edited by Dorothea Baumann and Dinko Fabris
Kassel: Bärenreiter, 2017 | 167 pages | ISBN 978-3-761-82439-9
€31.50

The IMS is the oldest international association of musicologists and has been active for over 90 years since its foundation in Basel in 1927. The simplistic definition of historical musicology as the study of the written tradition of Western art music has shaped, for many observers, a distorted image of the IMS as a “European” society. This was not the vision of the founders. And it is not the present situation of the IMS. The exciting story told in this book, compiled by 21 collaborators, reconstructs the roles of the original protagonists of the IMS and follows the society’s activities up until the present day.

IMS members can access the book as a free-to-read online publication:
The History of the IMS (1927–2017) (Members Edition, 2022)