AMS 2009 – Recap

Ryan Raul Banagale, still very much in the midst of conference recovery mode, offers a few highlights from AMS Philadelphia 200[9].

Should I Be A Musicologist?

Ryan responds to a few posts on the subject of embarking on graduate studies in music from our blog-friends at “Dial M.”

August Wilson and Musicology

Ryan Raul Bañagale spends part of Martin Luther King Day thinking about the work of August Wilson, fictionalized music history, its musicological potential.

Zoe Lang’s Guest Blog: Laying Down the Ground Rules

Kate van Orden, the Journal of the American Musicological Society, and the asterisk.

The Jack Kevorkian Papers at Armenian Library of the Americas

Did you know that “Dr. Death” also writes music?

Job Wiki, friend or foe?

Ryan Raul Bañagale discusses the new academic job wiki for jobs in musicology – is it “evil” or the best thing ever?

Teh Noob Musicology: ut-re-mi-fa/ut

Ryan responds to Phil Ford’s request for musicological lolz…

We’re back and we’ve brought piano trios.

While playing with Mozart’s piano trio fragments, Ryan Raul Bañagale, struck upon a “new” Mozart piano trio…

Benjamin Albritton’s Guest Blog: Six Fish, A Falcon, A Wounded Washerwoman, and The Dissertation Blues

Benjamin Albritton sits in the rare books room in a cold library in England. It is 3:05 pm. It’s gray out, kind of rainy, his socks are wet, and he has just been shocked out of his late-dissertation torpor by a fact that seems to make his current chapter fall into place: the king of France, in 1359, has just bought six fish from Lady Pembroke.

Ryan’s Very Musicological Day

Do you ever have one of those musicological days that is really exciting to you, but don’t have anyone to share it with? Let’s be honest, sometimes (most times) what we have to say is only meaningful or helpful or amusing to other musicologists. Well, I recently had a day like that and it prompted this blog.