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

Sun Ra in Sin City

John Corbett

How Deep Is Your Love?

Alison Kinney

Secret Music

Christopher Carroll

Songs from Sinjar

Alex Cuadros

Map

Sound Systems

Miscellany

Greater than the New World.

The 600-year-old butt song from hell.

Stuck with the Greeks.

Bob Dylan, Peeping Tom.

Don’t lose hope.

Lifetime performance rights.

A score of 1-8.

The musical bat.

The tender brains of children.

Beware the comet-flute.

Something really useful and solid.

The modern ballad of the humpback whale.

The rawness of her voice.

Is that a flute in your pocket?

The song of annoyance.

Six sharp notes.

Busy, hip, and cluttered.

The mass production of cheap accordions.

Choking on the fruit.

Voices In Time

The Sound of Reason

c. 347 BC | Crete

Machine Music

1913 | Milan

The Old Song and Dance

1670 | Paris

Hey Nonny Nonny

1598 | Messina

Tin Ear

c. 1715 | London

Hold the Applause

1901 | Paris

He’s So Fined

1976 | New York City

Turn, Turn, Turn

1718 | Constantinople

House Rules

1711 | London

Prayer for Deliverance

c. 1825 | Maryland

Music Lesson

c. 100 | Rome

Getting the Band Together

1778 | Williamsburg, VA

Master Class

2017 | Germany

Battle of the Bands

c. 1850 | Kolotovka

The Sovereign Piano

1894 | London

Words Do Not Suffice

1841 | Boston

Command Performance

1815 | Bath

The Thing Itself

1818 | Dresden

Jonathan Biss Says the Unsayable

2017 | New York City

Unforgettable

1903 | Atlanta

Blowin’ in the Wind

c. 100 | Athens

Charts and Graphs

Automata for the People

Wild Combinations

Reigning Sounds

Magic Flutes

Old Is New Again

Body Talk

You’re So Vain

Super Conductor

Earth Music

Concert Halls of Fame

Big Band Theory

Contributors

Conversations

Ethel Smyth & Björk

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