American Society for Musicology
The American Musicological Society (AMS) is a professional association of musicologists in America (USA).
The organization is recruited from members of academic research in a variety of areas such as teaching and research funding. It was founded in 1934. The founding fathers were George S. Dickinson, Richard Engel, Gustave Reese , Helen Heffron Roberts, Joseph Schillinger , Charles Seeger, Harold Spivack, Oliver Strunk and Joseph Yasser; Otto Kinkeldey, the first American professor to also teach musicology at Cornell University , was the first president.
literature
- Oliver Strunk : State and Resources of Musicology in the United States , ACLS Bulletin 19 (1932)
- Arthur Mendel , Curt Sachs , and Carroll C. Pratt : Some Aspects of Musicology (New York, 1957)
- BS Brook, ed .: American Musicological Society, Greater New York Chapter: a Programmatic History 1935-1965 (New York, c1965)
- WJ Mitchell, "A Hitherto Unknown - or a Recently Discovered ...," Musicology and the Computer, ed. B. S. Brook (New York, 1970), 1-8
- Richard Crawford: The American Musicological Society 1934-1984. An Anniversary Essay (Philadelphia, 1984)