The University of Rochester Press launched the EASTMAN STUDIES IN MUSIC series in May 1994 with the publication of its first title--a revised edition in hardback and paperback of The Poetic Debussy: A Collection of His Song Texts and Selected Letters, by Margaret G. Cobb. With over fifty titles in print and another seven or more (including some paperback reprints) appearing every year, Eastman Studies in Music is a well-established endeavor committed to publishing quality titles in music scholarship.

The editorial board of this series, consisting of distinguished scholars from the University of Rochester’s Eastman School of Music as well as several other major institutions, is devoted to seeking out manuscripts that deal with music in a variety of challenging ways, whether new or traditional. The editors seek a mix or titles and formats, ranging from studies by a single author to symposia treating a given repertoire or aspect of music from differing points of view.

Topics may lie in any area of musicology, broadly defined to include ethnomusicology, music theory, and other specialities. The editors are particularly interested in projects that bear upon the following: historical performance, interpretive traditions, analysis and performance, history of theory, speculative theory, twentieth-century music, American music and its many strands, and the social, anthropological, aesthetic, and critical contexts that have impinged on composing, music-making, and listening in various places and times (including the present). This list, we stress, is meant only to encourage certain kinds of submissions, not to exclude thoughtful and challenging work of other sorts.