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Founded in 1934, the AMS was begun by leading American musicologists of the time, and was crucial in legitimizing musicology as a scholarly discipline. At present, approximately 3000 individual members from forty nations are a part of the Society. Since 1948, the AMS has published the triannual Journal of the American Musicological Society.
Joseph Wilfred Kerman (3 April 1924 – 17 March 2014) was an American musicologist and music critic.Among the leading musicologists of his generation, his 1985 book Contemplating Music: Challenges to Musicology (published in the UK as Musicology) was described by Philip Brett in The Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians as "a defining moment in the field". [1]
Musicology Live 2004ever was a concert tour by American recording artist Prince to promote his Musicology album. The tour began on March 27, 2004 in Reno, Nevada and concluded on September 11 in San Jose, California .
In 2012, the Ludomusicology Research Group held its inaugural conference at the University of Oxford. [9] This was the first conference in the world to be focused specifically on video game music. [10] In 2014 the inaugural North American Conference on Video Game Music was held at Youngstown State University. [10]
Both Krieger and Densmore believe that the Doors’ debut album from 1967 and their fast, loose last record with Jim Morrison, 1971’s “L.A. Woman,” were their band’s finest recordings.
The American Institute of Musicology (AIM) is a musicological organization that researches, promotes and produces publications on early music. [1] Founded in 1944 by Armen Carapetyan , the AIM's chief objective is the publication of modern editions of medieval , Renaissance and early Baroque compositions and works of music theory .
In 1978, AMS introduced the world's first microprocessor controlled, 15-bit digital delay line, the AMS DMX 15-80. [3] One of the early users of the AMS DMX 15-80 was Manchester record producer Martin Hannett who would go on to own quite a few of the devices. By 1979, the DMX 15-80 was augmented with pitch changing capabilities.
The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music, located on the campus of the University of California, Los Angeles, is “the first school of music to be established in the University of California system.” [2] Established in 2007 under the purview of the UCLA School of Arts and Architecture and the UCLA Division of Humanities, the UC Board of Regents formally voted in January 2016 to establish the ...