Early Music
DisciplineEarly music
LanguageEnglish
Edited byAlan Howard, Elizabeth Eva Leach, Stephen Rose
Publication details
History1973–present
Publisher
FrequencyQuarterly
Standard abbreviations
ISO 4Early Music
Indexing
ISSN0306-1078 (print)
1741-7260 (web)
LCCN2004-235659
JSTOR03061078
OCLC no.38949504
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Early Music is a peer-reviewed academic journal specialising in the study of early music. It was established in 1973 and is published quarterly by Oxford University Press.[1] The co-editors are Alan Howard, Elizabeth Eva Leach Stephen Rose.

History

Early Music's founder was John Mansfield Thomson, an eminent New Zealand musicologist who worked for many decades in London, where he was a leading figure at the beginning of the early music revival.[1][a] Published by Oxford University Press (OUP), Thomson worked alongside the OUP's Alan Franks,[2] but characterized his relationship with the OUP as uneasy, he described control of the magazine by the music department as "spiritual death". Thomson imposed excellence and elegance in design when Early Music was launched, and was painstaking during more than a decade as editor in ensuring that high standards were met in all phases of publication. [3]

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Notes

  1. ^ Through Baroque Concerts, his concert promotion agency, he brought major performers of early music to London in the late 1960s. Among the musicians were Gustav Scheck (flute and treble recorder) and Walter Bergmann (basso continuo and harpsichord) whose concert at the Purcell Room in January 1968 included works by Loeillet de Gant and Leonardo Vinci. Thomson was music editor at Barrie & Jenkins and at Faber & Faber, and he worked briefly with Benjamin Britten at Aldeburgh.

Citations

  1. ^ a b Lodge, Martin (2001). "Thomson, John M(ansfield)". Grove Music Online. Oxford: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.47766. ISBN 978-1-56159-263-0. (subscription or UK public library membership required)
  2. ^ Phillips, Peter (16 September 1999). "John Mansfield Thomson". The Guardian. Retrieved 17 June 2023.
  3. ^ David Lane's Kaleidoscope: Fragments of Distant Times and Sundry Places

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