Notes articles from June 2006

Notes archives from June 2006

The Woman's Symphony Orchestra of Chicago.(Organization overview)
June 1, 2006... During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, increasing numbers of women began to study orchestral instruments and to move from the home sphere of private music making to performing in public. Yet despite their increasing numbers,...

Eastman's Ruth Watanabe.(Ruth Taiko Watanabe )(Biography)
June 1, 2006... Strange as it may seem, Ruth Watanabe struggled with her career decision until age thirty-one, when "Uncle Howard" made it for her. During high school she considered social work to help the struggling Spanish-speaking people in Southern...

Necrology index.
June 1, 2006... This column is an extract from the necrology file of the Gaylord Music Library, Washington University, available online at http://library.wustl.edu/units/music/necro/index.html. It comprises those names that are listed in the dictionaries and...

Notes for notes.
June 1, 2006... Peter Eotvos (1944-), a composer and conductor of international stature, has agreed to deposit his working papers in the Paul Sacher Foundation in Basle. This research archive will thus add another important collection of a Hungarian composer...

The Singing Neanderthals: The Origins of Music, Language, Mind and Body.(Nature's Music: The Science of Birdsong)(The Singing Life of Birds: The Art and Science of Listening to Birdsong)(Book review)
June 1, 2006... The Singing Neanderthals: The Origins of Music, Language, Mind and Body. By Steven Mithen. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2005. [ix, 374 p. ISBN 0-297-64317-7. [pounds sterling]20.00.] Illustrations, bibliography, index. Nature's Music:...

Orchestral Music: A Handbook.(Book review)
June 1, 2006... Orchestral Music: A Handbook. 4th ed. By David Daniels. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2005. [xiii, 617 p. ISBN 0-8108-5674-3. $65.] Indexes, appendices. There is a readily definable cadre of professionals who deal extensively with...

Music and Medieval Manuscripts: Paleography and Performance.(Book review)
June 1, 2006... Music and Medieval Manuscripts: Paleography and Performance. Edited by John Haines and Randall Rosenfeld. Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing Co., 2004. [xxxiv, 438 p. ISBN 0-7546-0991-X. $104.95.] Music examples, index, bibliography. In a...

Monteverdi's Unruly Women: The Power of Song in Early Modern Italy.(Book review)
June 1, 2006... Monteverdi's Unruly Women: The Power of Song in Early Modern Italy. By Bonnie Gordon. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005. (New Perspectives in Music History and Criticism.) [x, 234 p. ISBN 0-521-84529-7. $80.] Index, bibliography, music...

William Byrd's Modal Practice.(Book review)
June 1, 2006... William Byrd's Modal Practice. By John Harley. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2005. [x, 162 p. ISBN 0-7546-3441-8. $89.95.] Music examples, index, bibliography. The topic of mode in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century polyphony has been subject...

Politicas y practicas musicales en el mundo de Felipe II: Estudios sobre la musica en Espana, sus instituciones y sus territorios en la segunda mitad del siglo XVI.(Book review)
June 1, 2006... Politicas y practicas musicales en el mundo de Felipe II: Estudios sobre la musica en Espana, sus instituciones y sus territorios en la segunda mitad del siglo XVI. (Coleccion Musica Hispana. Textos. Estudios 8.) Edited by John Griffiths and...

Musical Listening in the German Enlightenment: Attention, Wonder and Astonishment.(Book review)
June 1, 2006... Musical Listening in the German Enlightenment: Attention, Wonder and Astonishment. By Matthew Riley. Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing, 2004. [ix, 188 p. ISBN 0-7546-3267-9. $94.95.] Index, bibliography, music examples. The phenomenon of...

Mecenes et Musiciens: Du salon au concert a Paris sous la IIIe Republique.(Book review)
June 1, 2006... Mecenes et Musiciens: Du salon au concert a Paris sous la IIIe Republique. By Myriam Chimenes. Paris: Fayard, 2004. [776 p. ISBN 2-213-61696-5. [euro]30.] Illustrations, bibliography, index. Wealthy patrons have always played an important...

Bruckner's Symphonies: Analysis, Reception and Cultural Politics.(Book review)
June 1, 2006... Bruckner's Symphonies: Analysis, Reception and Cultural Politics. By Julian Horton. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. [x, 280 p. ISBN 0-521-82354-4. $75.] Music examples, bibliography, index. Julian Horton's Bruckner's...

Music in Other Words: Victorian Conversations.(The Idea of Music in Victorian Fiction)(Book review)
June 1, 2006... Music in Other Words: Victorian Conversations. By Ruth A. Solie. (California Studies in 19th-Century Music.) Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004. [223 p. ISBN 0-520-23845-1. $39.95.] Illustrations, index. The Idea of Music in...

The Pleasure of Modernist Music: Listening, Meaning, Intention, Ideology.(Book review)
June 1, 2006... The Pleasure of Modernist Music: Listening, Meaning, Intention, Ideology. Edited by Arved Ashby. (Eastman Studies in Music.) Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2004. [viii, 404 p. ISBN 1-58046-143-3. $75.] Music examples,...

Making Words Sing: Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Song.(Book review)
June 1, 2006... Making Words Sing: Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Song. By Jonathan Dunsby. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. [x, 153 p. ISBN 0-521-83661-1. $65.] Index, bibliography, music examples. Since the 1980s Jonathan Dunsby has...

Journeys through the Life and Music of Nancy Van de Vate.(Book review)
June 1, 2006... Journeys Through the Life and Music of Nancy Van de Vate. By Laurdella Foulkes-Levy and Burt J. Levy. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2005. [xi, 393 p. ISBN 0-8108-5135-0. $69.95.] Music examples, index, bibliography, works list, compact disc. ...

Composers in the Movies: Studies in Musical Biography.(Book review)
June 1, 2006... Composers in the Movies: Studies in Musical Biography. By John C. Tibbetts. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005. [xvi, 365 p. ISBN 0-300-10674-2. $45.] Illustrations, index, bibliography, notes. There has been a great deal written about...

Pierre Monteux, Maitre.(Book review)
June 1, 2006... Pierre Monteux, Maitre. By John Canarina; forward by Neville Marriner. Pompton Plains, NJ: Amadeus Press, 2003. [372 p. ISBN 1-57467-082-4 $29.95.] Illustrations, discography, bibliography, index. In his loving and detailed biography of...

Such Sweet Thunder: Views on Black American Music.(Book review)
June 1, 2006... Such Sweet Thunder: Views on Black American Music. Edited by Mark Baszak; photography by Edward Cohen. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Fine Arts Center, 2003. [xiii, 205 p. ISBN 0972678506. $25.] Illustrations. In 1971, the W. E. B....

Supremely American: Popular Song in the 20th Century: Styles and Singers and What They Said about America.(Book review)
June 1, 2006... Supremely American: Popular Song in the 20th Century: Styles and Singers and What They Said About America. By Nicholas Tawa. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2005. [xvi, 352 p. ISBN 0-8108-5295-0. $40.00.] Selected bibliography, index. ...

The Chrysanthemum and the Song: Music, Memory, and Identity in the South American Japanese Diaspora.(Book review)
June 1, 2006... The Chrysanthemum and the Song: Music, Memory and Identity in the South American Japanese Diaspora. By Dale A. Olsen. Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2004. [xxviii, 342 p. ISBN 0-8130-2764-0. $65.] Illustrations, notes,...

The MacDowell Colony: A Musical History of America's Premier Artists' Community.(Book review)
June 1, 2006... The MacDowell Colony: A Musical History of America's Premier Artists' Community. By Bridget Falconer-Salkeld. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2005. [xi, 467 p. ISBN 0-8108-5419-8. $55.] Index, bibliography, illustrations. The MacDowell Colony...

Lost Delta Found: Rediscovering the Fisk University-Library of Congress Coahoma County Study, 1941-1942.(Book review)
June 1, 2006... Lost Delta Found: Rediscovering the Fisk University-Library of Congress Coahoma County Study, 1941-1942. By John W. Work, Lewis Wade Jones, and Samuel C. Adams, Jr.; edited by Robert Gordon and Bruce Nemerov. Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt...

Books recently published.
June 1, 2006... For information about the scope of this column, consult the headline in the September 2005 issue (p. 154 of this volume). ENGLISH Adams, Peter H. Antique woodwind instruments: an identification and price guide. Atglen, PA: Schiffer,...

Renaissance Masses, 1440-1520: An Online Repertorium of Polyphonic Masses Composed in Europe in 1440-1520.(Website overview)
June 1, 2006... Renaissance Masses, 1440-1520: An Online Repertorium of Polyphonic Masses Composed in Europe in 1440-1520. Web site created by Rob Wegman. Contributors: Bonnie Blackburn, Carlo Bosi, Jennifer Eberhardt, Harry Elzinga, Laura M. Hedden, Karen...

Schubertline: The Online Score Service for Singers.(Website overview)
June 1, 2006... Schubertline: The Online Score Service for Singers. Enichi Music Services. http://www.schubertline.co.uk. [Requires (for Scorch software): For Windows users: Windows 95 or higher; Internet Explorer 4 or above, Netscape 4 or above, Opera 5 or...

The film music of Danny Elfman: a selective discography.(Biography)
June 1, 2006... On 26 July 1985, the film Pee-Wee's Big Adventure was unleashed onto a baffled world. Pee-Wee Herman, the comic persona of comedian Paul Reubens, already had some meaningful name recognition from his stage performances and occasional...

Memory Pieces.(BRIEFLY NOTED)(Sound recording review)
June 1, 2006... Memory Pieces. Ensemble de la Rue / William Kempster. EdlR Productions 200502, 2005. The very fine Ensemble de la Rue has gathered an interesting and attractive program for this, its third album. By opening the disc with John Taverner's...

Thomas Tallis.(BRIEFLY NOTED)(The Complete Works)(Sound recording review)
June 1, 2006... Thomas Tallis. The Complete Works. Chapelle du Roi / Alistair Dixon. Signum SIGCD060, 2004. The seed that eventually grew into this magnificent nine-volume boxed set was planted in 1995, when the newly-formed Chapelle du Roi presented the...

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.(BRIEFLY NOTED)(Auerbach Plays Mozart: Complete Keyboard Works from Ages 5 to 9)(Early String Quartets and Divertimenti)(Sound recording review)
June 1, 2006... Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Auerbach Plays Mozart: Complete Keyboard Works from Ages 5 to 9. Lera Auerbach. Arabesque Z6795, 2004. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Early String Quartets & Divertimenti. Cuarteto Casals. Harmonia Mundi HMI 987060.62,...

Ludwig van Beethoven.(BRIEFLY NOTED)(Piano Sonatas)(Sound recording review)(Brief article)
June 1, 2006... Ludwig van Beethoven. Piano sonatas. Fazil Say. Naive V 5016, 2005. Since his first recording in 1998, the Turkish piano prodigy Fazil Say has been one to divide critics. While audiences typically eat up his flamboyantly virtuosic...

All My Heart: Deborah Voigt Sings American Songs.(BRIEFLY NOTED)(Sound recording review)
June 1, 2006... All My Heart: Deborah Voigt Sings American Songs. Deborah Voigt; Brian Zeger, Angel 57964, 2005. Soprano Deborah Voigt can claim the unusual distinction of being almost as respected for her recital performances as she is for her operatic...

Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane.(BRIEFLY NOTED)(At Carnegie Hall)(Sound recording review)
June 1, 2006... Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane. At Carnegie Hall. Blue Note 35173, 2005. The story behind this release is almost as wonderful as the music. In 1957, John Coltrane's drug use had become such a problem that he was fired by Miles...

Matt Renzi.(BRIEFLY NOTED)(The Cave)(Sound recording review)
June 1, 2006... Matt Renzi. The Cave. Fresh Sound New Talent FCNT 226, 2005. Saxophonist Matt Renzi leads a piano-less trio on this album, a fact which, along with his well-established penchant for discursive free improvisation, may deter some potential...

Gato Libre.(Strange Village)(Sound recording review)
June 1, 2006... Gato Libre. Strange Village. Onoff/Muzak MZCO-1073, 2005. Forget everything you thought you knew about trumpeter Natsuki Tamura, whose previous work has been a wild amalgam of spiky experimental jazz and equally forbidding jazz-rock fusion....

Maria Schneider Orchestra.(BRIEFLY NOTED)(Live at the Jazz Standard: Days of Wine and Roses)(Sound recording review)
June 1, 2006... Maria Schneider Orchestra. Live at the Jazz Standard: Days of Wine and Roses. ArtistShare 0017, 2005. More than most, Maria Schneider's big band deserves to be called an "orchestra"--not only due to the complex richness of its sound, but...

French Preservation New Orleans Jazz Band.(Sound recording review)
June 1, 2006... French Preservation New Orleans Jazz Band. Jumpin' in Irigny, Volumes 1 and 2. Jazz Crusade JCCD-3110 and JCCD-3111, 2005. Trombonist Big Bill Bissonnette established the Jazz Crusade label in 1960, and his little company could hardly be...

Atomic Platters: Cold War Music from the Golden Age of Homeland Security.(Sound recording review)
June 1, 2006... Atomic Platters: Cold War Music from the Golden Age of Homeland Security. Bear Family BCD 16065 FM, 2005. The German Bear Family label has long distinguished itself as a world-leading curator of classic American and European folk,...

Massacre.(Killing Time)(Sound recording review)
June 1, 2006... Massacre. Killing Time. ReR/Fred Records ReR/FR010, 2005. When a band called Massacre releases an album called Killing Time, one might be forgiven for thinking that he knows what to expect: either an unrelieved hour of horrific,...

Songs of Sundrie Natures (1589).(Book review)
June 1, 2006... William Byrd. Songs of Sundrie Natures (1589). Edited by David Mateer. London: Stainer & Bell, c2004. (The Byrd Edition, 13.) [Gen. pref. (Philip Brett), p. v.; pref., p. vi-xvi; editorial notes, p. xvii-xviii; texts, p. xix-xxxi; notes on the...

Preces, Festal Psalms, and Verse Anthems.(Musica Sacra (1608))(Sacred Hymnes of 3, 4, 5 and 6 Parts (1615))(Anthems IV: Anthems with Instruments)(Book review)
June 1, 2006... William Smith. Preces, Festal Psalms, and Verse Anthems. Edited by John Cannell. Middleton, WI: A-R Editions, Inc., c2003. (Recent Researches in the Music of the Renaissance, 135.) [Abbrevs. and sigla, p. vi; acknowledgments, p. vii; introd.,...

Lotario: Opera in tre atti, HWV 26.(Opera review)
June 1, 2006... Georg Friedrich Handel. Lotario: Opera in tre atti, HWV 26. Herausgegeben von Michael Pacholke. Kassel: Barenreiter, 2003. (Hallische Handel-Ausgabe, Ser. II: Opern, Bd. 23.) [Editorial policy, pref., in Ger., Eng., p. vi-xv; facsims., p....

Samtliche Werke fur Clavier (Orgel). Herausgegeben von Siegbert Rampe. Erstausgabe. Kassel: Barenreiter, c2003-2004.(Book review)
June 1, 2006... Georg Muffat and Wolfgang Ebner. Samtliche Werke fur Clavier (Orgel). Herausgegeben von Siegbert Rampe. Erstausgabe. Kassel: Barenreiter, c2003-2004. [Vol. 1 (Muffat: Partiten, pt. 1; Ebner: Toccata, Capriccio, Partita, Versetten): pref....

Six String Quartets, op. 3, I-III.(Maddalena Laura Sirmen)(Biography)
June 1, 2006... Madalena Lombardini-Syrmen. Six String Quartets, op. 3, I-III. Sally Didrickson, editor. Bryn Mawr, PA: Hildegard Publishing Company (T. Presser), c2002. [Introd., 1 p.; editor's notes, 1 p.; score, 29 p.; and 4 parts. Pub. no. 494026640. $55.]...

Music received.
June 1, 2006... A key to abbreviated imprints is found at the end of this column. For information about the content and arrangement of this list, consult the introduction to the column in the September 2005 issue (p. 203 of this volume). All Web sites accessed...

Music publishers' catalogs.
June 1, 2006... For information regarding the scope of this column, consult the headnote in the September 2005 issue (p. 211 of this volume). Acoustic Music Records, Postfach 1945, D-49009 Osnabruck, Germany. http://www.acoustic-music.de/ Katalog,...

Communications.(Letter to the editor)
June 1, 2006... 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...

Report of independent certified public accountants.(Hertzbach & Company audits Music Library Association )(Brief article)
June 1, 2006... To The Board Of Directors Music Library Association 8551 Research Way, Suite 180 Middleton, WI 53562 We have audited the accompanying statements of financial position of Music Library Association as of June 30, 2005 and 2004, and...

Statements of financial position.(Brief article)
June 1, 2006... June 30, 2005 2004 Assets Cash And Cash Equivalents $47,216 $40,960 Cash And Cash Equivalents -- Temporarily 265,565 380,308 Restricted ...

Statements of activities.(Image)
June 1, 2006... For The Year Ended June 30, 2005 Temporarily Permanently Unrestricted Restricted Restricted Total Revenues And Gains: Contributions $2,623 $8,004 ...

Statements of cash flows.(Table)(Brief article)
June 1, 2006... For The Years Ended June 30, 2005 2004 CASH FLOWS FROM OPERATING ACTIVITIES: Increase In Net Assets $83,938 $61,951 Adjustments To Reconcile Change In Net Assets To Net...

Notes to financial statements.(Music Library Association)
June 1, 2006... June 30, 2005 And 2004 1. SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES ORGANIZATION -- The Music Library Association was formed in 1945 as a non-stock, non-profit corporation. The purposes of the Association are to promote the...