Notes articles from December 2001

Notes archives from December 2001

Recovered in Kiev: Bach et al. A Preliminary Report on the Music Collection of the Berlin Sing-Akademie.
December 1, 2001... It was a fortunate coincidence that the Notenarchiv (historical music collection) of the Berlin Sing-Akademie, long missing and believed to be lost, emerged in 1999 on the eve of the 250th anniversary of Johann Sebastian Bach's death. This...

The Music Library Association's Plan 2001: A Final Report.
December 1, 2001... AD HOCTASK FORCE ON PLAN 2001 IMPLEMENTATION The Music Library Association (MLA) formally marked the completion of its five-year strategic plan--Plan 2001--at its 70th annual meeting in February 2001. Adopted by the MLA Board of Directors...

Andrew W. Johnson's the Eclectic Harmony: A Middle Tunebook in Middle Tennessee.
December 1, 2001... In 1993, the Center for Popular Music at Middle Tennessee State University purchased from a Nashville book dealer a previously unknown central-Tennessee shape-note tunebook, the second edition of Andrew W. Johnson's The Eclectic Harmony, which...

Trends in the Price of Music Monographs and Scores as Reflected in Notes, 1995-2000.
December 1, 2001... This article uses as a starting point the work that Calvin Elliker presented here for the past six years. The exact methods used to calculate these figures are currently being reviewed with the goal of providing useful and authoritative data to...

Notes for Notes.
December 1, 2001... The Pierpont Morgan Library (J. Rigbie Turner, Mary Flagler Gary Curator of Music Manuscripts and Books) recently acquired two printed scores of music by Johann Sebastian Bach. While there can be no argument about the excellence of the music...

The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. (Book Reviews).
December 1, 2001... The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. 2d ed. Edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell. London: Macmillan; New York: Grove's Dictionaries, 2001. [29 vols. ISBN 1-56159-239-0. $4,580.] The encyclopedic articulation of a world...

The Sense of Music: Semiotic Essays. (Book Reviews).
December 1, 2001... The Sense of Music: Semiotic Essays. By Raymond Monelle. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2000. [xvi, 248 p. ISBN 0-691-05715-X (cloth); 0-691-05716-8 (pbk.). $65 (cloth); $26.95 (pbk.).] In a recent article in the New York...

The Advent Project: The Later-Seventh-Century Creation of the Roman Mass Proper. (Book Reviews).
December 1, 2001... The Advent Project: The Later-Seventh-Century Creation of the Roman Mass Proper. By James McKinnon. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000. [xiv, 466 p. ISBN 0-520-22198-2. $50.] The circumstances surrounding the origin of Gregorian...

Theories of Fugue from the Age of Josquin to the Age of Bach. (Book Reviews).
December 1, 2001... Theories of Fugue from the Age of Josquin to the Age of Bach. By Paul Mark Walker. Rochester, N.Y.: University of Rochester Press, 2000. (Eastman Studies in Music, 13.) [Xi, 485 p. ISBN 1-58046-029-1. $120.] Toward the end of this...

A History of the Oratorio and The Oratorio in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. (Book Reviews).
December 1, 2001... A History of the Oratorio. Vol. 4, The Oratorio in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. By Howard E. Smither. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000. [xxiv, 829 p. ISBN 0-8078-2511-5. $80.] With this volume, Howard E....

Siren Songs: Representations of Gender and Sexuality in Opera. (Book Reviews).
December 1, 2001... Siren Songs: Representations of Gender and Sexuality in Opera. Edited by Mary Ann Smart. (Princeton Studies in Opera.) Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2000. [vi, 301 p. ISBN 0-691-05814-8 (cloth); 0-691-05813-X (pbk.). $55 (cloth);...

Music and Cinema. (Book Reviews).
December 1, 2001... Music and Cinema. Edited by James Buhler, Garyl Flinn, and David Neumeyer. Hanover, N.H.: Wesleyan University Press, University Press of New England, 2000. [vi, 397 p. ISBN 0-8195-6410-9 (cloth); 0-8195-6411-7 (pbk.). $70 (cloth); $24.95...

A French Song Companion. (Book Reviews).
December 1, 2001... A French Song Companion. By Graham Johnson and Richard Stokes. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. [Xxxii, 530 p. ISBN 0-19-816410-6. $72.] The melodie is long overdue for a comprehensive treatment, given the current flow ering of...

Editionsrichtlinien Musik. (Book Reviews).
December 1, 2001... Editionsrichtlinien Musik. Edited by Bernhard R. Appel and Joachim Veit. (Musikwissenschaftliche Arbeiten, 30.) Kassel: Barenreiter, 2000. [x, 428 p. ISBN 3-7618-1487-9. DM 48.] The present volume constitutes the fourth in a series of...

Serial Music and Serialism: A Research and information Guide. (Book Reviews).
December 1, 2001... Serial Music and Serialism: A Research and information Guide. By John D. Vander Weg. New York: Routledge, 2001. [viii, 138 p. ISBN 0-8153-3528-8. $75.] Twelve-tone and serial music were dominant forms of composition following World War II...

Elliott Carter: A Guide to Research. (Book Reviews).
December 1, 2001... Elliott Carter: A Guide to Research. By John F. Link. (Composer Resource Manuals, 52.) New York: Garland, 2000. [xiv, 331 p. ISBN 0-8153-2432-4. $90.] When reviewing a book such as this, I am reminded of the Amish farmers near my home....

Claude Le Jeune (v. 1530-1600): Un compositeur entre Renaissance et baroque. (Book Reviews).
December 1, 2001... Claude Le Jeune (v. 1530-1600): Un compositeur entre Renaissance et baroque. By Isabelle His. (Serie musique.) Arles: Actes Sud, 2000. [511 p. ISBN 2-7427-2891-0. Fr 199 (pbk.).] A little more than four hundred years after his death, Claude...

French Baroque Opera: A Reader. (Book Reviews).
December 1, 2001... French Baroque Opera: A Reader. Edited by Caroline Wood and Graham Sadler. Aldershot, Hants, England: Ashgate, 2000. [ix, 160 p. ISBN 1- 84014-241-3. $69.95.] "Every sea monster, for example, should be at least 18 feet long by 6 feet wide...

Jose de Torres's Treatise of 1736: General Rules for Accompanying on the Organ, Harpsichord, and the Harp, by Knowing Only How to Sing the Part, or a Bass in Canto Figurado. (Book Reviews).
December 1, 2001... Jose de Torres's Treatise of 1736: General Rules for Accompanying on the Organ, Harpsichord, and the Harp, by Knowing Only How to Sing the Part, or a Bass in Canto Figurado. Translated and edited by Paul Murphy. (Publications of the Early Music...

Daniel Gottlob Turk on the Role of the Organist in Worship (1787). (Book Reviews).
December 1, 2001... Daniel Gottlob Turk on the Role of the Organist in Worship (1787). Translated and edited by Margot Ann Greenlimb Woolard. Studies in Liturgical Musicology, 9. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, 2000. [xxv, 171 p. ISBN 0-8108-3704-8. $59.50.] ...

"immer das Ganze vor Augen": Studien zu Beethoven. (Book Reviews).
December 1, 2001... "immer das Ganze vor Augen": Studien zu Beethoven. By Peter Gulke. Stuttgart: Metzler; Kassel: Barenreiter, 2000. [v, 282 p. ISBN 3-476-01796-6 (Metzler); 3-7618-2018-6 (Barenreiter). DM 68] Peter Gulke has been an indefatigable writer on...

The Life of Mendelssohn. (Book Reviews).
December 1, 2001... The Life of Mendelssohn. By Peter Mercer-Taylor. (Musical Lives.) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. [viii, 238 p. ISBN 0-521-63972-7. $17.95 (pbk.).] In The Life of Mendelssohn, Peter Mercer-Taylor provides for the general...

T.S. Eliot's Orchestra: Critical Essays on Poetry and Music & Walt Whitman and Modern Music: War, Desire, and the Trials of Nationhood. (Book Reviews).
December 1, 2001... T. S. Eliot's Orchestra: Critical Essays on Poetry and Music. Edited by John Xiros Cooper. (Border Crossings, 7.) New York: Garland, 2000. [xix, 352 p. 0-8153-2577-0. $75.] Walt Whitman and Modern Music: War, Desire, and the Trials of...

Schoenberg and Words: The Modernist Years. (Book Reviews).
December 1, 2001... Schoenberg and Words: The Modernist Years. Edited by Charlotte M. Gross and Russell A. Berman. (Border Crossings, 11.) New York: Garland, 2000. [xxv, 370 p. ISBN 0-8153-2830-3. $70.] This volume might have been titled Schoenberg and Ideas,...

Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring. (Book Reviews).
December 1, 2001... Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring. By Peter Hill. (Cambridge Music Handbooks.) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. [x, 170 p. ISBN 0-521-62221-2 (cloth); 0-521-62714-1 (pbk.). $42.95 (cloth); $15.95 (pbk.).] With this volume, Igor...

Inside Bluebeard's Castle: Music and Drama in Bela Bartok's Opera. (Book Reviews).
December 1, 2001... Inside Bluebeard's Castle: Music and Drama in Bela Bartok's Opera. By Carl S. Leafstedt. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. [viii, 246 p. ISBN 0-19-510999-6. $45.] In 1440, Gilles de Laval, Baron of Rais, was burned alive...

The BBC and Ultra-modern Music, 1922-1936: Shaping a Nation's Tastes. (Book Reviews).
December 1, 2001... The BBC and Ultra-modern Music, 1922-1936: Shaping a Nation's Tastes. By Jennifer Doctor. (Music in the Twentieth Century.) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. [xiii, 508. ISBN 0-521-66117-X. $80.] This is a monumental study of a...

The Soviet Proletarian Music Movement. (Book Reviews).
December 1, 2001... The Soviet Proletarian Music Movement. By Neil Edmunds. Oxford: Peter Lang, 2000. [407 p. ISBN 0-8204-53188. $57.95 (pbk.).] Neil Edmunds's book begins with the following epigraph from Lenin: Art belongs to the people. It must have its...

American Folk Music and Left-Wing Politics, 1927-1957. (Book Reviews).
December 1, 2001... American Folk Music and Left-Wing Politics, 1927-1957. By Richard A. Reuss with JoAnne C. Reuss. (American Folk Music and Musicians Series, 4.) Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, 2000. [xviii, 297 p. ISBN 0-8108-3684-X. $55.] It has long been...

Aaron Copland's America: A Cultural Perspective. (Book Reviews).
December 1, 2001... Aaron Copland's America: A Cultural Perspective. By Gail Levin and Judith Trick. New York: Watson-Guptill, 2000. [176 p. ISBN 0-8230-0110-5. $29.95.] This handsome, glossy volume was published in conjunction with an exhibition of the same...

Reading Pop: Approaches to Textual Analysis in Popular Music. (Book Reviews).
December 1, 2001... Reading Pop: Approaches to Textual Analysis in Popular Music. Edited by Richard Middleton. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. [xi, 388 p. ISBN 0-19-816612-5 (cloth); 0-19-816611-7 (pbk.). $70 (cloth); $19.95 (pbk.).] In...

Listening to Classic American Popular Songs. (Book Reviews).
December 1, 2001... Listening to Classic American Popular Songs. By Allen Forte. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001. [xiii, 219 p. + 1 CD. ISBN 0-300-08338-6. $35.] In Listening to Classic American Popular Songs, as in his longer 1995 book The American...

Jazz: A History of America's Music. (Book Reviews).
December 1, 2001... Jazz: A History of America's Music. By Geoffrey C. Ward. Based on a documentary film by Ken Burns. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2000. Ex, 489 p. ISBN 0-679-44551-X. $65.] During its early years, jazz shared the American stage with light...

"Oh, Mister Jelly": A Jelly Roll Morton Scrapbook. (Book Reviews).
December 1, 2001... "Oh, Mister Jelly": A Jelly Roll Morton Scrapbook. Compiled by William Russell. Copenhagen: JazzMedia, 1999. [720 p. ISBN 87-88043-26-6. $100.] "Oh, Mister Jelly" is a pathbreaking example of the "scrapbook" type of jazz book. Photographs...

Reminiscing in Tempo: A Portrait of Duke Ellington. (Book Reviews).
December 1, 2001... Reminiscing in Tempo: A Portrait of Duke Ellington. By Stuart Nicholson. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1999. [xix, 538 p. ISBN 1-55553-380-9 (cloth); 1-55553-466-X (pbk.). $42.50 (cloth); $17.95 (pbk.).] The centennial of Edward...

Blutopia: Visions of the Future and Revisions of the Past in the Work of Sun Ra, Duke Ellington, and Anthony Braxton. (Book Reviews).
December 1, 2001... Blutopia: Visions of the Future and Revisions of the Past in the Work of Sun Ra, Duke Ellington, and Anthony Braxton. By Graham Lock. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1999. [xi, 314 p. ISBN 0-8223-2404-0 (cloth); 0-8223-2440-7 (pbk.)....

Josh White: Society Blues. (Book Reviews).
December 1, 2001... Josh White: Society Blues. By Elijah Wald. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2000. [xvii, 336 p. ISBN 1-55849-269-0. $32.50.] Josh White (1914-1969), an African American singer and guitarist, had a remarkably varied career. As a...

Nationalists, Cosmopolitans, and Popular Music in Zimbabwe. (Book Reviews).
December 1, 2001... Nationalists, Cosmopolitans, and Popular Music in Zimbabwe. By Thomas Turino. (Chicago Studies in Ethnomousicology.) Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000. [x, 401 p. ISBN 0-226-81701-6 (cloth); 0-226-81702-4 (pbk.). $50 (cloth); $22...

Fiddler on the Move: Exploring the Klezmer World. (Book Reviews).
December 1, 2001... Fiddler on the Move: Exploring the Klezmer World. By Mark Slobin. (American Musicspheres.) Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. [154 p. + 1 CD. ISBN 0-19-513124-X. $35.11 This is a beautifully written book on a timely topic...

Theremin: Ether Music and Espionage. (Book Reviews).
December 1, 2001... Theremin: Ether Music and Espionage. By Albert Glinsky. (Music in American Life.) Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2000. [xvi, 403 p. ISBN 0-252-02582-2. $34.95.] Lev Sergeyevich Termen, the Russian scientist and inventor, was born in...

Virtuosi: A Defense and a (Sometimes Erotic) Celebration of Great Pianists. (Book Reviews).
December 1, 2001... Virtuosi: A Defense and a (Sometimes Erotic) Celebration of Great Pianists. Mark Mitchell. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2000. [x, 193 p. ISBN 0-253-33757-7. $24.95.] This is a bizarrely heterogeneous book--partly an autobiography,...

A Century of Recorded Music: Listening to Musical History. (Book Reviews).
December 1, 2001... A Century of Recorded Music: Listening to Musical History. By Timothy Day. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000. [x, 306 p. ISBN 0-300-08442-0.$35.] The literature on sound recording is as old as the technology itself. Yet despite the...

Bruno Walter: A World Elsewhere. (Book Reviews).
December 1, 2001... Bruno Walter: A World Elsewhere. By Erik Ryding and Rebecca Pechefsky. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001. [xvii, 487 p. ISBN 0-300-08713-6. $35.] I suspect that I am not alone in having first encountered the name Bruno Walter when I...

Herbert von Karajan: A Life in Music. (Book Reviews).
December 1, 2001... Herbert von Karajan: A Life in Music. By Richard Osborne. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1998. [x, 851 p. ISBN 1-55553-425-2. $37.50.] Herbert von Karajan: A Life in Music is the most comprehensive biography yet published of the...

GroveMusic & The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians & The New Grove Dictionary of Opera. (Digital Media Reviews).
December 1, 2001... GroveMusic. Edited by Laura Macy. London: Macmillan Reference; New York: Grove's Dictionaries, 2001-. http://www.grovemusic.com/index. html. Online version of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 2nd edition, edited by Stanley Sadie...

RIPM: International Index to Nineteenth-Century Music Periodicals. (Digital Media Reviews).
December 1, 2001... RIPM on the Internet. RIPM: International Index to Nineteenth-Century Music Periodicals. First edition. Baltimore: National Information Services Corporation (NISC USA), 2000. http://www.nisc.com/RIPM/ ripm_electronic.htm (information);...

Reliable, Useful, and Free: Notable Bibliographic Databases on the Web. (Digital Media Reviews).(Brief Article)
December 1, 2001... The World Wide Web has permanently and profoundly changed the way researchers go about their business and how they think about information. While the need for authoritative, subject-specific resources providing bibliographic and other...

Bach Bibliography. (Digital Media Reviews).(Brief Article)
December 1, 2001... Bach Bibliography. http://www.npj.com/bach/.Maintained by Yo Tomita. Johann Sebastian Bach is unarguably one of the most thoroughly researched composers of Western music. For scholars and students working in the field of "Bach Studies,' it...

Beethoven Bibliography Database. (Digital Media Reviews).(Brief Article)
December 1, 2001... Beethoven Bibliography Database. http://www.sjsu.edu/depts/beethoven/database/database.html. Maintained by the Ira F. Brilliant Center for Beethoven Studies, San Jose State University. The Beethoven Bibliography Database is a fully indexed...

Neue Mozart-Ausgabe / Mozart - Quellendatenbank. (Digital Media Reviews).(Brief Article)
December 1, 2001... Neue Mozart-Ausgabe / Mozart - Quellendatenbank. http://www.nma.at/. Maintained by the the Neue Mozart-Ausgabe. The Neue Mozart-Ausgabe is an institution that, since 1954, has been working on the modern critical edition of the works of...

MuSICA Music and Science Information Computer Archive. (Digital Media Reviews).(Brief Article)
December 1, 2001... MuSICA Music and Science Information Computer Archive. http://www.musica.uci.edu/. Norman M. Weinberger, Coordinator. Maintained at the University of California, Irvine. Need information on Beethoven's deafness, the "Mozart Effect," or the...

Franz Schubert. (Music Reviews).
December 1, 2001... Franz Schubert. Sinfonien Nr. 4-6. Vorgelegt von Arnold Feil und Douglas Woodfull-Harris. (Neuc Ausgabe samtlicher Werke, Ser. 5: Orchesterwerke, Bd. 2.) Kassel: Barenreiter, 1999. [Zur Edition, p. vii--viii; Vorwort, p. ix-xi; facsims., p....

Franz Liszt. (Music Reviews).
December 1, 2001... Franz Liszt. Freie Bearbeitungen, III. Herausgegeben von Laszlo Martos and Imre Sulyok. (Neue Ausgabe samtlicher Werke, Ser. II: Freie Bearbeitungen und Transkriptionen fur Klavier zu zwei Handen, Bd. 3.) Budapest: Editio Musica Budapest,...

Emmanuel Chabrier & The Art of French Song: 19th and 20th Century Repertoire & Charles Gounod. (Music Reviews).
December 1, 2001... Emmanuel Chabrier. Melodies en 2 volumes. Edition par Roger Delage. (Le pupitre, 75-76.) (Musica gallica.) Paris: Heugel (T. Presser), c1995-97. [Vol. 1. Pref. in Fr., Eng., Ger., p. vii-xxviii; 1 plate; score, p. 2-97. HE 33708. $32.25. Vol....

Georg Friedrich Handel. (Music Reviews).
December 1, 2001... Georg Friedrich Handel. Israel in Egypt: Oratorio in Three Parts, HWV 54. Herausgegeben von Annette Landgraf. (Hallische Handel-Ausgabe, Ser. I: Oratorien und groBe Kantaten, Bd. 14.) Kassel: Barenreiter, 1999. [Teilband 1: Part I-III....