Notes articles from June 1998

Notes archives from June 1998

From games to grunge: popular culture research collections at Bowling Green State University. (Sound Recordings Archives and the Popular Culture Library)
June 1, 1998... Where can one find a bust of Elvis Presley, a life-size cutout of Lionel Ritchie, a Country Music Hall of Fame flyswatter, and hundreds of thousands of recordings? What collection houses a wide variety of fanzines, holds the manuscripts of...

The Center for Popular Music at Middle Tennessee State University: documenting the broad range of American vernacular music.
June 1, 1998... HISTORY The Center for Popular Music at Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU) was established in 1985 as one of the "Centers of Excellence" in Tennessee's public university system. The aim of the Centers program was to create institutes...

Barry S. Brook. (music educator)(Obituary)
June 1, 1998... Barry S. Brook (1918-1997) was the consummate educator. Yes, he taught at Queens College; yes, he started and chaired the music program at the City University of New York Graduate School; yes, he chaired the graduate musicology program at the...

Deconstructive Variations: Music and Reason in Western Society.
June 1, 1998... By Rose Rosengard Subotnik. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1996. [xlvii, 327 p. ISBN 0-8166-2198-5 (pbk.). $21.95.] Mention Rose Rosengard Subotnik to a musicologist and you are likely to be met with a slightly worried frown....

Composers at Work: The Craft of Musical Composition, 1450-1600.
June 1, 1998... By Jessie Ann Owens. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. [xxi, 345 p. ISBN 0-19-509577-4. $50.] Composers at Work justly deserves to be called remarkable, not only because its deductive and intellectual achievements are so very great, but...

The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music, vol. 1, Africa.
June 1, 1998... Edited by Ruth M. Stone. New York and London: Garland Publishing, 1998. [xv, 851 p. + 1 compact disc. ISBN 0-8240-6035-0. $125.] Attempts have been made to write about Africa, or large divisions of it, as a homogeneous whole, as a locale...

The Music of the Arabs.
June 1, 1998... By Habib Hasan Touma. New expanded edition. Translated by Laurie Schwartz. Portland, Ore.: Amadeus Press, 1996. [xxi, 238 p. ISBN 0-931340-88-8. $29.95. Companion compact disc available, $15.] With this volume, Habib Hasan Touma offers the...

Musica in Scena: Storia dello spettacolo musicale.
June 1, 1998... Edited by Alberto Basso. Turin: Unione Tipografico-Editrice Torinese, 1995-97. [6 v. ISBN 88-02-04939-4.] In 1977, Alberto Basso edited a six-volume set entitled Storia dell'opera, for which thirty-one authors from eight countries contributed...

Melodien aus Autorendrucken und Liederblattern.
June 1, 1998... Vorgelegt von Joachin Stalmann. (Das deutsche Kirchenlied, Abt. III: Die Melodien aus gedruckten Quellen bis 1680, BD. 1: Die Melodien bis 1570, Teil 1.) Kassel: Barenreiter, 1993. [2 v. $454.] (Sole agent: Foreign Music Dist., Chester, NY...

Music Reference and Research Materials: An Annotated Bibliography, 5th ed.
June 1, 1998... By Vincent H. Duckles and Ida Reed. New York: Schirmer Books, 1997. [xviii, 812 p. ISBN 0-02-870821-0. $45.] This is the first edition of "Duckles" to be compiled wholly without a direct contribution by Vincent Duckles himself, and as such its...

Medieval English Benedictine Liturgy: Studies in the Formation, Structure, and Content of Monastic Votive Office, c. 950-1540.
June 1, 1998... By Sally Elizabeth Roper. New York: Garland, 1993. [xxxiv, 389 p. ISBN 0-8153-0953-8. $88.] As Sally Roper states, "the current [musicological] view continues to emphasize the votive antiphon as the dominant Marian observation in the office,...

English Choral Practice: 1400-1650.
June 1, 1998... Edited by John Morehen. (Cambridge Studies in Performance Practice.) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. [xiii, 246 p. ISBN 0-521-44143-9. $59.95.] English Choral Practice, 1400-1650 is more than the sum of its parts. It contains...

J.S. Bach, the Breitkopfs, and Eighteenth-Century Music Trade.
June 1, 1998... Edited by George B. Stauffer. (Bach Perspectives, 2.) Lincoln, Neb.: University of Nebraska Press, 1996. [xv, 219 p. ISBN 0-8032-1044-2. $55.] When and how did music publishing become a specialty in its own right, separate from music printing...

Mozarts Streichquintette: Beitrage zum musikalischen Satz, zum Gattungskontext und zu Quellenfragen.
June 1, 1998... Edited by Cliff Eisen and Wolf-Dieter Seiffert. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1994. [201 p. ISBN 3-515-06628-4. DM 68.] As the preface to this collection of essays on Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's string quintets notes, there are a minimal...

The Nineteenth-Century Symphony.
June 1, 1998... Edited by D. Kern Holoman. (Studies in Musical Genres and Repertories.) New York: Schirmer Books, 1997. [xvii, 468 p. ISBN 0-02-871105-X. $42.] The shadow of Ludwig van Beethoven looms large over nineteenth-century music. Unlike the string...

Wagner in Russia.
June 1, 1998... By Rosamund Bartlett. (Cambridge Studies in Russian Literature.) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. [xx, 405 p. ISBN 0-521-44071-8. $59.95.] Wagner in Russia by Rosamund Bartlett examines Vagnerovshchina - Russia's reception of...

Debussy: La mer.
June 1, 1998... By Simon Trezise. (Cambridge Music Handbooks.) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. [xii, 109 p. ISBN 0-521-44100-5. $29.95.] The Cambridge Music Handbooks series commissions books about well-known works, directed at a broad audience of...

Vincent d'Indy and His World.
June 1, 1998... By Andrew Thomson. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997. [xv, 234 p. ISBN 0-19-816220-0. $55.] Andrew Thomson has designed his book on Vincent d'Indy to correct serious misunderstandings of one of the central figures of French musical life in the...

"Silk and Bamboo" Music in Shanghai: The 'Jiangnan Sizhu' Instrumental Ensemble Tradition.
June 1, 1998... By J. Lawrence Witzleben. (World Musics.) Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1995. [xxii, 197 p, ISBN 0-87338-499-7.] This admirable study fills a significant gap in our knowledge of traditional Chinese instrumental music. Jiangnan sizhu...

Constructive Dissonance: Arnold Schoenberg and the Transformations of Twentieth-Century Culture.
June 1, 1998... Edited by Juliane Brand and Christopher Hailey. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997. [xviii, 232 p. ISBN 0-520-20314-3. $42.] What was Arnold Schoenberg's influence on twentieth-century culture? How did events and ideas shape...

Vaughan Williams Studies.
June 1, 1998... Edited by Alain Frogley. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. [xvii, 241 p. ISBN 0-521-48031-0. $59.95.] Assessing the contribution of Ralph Vaughan Williams to British music has never been simple. At his death in 1958, his reputation...

A Catalogue of the Works of Ralph Vaughan Williams.
June 1, 1998... 2d ed. By Michael Kennedy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996. [xii, 322 p. ISBN 0-19816584-6. $45.] Assessing the contribution of Ralph Vaughan Williams to British music has never been simple. At his death in 1958, his reputation maintained...

An American Virtuoso on the World Stage: Olga Samaroff Stokowski.
June 1, 1998... By Donna Staley Kline. College Station, Tex.: Texas A & M University Press, 1996. [xix, 274 p. ISBN 0-89096-762-8 (pbk.). $19.95.] Olga Samaroff Stokowski is remembered today as the teacher of many of America's most distinguished concert...

Any Sound You Can Imagine: Making Music/Consuming Technology.
June 1, 1998... By Paul Theberge. Hanover, N.H.: University Press of New England, 1997. [x, 293 p. ISBN 0-8195-6309-9. $19.95.] The title of Paul Theberge's Any Sound You Can Imagine is, in essence, a "sample" lifted from 1970s advertisements for keyboard...

New Music, Aesthetics and Ideology.
June 1, 1998... Edited by Mark Delaere. Wilhelmshaven: Florian Noetzel, 1995. [202 p. ISBN 3-7959-0684-9.] The international musicological congress "New Music, Aesthetics and Ideology" was held in Leuven, Belgium, on 2-4 March 1993 to reflect on the effects...

Gorecki.
June 1, 1998... By Adrian Thomas. (Oxford Studies of Composers.) Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997. [xviii, 187 p. ISBN 0-19-816394-0 (pbk.). $19.95.] The cover blurb states, "The Polish composer Henryk Mikolaj Gorecki (born 1933) achieved worldwide renown in 1992...

Inside Early music: Conversations with Performers.
June 1, 1998... By Bernard D. Sherman. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. [xi, 414 p. ISBN 0-19509708-4. $35.] In 1998, the concept and culture of "early music" seem noticeably less vibrant, perhaps paradoxically so, since the marketplace for recordings...

The Science of Music.
June 1, 1998... By Robin Maconie. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997. [xiii, 216 p. ISBN 0-19-816648-6. $20.95.] The Science of Music is an attractive, compact volume, virtually identical in format to Robin Maconie's earlier, curiously titled study The Concept of...

Antiphonary of Sedlec, Antiphonarium Sedlecense XIII A 6.(Memoriae Mundi Series Bohemica, part 1) (Software Review)(Evaluation)
June 1, 1998... (Memoriae Mundi Series Bohemica, 1.) CD-ROM. National Library of the Czech Republic and Albertina icome Praha Ltd., 1995. $595. Requires 386 or higher IBM PC or compatible, 4 MB RAM, Windows 3.1 or higher, CD-ROM drive, mouse, EGA/VGA graphics,...

Classical Notes (Orchestra): interactive CD-ROM. (Software Review)(Evaluation)
June 1, 1998... Interactive CD-ROM by Richard E. Rodda. Hopkins Technology. $49.95. Requires CD-ROM drive, Windows 3.x or Windows 95, 2 MB RAM (4 MB recommended), and VGA monitor (256 colors recommended). Classical Notes calls itself "an essential reference...

Handel's 'Messiah': the new interactive edition.(European Composers Series) (Software Review)(Evaluation)
June 1, 1998... (European Composers Series.) Interactive CD-ROM for IBM PC and compatibles. Sunhawk Corporation, 1997. $49.95. Requires multimedia PC or compatible, Windows 95 or Windows NT 4.0, 16 MB RAM, 3 MB free hard-disk space, MIDI/WAVE sound card (MIDI...

Stephen Paulus on Composing for Chorus.
June 1, 1998... For centuries, choral music has fascinated professional and amateur musician alike. Those who perform this music find the experience rich and rewarding. The composer's experience in creating choral works is altogether different, but no less...

Antony Tudor.
June 1, 1998... After viewing this documentary, I discovered in the liner notes that the production was made possible by a scholarship from the Swedish Dancemuseum as well as additional funding from Swedish Television. This partially explains the inclusion of...

Isadora Duncan Dance: Technique and Repertory.
June 1, 1998... Isadora Duncan Dance demonstrates the technique and repertory of the major historical dance figure who broke from ballet tradition to pursue her own vision. Isadora Duncan's performances in the first decades of the twentieth century emphasized...

Erick Hawkins' America.
June 1, 1998... Erick Hawkins' America is a clear and thoughtfully produced video of an important choreographer of modern dance. In fifty-eight minutes, it features Hawkins talking about his career with great spirit and warmth and includes short segments from...

Symphony No.4, Op. 20.
June 1, 1998... To most aficionados of nineteenth-century music, the Danish composer Niels Gade (1817-1890) is remembered as the composer of the haunting concert overture Nachklange von Ossian (1840), a work stylistically indebted to Mendelssohn's alluring...

Octet, Sextet, and Quintet for Strings.
June 1, 1998... To most aficionados of nineteenth-century music, the Danish composer Niels Gade (1817-1890) is remembered as the composer of the haunting concert overture Nachklange von Ossian (1840), a work stylistically indebted to Mendelssohn's alluring...

The String Quartets.
June 1, 1998... To most aficionados of nineteenth-century music, the Danish composer Niels Gade (1817-1890) is remembered as the composer of the haunting concert overture Nachklange von Ossian (1840), a work stylistically indebted to Mendelssohn's alluring...

Psaumes (1567).
June 1, 1998... In October 1564, choirmaster Jean Bonnefont was fined and dismissed in disgrace from his position at the cathedral of Saint Etienne in Toulouse. According to the chapter's records, he was guilty of gaming and unspecified lascivious behavior; he...

Les cent cinquante pseaumes de David, mis en musique a quatre (et cinq) parties.
June 1, 1998... In October 1564, choirmaster Jean Bonnefont was fined and dismissed in disgrace from his position at the cathedral of Saint Etienne in Toulouse. According to the chapter's records, he was guilty of gaming and unspecified lascivious behavior; he...

Complete Organ Music.
June 1, 1998... The early focus of most volumes of keyboard music in the series Musica Britannica has finally shifted, albeit briefly, away from the virginalists. Barry Cooper's edition of John Blow's organ music fills a void greatly felt by scholars and...

Sonatas for Violin and Basso Continuo, Opus 1.
June 1, 1998... Robert E. Preston's new edition of the twelve sonatas of Jean-Marie Leclair's Premier livre de sonates a violon seul avec la basse continue (Paris: Boivin, 1723) is the happy combination of practicality and authority that we have come to expect...

Israeli Folk Music: Songs of the Early Pioneers.
June 1, 1998... This volume is an anomaly in many ways. To begin with, not only the specific topic of Israeli pioneer songs, but Hebrew song in general, is uncommon in musicological studies and scholarly editions. Nor is it often that a new publication presents...

The Complete Sacred Choral Works.
June 1, 1998... Monuments of Russian Sacred Music (Pamiatniki russkoi dukhovnoi muzyki) is a series of editions of Russian church music published under the aegis of the Russian Choral Society' (New York). Three years after issuing the inaugural volume One...

L'oiseau de feu (1910), critical ed.
June 1, 1998... With the 1910 Paris premiere of his ballet The Firebird, Igor Stravinsky burst onto the international music scene, thereby launching a composing career of seven decades that altered the course of twentieth-century music. Though The Firebird's...