Open Access Musicology, Volume One
About this audiobook
This volume collects exciting new work in musicology. Contents:
Cracking the Code: What Notation Can Tell Us About Our Musical Values by S. Andrew Granade
Ancient Mesopotamian Music, the Politics of Reconstruction, and Extreme Early Music by Samuel Dorf
An Intermedia Approach to Seventeenth-Century English Popular Song Culture by Sarah F. Williams
Instrumental Music in Early Seventeenth-Century Italy: Instruments as Vehicles of Discovery by Rebecca Cypess
MacDowell’s Vanishing Indians by Dan Blim
Jenny Lind and the Making of Mainstream American Popular Music by Julia Chybowski
Listening to Music History by Nathan C. Bakkum
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About the author
Daniel’s research focuses on music historiography, music pedagogy, and the intersections between performance and analysis.
He is co-founder and editor of Open Access Musicology (OAM). He has also served on the program committee for the AMS Music History Pedagogy Study Group and is the former co-chair of the SMT Performance and Analysis Interest Group.
Daniel has presented his work at national and international conferences organized by such groups as the AHRC Research Centre for Musical Performance as Creative Practice, the College Music Society, the Centre for the History and Analysis of Recorded Music (CHARM), and the Society for Music Theory. Daniel used to work for Marston Records and has published in Music Theory Online, The Journal of Music History Pedagogy, European Meetings in Ethnomusicology, and Music Performance Research.
Louis Epstein is a historical musicologist whose research ranges from early twentith-century French music to digital mapping to the science of teaching and learning. Dr. Epstein has received fellowships and researching funding from the Fulbright Program, the French Embassy, the Georges Lurcy Foundation, the Whiting Foundation, the Associated Colleges of the Midwest, and the Arts and Humanities Research Council.
He has presented at national meetings of the American Musicological Society and the Society for American Music, as well as at conferences in the United Kingdom. His articles appear in Music & Politics, the Revue de musicologie, the Journal of Music History Pedagogy, and the Journal of Musicology. A double book review published in Notes: The Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association received the 2016 Eva Judd O'Meara Award for best review. He has also pursued research in the new field of digital, spatial history, working with St. Olaf undergraduates to produce a collection of interactive maps that bring music history to life: The Musical Geography Project, accessible at www.musicalgeography.org. His work on this project was recognized with the 2016 Teaching Award from the American Musicological Society.
