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Writings

Kennedy is the author of several composer entries for the New Grove II Dictionary of Music, as well as numerous journal articles on music in Musical Quarterly, NewMusicBox, and elsewhere.

Progam Notes

The following program notes, written by John Kennedy, are frequently referred to by scholars of these important American composers.
Johanna Beyer
William Russell

Essays

The essays below were originally published by NewMusicBox, the American Music Center’s monthly web-magazine. From June, 2002, through July, 2005, John Kennedy served as the President of the Board of the AMC. These columns were targeted on the magazine’s lead monthly topic, and were intended as a discussion thread-starter.

American Music History
Celebrating the American Music Center
Composing and Technique
Experimental Instruments
Gender in New Music
Grants in the Arts
Music and Dance
Music and Film
Music and Mathematics
Music and Nature
Music and Politics
Music and the Internet
Music Theory
Neo-Romanticism
New Music Today
Notation
On Common Practice Today
Orchestras
Percussion
Sense of Place
Spatial Music
The Composer's Work
The Piano
Video Game Music

 

 

 

 

 

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