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Early Music

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Journal of the Royal Musical Association

Editor Dr Rachel Cowgill, University of Leeds                         Reviews Editor Suzanne Aspden

The journal was founded in the 19th century under the title Proceedings of the Royal musical Association. It was established in it present form in 1986 (replacing the Association's Proceedings) and is now one of the major international refereed journals in its field. Its editorial policy is to publish outstanding articles in fields ranging from historical and critical musicology to theory and analysis, ethnomusicology, and popular music studies. The journal works to disseminate knowledge across the discipline and communicate specialist perspectives to a broad readership, while maintaining the highest scholarly standards. It is read by academics, teachers, students and librarians.

Published   May, Nov

Rates          Full page   £310 / $620        Half page   £215 / $430

Print run     1,050

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Music and Letters

Editors                                                                                                                                                                                           Nigel Fortune, former Reader in Music, University of Birmingham       Daniel Grimley, University of Nottingham                                        Daniel Chua, King’s College, London                                               Rebecca Herissone, King’s College, London

Music & Letters is a leading international journal of musical scholarship, publishing articles on topics ranging from antiquity to the present day and embracing musics from classical, popular, and world traditions. Since its foundation in the 1920s, Music & Letters has especially encouraged fruitful dialogue between musicology and other disciplines. It is renowned for its long and lively reviews sections, the most comprehensive and thought-provoking in any musicological journal, making it essential reading for academics,  teachers, students and librarians.

Published   Quarterly - Feb, May, Aug, Nov

Rates          Full page   £320 / $640        Half page   £220 / $440

Print run     1,150

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The Musical Quarterly

Editor       Dr Leon Botstein, President of Bard College since 1975,                                                                                                   Music Director and Principal Conductor of the American Symphony Orchestra

The Musical Quarterly, founded in 1915 by Oscar Sonneck, has long been cited as the premier scholarly musical journal in the United States. Over the years it has published the writings of many important composers and musicologists, including Aaron Copland, Arnold Schoenberg, Marc Blitzstein, Henry Cowell, and Camille Saint-Saens. The journal focuses on the merging areas in scholarship where much of the challenging new work in the study of music is being produced.

Regular sections include 'American Musics', 'Music and Culture', 'The Twentieth Century', and an 'Institutions, Industries, Technologies' section which examines music and the ways it is created and consumed. In addition, a fifth section entitled 'Primary Sources' features discussions on issues of biography, texts, and manuscripts; reflections on leading figures; personal statements by noted performers and composers; and essays on performances and recordings. Along with discussions of important new books, MQ publishes review essays on a wide variety of significant new music performances and recordings.

Published   Quarterly - Feb, May, Sept, Nov

Rates          Full page   £360 / $720        Half page   £250 / $500

Print run     2,400

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The Opera Quarterly

Editor    David J Levin, University of Chicago

For two decades, The Opera Quarterly, has earned enthusiastic praise from opera lovers and professionals for its presentation of stimulating, enlightening and enjoyable reading on all aspects of opera. Each issue contains several feature articles, written by noted authorities in the world of opera. Incisive reviews of books, recordings and videotapes, and interviews with and remembrances of great vocalists make this a leading opera reference source. In addition, each issue of The Opera Quarterly is abundantly illustrated - with rare, personal, and archival photographs, musical examples, and drawings. The summer issue, traditionally a commemorative, is devoted to in-depth coverage of one major composer, singer, or topic of interest. Recent theme issues have spotlighted Donizetti, Richard Strauss, Bellini, tenor Alfredo Kraus, Berlioz and French grand opera.  The journal is read by musicologists, historians, musicians, vocalists, librarians, scholars, students, theatre professionals, as well as being of interest to opera enthusiasts.

Published   Quarterly - Jan, April, Aug, Oct

Rates          Full page   £390 / $780        Half page   £270 / $540

Print run     1,400

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