Notes articles from June 2000

Notes archives from June 2000

ON DEGRESSIVE MUSIC BIBLIOGRAPHY.(on bibliographical and cataloging methods)
June 1, 2000... By 1903, Falconer Madan, one of the most notable of all Bodleian librarians, was probably sick and tired of explaining why his catalogs gave more details on some books than on others. His answer he christened the "degressive principle"; it...

MUSIC REFERENCE AS A CALLING AN ESSAY.(music librarian recounts his experience)
June 1, 2000... Not long ago, I answered a routine reference question for a graduate student who is a regular user of the library. He did not thank me immediately but moved away and paused for a moment, looking a little embarrassed. Then he walked back to me...

A PROFILE OF THE MUSIC LIBRARY ASSOCIATION MEMBERSHIP.
June 1, 2000... INTRODUCTION This article summarizes some of the significant findings about the Music Library Association garnered through the analysis of responses to a questionnaire distributed by the Working Group Surveying Music Library Personnel...

GRIEGIANA.(a manuscript of Edvard Grieg's C-major Humoreske, op. 6, no. 3, housed in Wisconsin)
June 1, 2000... A LITTLE-KNOWN AUTOGRAPH SOURCE IN WISCONSIN Although most of the music autographs of Edvard Grieg are located in the major collections of Norway, there is one virtually unknown autograph housed at Little Norway in Blue Mounds, Wisconsin....

The Music Library Association has announced its publication awards for 1998.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2000... The Vincent H. Duckles Award for the best book-length bibliography or other research tool in music was presented to Glenda D. Goss for Jean Sibelius: A Guide to Research (New York: Garland Publishing, 1998). The MLA Publications Committee noted...

Other MLA Awards.(Music Library Association)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2000... Jo Burgess (Indiana University) and Karen Rege (Delaware College of Art and Design) received the 2000 Dena Epstein Awards for Archival and Library Research in American Music. Burgess's award will assist her in conducting field research on...

The University of Pennsylvania Library.(awarded grant for catologing and support of Leopold Stokowski Collection)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2000... The University of Pennsylvania Library has been awarded a $77,720 grant by the National Endowment for the Humanities to support the cataloging and preservation of the Leopold Stokowski Collection. Transferred to the Penn Library in 1997 from...

The Brandeis University Libraries.(purchase of partbooks for Walter F. and Alice Gorham Collection of Early Music Imprints)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2000... The Brandeis University Libraries recently purchased a collection of nineteen partbooks published between 1555 and 1589, thus greatly enhancing the scope and importance of the Walter F. and Alice Gorham Collection of Early Music Imprints,...

Richard Strauss: Man, Musician, Enigma.(Review)
June 1, 2000... Richard Strauss: Man, Musician, Enigma. By Michael Kennedy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. [xvi, 451 p. ISBN 0-521-58173-7. $34.95.] Richard Strauss. By Matthew Boyden. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1999. [viii, 431...

Bonfire Songs: Savonarola's Musical Legacy.(Review)
June 1, 2000... Bonfire Songs: Savonarola's Musical Legacy. By Patrick Macey. (Oxford Monographs on Music.) Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998. [xx, 359 p. + 1 compact disc. ISBN 0-19-816669-9. $60.] No one who has had the pleasure, since 1983, of following...

I libri del Duomo di Firenze: Codici liturgici e Biblioteca di Santa Maria del Fiore (secoli XI-XVI).(Review)
June 1, 2000... I libri del Duomo di Firenze: Codici liturgici e Biblioteca di Santa Maria del Fiore (secoli XI-XVI). Edited by Lorenzo Fabbri and Marica Tacconi. Florence: Centro Di, 1997. [253 p. ISBN 88-7038-313-X.] Published for an exhibition in 1997,...

The Social Background to Secular Medieval Latin Song.(Review)
June 1, 2000... The Social Background to Secular Medieval Latin Song. By Bryan Gillingham. (Musicological Studies, LX/3.) Ottawa: Institute of Medieval Music, 1998. [v, 218 p. ISBN 1-896926-11-8. $160.] In this, the third of his series dealing with the...

Hexachords in Late-Renaissance Music.(Review)
June 1, 2000... Hexachords in Late-Renaissance Music. By Lionel Pike. Aldershot, England: Ashgate, 1998. [viii, 237 p. ISBN 1-85928-455-8. $86.95.] From approximately the eleventh century through the sixteenth, musical space was conceptualized...

The Music of J. S. Bach: Analysis and Interpretation.(Review)
June 1, 2000... The Music of J. S. Bach: Analysis and Interpretation. Edited by David Schulenberg. (Bach Perspectives, 4.) Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1999. [x, 208 p. ISBN 0-8032-1051-5. $55.] The Music of J. S. Bach: Analysis and...

Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven: Studies in the Music of the Classical Period: Essays in Honour of Alan Tyson.(Review)
June 1, 2000... Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven: Studies in the Music of the Classical Period: Essays in Honour of Alan Tyson. Edited by Sieghard Brandenburg. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998. [viii, 318 p. ISBN 0-19-816362-2. $75.] Alan Tyson has made...

Mozart: Piano Concertos No. 20 in D Minor, K. 466, and No. 21 in C Major, K. 467.(Review)
June 1, 2000... Mozart: Piano Concertos No. 20 in D Minor, K. 466, and No. 21 in C Major, K. 467. By David Grayson. (Cambridge Music Handbooks.) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. [xii, 143 p. ISBN 0-521-48156-2 (cloth); 0-521-48475-8 (pbk.). $39.95...

Beethoven Forum 7.(Review)
June 1, 2000... Beethoven Forum 7. Edited by Lewis Lockwood, Christopher Reynolds, and Elaine R. Sisman. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1999. [ix, 172 p. ISBN 0-8032-1292-5. $65.] What is a late Beethoven work? What does such a concept mean, and...

Isaac Albeniz: Portrait of a Romantic.(Review)
June 1, 2000... Isaac Alb[acute{e}]niz: Portrait of a Romantic. By Walter Aaron Clark. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. [xv, 321 p. ISBN 0-19-816369-X. $75.] With Iberia (1905-8), his magisterial suite for solo piano, Isaac Alb[acute{e}]niz drew...

Edward MacDowell: An American Master.(Review)
June 1, 2000... Edward MacDowell: An American Master. By Alan H. Levy. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, 1998. [xii, 269 p. ISBN 0-8108-3463-4. $65.] Edward MacDowell: An American Master, by historian Alan H. Levy, is based on the composer's papers in the...

Bronze by Gold: The Music of Joyce.(Review)
June 1, 2000... Bronze by Gold: The Music of Joyce. Edited by Sebastian D. G. Knowles. (Border Crossings, 3.) New York: Garland Publishing, 1999. [xxvi, 343 p. ISBN 0-8153-2863-X. $75.] The study of James Joyce and music is naturally a matter of Joyce's...

The Temptation of Paul Hindemith: Mathis der Maler as a Spiritual Testimony.(Review)
June 1, 2000... The Temptation of Paul Hindemith: Mathis der Maler as a Spiritual Testimony. By Siglind Bruhn. Stuyvesant, N.Y.: Pendragon Press, 1998. [xvii, 419 p. ISBN 1-57647-013-X. $46.] An inspection of the bibliography of Siglind Bruhn's new study...

Tippett Studies.(Review)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2000... Tippett Studies. Edited by David Clarke. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. [xv, 232 p. ISBN 0-521-59205-4. $69.95.] The life and music of Sir Michael Tippett (1905-1998) presents formidable challenges to scholars and listeners...

The Social History of the Brazilian Samba.(Review)
June 1, 2000... The Social History of the Brazilian Samba. By Lisa Shaw. (Ashgate Studies in Ethnomusicology.) Aldershot, England: Ashgate, 1999. [211 p. ISBN 184014-289-8. $68.95.] Writing a comprehensive social history of samba's multiple folk and...

Songs of the Caged, Songs of the Free: Music and the Vietnamese Refugee Experience.(Review)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2000... Songs of the Caged, Songs of the Free: Music and the Vietnamese Refugee Experience. By Adelaida Reyes. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1999. [xix, 218 p. ISBN 1-56639-685-9 (cloth); 1-56639-686-7 (pbk.). $59.50 (cloth); $19.95 (pbk.).]...

A Change Is Gonna Come: Music, Race, and the Soul of America.(Review)
June 1, 2000... A Change Is Gonna Come: Music, Race, and the Soul of America. By Craig Werner. New York: Plume, 1998. [xviii, 430 P. ISBN 0-452-28065-6. $19.95 (pbk.).] Nearly forty years have passed since the publication of Blues People: Negro Music in...

Singing in Zion: Music and Song in the Life of an Arkansas Family.(Brief Article)(Review)
June 1, 2000... Singing in Zion: Music and Song in the Life of an Arkansas Family. By Robert Cochran. Fayetteville, Ark.: University of Arkansas Press, 1999. [xiv, 274 p. ISBN 1-55728-547-0 (cloth); 1-55728-548-9 (pbk.). $32 (cloth); $20 (phk.).] In his...

The Music of Star Trek: Profiles in Style.(Brief Article)(Review)
June 1, 2000... The Music of Star Trek: Profiles in Style. By Jeff Bond. Los Angeles: Lone Eagle Publishing, 1999. [219 p. ISBN 1-58065-012-0. $17.95 (pbk.).] Over the last thirty-five years, Star Trek has enjoyed a unique position in American popular...

Bobby Hackett: A Bio-discography.(Review)
June 1, 2000... Bobby Hackett: A Rio-discography. By Harold Jones. (Discographies, 80.) Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1999. [xv, 290 p. ISBN 0-313-30622-2. $69.50.] Unless speaking to proven cognoscenti, jazz musicians have learned by experience to...

More EJS: Discography of the Edward J. Smith Recordings.(Review)
June 1, 2000... More EJS: Discography of the Edward J. Smith Recordings. By William Shaman, William J. Collins, and Calvin M. Goodwin. (Discographies, 81.) Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1999. [xlix, 925 p. ISBN 0-313-29835-1. $145.1] More EJS is the...

Opera and Song Books Published in England, 1703-1726: A Descriptive Bibliography.(Brief Article)(Review)
June 1, 2000... Opera and Song Books Published in England, 1703-1726: A Descriptive Bibliography. By David Hunter. London: Bibliographical Society, 1997. [xlix, 521 p. ISBN 0-948170-10-7. $125.] This volume is a sequel to English Song-Books, 1651-1702, by...

An Index to African-American Spirituals for the Solo Voice.(Brief Article)(Review)
June 1, 2000... An Index to African-American Spirituals for the Solo Voice. Compiled by Kathleen A. Abromeit. (Music Reference Collection, 76.) Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1999. [xiii, 199 p. ISBN 0-313-30577-3. $65.] African American spirituals...

The Trombone: An Annotated Bibliography.(Brief Article)(Review)
June 1, 2000... The Trombone: An Annotated Bibliography. By G. B. Lane. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, 1999. [xvi, 425 p. ISBN 0-8108-3465-0. $65.] One need only observe the exponential increase in trombone research over the last thirty years to realize...

American Piano Trios: A Resource Guide.(Review)
June 1, 2000... American Piano Trios: A Resource Guide. By Arno P. Drucker. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, 1999. [xvi, 404 p. ISBN 0-8108-3608-4. $60.] This book had its genesis over thirty years ago, when the author was the pianist of the American Arts...

Repertorium Orgelmusik: Komponisten, Werke, Editionen, 1150-1998.(Brief Article)(Review)
June 1, 2000... Repertorium Orgelmusik: Komponisten, Werke, Editionen, 1150-1998. By Klaus Beckmann. 2d ed. Mainz: Schott, 1999. [995 p. ISBN 3-7957-0358-1.] The first edition of Klaus Beckmann's Repertorium Orgelmusik (Moos am Bodensee:...

The Theater Music of Samuel Arnold: A Thematic Index.(Review)
June 1, 2000... The Theater Music of Samuel Arnold: A Thematic Index. By Robert H. B. Hoskins. (Detroit Studies in Music Bibliography, 79.) Warren, Mich.: Harmonie Park Press, 1998. [xxix, 165 p. ISBN 0-89990-082-8. $47.50.] The publication of a catalog of...

Sing Us One of the Old Songs: A Guide to Popular Song 1860-1920.(Review)
June 1, 2000... Sing Us One of the Old Songs: A Guide to Popular Song 1860-1920. Compiled by Michael Kilgarriff. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. [xv, 848 p. ISBN 0-19-816657-5. $45.] In late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century Britain there was...

Musikerautographen in Sammlung Helmut Nanz.(Review)
June 1, 2000... Musikerautographen in Sammlung Helmut Nanz: Katalog. Tutzing: Hans Schneider, 1998. [132 p. ISBN 3-7952-0950-1. DM 60.] People collect and prize music manuscripts for diverse reasons. For some, they are treasured relics--revered icons that...

The Spirit of Tsugaru: Blind Musicians, Tsugaru-jamisen, and the Folk Music of Northern Japan.(Review)
June 1, 2000... The Spirit of Tsugaru: Blind Musicians, Tsugaru-jamisen, and the Folk Music of Northern Japan. By Gerald Groemer. (Detroit Monographs in Musicology/Studies in Music, 24.) Warren, Mich.: Harmonie Park Press, 1999. [xxi, 321 p. ISBN...

Arab Music and Musical Notation.(Review)
June 1, 2000... Arab Music and Musical Notation. By Issam El-Mallah. (Publications of the Oman Centre for Traditional Music, 4.) Tutzing: Hans Schneider, 1997. [419 p. + 2 compact discs. ISBN 3-7952-0893-9. DM 182.] Ethnomusicologists have long been aware...

Power Performance for Singers: Transcending the Barriers.(Review)
June 1, 2000... Power Performance for Singers: Transcending the Barriers. By Shirlee Emmons and Alma Thomas. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. [xvi, 320 p. ISBN 0-19-511224-5. $29.95.] In 1886, George Bernard Shaw wrote, "Though there must by this...

Vistas of American Music: Essays and Compositions in Honor of William K. Kearns.(Review)
June 1, 2000... Vistas of American Music: Essays and Compositions in Honor of William K. Kearns. Edited by Susan L. Porter and John Graziano. (Detroit Monographs in Musicology/Studies in Music, 25.) Warren, Mich.: Harmonie Park Press 1999. [xv, 379 P. ISBN...

Musical Prodigies: Perilous Journeys, Remarkable Lives.(Review)
June 1, 2000... Musical Prodigies: Perilous Journeys, Remarkable Lives. By Claude Kenneson. Portland, Ore.: Amadeus Press, 1998. [386 p. ISBN 1-57467-046-8.$29.95.] Prodigies inevitably fascinate. Whether in mathematics, chess, or music, questions about...

Music, Cognition, and Computerized Sound: An Introduction to Psychoacoustics.(Review)
June 1, 2000... Music, Cognition, and Computerized Sound: An Introduction to Psychoacoustics. Edited by Perry R. Cooke. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1999. [xi, 372 p. + 1 compact disc. ISBN 0-262-03256-2. $50.] Music, Cognition, and Computerized Sound is a...

ArchivesUSA: Integrated Collection and Repository Information.(database available on CD ROM and on the Web)
June 1, 2000... ArchivesUSA: Integrated Collection and Repository Information. Alexandria, Va.: Chadwyck-Healey, c 1998. http://archives.chadwyck.com. Annual subscription rates available upon request. Web browser compatible with Netscape Navigator Version 1.2...

Digital Scriptorium.(Web site provides resources and multi-media exhibitions from Rare Books, Manuscripts and Special Collections Library at Duke University)
June 1, 2000... Digital Scriptorium. Duke University. Paul Mangiafico, director; Stephen Miller, Lynn Pritcher, digital encoding archivists. http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/scriptorium. The Digital Scriptorium consists of finding aids, exhibit guides, and...

Sibelius.(music composition software)(Bibliography)
June 1, 2000... Sibelius (1.22) music notation software. Sibelius Software, 1999. Web site: http://www.sibelius.com. Windows and Macintosh versions available. $599 list price (discount, academic, and networked pricing also available). Minimum requirements:...

Isaac Alb[acute{e}]niz.(Review)
June 1, 2000... Isaac Alb[acute{e}]niz. Iberia. Integral revision by Guillermo Gonz[acute{a}]lez; facsimile edition of the manuscripts and historical-documental essay by Jacinto Torres. Madrid: Editorial de M[acute{u}]sica Espa[tilde{n}]ola...

Women Composers.(Review)
June 1, 2000... Women Composers: Music through the Ages. Edited by Martha Furman Schleifer and Sylvia Glickman. New York: G. K. Hall; London: Prentice Hall International, c1996-98. [Vol. 1 (1996): Composers Born before 1599. Series and vol. introd., p. vii-x;...

Elisabeth-Claude Jacquet de La Guerre.(Review)
June 1, 2000... Elisabeth-Claude Jacquet de La Guerre. Cephale et Procris. Edited by Wanda R. Griffiths. (Recent Researches in the Music of the Baroque Era, 88.) Madison, Wis.: A-R Editions, c1998. [Acknowledgments, p. vii; introd., p. ix-xix; text and trans.,...

Georg Friedrich H[ddot{a}]ndel.(Review)
June 1, 2000... Georg Friedrich H[ddot{a}]ndel. Esther: Oratorio in Six Scenes (1. Fassung), HWV [50.sup.a]. Hrsg. von Howard Serwer. (Hallische H[ddot{a}]ndel-Ausgabe, Ser. I: Oratorien und groBe Kantaten, Bd. 8.) Kassel: B[bar{a}]renreiter, 1995. [Editorial...

Georg Friedrich H[ddot{a}]ndel.(Review)
June 1, 2000... Georg Friedrich H[ddot{a}]ndel. Elf Sonaten f[ddot{u}]r Fl[ddot{o}]te und Basso continuo, HWV 379, [359.sup.b], 360, 362, [363.sup.b], 365, [367.sup.b], 369, 374, 375, 376. Hrsg. Von Hans-Peter Schmitz; Gontinuo-Aussetzung von Max Schneider;...

Hector Berlioz.(Review)
June 1, 2000... Hector Berlioz. Benvenuto Cellini. Edited by Hugh Macdonald. (New Edition of the Complete Works, Ia-c.) Kassel: B[ddot{a}]renreiter, c1994-96. [Vol. la (1994): Acte I--Premier Tableau. Index to the New Berlioz Edition, p. viii-ix; gen. pref.,...

Franz Berwald.(biography)(Bibliography)
June 1, 2000... Franz Berwald. Tongem[bar{a}]lde, I. Hrsg. von Lennart Hedwall. (S[bar{a}]mtliche Werke, 8.) (Monumenta musicae svecicae.) Kassel: B[bar{a}]renreiter, 1995. [Editorial note in Ger., Eng., p. vii-viii; pref., p. ix-xviii; facsims., p. xix-xxvi;...

Franz Liszt.(Review)
June 1, 2000... Franz Liszt. St. Stanislaus: Scene 1, Two Polonaises, Scene 4. Edited by Paul Munson. (Recent Researches in the Music of the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries, 26.) Madison, Wis.: A-R Editions, c1998. [Acknowledgments, p. vi; introd., p....

Erkki-Sven T[ddot{u}][ddot{u}]r.(Bibliography)
June 1, 2000... Erkki-Sven T[ddot{u}][ddot{u}]r. Crystallisatio I f[ddot{u}]r 3 Fl[ddot{o}]ten, Glockenspiel und Streicher [1995]. Frankfurt am Main; Henry Litolff's Verlag/C. F. Peters, c1996. [Note, 1 p.; score, p. 3-45. ISMN M-014-10238-8; Edition Peters...

The Art Song in Latin America: Selected Works by Twentieth-Century Composers.(Review)
June 1, 2000... The Art Song in Latin America: Selected Works by Twentieth-Century Composers. [Compiled] by Kathleen L. Wilson; with IPA and diction sections by Arden Hopkin. [Corrected ed.] (Vox Musicae Series, 1.) Stuyvesant, N.Y.: Pendragon Press, c1998....

Peter Tchaikovsky.(Review)
June 1, 2000... Peter Tchaikovsky. The Complete Sacred Choral Works. Vladimir Morosan, editor-in-chief. (Monuments of Russian Sacred Music, 988-1988, ser. II, vol. 1-3.) Madison, Conn.: Musica Russica, c1996. [From the editor, in Rus., Eng., p. xv-xvi; essay...

COMMUNICATIONS.(Brief Article)(Letter to the Editor)
June 1, 2000... 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...

Correction.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2000... In the March 2000 issue (p. 608 n. 8), we misspelled Nathan Eakin's last name. We regret the error.