Notes articles from December 2008

Notes archives from December 2008

"Why then all the difficulties! a life of Kathi Meyer-Baer.(Interview)
December 1, 2008... ABSTRACT Kathi Meyer-Baer (Berlin 1892-Atlanta 1977) was arguably the most significant and surely the most productive female musicologist of her generation. She was the first woman to earn a Ph.D. in musicology (in 1916), studying at...

Antonio Vivaldi: Thematisch-systematisches Verzeichnis seiner Werke (RV).
December 1, 2008... Antonio Vivaldi: Thematisch-systematisches Verzeichnis seiner Werke (RV). By Peter Ryom. Wiesbaden: Breitkopf & Hartel, 2007. [xxx, 633 p. ISBN-13: 9783765103728. [euro]98.] Fascimile, bibliographic references, indexes. The only...

Music Research: A Handbook.(Book review)
December 1, 2008... Music Research: A Handbook. By Laurie J. Sampsel. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. [xxvii, 323 p. ISBN-13: 9780195171198. $39.95.] Illustrations, bibliographic references, discography, index. Laurie Sampsel's Music Research: A...

Haydn and the Performance of Rhetoric.(Book review)
December 1, 2008... Haydn and the Performance of Rhetoric. Edited by Tom Beghin and Sander M. Goldberg. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. [xx. 366 p. ISBN-13: 9780226041292. $45.] DVD, illustrations, bibliographic references, index. Musical analysis...

Prometheus in Music: Representations of the Myth in the Romantic Era.(Book review)
December 1, 2008... Prometheus in Music: Representations of the Myth in the Romantic Era. By Paul Bertagnolli. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2007. [xv, 369 p. ISBN-13:9780754654681. $99.95.] Illustrations, music examples, bibliographical references, index. Of the...

After the Golden Age: Romantic Pianism and Modern Performance.
December 1, 2008... After the Golden Age: Romantic Pianism and Modern Performance. By Kenneth Hamilton. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. [x, 304 p. ISBN-10: 0195178262; ISBN-13; 9780195178265. $29.95.] Music examples, illustrations, bibliographic...

Berlioz: Scenes from the Life and Work.(Book review)
December 1, 2008... Berlioz: Scenes from the Life and Work. Edited by Peter Bloom. (Eastman Studies in Music.) Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2008. [xiii, 248 p. ISBN-13: 9781580462099. $75.] Illustrations, music examples, bibliographic references,...

Richard Wagner's Zurich: The Muse of Place.(Book review)
December 1, 2008... Richard Wagner's Zurich: The Muse of Place. By Chris Walton. Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2007. [xii, 295 p. ISBN-13: 9781571133311. $65.] Illustrations, music examples, index, bibliography. In his new book Chris Walton has produced a close...

Neo-Mythologism in Music: From Scriabin and Schoenberg to Schnittke and Crumb.(Book review)
December 1, 2008... Neo-Mythologism in Music: From Scriabin and Schoenberg to Schnittke and Crumb. By Victoria Adamenko. (Interplay Series, no. 5.) Hillsdale, NY: Pendragon Press, 2007. [xv, 299 p. ISBN-13: 9781576471258. $36.] Illustrations, music examples,...

The Cambridge Companion to Electronic Music.(Book review)
December 1, 2008... The Cambridge Companion to Electronic Music. Edited by Nick Collins and Julio d'Escrivan. (Cambridge Companion in Music.) New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. [xxi, 287 p. ISBN-13: 9780521688659. $95.] Illustrations, music examples,...

Vaughan Williams on Music.(Book review)
December 1, 2008... Vaughan Williams on Music. Edited by David Manning. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008. [xix, 435 p. ISBN-13: 978015182392. $35.] Music examples, bibliographical references, index. Reading the prose writings of major composers is always...

Edmund Rubbra: Symphonist.(Book review)
December 1, 2008... Edmund Rubbra: Symphonist. By Leo Black. Rochester, NY: Boydell Press, 2008. [xiii, 242 p. ISBN-13: 9781843833550. $60.] Illustrations, bibliographic references, index, discography. "Like yards and yards of brown linoleum." This...

Prokofiev's Piano Sonatas: A Guide for the Listener and the Performer.(Book review)
December 1, 2008... Prokofiev's Piano Sonatas: A Guide for the Listener and the Performer. By Boris Berman. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008. [xiii, 240 p. ISBN-13: 9780300114904. $35.| Illustrations, music examples, bibliographic references, indexes. ...

Alexander Tcherepnin: The Saga of a Russian Emigre Composer.(Book review)
December 1, 2008... Alexander Tcherepnin: The Saga of a Russian Emigre Composer. By Ludmila Korabelnikova. Translated by Anna Winestein. Edited by Sue-Ellen Hershman-Tcherepnin. (Russian Music Studies.) Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2008. [xvi, 264 p....

Oh Boy! Masculinities and Popular Music.(Book review)
December 1, 2008... Oh Boy! Masculinities and Popular Music. Edited by Freya Jarman-Ivens. New York: Routledge, 2007. [vii, 279 p. ISBN-13: 9780415978200. $99.] Illustrations, music examples, bibliographic references, index. Since Judith Butler's...

Books recently published.
December 1, 2008... 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...

Johann Pachelbel.(Johann Pachelbel: Christ lag in Todesbanden)(Sound recording review)(Brief article)
December 1, 2008... Johann Pachelbel. Christ lag in Todesbanden. Chour de Chambre de Namur; Les Agremens; David Van Bouwel/Jean Tubery. Ricercar RIC 255 1067-2, 2007. It shoudl probably come as no surprise that the tercentenary of Pachelbel's death in 2006...

Johann Adolf Hasse.
December 1, 2008... Johann Adolf Hasse. Requimen in C major; Miserer in E minor. I1 Fondamento / Paul Dombrecht. Naive/Opus One OP30464, 2008 [1993].

Johann Adolf Hasse.(Johann Adolf Hasse: Flotenkonzerte)(Sound recording review)
December 1, 2008... Johann Adolf Hasse. Flotenkonzerte. Laurence Dean; Christina Ahrens-Dean. Hannover Hofkapelle. Christophorus CHR 77294, 2008 [2000]. Like William Boyce and Michael Haydn, Johann Adolf Hasse is a composer whom I discovered (with great...

50 Jahre neue Musik in Darmstadt.(Sound recording review)
December 1, 2008... 50 Jahre neue Musik in Darmstadt. Various composers and performers. Col Legno WWE 4CD 31893, 2008. Recently reissued but still bearing its original 1996 imprint date, this four-disc set documents fifty years of performances at the...

Kyle Gann.(Private Dances)(Sound recording review)
December 1, 2008... Kyle Gann. Private Dances. Sarah Cahill; Da Capo Chamber Players; Bernard Gann. New Albion NA 137, 2007. It is difficult to put one's finger on exactly what it is that makes Kyle Gann's music so affecting. This set of five works, three for...

Lorraine Feather.(Language)(Sound recording review)(Brief article)
December 1, 2008... Lorraine Feather. Language. Jazzed Media JM 1032, 2008. There are quite a few jazz singers who have sweet voices, highly refined technique, and a powerful sense of swing. Very few of them, however, write their own lyrics, and even fewer do...

Keith Jarrett.(Setting Standards: New York Sessions)(Sound recording review)
December 1, 2008... Keith Jarrett. Setting Standards: New York Sessions. ECM 2030-32, 2008. Is there anything more frustrating than a standards album by Keith Jarrett's brilliant trio? Put one of the finest and most inventive jazz pianists ever to touch a...

Esperanza Spalding.(Sound recording review)
December 1, 2008... Esperanza Spalding. Esperanza. Heads Up HUCD 3140, 2008. Singer, bassist, composer and lyricist Esperanza Spalding burst onto the jazz scene in 2008 with one of the most, enjoyable and exciting debut albums this reviewer has heard in a...

Otis Taylor.(Recapturing the Banjo)(Sound recording review)
December 1, 2008... Otis Taylor. Recapturing the Banjo. Telarc CD-83667, 2008. The first thought that comes to upon encountering this strange and fascinating recording is prompted by the cover photo. How, one wonders, can four men holding banjos look so angry...

Linda Thompson.(Versatile Heart)(Sound recording review)
December 1, 2008... Linda Thompson. Versatile Heart. Rounder 11661-3217-2, 2007. When singer Linda Thompson lost her voice shortly after the breakup of her long term musical and marital partnership with guitarist Richard Thompson, the folk and pop music world...

Scarlett Johannson.(Anywhere I Lay My Head)(Sound recording review)
December 1, 2008... Scarlett Johannson. Anywhere I L My Head, Atco 454524, 2008. It has always been easy to underestimate Scarlett Johansson--famous for her Lush figure and pouting lips, her intelligence and resourcefulness as an actress, not to mention her...

Music received.
December 1, 2008... 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 issue (p. 164 of this volume). All Web sites accessed 20...

Music publishers' catalogs.(Website list)
December 1, 2008... For information regarding the scope of this column, consult the headnote in the September 2008 issue (p. 172 of this volume). All Web sites accessed 20 August 2008. Ashgate, 101 Cherry Street, Suite 420, Burlington, VT 05401-4405. ...