Notes articles from December 2005

Notes archives from December 2005

A newly discovered edition of William Byrd's Psalmes, Sonets & Songs: provenance and significance.
December 1, 2005... Of all the inanimate objects, of all men's creations, books are the nearest to us, for they contain our very thoughts, our ambitions, our indignations, our illusions, our fidelity to truth, and our persistent leaning towards error....

William Lichtenwanger, reference librarian.(Biography)
December 1, 2005... Readers of the second series of Notes are doubtless appreciative of the Herculean efforts of its editor of the early years, Richard S. Hill. But many may not be aware of the prodigious labors of Hill's longtime coeditors, William Lichtenwanger...

"The Initial Plunge," "The Soused Period," and "Contrition"?: Moving towards a style of Peter Schickele's funny music in his P.D.Q. Bach works.
December 1, 2005... After nearly forty years of "discovery" it truly is no secret that Peter Schickele is still composing the works of the fictional composer P.D.Q. Bach. By composing this humorous music, he carves his own niche as a musical comedian while also...

Prices of music monographs and scores as reflected in Notes, 1999-2004.
December 1, 2005... This column follows the format as laid out in previous years. All numbers presented here are based on data drawn from this journal's "Books Recently Published" and "Music Received" columns. Books and scores reviewed in Notes and imprints before...

Notes for Notes.(The Fleisher Collection of Orchestral Music, Free Library of Philadelphia; University of Pennsylvania; The Mildred P. Allen Memorial Library, University of Hartford; New England Conservatory of Music; Texas A&M Univeristy Library at College Station; Major Orchestra Librarians' Association; Melva Peterson; "Warp, Weft, and Waffle: Weaving Information Literacy into an Undergraduate Music Curriculum")(Obituary)
December 1, 2005... The Fleisher Collection of Orchestral Music (Kyle Smith, curator) in the Free Library of Philadelphia has acquired the performance library of The Women's Philharmonic. Founded in San Francisco in 1981, the Women's Philharmonic has been pivotal...

Albanian Urban Lyric Song in the 1930s.(Book Review)
December 1, 2005... Albanian Urban Lyric Song in the 1930s. By Eno Koco. (Europea: Ethnomusicologies and Modernities, no. 2.) Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2004. [xxviii, 400 p. ISBN 0-8108-4889-2. $73. (hbk.); ISBN 0-8108-4890-2 $45. (pbk.).] Music examples,...

Music in Rural New England: Family and Community Life, 1870-1940.(Book Review)
December 1, 2005... Music in Rural New England: Family and Community Life, 1870-1940. By Jennifer C. Post. (Revisiting New England.) Lebanon, NH: University Press of New England, 2004. [xiv, 313 p. ISBN 1-58465-415-5. $45.] Illustrations, music examples,...

Power Plays: Wayang Golek Puppet Theater of West Java.(Book Review)
December 1, 2005... Power Plays: Wayang Golek Puppet Theater of West Java. By Andrew N. Weintraub. (Ohio University Research in International Studies. Southeast Asia Series, no. 110.) Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2004. [xvii, 295 p. ISBN 981-230-249-2. $30.]...

La vie musicale en Nouvelle-France.(Book Review)
December 1, 2005... La vie musicale en Nouvelle-France. By Elisabeth Gallat-Morin and Jean-Pierre Pinson, with the collaboration of Paul-Andre Dubois, Conrad Laforte and Eric Schwandt. Redaction des encarts et recherche iconographique: Francois Filiatrault....

Winter Music: Composing the North.(Book Review)
December 1, 2005... Winter Music: Composing the North. By John Luther Adams. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2004. [xxiv, 204 p. ISBN 0-8195-6742-6. $24.95.] Music examples, index, catalog of works, compact disc. John Luther Adams's Winter Music:...

The Bals Publics at the Paris Opera in the Eighteenth Century.(Book Review)
December 1, 2005... The Bals publics at the Paris Opera in the Eighteenth Century. By Richard Semmens. (Dance and Music no. 13.) Hillsdale, NY: Pendragon Press, 2004. [viii, 216 p. ISBN 1576470342. $54.] Bibliography, index. Initiated under the Regent,...

Early Musical Borrowing.(Book Review)
December 1, 2005... Early Musical Borrowing. Edited by Honey Meconi. New York: Routledge, 2004. (Criticism and Analysis of Early Music.) [xvii, 230 p. ISBN 0-8153-3521-0. $95.] Music examples, index, bibliography. Early Musical Borrowing is a first-rate and...

Musik in zwei Diktaturen: Verfolgung von Komponisten unter Hitler und Stalin.(Book Review)
December 1, 2005... Musik in zwei Diktaturen: Verfolgung von Komponisten unter Hitler und Stalin. By Friedrich Geiger. New York: Barenreiter, 2004. [274 p. ISBN 3-7618-1717-7. [euro]34.95.] Music examples, bibliography, index. The reason for comparing the...

Eight Centuries of Troubadours and Trouveres: The Changing Identity of Medieval Music.(Book Review)
December 1, 2005... Eight Centuries of Troubadours and Trouveres: The Changing Identity of Medieval Music. By John Haines. (Musical Performance and Reception.) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. [xii, 347p. ISBN 0-521-82672-1. $85.] Music examples,...

Worship Wars in Early Lutheranism: Choir, Congregation, and Three Centuries of Conflict.(Book Review)
December 1, 2005... Worship Wars in Early Lutheranism: Choir, Congregation, and Three Centuries of Conflict. By Joseph Herl. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. [xi, 354 p. ISBN 0-19-5154398. $65.] Index, bibliography. Joseph Herl, assistant professor of...

Speak It Louder: Asian Americans Making Music.(Book Review)
December 1, 2005... Speak It Louder: Asian Americans Making Music. By Deborah Wong. New York: Routledge, 2004. [xii, 388 p. ISBN 0415970407. $29.95.] Index, bibliography, compact disc. Speak It Louder: Asian Americans Making Music, one of the first...

Gyorgy Kurtag: The Sayings of Peter Bornemisza, Op. 7, A 'Concerto' for Soprano and Piano.(Book Review)
December 1, 2005... Gyorgy Kurtag: The Sayings of Peter Bornemisza, Op. 7, A 'Concerto' for Soprano and Piano. By Rachel Beckles Willson. (Landmarks in Music Since 1950.) Aldershot, Hampshire: Ashgate, 2003. [vii, 192 p. ISBN 0754608093. $69.95.] Index,...

The Queer Composition of America's Sound: Gay Modernists, American Music and National Identity.(Book Review)
December 1, 2005... The Queer Composition of America's Sound: Gay Modernists, American Music, and National Identity. By Nadine Hubbs. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004. [xi, 282 p. ISBN 0520241851 (pbk.). $19.95. ISBN 0520241843 (cloth). $50.] Index,...

Satchmo: The Louis Armstrong Encyclopedia.(Book Review)
December 1, 2005... Satchmo: The Louis Armstrong Encyclopedia. By Michael Meckna. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2004. [x, 432 p. ISBN: 0-313-30137-9. $65.] Illustrations, discography, chronology, filmography, bibliography, index. Though music encyclopedias...

Wagner and the Romantic Hero.(Book Review)
December 1, 2005... Wagner and the Romantic Hero. By Simon Willliams. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. [x, 193 p. ISBN 0-521-82008. $70.] Bibliography, index. In this short book on heroes in Richard Wagner's operas, Simon Williams addresses a...

The Variations of Johannes Brahms.(Book Review)
December 1, 2005... The Variations of Johannes Brahms. By Julian Littlewood. (Poetics of Music.) London: Plumbago Books, 2004. [xiii, 369 p. ISBN 0-9540123-4-8. $39.95.] Music examples, bibliography, indexes. Julian Littlewood's The Variations of Johannes...

Analog Days: The Invention and Impact of the Moog Synthesizer.(Book Review)
December 1, 2005... Analog Days: The Invention and Impact of the Moog Synthesizer. By Trevor Pinch and Frank Trocco. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2002. [xv, 368 p. ISBN 0-674-00889-8 (pbk.)] Index, bibliography, illustrations, discography, glossary....

The Recording Industry, 2d ed.(Book Review)
December 1, 2005... The Recording Industry. 2d ed. By Geoffrey P. Hull. New York: Routledge, 2004. [xii, 335 p. ISBN 0-415-96803-8. $85.] Index, bibliography, glossary, tables. The second edition of Geoffrey Hull's book, The Recording Industry, is a...

The Victor Red Seal Discography, Volume 1: Single-Sided Series (1903-1925).(Book Review)
December 1, 2005... The Victor Red Seal Discography, Volume 1: Single-Sided Series (1903-1925). By John R. Bolig. Highlands Ranch, CO: Mainspring Press, 2002. [xxiv, 417 p. ISBN 0-9671819-8-4. $69.] Bibliography, indexes. The Victor Talking Machine Company,...

World Music: The Basics.(Book Review)
December 1, 2005... World Music: The Basics. By Richard Nidel. (The Basics Series.) New York: Routledge, 2005. [xvi, 404 p. ISBN 0-415-96800-3. $75.00 (hbk.); 0-415-96801-1. $16.95 (pbk.).] Bibliography, discographies, index, glossary. Richard Nidel's book,...

An Index to Music Published in The Etude Magazine, 1883-1957.(L'edition musicale dans la presse parisienne au XVIIIe siecle: Catalogue des annonces)(Book Review)
December 1, 2005... An Index to Music Published in The Etude Magazine, 1883-1957. By E. Douglas Bomberger. (Music Library Association Index and Bibliography Series, no. 31.) Lanham, MD: Scarecrow, 2004. [xv, 591 p. ISBN 0-8108-5283-7. $115.] Indexes. ...

Books recently published.
December 1, 2005... 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 ...

MadforTrad Irish Music CD-ROM Tutorials.(Sound Recording Review)
December 1, 2005... MadforTrad Irish Music CD-ROM Tutorials. Produced by Frank Torpey and Ciaran O'Connell. Cork City, Ireland: MadforTrad Ltd., 2001-. Uilleann Pipes: Sean Potts; Concertina: Niall Vallely; Flute: Seamus Egan; Irish Tenor Banjo: Gerry O'Connor;...

Colonial-era Brazilian music: a review essay of recent recordings.(Essay)
December 1, 2005... INTRODUCTION What does the late 1960s Brazilian popular music movement Tropicalia have in common with the late 1700s Sao Paulo mestre de capela Andre da Silva Gomes (1752-1844)? They both had a collaborator--in a manner of speaking--in the...

Christopher Tye.(Latin and English Church Music)(Sound Recording Review)
December 1, 2005... Christopher Tye. Latin & English Church Music. Choir of Magdalen College, Oxford; Byrde; Richard Pinel / Bill Ives. Harmonia Mundi HMU 907396, 2005. Christopher Tye is one of the great Tudor composers, one whose posthumous reputation has,...

Antonia Padoani Bembo.(The Seven Psalms of David, vol. 1)(Sound Recording Review)
December 1, 2005... Antonia Padoani Bembo. The Seven Psalms of David, Vol. 1. La Donna Musicale. [self-released], 2004. While Antonia Padoani was not born into nobility, she was certainly a child of privilege--the daughter of a prominent Venetian physician,...

Jean-Philiipe Rameau.(Une Symphonie Imaginaire)(Sound Recording Review)
December 1, 2005... Jean-Philiipe Rameau. Une Symphonie Imaginaire. Les Musiciens du Louvre / Marc Minkowski. Archiv B0004478-02, 2005. The claims made for Rameau have been rather grandiose at times. Writing shortly after the composer's death, the critic...

Ludwig van Beethoven.(Ludwig van Beethoven: Sonatas)(Sound Recording Review)
December 1, 2005... Ludwig van Beethoven. Sonatas. Henryk Szeryng; Gary Graffman. Bridge 9165, 2005. Violinist Henryk Szeryng and pianist Gary Graffman were something of a match made in heaven. Both understood Beethoven's sonatas for violin and piano in...

Thomas Ades; Franz Schubert.(Ades, Schubert, Quintet: Piano Quintet in A, D667)(Sound Recording Review)
December 1, 2005... Thomas Ades; Franz Schubert. Piano Quintet; Piano Quintet in A, D667 ("The Trout"). Arditti Quartet; Belcea Quartet; Corin Long; Thomas Ades. EMI Classics5 57664 2, 2005. Here is an interesting pairing. The young British composer Thomas...

Oh, Lovely Parrot!: Jewish Women's Songs from Kerala.(Sound Recording Review)
December 1, 2005... Oh, Lovely Parrot!: Jewish Women's Songs from Kerala. Jewish Music Research Centre, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem AMTI 0403, n.d. In both geographical and cultural terms, the state of Kerala (on the southwest coast of India) must be...

Debashish Bhattacharya.(Calcutta Slide-Guitar)(Sound Recording Review)
December 1, 2005... Debashish Bhattacharya. Calcutta Slide-Guitar. Riverboat Records/World Music Network TUGCO 1036, 2005. One might be hard-pressed to find many obvious parallels between the traditional music of Ireland and the classical music of India, but...

Svend Asmussen Quartet.(Fit As a Fiddle)(Swingin' Stuff)(Sound Recording Review)
December 1, 2005... Svend Asmussen Quartet. Fit As a Fiddle. Storyville 101 4257, 2005. Stuff Smith Quartet. Swingin' Stuff. Storyville 101 8397, 2005. Two of the most celebrated violinists in jazz history are featured on this pair of reissued CDs. The...

Dick Hyman and Randy Sandke.(Now and Again)(Sound Recording Review)
December 1, 2005... Dick Hyman and Randy Sandke. Now and Again. Arbors ARCD 19310, 2005. When a trumpeter and pianist decide to record an album of jazz standards without a rhythm section, they are setting themselves a particularly interesting set of...

Ray Marchica.(In the Ring)(Sound Recording Review)
December 1, 2005... Ray Marchica. In the Ring. Sons of Sound SSPCD027, 2005. Drummer Ray Marchica makes his debut as a leader on this varied and exciting program of standards and originals. Leading a quartet that includes guitarist Rodney Jones, bassist Lonnie...

Mike Patton; The X-ecutioners.(General Patton Vs. The X-ecutioners)(Sound Recording Review)
December 1, 2005... Mike Patton; The X-ecutioners. General Patton vs. The X-ecutioners. Ipecac IPC 60, 2005. Mike Patton made his name with the pioneering rap-rock outfit Faith No More in the late 1980s, and has maintained his underground credibility through...

Daniel Lagkhner.(Flores Jessaei (1606): Florum Jessaeorum (1607))(Flosculus vernalis (1621))(Harmonia concertans (1623))(Book Review)
December 1, 2005... Daniel Lagkhner. Flores Jessaei (1606); Florum Jessaeorum (1607). Transcription and revision by Joze Sivec. Ljubljana: Slovenska akademija znanosti in umetnosti, Znanstvenoraziskovalni center SAZU, Muzikoloski institut, 1998. (Monumenta artis...

Kurt Weill.(The Firebrand of Florence: Broadway Operetta in Two Acts)(Ballade von der sexuellen Horigkeit und andere Songs fur Gesang und Klavier)(6 ausgewahlte Stucke aus Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny fur Gesang und Klavier)(Four Walt Whitman Songs for Voice and Piano)(Book Review)
December 1, 2005... Kurt Weill. The Firebrand of Florence: Broadway Operetta in Two Acts. Lyrics by Ira Gershwin; book by Edwin Justus Mayer; edited by Joel Galand. (The Kurt Weill Edition, ser. I: Stage, vol. 18.) New York: Kurt Weill Foundation for Music, Inc.;...

Joseph Haydn.(6 String Quartets, Opus 20, Hoboken III: 31-36)(6 String Quartets, Opus 33, Hoboken III: 37-42)(6 String Quartets, Opus 50, Hoboken III: 44-49)(Book Review)
December 1, 2005... Joseph Haydn. 6 String Quartets, Opus 20, Hoboken III: 31-36. Edited by Simon Rowland-Jones; editorial consultant, David Ledbetter. Urtext. London: Edition Peters, c2001. [1 plate; pref. in Eng., Fr., Ger., p. v-xv; explanation of terms, p....

Music received.
December 1, 2005... 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 2005 issue (p. 203 of this volume). All Web sites accessed...

Music publishers' catalogs.(Directory)
December 1, 2005... For information regarding the scope of this column, consult the headnote in the September 2005 issue (p. 211 of this volume). All Web sites accessed 24 August 2005. American Institute of Musicology, 8551 Research Way, Suite 180, Middleton,...

Communications.(Letter to the Editor)
December 1, 2005... This column provides a forum for responses to the contents of this journal, and for information of interest to readers. The editor reserves the right to publish letters in excerpted form and to edit them for conciseness and clarity. To the...