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  • Vol. 4 • No. 2 • 2020
Music, Landscape, and Environment

Moving upon Silence: Music, Landscape, and Environment

  • Daniel M. Grimley

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 …

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  • Vol. 4 • No. 2 • 2020

Musicological Explorer: Margaret Kartomi in Her Own Words

  • Margaret Kartomi

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 …

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  • Vol. 4 • No. 1 • 2020
Music in the Time of COVID-19

Music in a Time of COVID-19

  • Nora Beck, Michael Beckerman, Daniel K. L. Chua, Manuel Pedro Ferreira, Gavin S. K. Lee, Nigel Nettheim

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 …

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  • Vol. 3 • No. 2 • 2019
Minding the Gap

Minding the GAP: Margaret Bent and Lewis Lockwood in Conversation with Daniel Chua

  • Margaret Bent, Daniel K. L. Chua, Lewis Lockwood

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 …

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  • Vol. 3 • No. 1 • 2019
Working Group “Future Histories of Music Theory”

Going Global, In Theory

  • “Future Histories of Music Theory”

“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 …

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  • Vol. 3 • No. 1 • 2019
Western Art Music

Rethinking Early Modern “Western Art Music”: A Global History Manifesto

  • David R. M. Irving

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 …

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