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

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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

How Deep Is Your Love?

Alison Kinney

Secret Music

Christopher Carroll

Sun Ra in Sin City

John Corbett

Map

Sound Systems

Miscellany

Beware the comet-flute.

Greater than the New World.

The modern ballad of the humpback whale.

The musical bat.

Is that a flute in your pocket?

The 600-year-old butt song from hell.

Lifetime performance rights.

The mass production of cheap accordions.

A score of 1-8.

The song of annoyance.

The tender brains of children.

Don’t lose hope.

Stuck with the Greeks.

The rawness of her voice.

Something really useful and solid.

Busy, hip, and cluttered.

Six sharp notes.

Bob Dylan, Peeping Tom.

Choking on the fruit.

Voices In Time

Hold the Applause

1901 | Paris

Blowin’ in the Wind

c. 100 | Athens

Getting the Band Together

1778 | Williamsburg, VA

Turn, Turn, Turn

1718 | Constantinople

The Thing Itself

1818 | Dresden

House Rules

1711 | London

Unforgettable

1903 | Atlanta

Master Class

2017 | Germany

He’s So Fined

1976 | New York City

The Sovereign Piano

1894 | London

Machine Music

1913 | Milan

Hey Nonny Nonny

1598 | Messina

Battle of the Bands

c. 1850 | Kolotovka

Words Do Not Suffice

1841 | Boston

The Sound of Reason

c. 347 BC | Crete

Prayer for Deliverance

c. 1825 | Maryland

Tin Ear

c. 1715 | London

Jonathan Biss Says the Unsayable

2017 | New York City

The Old Song and Dance

1670 | Paris

Command Performance

1815 | Bath

Music Lesson

c. 100 | Rome

Charts and Graphs

Old Is New Again

Super Conductor

Big Band Theory

Wild Combinations

Automata for the People

You’re So Vain

Earth Music

Reigning Sounds

Body Talk

Concert Halls of Fame

Magic Flutes

Contributors

Conversations

Ethel Smyth & Björk

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