Special journal issues.(NEW PERIODICALS)

Coda. Issue 329 (September/October 2006): Jazz in Canada: The State of the Nation. Compares the jazz scenes of Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver.

Contemporary Music Review. Vol. 25, no. 5-6 (October-December 2006): special focus on improvisation. Celebrates the current improvisation scene with interviews of practicing artists/composers. Scope is not limited to a particular genre or type of music.

Current Musicology. No. 79-80 (Spring-Fall 2005): 40th Anniversary Issue. A special double issue to commemorate the journal's fortieth anniversary. No. 81 (Spring 2006): Mozart Issue.

Electronic Musicological Review. Vol. 9 (October 2005): special focus on music cognition. Includes works presented during the International Symposium on Cognition and Musical Arts (SIMCAM), organized by the Arts Department of the Federal University of Parana in April 2005. This journal is freely available on the internet at: http://www.rem.ufpr.br.

Ethnomusicology Forum. Vol. 14, no. 2 (November 2005): Music and Identity in Central Asia. Guest editor Razia Sultanova, from the School of Oriental and African Studies at University of London, brings together scholars from Europe and Central Asia to discuss Central Asian changes in political power and their effects on music and identity.

Fontes Artis Musicae. Vol. 53, no. 3 (July-September 2006): Russia. Special issue on Russian music edited by Pamela Thompson from the Royal College of Music. The issue is divided into two sections reporting on both archives in Russia and Russian collections around the world.

INFORMS Journal on Computing (JOC). Vol. 18, no. 3 (Summer 2006): Special Cluster on Computation in Music. JOC is a quarterly journal that publishes papers in the intersection of operations research and computer science. Elaine Chew, Assistant Professor at the University of Southern California's School of Engineering, Integrated Media Systems Center, edits this issue, which highlights the use of computational operations-research techniques in the analysis and generation of music.