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

How Deep Is Your Love?

Alison Kinney

Secret Music

Christopher Carroll

Songs from Sinjar

Alex Cuadros

The Emperor’s New Music

Xiaofei Tian

Sun Ra in Sin City

John Corbett

Map

Sound Systems

Miscellany

Don’t lose hope.

Choking on the fruit.

The rawness of her voice.

The modern ballad of the humpback whale.

Beware the comet-flute.

Busy, hip, and cluttered.

Bob Dylan, Peeping Tom.

Is that a flute in your pocket?

Six sharp notes.

The tender brains of children.

The 600-year-old butt song from hell.

The song of annoyance.

Something really useful and solid.

Lifetime performance rights.

Greater than the New World.

The mass production of cheap accordions.

Stuck with the Greeks.

A score of 1-8.

The musical bat.

Voices In Time

Music Lesson

c. 100 | Rome

The Old Song and Dance

1670 | Paris

The Sound of Reason

c. 347 BC | Crete

Command Performance

1815 | Bath

Blowin’ in the Wind

c. 100 | Athens

Unforgettable

1903 | Atlanta

Hey Nonny Nonny

1598 | Messina

House Rules

1711 | London

He’s So Fined

1976 | New York City

Hold the Applause

1901 | Paris

Words Do Not Suffice

1841 | Boston

The Thing Itself

1818 | Dresden

Master Class

2017 | Germany

Machine Music

1913 | Milan

Battle of the Bands

c. 1850 | Kolotovka

Turn, Turn, Turn

1718 | Constantinople

Getting the Band Together

1778 | Williamsburg, VA

Tin Ear

c. 1715 | London

Prayer for Deliverance

c. 1825 | Maryland

The Sovereign Piano

1894 | London

Jonathan Biss Says the Unsayable

2017 | New York City

Charts and Graphs

Magic Flutes

Reigning Sounds

Wild Combinations

Automata for the People

You’re So Vain

Earth Music

Big Band Theory

Super Conductor

Body Talk

Old Is New Again

Concert Halls of Fame

Contributors

Conversations

Ethel Smyth & Björk

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