Notes articles from December 2000

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EVOLUTION OF AN EDITION THE CASE OF BEETHOVEN'S OPUS 2.
December 1, 2000... PART 1 PUNCHES, PROOFS, AND PRINTINGS THE SEVEN STATES OF ARTARIA'S FIRST EDITION In 1991, the Ira F. Brilliant Center for Beethoven Studies acquired a previously unknown exemplar of the first edition of Ludwig van Beethoven's three...

TRENDS IN THE PRICE OF MUSIC MONOGRAPHS AND SCORES AS REFLECTED IN NOTES, 1995-99.
December 1, 2000... This article is the sixth 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...

Cornell University.
December 1, 2000... Cornell University has announced the opening of the Sidney Cox Library of Music and Dance on 1 August 2000. Music Librarian Lenore Coral reports: We have now completed a planning and building cycle that at times seemed to mimic the...

Shostakovich: A Life.(Review)
December 1, 2000... Shostakovich: A Life. By Laurel E. Fay. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. [xii, 458 p. ISBN 0-19-513438-9. $35.] Biography, like any other historical undertaking, is normally carried out within the framework of a narrative. Even the...

Composers of the Nazi Era: Eight Portraits.(Review)
December 1, 2000... Composers of the Nazi Era: Eight Portraits. By Michael H. Kater. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. [xiii, 399 p. ISBN 0-19-509924-9. $35.] Only two decades ago, it was nearly impossible to read about the activities of most German...

Visions of Jazz: The First Century.(Review)
December 1, 2000... Visions of Jazz: The First Century. By Gary Giddins. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. [xi, 690 p. ISBN 0-19-507675-3. $35.] Jazz literature has long had a soft spot for the short essay, especially the variety that profiles an...

Understanding Rock: Essays in Musical Analysis.(Review)
December 1, 2000... Understanding Rock: Essays in Musical Analysis. Edited by John Covach and Graeme M. Boone. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. [xiii, 219 p. ISBN 0-19-510004-2 (cloth); 0-19-510005-0 (pbk.). $45 (cloth); $19.95 (pbk.).] The most...

The Cowboy and the Dandy: Crossing Over from Romanticism to Rock and Roll.(Review)
December 1, 2000... The Cowboy and the Dandy: Crossing Over from Romanticism to Rock and Roll. By Perry Meisel. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. [ix, 156 p. ISBN 0-19-511817-0. $24.95.] It has become commonplace to describe as "romantic" too...

Absolute Music and the Construction of Meaning.(Review)
December 1, 2000... Absolute Music and the Construction of Meaning. By Daniel K. L. Chua. (New Perspectives in Music History and Criticism.) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. [xii, 314 p. ISBN 0-521-63181-5. $64.95.] Not so long ago, the idea of...

Beethoven: The Philosophy of Music: Fragments and Texts.(Review)
December 1, 2000... Beethoven: The Philosophy of Music: Fragments and Texts. By Theodor W. Adorno. Edited by Rolf Tiedemann. Translated by Edmund Jephcott. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1998. [xii, 268 p. ISBN 0-8047-3515-8. $39.50.] Although Theodor...

Music and the Cultures of Print.(Review)
December 1, 2000... Music and the Cultures of Print. Edited by Kate van Orden. New York: Garland Publishing, 2000. [xxi, 354 p. ISBN 0-8153-2574-6. $70.] Music librarians by nature will feel good about musicology that studies music printing and publishing. To...

Music Publishing and Patronage: C. F. Peters, 1800 to the Holocaust.(Review)
December 1, 2000... Music Publishing and Patronage: C. F. Peters, 1800 to the Holocaust. By Irene Lawford-Hinrichsen Kenton, Middlesex, England: Edition Press, 2000. [xxiv, 332 p. ISBN 0-9536112-0-5. [pound]25.] C. F. Peters acquired the Leipzig office of the...

Picturing Performance: The Iconography of the Performing Arts in Concept and Practice.(Review)
December 1, 2000... Picturing Performance: The Iconography of the Performing Arts in Concept and Practice. By Thomas F. Heck, with contributions from Robert Erenstein, M. A. Katritzky, Frank Peters, A. William Smith, and Lyckle de Vries. Rochester, N.Y: University...

The British Library Stefan Zweig Collection: Catalogue of the Music Manuscripts.(Review)
December 1, 2000... The British Library Stefan Zweig Collection: Catalogue of the Music Manuscripts. By Arthur Searle. London: British Library, 1999. [xlii, 158 p.; 139 plates. ISBN 0-7123-4600-7. [pound]75.] In his engrossing introduction to this remarkable...

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau: Verzeichnis der Tonaufnahmen.(Review)
December 1, 2000... Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau: Verzeichnis der Tonaufnahmen. By Monika Wolf. Tutzing: Hans Schneider, 2000. [xi, 539 p. ISBN 3-7952-0999-4. DM 92.] Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau: Verzeichnis der Tonaufnahmen (Catalog of Sound Recordings) is the...

A Blues Bibliography: The International Literature of an Afro-American Music Genre.(Review)
December 1, 2000... A Blues Bibliography: The International Literature of an Afro-American Music Genre. By Robert Ford. Bromley, Kent, England: Paul Pelletier, 1999. [800 p. ISBN 0-9535928-0-4. [pound]65.] The first major book-length bibliography devoted to...

The Comprehensive Catalogue of Duet Literature for Female Voices: Vocal Chamber Duets with Keyboard Accompaniment Composed between 1820-1995.(Review)
December 1, 2000... The Comprehensive Catalogue of Duet Literature for Female Voices: Vocal Chamber Duets with Keyboard Accompaniment Composed between 1820-1995. By Marilyn Stephanie Mercedes Newman. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, 1999. [xviii, 573 p. ISBN...

Choral Music in Nineteenth-Century America: A Guide to the Sources.(Review)
December 1, 2000... Choral Music in Nineteenth-Century America: A Guide to the Sources. By N. Lee Orr and W. Dan Hardin. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, 1999. [ix, 135 p. ISBN 0-8108-3664-5. $25.] Although this little book promises much more than it delivers, it...

One Handed: A Guide to Piano Music for One Hand.(Review)
December 1, 2000... One Handed: A Guide to Piano Music for One Hand. Compiled and annotated by Donald L. Patterson. (Music Reference Collection, 80.) Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1999. [xvi, 313 p. ISBN 0-313-31179-X. $75.] While most injuries sustained...

Papal Music and Musicians in Late Medieval and Renaissance Rome.(Review)
December 1, 2000... Papal Music and Musicians in Late Medieval and Renaissance Rome. Edited by Richard Sherr. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998. [xxviii, 339 p. ISBN 0-19-816417-3. $95.] This volume Contains a selection of papers presented at a conference held in...

The Motet in the Age of Du Fay.(Review)
December 1, 2000... Prior to the appearance of the monograph under review, the study that would probably have best filled its purpose was Wolfgang Stephan's Die Burgundisch-Niederlandische Motette zur Zeit Ockeghems (Kassel: Barenreiter, 1937), the date of which...

Dowland: Lachrimae (1604).(Review)
December 1, 2000... Dowland: Lachrimae (1604). By Peter Holman. (Cambridge Music Handbooks.) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. [xvi, 100 p. ISBN 0521-58196-6 (cloth); 0-521-58829-4 (pbk.). $44.95 (cloth); $15.95 (pbk.).] Edging out Claudio...

Bach Handbuch.(Review)
December 1, 2000... Bach Handbuch. Edited by Konrad Kuster. Kassel: Barenreiter; Stuttgart: Metzler, 1999. [x, 997 p. ISBN 3-7618-2000-3 (Barenreiter); 3-476-01717-6 (Metzler). DM 158.] As we enter the new millennium via the Bach Year 2000, it is heartening...

Baroque Woodwind Instruments: A Guide to Their History, Repertoire and Basic Technique.(Review)
December 1, 2000... Baroque Woodwind Instruments: A Guide to Their History, Repertoire and Basic Technique. By Paul Carroll. Aldershot, England: Ashgate, 1999. [x, 181 p. ISBN 1-85928-326-8. $65.95.] I spend some of my time as a music librarian serving on the...

Francois Devienne's Nouvelle Methode Theorique et Pratique pour la Flute.(Review)
December 1, 2000... Francois Devienne's Nouvelle Methode Theorique et Pratique pour la Flute: Facsimile of the Original Edition, with an Introduction, Annotated Catalogue of Later Editions, and Translation. By Jane Bowers. Commentary on the original edition by...

The Critical Reception of Beethoven's Compositions by His German Contemporaries.
December 1, 2000... The Critical Reception of Beethoven's Compositions by His German Contemporaries. Vol. 1. Edited, compiled, and translated by Wayne M. Senner, with Robin Wallace and William Meredith, musicological editors. (North American Beethoven Studies, 3.)...

Die Unsinnsgesellschaft: Franz Schubert, Leopold Kupelwieser und ihr Freundeskreis.(Review)
December 1, 2000... Die Unsinnsgesellschaft: Franz Schubert, Leopold Kupelwieser und ihr Freundeskreis. By Rita Steblin, with Erich Benedikt, Walther Brauneis, Ilija Durhammer, Herwig Knaus, Michael Lorenz, and Gerhard Stradner. Vienna: Bohlau, 1998. [xiv, 490 p....

The Diaries of Giacomo Meyerbeer.(Review)
December 1, 2000... The Diaries of Giacomo Meyerbeer. Vol. 1, 1791-1839. Translated, edited, and annotated by Robert Ignatius Letellier. Madison, N.J.: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press; London: Associated University Presses, 1999. [578 p. ISBN 0-8386-3789-2....

The Parisian Worlds of Frederic Chopin.(Review)
December 1, 2000... The Parisian Worlds of Frederic Chopin. By William G. Atwood. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999. [vii, 470 p. ISBN 0-300-07773-4. $35.] This is William G. Atwood's third book on a subject relating to Frederic Chopin, following his...

Singing Schumann: An Interpretive Guide for Performers.(Review)
December 1, 2000... Singing Schumann: An Interpretive Guide for Performers. By Richard Miller. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. [xiv, 245 p. ISBN 0-19-511904-5. $35.] Richard Miller is well known to the international voice community for his several...

The Life of Musorgsky.(Review)
December 1, 2000... The Life of Musorgsky. By Caryl Emerson. (Musical Lives.) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. [xxii, 194 p. ISBN 0-521-48009-4 (cloth); 0-521-48507-X (pbk.). $44.95 (cloth); $15.95 (pbk.). This slim volume represents far more than...

The Mahler Companion.(Review)
December 1, 2000... The Mahler Companion. Edited by Donald Mitchell and Andrew Nicholson. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. [xviii, 633 p. ISBN 0-19-816376- 2. $75.] The long-awaited Mahler Companion is finally in print, and it was certainly worth the...

Schoenberg, Berg, and Webern: A Companion to the Second Viennese School.(Review)
December 1, 2000... Schoenberg, Berg, and Webern: A Companion to the Second Viennese School. Edited by Bryan R. Simms. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1999. [xiv, 410 p. ISBN 0- 13-29604-9. $98.50.] Schoenberg, Berg, and Webern: A Companion to the Second...

Janacek Studies.(Review)
December 1, 2000... Janacek Studies. Edited by Paul Wing-field. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. [viii, 292 p. ISBN 0-521-57357-2. $64.95.] The last twenty-five years have seen an extraordinary upsurge of interest in Leos Janacek outside his native...

Regarding Faure.(Review)
December 1, 2000... Regarding Faure. Edited and translated by Tom Gordon. (Musicology: A Book Series, 19.) Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Gordon and Breach, 1999. [xxiii, 426 p. ISBN 90-5700-549-2. $66.] In which year did Gabriel Faure retire from the...

Francis Poulenc: Music, Art and Literature.(Review)
December 1, 2000... Francis Poulenc: Music, Art and Literature. Edited by Sidney Buckland and Myriam Chimenes. Aldershot, England: Ashgate, 1999. [xix, 409 p. ISBN 1-85928-407-8. $83.95.] In many ways, Francis Poulenc (1899-1963) remains a delightful paradox....

Tippett: A Child of Our Time.(Review)
December 1, 2000... Tippett: A Child of Our Time. By Kenneth Gloag. (Cambridge Music Handbooks.) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. [ix, 111 p. ISBN 0-521-59228-3 (cloth); 0-521-59753-6 (pbk.). $44.95 (cloth); $15.95 (pbk.).] Michael Tippett's...

Shoshone Ghost Dance Religion: Poetry Songs and Great Basin Context.(Review)
December 1, 2000... Shoshone Ghost Dance Religion: Poetry Songs and Great Basin Context. By Judith Vander. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1997. [xxiv, 631 p. ISBN 0-252-02214-9. $65.] Judith Vander's remarkable new book represents the culmination of...

Musics of Multicultural America: A Study of Twelve Musical Communities.(Review)
December 1, 2000... Musics of Multicultural America: A Study of Twelve Musical Communities. Edited by Kip Lornell and Anne K. Rasmussen. New York: Schirmer Books, 1997. [xii, 348 p. + 1 compact disc. ISBN 0-02-864585-5 (text); 0-02864932-X (compact disc). $35...

Music of Death and New Creation: Experiences in the World of Balinese Gamelan Beleganjur.(Review)
December 1, 2000... Music of Death and New Creation: Experiences in the World of Balinese Gamelan Beleganjur. By Michael B. Bakan. (Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology.) Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999. [xxii, 384 p. + 1 compact disc. ISBN 0-226-03487-9...

Eden Built by Eves: The Culture of Women's Music Festivals.(Review)
December 1, 2000... Eden Built by Eves: The Culture of Women's Music Festivals. By Bonnie J. Morris. Los Angeles: Alyson Books, 1999. [xxi, 370 p. ISBN 1-55583-477-9. $15.95 (pbk.).] In Eden Built by Eves, Bonnie Morris surveys the twenty-five-year history of...

Stride! Fats, Jimmy, Lion, Lamb, and All the Other Ticklers.(Review)
December 1, 2000... Stride! Fats, Jimmy, Lion, Lamb, and All the Other Ticklers. By John L. Fell and Terkild Vinding. (Studies in Jazz, 31.) Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press; [Newark, N.J.]: Institute of Jazz Studies, Rutgers--The State University of New Jersey, 1999....

The Musical World of J. J. Johnson.(Review)
December 1, 2000... The Musical World of J. J. Johnson. By Joshua Berrett and Louis G. Bourgois III. (Studies in Jazz, 35.) Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press; [Newark, N.J.]: Institute of Jazz Studies, Rutgers--The State University of New Jersey, 1999. [xxi, 441 p....

Instruments of Desire: The Electric Guitar and the Shaping of Musical Experience.(Review)
December 1, 2000... Instruments of Desire: The Electric Guitar and the Shaping of Musical Experience. By Steve Waksman. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1999. [x, 373 p. ISBN 0-674-00065-X. $27.95.] Steve Waksman's book is a selective history of the...

Reading Rock and Roll: Authenticity, Appropriation, Aesthetics.(Review)
December 1, 2000... Reading Rock and Roll: Authenticity, Appropriation, Aesthetics. Edited by Kevin J. H. Dettmar and William Richey. New York: Columbia University Press, 1999. [x, [x, 347 p. ISBN 0-231-11398-6 (cloth); 0-231-11399-4 (pbk.). $49.50 (cloth); $18.50...

My First 79 Years.(Review)
December 1, 2000... My First 79 Years. By Isaac Stern. Written with Chaim Potok. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1999. [317 p. ISBN 0-679-45130-7. $27.50.] Isaac Stern's prominence as America's unofficial elder statesman of classical music will ensure a significant...

American Memory: Historical Collections for the National Digital Library.(American Memory Project)
December 1, 2000... American Memory: Historical Collections for the National Digital Library. http://memory.loc.gov/. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress. Requires standard web browser; for audio: requires RealAudio player with 14.4kbps or faster Internet...

Symphony No. 1.(Review)
December 1, 2000... Charles E. Ives. Symphony No. 1. Critical edition edited by James B. Sinclair. New York: Peer Music (T. Presser), c1999. [Pref., p. iv-vii; instrumentation, p. viii; score, 82 p.; description of sources, p. 84; selected crit. commentary, p....

In Dark and Blue: Concerto pour violoncelle et orchestre & [3.sup.e] quatuor (Sorgin-ngo) pour quatuor a cordes.(Review)
December 1, 2000... Maurice Ohana. In Dark and Blue: Concerto pour violoncelle et orchestre, [1989]. Reduction pour violoncelle et piano. Paris: Gerard Billaudot (T. Presser), c1998. [Note, 1 p.; score, p. 3-34 and part; ISMN M-043-05392-7; G 5392 B. $29.75;...

Musik zu Egmont und andere Schauspielmusiken & Kantaten.(Review)
December 1, 2000... Ludwig van Beethoven. Musik zu Egmont und andere Schauspielmusiken. Hrsg. von Helmut Hell. (Werke, Abt. IX, Bd. 7.) (Veroffentlichungen des Beethoven-Hauses in Bonn.) Munich: G. Henle, 1998. [Vorwort, p. ix-x; zum vorliegenden Band, p. xi-xii;...

Gradualia II (1607), Christmas to Easter & Gradualia II (1607), Ascension, Pentecost, and the Feasts of Saints Peter and Paul.(Review)
December 1, 2000... William Byrd. Gradualia II (1607), Christmas to Easter. Edited by Philip Brett. (The Byrd Edition, 7a.) London: Stainer & Bell, c1997. [Gen. pref., p. v; pref., p. vii-xv; editorial notes, p. xvi-xx; facsims. and trans., p. xxi-xxix; texts and...

Lessons for the Lute, Duets from the Phalese Anthologies, Lute Duets, Wolf Hecket, Duets by Francesci da Milano and Joanne Matelart, Vincento Galilei, E.G. Baron, Philip Rosseter, John Danyel, The English Lute Song before Dowland, Cuthbert Hely, The Moscow "Weiss" Manuscript, The Moscow "Weiss" Manuscript.(Review)
December 1, 2000... Lessons for the Lute. A book of intermediate pieces selected and fully fingered by Anthony Bailes & Anne van Royen. (The Lute Society Music Editions.) Rev. ed. Albury, Guildford, England: The Lute Society, 1995, c1983. [Introd., P. 1-2;...

The Coptic Orthodox Liturgy of St. Basil: With Complete Musical Transcription.(Review)
December 1, 2000... The Coptic Orthodox Liturgy of St. Basil: With Complete Musical Transcription. Compiled by Ragheb Moftah; music transcription by Margit Toth; text edited by Martha Roy. Cairo: The American University in Cairo Press, 1998. [Acknowledgments, p....