American Musicological Society
Encyclopedia
The American Musicological Society is a membership-based musicological
organization founded in 1934 to advance scholarly research in the various fields of music as a branch of learning and scholarship; it grew out of a small contingent of the Music Teachers National Association
and, more directly, the New York Musicological Society (1930-1934). Its founders were George S. Dickinson, Carl Engel, Gustave Reese
, Helen Heifron Roberts, Joseph Schillinger, Charles Seeger
, Harold Spivacke, Oliver Strunk
, and Joseph Yasser; its first president was Otto Kinkeldey
, the first American to receive an appointment as professor of musicology (Cornell
, 1930).
in 1951, and participates in RISM
(Répertoire International des Sources Musicales) and RILM (Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale).
The society’s annual meetings attract numerous scholars from North America and abroad, and consist of presentations, symposia
, and concerts, as well as more-or-less informal meetings of numerous related musical societies. Typically, two hundred presentations and meetings are scheduled over a four-day period. Many of the society’s awards, prizes and fellowships are announced at these meetings.
(JAMS), published three times a year since 1948. It is currently published by the University of California Press
. The Journal was preceded by the annual Bulletin (1936-1947) and the annual Papers (1936-1941). Online versions of JAMS and its predecessors are available at JSTOR
and the University of California Press.
Other studies and documents published by the society include the Complete Works of William Billings
edited by Karl Kroeger et al. (4 vols, 1977-1990), the series Music of the United States of America (including In Dahomey, historic transcriptions, notations, and arrangements of American Indian music, and works by Ruth Crawford, Irving Berlin
, Amy Beach
, Daniel Read
, Timothy Swan
, Edward Harrigan & David Braham, Lou Harrison
, Harry Partch
, Thomas Wright "Fats" Waller
, Charles Ives
, Leo Ornstein
, Dudley Buck
, Earl "Fatha" Hines, David Moritz Michael
, Charles Hommann
, Virgil Thomson
, and Florence Price
; 19 vols. to date; 1993- ), Johannes Ockeghem
’s collected works edited by Dragan Plamenac and Richard Wexler (3 vols., 1966, 1992), John Dunstaple’s complete works edited by Manfred Bukofzer, published jointly with Musica Britannica
(2/1970), Joseph Kerman
’s The Elizabethan Madrigal (1962), E. R. Reilly’s Quantz and his Versuch (1971), E. H. Sparks’s The Music of Noel Bauldeweyn
(1972), Essays in Musicology: a Tribute to Alvin Johnson edited by Lewis Lockwood
and Edward Roesner (1990), and, in conjunction with the International Musicological Society, Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology edited by C. D. Adkins and A. Dickinson in succession to Helen Hewitt (1952, 1957, 1961, 1965, 1971, 1977, 1984 [first cumulative edition], 1990, 1996 [second series, second cumulative edition]). (All earlier editions of DDM are incorporated in the current on-line database.)
Musicology
Musicology is the scholarly study of music. The word is used in narrow, broad and intermediate senses. In the narrow sense, musicology is confined to the music history of Western culture...
organization founded in 1934 to advance scholarly research in the various fields of music as a branch of learning and scholarship; it grew out of a small contingent of the Music Teachers National Association
Music Teachers National Association
-Membership:Its membership consists of approximately 22,000 independent and collegiate music teachers. MTNA headquarters are in downtown Cincinnati on the 31st floor of the Carew Tower.- MTNA structure :...
and, more directly, the New York Musicological Society (1930-1934). Its founders were George S. Dickinson, Carl Engel, Gustave Reese
Gustave Reese
Gustave Reese was an American musicologist and teacher. Reese is known mainly for his work on medieval and Renaissance music, particularly with his two publications Music in the Middle Ages and Music in the Renaissance ; these two books remain the standard reference works for these two eras,...
, Helen Heifron Roberts, Joseph Schillinger, Charles Seeger
Charles Seeger
Charles Seeger, Jr. was a noted musicologist, composer, and teacher. He was the father of iconic American folk singer Pete Seeger .-Life:...
, Harold Spivacke, Oliver Strunk
Oliver Strunk
William Oliver Strunk was an American musicologist.Strunk was the son of Professor William Strunk, Jr. . He attended Cornell University from 1917 to 1919 and again in 1927, studying under Otto Kinkeldey...
, and Joseph Yasser; its first president was Otto Kinkeldey
Otto Kinkeldey
Otto Kinkeldey was an American music librarian and musicologist. He was the first president of the American Musicological Society and held the first chair in musicology at any American university....
, the first American to receive an appointment as professor of musicology (Cornell
Cornell University
Cornell University is an Ivy League university located in Ithaca, New York, United States. It is a private land-grant university, receiving annual funding from the State of New York for certain educational missions...
, 1930).
Overview
The society consists of over 3,300 individual members divided among fifteen regional chapters across the United States, Canada, and elsewhere, as well as 1,000 subscribing institutions. It was admitted to the American Council of Learned SocietiesAmerican Council of Learned Societies
The American Council of Learned Societies , founded in 1919, is a private nonprofit federation of seventy scholarly organizations.ACLS is best known as a funder of humanities research through fellowships and grants awards. ACLS Fellowships are designed to permit scholars holding the Ph.D...
in 1951, and participates in RISM
Rism
-References:rism- "ree-ss-mm" loldefenition- Rism is when a noob tries to post a thread on a forum trying to sell RIMS. But since the OP does not have enough post to sell on said forum, his thread will be locked but he will get flammed in the mean time...
(Répertoire International des Sources Musicales) and RILM (Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale).
The society’s annual meetings attract numerous scholars from North America and abroad, and consist of presentations, symposia
Symposium
In ancient Greece, the symposium was a drinking party. Literary works that describe or take place at a symposium include two Socratic dialogues, Plato's Symposium and Xenophon's Symposium, as well as a number of Greek poems such as the elegies of Theognis of Megara...
, and concerts, as well as more-or-less informal meetings of numerous related musical societies. Typically, two hundred presentations and meetings are scheduled over a four-day period. Many of the society’s awards, prizes and fellowships are announced at these meetings.
Publications
Most of the society’s resources are dedicated to musicological publications. Most notable is its Journal of the American Musicological SocietyJournal of the American Musicological Society
The Journal of the American Musicological Society The Journal of the American Musicological Society has been published three times a year since 1948. It was preceded by the annual Bulletin of the American Musicological Society and the annual Papers of the American Musicological Society...
(JAMS), published three times a year since 1948. It is currently published by the University of California Press
University of California Press
University of California Press, also known as UC Press, is a publishing house associated with the University of California that engages in academic publishing. It was founded in 1893 to publish books and papers for the faculty of the University of California, established 25 years earlier in 1868...
. The Journal was preceded by the annual Bulletin (1936-1947) and the annual Papers (1936-1941). Online versions of JAMS and its predecessors are available at JSTOR
JSTOR
JSTOR is an online system for archiving academic journals, founded in 1995. It provides its member institutions full-text searches of digitized back issues of several hundred well-known journals, dating back to 1665 in the case of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society...
and the University of California Press.
Other studies and documents published by the society include the Complete Works of William Billings
William Billings
William Billings was an American choral composer, and is widely regarded as the father of American choral music...
edited by Karl Kroeger et al. (4 vols, 1977-1990), the series Music of the United States of America (including In Dahomey, historic transcriptions, notations, and arrangements of American Indian music, and works by Ruth Crawford, Irving Berlin
Irving Berlin
Irving Berlin was an American composer and lyricist of Jewish heritage, widely considered one of the greatest songwriters in American history.His first hit song, "Alexander's Ragtime Band", became world famous...
, Amy Beach
Amy Beach
Amy Marcy Cheney Beach was an American composer and pianist. She was the first successful American female composer of large-scale art music. Most of her compositions and performances were under the name Mrs. H.H.A. Beach.-Early years:Beach was born Amy Marcy Cheney in Henniker, New Hampshire into...
, Daniel Read
Daniel Read
Daniel Read was an American composer of the First New England School, and one of the primary figures in early American classical music.-Life and work:...
, Timothy Swan
Timothy Swan
Timothy Swan was a composer and hatmaker born in Worcester, Massachusetts. The son of goldsmith William Swan, Swan lived in small towns along the Connecticut River in Connecticut and Massachusetts for most of his life. Swan’s compositional output consisted mostly of psalm and hymn settings,...
, Edward Harrigan & David Braham, Lou Harrison
Lou Harrison
Lou Silver Harrison was an American composer. He was a student of Henry Cowell, Arnold Schoenberg, and K. P. H. Notoprojo Lou Silver Harrison (May 14, 1917 – February 2, 2003) was an American composer. He was a student of Henry Cowell, Arnold Schoenberg, and K. P. H. Notoprojo Lou Silver Harrison...
, Harry Partch
Harry Partch
Harry Partch was an American composer and instrument creator. He was one of the first twentieth-century composers to work extensively and systematically with microtonal scales, writing much of his music for custom-made instruments that he built himself, tuned in 11-limit just intonation.-Early...
, Thomas Wright "Fats" Waller
Fats Waller
Fats Waller , born Thomas Wright Waller, was a jazz pianist, organist, composer, singer, and comedic entertainer...
, Charles Ives
Charles Ives
Charles Edward Ives was an American modernist composer. He is one of the first American composers of international renown, though Ives' music was largely ignored during his life, and many of his works went unperformed for many years. Over time, Ives came to be regarded as an "American Original"...
, Leo Ornstein
Leo Ornstein
Leo Ornstein was a leading American experimental composer and pianist of the early twentieth century...
, Dudley Buck
Dudley Buck
Dudley Buck was an American composer, organist, and writer on music. He published several books, most notably the Dictionary of Musical Terms and Influence of the Organ in History, which was published in New York in 1882. He is best known today for his organ composition, Concert Variations on the...
, Earl "Fatha" Hines, David Moritz Michael
David Moritz Michael
David Moritz Michael was a composer.Born and educated in Germany, David Moritz Michael became a member of the Moravian Church when he was thirty years old. He taught in the Moravian school at Niesky and, in 1795, he emigrated to Pennsylvania...
, Charles Hommann
Charles Hommann
Charles Hommann was an American composer. A native of Philadelphia, he was among the first American born composers to produce chamber and orchestral music successfully.-External links:...
, Virgil Thomson
Virgil Thomson
Virgil Thomson was an American composer and critic. He was instrumental in the development of the "American Sound" in classical music...
, and Florence Price
Florence Price
- Career :Florence Price is considered the first black woman in the United States to be recognized as a symphonic composer. Even though her training was steeped in European tradition, Price’s music consists of mostly the American idiom and reveals her Southern roots...
; 19 vols. to date; 1993- ), Johannes Ockeghem
Johannes Ockeghem
Johannes Ockeghem was the most famous composer of the Franco-Flemish School in the last half of the 15th century, and is often considered the most...
’s collected works edited by Dragan Plamenac and Richard Wexler (3 vols., 1966, 1992), John Dunstaple’s complete works edited by Manfred Bukofzer, published jointly with Musica Britannica
Musica Britannica
Musica Britannica was founded in 1951 as an authoritative national collection of British music. It is designed to stand alongside existing library editions, and to explore the vast heritage of material still largely untouched by them, thus making available a representative survey of the British...
(2/1970), Joseph Kerman
Joseph Kerman
Joseph Wilfred Kerman is an American critic and musicologist. One of the leading musicologists of his generation, his 1985 book Contemplating Music: Challenges to Musicology was described by Philip Brett in The Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians as "a defining moment in the field." He is...
’s The Elizabethan Madrigal (1962), E. R. Reilly’s Quantz and his Versuch (1971), E. H. Sparks’s The Music of Noel Bauldeweyn
Noel Bauldeweyn
Noel Bauldeweyn was a Franco-Flemish composer of the Renaissance, active in the Low Countries. A contemporary of Josquin des Prez, he had a strong reputation until well after the middle of the 16th century...
(1972), Essays in Musicology: a Tribute to Alvin Johnson edited by Lewis Lockwood
Lewis Lockwood
Lewis H. Lockwood is an American musicologist.He taught at Princeton University from 1958 to 1980, and at Harvard University from 1980 to 2002. He is currently a Distinguished Senior Scholar at Boston University and the Fanny Peabody Research Professor of Music, Emeritus, at Harvard...
and Edward Roesner (1990), and, in conjunction with the International Musicological Society, Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology edited by C. D. Adkins and A. Dickinson in succession to Helen Hewitt (1952, 1957, 1961, 1965, 1971, 1977, 1984 [first cumulative edition], 1990, 1996 [second series, second cumulative edition]). (All earlier editions of DDM are incorporated in the current on-line database.)