Category: Musicology

Have you ever heard the color green? How about tasted Miles Davis’s “Birth of the Cool”?  The phenomenon of experiencing something through unrelated senses is called synesthesia. Jenny Olivia Johnson,

The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music’s 2025–26 season offers something for everyone, with over 200 public concerts, recitals and panel discussions at UCLA and throughout the community. True to

University of California Press is launching Music and Data, an annual, thematic, online-only journal, in 2026 under the co-editorship of Thomas Hodgson, University of California, Los Angeles, and Rujing Stacy Huang,

(New York Times) Dean Michael Beckerman is the artistic advisor for the for the Bard Music Festival Martinů and His World. Martinu, a Czech composer who thrived on the artistic and

The Yale Institute of Sacred Music introduced six new long-term fellows for the 2025-26 academic year. Cesar Favila, associate professor of musicology at The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music,

In December 2024, just before the start of Spring Semester, Wade Dean received some bad news. At the time, He was teaching courses in music theory and jazz history at

In 1925, UCLA established the annual Faculty Research Lectures to recognize exceptional scholars. Ray Knapp, distinguished professor of musicology will speak on "How Music(ology) Saves Lives."

The compositions of Michael Abels are marked by eclectic themes and sounds, creating rich soundscapes that explore connections between global musical traditions. In 2023 he won the Pulitzer Prize for

Bernard Gordillo, chancellor’s postdoctoral scholar in history, musicology, and the Chicano Studies Research Center, has been named the Central America Area Editor for the Grove Music Online: Latin American and Iberian Music.