Notes articles from June 2001

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BASS PARTS TO AN UNKNOWN PURCELL SUITE AT YALE.(Filmer music collection)
June 1, 2001... The thirty-seven music manuscripts comprising the Filmer Collection at Yale University, nearly all of English provenance, suggest that a lively musical culture existed in the homes of the Filmers of Kent, England, in the seventeenth and early...

A DESCRIPTIVE STUDY OF SUBJECT INDEXING AND ABSTRACTING IN INTERNATIONAL INDEX TO MUSIC PERIODICALS, RILM ABSTRACTS OF MUSIC LITERATURE, AND THE MUSIC INDEX ONLINE.(Muic Index, RILM Abstracts of Music Literature, International Index to Music Periodicals)
June 1, 2001... There are now three major online databases dedicated to current indexing of the literature of music: The Music Index (hereafter MI); RILM Abstracts of Music Literature (RILM); and International Index to Music Periodicals (IIMP). [1] The online...

The Music Library Association has announced its publication awards for 1999.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... The Vincent H. Duckles Award for the best book-length bibliography or other research tool in music was presented to two publications: David Fallows for A Catalogue of Polyphonic Songs, 1415-1480 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999) and James...

Other MLA Awards.(Music Library Association)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... The MLA Board of Directors granted its Special Achievement Award this year to Jane Gottlieb "for the eloquence and elegance with which she speaks on behalf of and about the Association, and how she creatively, craftily and confidently worked...

California Ethnic and Multicultural Archives (CEMA) in the Davidson Library at the University of California, Santa Barbara.(Eduardo Guerrero papers)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... California Ethnic and Multicultural Archives (CEMA) in the Davidson Library at the University of California, Santa Barbara (Sal Guerena, Director) has received the papers of Eduardo "Lalo" Guerrero, the eighty-four-year-old singer and composer...

The Loyola University Music Library in New Orleans.(donation of compact discs)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... The Loyola University Music Library in New Orleans (Laura Dankner, Music Librarian) has received a gift of over 1,700 compact discs, the largest donation ever received by the Music Library. The collection is named in honor of the donor, Mr....

The Library of Congress has acquired several notable collections.(James Madison Building)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... They are available to researchers in the Performing Arts Reading Room in the Library's James Madison Building. Additional details about these collections may be found online at http://www.loc.gov/today/pr/20O0/.

The Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco Collection.(composer's papers to Library of Congress)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... The Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco Collection, the large archive of twentieth-century composer Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco (1895-1968), has been given to the Library of Congress by the composer's son, Lorenzo Castelnuovo-Tedesco, and Lisbeth...

The Louis Kaufman Collection.(personal papers)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... The Louis Kaufman Collection, the personal papers of noted American violinist Louis Kaufman (1905-1994), has been added to the library's already rich collection of the personal papers of some of the most important American violinists of the...

The Arnold T. Schwab Collection.(Marian Nevins MacDowell archival material)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... The Arnold T. Schwab Collection, an archive of materials related to the life and work of Marian Nevins MacDowell, wife of composer Edward MacDowell (1860-1908) and founder of the MacDowell Colony in Peter-borough, N.H., was given to the library...

The Nicolas Slonimsky Collection.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... The Nicolas Slonimsky Collection is a large archive of the works of the important American conductor, composer, musicologist, and lexicographer Nicolas Slonimsky (1894-1995). The papers, which comprise both printed and manuscript music,...

William Lichtenwanger died 16 December 2000 at his home near Berkeley Springs, West Virginia.(music librarian)(Obituary)
June 1, 2001... William Lichtenwanger died 16 December 2000 at his home near Berkeley Springs, West Virginia. Born in 1915, he was among the last of the founders and early members of MLA. These individuals, including Sydney Beck, Frank Campbell, Dena Epstein,...

Irene Millen, founder of the Music Division of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh.(Brief Article)(Obituary)
June 1, 2001... Irene Millen, founder of the Music Division of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, died in her home city 25 December 2000 at the age of 92. She worked for the Carnegie Library her entire professional life, starting at 16 as a library assistant...

On 14 January of this year, music librarians lost a friend and colleague.(Calvin Elliker)(Brief Article)(Obituary)
June 1, 2001... Calvin Elliker, librarian, guitarist, and professor of music, died suddenly of a heart attack, at home. Calvin received a Bachelor of Music in Classical Guitar Performance from the Wisconsin Conservatory where he studied for five years with...

Roman Monody, Cantata, and Opera from the Circles around Cardinal Montalto.(Review)
June 1, 2001... By John Walter Hill. (Oxford Monographs on Music.) Oxford: Clarendon Press; New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. [Vol. 1 (text), xx, 453 p.; vol. 2 (music examples), xii, 458 p. ISBN 0-19-816613-3. $150.] Interest in the patronage of...

Hugo Wolf and His Morike Songs.(Review)
June 1, 2001... By Susan Youens. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. [xii, 203 p. ISBN 0-521-65159-X. $64.95.] In declaring that song "is a compound art, and its words and music often have their own large tales to tell" (p. 140), Susan Youens...

Antoine Busnoys: Method, Meaning, and Context in Late Medieval Music.(Review)
June 1, 2001... Edited by Paula Higgins. Oxford: Glarendon Press; New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. [xxii, 599 p. ISBN 0-19-316406-8. $130.] In 1992, a group of distinguished musicologists met at the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana,...

Popular American Recording Pioneers, 1895-1925.(Review)
June 1, 2001... By Tim Gracyk with Frank Hoffmann. New York: Haworth Press, 2000. [vii, 444 p. ISBN 1-56024-993-5 (cloth); 0-78901-220-0 (pbk.). $69.95 (cloth); $39.95 (pbk.).] Popular American Recording Pioneers is a biographical encyclopedia of the most...

The Unsung Songwriters: America's Masters of Melody.(Review)
June 1, 2001... By Warren W. Vache. (Studies in Jazz, 34.) Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, 2000. [xxxi, 737 p. ISBN 0-8108-3570-3. $95.] Warren W. Vache, longtime editor of Jersey Jazz and author of several books on jazz, turns his attention in this volume...

Mozart: A Cultural Biography.(Review)
June 1, 2001... EIGHTEENTH CENTURY By Robert W. Gutman. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1999. [xxii, 839 p. ISBN 0-15-100482-X (cloth); 0-15-601171-9 (pbk.). $40 (cloth); $20 (pbk.).] Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart has prompted more literature, critical and...

Studien zur Dresdner Uberlieferung von Instrumentalkonzerten deutscher Komponisten des 18. Jahrhunderts.(Review)
June 1, 2001... By Manfred Fechner. (Dresdner Studien zur Musikwissenschaft, 2.) Laaber: Laaber-Verlag, 1999. [437 p. ISBN 3-89007-349-2. DM 128.] From 1694 to 1763, Dresden's Churfurstlich Sachsische Capell- und Cammer Musique contributed much to the...

A Reader's Guide to Haydn's Early String Quartets.(Review)
June 1, 2001... By William Drabkin.(Reader's Guides to Musical Genres, 1.) Westport, Gonn.: Greenwood Press, 2000. [x, 186 p. ISBN 0-313-30173-5.$69.50.] Despite their undeniable importance in the history of the genre, Joseph Haydn's early string quartets...

Manuel Garcia (1775-1832): Chronicle of the Life of a bel canto Tenor at the Dawn of Romanticism.(Review)
June 1, 2001... By James Radomski. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. [xiv, 367 p. ISBN 0-19-816373-8. $80.] One of the recent trends in musicological research, especially in opera studies, is a heightened interest in the history of...

Die Sinfonie im deutschen Kulturgebiet 1850 bis 1875: Ein Beitrag zur Gattungs- und Institutionengeschichte.(Review)
June 1, 2001... By Rebecca Grotjahn. (Musik und Musikanschauung im 19. Jahrhundert, 7.) Sinzig: Studio, 1998. [391 p. ISBN 3-89564-051-4. DM 72.] This book is an important contribution to the social history of the concert. German concert life has been the...

Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Kongre[beta]-Bericht Berlin 1994.(Review)
June 1, 2001... Edited by Christian Martin Schmidt. Wiesbaden: Breitkopf & Hartel 1997. [351 p. ISBN 3-7651-0304-7. DM 93.] The year 1997 marked the sesquicentennial of the deaths of Felix Mendelssohn and Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel. The event was...

Anton Bruckner: Symphony No. 8.(Review)
June 1, 2001... By Benjamin M. Korstvedt. (Cambridge Music Handbooks.) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. [xi, 133 p. ISBN 0-521-63226-9 (cloth); 0-521-63537-3 (pbk.). $49.95 (cloth); $16.95 (pbk.).] In this recent addition to the Cambridge Music...

A Brahms Reader.(Review)
June 1, 2001... By Michael Musgrave. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000. [xviii, 344 p. ISBN 0-300-06804-2. $40.] Throughout the twentieth century biographers of Brahms have relied on the same sources, the most important of which has been Max...

Musical Women in England, 1870-1914: "Encroaching on All Man's Privileges.".(Review)
June 1, 2001... By Paula Gillett. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2000. [ix, 310 p. ISBN 0-312-12156-3. $49.95.] In the 1980s, feminist musicology tended to focus on "compensatory history": the recovery of neglected compositions by women composers that...

Webern and the Transformation of Nature.(Review)
June 1, 2001... By Julian Johnson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. [x, 274. ISBN 0-521-66149-8. $64.95.] For Julian Johnson, Anton Webern's music serves as the vehicle for investigating broader sociopolitical and aesthetic issues. "In...

Karol Szymanowski: His Life and Work.(Review)
June 1, 2001... By Alistair Wightman Aldershot, Hants: Ashgate, 1999. [xii, 492 p. ISBN 1-85928-391-8. $99.95.] In 1972, when Alistair Wightman completed his dissertation titled "The Music of Karol Szymanowski" at the University of York, its subject...

Shostakovich in Context.(Review)
June 1, 2001... Edited by Rosamund Bartlett. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. [xviii, 224 p. ISBN 0-19-816666-4. $65.] This is an anthology of papers that were presented at the conference "Shostakovich: The Man and His Age," which took...

Louis Armstrong in His Own Words: Selected Writings & The Louis Armstrong Companion: Eight Decades of Commentary.(Review)
June 1, 2001... Louis Armstrong in His Own Words: Selected Writings. By Louis Armstrong. Edited by Thomas Brothers. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. [xxvii, 255 p. ISBN 0-19-511958-4. $22.] The Louis Armstrong Companion: Eight Decades of...

Writing Jazz.(Review)
June 1, 2001... Edited by David Meltzer. San Francisco: Mercury House, 1999. [xix, 315 p. ISBN 1-56279-096-X. $16.95 (pbk.).] David Meltzer's anthology Writing Jazz is decidedly not just another collection of jazz articles. Meltzer has hit upon a scheme...

Artie Shaw: A Musical Biography and Discography.(Review)
June 1, 2001... By Vladimir Simosko. (Studies in Jazz, 29.) Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, 2000. [xiii, 281 p. ISBN 0-8108-3397-2. $70.] He had it all, but he didn't want most of it. Artie Shaw, the superb clarinetist who was one of the most celebrated...

The Ladies Who Sing with the Band.(Review)
June 1, 2001... By Betty Bennett. (Studies in Jazz, 36.) Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, 2000. [xvii, 141 p. ISBN 0-8108-3714-5. $35.] "There are three sexes: men, women, and girl singers" (p. 91). It is likely that when Woody Herman made this remark, he was...

Irving Berlin: American Troubadour.(Review)
June 1, 2001... By Edward Jablonski. New York: Henry Holt, 1999. [viii, 406 p. ISBN 0-8050-4077-3. $35.] Capping an active decade in Irving Berlin research, Edward Jablonski's monograph is the third on the composer to appear in as many years. Charles Hamm...

Expression In Pop-Rock Music: A Collection of Critical and Analytical Essays.(Review)
June 1, 2001... Edited by Walter Everett. (Studies in Contemporary Music and Culture, 2.) New York: Garland Publishing, 2000. (xii, 372 p. ISBN 0- 8153-3160-6. $75.) This book is a welcome addition to the growing literature of popular-music analysis, both...

Romancing the Folk: Public Memory and American Roots Music.(Review)
June 1, 2001... By Benjamin Filene. (Cultural Studies of the United States.) Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 2000. [ix, 325 p. ISBN 0-8078-2550-6 (cloth); 0-8078-4862-X (pbk.). $49.95 (cloth); $19.95 (pbk.).] Benjamin Filene's...

Mountains of Music: West Virginia Traditional Music from Goldenseal.(Review)
June 1, 2001... Edited by John Lilly. (Music in American Life.) Urbana, Ill.: University of Illinois Press, 1999. [231 p. 0-252-02499-0 (cloth); 0-252-06815-7 (pbk.). $49.95 (cloth); $24.95 (pbk.).] In this volume, Goldenseal editor John Lilly offers...

Shaping Society through Dance: Mestizo Ritual Performance in the Peruvian Andes.(Review)
June 1, 2001... By Zoila S. Mendoza. (Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology.) Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000. [xv, 285 p. + 1 CD. ISBN 0-226-52008-0 (cloth); 0-226-52009-9 (pbk.). $54 (cloth); $29 (pbk.).] This volume comprises seven chapters,...

Awakening Spaces: French Caribbean Popular Songs, Music, and Culture.(Review)
June 1, 2001... By Brenda F. Berrian. (Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology.) Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000. [xiv, 287 p.ISBN 0-226-04455-6 (cloth); 0-226-04456-4 (pbk.). $40 (cloth); $16 (pbk.).] Culturally distinct, but politically tied to...

The Life and Artistry of Maria Olenina-d'Alheim.(Review)
June 1, 2001... By Alexander Tumanov. Translated by Christopher Barnes. Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 2000. [xix, 358 p. ISBN 0-88864-328-4. $34.95 (pbk.).] It is not every day that one encounters a book that opens up a new field of interest, but...

Jean Langlais: The Man and His Music.(Review)
June 1, 2001... By Ann Labounsky. Portland, Ore.: Amadeus Press, 2000. [392 p. ISBN 1-57467-054-9. $34.95.] The unique school of Parisian organist-composers stemming from Cesar Franck's organ class at the Paris Conservatoire and inspired by his legendary...

Operatic Subjects: The Evolution of Self in Modern Opera.(Review)
June 1, 2001... By Sandra Gorse. Madison, N.J.: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press; London: Associated University Presses, 2000. [227 p. ISBN 0-8386-3858-9. $39.50.] Like her previous books (Opera and the Uses of Language: Mozart, Verdi, and Britten and...

Rhythms of Resistance: African Musical Heritage in Brazil.(Review)
June 1, 2001... By Peter Fryer. Hanover, N.H.: University Press of New England, Wesleyan University Press, 2000. [xiv, 267 p. ISBN 0-8195-6417-6 (cloth); 0-8195-6418-4 (pbk.). $55 (cloth); $24.95 (pbk.).] This volume is meant to be a general introduction...

The Art of Performance.(Review)
June 1, 2001... By Heinrich Schenker. Edited by Heribert Esser. Translated by Irene Schreier Scott. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. [xxvi, 101 p. ISBN 0-19-512254-2. $45.] Although best known for his theoretical works, Heinrich Schenker...

The Algorithmic Composer.(Review)
June 1, 2001... By David Cope. (The Computer Music and Digital Audio Series, 16.) Madison, Wisc.: A-R Editions, 2000. [xiii, 302 p. + 1 CD-ROM. ISBN 0-89579-453-3. $49.95 (pbk.).] What is the role of technology in composing? How does the use of...

Obiter Scripta: Essays, Lectures, Articles, Interviews and Reviews on Music, and Other Subjects.(Review)
June 1, 2001... By Albi Rosenthal. Oxford: Offox Press; Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, 2000. [viii, 472 p. ISBN 0-9506989-3-8 (U.K.); 0-8108-3861-3 (U.S.). $60.] For nearly half a century, Albi Rosenthal has been preeminent among the world's music...

Finale.(Finale 2000)(Software Review)(Evaluation)
June 1, 2001... Finale (2000) music notation software. Coda Music Technology, Inc., 1999. Windows and Macintosh versions available. $545.00 list price, $275.00 academic price (variable pricing available for upgrades and site licenses). Minimum system...

Treasures from American Film Archives: 50 Preserved Films.(Review)
June 1, 2001... Produced by the National Film Preservation Foundation; curator, Scott Simmon; music curator, Martin Marks. Distributed by Image Entertainment. San Francisco: National Film Preservation Foundation, 2000. [4-disc DVD set, 342 mins; with book...

Arvo Part.(Bibliography)
June 1, 2001... Arvo Part. Solfeggio per coro (SATB) a cappella (1964/1996). Vienna: Universal Edition, c1997. [Score, 2 p. (1 leaf). ISMN M-008-05705-2; UE 30 455. DM 2.50; duration: 5-6'.] Arvo Part. Cantate Domino canticum novum: Psalm 95 fur Chor oder...

William Shield.(Review)
June 1, 2001... Rosina: A Comic Opera (1782). Libretto by Frances Brooke. Edited by John Drummond. (Musica Britannica, 72.) London: Stainer and Bell, 1998. [Dramatis personae, p. xiv; pref. in Eng., Fr., Ger., p. xvii-xix; introd., p. xxi-xxvii; sources, p....

Gioachino Rossini.(Review)
June 1, 2001... La Generentola, ossia La bonta in trionfo. Dramma giocoso in due atti di Jacopo Ferretti. Prima rappresentazione: Roma-- Teatro Valle, 25 gennaio 1817. A cura di Alberto Zedda. (Edizione critica delle opere. Sez. 1: Opere teatrali, vol. 20.)...

Carl Maria von Weber.(Review)
June 1, 2001... Missa sancta Nr. 1 Es-Dur (WeV A. 2) mit Offertorium "Gloria et honore" (WeV A. 3); Missa sancta Nr. 2 G-Dur (WeV A. 5) mit Offertorium "In die solemnitatis" (WeV A. 4). Herausgegeben von Dagmar Kreher; Redaktion: Joachim Veit und Frank...

P. D. Q. Bach.(Bibliography)
June 1, 2001... P. D. Q. Bach. Suite No. 1 for Cello All by Its Lonesome (S. la). Edited, with the loneliness known only to those of integrity, by Professor Peter Schickele. Bryn Mawr, Penn.: Theodore Presser, c1996. [Program notes, 1 p.; score, p. 4-6....

Peter Schickele.(Bibliography)
June 1, 2001... Peter Schickele. Brass Calendar for Brass Quintet [1993]. Bryn Mawr, Pa.: Elkan-Vogel (Theodore Presser), c1999. [Program note, 1 p.; score, p. 3-24 and 5 parts. 164-00237. $37.50; duration: ca. 18'.] Peter Schickele. Ceremonial March for...

Rodrigo de Ceballos.(Review)
June 1, 2001... Obras completas de Rodrigo de Ceballos. Edited by Robert J. Snow. Granada: Junta de Andalucia, Consejeria de Cultura, Centro de Documentacion Musical de Andalucia, 1995-97. [Vol. 1: Motetes a cuatro voces. Pref. in Span., Eng., p. xi-xvii;...

Gustav Mahler.(Review)
June 1, 2001... Gustav Mahler. Symphonie Nr. 4 in vier Satzen fur groBes Orchester und Sopran-Solo. Fassung 1911; vorgelegt von Erwin Ratz 1963; korrigierte Auflage 1995. (Samtliche Werke, 4.) Vienna: Universal Edition, 1995, c1963. [Note, 1 p.;...

INSTRUMENTAL SOLO AND ENSEMBLE MUSIC.(Review)
June 1, 2001... Mauricio Kagel. Schattenklange: Drei Stucke fur Ba[beta]klarinette. Frankfurt am Main: Henry Litolff's Verlag/C. F. Peters, c1997. [Performance notes in Ger., Eng., p. i-iii; score, 14 p.; performance snapshots, 2 p. Litolff/Peters Nr. 8887....

Gabriel Faure.(Review)
June 1, 2001... Requiem, op. 48, pour soli, choeur et orchestre symphonique. Version de concert, 1900. Partition d'orchestre editee par Jean-Michel Nectoux. Paris: J. Hamelle; distribution Alphonse Leduc, c1998. [Nomenclature, p. iv; forward in Fr., Eng.,...

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