Discipline | Classical music |
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Language | English |
Edited by | Antony Bye |
Publication details | |
Former name(s) | The Musical Times and Singing Class Circular |
History | 1844–present |
Publisher | Musical Times Publications (United Kingdom) |
Frequency | Quarterly |
Standard abbreviations | |
ISO 4 | Music. Times |
Indexing | |
ISSN | 0027-4666 |
LCCN | 2004-235602 |
JSTOR | 00274666 |
OCLC no. | 53165808 |
Links | |
The Musical Times is an academic journal of classical music edited and produced in the United Kingdom and currently the oldest such journal still being published in the country.[1]
The periodical was founded as a monthly in 1844 by J. Alfred Novello, head of music publishing company Novello and Co, who had previously founded the weekly Musical World in 1836,[2] and who in 1842 acquired Mainzer's Musical Times and Singing Circular. It first appeared as The Musical Times and Singing Class Circular, a name which was retained until 1903.[3][4] From the very beginning every issue - initially just eight pages - contained a simple piece of choral music (alternating secular and sacred), which choral society members subscribed to collectively for the sake of the music.[5]
Its title was shortened to its present name from January 1904.[6] Even during World War II it continued to be published regularly, making it the world's oldest continuously published periodical devoted to western classical music.[7] In 1947 a two volume compilation of material from the first 100 years of the magazine, edited by Percy Scholes, was published.[8]
The journal originally appeared monthly but is now a quarterly publication. It is available online at JSTOR and RILM Abstracts of Music Literature Full Text.