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Volume 23 (2017) No. 1

A Note from the Editor

In this issue we introduce a new feature, the first JSCM “forum”: a symposium bringing together several brief essays that consider an idea from different points of view. I invite proposals for future forums and hope this becomes a regular component of the Journal.

This issue of JSCM and its predecessor share a focus on music for the theater. Jonathan Gibson’s article considers a familiar attribute of Lully’s operas—the moment when a divertissement gives way to dialogue—from the point of view of contemporaneous French aesthetics. The four participants in the forum—Rose Pruiksma, Mauro Calcagno, Wendy Heller, and Amanda Eubanks Winkler—consider the “perils and pleasures” of using DVDs to teach Baroque opera, with particular attention to helping students understand directorial choices. Jeffrey Kurtzman’s review, concerned more with the church than the theater, deals with a different sort of DVD, one purporting to be a documentary.

With the publication of this issue, the fifth to appear in the space of a year, JSCM is finally back on schedule, after falling behind several years ago. This accomplishment required unusual resources: two overlapping editors-in-chief, and a particularly generous infusion of funds from our parent organization, the Society for Seventeenth-Century Music. SSCM is pleased to provide open-access publications, available to all without charge. At the same time, professional technical support is costly, and the Society gratefully accepts donations from appreciative readers. If you are so inclined, please see the Donations to JSCM page.

As regular readers know, for several months we have been engaged in an additional project: correcting formatting errors throughout the first sixteen volumes of JSCM. The errors were introduced when we imported these volumes into a new template to escape the old template’s many layers of obsolete HTML code. We are aware of the problems in the older issues and appreciate your patience as we work to correct them.

Finally, I call your attention to a new item on the sidebar of the Journal’s homepage and associated pages: “Reading JSCM.” I offer these navigational suggestions in response to inquiries from readers. [“Reading JSCM” now appears as a pop-up in the headings of individual articles and reviews.—Ed., December 2020]

Lois Rosow
Editor-in-Chief