Editor's Note by Daniel Shanahan

“…CORPUS studies have increasingly been of interest to music theorists, musicologists, and music psychology researchers, as is evident in the sheer number of excellent submissions to this special issue. …”
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Semitic-Syrian-Greek kontakion and Kyivan Rus kondakarion singing in Western European and American Byzantine and Paleoslavic studies by Zhulkovskyi Bohdan

“…For the first time in Ukrainian medieval studies has been made a comprehensive review of the works of famous foreign theologians, liturgists, historians, codicologists, paleographers, philologists and musicologists on polystrophic and monostrophic kontakion and phenomena related to the singing culture: such books as Kondakar, kondakarion notation, kondakarion style. …”
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МАЛОДОСЛІДЖЕНІ АСПЕКТИ ТРАДИЦІЙНОГО ВЕСІЛЛЯ УКРАЇНЦІВ / UNEXPLORED ASPECTS OF TRADITIONAL UKRAINIAN WEDDING by Олександр КУРОЧКІН

“…This case paid tribute to many ukrainian and foreign ethnographers, historians, folklorists, musicologists and other experts. Lack of focus on entertainment and gaming component is an old flaw of our ukrainian ethnology. …”
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The Worcester Fragments: a paleographical examination by Nyikos, EI

“…<p>The Worcester Fragments represent the largest extant collection of polyphonic music from thirteenth-century England, with over a hundred compositions (many of them unica) across more than sixty manuscript fragments. Musicologists have known about the fragments for over a century, but the majority of their attention has been devoted to the remnants of one volume with surviving medieval foliation. …”

Performing a political shift: avant-garde music in Cold War Spain by Sacau-Ferreira, E

“…As a result of this transition, the political implications of the activities of the composers and musicologists during the Franco years have been ignored or forgotten.…”

Soviet Musical Avant-Garde in the Context of Time (in the mid. 1950s – 1980s): Historical and Cultural Studies and Philosophical Aspects by O. V. Andreeva

“…A special role in the understanding of the theoretical aspects of the problem play the work of musicologists Yu. N. Kholopova, V. N. Kholopova, V. S. …”
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Vladimir Runchak’s Oeuvre: Historiographic Analysis by Wenshu Liu

“…The oeuvre of the famous Ukrainian composer, conductor, public activist, and the passionate propagandist of modern music of Volodymyr Runchak is in the area of special attention of music critics and musicologists. After all, his oeuvre represents the advanced position of the Ukrainian contemporary art music. …”
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Soltan Hajibeyov’s “Caravan” Symphonic Poem by Ровшана Керімова

“…The research methodology is based on a comprehensive generalization of the research of Azerbaijani and Russian musicologists in the genre of symphonic sketch based on musical-analytical, theoretical and historical analysis.  …”
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Symphonic Creative Activity of Rufat Ramazanov by Мехпара Рзаєва

“…At the same time, based on the scientific-theoretical principles and research of Azerbaijani and foreign musicologists, the article forms the methodological basis. …”
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Piano Pieces by a Prominent Representative of the Azerbaijani Composition School Ogtay Rajabov by Ельміра Гумбатова

“…The theoretical and methodological basis of the research is constituted of works by Russian and Azerbaijani musicologists available in this field. The scientific novelty of the research lies in pioneering a study of the composer Ogtay Rajabov’s piano creation and his directly analyzed miniatures as a research object for the first time. …”
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The Musical Work Reconsidered, In Hindsight by Gavin Steingo

“…Yet deciphering precisely when the work emerged has proved an immensely difficult task for musicologists.1 In particular, the publication of Lydia Goehr’s The Imaginary Museum of Musical Works—in which she famously argued that the work–concept crystallized around 1800—has provoked an endless litany of modifications and outright rebuttals.2 In many cases scholars have retained the gist of Goehr’s argument but have sought to push the date backwards, often to the period of their own specialization. …”
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Historical Background for the Creation of the Research Room of Music by Лейла Асланова

“…At the same time, the methodological basis of the article is based on the scientific-theoretical principles and research practices of Azerbaijani and foreign musicologists in the study of musical folklore, comparison of oral folk-art examples, recording of folk music samples. …”
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Zoltán Kodálys Harmonielehre – ein Rekonstruktionsversuch by Anna Dalos

“…Until his retirement in 1942, he introduced several generations of Hungarian composers, music theorists and musicologists to the subjects of musical form, counterpoint and harmony. …”
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Ukrainian Duma: Interpretation of Term and Genre Denominations by I. Ya. Zinkiv

“…The ancient Iranian component has been studied sufficiently in the material and spiritual culture of Ukraine, but the results of this study rarely fall within the attention of musicologists and ethnomusicologists. In the culture of Ukrainians, iranisms have been preserved since the Scythian-Sarmatian until Kozachchyna era, a period of the duma genre flourishing. …”
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CARNAVAL DE BARRANQUILLA: de Floro Manco à UNESCO. 100 anos de patrimônio cultural imaterial no documentário by Martha Sofia Lizcano Angarita, Danny Gonzalez

“…Producción fílmica Abstract The Barranquilla Carnival is one of the most well known popular and tradicional festivities of the Caribbean basin and has become the subject of numerous studies from an sample array of experts in anthropology, historians, sociologists and folklore experts as well as a source of inspiration for writers, musicologists, and film makers. This research overviews and compiles all the known film documentaries that featured the carnival with the specific goal of reconstructing a history of audiovisual archives and heritage of the pre fasting events. …”
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Recent Trends in the Study of Music of the Fourteenth, Fifteenth, and Sixteenth Centuries by Leach, E, Fallows, D, Van Orden, K

“…As in other humanistic disciplines, musicologists are opening new lines of inquiry that apply approaches from gender theory and psychoanalysis. …”

Power and Equity in the Academy: Change from Within by Ellie M. Hisama

“…Apart from Lewin, no faculty member ever attended a GGSM meeting and few attended our public colloquia, despite the prominence of the speakers we scheduled, including musicologists McClary and Paula Higgins, music theorist Joseph Straus, and composer and theorist Pozzi Escot. …”
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Lully et la prosodie française à la fin du XVIIe siècle by Claudia Schweitzer

“…Among his contemporaries, Lully was considered a master of the word-sound relationship. Even today, musicologists and musicians acknowledge the fact that in composing his melodies (especially recitatives), Lully strictly adhered to the rhythmic material provided by the text matrix, which in most cases came from Philippe Quinault (1635-1688). …”
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Editor’s Note: Sounding the Break: Music Studies and the Political by Tom Wetmore

“…Tamara Levitz’s opening article, emphasizing that “musicologists need to know which actions were undertaken, and on what material basis, in building their elite, white, exclusionary, patriarchal profession before they can undo them” (43), offers an incisive archival examination of the early institutional history of US musicology. …”
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Mary I. Ingraham, Joseph K. So, and Roy Moodley, eds. 2016. Opera in a Multicultural World: Coloniality, Culture, Performance. New York: Routledge by Jane Forner

“…A brief passage on Constant notes a trend familiar to recent generations of musicologists and music theorists: the rejection of binary oppositions in critical thought, in this case between “diversity” and “unity”: Constant suggests that multiple cultures coexist within communities or nations and individuals frequently—and concurrently—may experience both “pluralism” and “assimilation.” …”
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