Dwight's Journal of Music

Dwight's Journal of Music
Issue no.1, 1852
CategoriesMusic
FrequencyWeekly or Biweekly
FounderJohn Sullivan Dwight
Founded1852
Final issue
Number
September 3, 1881; 143 years ago (1881-09-03)
Vol. XLI (41), No. 16
CountryUnited States
Based inBoston
LanguageEnglish

Dwight's Journal of Music (1852–1881, DJM) was an American music journal, one of the most respected and influential such periodicals in the country in the mid-19th century.[1] John Sullivan Dwight created the Journal, and published it in Boston, Massachusetts. Among the early writers was Alexander Wheelock Thayer, who would become one of the first major music historians in the country. Other contributors have included John Knowles Paine, William F. Apthorp, W. S. B. Mathews and C. H. Brittan.[2]

The Journal was eventually purchased by music publisher Oliver Ditson.[3]

  1. ^ Blum, Stephen. "Sources, Scholarship and Historiography" in the Garland Encyclopedia of World Music, pgs. 21-37
  2. ^ NISC.com Archived 2008-06-16 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ Continuum