Royal Musical Association
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The Royal Musical Association (RMA) is a British scholarly society
Learned society
A learned society is an organization that exists to promote an academic discipline/profession, as well a group of disciplines. Membership may be open to all, may require possession of some qualification, or may be an honor conferred by election, as is the case with the oldest learned societies,...

 and charity
Charitable organization
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. Founded in 1874, the Association claims to be the second oldest musicological society in the world, after that of the Netherlands. Activities include organizing and sponsoring academic conferences in the UK, and making awards for outstanding scholarship, notably the annual Dent Medal.

History

The society was iniated by Sir John Stainer
John Stainer
Sir John Stainer was an English composer and organist whose music, though not generally much performed today , was very popular during his lifetime...

 and was originally titled the Musical Association with a subtitle 'the investigation and discussion of subjects connected with the Art and Science of Music'. Sir Frederick Ouseley
Frederick Ouseley
Sir Frederick Arthur Gore Ouseley, 2nd Baronet was an English composer, organist, and musicologist.He was born in London, the son of Sir Gore Ouseley, and manifested an extraordinary precocity in music, composing an opera at the age of eight years. In 1844, having succeeded to the baronetcy, he...

, Stainer's teacher, was the first president. The Association was registered as a company in 1904 and as a charity in 1965. The Association was renamed the Royal Musical Association in 1944 following the orders of King George VI.

Publications

The Association publishes the Journal of the Royal Musical Association (eJournal). Before 1987 the Journal was known as the Proceedings of the Royal Musical Association (often abbreviated PMRA; and ), and before 1945 as the Proceedings of the Musical Association (see for print holdings from 1878 to 1986). The RMA has also published a series of monograph
Monograph
A monograph is a work of writing upon a single subject, usually by a single author.It is often a scholarly essay or learned treatise, and may be released in the manner of a book or journal article. It is by definition a single document that forms a complete text in itself...

s.

Sources

  • Official Website
  • Charity Commission Register
  • Hugh Cobbe, 'The Royal Musical Association 1874-1901 ', Proceedings of the Royal Musical Association, Vol. 110, (1983–1984), pp. 111–117
  • Alec Hyatt King and Julian Rushton. "Royal Musical Association", in Grove Music Online, http://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/subscriber/article/grove/music/24008 (accessed June 15, 2010).
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