The Musical Quarterly

{{short description|Oldest academic journal on music in America}}

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| title = The Musical Quarterly

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| editor = Leon Botstein

| discipline = Music

| language = English

| abbreviation = Music. Q.

| publisher = Oxford University Press

| country = United States

| frequency = Quarterly

| history = 1915–present

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| website = http://mq.oxfordjournals.org/

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| JSTOR = 00274631

| OCLC = 53165498

| LCCN = 2004-235646

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The Musical Quarterly is the oldest academic journal on music in America.{{cite journal|last=Ramsey|first=Guthrey P. Jr. |title=Cosmopolitan or Provincial?: Ideology in Early Black Music Historiography, 1867–1940|journal=Black Music Research Journal|date=Spring 1996|volume=16|issue=1|pages=21|jstor=779375|doi=10.2307/779375}} Originally established in 1915 by Oscar Sonneck, the journal was edited by Sonneck until his death in 1928. Sonneck was succeeded by a number of editors, including Carl Engel (1930–1944), Gustave Reese (1944–45), Paul Henry Lang (1945–1973), Joan Peyser (1977–1984), and Eric Salzman (1984–1991).

Since 1993, The Musical Quarterly has been edited by Leon Botstein, president of Bard College and principal conductor of the American Symphony Orchestra. Originally published by G. Schirmer, Inc., it is now published by Oxford University Press.