Back Issues
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A list of articles (only) in each issue, year by year from volume 1 (1975) through volume 32 (2006), appears below. A complete and integrated index of all volumes, covering reviews as well as articles, is also available on this website.
Volume 1 (1975)
- Laurence C. Witten II, "Apollo, Orpheus, and David: A Study of the Crucial Century in the Development of Bowed Strings in North Italy 1480-1580 as Seen in Graphic Evidence and Some Surviving Instruments"
- J. Richard Haefer, "North American Indian Musical Instruments: Some Organological Distribution Problems"
- Shelley Davis, "The Orchestra under Clemens Wenzeslaus: Music at a Late- Eighteenth-Century Court"
- Fong Chow, "Han Dynasty Musicians and Instruments"
Volume 2 (1976)
- Charles H. Kaufman, "Musical Instrument Makers in New Jersey, 1796-1860"
- Martha Maas, "The Phorminx in Classical Greece"
- Edmund A. Bowles, "On Using the Proper Tympani in the Performance of Baroque Music"
- Robert E. Eliason, "Brasses with Both Keys and Valves"
- Barbara Brewster Hoag, "A Spanish Clavichord Tuning of the Seventeenth Century"
Volume 3 (1977)
- Jane Bowers, "New Light on the Development of the Transverse Flute between about 1650 and 1770"
- Robert E. Eliason, "The Dresden Key Bugle"
- Stephen Bonta, "From Violone to Violoncello: A Question of Strings?"
- Edmund A. Bowles, "Iconography as a Tool for Examining the Loud Consort in the Fifteenth Century"
Volume 4 (1978)
- Stephen Bonta, "Terminology for the Bass Violin in Seventeenth-Century Italy"
- William R. Dowd, "A Classification System for Ruckers and Couchet Double Harpsichords"
- Robert E. Eliason, "Letters to Marsh & Chase from Graves & Company, Musical Instrument Makers"
- Sheridan Germann, "Regional Schools of Harpsichord Decoration"
Volume 5/6 (1979/80)
- Standley Howell, "Paulus Paulirinus of Prague on Musical Instruments"
- Frederick Crane, "Tobias Schönfeld's Compendium instrumentorum musicalium (Liegnitz, 1625)"
- Albert R. Rice, "The Clarinet as Described by Lorents Nicolai Berg (1782)"
- Robert E. Eliason, "The Meachams, Musical Instrument Makers of Hartford and Albany"
- Edmund A. Bowles, "Nineteenth-Century Innovations in the Use and Construction of the Timpani"
- Margaret Anne Downie, "The Modern Greek Lyra"
Volume 7 (1981)
- Thomas McGeary, "Harpsichord Mottoes"
- Phillip T. Young, "A Bass Clarinet by the Mayrhofers of Passau"
- Cynthia Adams Hoover, "The Steinways and Their Pianos in the Nineteenth Century"
- Karl Signell, "The Mystique of the Shakuhachi"
Volume 8 (1982)
- Cecil Adkins and Alis Dickinson, "A Trumpet by Any Other Name: Toward an Etymology of the Trumpet Marine"
- Robert E. Eliason, "George Catlin, Hartford Musical Instrument Maker (Part 1)"
- Patricia Matusky, "Musical Instruments and Musicians of the Malay Shadow Puppet Theater"
- James H. Richards, "Reed Organ Coverage in The New Grove"
- Gary M. Stewart, "The Restoration of a 1608 Trombone by Jacob Bauer, Nuremberg"
Volume 9 (1983)
- Brian Klitz, "The Bassoon in Chamber Music of the Seventeenth Century"
- Robert E. Eliason, "George Catlin, Hartford Musical Instrument Maker (Part 2)"
- Ralph T. Dudgeon, "Joseph Haliday, Inventor of the Keyed Bugle"
- Bernard Brauchli, "The Clavichord in Christian Friedrich Gottlieb Thon's Keyboard Manual, Ueber Klavierinstrumente (1817)"
- John W. Coltman, "Theobald Boehm and the Scale of the Modern Flute"
Volume 10 (1984)
- Lynn Wood Martin, "The Colonna-Stella Sambuca lincea, an Enharmonic Keyboard Instrument"
- Richard Semmens, "The Bassoons in Marin Mersenne's Harmonie universelle (1636)"
- Stewart Pollens, "The Pianos of Bartolomeo Cristofori"
- Paul White, "Early Bassoon Reeds: A Survey of Some Important Examples"
- John M. Schechter, "The Diatonic Harp in Ecuador: Historical Background and Modern Traditions (Part 1)"
Volume 11 (1985)
- Wilson Barry, "Henri Arnaut de Zwolle's Clavicordium and the Origin of the Chekker"
- Standley Howell, "Ramos de Pareja's `Brief Discussion of Various Instruments'"
- Peter Williams, "Was Johann Sebastian Bach an Organ Expert or an Acquisitive Reader of Andreas Werckmeister?"
- Bruce Haynes, "Johann Sebastian Bach's Pitch Standards: The Woodwind Perspective"
- Albert R. Rice and Peter J. Bukalski, "Two Reed Contrabasses (Contrabassi ad ancia) at Claremont"
- John M. Schechter, "The Diatonic Harp in Ecuador: Historical Background and Modern Traditions (Part 2)"
Volume 12 (1986)
- Howard Mayer Brown, "Notes (and Transposing Notes) on the Transverse Flute in the Early Sixteenth Century"
- Bruce Haynes, "Questions of Tonality in Bach's Cantatas: The Woodwind Perspective"
- Gunther Joppig, "Sarrusophone, Rothphone (Saxorusophone) and Reed Contrabass"
- Dale A. Olsen, "The Flutes of El Dorado: An Archaeomusicological Investigation of the Tairona Civilization of Colombia"
- Robert A. Lehman, "Preparation and Management of a Descriptive Inventory for a Collection of Flutes"
Volume 13 (1987)
- Stewart Pollens, "The Bonafinis Spinet: An Early Harpsichord Converted into a Tangent Piano"
- Albert Cohen, "Jean Marius' Clavecin brisè and Clavecin à maillets Revisited: The `Dossier Marius' at the Paris Academy of Sciences"
- Linda Simonson, "A Burmese Arched Harp (Saung-gauk) and Its Pervasive Buddhist Symbolism"
- John Henry van der Meer, "The Typology and History of the Bass Clarinet"
- Stuart-Morgan Vance, "Carte's Flute Patents of the Mid-Nineteenth Century and Related Systems"
Volume 14 (1988)
- Cecil Adkins and Alis Dickinson, "Miniaturization of the Positive Organ, 1570-1750"
- Stephen Bonta, "Catline Strings Revisited"
- Margaret Downie Banks and James W. Jordan, "C. G. Conn: The Man (1844-1931) and His Company (1874-1915)"
- Harold E. Griswold, "Changes in the Tonal Character of the Eighteenth-Century French Bassoon"
- Sue Carole DeVale, "Musical Instruments and Ritual: A Systematic Approach"
Volume 15 (1989)
- Richard W. Payne, "Indian Flutes of the Southwest"
- John A. Rice, "Anton Walter, Instrument Maker to Leopold II"
- Alfredo Bernardini, "Woodwind Makers in Venice, 1790-1900"
- Wilson Barry, "Theophilus on Making Organ Pipes"
- Thomas McGeary, "German-Austrian Keyboard Temperaments and Tuning Methods, 1770-1830: Evidence from Contemporary Sources
- Wilson Barry, "The Lodewyk Theewes Claviorganum and Its Position in the History of Keyboard Instruments"
- Cecil Adkins, "Oboes Beyond Compare: The Instruments of Hendrik and Fredrik Richters"
- Simon Levin, "Collecting of Musical Instruments in Russia and the Soviet Union"
- Wanda Bryant, "The Keyless Double Reed Aerophone: Its Usage, Construction, and Worldwide Distribution"
Volume 17 (1991)
- Michael Marissen, "Organological Questions and Their Significance in J.S. Bach's Fourth Brandenburg Concerto"
- William E. Hettrick, "Identifying and Defining the Ruszpfeif: Some Observations and Etymological Theories"
- John R. Watson, "Historical Musical Instruments: A Claim to Use, an Obligation to Preserve"
- Dale Higbee, "Recorders in Bach Cantata 161, Komm, du süsse Todesstunde"
- James B. Kopp, "Notes on the Bassoon in Seventeenth-Century France"
- Wilson Barry, "The Scaling of Flemish Virginals and Harpsichords"
Volume 18 (1992)
- Albert R. Rice, "The Musical Instrument Collection of Michiel van Bolhuis (1764)"
- Richard W. Payne and John D. Hartley, "Pre-Columbian Flutes of Mesoamerica"
- Bernard Brauchli, "Aspects of Early Keyboard Technique: Hand and Finger Positions, as Seen in Early Treatises and Iconographical Documents" (Part 1)
Volume 19 (1993)
- Laurence Libin, "John Huber's Pianos in Context"
- Frederick R. Selch, "Some Moravian Makers of Bowed Stringed Instruments"
- Stephen L. Pinel, "Thomas and William Robjohn: A Study of Innovative Organ Building"
Volume 20 (1994)
- Eric Charry, "West African Harps"
- Herbert Heyde, "The Early Berlin Valve and an Unsigned Tuba at the Shrine to Music Museum"
- Beryl Kenyon de Pascual, "The One-Man Band in Eighteenth-Century Spain and Instrument No. 89.4.1039 in the Metropolitan Museum of Art"
- Laurence Libin, "John Huber Revisited"
- Benjamin Vogel, "Two Tangent Square Pianos in Poland"
- Bernard Brauchli, "Aspects of Early Keyboard Technique: Hand and Finger Positions, as Seen in Early Treatises and Iconographical Documents" (Part 2)
Volume 21 (1995)
- Harrison Powley, "The Drum Tablature Tradition of American Military Music of the Early Nineteenth Century: Levi Lovering's The Drummers Assistant, or The Art of Drumming Made Easy"
- John A. Rice, "Stein's 'Favorite Instrument': A Vis-à-vis Piano-Harpsichord in Naples"
- R. Allen Lott, "Chickering, Steinway, and Three Nineteenth-Century European PianoVirtuosos"
Volume 22 (1996)
- Sam Quigley, "The Raffles Gamelan at Claydon House"
- Cecil Adkins, "William Milhouse and the English Classical Oboe"
- Ardal Powell, "The Tromlitz Flute"
- Pamela L. Poulin, "Anton Stadler's Basset Clarinet: Recent Discoveries in Riga"
Volume 23 (1997)
- John Koster, "The Divided Bridge, Due Tension, and Rational Striking Point in Early English Grand Pianos"
- Henry M. Johnson, "The Koto: Musical Instrument, Material Culture, and Meaning"
- Patrizio Barbieri, "Musical Instruments and Players in J.-A. Charles's Acoustique (Paris, c. 1787-1802) and Other French Sources"
- Jeffrey L. Snedeker, "Fétis and the "Meifred" Horn"
Volume 24 (1998)
- Edmund A. Bowles, "Mendelssohn, Schumann, and Ernst Pfundt: A Pivotal Relationship between Two Composers and a Timpanist"
- Sabine K. Klaus, "German Square Pianos with Prellmechanik in Major American Museum Collections: Distinguishing Characteristics of Regional Schools in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries"
- Gregory Barnett, "The Violoncello da Spalla: Shouldering the Cello in the Baroque Era"
- Mary Oleskiewicz, "A Museum, a World War, and a Rediscovery: Flutes by Quantz and Others from the Hohenzollern Museum"
Volume 25 (1999)
- Peter Spohr, "Some Early American Boehm Flutes
- Susan E. Thompson, "Deutsche Schalmei: A Question of Terminology"
- Jan Bouterse, "The Deutsche Schalmeien of Richard Haka"
- Cecil Adkins, "Proportions and Architectural Motives in the Design of the Eighteenth-Century Oboe"
Volume 26 (2000)
- David Sutherland, "Bartolomeo Cristofori's Paired Cembalos of 1726"
- Bruce Haynes, "'Sweeter than Hautbois': Towards a Conception of the Schalmey of the Baroque Period"
- Michael D. Greenberg, "The Double-Bass Class at the Paris Conservatory, 1826-1832"
- William E. Hettrick, "The Dolceola: A Story of Musical Enterprise in Toledo, Ohio"
- Laurence Libin, "Progress, Adaptation, and the Evolution of Musical Instruments"
Volume 27 (2001)
- Cecil Adkins, "The German Oboe in the Eighteenth Century"
- Stewart Carter, "The G½tter Family: Wind Instrument Makers and Dealers to the Moravian Brethren in America
- Robert E. Eliason, "Charles G. Christman, Musical Instrument Maker in Nineteenth-Century New York"
- Sabine K. Klaus, "German Square and Harp-Shaped Pianos with Stossmechanik in American Collections: Distinguishing Characteristics of Regional Types in the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries"
Volume 28 (2002)
- Darcy Kuronen, "Early Violin Making in New England"
- James B. Kopp, "Precursors of the Bassoon in France before Louis XIV"
- Colin Huehns, "Dating Old Huqin: New Research on Examples of pre-1949 Instruments in Three Major British Collections"
- Anna Borg-Cardona, "The Maltese Friction Drum"
Volume 29 (2003)
- Robert E. Eliason, “Rhodolph Hall: Nineteenth-Century Keyed Bugle, Cornet, and Clarinet Soloist”
- John Topham, “A Dendrochronological Study of Violins Made by Antonio Stradivari “
- Robert S. Howe, “The Invention and Early Development of the”Saxophone, 1840–55”
- Henry Johnson, “Traditions Old and New: Continuity, Change, and Innovation in Japanese Koto-Related Zithers”
Volume 30 (2004)
- John Koster, “Michael Praetorius’s Pfeifflin zur Choprmaß”
- Jayson Dobney, “The Creation of the Trap Set and its Development Before 1920”
- William E. Hettrick, “Harry Edward Freund’s Great Square-Piano Bonfire: A Tale Told in the Press”
- Robert Howe and Peter Hurd, “The Heckelphone at 100”
Volume 31 (2005)
- Florence Gétreau, “Recent Research about the Voboam Family and Their Guitars”
- Robert E. Eliason, “Bugles Beyond Compare: The Presentation E-flat Keyed Bugle in Mid-Nineteenth-Century America”
- Darcy Kuronen, “James A. Bazin and the Development of Free-Reed Instruments in America”
Volume 32 (2006)
- Michael Greenberg, “Musical Instruments in the Archives of the French Court: The Argenterie, Menus Plaisirs et Affaires de la Chambre, 1733–1792”
- Jane Ellsworth, “Early American Clarinet Makers and Sellers, 1761–1820”
- Emily Peppers, “Richard Hume and Viol Making in Early Sixteenth- Century Britain”
- Patrizio Barbieri, “Giambattista Della Porta’s ‘Singing’ Hydraulis and Other Expressive Devices for the Organ, c. 1560–1860”
In addition to the above-listed articles, all volumes of the Journal contain book reviews, lists of recent publications, and communications of interest to the membership. A list of "Guidelines for Contributors" can be found in recent issues of the Journal and may also be obtained from this website.