Notes articles from June 2003

Notes archives from June 2003

Music in the academic library of tomorrow.
June 1, 2003... The University of Virginia (UVa) libraries have been engaged over the past couple of years in conversations and planning exercises focused around the theme "The Library of Tomorrow." This sounds more than a little futuristic, and indeed, we...

Marking the way: the significance of Eugene Ormandy's score annotations.
June 1, 2003... The art of conducting consists in large measure of elements hidden from the general audience. Other than participating musicians, few people get to witness the rehearsal technique of conductors and understand how their musical goals are...

Music and musicians in mystery: a bibliography.(Bibliography)
June 1, 2003... After a lifetime of living in the shadow (and in the service) of others--first my pianist father and then my conductor husband--I had found myself emerging, at the age of forty-eight, into a Phoebe Mullins I hardly recognized. A person who...

Notes for notes.(music awards and collections)
June 1, 2003... The Music Library Association has announced its publications awards for 2001. The Vincent H. Duckles Award for the best book-length bibliography or other research tool in music published in 2001 was presented to Horst Leuchtmann and Bernhold...

Music in Ancient Israel/Palestine: Archaeological, Written, and Comparative Sources.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... Music in Ancient Israel/Palestine: Archaeological, Written, and Comparative Sources. By Joachim Braun. Translated by Douglas W. Stott. (The Bible in Its World.) Grand Rapids, Mich.: William B. Eerdmans, 2002. [xxxvi, 368 p. ISBN 0-8028-4477-4....

Aspectos de la cultura musical en la Corte de Felipe II. .(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... Aspectos de la cultura musical en la Corte de Felipe II. By Luis Robledo Estaire, Tess Knighton, Cristina Bordas Ibanez, and Juan Jose Carreras. (Patrimonio musical espanol, 6.) Madrid: Fundacion Caja Madrid, 2000. [xix, 447 p. ISBN ISBN:...

From Tejano to Tango: Latin American Popular Music. .(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... From Tejano to Tango: Latin American Popular Music. Edited by Walter Aaron Clark. New York: Routledge, 2002. [x, 286 p. ISBN 0-815-33639-X. $85 (hbk.); ISBN 0-815-33640-3. $27.95 (pbk.).] Illustrations, index. Working from the premise that...

The Sound of the Ancestral Ship: Highland Music of West Java. .(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... The Sound of the Ancestral Ship: Highland Music of West Java. By Sean Williams. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. [xii, 276 p. ISBN 0-195-14154-7. $65 (hbk.); ISBN 0-195-14155-5. $35 (pbk.).] Music examples, illustrations, glossary,...

Baptist Offspring, Southern Midwife--Jesse Mercer's Cluster of Spiritual Songs (1810): A Study in American Hymnody. .(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... Baptist Offspring, Southern Midwife--Jesse Mercer's Cluster of Spiritual Songs (1810): A Study in American Hymnody. By Kay Norton. (Detroit Monographs in Musicology/Studies in Music, 34.) Warren, Mich.: Harmonie Park Press, 2002. [xxiii, 202 p....

Manufacturing the Muse: Estey Organs & Consumer Culture in Victorian America. .(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... Manufacturing the Muse: Estey Organs & Consumer Culture in Victorian America. By Dennis G. Waring. (Music/Culture.) Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press, 2002. [xix, 356 p. ISBN 0-819-56507-5. $70 (hbk.); ISBN 0-819-56508-3. $29.95...

Jazz and the Germans: Essays on the Influence of "Hot" American Idioms on 20th-Century German Music. .(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... Jazz and the Germans: Essays on the Influence of "Hot" American Idioms on 20th-Century German Music. Edited by Michael J. Budds. (Monographs and Bibliographies in American Music, 17.) Hillsdale, N.Y.: Pendragon Press, 2002. [xiv, 213 p. ISBN...

The Rise of a Jazz Art World.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... The Rise of a Jazz Art World. By Paul Lopes. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. [vii, 294 p. ISBN 0-521-80191-5. $60 (hbk.); ISBN 0-521-00039-4. $23 (pbk.).] Bibliography, index. Paul Lopes's detailed and lengthy study explores...

Handel's Muse: Patterns of Creation in His Oratorios and Musical Dramas.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... Handel's Muse: Patterns of Creation in His Oratorios and Musical Dramas, 1743-1751. By David Ross Hurley. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. [xviii, 291 p. ISBN 0-198-16396-7. $65.] Music examples, facsimiles, bibliography, index. The...

Janacek: A Composer's Life. .(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... Janacek: A Composer's Life. By Mirka Zemanova. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 2002. [xiv, 352 p. ISBN 1-555-53549-6. $35.] Illustrations, bibliography, index. In the introduction to her new biography of Leos Janacek, Mirka Zemanova...

The Selected Letters of William Walton & William Walton The Selected Letters of William Walton. .(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... The Selected Letters of William Walton. Edited by Malcolm Hayes. London: Faber and Faber, 2002. [xviii, 526 p. ISBN 0-571-20105-9. [euro]30.] Music examples, illustrations, list of works, bibliography, index. William Walton: The Romantic...

A Schnittke Reader. .(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... A Schnittke Reader. By Alfred Schnittke. Edited by Alexander Ivashkin. Translated by John Goodliffe. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2002. [xxv, 258 p. 0-253-3318-2. $45]. Music examples, illustrations, chronology, index. If A...

Charles Ives Remembered: An Oral History & Charles Ives: A Guide to Research.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... Charles Ives Remembered: An Oral History. By Vivian Perils. Foreword by J. Peter Burkholder. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2002. [xxii, 237 p. ISBN 0-252-07078-X. $18.95.] Illustrations, index. Charles Ives: A Guide to Research....

II Mondo novo musicale di Pier Leone Ghezzi. .(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... II Mondo novo musicale di Pier Leone Ghezzi. By Giancarlo Rostirolla. (Arte armonica, Serie IV. Iconografia e cataloghi, 2.) Milano: Skira; Roma: Accademia nazionale di Santa Cecilia, 2001. [495 p. ISBN 8-881-18427-3. [euro]92.96.]...

A History of the Lute from Antiquity to the Renaissance. .(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... A History of the Lute from Antiquity to the Renaissance. By Douglas Alton Smith. [Lexington, Va.]: Lute Society of America, 2002. [xvii, 389 p. ISBN 0-971-40710-X. $85.] Music examples, illustrations, bibliography, index. Few musical...

Celestial Music? Some Masterpieces of European Religious Music. .(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... Celestial Music? Some Masterpieces of European Religious Music. By Wilfrid Mellers. Woodbridge, Suffolk, U.K.: Boydell Press, 2002. [xv. 320 p. ISBN 0-851-15844-7. $50.] Music examples, index. In 1936 Wilfrid Mellers started publishing his...

Salons, Singers and Songs: A Background to Romantic French Song, 1830-1870. .(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... Salons, Singers and Songs: A Background to Romantic French Song, 1830-1870. By David Tunley. Aldershot, Hants, England: Ashgate, 2002. [xii, 283 p. ISBN 0-754-60491-8. $79.95.] Music examples, bibliography, index. Few aspects of French...

Music Engraving Today: The Art and Practice of Digital Notesetting.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... Music Engraving Today: The Art and Practice of Digital Notesetting. By Steven Powell. New York: Brichtmark Music, 2002. [249 p. ISBN 0-96589101-1. $29.95.] Music examples, illustrations, bibliography, index, internet resources. It is a...

The Green Book of Songs by Subject: The Thematic Guide to Popular Music. .(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... The Green Book of Songs by Subject: The Thematic Guide to Popular Music. By Jeff Green. 5th ed. Nashville: Professional Desk References, 2002. [xxi, 1,569 p. ISBN 0-939-73510-5. $79.95 (hbk.); ISBN 0-939- 73520-2. $64.96 (pbk.).] Indexes. ...

Camille Saint-Saens, 1835-1921. A Thematic Catalogue of his Complete Works. .(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... Camille Saint-Saens, 1835-1921. A Thematic Catalogue of his Complete Works. Volume 1. The Instrumental Works. By Sabina Teller Ratner. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. [xxvii, 628 p. ISBN 0-198-16320-7. $195.] Bibliography, index. ...

Vincenzo Bellini: A Guide to Research & Richard Wagner: A Guide to Research. (Book Reviews: Reference Works).(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... Vincenzo Bellini: A Guide to Research. By Stephen Willier. (Routledge Music Bibliographies). New York: Routlege, 2002. [xv, 248 p. ISBN 0-815-33805-8.$85.95.] Richard Wagner: A Guide to Research. By Michael Saffle. (Routledge Music...

Notae Musicae Artis: Musical Notation in Polish Sources, 11th--6th Century & Musica Scripto: Kodeksy Menzuralne II Polowy XV wieku na wschodzie Europy Lacinskiej.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... Notae Musicae Artis: Musical Notation in Polish Sources, 11th--6th Century. Edited by Elzbieta Withowska-Zaremba. Cracow: Musica Iagellonica, 2001. [574 p. ISBN 8-370-99106-8. $100.] Musica Scripto: Kodeksy Menzuralne II Polowy XV...

Art Song in the United States, 1759- 1999: An Annotated Bibliography.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... Art Song in the United States, 1759- 1999: An Annotated Bibliography. 3d ed. Edited by Judith E. Carman, William K. Gaeddert, Rita M. Resch, and Gordon Myers. Forward by Phyllis Gurtin. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, 2001. [xxiv, 475 p. ISBN...

Communications.(Letter to the Editor)
June 1, 2003... 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...

Corrections.(Correction Notice)
June 1, 2003... In Styra Avins's review of A Brahms Reader by Michael Musgrave (Notes, December 2002, p. 335), "Max Kalbreck" incorrectly appears as "Ernst Kalbreck." We regret the error.

Sound Recording Reviews.(Sound Recording Review)
June 1, 2003... For information about the scope of this column, consult the headnote in the September 2002 issue (p. 136 of this volume). Music of the Gothic Era. Early Music Consort of London/David Munrow. Archiv 471 731-2, 2002. The historical...

Franz Schubert. (Music Reviews).
June 1, 2003... Franz Schubert. Klaviersonaten I. Vorgelegt von Walburga Litschauer. (Neue Ausgabe samtlicher Werke. Ser VII: Kiaviermusik; Abt. 2: Werke fur Klavier zu zwei Handen Bd. 1.) Kassel: Barenreiter, 2000. [Zur Edition, p. vii-viii; Vorwort, p....

The Istanbul Antiphonal (about 1360). .(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... The Istanbul Antiphonal (about 1360): [Facsimile Reproduction and Studies]. Edited by Janka Szendrei. 2d ed. (Musicalia Danubiana, 18.) Budapest: Akademiai Kiado, 2002. [Facsim. reprod. (b&w), 303 fols. Paper. ISBN 963-05-7856-1. Studies (by...

Georg Friedrich Handel. (Music Reviews).(Tolomeo opera score)
June 1, 2003... Georg Friedrich Handel. Tolomeo, Re d'Egitto: Dramma per musica in tre atti, HWV 25. Herausgegeben von Michael Pacholke. (Hallische Handel-Ausgabe. Ser II: Opern, Bd. 22.) Kassel: Barenreiter, 2000. [Editorial policy, pref. in Ger., Eng., p....

Joseph Haydn. (Music Reviews).(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... Joseph Haydn. Kantaten mit Orchester fur das Furstenhaus Esterhazy. Herausgegeben von Andreas Friesenhagen und Sonja Gerlach. (Werke, ser. 27, vol. 1.) Munich: G. Henle, 2000. [Frontispiece (facsim. reprod. from autograph); Vorwort, p. vii-xiv;...

Keyboard Music. (Music Reviews).
June 1, 2003... Robert Baksa. Antica nova: Suite #1 for Harpsichord (1987-96). Bryn Mawr, Penn.: Composers Library Editions; sole agent, Theodore Presser Co., c1997. [Score, p. 1-15. CLE-76; pub. no. 490-00979. Duration, 12 mm. $8.75.] Robert Baksa....

Music Received.
June 1, 2003... A key to abbreviated imprints is found at the end of this column. For more information about the content and arrangement of this list, consult the introduction to the column in the September 2002 issue (p. 177 of this volume). SCHOLARLY &...

Music Library Association for the year ended June 30, 2002.
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