Benjamin Knysak


Executive Editor


BENJAMIN KNYSAK pursued studies at the Peabody Conservatory, Johns Hopkins University, and the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign where he held the Lawrence King Fellowship. Between 2003 and 2004, he taught in the Musicology Department of Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. Since joining RIPM in 2004, he has worked on the creation of RIPM’s various digital and full text projects, including the RIPM Retrospective Index with Full Text, the e-Library of Music Periodicals, the Preservation Series, and RIPM Jazz Periodicals. He has given papers and presentations at congresses of the International Musicological Society (IMS), American Musicological Society (AMS), and International Association of Music Libraries, Archives, and Documentation Centres (IAML), the Music Library Association (MLA) and in many other musicological and librarianship conferences. Co-editor of the volume Musical History as Seen Through Contemporary Eyes: Essays in Honor of H. Robert Cohen (Vienna: Hollitzer, 2021), with Z. Blažeković, his articles have appeared in Notes and Fontes artis musicae. He is also the author of five RIPM volumes treating journals published in the United States and Great Britain. His research interests focus on the historic musical press, music bibliography, information technology, music in immigrant communities in the United States and musical historiography.


Journals contributed to by Benjamin Knysak

Date Title Language Release Publication
1965-1966 Bharatiya Sangeet = भारतीय संगीत (New Delhi, India) English | Hindi Full Text RIPM Index RIPM ft
1883-1899 The Lute (London, United Kingdom) English Full Text RIPM Index RIPM ft
1944 Music (Milwaukee, WI) English Full Text RIPM Index RIPM ft
1958-1961 Music in Ghana (Accra, Ghana) English Full Text RIPM Index
1891-1902 Music: A Monthly Magazine, devoted to the art, science, technic and literature of music (Chicago, IL) English Full Text RIPM Index RIPM ft In Print
1942 Música viva: revista mensual (Montevideo, Uruguay) Spanish Full Text RIPM Index
1856-1859 The Musical Gazette: An Independent Journal of Musical Events and General Advertiser and Record of Public Amusements (London, United Kingdom) English Full Text RIPM Index In Print
1883 The Musical Review (London, United Kingdom) English Full Text RIPM Index RIPM ft
1922-1923, 1926 Muzikal'naya letopis' = Музыкальная Летопись (Saint Petersburg, Russia) Russian Full Text RIPM Index
1923-1924 Muzïkal'naya nov = Музыкальная новь (Moscow, Russia) Russian Full Text RIPM Index RIPM ft
1914-1916 Opera magazine (New York City, NY) English Full Text RIPM Index RIPM ft
1927-1930 La Revista de Música (Buenos Aires, Argentina) Spanish Full Text RIPM Index RIPM ft

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