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Selected new material includes:

October 2024

Resources on Josquin in ARMA

September 2024

Hensel: Trio in D Minor, op. 11 (commentary)
Resources on Beethoven in ARMA

August 2024

Resources on Chamber Music in ARMA

July 2024

Resources on Opera in ARMA

June 2024

Resources on the Sonata in ARMA
ARMA Takes Your Students from Print to Digital in Just One Click (ARMA blog item) by

May 2024

Resources on the Concerto in ARMA

April 2024

Wolf: Anakreons Grab (commentary)
Resources on the Symphony in ARMA

March 2024

Resources on the Motet in ARMA

February 2024

Resources on the Mass in ARMA

January 2024

Johannes Brahms (article) by Jacquelyn Sholes (update)
Debussy (article) by Keith Clifton (update)

December 2023

Resource Pages in ARMA
Resources on Lieder in ARMA
Black Music Resources in ARMA
John Philip Sousa (article) by Bryan Proksch (update)

November 2023

Giuseppe Verdi (article) by Matthew Franke (update)
Louis-Hector Berlioz (article) by Julian Rushton (update)
Music by Women in ARMA

October 2023

ARMA: Your Quick Guide (ARMA blog item) by
Mozart: Piano Concerto no. 9 in E-flat major, K. 271 (commentary)
Mozart: Piano Concerto no. 23 in A major, K. 488 (commentary)
Brahms: Sechs Lieder, op. 85, no. 5 “Frühlingslied” (commentary)
Felix Mendelssohn (article) by Linda Shaver Gleason and R. Larry Todd (update)

September 2023

Ludwig van Beethoven (article) by Nancy November (update)

August 2023

Wolfgang Amadè Mozart (article) by Julian Rushton (update)

July 2023

How To Become An ARMA Expert! (ARMA blog item) by
Joseph Haydn (article) by Bryan Proksch (update)

June 2023

Johann Sebastian Bach (article) by Matthew J. Hall (update)
George Frideric Handel (article) by David Hurley (update)

May 2023

Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 17 in D minor, op. 31, no. 2, “The Tempest” (commentary)
Henry Purcell (article) by Alon Schab (update)

April 2023

Bach: Well Tempered Clavier I, Prelude and Fugue in C major, BWV 846 (commentary)

March 2023

Giulio Caccini (article) by Kimberly Beck Hieb (update)

February 2023

Claudio Monteverdi (article) by Emily Hagen (update)
Luca Marenzio (article) by Emiliano Ricciardi (update)

January 2023

Beethoven: Violin Sonata in A major, op. 47 ("Kreutzer"), movement 1 (commentary)

December 2022

Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (article) by Noel O'Regan (update)
William Byrd (article) by K. Dawn Grapes (update)

November 2022

ARMA Glossary (article) by James L Zychowicz, ed. (available for use in courses)
Beethoven: Violin Sonata in A major, op. 47 ("Kreutzer"), first movement (score)

October 2022

Mozart: Die Zauberflöte, K. 620, Act 1, no. 4 ("O zittre nicht") (commentary)
Mozart: Die Zauberflöte, K. 620, Act 2, no. 14 ("Der Hölle Rache) (commentary)
New Music Theory Article On Analyzing Twentieth-Century Music (new blog item)

September 2022

Anonymous: Cantigas de Santa Maria (Selections) (commentary)

August 2022

Mozart: Die Zauberflöte, K. 620, Act 2, no. 13 ("Alles fühlt der Liebe Freuden") (commentary)

July 2022

Updated Version Now Available: ARMA Guidelines for Articles and Commentaries

May 2022

Mozart: Die Zauberflöte, K. 620, Act 1, no. 4 ("O zittre nicht") (score)
Mozart: Die Zauberflöte, K. 620, Act 2, no. 13 ("Alles fühlt der Liebe Freuden") (score)
Mozart: Die Zauberflöte, K. 620, Act 2, no. 14 ("Der Hölle Rache) ") (score)
Introduction to the Analysis of 20th-Century Repertoire (article) by Joshua Mailman, edited by Neil Newton

April 2022

Medieval Music in the 21st Century (ARMA blog item) by Karen Cook

March 2022

ARMA Glossary
Orlando di Lasso (article) by Allen Scott

January 2022

Why Do I Teach Early Music? (ARMA blog item) by Alice Clark

December 2021

ARMA And Non-Music Majors: A Non-Chronological Approach (ARMA blog item) by Scot Buzza

November 2021

Cadman: From the Land of the Sky-blue Water (score)

October 2021

Schubert: Gretchen am Spinnrade (commentary)

September 2021

Reich: Piano Phase (commentary)

August 2021

Scarlatti: Keyboard Sonatas (commentary)
Bach: Das Orgelbüchlein (commentary)
New! ARMA Blog

July 2021

Schubert: Winterreise, D. 911, "Der Lindenbaum" (commentary)
Beethoven: Fidelio Act 2, no. 13 (commentary)

June 2021

Kocžwara: The Battle of Prague (ca. 1788) (score)

May 2021

New! Content Guides for Instructors
Carissimi: Jephte (commentary)
Davis: Blue in Green (commentary)

April 2021

Vivanco: Missa sexti toni (score)
Vasquez: Quien amores tiene (score)
Hildalgo: Solo a nuestra Señora (score)
Duron: Tonada sola con flautas para contralto (score)
Sumaya: Cerca de México el templo (score)
Sumaya: Ya la gloria accidental (score)
Sumaya: En María la gracia (score)
Rogers: Reverie for Violoncello and Piano (score)
Sirmen: Violin Concerto no. 1 (score)
Leonarda: Twelve Sonatas, op. 16, Sonata Prima (score)
Hensel: Songs for Pianoforte, no. 1 (score)
Schumann (arr.): Menuetto I/II from Serenade no. 1 in D major, op. 11 by Johannes Brahms (score)
Schumann (arr.): Schöne Wiege meiner Leiden by Robert Schumann Op. 24, No. 5, by Robert Schumann (score)
D'Ordonez: String Quartet, Op. 1, no. 1 in A major (score)
Murcia: Idea nueva (score)
Haydn: Symphony no. 104 (commentary)

March 2021

Documentation of Classical Music in the African Diaspora: The First Century and Beyond (article) by Melanie Zeck
Gay and Pepusch: The Beggar's Opera (commentary)

January 2021

Liszt’s Transcendental Etudes and Romantic Pianism: Contexts, Genres, Techniques (article) by Matthew Pilcher
Handel: Saul (commentary)

December 2020

Ives: The Unanswered Question (commentary)
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (article) by Linda Shaver Gleason and R. Larry Todd

November 2020

Comtessa de Dia: A chantar revised (commentary)
New for Instructors: Annotations (Click the link to view instructions)
Jacquet de La Guerre: Suite no. 1 in D minor revised (commentary)

October 2020

Beethoven: "Mir ist so wunderbar" (Act 1, no. 3), Fidelio (commentary)
Foster: I Dream of Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair (commentary)

September 2020

Victoria: Missa pro defunctis (commentary)
Victoria: O vos omnes (commentary)
A Theory of Jazz Performance Practice (article) by Ben Geyer

August 2020

Gabrieli: Canzon Septimi Toni (commentary)
Beethoven: String Quartet, Op. 18, no. 4 (commentary)

July 2020

Webern: Drei Lieder, Op. 25 (commentary)
Lasso: Cum essem parvulus (commentary)
Lasso: Gaudent in caelis (commentary)
Lasso: Tristis est anima mea (commentary)
Lasso: Prophetiae Sibyllarum (commentary)
Corelli: Sonata da chiesa, Op. 5, no. 1 (commentary)

June 2020

Coleridge Taylor: Symphonic Variations on an African Air (score)
Mahler: Symphony no. 5, Adagietto (commentary)
Bach: Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme, BWV140 (commentary)
Bach: Brandenburg Concerto no. 5, BWV1050 (commentary)

May 2020

The Disappearance of Grand Opera, or How a Genre Leaves the Canon (article) by Matthew Franke
Webern: Symphony, Op. 21 (commentary)
Gabrieli: In ecclesiis (commentary)
Genres and Forms in the Middle Ages (update of the article) by Fiona McAlpine
Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique (commentary)

April 2020

Gibbons: This Is the Record of John (commentary)
Mozart: Idomeneo, Overture and Act 1 scene 1 (commentary)

March 2020

Effective Library Trials (video)
Main Features (video)
Click here to see a list of all current videos
ARMA is registered in the NISO SERU Registry

February 2020

Mozart: Don Giovanni, Act 2 scene 7 (Sextet) (commentary)

January 2020

Brahms: Symphony no. 4 in E minor (commentary)

November 2019

Mozart: Symphony no. 25 in G minor, K. 183 (commentary)
Beethoven: Symphony no. 3 "Eroica" (commentary)
Mozart: Don Giovanni, Act 1, Finale (commentary)
New for Instructors: A-R Music Anthology Users Group (Click the link to join!)

October 2019

Schumann: Carnaval (commentary)

September 2019

Penderecki: Threnody for Victims of Hiroshima (commentary)

August 2019

Field: Nocturnes, nos. 1 and 5 (commentary)

July 2019

The Reformation and Music (article) by Allen Scott

June 2019

Mozart: Die Zauberflöte, Act 1 scene 2 (score)

May 2019

Johann Sebastian Bach (article) by Matthew J. Hall

April 2019

Mozart: Don Giovanni, Act 1 scene 13 (commentary)

March 2019

John Philip Sousa (article) by Bryan Proksch
Mahler: Symphony no. 1, movement 3 (commentary)

February 2019

Vivaldi: Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, op. 3, no. 6 (commentary)
Mozart: Don Giovanni, Act 1, scene 16 (commentary)

January 2019

Handel: Giulio Cesare (commentary)
Bach: Nun komm der Heiden Heiland, BWV72 (commentary)
Corelli: Trio Sonata, op. 3, no. 2 (commentary)
Monteverdi: Cruda Amarilli (commentary)
Palestrina: "Pope Marcellus" Mass (commentary)


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