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There are 15 publications in this collection, published between 2013 and 2023.
Recent Work (1)

Catalogue of the Works of Hector Berlioz, Second edition, digital, 2018; revision 1, 2021

We are pleased to present the first revision of the Hector Berlioz digital catalogue. In order to use the embedded links in the catalogue fully, you must download or expand the document. We have transitioned our incipits from a dataset website and are now hosted on Google Drive. They are all still functional and will allow downloads, just as it was before. 

Open Access Policy Deposits (14)

Meditation on "La Prima Vez"

This music score was submitted for the Kaleidoscope 2020 Call for Scores, an open access collaboration with the UCLA Music Library.

As if Making a Confession

This music score was submitted for the Kaleidoscope 2020 Call for Scores, an open access collaboration with the UCLA Music Library.

From “Greater America” to America’s Music: Gilbert Chase and the Historiography of Borders

This essay considers the hotly debated U.S. border and its relationship to music historiography vis-à-vis the unconventional career of Gilbert Chase (1906-92), the first U.S. musicologist to take seriously the music of the Spanish-speaking world. I draw on his papers, housed at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, to suggest that little-known facts of Chase’s scholarly perspectives can give us food for thought in the fraught present. Central here are two visions of “American music,” both rooted in politics. One, the concept of “Greater America,” dates from the 1920s through World War II and informed Chase’s scholarly vision early on. Another vision, one that effectively reinforced U.S. superpower status, grew out of the Cold War. Paradoxically, it is Greater America, which Chase abruptly abandoned—as did U.S. society at large—that holds out the greatest promise today.

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