Editorial: A new look for Discourses in Music

If you have been involved in musicological reading in the last five years, you might have noticed that there are changes afoot in this field. Many are cosmetic changes, including methods of delivery rather than methods of investigation, but nonetheless, they allow us to investigate things differently, and more importantly, they allow us to present them to you in different ways. The internet has been an useful tool for several years for scholars and students alike, and it is probably fair to say that we have only seen the tip of this iceberg; there promise to be things on the internet that we were unable to imagine just a few years ago.

With a view to these changes, Discourses in Music, which began life in 1999 as a hard copy graduate student journal in music, moved, in its second edition to a website, and became a web-journal. As of this edition, we have our new domain name, , and we will be making a concerted effort to make sure that every graduate student in music will have access to it, and will want to access it again and again. There are several ways we have designed the journal to be interactive: we have a system where every article published has a response, and there will be chances to respond on-line to comments made by the editorial staff, and fellow readers. Our aim is to create an ongoing dialogue across the country and around the world.

Our focus has been mainly Canadian lately, and to some extent, central Canadian, but recently we have had interest in British Columbia, and we hope to make this journal a national, and in time, an international music students' journal. If you have suggestions, please write to us at editor@library.music.utoronto.ca/discourses-in-music/index.html. We welcome your articles, news items, publicity about upcoming events, performances, compositions, awards, honours and any other noteworthy items.

-Sandy Thorburn, editor