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  1. October 23, 2019

    Talk to A-R at AMS

    The A-R editorial team will soon depart for the 2019 meeting of the American Musicological Society. While information for prospective authors can be found on our website, we all know that ideas are sparked and developed in conversation, and we look forward to having many in Boston. See you soon!

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  2. July 27, 2018

    My Many Colored Pencils (Well, Not Really That Many)

    By Esther Criscuola de Laix

    Pencils and eraser

    I’d like to talk a bit about pencils, those intriguing sticks of wood, metal, rubber, and a “pigment core” of graphite or something else. In this digital age, not much is done with pencils anymore, because not much is done with paper anymore. But when I sit down to copyedit the music portion of an author’s manuscript, the first thing I do is pull out my pencil pouch. The colored pencils it contains are among the most essential tools of my editorial trade, and each color is used for a specific purpose. Each editor’s individual markup practices vary, but there are three colors that we on the editorial staff at A-R Editions all use pretty much the same way: red, green, and blue.

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