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2026 IMS Town Halls

This year, for the first time, we will be holding two online IMS Town Halls: These unstructured get-togethers are a chance for us to update you on what is happening at the office, ­discuss the results of last spring’s membership survey,…

Sing All About It

Sing All About It “Sing All About It” is the IMS’s take on announcements of fellowships, prizes, and other honors conferred on our members so that these successes receive the recognition they deserve. If you have good news to share…

IMS Membership Application/Renewal

The IMS is committed to a “world community of musicology.” To encourage everyone to join, we keep our fees as low as possible and adjust them according to the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of your country of residence. After selecting…

Why Join the IMS?

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When you join the IMS, you join a growing community of over 1,100 members in sixty-three countries spanning six continents. We speak a multitude of languages and have a thousand-plus perspectives on music studies. We are performers and composers, studio…

Honorary Members of the IMS

Silke Leopold (2025)Jean-Jacques Nattiez (2025)Leonardo Waisman (2025)Bonnie J. Blackburn (2022)Malena Kuss (2022)Dorothea Baumann (2019)Madeleine Regli (2019)H. Robert Cohen (2017)David Fallows (2015)Catherine Massip (2015)Simha Arom (2012)Tatsuo Minagawa (2012) Pierluigi Petrobelli (2009)Robert M. Stevenson (2007)Michel Huglo (2007)Ludwig Finscher (1992)Rudolf Häusler (1992)Hellmut Federhofer…