It’s hard to believe, but another busy year at Oxford University Press has gone by. Join our music team as we take a look back at the year that was 2015, from new scholarship to new faces, with a combination of computers, cake, and chicken.
January
University Press Scholarship Online reached a milestone of over 500 works of music scholarship available online from 20 university presses and scholarly publishers.
February
We welcomed Ben Selby as the new Director of Music Publishing.
Music Theory Spectrum‘s most read article of 2015, “What Did Danger Mouse Do? The Grey Album and Musical Composition in Configurable Culture” by Kyle Adams, was published.
Music & Letters‘ most read article of 2015, “Music, Memory, Emotion: Richard Strauss and The Legacies of War” by Neil Gregor, was published.
March
Joel Sachs, author of Henry Cowell: A Man Made of Music, spoke with Donald Macleod at the Royal Academy of Music’s museum and bookstore discussing what makes Henry Cowell such a fascinating biographical subject.
Early Music‘s most read article of 2015, “Which Genial Day? More on the court of origin of Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas, with a shortlist of dates for its possible performance before King Charles II” by Andrew Pinnock, was published.
April
Grove Music Online updated with nearly 300 new articles from The Grove Dictionary of American Music, Second Edition, and nearly 300 from The Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments, Second Edition.
The Opera Quarterly‘s most read article of 2015, “Wagner after Freud: Stages of Analysis” by Tom Grey and Adrian Daub, was published. (It appears in Opera after Freud.)
May
Our Twitter account @OUPMusic hit the 5,000 follower mark on Twitter.
Composer Bob Chilcott celebrated his 60th birthday with a special concert and party in Oxford.
June
The Grove Music team welcomed Daniel DiPaolo to the team as Associate Editor.
July
The summer of 2015 saw the publication of our Kodaly Today Handbook Series, the first comprehensive system to update and apply the Kodály concepts to teaching music in elementary school classrooms.
BBC Proms celebrated its 120th anniversary and several of our authors and composers were involved in special events.
August
We welcomed Music Marketing Assistant Celine Aenlle-Rocha to the team.
John Rutter’s new major work, The Gift of Life, was published. Five members of the Music Department enjoyed the UK premiere in Coventry Cathedral.
We celebrated John Rutter’s 70th birthday at the Association of British Choral Directors‘ (ABCD) conference in Manchester with a special cake and champagne reception.
The Opera Quarterly published a special issue that focused on opera and dance.
September
The new James Bond song by Sam Smith was announced — the same month we published The James Bond Songs: Pop Anthems of Late Capitalism by Adrian Daub and Charles Kronengold.
The Musical Quarterly‘s most read article of 2015, ““Making Songs Pay”: Tin Pan Alley’s Formula for Success” by Daniel Goldmark, was published.
October
General Editor of the acclaimed Voiceworks series, Peter Hunt, presented workshops promoting the series at three different music education conferences in Canada.
The 47th annual Deems Taylor/Virgil Thomson award winners were announced! Several of our authors won including:
- The Virgil Thomson Award for Outstanding Music Criticism in the concert music field: David Brodbeck, Defining Deutschtum: Political Ideology, German Identity and Music-Critical Discourse in Liberal Vienna
- Honoree: Elizabeth Hellmuth Margulis, On Repeat: How Music Plays the Mind
- Honoree: Jennifer Fleeger, Mismatched Women: The Siren’s Song through the Machine
The Musical Quarterly published an issue this fall focusing on Tin Pan Alley.
November
On 22 November, a concert was held in memory of Sir David Willcocks at King’s College Chapel. The concert was broadcast on BBC Radio 3 on 1 December.
American Musicological Society awards were announced. Several of our authors won including:
- Robert M. Stevenson Award: Carol A. Hess, Representing the Good Neighbor
- Ruth A. Solie Award: Lily Hirsch and Tina Frühauf, Dislocated Memories
- Marjorie Weston Emerson Award: Matthew Riley, The Viennese Minor-Key Symphony in the Age of Haydn and Mozart
- Music in American Culture Award: Carol J. Oja, Bernstein Meets Broadway
At the AMS conference, Music Editor Norm Hirschy bumped into his good friend Colonel Sanders.
December
The premiere of Howard Skempton’s epic The Rime of the Ancient Mariner took place on 4 December, performed by Roderick Williams and BCMG.
Early Music’s most recent issue focused on early music and modern technology.
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