The Journal of Musicology

• 1. Introduction

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  The Journal of Musicology arrived in 1982, the work of Marian C. Green, who established it as a place where the study of music could be examined with scholarly rigor. It is published by University of California Press, and it appears four times a year, each issue peer-reviewed by experts in the field. That is the shape of the thing in outline. But what does it mean for a journal to be devoted to musicology, and why does a quarterly rhythm and a university press matter to the work it carries? Those questions sit at the center of this story.

• 2. A Discipline In Print

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  Musicology is the academic study of music, and The Journal of Musicology was built to serve it directly. The word in its title is a promise about scope. This is not a magazine of reviews or a trade outlet for performers. It is a peer-reviewed academic journal, which means each piece it publishes passes through evaluation by other scholars before it reaches a reader. That gatekeeping is the quiet engine of credibility. Founded by Marian C. Green, the journal stakes its claim on careful, vetted scholarship rather than quick opinion.

• 3. The Quarterly Rhythm

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  Four issues a year set the pace of The Journal of Musicology. A quarterly cadence is its own kind of editorial decision. It gives time for submissions to be gathered, reviewed, and revised, and it spaces the work across the calendar rather than rushing it. University of California Press carries the journal into print, lending it the reach and continuity of an established academic publisher. A press of that kind brings distribution, archiving, and a standard of production that a single editor could not sustain alone. From its start in 1982, that partnership has been part of how the journal endures.