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. 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.
The Journal was purchased by music publisher Oliver Ditson in 1858, with Dwight staying on as its editor.
Publication details The Journal was published weekly beginning on Saturday, April 10, 1852, with each volume consisting of 26 numbers. Thus, the odd-numbered volumes ran from April to near the end of September, and the even-numbered volumes, from early October to the end of March of the following year. In 1865 the journal was published biweekly and each volume ran for one complete year. In 1879, starting with Vol. XXXIX (39), the publication year began running from January to December. The last issue was Vol. XLI (41), No. 16 (September 3, 1881).
External links Digitized volumes of Dwight's Journal of Music Digital copies of bound volumes of Dwight's Journal of Music are available from the Internet Archive (or in some cases from Google Books). An index covering two volumes was issued with the final number for each even-numbered volume (or one volume for the biweekly volumes), and libraries typically bound all the issues for two volumes together with the index often, but not always, at the front of the relevant volume(s). (Some of the online copies are missing pages, or pages are out of sequence.)
Vol. I & II, 1852-1853 Vol. III & IV, 1854 Vol. V & VI, 1854–1855 Google Books copy at the Internet Archive University of Michigan copy at the Internet Archive Vol. VII & VIII, 1856 Google Books copy at the Internet Archive University of Michigan copy at the Internet Archive Vol. IX & X, 1857 Google Books copy at the Internet Archive University of Michigan copy at the Internet Archive Vol. XI & XII, 1858 Vol. XIII & XIV, 1859 Vol. XV & XVI, 1860 Google Books copy New York Public Library copy at the Internet Archive Vol. XVII & XVIII, 1861 Vol. XIX & XX, 1862 Vol. XXI & XXII, 1863 Vol. XXIII & XXIV, 1864-1865 Vol. XXV & XXVI, 1865-1867 Vol. XXVII & XXVIII, 1867-1869 Vol. XXIX & XXX, 1871 Vol. XXXI & XXXII, 1873 Vol. XXXIII & XXXIV, 1875 Vol. XXXV & XXXVI, 1877 Vols. XXXVII & XXXVIII, 1878 Google Books copy at the Internet Archive University of Michigan copy at the Internet Archive Harvard University copy at the Internet Archive Vol. XXXIX & XL, 1880 Vol XLI, 1880-1881 Stanford University Libraries copy at the Internet Archive Google Books copy
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