Musical Quarterly
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I. Basic Journal Info

Country

United States

Journal ISSN: 00274631, 17418399

Publisher: Oxford University Press

History: 1915-1986, 1989-2002, 2004-2007, 2009-2020

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The Musical Quarterly founded in 1915 by Oscar Sonneck has long been cited as the premier scholarly musical journal in the United States. Over the years it has published the writings of many important composers and musicologists including Aaron Copland Arnold Schoenberg Marc Blitzstein Henry Cowell and Camille SaintSaens. The journal focuses on the merging areas in scholarship where much of the challenging new work in the study of music is being produced.Regular sections include American Musics Music and Culture The Twentieth Century and Beyond and an Institutions Industries Technologies section which examines music and the ways it is created and consumed. In addition a fifth section entitled Primary Sources features discussions on issues of biography texts and manuscripts reflections on leading figures personal statements by noted performers and composers and essays on performances and recordings. Along with discussions of important new books MQ also publishes review essays on a wide variety of significant new music performances and recordings.