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Ways of Writing About Pre-Modern Musicians

    

The Journal of the Royal Musical Association's first Virtual Special Collection, curated by and featuring an introduction from Lisa Colton and Brianna Dolce, showcases ways of writing about musicians in the pre-modern era. 

Focusing in particular on contributions which discuss the careers of musicians themselves, the collection includes articles within the following themes: how to narrate a history of musicians before 1400; types of musical profession during the late medieval and early modern periods; and specific groups or collections of musicians, and their networks of patronage.

    

    

Prelude to Afternoons of Ultramodern Synaesthetes

    

This second Virtual Special Collection of articles from the Journal of the Royal Musical Association archives, curated by and featuring an introduction by Brian Inglis, presents approaches to early musical modernism in the period around the First World War.

Within the context of correspondence between Sorabji and Philip Heseltine (whose article of 1918 is discussed), the essay engages with varied themes including gendered identity, women authors, post-tonal harmony, synaesthesia, and orientalism.

    

    

    

Scoping the Archive at 150

The third Virtual Special Collection of articles from the Journal of the Royal Musical Association archives, curated and introduced by Deborah Mawer, offers an overview of the diverse articles appearing especially in the first seventy-five years of the Journal’s existence through to around 1950.

To demonstrate the scope for future curated collections to explore specific themes in greater detail, this essay identifies broad article groupings on music theory, organology, history and criticism, music beyond Western traditions, women authors, composer authors, and early musicologists.