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

Songs from Sinjar

Alex Cuadros

Secret Music

Christopher Carroll

How Deep Is Your Love?

Alison Kinney

Sun Ra in Sin City

John Corbett

The Emperor’s New Music

Xiaofei Tian

Map

Sound Systems

Miscellany

Greater than the New World.

The mass production of cheap accordions.

The tender brains of children.

Busy, hip, and cluttered.

Beware the comet-flute.

The modern ballad of the humpback whale.

The rawness of her voice.

The musical bat.

Something really useful and solid.

Is that a flute in your pocket?

Don’t lose hope.

A score of 1-8.

Six sharp notes.

Lifetime performance rights.

Bob Dylan, Peeping Tom.

The song of annoyance.

Stuck with the Greeks.

The 600-year-old butt song from hell.

Choking on the fruit.

Voices In Time

Battle of the Bands

c. 1850 | Kolotovka

Master Class

2017 | Germany

Tin Ear

c. 1715 | London

Music Lesson

c. 100 | Rome

The Sound of Reason

c. 347 BC | Crete

Machine Music

1913 | Milan

Words Do Not Suffice

1841 | Boston

He’s So Fined

1976 | New York City

Hold the Applause

1901 | Paris

Command Performance

1815 | Bath

Hey Nonny Nonny

1598 | Messina

House Rules

1711 | London

The Sovereign Piano

1894 | London

Unforgettable

1903 | Atlanta

Blowin’ in the Wind

c. 100 | Athens

Getting the Band Together

1778 | Williamsburg, VA

Prayer for Deliverance

c. 1825 | Maryland

Jonathan Biss Says the Unsayable

2017 | New York City

Turn, Turn, Turn

1718 | Constantinople

The Old Song and Dance

1670 | Paris

The Thing Itself

1818 | Dresden

Charts and Graphs

Old Is New Again

Reigning Sounds

Wild Combinations

Automata for the People

Super Conductor

You’re So Vain

Body Talk

Magic Flutes

Big Band Theory

Earth Music

Concert Halls of Fame

Contributors

Conversations

Ethel Smyth & Björk

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