It has been five years since Daniel K. L. Chua took up the presidency of the IMS and instituted Musicological Brainfood. As a grand final gesture, he has made a video that tries to encapsulate the pithy, informal, and provocative spirit of this online publication …
Conceived as a brainstorm, rather than an academic article, this unorthodox text speaks to what a perspective from Cuba would contribute to musicology, the state of musicology in Cuba, and how its history is shaping the present. To this end, …
When Dinko Fabris, IMS Immediate Past President, and Daniel K. L. Chua, IMS President, asked me to write a brief article for Musicological Brainfood, I was really wondering where to start. I thought the best option for me is to …
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 …
The task of musicology (Musikwissenschaft in German, musicologie in French, and ongakugaku in Japanese) in its proper sense is to study music of the past, present, and future regardless of region. For this purpose, various methods have been proposed and …