Notes articles from June 2007

Notes archives from June 2007

Music circulating libraries in France: an overview and a preliminary list.
June 1, 2007... The year is 1867 in Paris during the Second Empire. A musician sets off one day from his flat in a building several centuries old situated on the north side of the city. He is mulling over finances, and he feels lucky to have the place. Though...

Anna Harriet Heyer, an isolated pioneer.(Brief biography)
June 1, 2007... Anna Harriet Heyer (1909-2002) first achieved profession-wide recognition in 1957 with the publication of her groundbreaking bibliography, Historical Sets, Collected Editions, and Monuments of Music: A Guide to their Contents (Chicago: American...

Necrology index.
June 1, 2007... This document 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, 2007... The Music Library Association has announced its publication awards for 2005. The Vincent H. Duckles Award for the best book-length bibliography or other research tool in music published in 2005 was presented to Mary Lewis for her monumental...

Polymath of the Baroque: Agostino Steffani and His Music.(Book review)
June 1, 2007... Polymath of the Baroque: Agostino Steffani and His Music. By Colin Timms. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. [xviii, 422 p. ISBN 0195154738. $99.00.] Illustrations, music examples, bibliography, index. Colin Timms has synthesized much...

A Thematic Catalogue of the Works of Michel-Richard de Lalande (1657-1726).(Book review)
June 1, 2007... A Thematic Catalogue of the Works of Michel-Richard de Lalande (1657-1726). By Lionel Sawkins. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. [xlvii, 700 p. ISBN 0-19-816360-6. $225.] Music examples, facsimiles, tables, bibliographies, indexes. ...

The String Quartets of Joseph Haydn.(Book review)
June 1, 2007... The String Quartets of Joseph Haydn. By Floyd and Margaret Grave. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. [x, 382 p. ISBN 0-19-517357-0. $65.] Music examples, tables, bibliographic references, index. In 1990 Floyd and Margaret Grave...

E. T. A. Hoffmann's Musical Aesthetics.(Book review)
June 1, 2007... E. T. A. Hoffmann's Musical Aesthetics. By Abigail Chantler. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2006. [xii, 202 p. ISBN 0-754-60706-2. $89.95.] Music examples, bibliography, index. Given the fact that E. T. A. Hoffmann's writings have proved pivotal...

Reflections on Liszt.(Book review)
June 1, 2007... Reflections on Liszt. By Alan Walker. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2005. [xii, 277 p. ISBN 0-801-44366-6. $39.95.] Illustrations, music examples, bibliography, index. Few scholars can be given more credit for reinvigorating a critical...

Franz Liszt and his World.(Book review)
June 1, 2007... Franz Liszt and his World. Edited by Dana Gooley and Christopher Gibbs. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006. [xx, 587 p. ISBN 0-691-12902-9. $24.95.] Music examples, illustrations, bibliography, index. "I don't really know what...

Rachmaninoff: Life, Works, Recordings.(Book review)
June 1, 2007... Rachmaninoff: Life, Works, Recordings. By Max Harrison. London: Continuum, 2005. [vi, 422 p. ISBN 0-826-45344-6. $21.95.] Bibliography, discography, indexes, music examples. While better known for his writings on jazz, Max Harrison has...

The Cambridge History of Twentieth-Century Music.(Book review)
June 1, 2007... The Cambridge History of Twentieth-Century Music. Edited by Nicholas Cook and Anthony Pople. (Cambridge History of Music.) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. [xviii, 818 p. ISBN 0-521-66256-7. $170.] Illustrations, appendices,...

Creative Union: The Professional Organization of Soviet Composers, 1939-1953.(Book review)
June 1, 2007... Creative Union: The Professional Organization of Soviet Composers, 1939-1953. By Kiril Tomoff. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2006. [xiv, 321 p. ISBN 0-801444-11-X. $57.50.] Tables, bibliographic notes, index. Kiril Tomoff's Creative...

Debussy's Letters to Inghelbrecht: The Story of a Musical Friendship.(Book review)
June 1, 2007... Debussy's Letters to Inghelbrecht: The Story of a Musical Friendship. Annotated by Margaret Cobb, translated by Richard Miller. (Eastman Studies in Music.) Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2005. [xix, 113 p. ISBN 1-580-46174-3....

The Ballets of Maurice Ravel: Creation and Interpretation.(Book review)
June 1, 2007... The Ballets of Maurice Ravel: Creation and Interpretation. By Deborah Mawer. Burlington, VT: Ash-gate, 2006. [xvii, 314 p. ISBN 0-754-63029-3. $99.95.] Music examples, illustrations, appendix, bibliography, index. The appearance of Deborah...

Lou Harrison.(Book review)
June 1, 2007... Lou Harrison. By Leta E. Miller and Fredric Lieberman. (American Composers.) Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2006. [viii, 148 p. ISBN 0-252-03120-2. $40.] Illustrations, suggested listening, index, compact disc. Lou Harrison is the...

New Music, New Allies: American Experimental Music in West Germany from the Zero Hour to Reunification.(Book review)
June 1, 2007... New Music, New Allies: American Experimental Music in West Germany from the Zero Hour to Reunification. By Amy C. Beal. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006. [xvi, 340 p. ISBN 0-520-24755-8. $49.95.] Illustrations, bibliography,...

The John Adams Reader: Essential Writings on an American Composer.(Book review)
June 1, 2007... The John Adams Reader: Essential Writings on an American Composer. Edited by Thomas May. Pompton Plains, NJ: Amadeus Press, 2006. [xviii, 455 p. ISBN 1-57467-132-4. $27.95.] Bibliographical references, indexes. John Adams continues to...

The Musical Idea--And the Logic, Technique, and Art of Its Presentation.(Book review)
June 1, 2007... The Musical Idea--And the Logic, Technique, and Art of Its Presentation. By Arnold Schoenberg. Edited, translated, and with a commentary by Patricia Carpenter and Severine Neff. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2006. [xxviii. 343 p. ISBN...

Schonbergs Zeichen: Wege zur Interpretation seiner Klaviermusik.(Book review)
June 1, 2007... Schonbergs Zeichen: Wege zur Interpretation seiner Klaviermusik. By Jean-Jacques Dunki. (Publikationen der Internationalen Schonberg-Gesellschaft, Band 6.) Vienna: Verlag Lafite, 2006. [152 p. ISBN 3-85151-074-7. [euro]34.] Music examples,...

Mischa Mischakoff: Journeys of a Concertmaster.(Book review)
June 1, 2007... Mischa Mischakoff: Journeys of a Concertmaster. By Anne Mischakoff Heiles. (Detroit Monographs in Musicology/Studies in Music, no. 46.) Sterling Heights, MI: Harmonie Park Press, 2006. [xxi, 316 p. ISBN 0-89990-131-X. $65.] Illustrations,...

Hanging Off the Edge: Revelations of a Modern Troubadour.(Book review)
June 1, 2007... Hanging Off the Edge: Revelations of a Modern Troubadour. By Priscilla McLean. New York: iUniverse, Inc., 2006. [xiii, 279 p. ISBN 0-595-37548-0 $21.95.] Works list, discography, bibliography, endnotes, compact disc. This book could be...

Brazilian Popular Music: Caetano Veloso and the Regeneration of Tradition.(Book review)
June 1, 2007... Brazilian Popular Music: Caetano Veloso and the Regeneration of Tradition. By Lorraine Leu. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2006. [xii, 180 p. ISBN 0-754-63655-0. $79.95.] References, index. Reflection is an action involving the efforts and...

Music in Latin America and the Caribbean: An Encyclopedic History: Volume 1: Performing Beliefs: Indigenous Cultures of South America, Central America, and Mexico.(Book review)
June 1, 2007... Music in Latin America and the Caribbean: An Encyclopedic History: Volume 1: Performing Beliefs: Indigenous Cultures of South America, Central America, and Mexico. Edited by Malena Kuss. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2004. [xxx, 416 p....

Endless Enigma: A Musical Biography of Emerson, Lake and Palmer.(Book review)
June 1, 2007... Endless Enigma: A Musical Biography of Emerson, Lake and Palmer. By Edward Macan. Chicago: Open Court Press, 2006. [xlv, 817 p. ISBN 0-8126-9596-8. $49.95.] Appendices, indexes. Endless Enigma: A Musical Biography of Emerson, Lake and...

Performance and Popular Music: History, Place and Time.(Book review)
June 1, 2007... Performance and Popular Music: History, Place and Time. Edited by Ian Inglis. (Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series.) Burlington, VT: Ash-gate, 2005. [xvi, 205 p. ISBN 0-7546-4056-6. $99.95.] Bibliography, index. Imagine reducing rock...

Which Side Are You On: An Inside History of the Folk Music Revival in America.(Book review)
June 1, 2007... Which Side Are You On: An Inside History of the Folk Music Revival in America. By Dick Weissman. New York: Continuum, 2005. [296 p. ISBN 0-8264-1698-5. $24.95.] Bibliographical references, index, discography. Dick Weissman is known to many...

So I've Heard: Notes of a Migratory Music Critic.(Book review)
June 1, 2007... So I've Heard: Notes of a Migratory Music Critic. By Alan Rich. Milwaukee, WI: Amadeus, 2006. [xxix, 338 p. ISBN 1574671332. $24.95.] As a student of American music criticism, I was very pleased when the great West Coast critic Alan Rich's...

Music and Gesture.(Book review)
June 1, 2007... Music and Gesture. Edited by Anthony Gritten and Elaine King. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2006. [xxv, 232 p. ISBN 0-754-65298-X. $89.95.] Illustrations, music examples, index. The publication of a collection of essays entitled Music and...

Books recently published.(Bibliography)
June 1, 2007... For information about the scope of this column, consult the headnote in the September 2006 issue (p. 125 of this volume). ENGLISH Abbey, Eric James. Garage rock and its roots: musical rebels and the drive for individuality. Jefferson,...

Ebrary Online Sheet Music.(E-book review)
June 1, 2007... Ebrary Online Sheet Music. Published by ebrary, Inc. [Requires Web browser, Internet connection, free downloadable ebrary Reader software (for requirements for the Reader, see http://site.ebrary.com/lib/anysite/support/2_support01.jsp#000)...

MetOpera Database.
June 1, 2007... MetOpera Database. Metropolitan Opera. http://www.metoperafamily.org/metopera/history/ [Requires a Web browser and an Internet connection.]. Librarians and scholars may be accustomed to consulting Annals of the Metropolitan Opera (AMO)...

Music in the Afghan North, 1967-1972.(E-book review)
June 1, 2007... Music in the Afghan North, 1967-1972. Authored by Mark Slobin. Developed by the Learning Objects Program, Wesleyan University. http://afghanistan.wesleyan.edu [Requires: Web browser, Internet connection, Flash player, Quicktime player, any...

UT Song Index.
June 1, 2007... UT Song Index. University of Tennessee, Knoxville, George F. DeVine Music Library. http://www.lib.utk.edu/music/songdb/. [Requires a Web browser and an Internet connection] The demand for song lyrics and sheet music remains a popular...

The BBC Radiophonic Workshop: recent reissues of British electronic music from 1955-1996.
June 1, 2007... With the CD release this year by the British Library of Samuel Beckett's seven works written for BBC radio comes a chance to reevaluate the commercial releases from the sound effects studio that made these recordings possible, the British...

Taverner & Tudor Music I: The Western Wind.(BRIEFLY NOTED)(Sound recording review)
June 1, 2007... Taverner & Tudor Music I: The Western Wind. Ars Nova Copenhagen / Paul Hillier. Dacapo 8.226050, 2006. Around 1510 or 1520, when John Taverner wrote his now-famous parody mass on the popular song "The Westron Wynde," the practice of using...

A Celebration of Hispanic Music.(BRIEFLY NOTED)(Sound recording review)
June 1, 2007... A Celebration of Hispanic Music. Santa Fe Desert Chorale / Linda Mack. Clarion CLR924CD, 2006. This fascinating collection of sacred choral works from Latin America takes in a variety of styles and periods, including works from the baroque...

Jean-Philippe Rameau.(BRIEFLY NOTED)(Sound recording review)
June 1, 2007... Jean-Philippe Rameau. A Basket of Wild Strawberries: A Selection of Keyboard Jewels by Jean-Philippe Rameau. Tzimon Barto. Ondine ODE 1067-2, 2006. Even those (like this reviewer) who are generally susceptible to the arguments of the...

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.(BRIEFLY NOTED)(Two Mozart Masterpieces in Contemporary Transcription)(Sound recording review)(Brief article)
June 1, 2007... Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Two Mozart Masterpieces in Contemporary Transcription: Gran Partita; String Quintet in G Minor. Malcolm Bilson; Zvi Meniker; Abigail Graham; Monica Toth; Laszlo More; Csilla Valyi. Hungaroton HCD 32414, 2006. This...

Jan Bach.(BRIEFLY NOTED)(Music of Jan Bach)(Sound recording review)(Brief article)
June 1, 2007... Jan Bach. Music of Jan Bach. Jon Boen; Stephen Duke; Jean Berken-stock; Chicago Philharmonic / Larry Rachleff. Equilibrium EQ 79, 2006. One of America's somewhat hidden treasures, composer, horn player, pianist, and teacher Jan Bach has...

Steve Herberman Trio.(BRIEFLY NOTED)(Action: Reaction)(Sound recording review)(Brief article)
June 1, 2007... Steve Herberman Trio. Action:-Reaction. Reach Music RM7120, 2006. Guitarist and composer Steve Herberman's approach to his instrument is unusual in at least two ways: first, he plays a seven-string guitar, which is not exactly unheard of...

Ron Miles.(BRIEFLY NOTED)(Stone/Blossom)(Sound recording review)(Brief article)
June 1, 2007... Ron Miles. Stone/Blossom. Sterling Circle SCR1220, 2006. In his quiet and unassuming way, Denver-area trumpeter, cornetist, and composer Ron Miles has always been something of a jazz maverick. In fact, his work often seems to maintain only...

Pete Levin.(BRIEFLY NOTED)(Deacon Blues)(Sound recording review)(Brief article)
June 1, 2007... Pete Levin. Deacon Blues. Motema Music MTM-0008, 2007. Though he is primarily known to the masses, if he is known to them at all, as the brother of Tony Levin (bassist for King Crimson and session player extraordinaire, as well as the...

Jonathan Poretz.(BRIEFLY NOTED)(A Lot of Livin' to Do)(Sound recording review)(Brief article)
June 1, 2007... Jonathan Poretz. A Lot of Livin' to Do. ArtFlo/Pacific Coast Jazz AFP 121215, 2006. The debut album by this Bay Area singer has nothing particularly unusual to recommend it--it consists of standards, most of them quite familiar, all sung...

Andy Biskin Quartet.(BRIEFLY NOTED)(Early American: The Melodies of Stephen Foster)(Sound recording review)(Brief article)
June 1, 2007... Andy Biskin Quartet. Early American: The Melodies of Stephen Foster. Strudelmedia SMCD-009, 2006. This strange and generally quite lovely album came about as the result of clarinetist Andy Biskin's newfound fascination with the melodies of...

Alberta: Wild Roses, Northern Lights.(BRIEFLY NOTED)(Sound recording review)(Brief article)
June 1, 2007... Alberta: Wild Roses, Northern Lights. Smithsonian Folkways SFW CD 40538, 2006. If neo-folkie singer-songwriters make you feel a bit sleepy, then you might be forgiven for flipping very quickly past this collection, which bills itself as an...

Jukebox Buddha.(BRIEFLY NOTED)(Sound recording review)(Brief article)
June 1, 2007... Jukebox Buddha. Staubgold 72, 2006. It is not necessary to know where this weird, quiet, and strangely fascinating music comes from in order to enjoy it, but the story is too irresistible not to tell. The fifteen tracks on this album all...

Les organa a deux voix pour l'Office du manuscrit de Florence, Biblioteca Medicea-Laurenziana, plut. 29.1.(Book review)
June 1, 2007... Les organa a deux voix pour l'Office du manuscrit de Florence, Biblioteca Medicea-Laurenziana, plut. 29.1. Edition etablie par Mark Everist. Les Remparts, Monaco: Editions de L'Oiseau-Lyre, c2003. (Le Magnus liber organi de Notre-Dame de Paris,...

Earl "Fatha" Hines.(Book review)
June 1, 2007... Earl "Fatha" Hines. Selected Piano Solos, 1928-1941. Edited by Jeffrey Taylor. Middleton, WI: Published for the American Musicological Society by A-R Editions, Inc., 2006. (Recent Researches in American Music, 56.) (Music of the United States...

Leo Ornstein.(Book review)
June 1, 2007... Leo Ornstein. Quintette for Piano and Strings, op. 92. Edited by Denise Von Glahn and Michael Broyles. Middleton, WI: Published for the American Musicological Society by A-R Editions, Inc., c2005. (Recent Researches in American Music, 51.)...

Hector Berlioz.
June 1, 2007... Hector Berlioz. Incomplete Operas. Edited by Ric Graebner and Paul Banks. Kassel: Barenreiter, 2002. (New Edition of the Complete Works, 4.) (Musica Gallica.) [Gen. pref. in Eng., Fr., Ger., p. vii; foreword, p. viii-xxvi; score, 316 p....

Georg Friedrich Handel.(Hallische Handel-Ausgabe)
June 1, 2007... Georg Friedrich Handel. Klavierwerke II: Suites de Pieces pour le Clavecin: Zweite Sammlung von 1733, HWV 434-442. Herausgegeben von Peter Northway; Neuausgabe von Terence Best. Kassel: Barenreiter, 1999. (Hallische Handel-Ausgabe; Ser. IV:...

Music received.
June 1, 2007... 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 2006 issue (p. 208 of this volume). All Web sites accessed...

Music publishers' catalogs.(Website list)
June 1, 2007... For information regarding the scope of this column, consult the headnote in the September 2006 issue (p. 218 of this volume). All Web sites accessed 21 February 2007. Acoustic Music Records, Postfach 1945, D-49009 Osnabruck, Germany. ...

Communications.(Letter to the editor)
June 1, 2007... 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...

Independent auditor's report.
June 1, 2007... To the Board of Directors Music Library Association Middleton, Wisconsin We have audited the accompanying statement of financial position of Music Library Association as of June 30, 2006, and the related statements of activities...

Music Library Association.(Financial Statements)(Financial report)(Brief article)
June 1, 2007... STATEMENTS OF FINANCIAL POSITION June 30, 2006 and 2005 2006 2005 ASSETS Cash and cash equivalents: Unrestricted $112,253 $46,893 ...

Music Library Association.(Financial Statements)(Financial report)
June 1, 2007... STATEMENT OF ACTIVITIES Year ended June 30, 2006 Temporarily Unrestricted restricted Changes in unrestricted net assets: Public...

Music Library Association.(Financial Statements)(Financial report)
June 1, 2007... STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS Years ended June 30, 2006 and 2005 2006 2005 CASH FLOWS FROM OPERATING ACTIVITIES Change in net assets $122,853 ...

Music Library Association.(Financial Statements)(Financial report)
June 1, 2007... NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS June 30, 2006 NOTE A -- Nature of business and significant accounting policies Nature of business The Music Library Association (the Association) was formed in 1945 as a non-stock, non-profit...