Notes articles from December 2004

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Music printing in Leipzig during the Thirty Years' War.
December 1, 2004... At the start of the seventeenth century, ambitious musicians in Lutheran lands were keen to have their music printed and published. To be in print was a way of making a public reputation, which could lead to professional mobility and...

Documenting the international avant garde: Earle Brown and the Time--Mainstream Contemporary Sound Series.(Biography)
December 1, 2004... Upon Earle Brown's death in July 2002, newspapers such as the Boston Globe, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and the Independent of London memorialized Brown's contributions to contemporary music in lengthy obituaries. (1) These...

The Ricardo Vines Piano Music Collection at the University of Colorado at Boulder.
December 1, 2004... Ricardo Vines (1875-1943) was a Catalan pianist who carefully amassed and cared for a substantial library of published and manuscript music. Because he was a leader in premiering new music during the years from 1900 to 1930, his library is rich...

Prices of music monographs and scores as reflected in Notes, 1998-2003.
December 1, 2004... As usual, the numbers presented here are based on data drawn from the journal's "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...

Notes for Notes.
December 1, 2004... This issue marks my first as editor of the journal. The transition between editors has been a smooth one, due no doubt to the vast organizational abilities, and the close attention to detail that the immediate past editor, Linda Solow Blotner,...

The Cambridge Companion to Grand Opera.(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... The Cambridge Companion to Grand Opera. Edited by David Charlton. (Cambridge Companions to Music.) New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. [xxi, 495 p. ISBN 0521-64118-7. $70 (hbk.); ISBN 0-521-64683-9. $26 (pbk.)] Music examples,...

The Societe des Concerts du Conservatoire, 1828-1967.(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... The Societe des Concerts du Conservatoire, 1828-1967. By D. Kern Holoman. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004. [xvi, 620 p. ISBN 0-520-23664-5. $95.] Illustrations, facsimiles, bibliography, index. Writing the biography of an...

Debussy's 'Iberia'.(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... Debussy's 'Iberia'. By Matthew Brown. (Studies in Musical Genesis and Structure.) New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. [xv, 177 p. ISBN 0-19-816199-9. $85.] Music examples, bibliography, index. One of Debussy's most significant works,...

Jean Cocteau, Guillaume Apollinaire, Paul Claudel et le Groupe des Six: Rencontres poetico-musicales autour des melodies et des chansons.(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... Jean Cocteau, Guillaume Apollinaire, Paul Claudel et le Groupe des Six: Rencontres poetico-musicales autour des melodies et des chansons. By Catherine Miller. (Collection Musique Musicologie.) Liege: Pierre Mardaga, 2003. [284 p. ISBN...

For the End of Time: The Story of the Messiaen Quartet.(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... For the End of Time: The Story of the Messiaen Quartet. By Rebecca Rischin. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2003. [xi, 167 p. ISBN 0-8014-4136-6. $29.95.] Illustrations, discography, bibliography, index. Upon learning of Rebecca...

Henri Dutilleux: Music, Mystery and Memory. Conversations with Claude Glayman.(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... Henri Dutilleux: Music, Mystery and Memory. Conversations with Claude Glayman. Trans. by Roger Nichols. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2003. [vi. 158 p. ISBN 0-7546-0899-9. $69.96.] Bibliography, works list, discography, index of names. Now...

Emilio de' Cavalieri "Gentiluomo Romano." His Life and Letters, His Role as Superintendent of all the Arts at the Medici Court, and His Musical Compositions. With Addenda to L'aria di Fiorenza and The Court Musicians in Florence.(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... Emilio de' Cavalieri "Gentiluomo Romano." His Life and Letters, His Role as Superintendent of all the Arts at the Medici Court, and His Musical Compositions. With Addenda to L'aria di Fiorenza and The Court Musicians in Florence. By Warren...

The Organ Music of J. S. Bach.(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... The Organ Music of J. S. Bach. By Peter Williams. 2d ed. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. [x, 624 p. ISBN 0-521-81416-2. $110 (hbk.); ISBN 0-521-89115-9. $40 (pbk.)] Music examples, glossary, bibliography, indexes. When Peter...

Michael William Balfe: His Life and His English Operas.(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... Michael William Balfe: His Life and His English Operas. By William Tyldesley. (Music in Nineteenth-Century Britain.) Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, 2003. [xix, 243 p. ISBN 0-7546-0558-2. $84.95.] Music examples, bibliography, index. Michael...

Richard Strauss: Autographen, Portrats, Buhnenbilder. Ausstellung zum 50. Todestag.(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... Richard Strauss: Autographen, Portrats, Buhnenbilder. Ausstellung zum 50. Todestag. Edited by Hartmut Schaefer. In Zusammenarbeit mit: Richard-Strauss-Archiv, Garmisch; Theaterwissenschaftliche Sammlung, Universitat zu Koln; Deutsches...

Drama and the World of Richard Wagner.(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... Drama and the World of Richard Wagner. By Dieter Borchmeyer. Trans. by Daphne Ellis. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003. [x, 391 p. ISBN 0-691-11497-8. $39.50.] Index. Dieter Borchmeyer is one of the most active German scholars...

Brahms: The Four Symphonies.(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... Brahms: The Four Symphonies. By Walter Frisch. (Yale Music Masterworks Series.) New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2003. [xi, 226 p. ISBN 0-300-09965-7. $20.] Music examples, bibliography, index. When Brahms: the Four Symphonies was...

Andrzej Panufnik's Music and Its Reception.(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... Andrzej Panufnik's Music and Its Reception. Edited by Jadwiga Paja-Stach. (Acta Musicologica Universitatis Cracoviensis, 11.) Krakow: Musica Iagellonica, 2003. [274 p. ISBN 8-7099124-6. Z160.] Music examples, analytical charts, indexes. In...

Composers of Classical Music of Jewish Descent.(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... Composers of Classical Music of Jewish Descent. By Lewis Stevens. London; Portland, OR: Vallentine Mitchell, 2003. [xxiii, 384 p. ISBN 0-85303-486-6. $62.95.] Illustrations, index. Few would question the propriety of a work of this nature:...

Virtuosity and the Musical Work: The Transcendental Studies of Liszt.(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... Virtuosity and the Musical Work: The Transcendental Studies of Liszt. By Jim Samson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. [viii, 240 p. ISBN 0-521-81494-4. $75.] Music examples, bibliography, index. For some time now, musicology...

With Voice and Pen: Coming to Know Medieval Song and How It Was Made.(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... With Voice and Pen: Coming to Know Medieval Song and How It Was Made. By Leo Treitler. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. [xxx, 506 p. ISBN 0-19-816644. $145.] Music examples, facsimiles, illustrations, bibliography, index, compact disc....

History, Imagination, and the Performance of Music.(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... History, Imagination, and the Performance of Music. By Peter Walls. Rochester, NY: Boydell and Brewer, 2003. [xiv, 184 p. ISBN 1-84383-005-1. $70.] Music examples, illustrations, bibliography, index. Until twenty or so years ago, many...

Locating East Asia in Western Art Music.(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... Locating East Asia in Western Art Music. Edited by Yayoi Uno Everett and Frederick Lau. (Music / Culture.) Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2004. [xx, 321 p. ISBN 0-8195-6661-6. $70 (hbk.); ISBN 0-8195-6662-4. $27.95.] Music examples,...

The Cambridge Companion to the String Quartet.(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... The Cambridge Companion to the String Quartet. Edited by Robin Stowell. (Cambridge Companions to Music.) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. [xiv, 373 p. ISBN 0-521-80194-X $75 (hbk.); ISBN 0-521-00042-4 $27 (pbk.)] Illustrations,...

Bessie.(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... Bessie. By Chris Albertson. Rev. and expanded ed. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003. [xix, 314 p. ISBN 0-300-09902-9. $29.95.] Illustrations, bibliography, discography, index. Readers familiar with Chris Albertson's Bessie, which had...

Louis Armstrong: The Offstage Story of Satchmo.(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... Louis Armstrong: The Offstage Story of Satchmo. By Michael Cogswell. Portland, OR: Collector's Press, 2003. [192 p. ISBN 1-888054-81-6. $39.95.] Illustrations, index. Although Louis Armstrong is a familiar figure whose music is...

Hutterite Songs.(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... Hutterite Songs. By Helen Martens. (Anabaptist and Mennonite Studies.) Kitchener, ON: Pandora Press; Scottdale, PA: Herald Press, 2002. [xxi, 330 p. ISBN 1-894710-24-X. $29.] Music examples, bibliography. For the past several decades,...

Magic Circles: The Beatles in Dream and History.(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... Magic Circles: The Beatles in Dream and History. By Devin McKinney. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2003. [xi, 420 p. IBSN 0-674-01202-X. $46 (hbk.); ISBN 0-674-01202-X. $16.95 (pbk.)] Illustrations, discography, index. Lying at...

False Prophet: Fieldnotes from the Punk Underground.(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... False Prophet: Fieldnotes from the Punk Underground. By Steven Taylor. (Music / Culture). Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2003. [332 p. ISBN 0-8195-6667-5. $70 (hbk.); ISBN 0-8195-6668-3. $24.95 (pbk.)] Illustrations, bibliography,...

Music Makers: Portraits and Songs from the Roots of America.(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... Music Makers: Portraits and Songs from the Roots of America. Edited by Timothy Duffy. Foreword by B. B. King. Athens, GA: Hill Street Press, 2002. [xiii, 194 p. ISBN 1-58818-085-9. $35.] Illustrations, compact disc. This book profiles the...

Song of the Outcasts: An Introduction to Flamenco.(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... Song of the Outcasts: An Introduction to Flamenco. By Robin Totton. Portland, OR: Amadeus Press, 2003. [224 p. ISBN 1-57467-080-8. $19.95.] Illustrations, index, bibliography, discography, compact disc. To my knowledge there are only a...

Celtic Modern: Music at the Global Fringe.(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... Celtic Modern: Music at the Global Fringe. Edited by Martin Stokes and Philip V. Bohlman. (Europea: Ethnomusicologies and Modernities, 1.) Lanham, MD; Oxford: Scarecrow Press, 2003. [vii, 293 p. ISBN 0-8108-4780-9. $65 (hbk.); ISBN...

Books recently published.
December 1, 2004... For information about the scope of this column, consult the headnote in the September 2004 issue (p. 153 of this volume). ENGLISH 100 greatest albums. Ed. by Jacob Hoye. New York: Pocket Books, c2003. xv, 219 p. ISBN 0-7434-4876-6. LC...

Naxos Music Library.
December 1, 2004... Naxos Music Library (Internet music resource). Naxos Digital Services Ltd. http://www.naxosmusiclibrary.com (accessed 25 August 2004). [Requires: For PC users: Microsoft Windows 98, 2000, or XP with Internet Explorer 6.0 and Media Player 9.0;...

MusicPad Pro[TM] and MusicPad Pro Plus[TM].(Video Recording Review)
December 1, 2004... MusicPad Pro[TM] and MusicPad Pro Plus[TM]. Stand-alone digital music notation viewer, bundled with MusicPad Manager[TM] software. U.S. patent 6,483,019. FreeHand Systems, Inc., Los Altos, CA. $999 and $1,199 list price....

Clement Janequin.(Brief Article)(Sound Recording Review)
December 1, 2004... Clement Janequin. Chansons elegiaques et pittoresques. Les Petits Chanteurs du Mont-Royal/Gilbert Patenaude. Analekta FL 2 3184, 2004. Very little is known of the early life of Clement Janequin. It is generally believed, though it has not...

Orlando di Lasso.(Brief Article)(Sound Recording Review)
December 1, 2004... Orlando di Lasso. Il canzoniere de Messer Francesco Petrarca. Huelgas-Ensemble/Paul Van Nevel. Harmonia Mundi HMC 901828, 2004. Orlando di Lasso was one of many sixteenth-century composers to fall under the spell of the fourteenth-century...

William Byrd.(Video Recording Review)
December 1, 2004... William Byrd. Playing Elizabeth's Tune: The Tallis Scholars Sing William Byrd. Tallis Scholars/Peter Phillips. Gimell GIMDN 902, 2004. [Column editor's note: This column does not normally include reviews of video titles, but an exception...

Georg Philipp Telemann.(Brief Article)(Sound Recording Review)
December 1, 2004... Georg Philipp Telemann. Six Trios 1718. Camerata Koln. CPO 999 957-2, 2004. The six trios presented here were composed and published as a set during Telemann's Frankfurt period, following the publication of his Six sonates a violon seul...

Anton Eberl.(Brief Article)(Sound Recording Review)
December 1, 2004... Anton Eberl. Piano Trios Op. 10; Variations for Piano & Cello Op. 17; Piano Sonata Op. 39. Playel-Trio St. Petersburg. Christophorus 77259, 2003. The Playel-Trio St. Petersburg is one of very few Russian trios (perhaps the only one)...

Ludwig van Beethoven.(Sound Recording Review)
December 1, 2004... Ludwig van Beethoven. Sonatas for Violin and Piano Op. 12, 1-3; Variations in F Major; Rondo in G Major. Matthias Metzger; Gerrit Zitterbart. Hanssler Classic CD 98.462, 2004. The debate over "authentic" performance practices that raged...

Arvo Part.(Sound Recording Review)
December 1, 2004... Arvo Part. Pro & Contra. Truls Mork; Ellerhein Girls' Choir; Estonian National Symphony Orchestra/Paavo Jarvi. Virgin Classics 5 45630 2, 2004. Most American listeners were first exposed to the work of Estonian composer Arvo Part when the...

Herbie Mann/Phil Woods.(Sound Recording Review)
December 1, 2004... Herbie Mann/Phil Woods. Beyond Brooklyn. Manchester Craftsmen's Guild MCGJ1012, 2004. One thing the world can always use is jazz that challenges the listener--that presents knotty harmonic problems, irregular rhythms and counterintuitive...

Erin Bode.(Brief Article)(Sound Recording Review)
December 1, 2004... Erin Bode. Don't Take Your Time. MaxJazz MXJ 118, 2004. Singer Erin Bode is an exceptionally lovely young woman, but by devoting so much real estate to a celebration of her looks (the packaging of this compact disc includes no fewer than...

Rick Peckham.(Brief Article)(Sound Recording Review)
December 1, 2004... Rick Peckham. Left End. Perfected Music PM1001, 2004. No doubt about it, guitarist Rick Peckham has a great sound. He plays a Fender Telecaster, an instrument known for its spanky, twangy tone, and therefore one that is usually preferred by...

Greg Wall.(Brief Article)(Sound Recording Review)
December 1, 2004... Greg Wall. Later Prophets. Tzadik TZ 7186, 2004. For this fascinating project, saxophonist Greg Wall took his inspiration from the prophecies contained in the Old Testament book of Ezekiel and (as he explains in the liner notes) "the...

Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder.(Sound Recording Review)
December 1, 2004... Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder. Live at the Charleston Music Hall. Skaggs Family 6989-01004-2, 2003. Singer and multi-instrumentalist Ricky Skaggs got his start as a bluegrass musician, and he started early. Before age ten he had appeared...

Orgelbuchlein, BWV 599-644: Faksimile der autographen Partitur. Herausgegeben von Heinz-Harald Lohlein. Unveranderte Neuauflage.
December 1, 2004... Johann Sebastian Bach. Orgelbuchlein, BWV 599-644: Faksimile der autographen Partitur. Herausgegeben von Heinz-Harald Lohlein. Unveranderte Neuauflage. (Documenta musicologica, ser. 2: Handschriften-Faksimiles, 11.) Kassel: Barenreiter, 1999....

H.M.S. Pinafore, or, The Lass That Loved a Sailor.(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan. H.M.S. Pinafore, or, The Lass That Loved a Sailor. Edited by Percy M. Young. (The Operas, 3.) New York: Broude Brothers Limited, 2003. [Part A: Music. Frontispiece (facsim. reprod. of stage set); publisher's...

Rodrigue et Chimene. Edition de Richard Langham Smith.(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... Claude Debussy. Rodrigue et Chimene. Edition de Richard Langham Smith. (OEuvres completes, ser. 6: OEuvres lyriques, vol. 1.) (Musica Gallica.) Paris: Durand, c2003. [Gen. pref. in Fr., Eng., p. ix; foreword, p. xi-xxx; selective bibliography,...

Esther, the Beautiful Queen.(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... William B. Bradbury. Esther, the Beautiful Queen. Edited by Juanita Karpf. (Recent Researches in American Music, 38.) Madison, WI: A-R Editions, Inc., c2000. [Acknowledgments, p. vii; introd., p. ix-xix; text, p. xx-xxv; 4 plates; personations...

Freie Bearbeitungen, IV. Herausgegeben von Laszlo Martos, Imre Mezo, Laszlo Vikarius.(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... Franz Liszt. Freie Bearbeitungen, IV. Herausgegeben von Laszlo Martos, Imre Mezo, Laszlo Vikarius. (Neue Ausgabe samtlicher Werke, ser. II: Freie Bearbeitungen und Transkriptionen fur Klavier zu zwei Handen, vol. 4.) Budapest: Editio Musica...

Sontagliche Evangelien.(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... Thomas Elsbeth. Sontagliche Evangelien. Edited by Allen Scott. (Recent Researches in the Music of the Baroque Era, 127.) Middleton, WI: A-R Editions, Inc., c2003. [Acknowledgments, p. vii; introd., p. ix-xiv; texts and trans., p. xv-xxv; 4...

Italian Madrigals Englished (1590).(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... Thomas Watson. Italian Madrigals Englished (1590). Transcribed and edited by Albert Chatterley. (Musica Britannica, 74.) London: Stainer and Bell, 1999. [Pref. in Eng., Fr., Ger., p. xix-xxi; introd., p. xxiii-xxvii; calendar on the life of...

Musica spirituale, libro primo (Venice, 1563).(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... Musica spirituale, libro primo (Venice, 1563). Edited by Katherine Powers. (Recent Researches in the Music of the Renaissance, 127.) Middleton, WI: A-R Editions, Inc., c2001. [Acknowledgments, p. vi; introd., p. vii-xxix; texts and trans., p....

Sonata No. 1 in A Major for Violin and Piano Op. 13 (1875-6).(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... Gabriel Faure. Sonata No. 1 in A Major for Violin and Piano Op. 13 (1875-6). Cesar Franck. Sonata in A Major for Violin and Piano (1886). Reprints of the Breitkopf & Hartel editions (Edition Breitkopf Nr. 2569 and Nr. 5234). Mineola, NY: Dover...

The Alexander Siloti Collection: Editions, Transcriptions, and Arrangements for Piano Solo.(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... Alexander Siloti. The Alexander Siloti Collection: Editions, Transcriptions, and Arrangements for Piano Solo. Introductory notes by Charles Barber. (The Masters Collection.) New York: Carl Fischer, c2003. [Essays on Siloti's life and...

Music received.
December 1, 2004... 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 2004 issue (p. 243 of this volume). All Web sites accessed...

Music publishers' catalogs.(Directory)
December 1, 2004... For information regarding the scope of this column, consult the headnote in the September 2004 issue (p. 257 of this volume). All Web sites accessed 25 August 2004. Alamire Music Publishers, Toekomstlaan 5B, BE-3910 Neerpelt, Netherlands....