Among the most unexpected and disconcerting side effects of the COVID-19 pandemic has been the silence that has accompanied much of the lockdown. Despite the creative flowering of impromptu balcony concerts and online musical events that it has in some …
Born in Adelaide in 1940, I fell asleep as a child every night to music played by my amateur violinist father and pianist mother and their musician friends. Not surprisingly I acquired a love of classical music, learning piano from …
During this time of COVID-19, nothing is normal anymore. So, instead of our usual morsel of Musicological Brainfood, we are providing you with something appropriate for this time when many of us are isolated by an invisible plague. So …
Margaret Bent and Lewis Lockwood, the first recipients of the IMS Guido Adler Prize (IMS GAP), share their thoughts on how the field of musicology has changed over half a century and on the values that drive their research. Daniel …
“Global” is hot. Witness: global history of ideas, global history of philosophy, global history of science, global medieval studies, global history of music, etc. Laudably, the recent and various global-historical turns have been accompanied by self-critical reflections on the methods …
I’ve long been struck by how historical musicologists working on what they call “Western Art Music” (in English, at least) consider the conceptual boundaries of their subject to be self-evident. There are conventions for studying, performing, and listening; a standardized …
