A Note from the Editor

Discourses in Music has seen an immense increase in its readership in the last year. Articles that have appeared on our website have been quoted, cited, and referred to in several recent articles, and links have been added from other on-line journals to Discourses in Music. All this has increased our exposure and caused our readership to expand exponentially in just one year. Likewise, our editorial staff has changed; whereas in the past several years the valuable services of Janette Tilley, Brian McMillan and Jessica Lovett have proved invaluable, as students, they have moved on to other projects, leaving new students to take their places.

David Ogborn and I are still here though, and we introduce Benita Wolters-Fredlund who has undertaken the task of finding announcements to publicize, Dan McCoy, who will be editing for us this year, in spite of the fact that he is on leave, and will be spending half of his year in Germany, and Alexander Carpenter, a doctoral student who will be editing as well.

The articles in this issue of Discourses are a response to Lowell Lybarger's timely and thought-provoking piece on the Punjabi tabla tradition, written by Indian dance and music scholar Margaret Walker, and a fascinating paper about the reception of "classical" music in film by Teresa Magdanz. There are also several reviews of Websites that we have found are interesting and relevant to us and, we hope to you. I encourage you to send us your papers, (editors@library.music.utoronto.ca/discourses-in-music/index.html) and assure you that all papers will have a reading and will be responded to. We are especially looking for work that incorporates the unique capabilities of the Internet, but will publish high quality papers on any topic. If you are interested in responding to an article, please let us know by writing a response to the same email address (editors@library.music.utoronto.ca/discourses-in-music/index.html) and we will print it.

I cannot stress enough that the purpose of Discourses in Music is to foster and provoke discussion throughout the musical world, on topics of interest to musicologists, composers, educators, performers and theorists. We are based out of the University of Toronto, and receive some funding from the Graduate Department of Music, as well as some funding from the Music Graduate Students' Association (MGSA). This should in no way deter an interested party from writing to us and offering to work on the journal. Because of the technology of the Internet, we are able to communicate and work together throughout the globe.

-Sandy Thorburn, Editor