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06/18/2009 |
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NEA survey: attendance at art & culture events by college grads is down across the board |
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)."
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06/13/2009 |
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Now available: Joan Retallack's lecture "John Cage's Anarchic Harmony" |
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).
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06/13/2009 |
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UC Berkeley establishes Philip Brett Fund for LGBT studies |
"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..."
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06/12/2009 |
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International Library of African Music at Rhodes University goes digital |
"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..."
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06/09/2009 |
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Culture.Hu: Musicology Institute Opens Haydn Exhibition |
"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..."
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06/06/2009 |
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Steven Plank wins Binkley Award |
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."
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06/06/2009 |
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Roger Scruton on musicology, the humanities, and the loss of critical judgment in higher education |
"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..."
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06/04/2009 |
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Jan Swafford at Slate: Why you should listen to Charles Ives |
"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..."
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06/03/2009 |
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Obama nominates James Leach as Chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities |
| "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..."
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05/29/2009 |
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"33 Variations" Review in Pittsburgh Post-Gazette |
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..."
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05/29/2009 |
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Seven Centuries in Twenty-nine Seconds |
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...
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05/27/2009 |
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Kyle Gann on how to write program notes |
"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..."
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05/26/2009 |
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Bruce Phillips on Nigel Fortune and Vernon Handley |
AMS member Bruce Phillips writes about the confluence of memorial services for Nigel Fortune and Vernon Handley on May 1st. (Includes links to obituaries.)
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05/22/2009 |
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Africa: Jazz (allafrica.com story) |
| 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..."
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05/22/2009 |
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Ralph Locke on "Wagner's Durable Ring Cycle" |
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.
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05/19/2009 |
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Developments in forensic musicology |
This story describes how general listener observations re similarities in music tunes is affecting the legal scene re copyright infringement of pop songs.
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05/18/2009 |
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Alex Ross on Yale Baroque Opera Project: Cavalli, Giasone |
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.
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05/13/2009 |
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Britten Thematic Catalogue |
Online-only thematic catalogue currently in progress. (Thanks to Bob Kosofsky for his Twitter alert!)
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05/13/2009 |
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AMS Election Results |
Elected: Anne Walters Robertson, President; Pamela F. Starr, Secretary; Anna Maria Busse Berger, Susan Cook, and Lloyd Whitesell, Directors-at-Large.
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05/12/2009 |
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Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music presents Wagner & Cinema Festival June 2009 |
"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."
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05/12/2009 |
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Elizabeth Bergman on the New York Mahler cycle |
All the Mahler symphonies, now through May 17. AMS member Elizabeth Bergman wrote this piece on the Mahlers in New York for Playbill.
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05/08/2009 |
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Katherine Bergeron, "The Dean of Song" |
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.
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05/05/2009 |
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Music and Torture in this week's Chronicle Review |
| 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]
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05/02/2009 |
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National Humanities Center names two musicologists as fellows 2009-10 |
| 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)
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04/28/2009 |
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Sana Pederson's new review at H-Net of Susan Youens, "Heinrich Henie and the Lied" |
Online-only review of of Youens's 2007 book, ISBN 978-0-521-82374-6.
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04/27/2009 |
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AMS 2009 Directory currently in the mail |
The AMS Directory is now in the hands of the USPS and should reach members soon.
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04/27/2009 |
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JAMS 62/1 now available |
Link to the online version. The print version is being processed at the mailers now.
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04/27/2009 |
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Jeffrey Magee's Library of Congress Lecture now available as webcast |
Topic: "Now It Can Be Told: The Unknown Irving Berlin". Includes musical excerpts that were performed live at the lecture.
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04/09/2009 |
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AMS at Amazon.com |
The AMS has set up an Amazon store -- see award winners and subvention recipients here.
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04/09/2009 |
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AMS members receive Society for American Music Lowens Memorial Book Award |
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),
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04/09/2009 |
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AMS members receive Guggenheim Fellowships |
Thomas Brothers (Duke University), Ingrid Monson (Harvard University), and Alexander Rehding (Harvard University) were among Guggenheim Fellowship recipients announced today.
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04/01/2009 |
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"33 Variations" in The New Yorker |
William Kinderman and Katherine Syers were interviewed for this New Yorker "Talk of the Town" piece on "33 Variations."
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03/11/2009 |
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More reviews of "33 Variations" |
Reviews appeared today in the Hartford Courant and the Los Angeles Times.
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03/10/2009 |
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Moises Kaufman's play "33 Variations" Opens on Broadway |
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.
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03/09/2009 |
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Leonard Bernstein's Workroom acquired by Indiana University |
"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..."
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03/06/2009 |
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Florida State University: online world music course and NCAA scandal |
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.
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03/06/2009 |
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Iakovos Nafpliotis recordings of Byzantine music now available |
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.
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03/06/2009 |
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First Audio Music Library guarantees eternity of San’ani music |
"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..."
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03/04/2009 |
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Southern Miss to offer free music appreciation class |
| 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.
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02/23/2009 |
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Ralph P. Locke on Los Angeles Opera's Ring Cycle |
AMS member Ralph P. Locke addresses the impact of Wagner's theories and operatic output on subsequent composers, including those who wrote film scores.
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02/18/2009 |
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Florence Price, Symphonies 1 & 3, Now Available |
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.
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02/02/2009 |
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Elaine Sisman on Blanning, "The Triumph of Music" |
"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...."
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01/28/2009 |
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SoundSCAPE, 14-26 July 2009 |
AMS member Judith Lochhead is resident musicologist at this year's soundSCAPE (new music festival) in Pavia.
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01/26/2009 |
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Newly found Mozart score to get French performance |
"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...."
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01/23/2009 |
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The Top One Hundred Musicology Blogs |
"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..."
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01/19/2009 |
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Alec Baldwin Joins NY Phil |
"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..."
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01/15/2009 |
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Music Searches of US RISM Data via Themefinder Now Available |
| 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).
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01/14/2009 |
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New York Times: Listening to Schroeder: ‘Peanuts’ Scholars Find Messages in Cartoon’s Scores |
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..."
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12/19/2008 |
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Canadian Music Centre: CentreStreams, access to Canadian Classical Music |
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."
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12/19/2008 |
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Vanderbilt Univ. course: "Stealing in Music City, USA" |
Taught by music librarians concerned about music file sharing. The final project is available at Youtube.
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12/19/2008 |
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The Nation: David Schiff on Gayle Sherwood Magee, Ives Reconsidered |
"Magee's book is a model of contemporary musicology, sympathetically sober in its judgments and interdisciplinary in its methods...."
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12/04/2008 |
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Youtube symphony: classical music at youtube |
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!)
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11/17/2008 |
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Musicological resources in Kolkata (India) now available online |
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.
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11/14/2008 |
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George Lewis in this week's Chronicle of Higher Education |
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..."
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11/13/2008 |
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Electroacoustic Music Studies Asia Network |
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.
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11/12/2008 |
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Wye Jamison Allanbrook and Alexander Silbiger receive Mellon Grants |
AMS honorary member Wye Jamison Allanbrook and AMS member Alexander Silbiger were among those recently awarded Emeritus Fellowships from theAndrew W. Mellon Foundation.
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11/10/2008 |
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AMS Awards, Nashville 2008 |
See the list of honorary and corresponding members, and book, article, performance, and other awards presented in Nashville, 8 November 2008.
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10/23/2008 |
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ASCAP Deems Taylor Awards 2008 |
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
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10/18/2008 |
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Berta Joncus on Bach's Violin Partitas |
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.
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10/10/2008 |
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Anna Magdalena Bach: composer of the cello suites? |
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...
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10/09/2008 |
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Roberta Freund-Schwartz receives 2008 Award for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research |
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...
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10/09/2008 |
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AMS member Anne Walters Robertson Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences |
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.
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09/19/2008 |
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New Mozart piece of music found in French library |
"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]
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09/10/2008 |
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Puccini Conference at National Taiwan Normal University |
"That an academic conference on the operas of Puccini should take place in Taipei might at first sight seem unlikely...."
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09/05/2008 |
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Gene Anderson wins Best Research in Recorded Jazz |
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/
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07/30/2008 |
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World premiere of Sergei Prokofiev's Romeo & Juliet |
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).
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07/07/2008 |
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A Musical Google? |
"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..."
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07/07/2008 |
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Philip Gossett on Rossini's Figaro |
"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.
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07/07/2008 |
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Musicology in Nature |
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...
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07/02/2008 |
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Musicology at High Point University |
"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.'..."
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07/01/2008 |
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Linda Fairtile's Reconstructed Puccini Opera |
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.
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06/11/2008 |
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Alex Ross on Suzanne Cusick's JSAM article on music in detention camps |
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.
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06/05/2008 |
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Muzio Clementi's Opera Omnia, an Italian National Edition |
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.
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05/27/2008 |
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Franz Liszt and musical life today: video interview with musicologist Ralph Locke |
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.
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05/15/2008 |
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Hugh McElrath, 1922-2008 |
Hugh T. McElrath, longtime music professor at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, died May 8 at his winter home in Penney Farms, Fla....
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05/12/2008 |
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World Armenian Congress announces musicology competition |
Topic: "New prospects of the development of Armenian Musicology". Prize: $15,000.
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05/12/2008 |
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Mary Berry, 1917-2008 |
Mary Berry, highly influential in reviving Gregorian Chant, died 1 May 2008, anged 90.
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05/12/2008 |
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Carolyn Abbate Joins University of Pennsylvania Faculty as Professor of Music |
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...
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05/06/2008 |
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National Humanities Center Names Fellows for 2008-09 |
| 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)
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05/05/2008 |
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Philip Gossett receives award for Divas & Scholars |
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.
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05/05/2008 |
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Hofstra establishes endowed chair in Sikh musical traditions |
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.
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04/28/2008 |
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Cleveland Johnson Appointed Director of Thomas J. Watson Fellowship Program |
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...
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04/28/2008 |
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Milos Velimirovic, 1922-2008 |
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.
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04/22/2008 |
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Musicology Dept. at Punjab University threatened by Islamic activists |
"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.'"
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04/21/2008 |
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International Association for Jazz Education declares bankruptcy |
The IAJE Board has voted to file for bankruptcy under Chapter 7 of the Federal Bankruptcy Law.
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04/21/2008 |
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Claremont's Fiske Museum of musical instruments sold |
"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."
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04/18/2008 |
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Victor Coelho on what's wrong with undergraduate education |
Victor Coelho, AMS member and associate provost at Boston University, on at today's "Constructing the New Humanist in Undergraduate Education" conference.
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04/18/2008 |
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Society for American Music Award Announcements |
| 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
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04/14/2008 |
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Peter Burkholder receives IU Multicultural Understanding Award |
The Indiana University Commission on Multicultural Understanding (COMU) will honor five individuals, including musicologist J. Peter Burkholder.
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04/14/2008 |
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Malena Kuss launches new book |
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...
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04/14/2008 |
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Musicology colloquia in Havana |
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...
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04/14/2008 |
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Taruskin on Stravinsky's Songs |
"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.
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04/07/2008 |
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Top 50 Classical Music Blogs |
Courtesy of www.classicalconvert.com. This provides a good list of classical music blogs, whether or not you care about the rankings!
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04/04/2008 |
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Marianne Kielian-Gilbert receives IU Distinguished Scholar Award |
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...
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03/28/2008 |
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Inventoriana: Digital Manuscripts |
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.
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03/27/2008 |
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Dr. Jreremiah Wright, Jr.: Musicologist |
"He is a highly educated man fluent in liberation theology, the preaching of the social gospel, psychology, musicology, history, political science, sociology and more."
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03/27/2008 |
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Thailand's First Music School |
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'."
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03/20/2008 |
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Ruth Solie at the University of Illinois |
Friday April 4, 2008, 4 p.m., Memorial Room, Smith Hall: "How to Read Tropes of Gender: Victorian Manliness."
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03/20/2008 |
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The hopes and glories of Edward Elgar |
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)
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03/20/2008 |
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Tristan und Isolde live via satellite Saturday 22 March |
| 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.
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03/19/2008 |
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UT Austin School of Music receives $55-million gift |
Endowment goes from $33 m to $88 m -- increased student fellowships a major goal.
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03/11/2008 |
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NEH grants and awards announced |
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
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03/11/2008 |
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Getty Research Institute seeks feedback on Bibliography of the History of Art |
| 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/
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03/10/2008 |
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Alex Ross wins National Book Critics Circle Award |
On March 7, New Yorker critic Alex Ross's book The Rest is Noise (2007) received the NBCC award for criticism.
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03/07/2008 |
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AMS South-Central Chapter Meeting Includes Frank Zappa Talk, Concert |
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.
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03/03/2008 |
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Julia Shinnick on the role of violence in music |
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"...
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03/03/2008 |
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Fred Maus presents guest lecture at Johns Hopkins University |
Wed., March 5, 4:30 p.m. "Music and Trauma," a Peabody Musicology colloquium with Fred Maus, University of Virginia. 308 Conservatory. Peabody
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02/29/2008 |
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Baylor Hosts Forum on Music and Christian Scholarship |
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...
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02/29/2008 |
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Panel discusses political origins of Cold War music |
Postwar Politics and Music Panel at IU ArtsWeek, Jacobs School of Music.
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02/29/2008 |
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Music Department to Host Annual Meeting of the Society for Ethnomusicology |
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.
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02/26/2008 |
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Eastman Studies in Music celebrates Ralph Locke's fiftieth book in the series |
The series has reached fifty volumes under Ralph Locke, series editor.
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02/25/2008 |
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CSI: Beethoven, with Bill Meredith |
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....
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02/23/2008 |
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Symposium, Post-War Politics and Musics |
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"
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02/23/2008 |
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Op-ed: Do those who conduct "classical music outreach" really understand whom they're trying to reach? |
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)
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02/23/2008 |
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Anne Walters Robertson, William Kinderman to speak at UNT, Denton TX |
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."
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02/23/2008 |
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Vietnamese instrument collection at U. Mich |
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)
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02/23/2008 |
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Rae Linda Brown appointed VP of Undergrads, LMU |
Musicologist Rae Linda Brown is appointed Vice President of Undergraduates at Loyola Marymount University (1/31/08)
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02/23/2008 |
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Musicology department established at the Punjab Institute of Language, Art and Culture |
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
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02/23/2008 |
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Musicology: the scene in Israel |
"With medieval manuscripts forgotten, musicology goes into in drug rehab..." Story about the musicology departments in Israel, Friday, 25 Jan, 2008
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Tyler Hicks/The New York Times 