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

How Deep Is Your Love?

Alison Kinney

Secret Music

Christopher Carroll

The Emperor’s New Music

Xiaofei Tian

Songs from Sinjar

Alex Cuadros

Sun Ra in Sin City

John Corbett

Map

Sound Systems

Miscellany

The song of annoyance.

Lifetime performance rights.

The musical bat.

Six sharp notes.

Don’t lose hope.

Something really useful and solid.

Greater than the New World.

The 600-year-old butt song from hell.

Beware the comet-flute.

The tender brains of children.

A score of 1-8.

Busy, hip, and cluttered.

The modern ballad of the humpback whale.

The rawness of her voice.

Stuck with the Greeks.

Choking on the fruit.

Bob Dylan, Peeping Tom.

Is that a flute in your pocket?

The mass production of cheap accordions.

Voices In Time

Master Class

| Germany

The Thing Itself

| Dresden

He’s So Fined

| New York City

Unforgettable

| Atlanta

Music Lesson

c. | Rome

Battle of the Bands

c. | Kolotovka

Words Do Not Suffice

| Boston

Getting the Band Together

| Williamsburg, VA

Tin Ear

c. | London

Hold the Applause

| Paris

The Sovereign Piano

| London

Hey Nonny Nonny

| Messina

Machine Music

| Milan

Turn, Turn, Turn

| Constantinople

Blowin’ in the Wind

c. | Athens

House Rules

| London

The Sound of Reason

c. | Crete

Command Performance

| Bath

The Old Song and Dance

| Paris

Prayer for Deliverance

c. | Maryland

Charts and Graphs

Body Talk

Big Band Theory

Magic Flutes

Wild Combinations

Reigning Sounds

Super Conductor

Earth Music

You’re So Vain

Automata for the People

Concert Halls of Fame

Old Is New Again

Contributors

Conversations

Ethel Smyth & Björk

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Lapham’sDaily

U.S. secretary of agriculture Sonny Perdue meets with German minister of food and agriculture Christian Schmidt, 2017.

DÉjÀ Vu

Equal Climates

2017:

U.S. Department of Agriculture bans words related to climate change.

-350:

Aristotle denies that the climate is changing.

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