cultural studies with the emphasis on music, which was offered by the university in 1989. Three years later, the programme was expanded, and the degree renamed 'Master of Arts in Music, concentrating on Music Education and Musicology'."

Ruth Solie at the University of Illinois

Thu, 20 Mar 2008 10:00:08 -0400

Friday April 4, 2008, 4 p.m., Memorial Room, Smith Hall: "How to Read Tropes of Gender: Victorian Manliness."

The hopes and glories of Edward Elgar

Thu, 20 Mar 2008 09:54:52 -0400

How historians, philosophers, modernists, musicologists - and musicians - have celebrated Elgar's work, by Hugh Wood (review of Byron Adams, ed., Edward Elgar and Hist World, TLS, 3/19/08)

Tristan und Isolde live via satellite Saturday 22 March

Thu, 20 Mar 2008 09:12:19 -0400

Metropolitan Opera will broadcast Tristan und Isolde live via satellite to 500 theaters in America Saturday 22 March at 12:30 pm.

Deborah Voigt, Isolde; Robert Dean Smith, Tristan. James Levine, conducting.

UT Austin School of Music receives $55-million gift

Wed, 19 Mar 2008 09:03:28 -0400

Endowment goes from $33 m to $88 m -- increased student fellowships a major goal.

NEH grants and awards announced

Tue, 11 Mar 2008 16:48:23 -0400

On March 10 the NEH announced the latest grants and awards. They included the following of musicological interest: University of California, Santa Barbara $350,000 Project Director: M. Patricia Fumerton Project Title: Roxburghe Ballad Archive Description: Digitizing images of 1,500 17th-century English ballads held by the British Library, as well as illustrative woodcuts, facsimile transcriptions, contextual essays, and audio files of sung versions of the ballads, and incorporating them into an electronic archive. University of Alaska, Fairbanks $50,000 Project Director: Siri Tuttle We the People Project Title: Minto Songs Description: The collection, digitization, organization, and archival storage, as well as dissemination among the Minto Athabascan community, of recorded performances of Alaskan Athabascan songs. RIPM Consortium Ltd. $35,0000 Project Director: H. Robert Cohen Project Title: Digitizing the Répertoire International de la Presse Musicale Archive of Music Periodicals, 1800 to 1950 Description: The online retrieval of the full texts of more than 500,000 scholarly articles on music from an online database that incorporates 89 journals in 13 languages and covers the period 1800 to 1950. St. Louis: Washington University $73,627 Project Director: Gerald Early We the People Project Title: Teaching Jazz as American Culture NC: Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill $208,557 Project Director: Steven Weiss Project Title: Fiddles, Banjos and Mountain Music: Preserving Audio Collections of Southern Traditional Music Description: The transfer to digital format of 2,350 hours of analog audio recordings from seven collections held in the university's Southern Folklife Collection, which documents the history and culture of the region through music and oral history. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill $6,000 [Summer Stipends] Project Director: Annegret Fauser We the People Project Title: Symphonies of War: Music in America during World War II

Getty Research Institute seeks feedback on Bibliography of the History of Art

Tue, 11 Mar 2008 07:28:58 -0400

The Getty Research Institute is conducting a survey of users and potential users of the Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA). We are interested in the widest possible dissemination of this survey and we thank you in advance for your participation. The survey is online only and you can connect to it at this link:

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=Ix_2beZRVVbkTwZAgXNTPndQ_3d_3d

We invite you to complete the survey by March 27. Your responses are very valuable to us. If you have questions or comments you may contact BHA at bha@getty.edu.

Visit BHA on the Web at

http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/bha/

Alex Ross wins National Book Critics Circle Award

Mon, 10 Mar 2008 21:47:10 -0400

On March 7, New Yorker critic Alex Ross's book The Rest is Noise (2007) received the NBCC award for criticism.

AMS South-Central Chapter Meeting Includes Frank Zappa Talk, Concert

Fri, 7 Mar 2008 09:17:24 -0500

The University of Kentucky John Jacob Niles Center for American Music will host the 2008 annual meeting of the American Musicological Society (AMS) South-Central Chapter March 14-15, on the UK campus. The highlight of the two-day event will be a keynote address by Gail Zappa, wife of the late music legend Frank Zappa, and a free public concert of music by or that inspired Zappa performed by UK students and alumni. Zappa's presentation begins at 7:30 p.m., followed by the concert at 8:30 p.m. Friday, March 14, in the Singletary for the Arts Concert Hall. Both are free and open to the public.

Julia Shinnick on the role of violence in music

Mon, 3 Mar 2008 22:20:44 -0500

Julia Shinnick, professor of musicology at the University of Louisville, discussed the role of violence in music Friday in her guest lecture, "Music: Temenos or Instrument of Violence? Medieval Song, Sacrifice, Scapegoating and the 'Mimetic Theory' of Rene Girard"...

Fred Maus presents guest lecture at Johns Hopkins University

Mon, 3 Mar 2008 22:18:15 -0500

Wed., March 5, 4:30 p.m. "Music and Trauma," a Peabody Musicology colloquium with Fred Maus, University of Virginia. 308 Conservatory. Peabody

Baylor Hosts Forum on Music and Christian Scholarship

Fri, 29 Feb 2008 22:45:47 -0500

Baylor University's School of Music is hosting the Forum on Music and Christian Scholarship, an event designed to explore the connection between music and faith, Friday, Feb. 29 through Saturday, March 1, at Armstrong Browning Library...

Panel discusses political origins of Cold War music

Fri, 29 Feb 2008 22:45:47 -0500

Postwar Politics and Music Panel at IU ArtsWeek, Jacobs School of Music.

Music Department to Host Annual Meeting of the Society for Ethnomusicology

Fri, 29 Feb 2008 10:45:47 -0500

Being home to one of the oldest ethnomusicology programs in the country, it was only fitting that Wesleyan host the 53rd annual meeting of the Society for Ethnomusicology (SEM), Oct. 25-28.

Eastman Studies in Music celebrates Ralph Locke's fiftieth book in the series

Tue, 26 Feb 2008 13:43:28 -0500

The series has reached fifty volumes under Ralph Locke, series editor.

CSI: Beethoven, with Bill Meredith

Mon, 25 Feb 2008 19:20:33 -0500

Inspired by Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Music Director Marin Alsop's own fascination with television's hit series CSI (Crime Scene Investigation) and the overarching Beethoven theme of the 2007/2008 season, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra will present a two-night CSI: Beethoven event, Wednesday, February 27 and Thursday, February 28 at the Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall....

Symposium, Post-War Politics and Musics

Sat, 23 Feb 2008 12:58:13 -0500

Feb. 27, 3:30 p.m., IU Bloomington. A symposium on the relationship between musical culture and Post-World-War II politics. Participants and topics: 1) Eric Drott (University of Texas, Austin): "Music and May '68 in France"; 2) Bruce Durazzi (Washington University, St. Louis): "Two 'Committed' Cantatas: Luigi Nono and the Idea of Political Composition"; 3) Phil Ford (Indiana University): "Asymmetrical Consciousness: The Hipster Dialectic of Style and Politics"; 4) Peter Schmelz (Washington University, St. Louis): "Alfred Schnittke's Nagasaki and Soviet Cold War Cultural Politics"

Op-ed: Do those who conduct "classical music outreach" really understand whom they're trying to reach?

Sat, 23 Feb 2008 12:49:08 -0500

Classical music organizations are eagerly doing outreach and education... But they don't ask what the world outside is like. They don't ask about the people they're trying to reach. Who are these people? What culture - what tastes, interests, commitments, longings - do they already have?... (Greg Sandow, 2/22/08)

Anne Walters Robertson, William Kinderman to speak at UNT, Denton TX

Sat, 23 Feb 2008 09:39:38 -0500

March 3, 4 p.m.: Anne W. Robertson, "The Seven Deadly Sins in Medieval Music." March 12, 4 p.m.: William Kinderman, "Schumann, Beethoven and the Distant Beloved."

Vietnamese instrument collection at U. Mich

Sat, 23 Feb 2008 09:37:56 -0500

VietNamNet Bridge -- Vietnamese-American researcher Nguyen Thuyet Phong has determined that 15 of the century-old musical instruments possessed by Michigan University's Steams Collection of Musical Instruments were Vietnamese. (2/20/08)

Rae Linda Brown appointed VP of Undergrads, LMU

Sat, 23 Feb 2008 09:34:17 -0500

Musicologist Rae Linda Brown is appointed Vice President of Undergraduates at Loyola Marymount University (1/31/08)

Musicology department established at the Punjab Institute of Language, Art and Culture

Sat, 23 Feb 2008 09:30:19 -0500

LAHORE: The Punjab Institute of Language, Art and Culture (PILAAC) is ready with full steam to launch its Musicology Department to revive traditional music... By Ali Usman

Musicology: the scene in Israel

Sat, 23 Feb 2008 09:28:03 -0500

"With medieval manuscripts forgotten, musicology goes into in drug rehab..." Story about the musicology departments in Israel, Friday, 25 Jan, 2008