Welcome to the JH Archive and blog! I’m just starting them up today (learning the ropes of how all this works), but let me say a bit about my ideas for, first, the website, and, then, the blog.
My website plan for over the next months–and years–is to build up an archive of downloadable documents culled from the past forty years of teaching, research, and writing. These will include course syllabuses, course PowerPoints, some lecture and seminar notes, professional talks and public lectures, analytical and other formal diagrams, scanned score analyses, published and unpublished writings and handouts, videos, and perhaps much more. Eventually it might also include newly written professional material that I prefer to make available on the web rather than going through a publisher–getting more things out more quickly without going through the whole publication process. Some of those web-publication items will be “drafts”–or idea-outlines for what could have been developed further into a publishable article–rather than fully polished pieces.
Think of the website as a growing archival collection of “papers” in a research library. But this one is open to the public and houses individual items available as downloads.
I’m hoping that this might be of potential interest to an academic public of professional music scholars and teachers–for whatever use they may wish to make of it. The only thing I would ask is that if you pursue and publish any of the ideas (or literally use some of the words) that you find here, do acknowledge the source properly. Otherwise, if it’s, say, a PowerPoint slide selection for our own music history or theory course, feel free to use what you need. (Maybe write me an email to let me know what you’re doing? It would be nice if I could get a sense of this.)
The ongoing and probably intermittent blog is more informal. I intend it, though, as a site for academic-professional postings: thoughts about musical works or pieces, approaches to scholarship, writing, oral presentation, or study that I have passed on to undergraduate and graduate students in music over the years, other music-related ideas, and so on. The blog, I think, will find its own character as time proceeds.