Merry Company on a Terrace, by Jan Steen, c. 1670. © The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Fletcher Fund, 1958.

Music

Volume X, Number 4 | fall 2017

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’Round Midnight

Lewis H. Lapham

The Emperor’s New Music

Xiaofei Tian

Songs from Sinjar

Alex Cuadros

Secret Music

Christopher Carroll

How Deep Is Your Love?

Alison Kinney

Sun Ra in Sin City

John Corbett

Map

Sound Systems

Miscellany

The mass production of cheap accordions.

Don’t lose hope.

Something really useful and solid.

The modern ballad of the humpback whale.

Choking on the fruit.

Busy, hip, and cluttered.

The tender brains of children.

Beware the comet-flute.

The song of annoyance.

The musical bat.

The rawness of her voice.

Six sharp notes.

Greater than the New World.

The 600-year-old butt song from hell.

A score of 1-8.

Lifetime performance rights.

Bob Dylan, Peeping Tom.

Stuck with the Greeks.

Is that a flute in your pocket?

Voices In Time

Blowin’ in the Wind

c. 100 | Athens

Music Lesson

c. 100 | Rome

Turn, Turn, Turn

1718 | Constantinople

Unforgettable

1903 | Atlanta

Hold the Applause

1901 | Paris

House Rules

1711 | London

Words Do Not Suffice

1841 | Boston

Getting the Band Together

1778 | Williamsburg, VA

The Old Song and Dance

1670 | Paris

Command Performance

1815 | Bath

The Sound of Reason

c. 347 BC | Crete

Master Class

2017 | Germany

Hey Nonny Nonny

1598 | Messina

Prayer for Deliverance

c. 1825 | Maryland

The Thing Itself

1818 | Dresden

Machine Music

1913 | Milan

Tin Ear

c. 1715 | London

He’s So Fined

1976 | New York City

The Sovereign Piano

1894 | London

Battle of the Bands

c. 1850 | Kolotovka

Jonathan Biss Says the Unsayable

2017 | New York City

Charts and Graphs

Concert Halls of Fame

Old Is New Again

Magic Flutes

Reigning Sounds

Earth Music

Super Conductor

Big Band Theory

Automata for the People

Body Talk

Wild Combinations

You’re So Vain

Contributors

Conversations

Ethel Smyth & Björk

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