Notes articles from December 2003

Notes archives from December 2003

The "other" billings: The Life and Music of Nathaniel Billings (1768-1853), an early American composer.(Biography)
December 1, 2003... "No one seems to know very much about Nathaniel Billings," wrote the social historian Eugene P. Link in his 1970 article, "The Republican Harmony (1795) of Nathaniel Billings." (1) William Billings was, of course, the best-known American...

Pictures from an exhibition: curating Lift Every Voice at the University of Virginia.(Column)
December 1, 2003... Although academic library exhibitions have been referred to as "illegitimate children," (1) tangential to the chief mission of their institutions, literature on the subject substantiates their significance to both public relations and...

Prices of music monographs and scores as reflected in Notes, 1997-2002.
December 1, 2003... Once again, the numbers presented here are based on data drawn from the "Books Recently Published" and "Music Received" columns only. This allows the reporting of prices to reflect current publishing trends and not become skewed by the time lag...

The Detroit Public Library (DPL; Jeanne Salathiel, reference librarian, Music and Performing Arts Department).(Notes For Notes)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2003... The Detroit Public Library (DPL; Jeanne Salathiel, Reference Librarian, Music and Performing Arts Department) has mounted a series of exhibits in celebration of the sixtieth anniversary of its E. Azalia Hackley Collection. The Hackley...

Dr. David Hunter (music librarian, Fine Arts Library, University of Texas at Austin).(Notes For Notes)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2003... Dr. David Hunter (Music Librarian, Fine Arts Library, University of Texas at Austin) is one of forty scholars worldwide to be awarded a Visiting Fellowship by the British Academy in 2003. The program's goal is to provide up to a month of...

In June 2003, the Music Library at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (Philip Vandermeer, music librarian).(Notes For Notes)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2003... In June 2003, the Music Library at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (Philip Vandermeer, Music Librarian), moved to its new location on the ground floor of Wilson Library, the campus's special-collections library. The collection has...

Music and Culture in Late Renaissance Italy.(Book Review)
December 1, 2003... By Iain Fenlon. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. [xvi, 265 p. ISBN 0-19-816444-0. 30 [pounds sterling].] Illustrations, bibliography, index. Philip Larkin said of literary journalism that he found reading the books hard, thinking of...

Paying the Piper: Music in Pre-1642 Cheshire.(Book Review)
December 1, 2003... By Elizabeth Baldwin, with David Mills. (Early Drama, Art, and Music Monograph Series, 29.) Kalamazoo, MI: The Medieval Institute/ Western Michigan University, 2002. [xii, 287 p. ISBN 1-58044-040-1. $30.] Maps, illustrations, bibliography,...

Music Is the Weapon of the Future: Fifty Years of African Popular Music.(Book Review)
December 1, 2003... By Frank Tenaille. Photographs by Akwa Betote. Translated by Stephen Toussaint and Hope Sandrine. Chicago: Lawrence Hill Books, 2002. [xiv, 205 p. ISBN 1-55652-450-1. $18.95.] Illustrations, glossary of musical genres and styles, glossary of...

Music in Puerto Rico: a Reader's Anthology.(Book Review)
December 1, 2003... Edited and translated by Donald Thompson. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2002. [viii, 145 p. ISBN 0-8108-3914-8. $34.95.] Index. Donald Thompson provides yet another valuable reference work on the music history of Puerto Rico, an endeavor in...

Cuban Fire: the Story of Salsa and Latin Jazz.(Book Review)
December 1, 2003... By Isabelle Leymarie. New York: Continuum, 2002. [vi, 394 p. ISBN 0-8264-5586-7, $29.95.] Music examples, illustrations, glossary, discography, index. The combination of West African and Spanish influences in Cuba produced a musical...

Settling the Pop Score: Pop Texts and Identity Politics.(Book Review)
December 1, 2003... By Stan Hawkins. (Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series.) Aldershot, Hants, England: Ashgate, 2002. [xiv, 220 p. ISBN 0-7546-0351-2. $79.95 (hbk.); ISBN 0-7546-0352-0. $29.95. (pbk.).] Music examples, bibliography, index. Stan Hawkins's...

Gender, sexuality, and early music.(Book Review)
December 1, 2003... Edited by Todd M. Borgerding. (Criticism and Analysis of Early Music.) New York: Routledge, 2002. [xiii, 297 p. ISBN 0-8153-3394-3. $95.] Index. This volume of collected essays reflects the growing emphasis on and importance of feminism,...

Music, sensation, and sensuality.(Book Review)
December 1, 2003... Edited by Linda Phyllis Austern. (Critical and Cultural Musicology, 5.) New York: Routledge, 2002. [xii, 348 p. ISBN 0-815-33421-4. $95.] Music examples, illustrations, index. As Martha Feldman, the editor for Routledge's series Critical...

Joseph Haydn and the Eighteenth Century: Collected Essays of Karl Geiringer.(Book Review)
December 1, 2003... Edited by Robert N. Freeman. Warren, MI: Harmonie Park Press, 2002 [xxiv, 262 p. ISBN 0-89990-112-3. $52.50.] Music examples, illustrations, bibliography, indexes. Reflecting on his long, fruitful career, the musicologist Karl Geiringer...

Operatic Reform in Turin's Teatro Regio: Aspects of Production and Stylistic Change in the 1760s.(Book Review)
December 1, 2003... By Margaret Ruth Butler. (Le chevalier errant: Studi sulla musica degli antichi stati Sabaudi e del Piemonte, 2.) Turin: Istituto per i beni musicali in Piemonte, 2001. [xxxii, 348 p. ISBN 88-7096-288-1. 42 [euro].] Facsimiles, bibliography,...

Eighteenth Century Continuo Playing: a Historical Guide to the Basics.(Book Review)
December 1, 2003... By Jesper Boje Christensen. Kassel: Barenreiter, 2002. [155 p. ISBN M-006-505496.] Music examples, bibliography. At last, here is a book on continuo playing that lets the historical sources speak for themselves without getting bogged down...

The Characteristic Symphony in the Age of Haydn and Beethoven.(Book Review)
December 1, 2003... By Richard Will. (New Perspectives in Music History and Criticism.) New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002. [xi, 329 p. ISBN 0-521-80201-6. $65.] Music examples, index of characteristic symphonies, bibliography, general index. ...

Country Music: a Biographical Dictionary.(Country Music Sources: A Biblio-Discography of Commercially Recorded Traditional Music)(Book Review)
December 1, 2003... By Richard Carlin. New York: Routledge, 2003. [xvii, 496 p, ISBN 0-415-93802-3. $125.] Select bibliography, appendices, index. Country Music Sources: A Biblio-Discography of Commercially Recorded Traditional Music. Meade, Jr., with Dick...

The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music. Vol. 10: the World's Music: General Perspectives and Reference.(Book Review)
December 1, 2003... Edited by Ruth M. Stone. New York: Routledge, 2002. [xiii, 1017 p. ISBN 0-8153-1084-6. $250.] Illustrations, bibliographies, index. The tenth and final volume of The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music begins with a series of...

Music of the Twentieth-Century Avant-Garde: a Bio-Critical Sourcebook.(Steve Reich: A Bio-Bibliography)(Book Review)
December 1, 2003... Edited by Larry Sitsky, with foreword by Jonathan D. Kramer. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2002. [xx, 660 p. ISBN 0-313-29689-8. $114.95]. Work lists, bibliographies, charts, index. Steve Reich: A Bio-Bibliography. By D. J. Hoek....

Copland Connotations: Studies and Interviews.(Book Review)
December 1, 2003... Edited by Peter Dickinson. Foreword by H. Wiley Hitchcock. Rochester, NY: Boydell Press, 2002. [xviii, 210 p. ISBN 0-85115-902-8. $60.] Music examples, index. This compendium of studies comes from two conferences in 2000--Copland's...

Bartok and the Piano: a Performer's View.(Book Review)
December 1, 2003... By Barbara Nissman. Lanhan, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2002. [xiii, 319. p. ISBN 081084301-3. $49.95.] Music examples, bibliography, indexes, compact disc. Since the Hungarian composer B,la Bart>k (1881--1945) was a virtuoso pianist, it is...

Arthur Bliss: Music and Literature.(Michael Tippett: Music and Literature)(Book Review)
December 1, 2003... Edited by Stewart R. Craggs. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2002. [xv, 351 p. ISBN 1-85928-319-5. $114.95.] Music examples, illustrations, bibliography, indexes. Michael Tippett: Music and Literature. Edited by Suzanne Robinson. Burlington, VT:...

Charles Villiers Stanford.(Book Review)
December 1, 2003... By Paul Rodmell. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2002. [xxi, 495 p. ISBN 1-85928-198-2. $99.95.] Music examples, illustrations, select list of works, bibliography, discography indexes. The Anglo-Irish composer Charles Villiers Stanford (1852-1924)...

Gustav Mahler als Konzert- und Operndirigent in Hamburg.(Book Review)
December 1, 2003... By Bernd Schabbing. (Musicologica Berolinensia, 9). Berlin: Ernst Kuhn, 2002. [371 p. ISBN 3-928864-86-6. DM 49.95.] Illustrations, bibliography, index. When we consider Gustav Mahler as a re-creative musician, there is an undeniable...

Jacques Offenbach and the Paris of His Time.(Book Review)
December 1, 2003... By Siegfried Kracauer. Translated by, Gwenda David and Eric Moshbacher. New York: Zone Books, 2002. [418 p. ISBN 1-890951-30-7. $45.] Illustrations, bibliography, index. The career of Siegfried Kracauer (18891966) as litterateur was...

Opera on Stage.(Book Review)
December 1, 2003... Edited by Lorenzo Bianconi and Giorgio Pestelli. Translations by Kate Singleton. (The History of Italian Opera, Part 2. Systems. Vol. 5.) Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002. [xii 346 p. ISBN 0-226-04591-9. $55.] Illustrations,...

The Viol: History of an Instrument.(Book Review)
December 1, 2003... By Annette Otterstedt. Translated by Hans Reiners. Kassel: Barenreiter, 2002. (Revised and enlarged edition of Die Gambe, Kulturgeschichte und praktischer Ratgeber [Kassel: Barenreiter, 1994]). [262 p. ISBN 3-7618-1151-9. 34.90. [euro] Music...

The Guitar and Its Music: from the Renaissance to the Classical Era.(Book Review)
December 1, 2003... By James Tyler and Paul Sparks. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. [xxv, 322 p. ISBN 0-19-816713-X. $98.] Music examples, illustrations, facsimiles, bibliography, index. In the world of musicology, as in the world of performance,...

Women Performing Music: the Emergence of American Women as Classical Instrumentalists and Conductors.(Book Review)
December 1, 2003... By Beth Ableson Macleod. Conductors. NC: McFarland & Company, 2001. [ix, 205 p. ISBN 0-7864-0904-5. $28.50.] Illustrations, bibliography, index. Beth Ableson Macleod's experience as a music student in the 1960s and 1970s taught her, among...

Books recently published.
December 1, 2003... This column is compiled quarterly based on the output of the monographic music cataloging units of the Library of Congress. Entries appear on the list as they are cataloged by the library, regardless of the date of publication. ENGLISH ...

Emusicquest: the Music-in-Print Series.
December 1, 2003... Compiled by Donald Reese. http://www.emusicquest.com, [Music libraries and other institutions: $400 annually, for unlimited access with authentication by IP address. Music retailers/distributors: $300 annually (alternately $170/6 months;...

Music and Culture of West Africa: the Straus Expedition.
December 1, 2003... Created by Gloria J. Gibson and Daniel B. Reed in collaboration with the Teaching and Learning Technologies Laboratory, Indiana University, Bloomington. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2002. CD-ROM [Requires Macintosh Power PC 7100/100...

Online Hymn Resources.
December 1, 2003... Beginning in the 1990s, a number of Web sites devoted to hymns began to appear, and most Protestant and Catholic denominations now have some type of online hymn representation. Often these hymn sites are created not by the hymnal publishing...

Tomas Luis de Victoria.(Sound Recording Review)
December 1, 2003... Officium Defunctorum; Vadam et circuibo civitatem. Musica Ficta/Raul Mallavibarrena. Enchiriadis EN 2006, 2003. Musica Ficta director Raul Mallavibarrena and countertenor Jordi Abello must have undertaken this project with some trepidation,...

Music at the Court of Emperor Maximilian I.(Concentus Musicus Wien)(Sound Recording Review)
December 1, 2003... Concentus Musicus Wien; Wiener Sangerknaben; Chorus Viennensis/Nikolaus Harnoncourt. Archieve 474 233-2, 2003. Originally released on LP in 1964 and belatedly reissued on compact disc in 2003 as part of the mid-priced Archiv Blue series...

Johann Christian Bach.(Sound Recording Review)
December 1, 2003... Complete Opera Overtures. Hanover Band/Anthony Halstead. CPO 999 963-2, 2003. Anthony Halstead, with the Hanover Band, continues his survey of works by one of Johann Sebastian Bach's more commonly overlooked sons with this three-disc set...

Joseph Haydn.(Heiligmesse; Paukenmesse; Insanae et canae curae)(Sound Recording Review)
December 1, 2003... Heiligmesse; Paukenmesse; Insanae et canae curae. Monteverdi Choir; English Baroque Soloists/ John Eliot Gardiner. Philips 470 819-2, 2003. With this disc, John Eliot Gardiner completes his three-volume survey of Joseph Haydn's late masses....

Franz Schubert.(Sound Recording Review)
December 1, 2003... String Quartet in D Minor, D. 810 ("Death and the Maiden"), arranged for string orchestra by Gustav Mahler. Antonio Dvorak, String Quartet in F Major, op. 96 ("American"). Royal Philharmonic Orchestra/Charles Rosenkrans. Telarc CD-80610, 2003....

Charles Ives.(Violin Sonatas Nos. 1-4)(Sound Recording Review)
December 1, 2003... Violin Sonatas Nos. 1-4. Curt Thompson, violin; Rodney Waters, piano. Naxos 8.559119, 2003. Charles Ives composed his four violin sonatas between 1902 and 1916, a period that saw the emergence of many of his finest works and his most...

Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges.(Le Mozart Noir)(Sound Recording Review)
December 1, 2003... Le Mozart Noir. Tafelmusik/Jeanne Lamon. CBC SMCD 5225, 2003. Born around 1745 to a wealthy plantation owner in Basse-Terre, Guadaloupe and his mistress, a Senegalese slave, Joseph Bologne Saint-Georges was treated as a full member of his...

Shirley Scott.(Queen of the Organ: Shirley Scott Memorial Album)(Sound Recording Review)
December 1, 2003... Queen of the Organ: Shirley Scott Memorial Album. Prestige PRCD-11027-2, 2003. When Shirley Scott died in 2002, the jazz world lost one of its most tireless educators and one of the most skilled and tasteful exponents of the Hammond B-3...

ScoLoHoFo.(Oh!)(Sound Recording Review)
December 1, 2003... Oh! Blue Note 42081, 2003. The "supergroup" concept is one that has its origins in rock'n'roll; the idea was that if you combined famous players and singers from various popular or critically acclaimed bands, you would end up with a...

Ray Brown.(Walk On: The Final Ray Brown Trio Recording)(Sound Recording Review)
December 1, 2003... Walk On: The Final Ray Brown Trio Recording. Telarc 2CD83515, 2003. Ray Brown's death was not exactly untimely--he was seventy-six years old and had lived the grueling life of a traveling musician for most of those years. But it still came...

Hommage a Marius Barbeau.(Sound Recording Review)
December 1, 2003... CBC TRCD 3004, 2003. Marius Barbeau was a French-Candian anthropogist who traveled throughout Eastern Canada between 1916 and 1946, recording and transcribing traditional songs in the remote villages and coastal towns of the region. During...

Jackie Mittoo.(Champion in the Arena: 1976-1977)(Sound Recording Review)
December 1, 2003... Champion in the Arena: 1976-1977. Blood and Fire BAFCD 042, 2003. When producer Clement "Coxsone" Dodd established Studio One in Kingston, Jamaica in the autumn of 1963, it quickly became one of the most important and productive recording...

Music Publishers' Catalogs.(Directory)
December 1, 2003... For information regarding the scope of this column, consult the headnote in the September 2003 issue (p. 259 of this volume). A-R Editions, 8551 Research Way, Suite 180, Middleton, WI 53562. http://www.areditions.com/ Embellishments no. 20,...

Bela Bartok.
December 1, 2003... Bela Bartok. Musik fur Saiteninstrumente, Schlagzeug und Celesta: Faksimile des Partiturautographs und der Skizzen. Herausgegeben und kommentiert von Felix Meyer. Eine Publikation der Paul Sacher Stiftung. Mainz: Schott, c2000. [Introd. in...

Ferenc Erkel.
December 1, 2003... Ferenc Erkel. Botori Maria: Opera ket felvonasban = Opera in Two Acts. Text by Benjamin Egressy; edited by Miklos Dolinszky and Katalin Szacsvai-Kim. (Erkel Ferenc: Operak = Ferenc Erkel Operas, 1.) Budapest: Institute for Musicology of the...

Guiseppe Torelli.(Concerti musicali, Opus 6; Sinfonia in D (G. 21) for 1/2 Trumpet(s), Strings & Continuo)(Sound Recording Review)
December 1, 2003... Giuseppe Torelli. Concerti musicali, Opus 6. Edited by John G. Suess. (Recent Researches in the Music of the Baroque Era, 115.) Middleton, WI: A-R Editions, Inc., c2002. [Acknowledgments, p. vi; introd., p. vii-xiv; 3 plates; score, 98 p.;...

Ludwig van Beethoven.(Ludwig van Beethoven. Werke fur Chor und Orchester; Ludwig van Beethoven. Klavierkonzerte II)(Sound Recording Review)
December 1, 2003... Ludwig van Beethoven. Werke fur Chor und Orchester. Herausgegeben von Armin Raab. (Werke, ser. 10, vol. 2.) (Veroffentlichungen des Beethoven-Hauses in Bonn.) Munich: G. Henle Verlag, 1998. [Frontispiece (facsim. reprod, of leaf from MS of op....

John Eccles.
December 1, 2003... John Eccles. Semele: An Opera. Edited by Richard Platt. (Musica Britannica, 76.) London: Stainer and Bell, 2000. [Dramatis personae, contents, p. xiv-xviii; pref. in Eng., Fr., Ger., p. xix-xxi; introd., p. xxiii-xxv; sources, p. xxvi-xxix;...

Grazyna Bacewicz.
December 1, 2003... Grazyna Bacewicz. I Kwartet smyczkowy = String Quartet no. 1 [1938]. [Redaktor: Barbara Stryszewska]. Cracow: Polskie Wydawnictwo Muzyczne (T. Presser), c1997. [Notes in Pol., Eng., 1 p.; study score, p. 3-56; list of compositions by Bacewicz,...

Lowell Liebermann.(The Picture of Dorian Gray, op. 45: Opera in Two Acts )(Opera Review)
December 1, 2003... The Picture of Dorian Gray, op. 45: Opera in Two Acts (1996). Music and libretto by Lowell Liebermann, adapted from Oscar Wilde's novel. Piano-vocal score. Bryn Mawr, PA: Theodore Presser Co., c1998. [Instrumentation, cast, 1 p.; synopsis, 2...

Music received.
December 1, 2003... A key to abbreviated imprints is found at the end of this column. For information about the content and arrangement of this list, consult the introduction to the column in the September 2003 issue (p. 302 of this volume). SCHOLARLY &...