Notes articles from December 1999

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THE KURT WEILL EDITION BY THE EDITORIAL BOARD OF THE EDITION.(Excerpt)
December 1, 1999... The Kurt Weill Edition is a collected critical edition that makes available the surviving legacy of Kurt Weill's completed compositions. Of the works for the musical theater, which make up the bulk of his oeuvre, none has ever appeared as a...

A NEW EDITION OF DIE DREIGROSCHENOPER CHALLENGES, PRINCIPLES, AND SOLUTIONS.(Critical Essay)
December 1, 1999... CHALLENGES Principal among the challenges facing the editors of Die Dreigroschenoper has been a task that the composer himself identified but which neither he nor his publishers ever completed. In a letter dispatched to them a week after...

RECONSTRUCTING A BROADWAY OPERETTA THE CASE OF KURT WEILL'S FIREBRAND OF FLORENCE.(Critical Essay)
December 1, 1999... THE QUESTION OF GENRE Adorno once described Kurt Weill's Die Dreigroschenoper as "operetta [that] has quite simply been exalted." [1] This characterization may be as good as any for a work so resistant to generic classification. But the...

ON THE EDITORIAL PRINCIPLES OF THE KURT WEILL EDITION.(Critical Essay)
December 1, 1999... "The usual transmission of a work is a process of decay, one that begins with the act of publication."2 Georg Feder's pointed judgment, the product of vast experience, expresses the view that the transmission of works leads away from the...

THE KURT WEILL EDITION.
December 1, 1999... A TIMELINE Following the death of Weill's widow Lotte Lenya in 1981, the Kurt Weill Foundation for Music expanded its mission to promote greater understanding of the lives and accomplishments of Weill and Lenya through research and...

TRENDS IN THE PRICE OF MUSIC MONOGRAPHS AND SCORES AS REFLECTED IN NOTES, 1994-1998.
December 1, 1999... This article is the fifth in a series of annual price-trend analyses based on data drawn from the "Book Reviews," "Books Recently Published," "Music Reviews," and "Music Received" features in Notes. As in the previous installments, the data...

The Atlantic Chapter of the Music library Association.(Brief Article)
December 1, 1999... The Atlantic Chapter of the Music library Association has been founded through the merger of the former Chesapeake and Pennsylvania Chapters. Following a series of successful joint meetings dating back to 1994, chapter chairs Brian Cockburn...

Fifteen music societies will be converging on Toronto, Canada.
December 1, 1999... Fifteen music societies will be converging on Toronto, Canada, in November 2000 for a millennial conference. Entitled Toronto 2000: Musical Intersections, the conference will bring together the American Musical Instrument Society; the American...

The New Grove Dictionary of Opera.(Brief Article)
December 1, 1999... The New Grove Dictionary of Opera has become the first commercial music encyclopedia to be made accessible through the World Wide Web. The online edition, available beginning June 1999 through annual subscription, updates the 1992 print edition...

Early this year.(year 2000 computer transition and the publication of "Notes")(Brief Article)
December 1, 1999... Early this year, while sitting in the editorial offices of NOTES, situated high atop NOTES Tower in downtown Urbana, I began reflecting on the history of our journal. Over the course of its fifty-five volumes, the journal has remained...

The Aesthetics of Music.(Review)
December 1, 1999... The Aesthetics of Music. By Roger Scruton. Oxford: Glarendon Press, 1997. [xx, 530 p. ISBN 0-19-816638-9. $39.95.] When Carl Dahihaus's Esthetics of Music appeared in 1982 (trans. William W. Austin [Cambridge: Cambridge University Press],...

The Quest for Voice: On Music, Politics, and the Limits of Philosophy.(Review)
December 1, 1999... The Quest for Voice: On Music, Politics, and the Limits of Philosophy. By Lydia Goehr. (Ernest Bloch Lectures.) Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. [x, 237 p. ISBN 0-520-21412-9. $45.] Lydia Goehr's Quest for Voice: On Music,...

Musical Languages.(Review)
December 1, 1999... Musical Languages. By Joseph P. Swain. New York: W. W. Norton, 1997. [x, 230 p. ISBN 0-393-04079-8. $32.50.] The goal of Joseph P, Swain's analysis is stated early in the first chapter. He will examine the relationship between music and...

In the Course of Performance: Studies in the World of Musical Improvisation.(Review)
December 1, 1999... In the Course of Performance: Studies in the World of Musical Improvisation. Edited by Bruno Nettl with Melinda Russell. (Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology.) Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998. [viii, 413 p. ISBN 0-226-57410-5 (cloth);...

Shadows in the Field: New Perspectives for Fieldwork in Ethnomusicology.(Review)
December 1, 1999... Shadows in the Field: New Perspectives for Fieldwork in Ethnomusicology. Edited by Gregory F. Barz and Timothy J. Cooley. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. [xii, 243 p. ISBN 0-19-510910-4 (cloth); 019-510911-2 (pbk.). $35 (cloth); $17.95...

New World Symphonies: How American Culture Changed European Music.(Review)
December 1, 1999... New World Symphonies: How American Culture Changed European Music. By Jack Sullivan. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999. [xix, 262 p. ISBN 0-300-07231-7. $30.] Jack Sullivan, who teaches American studies at Rider College, has written...

Music Discourse from Classical to Early Modern Times.(Review)
December 1, 1999... Music Discourse from Classical to Early Modern Times: Editing and Translating Texts: Papers Given at the Twenty-Sixth Annual Conference on Editorial Problems, University of Toronto, 19--20 October 1990. Edited by Maria Rika Maniates. Toronto:...

The Amadeus Book of the Violin: Construction, History, and Music.(Review)
December 1, 1999... The Amadeus Book of the Violin: Construction, History, and Music. By Walter Kolneder. Translated and edited by Reinhard G. Pauly. Portland, Ore.: Amadeus Press, 1998. [597 p. ISBN 1-57467-038-7. $49.95.] This English edition of Walter...

Die Passion: Musik zwischen Kunst und Kirche.(Review)
December 1, 1999... Die Passion: Musik zwischen Kunst und Kirche. By Kurt von Fischer. Stuttgart: J. B. Metzler; Kassel: Barenreiter, 1997. [145 p. ISBN 3-476-01530-0 (Metzler); 3-7618-2011-9 (Barenreiter).] In this slim, attractively produced volume, Kurt von...

Harmonic Practice in Tonal Music.(Review)
December 1, 1999... Harmonic Practice in Tonal Music. By Robert Gauldin. New York: W. W. Norton, 1997. [xxii, 680 p. ISBN 0-393-970744. $38.] Robert Gauldin's Harmonic Practice in Tonal Music, a welcome new music-theory textbook, will likely find favor with...

Instruments in Church: A Collection of Source Documents.(Review)
December 1, 1999... Instruments in Church: A Collection of Source Documents. By David W. Music. (Studies in Liturgical Musicology, 7.) Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, 1998. [xix, 211 p. ISBN 0-8108-3595-9. $40.] The Christian church has not always been of one...

The Hymn Tune Index: A Census of English-Language Hymn Tunes in Printed Sources from 1535 to 1820.(Review)
December 1, 1999... The Hymn Tune Index: A Census of English-Language Hymn Tunes in Printed Sources from 1535 to 1820. By Nicholas Temperley. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998. [4 vols. ISBN 0-19-311150-0. $550.] This long-awaited index of English hymn tunes grew...

Melodien aus mehrstimmigen Sammel-werken, Agenden und Gesangbuchern I.(Review)
December 1, 1999... Melodien aus mehrstimmigen Sammel-werken, Agenden und Gesangbuchern I. Edited by Joachim Stalmann et al. (Das deutsche Kirchenlied, Abt. III: Die Melodien aus gedruckten Quellen his 1680, Bd. 1: Die Melodien bis 1570, Teil 2.) Kassel:...

Giacomo Puccini: A Guide to Research.(Review)
December 1, 1999... Giacomo Puccini: A Guide to Research. By Linda B. Fairtile. (Composer Resource Manuals, 48.) New York: Garland Publishing, 1999. [xvi, 381 p. ISBN 0-8153-2033-7. $75.] Linda B. Fairtile has performed yeoman's service in compiling her guide...

Library Resources for Singers, Coaches, and Accompanists: An Annotated Bibilography, 1970-1997.(Review)
December 1, 1999... Library Resources for Singers, Coaches, and Accompanists: An Annotated Bibilography, 1970-1997. Complied by Ruthann Boles McTyre. (Music Reference Collection 71.) Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1998. [xxiv, 151 p. ISBN 0-313-30266-9.$65.]...

Opera Singers in Recital, Concert, and Feature Film: A Mediagraphy.(Review)
December 1, 1999... Opera Singers in Recital, Concert, and Feature Film: A Mediagraphy. Compiled by Sharon C. Almquist. (Music Reference Collection, 73.) Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1999. [xiv, 376 p. ISBN 0-313-29592-1. $79.50.] The Metropolitan Opera...

Imaging Sound: An Ethnomusico-logical Study of Music, Art, and Culture in Mughal India.(Review)
December 1, 1999... Imaging Sound: An Ethnomusico-logical Study of Music, Art, and Culture in Mughal India. By Bonnie C. Wade. (Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology.) Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998. [lvi, 276 p. ISBN 0-226-86840-0. $80.] In Imaging...

Die Arciconfraternita di S. Maria della Morte in Bologna: Beitrage zur Geschichte des italienisehen Oratoriums im 17. und 18. Jahrhundert.(Review)
December 1, 1999... Die Arciconfraternita di S. Maria della Morte in Bologna: Beitrage zur Geschichte des italienisehen Oratoriums im 17. und 18. Jahrhundert. By Juliane Riepe. (Beitrage zur Geschichte der Kirchenmusik, 5.) Paderborn: Ferdinand Schoningh, 1998....

The World of the Bach Cantatas. Vol. 1: Johann Sebastian Bach's Early Sacred Cantatas.(Review)
December 1, 1999... The World of the Bach Cantatas. Vol. 1: Johann Sebastian Bach's Early Sacred Cantatas. Edited by Christoph Wolff. New York W. W. Norton, 1997. [xi, 226 p. ISBN 0-393-04106-9. $35.] Most listeners are familiar with Nikolaus Harnoncourt's and...

Haydn: The "Paris" Symphonies.(Review)
December 1, 1999... Haydn: The "Paris" Symphonies. By Bernard Harrison. (Cambridge Music Handbooks.) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. [ix, 124 p. ISBN 0-521-47164-8 (cloth); 0-521-47743-3 (pbk.). $39.95 (cloth); $12.95 (pbk.).] Haydn Studies....

Mozart's Piano Sonatas: Contexts, Sources, Style.(Review)
December 1, 1999... Mozart's Piano Sonatas: Contexts, Sources, Style. By John Irving. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. [xxii, 215 p. ISBN 0-521-49631-4. $57.95.] It is curious that Mozart's solo keyboard sonatas, for so long a mainstay of concert,...

Selected Letters of Berlioz. Edited by Hugh Macdonald.(Review)
December 1, 1999... Selected Letters of Berlioz. Edited by Hugh Macdonald. Translated by Roger Nichols. New York: W. W. Norton, 1997. [xiii, 479 P. ISBN 0-393-04062-3. $35.] This selection of letters--generous, thoughtful, engaging--represents an essential...

Robert Schumann: Eine Lebenschronik in Bildern und Dokumenten.(Review)
December 1, 1999... Robert Schumann: Eine Lebenschronik in Bildern und Dokumenten. By Ernst Burger. (Neue Ausgabe samtilicher Werke. Serie VIII, Supplemente; Band 1.) Mainz: Schott, 1999. [355 p. ISBN 3-7957-0343-3. $149.] This is the third picture book Ernst...

Charles Amable Battaille: Pioneer in Vocal Science and the Teaching of Singing.(Review)
December 1, 1999... Charles Amable Battaille: Pioneer in Vocal Science and the Teaching of Singing. By James Richard Joiner. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, 1998. [v, 231 p. ISBN 0-8108-3533-9. $59.50.] Although conflicting historical accounts make absolute...

French Cultural Politics and Music: From the Dreyfus Affair to the First World War.(Review)
December 1, 1999... French Cultural Politics and Music: From the Dreyfus Affair to the First World War. By Jane F. Fulcher. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. [xii, 291 p. ISBN 0-19-512021-3. $60.] Invoking strident images of battles, cultural wars, and...

Arthur Honegger.(Review)
December 1, 1999... Arthur Honegger. By Harry Haibreich. Translated by Roger Nichols. Portland, Ore.: Amadeus Press, 1999. [677 p. ISBN 1-57467-041-7. $44.95.] The paucity of scholarly monographs in English concerning Les Six has troubled advocates of French...

Catalogue de l'oeuvre de Jacques Ibert (1890-1962).(Review)
December 1, 1999... Catalogue de l'oeuvre de Jacques Ibert (1890-1962). By Alexandra Laede rich. (Musikwissenschaftliche Publikationen, 9.) Hildesheim: Georg Olms, 1998. [xxviii, 346 p. ISBN 3-487-10273 0. DM 78 (pbk.).] For many listeners, the works of...

Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge: American Patron of Music.(Review)
December 1, 1999... Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge: American Patron of Music. By Cyrilla Barr. New York: Schirmer Books, 1998. [xxiv, 436 p. ISBN 0-02-864888-9. $42.] Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge (1864-1953) inhabited a life of "irreducible multiplicity," a term...

Amy Beach, Passionate Victorian: The Life and Work of an American Composer, 1867-1944.(Review)
December 1, 1999... Amy Beach, Passionate Victorian: The Life and Work of an American Composer, 1867-1944. By Adrienne Fried Block. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. [xiii, 410 p. ISBN 0-19-507408-4. $45.] Amy Marcy Cheney Beach (1867-1944) has many...

Ives Studies.(Review)
December 1, 1999... Ives Studies. Edited by Philip Lambert. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. [xi, 300 p. ISBN 0-521-58277-6. $64.95.] One immediately questions the need for a collection of essays on Charles Ives published within a year of similar...

Shostakovich Reconsidered.(Review)
December 1, 1999... Shostakovich Reconsidered. Written and edited by Allan B. Ho and Dmitry Feofanov. London: Toccata Press, 1998. [787 p. ISBN 0-907689-56-6. $75.] Shostakovich Reconsidered incorporates a vast amount of documentation, apparently intended to...

Messiaen's Language of Mystical Love.(Review)
December 1, 1999... Messiaen's Language of Mystical Love. Edited by Siglind Bruhn. (Studies in Contemporary Music and Culture, 1.) New York: Garland Publishing, 1998. [ix, 271 p. ISBN 0-8153-2747-1. $57.] Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992) attached supreme...

Let Jasmine Rain Down: Song and Remembrance among Syrian Jews.(Review)
December 1, 1999... Let Jasmine Rain Down: Song and Remembrance among Syrian Jews. By Kay Kaufman Shelemay. (Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology.) Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998. [xvi, 291 p. + 1 compact disc. ISBN 0-226-75211-9 (cloth); 0-226-75212-7...

Music of Hindu Trinidad: Songs from the India Diaspora.(Review)
December 1, 1999... Music of Hindu Trinidad: Songs from the India Diaspora. By Helen Myers. (Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology.) Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998. [xxxii, 510 p. + 1 compact disc. ISBN 0-226-55451-1 (cloth); 0-226-55453-8 (pbk.). $80...

Verdade tropical.(Review)
December 1, 1999... Verdade tropical. By Gaetano Veloso. Sao Paulo: Companhia das Letras, 1997. [524 p. ISBN 85-7164-712-7.] Carleton Sprague Smith, addressing the 1947 national meeting of the Music Library Association on the subject of music publication in...

Whose Master's Voice? The Development of Popular Music in Thirteen Cultures.(Review)
December 1, 1999... Whose Master's Voice? The Development of Popular Music in Thirteen Cultures. Edited by Alison J. Ewbank and Fouli T. Papageorgiou. (Contributions to the Study of Music and Dance, 41.) Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1997. [viii, 259 p....

Glenn Gould: The Ecstasy and Tragedy of Genius.(Review)
December 1, 1999... Glenn Gould: The Ecstasy and Tragedy of Genius. By Peter Ostwald. New York: W. W. Norton, 1997. [368 p. ISBN 0-393-04077-1 (cloth); 0-393-31847-8(pbk.). $29.95 (cloth); $15 (pbk.).] After the Canadian pianist Glenn Gould left the concert...

Diva: The New Generation: The Sopranos and Mezzos of the Decade Discuss Their Roles.(Review)
December 1, 1999... Diva: The New Generation: The Sopranos and Mezzos of the Decade Discuss Their Roles. By Helena Matheopoulos. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1998. [xxvii, 372 p. ISBN 1-55553-358-2. $29.95.] Singers of the Century. Volume 2. By J. B....

Gerhard Brunzema: His Work and His Influence.(Review)
December 1, 1999... Gerhard Brunzema: His Work and His Influence. Edited by Thomas Donahue. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, 1998. [xxiii, 331 p. ISBN 0-8108-3366- 2.$60.] Organbuilding since World War II has been characterized by an increased sense of shared...

Violin Fraud: Deception, Forgery, and Lawsuits in England and America.(Review)
December 1, 1999... Violin Fraud: Deception, Forgery, and Lawsuits in England and America. 2d ed. By Brian W. Harvey and Carla J. Shapreau. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997. [xxi, 212 p. ISBN 0-19-816655-9. $38.] A recent reexamination of the unsolved 1995 theft...

The Performing Arts in Colonial American Newspapers, 1690-1783: Text Database and Index.(Review)
December 1, 1999... The Performing Arts in Colonial American Newspapers, 1690-1783: Text Database and Index. By Mary Jane Corry, Kate Van Winkle Keller, and Robert M. Keller. New York: University Music Editions, 1997. UMEl0ICD. $99. CD-ROM for Windows or DOS....

Carl Nielsen: The Man and the Music.(Review)
December 1, 1999... Carl Nielsen: The Man and the Music. Edited by Knud Ketting. Production by AM-MultiMedia; Per Kyed Laursen, producer. Copenhagen: Edition Wilhelm Hansen, 1998. DKr 295. CD-ROM. ISBN 87-986907-0-1. Requires PC with 66 MHz 486 DX2 processor (100...

John Frederick Lampe.(Review)
December 1, 1999... John Frederick Lampe. Hymns on the Great Festivals and Other Occasions. Facsimile of the first edition. London: M. Cooper, 1746. Hymn texts by Charles Wesley and Samuel Wesley Jr.; introduction by Canton R. Young, Frank Baker, Robin A. Leaver,...

Barbara Strazzi.(Review)
December 1, 1999... Barbara Strazzi. Gantate, ariete a una, due, e tre voci, Opus 3. Edited by Gail Archer. (Recent Researches in the Music of the Baroque Era, 83.) Madison, Wis.: A-R Editions, c1997. [Acknowledgments, introd., p. vi-xi; texts and trans., p....

Mauricio Kagel.(Review)
December 1, 1999... University of Hong Kong Mauricio Kagel. Opus 1991: Konzertstuck fur Orchester, [1990]. Frankfurt: Henry Litoiff's Verlag/C. F. Peters, c1995. [Notes in Ger., Eng., 2 p.; score (in C), 78 p. ISMN M-014-10397-2; Edition Peters Nr. 8839. DM...

The Complete Works of Robert Carver & Two Anonymous Masses.(Review)
December 1, 1999... The Complete Works of Robert Carver & Two Anonymous Masses. Edited by Kenneth Elliott. (Musica Scotica, 1.) Glasgow: University of Glasgow Music Department Publications, 1996. [Acknowledgments, p. iv; introd., p. v-xii; editorial method, p....

Paolo Quagliati.(Review)
December 1, 1999... Paolo Quagliati. II primo libro de' madrigali a quattro voci. Edited by Judith Cohen. (Recent Researches in the Music of the Baroque Era, 79.) Madison, Wis.: A-R Editions, c1996. [Introd., p. vii-xii; texts, trans., and commentaries, p....

Georg Philipp Telemann.(Review)
December 1, 1999... Georg Philipp Telemann. Die Hirten bei der Krippe zu Bethlehem: Geistliche Kantate nach Worten von Karl Wilhelm Rainier, TWV 1:797. Hrsg. von Wolf Hobohm. (Musikalische Werke, 30.) Kassel: Barenreiter, 1997. [Zur Ausgabe, p. vii; Vorwort, p....

Timothy Swan.(Review)
December 1, 1999... Timothy Swan. Psalmody and Secular Songs. Edited by Nym Cooke. (Recent Researches in American Music, 26.) (Music of the United States of America, 6.) Madison, Wis.: Published for the American Musicological Society by A-R Editions, c1997....

Hector Berlioz.(Review)
December 1, 1999... Hector Berlioz. Messe solennelle. Edited by Hugh Macdonald. (New Edition of the Complete Works, 23.) Kassel: Barenreiter, 1994, c1993. [Gen. pref., foreword, acknowledgments in Eng., Fr., Ger., p. vii-xxii; score, 257 p.; crit. notes, p....

Niels W. Gade.(Review)
December 1, 1999... Niels W. Gade. Symphony No. 8, Op. 47. Edited by Jan Maegaard. (Works, ser. I: Orchestral Works, vol. 1.) Copenhagen: Foundation for the Publication of the Works of Niels W. Gade; distribution: Engstrom & Sodring; Barenreiter, 1998. [Gen....

Alberto Hemsi.(Review)
December 1, 1999... Alberto Hemsi. Cancionero sefardi. Edited with an introduction by Edwin Seroussi; in collaboration with Paloma Diaz-Mas, Jose Manuel Pedrosa, and Elena Romero; postscript by Samuel C. Armistead. (Yuval Music Series, 4.) Jerusalem: Jewish Music...

Choralvorspiele zum Evangelischen Gesangbuch.(Review)
December 1, 1999... Choralvorspiele zum Evangelischen Gesangbuch. Hrsg. von Juergen Bonn. Kassel: Barenreiter, c1995-97. [Vol. 1 (1995): EG 1-72. Vorwort, p. ii; tables of contents and index of composers, p. iii-vi; score p. 7-127. ISMN M-006-48947-3; BA 8224. DM...

SOLO AND INSTRUMENTAL ENSEMBLE MUSIC.(Review)
December 1, 1999... Arthur Berger. Quintet for Woodwinds (Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Horn, and Bassoon), [1984, rev. 1995]. New York: Henmar Press; sole selling agents: C. F. Peters, C1997. [Score (in C), 34 p. Spiral bound. Edition Peters no. 67689. $15; duration:...

Palestrina: Nella vita, nelle opere, nel suo tempo.(Review)
December 1, 1999... Palestrina: Nella vita, nelle opere, nel suo tempo. By Lino Bianchi. (Musica e Musicisti nel Lazio, 3.) Palestrina, Italy: Fondazione Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, 1995. [xv, 945 p. L 70,000 (pbk.).] The latest publication issued by...