Notes articles from June 1994

Notes archives from June 1994

Classification schemes for scores: analysis of structural levels.
June 1, 1994... from CC, including much of CC's notation. OC represents something of a re-invention of the wheel, though CC's music schedule has never been completed. Thus OC can be viewed as an attempt to work out and apply the principles of CC to a music...

The Durniz Thematic Catalogue: a document of courtly taste.
June 1, 1994... In the eighteenth century, life for music librarians must have been much harder than in earlier periods. The enormous increase in production and variety of genres--sacred and secular, manuscript and print, score and parts--demanded new solutions....

Music Library Association guidelines for the preparation of music reference works.
June 1, 1994... These "Guidelines" are designed to assist authors and publishers with the preparation of music reference works. They comprise a checklist of contemporary best practice, identified through tapping the collective experience of reviewers and music...

The Music Library Association has announced its publication awards for 1992.
June 1, 1994... The Vincent H. Duckles Award for the best book-length bibliography or other research tool in music was given to Mary Kay Duggan for her book Italian Music Incunabula: Printers and Type (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992). The MLA...

Other MLA awards. (Music Library Association)
June 1, 1994... The Music Library Association has honored Susan T. Sommer with a citation for distinguished service to music librarianship, stating: "In recognition of her multitudinous and continuing contributions as a librarian, educator, author, editor, and...

James Pruett, Chief of the Music Division, Library of Congress.
June 1, 1994... James Pruett, Chief of the Music Division, Library of Congress, received the Distinguished Alumnus Award on 12 October 1993 from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he earned B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees in music, and served...

The International Association of Music Libraries, Archives and Documentation Centers, United Kingdom Branch (IAML UK). (publication)
June 1, 1994... The International Association of Music Libraries, Archives and Documentation Centres, United Kingdom Branch (IAML UK) announces the publication of the Library and Information Plan for Music: Written Statement, prepared by Susi Woodhouse....

Biomusicology: Neurophysiological, Neuropsychological and Evolutionary Perspectives on the Origins and Purposes of Music.
June 1, 1994... The morphodynamic isomorphism between the tonal flow of music and its neurophysiological substrates proposed in this work, indicates that a tonal chreod, i.e., a morphogenetic field or basin, where occurs the primordial moment, the birth, of...

Ancient Greek Music.
June 1, 1994... One is drawn to inquire about ancient Greek music for the following reasons: there are ample and varied references to music's power and pervasive role in ancient Greek life as well as numerous artifacts in the form of vase paintings, carvings,...

Cry for Luck: Sacred Song and Speech Among the Yurok, Hupa, and Karok Indians of Northwestern California.
June 1, 1994... In this era of saving endangered species (and cultures) we can forget that the same urgency was felt generations ago and nowhere more poignantly than in the case of the "vanishing Redman." With the invention of the phonograph in the 1880s it...

Music in Renaissance Magic: Toward a Historiography of Others.
June 1, 1994... Gary Tomlinson's Music in Renaissance Magic is a relatively slim but intellectually ambitious volume, written by a musicologist bold enough to venture outside his own field, and in several directions at that, from the philosophical history of...

Louis Horst: Musician in a Dancer's World.
June 1, 1994... Never before in the history of the age-old art of the dance has the relevance of sound as an accompaniment to movement been so clearly emphasized and de-emphasized as in the late 1920s and early 1930s, when an indigenous American dance form came...

Xylophone Music from Ghana.
June 1, 1994... With the possible exception of the music of the Akan people of Ghana, no musical culture in Africa has been as widely observed, transcribed, and written about than that of the Ewe people, also of Ghana. Besides much on Ewe music in general, there...

Pavel Vejvanovsky a biskupska kapela v Kromerizi.
June 1, 1994... Even since the liberalization that has taken place in the Czech Republic in the past few years, its musicology is still too little known in America and Western Europe. One of the scholars whose work over the past three decades has been most...

Journal de mes melodies.
June 1, 1994... Despite his partiality for the dance, both in theatrical contexts and in purely musical terms, Francis Poulenc was convinced that "essentially I am a man of song in all its forms" (a much-quoted confession that I have been unable to pin down but...

Die symphonien Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdys: untersuchungen zu Werkgestalt und Formstruktur.
June 1, 1994... Felix Mendelssohn's symphonic oeuvre comprises about seventeen works, of which only three were published during his lifetime. The earliest are the twelve complete and one fragmentary string sinfonie, completed between 1821 and 1824 and first...

The Polyphony of Saint Martial and Santiago de Compostela, 2 vols.
June 1, 1994... In the 1960s a fruitful exchange of opinions took place about what has come generically to be called the Aquitanian Polyphonic School--an ambiguous label that was taken up by those who tried to establish an evolutionary bridge between the...

Paris, Bibliotheque nationale, fonds latin 7211: Analysis, Inventory, and Text.
June 1, 1994... Having facilitated research for both scholars and students with passable facsimile reproductions of important medieval music manuscripts, the Institute of Mediaeval Music has now broadened the scope of its facsimile series into music theory by...

German Instrumental Music of the Late Middle Ages: Players, Patrons, and Performance Practice.
June 1, 1994... Keith Polk adds a welcome dimension to our knowledge of German instrumental music and its practitioners during the Middle Ages and early Renaissance. In a virtuoso performance, Polk here offers a kaleidoscopic perspective on the topic, exploring...

Music in English Children's Drama of the Later Renaissance.
June 1, 1994... On the surface of it, the music for English Renaissance children's drama would seem a very limited topic--limited in period, place, performers, and general interest. For many students and scholars, the English children's theaters around 1600 are...

Music in Late Renaissance and Early Baroque Italy.
June 1, 1994... We are fortunate indeed to have Tim Carter's stimulating reexamination of music from the death of Josquin Desprez through Claudio Monteverdi's Seventh Book of Madrigals (1619). The book will serve well as an introductory survey, but even...

Rythmic Alteration in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Music: Notes Inegales and Overdotting.
June 1, 1994... If it weren't for Bach and Handel's having remained more-or-less continuously in the repertory, there would probably be no performance practice controversy. As it is, we have those who wish to discover eighteenth-century practices and those who...

Johann Sebastian Bachs Notenbibliothek.
June 1, 1994... A survey of J. S. Bach's personal collection of Fremdwerke--that is, of music written by other composers--has been a desideratum of Bach scholarship for some time. The Bach-Compendium (ed. Hans-Joachim Schulze and Christoph Wolff [Frankfurt: C....

Die Klarinettenkonzerte von Carl Stamitz.
June 1, 1994... When John Newhill wrote that "the clarinet concerto as we know it today originated at Mannheim" ("The Contribution of the Mannheim School to Clarinet Literature," The Music Review 40 [1979]: 90), he referred to the coincidence of many disparate...

Catalogue des imprimes musicaux anciens du Conservatoire Royal de Musique de Liege.
June 1, 1994... The principality of Liege had a long and distinguished musical history prior to its annexation by France in 1793. Church music prospered there from the late Middle Ages through the eighteenth century, and secular music from about 1740, when opera...

Authenticity Problems in Joseph Haydn's Early Instrumental Works: A Stylistic Investigation.
June 1, 1994... One of the byways of twentieth-century music analysis has arisen as a result of a strictly practical problem: the difficulty of assigning a large part of the eighteenth-century repertory, whether in printed or in manuscript transmission, reliably...

Maligned Master: The Real Story of Antonio Salieri.
June 1, 1994... Since the mid-nineteenth century, Antonio Salieri's musical assessment and notoriety have been linked to that of Mozart. Even Beethoven was informed of Salieri's deathbed denials about poisoning Mozart. Peter Shaffer's popular play Amadeus (1980)...

Convention in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Music: Essays in Honor of Leonard G. Ratner.
June 1, 1994... Confronting this massive, dusty-black brick of a volume, readers will first need to come to terms with its forbidding appearance. The unusually thick paper causes this normal-sized book to seem immense and unwieldy. Inside, the frontispiece...

"Es musste einem was einfallen": Untersuchungen zur kompositorischen Arbeitsweise der "Naturalisten."
June 1, 1994... In a letter to the Leipzig music publishers Breitkopf & Hartel in 1887, Johann Strauss, Jr. characterized the creation of dance music in his father's day as an "easier art." Then, he wrote, according to Norbert Linke, composition consisted of...

Liszt, Carolyne, and the Vatican: The Story of a Thwarted Marriage.
June 1, 1994... As their respective titles imply, these are two very different kinds of books. Dezso Legany's Ferenc Liszt and His Country, 1874-1886 represents the continuation of an earlier, similarly titled volume published in 1983, covering the period...

Charles Martin Loeffler: A Life Apart in American Music.
June 1, 1994... For all those scholars of American music who have eagerly looked forward to Ellen Knight's biography of Charles Martin Loeffler the final product must meet with unanimous approval and gratitude. Knight has given us the first in-depth look at a...

Catalogue raisonne de l'oeuvre d'Albert Roussel.
June 1, 1994... An exciting resurgence of interest in the music of Albert Roussel (1869-1937) has been underway for nearly two decades. Performances and recordings of such works as Le Festin de l'Araignee, Bacchus et Ariane, and the symphonies have acquainted...

Henri Sauguet: A Bio-bibliography.
June 1, 1994... Although the founders of the Societe Nationale de Musique were not fully aware of it in 1871, an extraordinary musical renaissance was beginning in their midst, and the explosion of creative activity which followed made Paris the musical capital...

Kurt Weill: Composer in a Divided World.
June 1, 1994... Whether interest in the music of Kurt Weill has matured in recent years is arguable, though there has at least been a resurgence of activity. Work has begun on a critical edition of his music and several international symposia have been held to...

Stravinsky: Glimpses of a Life.
June 1, 1994... This most recent of Robert Craft's books differs from its predecessors in dealing only with the subject of its heading. Rather than presenting a string of essays on relatively unrelated biographical, literary, critical, or autobiographical...

A Life of Learning: Charles Homer Haskins Lecture, 1991.
June 1, 1994... Boris Pasternak once described a friend as "not only a composer but an occasion for perpetual congratulations, a personified festival" (I Remember, trans. David Magarshack [New York: Pantheon, 1959], 44). Words about Music and A Life of Learning...

Die Musiksoziologie Theodor W. Adornos: Ein Modell ihrer Interpretation am Beispiel Alban Bergs.
June 1, 1994... Theodor W. Adorno (1903-1969) undoubtedly ranks as one of the principal musical thinkers of this century, yet he remains seriously misunderstood by many musical scholars, particularly in Great Britain and North America. There are several reasons...

Joyce and Wagner: A Study of Influence.
June 1, 1994... Joyce and Wagner takes as its subject a composer's influence on a novelist's career and writings. Although the lives of Richard Wagner and James Joyce overlapped chronologically by scarcely a year (in 1882-83), Wagnerian residues are still to be...

The Ultimate Art: Essays Around and About Opera.
June 1, 1994... It seems that all recent writings about opera can be slotted into two major categories: the traditionalists who write about opera as Art, and who have lately become increasingly querulous, nostalgic, and defensive; and the postmodernists who...

Strains of Utopia: Gender, Nostalgia, and Hollywood Film Music.
June 1, 1994... The romantic ideals and aesthetic prevalent in film music of the classical Hollywood era (1930s and 1940s), as well as in the critical discourse surrounding it, contributed to a sense of utopian plenitude for the viewer-auditor. In Strains of...

Mathematical Models of Musical Scales: A New Approach.
June 1, 1994... Joscelyn Godwin's Sourcebook of the Pythagorean Tradition is an anthology of fifty-two excerpts from Greek, Latin, Arabic, Hebrew, Italian, French, German, and English treatises, from the 5th century B.C.E. to the nineteenth century C.E.,...

Music before 1600.
June 1, 1994... The wide variety of approaches represented by the nine essays in Music before 1600 comes as no surprise. The series Models of Musical Analysis is edited by Jonathan Dunsby, one of whose preoccupations is comparative methods of analysis, and this...

Beethoven's Ninth Symphony: A Portrayal of Its Musical Content, with Running Commentary on Performance and Literature as Well.
June 1, 1994... Each addition to the growing body of English translations of Heinrich Schenker's work alters our image of him, forcing us to reevaluate his legacy and to question all received ideas about the scope and nature of his achievement. His profound...

Jacques Handschins "Toncharakter": Zu den Bedingungen seiner Entstehung.
June 1, 1994... Carl Dahlhaus once averted that it is a sine qua non for great theorists to be polemical and stubbornly one-sided. If this is true, the neglect of Jacques Handschin as a theorist (rather than as a historian, in which capacity he is still...

Guidelines for Style Analysis, 2d ed.
June 1, 1994... Jan LaRue is known throughout the world of musicology for his leading role in research on the Classic symphony. In 1988 he published A Catalogue of 18th-Century Symphonies, Volume I: Thematic Identifier (Bloomington: Indiana University Press)...

The Analysis and Cognition of Melodic Complexity: The Implication-Realization Model.
June 1, 1994... In this sequel and companion to his Analysis and Cognition of Basic Melodic Structures (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990), Eugene Narmour examines the conditions under which small melodic archetypes combine to form larger melodic...

Opera Batak, das Wandertheater der Toba-Batak in Nord-Sumatra: Schauspiele zur Wahrung kultureller Identitat im nationalen Kontext, vols.
June 1, 1994... Opera Batak, a genre of Batak popular wandering theater, developed from about 1925 onwards, inspired by the Malay popular theater groups that also traveled around Sumatra, Indonesia. By 1988 all Opera Batak groups had disappeared in North...

Il maggio drammatico: Una tradizione di teatro in musica.
June 1, 1994... The maggio (or May-play) with its music constitutes one of the most original expressions of European folk culture. It is also the most important living tradition of music theater in Italy. The maggio is a part of cultural traditions proper to the...

Ethnomusicology: Historical and Regional Studies.
June 1, 1994... In spite of the unprecedented number of articles on world musics in the "original" New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (London: Macmillan, 1980), we have yet to see a much needed "New Grove Dictionary of Ethnomusicology." Instead,...

Breakout: Profiles in African Rhythm.
June 1, 1994... "Breakout" is a term used in the music industry to describe a recording that is about to become a "hit." Gary Stewart's use of the term is double-edged, for his book tells not only how an individual song reaches the point of breaking out, but...

Time Passages: Collective Memory and American Popular Culture.
June 1, 1994... Anti-Rock by Linda Martin and Kerry Segrave almost reads like a lexicon of invective against rock music. In their survey of opposition to popular music they begin with the period of post-World War II prosperity when the growing youth population...

The Rock File: Making It in the Music Business.(Brief Article)
June 1, 1994... The new American Popular Music Business in the 20th Century is a welcome abridged version of the "old" American Popular Music and Its Business: From 1900 to 1984 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1988). The new volume is essentially the work of...

Confident Music Performance: The art of Preparing.
June 1, 1994... Many performers experience performance anxiety, but few come to understand or deal with it effectively. Most try to explain fear away by using reason, logic, and rational analysis; or they banish it from their minds, hoping that by ignoring fear...

Con Brio: Four Russians Called the Budapest String Quartet.
June 1, 1994... On 2 February 1993, Alexander Schneider, the lone surviving member of the Budapest Quartet, died at the age of 84, active to the last in musical affairs. Coincidentally, a history of the famous ensemble appeared the same year, authored by Nat...

Diva: Great Sopranos and Mezzos Discuss Their Art.
June 1, 1994... Over the course of this century, operatic performance has undergone considerable change. Whether or not the change has been for the better depends on one's point of view. In her introduction to Diva, entitled "Opera Today," Helena Matheopoulos...

Maria Meneghini Callas.
June 1, 1994... The name Michael Scott is a household word among serious collectors of vocal recordings. Scott's The Great Caruso, published by Knopf in 1988, quickly established itself as the definitive biography of the legendary Italian tenor. He also authored...

Encyclopedia of Music in Canada, 2d ed.
June 1, 1994... Published in 1981 to laudatory reviews (see, e.g., Canadian University Music Review 3 [1982]: 203-11, Notes 39 [1982-83]: 98-99), the Encyclopedia of Music in Canada (EMC) established itself in its first edition as the most important reference...

Simfoniska muzika Latvija: Simfoniskie orkestri, dirigenti, muzika, klausitaji laikabiedru skatijuma. Dokumentala versija.
June 1, 1994... In Europe, prime candidates for having a deeply troubled political history going back most of a millenium are the three Baltic countries. Latvia, long coveted for its capital, Riga, and its position by the Baltic Sea, was conquered at various...

The American Wind Symphony Commissioning Project: A Descriptive Catalog of Published Editions, 1957-1991.
June 1, 1994... The purpose of American Orchestral Music, in the words of Richard Koshgarian, is "to provide conductors, music directors, managers, and orchestra librarians with a practical and accessible source to meet [a performing] demand"; however, the value...

American Operas: A Checklist.
June 1, 1994... Edith Borroff identifies one aim of her checklist in the opening sentence of her introduction: "This study comprises a preliminary listing of operas by composers of the United States." Eight years in the compilation, the volume contains in excess...

The Story of Christian Music from Gregorian Chant to Black Gospel: An Authoritative Illustrated Guide to All the Major Traditions of Music for Worship.
June 1, 1994... This book is a delight to the eyes. It is in every sense an "illustrated guide." There are very few pages that do not have full-color photographs, illustrations, charts, music examples, contemporary drawings or engravings, or some other kind of...

The Compact Disc Handbook, 2d ed.
June 1, 1994... Audio and computer technologies are evolving at lightning speed of late and those interested in staying abreast of new developments in these areas must read a plethora of journal literature and technical books. The compact disc provides an...

Criticus Musicus: A Journal of Music Criticism.(Brief Article)
June 1, 1994... This new journal focuses on the history, theory, and practice of music criticism. The editors articulate a need for studies in this area based on "the increasing interest in Rezeption and its relationship to the creation, dissemination, and...

Cross Accent: Journal of the Association of Lutheran Church Musicians.
June 1, 1994... The association (ALCM) responsible for this new organ was rounded in 1985 and now has a membership of 1300, a good foundation for its journal. The effort is off to an excellent start with the first issue of Cross Accent. The happy choice of title...

Midi.
June 1, 1994... "Written for the mind of the musician," this magazine focuses on the technological side of music today, providing information about digital musical technology through articles and reviews. Although experienced MIDI users will no doubt enjoy the...

Open Ear.(Brief Article)
June 1, 1994... This newsletter is aimed at health and education professionals who use music and sound as part of their work. Most of the articles are by professionals in these areas, describing the work they do using music and sound, and presenting examples of...

Recercare: rivista per lo studio e la pratica della musica antica, organo della Societa italiana del flauto dolce.(Brief Article)
June 1, 1994... This "journal for the study and practice of early music" is the organ of the Fondazione Italiana per la Musica Antica della Societa Italiana del Flauto Dolce. The society previously published Il flauto dolce (reviewed in Notes 33 [September...

Studies in Dance History: The Journal of the Society of Dance History Scholars.
June 1, 1994... The Society for Dance History Scholars was founded in 1978 and has added to its other publications a refereed, scholarly journal. The publication "is dedicated to disseminating scholarly research writing on the history of dance and related...

Women of Note Quarterly: The Magazine of Historical and Contemporary Women Composers.
June 1, 1994... "The Magazine of Historical and Contemporary Women Composers" presents an interesting combination of profiles of living composers; reviews of books, recordings, and printed music; and articles about historical figures. Quotes by women are...

The Woodwind Quarterly.
June 1, 1994... Woodwind Quarterly, devoted to the craft of building musical instruments, is a pastiche of technical articles, interviews, historical articles, and reviews interspersed with news, tips, puzzles, and editorial comments. Hirsch writes, "One of my...

Henry Du Mont, vol. 1.
June 1, 1994... These volumes are the first to appear in the ambitiously planned publishing program of the Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles (about which, more in a moment). They are premiere publications of sacred dramatic works--"histoires sacrees,"...

Francois Couperin. Les Gouts reunis.
June 1, 1994... Francois Couperin, often called "Couperin le Grand" to distinguish him from other members of his illustrious family, is best known for his elegant harpsichord pieces. However, he also composed a fair number of chamber works, many of which he...

John M. Ward., 2 vols.
June 1, 1994... As John M. Ward explains, this study grew out of a planned edition of the Osborn lute manuscript (also known as the Braye lute book) at Yale University. To put the music into context the author found it necessary to make a similar study of other...

Alfonso Ferrabosco The Younger.
June 1, 1994... Alfonso Ferrabosco and William Lawes, the illegitimate English son of a peripatetic Italian musician and the ill-fated son of a Salisbury Cathedral lay vicar, were two of our finest composers of chamber music for viols. Alfonso Ferrabosco the...

The Instrumental Music of Giovanni Legrenzi.
June 1, 1994... Giovanni Legrenzi's Le Cetra represents his fourth of five surviving instrumental prints of sonatas, the last to be published during the composer's lifetime and the second volume of Legrenzi sonatas to be edited by Stephen Bonta (The Instrumental...

John Knowles Paine.
June 1, 1994... This edition, volume 17 in A-R Editions' Recent Researches in American Music series, ushers into print for the first time three substantial chamber works by the gifted and accomplished American composer John Knowles Paine. Paine was born in...

Gustav Mahler.
June 1, 1994... The Kaplan Foundation's extraordinary four-color facsimile of Gustav Mahler's Second Symphony (New York, 1986) was the first reproduction of a completed autograph full score by this composer. More modest in scope but just as welcome is the new...

Missale Carnotense (Charles Codex 520).
June 1, 1994... This missal with musical notation for the Proper chants at Mass is the first facsimile edition of a medieval chant book to be included in the Monumenta monodica medii aevi, and the editorial board is to be congratulated on its decision and...

The Shorter New Oxford Book of Carols.
June 1, 1994... Carols have long belonged amongst the customs that connect the Christian faithful to their Christian (and perhaps even pre-Christian) forebears through a myriad beloved allusions, embroidered in the popular imagination no less than in formalized...

American Wind and Percussion Music.
June 1, 1994... These volumes are the final four in a set of twelve devoted to American music spanning the years from the late eighteenth century to about 1910. Earlier volumes in the set have included songs (vols. 1-2), keyboard pieces (vols. 3-4), opera and...

Wilhelm Furtwangler.
June 1, 1994... We know from his writings how large a role music played in the life and mind of Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900), and we know of his infatuation with Richard Wagner's music, and with Wagner personally, from the beginning of his career. He was an...

The Complete Published Songs of Louis Moreau Gottschalk with a Selection of Other Songs of Mid-Nineteenth-Century America.
June 1, 1994... Several dependable collections of nineteenth-century American songs and piano music have appeared in the last twenty years, and Richard Jackson, former curator of the American Music Collection in the New York Public Library, has edited at least...

William Byrd.
June 1, 1994... Stewart McCoy and Bill Hunt have produced a handsome performing edition of eight consort songs by William Byrd, providing for alternative performance for the genre's solo treble voice accompanied by a consort of four viols, a lute, or both....

Famous Poets, Neglected Composers.
June 1, 1994... Frauen komponieren is an anthology of twenty-five lieder by ten German and Austrian women whose compositions span the late eighteenth through the early twentieth centuries. This volume, compiled and edited by Eva Rieger and Kate Walter, seems...