An organization founded in Paris by Lionel de La Laurencie in 1917 to encourage musicological study in France and abroad. In addition to established scholars its membership (about 350 in 1995) includes students, performers and amateurs. Presidents have included the most distinguished French musicologists, among them Saint-Foix, Masson, Pincherle, Dufourcq, Thibault, Lesure and Bridgman. The society's journal Revue de musicologie began as the Bulletin de la Société française de musicologie (1917–22). The society began an extensive series of publications in 1925 that includes editions (Monuments de la Musique Ancienne), studies by leading French musicologists, documents, inventories and catalogues.