Notes articles from June 2008

Notes archives from June 2008

"How a child's mind works": assessing the "value" of Britten's juvenilia.
June 1, 2008... ... but when I became a man, I put away childish things. --1 Corinthians 13:11 A thematic catalog of Benjamin Britten's complete works is currently being prepared at the Britten-Pears Library (BPL) in Aldeburgh. (1) The project is being...

"Experimentalists and independents are favored": John Edmunds in conversation with Peter Yates and John Cage, 1959-61.
June 1, 2008... The composer John Edmunds (1913-1986) was curator of the New York Public Library Music Division's Americana Collection at Fifth Avenue and Forty-Second Street for only four years. (1) During his brief but energetic tenure (1957-61) he...

The records of the New York Composers' Forum: the Documentary motive and music in the 1930s.
June 1, 2008... The New York City Composers' Forum-Laboratory was created in 1935 as part of the Music Education Division of the Federal Music Project (FMP), under the auspices of the Works Progress Administration (WPA), funded by Roosevelt's Depression-era...

Necrology index.(Obituary)(List)
June 1, 2008... 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...

Notes for notes.(Awards list)
June 1, 2008... The Music Library Association has announced its publication awards for 2006. The Vincent H. Duckles Award for the best book-length bibliography or other research tool in music published in 2006 was presented to Diccionario de la Zarzuela:...

Book reviews.(Graun-Werkverzeichnis )(Die Musikaliensammlung Thulemeier Und Die Berliner Musikuberlieferung in Der Zweiten Halfte Des 18. Jahrhunderts )(Book review)
June 1, 2008... REFERENCE WORKS Graun-Werkverzeichnis (GraunWV). By Christoph Henzel, Beeskow, Germany: Ortus Musikverlag, 2006. [2 vols., xxix, 925; and 352 p. ISBN-10 3937788026; ISBN-13 9783937788029. [EURO]98.] Music examples, facsimiles. Die...

Music in Seventeenth-Century Naples: Francesco Provenzale (1624-1704).(COMPOSER STUDIES)(Book review)
June 1, 2008... Music in Seventeenth-Century Naples: Francesco Provenzale (1624-1704). By Dinko Fabris. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2007, [xx, 310 p. ISBN-10 0754637212; ISBN-13 9780754637219. $99.95.] Illustrations, music examples, references, index. In...

Mozart's Viennese Instrumental Music: A Study of Stylistic Re-Invention.(COMPOSER STUDIES)(Book review)
June 1, 2008... Mozart's Viennese instrumental Music: A study of stylistic re-invention. By Simon P. Keefe. Rochester NY: Boy-dell Press, 2007. [viii, 217 p. ISBN-10 1843833190; ISBN-13 9781843833192. $80.] Music examples, references, index. Simon Keefe's...

Charles Valentin Alkan: His Life and His Music.(COMPOSER STUDIES)(Book review)
June 1, 2008... Charles Valentin Alkan: His Life and His Music. By William Alexander Eddie. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2007. [xi, 270 p. ISBN-I0 1-84014-260-X; ISBN-13 978-1-84014-260-0., $99.95.] Music examples, bibliography, indexes, Charles Valentin...

Discovering Mahler: Writings On Mahler 1955-2005.(COMPOSER STUDIES)(Book review)
June 1, 2008... Discovering Mahler: Writings on Mahler 1955-2005. By Donald Mitchell. Rochester, NY: Boydell Press, 2007. [1, 680 p. ISBN-10184383345X; ISBN-10 9781843833451, $80.] Illustrations, music examples, portraits, appendices, references, indexes. ...

The Puccini Problem: Opera, Nationalism And Modernity.(COMPOSER STUDIES)(Book review)
June 1, 2008... The Puccini Problem: Opera, Nationalism and Modernity. By Alexandra Wilson. (Cambridge Studies in Opera.) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. [xii, 321 p. ISBN-10 0521856884; ISBN-IS 9780521856881. $90.] Illustrations, references,...

Edward Elgar and His World.(COMPOSER STUDIES)(Book review)
June 1, 2008... Edward Elgar and His World. Edited by Byron Adams. (Bard Music Festival.) Princeton: Princeton University-Press, 2007. [xxi, 426 p. ISBN-10: 0691134456; ISBN-13 978-0-691-13446-8. $22.95.IIIustrations, music examples, index. 2007 was the...

Erik Satie.(COMPOSER STUDIES)(Book review)
June 1, 2008... By Mary E. Davis. (Critical Lives Series.) London: Reaktion Books, 2007. [176 p. ISBN-10 1861893213; ISBN-13 978-1-86189-321-5. $16.95.] Music examples, illustrations, bibliography, discography. Erik Satie has often been recognized more for...

Olivier Messiaen: Oiseaux exotiques.(COMPOSER STUDIES)(Book review)
June 1, 2008... Olivier Messiaen: Oiseaux exotiques. By Peter Hill and Nigel Simeonc. (Landmarks in Music since 1950.) Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2007. [xii, 128 p. 1SBN-10: 0754656306; ISBN-IS: 9780754656302. $69.95.] Compact disc, music examples, appendix,...

The Selected Writings of Max Reger.(COMPOSERS' WRITINGS AND LETTERS)(Book review)
June 1, 2008... The Selected Writings of Max Reger. Edited and translated by Christopher Anderson. New York: Routledge, 2006. [xliii, 138p. ISBN-10 0415973821; ISBN-13 9780415973823. $95.] Illustrations, references, index. As the first collection of the...

Selected Correspondence of Charles.(Composers' Writings and Letters)(Book review)
June 1, 2008... Ives. Edited by Thomas C. Owens. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007. [ix, 400 p. ISBN-10 0520246063; ISBN-13 9780520246064. $45.] Illustrations, facsimiles, references, index. In these days of hurried, often vacuous, e-mail...

The Selected Writings of John Duke: 1917-1984.(COMPOSERS' WRITINGS AND LETTERS)(Book review)
June 1, 2008... The selected writings of John Duke: 1917-1984. Edited by Ruth C. Fried-berg and Robin Fisher. Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press, 2007. [xii, 262 p. ISBN-10 0-8108-5867-3; ISBN-13 978-0-8108-5867-1. $45.] Bibliography, index, song catalog,...

Deems Taylor: Selected Writings.(Book review)
June 1, 2008... Deems Taylor: Selected Writings. Selected and annotated by James A. Pegolotti. New York; Routledge, 2007. [xv, 227 p. ISBN-13 978-0-415-97957-3. .$95.'| Bibliographic references, index. Deems Taylor (1885-1966) was one of the most visible...

Dance and Its Music in America, 1528-1789.(AMERICAN MUSIC)(Book review)
June 1, 2008... Dance and Its Music in America, 1528-1789. By Kate Van Winkle Keller. Hillsdale, NY: Pendragon Press, 2007. [xviii, 697 p. ISBN-10 1576471276; ISBN-13 9781576471212. $84.] Illustrations, maps, bibliographic references, index. This is an...

Unsettling Opera: Staging Mozart, Verdi, Wagner and Zeminsky.(OPERA)(Book review)
June 1, 2008... Unsettling Opera: Staging Mozart, Verdi, Wagner and Zeminsky. By David J. Levin. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. [xix, 254 p. ISBN-10 0226475220; ISBN-13 9780226475226. $35.] Illustrations, index. In Unsettling Opera: Singing...

Beyond the Soundtrack: Representing Music in Cinema.(FILM AND POPULAR MUSIC)(Book review)
June 1, 2008... Beyond the Soundtrack: Representing Music in Cinema. Edited by Daniel Goldmark, Lawrence Kramer, and Richard Leppert. Berkeley. University of California Press, 2007. [vii, 324 p. ISBN-10 0520250699; ISBN-13 9780520280697. $60.] Illustrations,...

Trinidad Carnival: the Cultural Politics of a transnational Festival.(FILM AND POPULAR MUSIC)(Book review)
June 1, 2008... Trinidad Carnival: The Cultural Politics of a Transnational Festival. Edited by Garth L. Green and Philip W. Scher. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2007. [x, 254 p. ISBN-IO 0253348234; ISBN-13 9780253348234. $60.] Illustrations,...

Harps and Harpists.(MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS)(Book review)
June 1, 2008... Harps and Harpists. By Roslyn Rensch. Revised edition. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2007. [363 p. ISBN-13 978-0-253-34893-7. $ 49.95.] Illustrations, music examples, appendix, bibliography, index, compact disc. On the rare...

The Performance of Italian Basso Continuo: Style in Keyboard Accompaniment in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries.(PERFORMANCE OF EARLY MUSIC)(Book review)
June 1, 2008... The Performance of Italian Basso Continuo: Style in Keyboard Accompaniment in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. By Guilia Nuti. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2007. [xiv, 148 p. TSBN-10 0754605671; ISBN-13 9780754605676. $89.98.]...

The End of Early Music: A Period Performer's HISTORY OF MUSIC FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY.(PERFORMANCE OF EARLY MUSIC)(Book review)
June 1, 2008... The End of Early Music: A Period Performer's History of Music for the Twenty-first century. By Bruce Haynes. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. |xix, 284 p. ISBN-10 0195189876; ISBN-13 9780195189872. $35.] Music examples, illustrations,...

Books recently published.(List)
June 1, 2008... For information about the scope of this column, consult the headline in the September 2007 issue (p. 93 of this volume). ENGLISH Abrams, Dennis. Eminem. New York: Chelsea House, 2007. 103 p. ISBN 9780791094792 (hbk.). LC 2007-001327....

Digital media reviews.(Product/service evaluation)
June 1, 2008... For information regarding the scope of this column, consult the headnote in the September 2007 issue (p. 117 of this volume). The dales of access for each review of an online source indicate the dates during which the reviewer was evaluating...

Choral public domain library.(Website overview)
June 1, 2008... Managed by Rafael Ornes. http://www.Cpdl.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page. {Accessed November-December 2007) [Requires a Web browser and an Internet connection. Downloading scores may require software dependent on the file format.] The Choral...

African American old-time string band music: a selective discography.(SOUND RECORDING REVIEWS)(Essay)
June 1, 2008... Southern old-time string band music, similar to what might be played today for a square dance, represents perhaps the earliest musical collaboration between African American and European American (often Scots-Irish) musicians. Unfortunately,...

Johannes Ockeghem.(BRIEFLY NOTED)(Sound recording review)
June 1, 2008... Johannes Ockeghem. Mass sections; Estonian folk chorales. Heinavanker. Alba ABCD 237, 2007. It is just a bit misleading to present this strange and wonderful disc as an Ockeghem recording, but Ockeghem's works do act. as something of a...

Johann Sebastian.(BRIEFLY NOTED)(Sound recording review)
June 1, 2008... Johann Sebastian Bach. Motet ten. Hilliard Ensemble. ECM 187, 2007. Johann Sebastian Bach. The Bach Motets. University of Wisconsin-Madison Chamber Choir / Robert Fountain. School of Music, University of Wisconsin-Madison. 2005. Two...

Johann Joseph Fux.(BRIEFLY NOTED)(Sound recording review)(Brief article)
June 1, 2008... Johann Joseph Fux. La grandezza della musica imperiale: Composizioni pet orchestra. Freiburger Barockorchester / Gottfried von der Goltz. Carus 83.308, 2006. The late baroque era marked the beginning of a period of long musical preeminence...

Johann Nepomuk Hummel.(BRIEFLY NOTED)(Sound recording review)
June 1, 2008... Johann Nepomuk Hummel. Chamber Music at Schonbrunn. Red Cedar Chamber Music. Fleur de Son Classics FDS 57983, 2007. Hummel is not exactly an obscure figure in late classical and early romantic music, but in recent years his work has not...

Ying Quartet.(BRIEFLY NOTED)(Sound recording review)(Brief article)
June 1, 2008... Ying Quartet. Dim Sum. Telarc CD-80690, 2008. Dim Sum may seem like an annoyingly precious album title, but it does get the idea across; the program on this young string quartet's second album is a varied collection of tasty, bite-sized...

Andy Bey.(BRIEFLY NOTED)(Sound recording review)(Brief article)
June 1, 2008... Andy Bey. Ain't Necessarily So. 12th Street 9292982-2, 2007. To call singer and pianist Andy Bey's approach to the standard repertoire stylized would be an understatement Possessed of a dark-hued and slightly grainy baritone voice. Bey is a...

Westchester Jazz Orchestra.(BRIEFLY NOTED)(Sound recording review)(Brief article)
June 1, 2008... Westchester Jazz Orchestra. All In. WJO, 2007. Big bands have a tough row to hoe these days. Venues are limited, touring is almost prohibitively expensive, good arrangers are hard to come by, and popular tastes never came back around after...

Yoko Miwa Trio.(BRIEFLY NOTED)(Sound recording review)(Brief article)
June 1, 2008... Yoko Miwa Trio. Canopy of Stars. Polystar MTCJ 3020, 2005. Somewhere there is surely a jazz critic grumbling to himself about the accessibility of pianist Yoko Miwa's music, but make no mistake--this is music of sophistication and...

Deep Blue Organ Trio.(BRIEFLY NOTED)(Sound recording review)(Brief article)
June 1, 2008... Deep Blue Organ Trio. Folk Music. Origin 82489, 2007. The "organ trio" format is one of the most venerable and fiercely defended combo configurations in jazz. Organists arc generally adamant that no bass is needed, and take pride in being...

Paul Bollenback.(BRIEFLY NOTED)(Sound recording review)(Brief article)
June 1, 2008... Paul Bollenback. Invocation. Elefant Dreams ED 4550, 2007. Guitarist Paul Bollenback has been a first-call session player for years, working as a sideman for such eminent leaders as Joey DcFrancesco, Jeff "Tain" Watts, and Gary Bartz. His...

Joy Division.(BRIEFLY NOTED)(Sound recording review)
June 1, 2008... Joy Division. LInktiown Pleasures. Collector's Edition. London/Rhino R2 331260,2007. In 1979, when the punk rock wave had crested and begun to recede, it suddenly became clear to those left behind that a philosophy of anarchy, nihilism,...

Vocal Music.(MUSIC REVIEWS)(Obra Vocal: Obras Para Voz y Piano)(Book review)
June 1, 2008... Isaac Albeniz. Obra vocal: Obras para voz y piano. Revision y edicion Mac McClure, Frances Barulich. Barcelona: Editorial de Musica Boileau, c2006. [Vol. 1: Biography, introd. and crit. notes, in Sp., Eng., Cat., p. 5-19; score, p. 21-64. ISMN...

Piano Music.(MUSIC REVIEWS)(Buyers guide)
June 1, 2008... Claude Debussy. Danse bohemienne; Danse (Tarentelle styrienne); Ballade (Ballade slave); Valse romantique; Suite bergamasque; Reverie; Mazurka; Deux arabesques; Nocturne. Edition de Roy Howat. Paris: Durand, c2000. (CEuvres completes de Claude...

Music received.
June 1, 2008... A key to abbreviated imprints is found al the end of this column, for information about the content and arrangement of this list, consult the introduction 10 the column in the September issue (p. 145 of this volume). SCHOLARLY & HISTORICAL...

Music publishers' catalogs.(Website list)
June 1, 2008... For information regarding the scope of this column, consult the headnote in the September 2007 issue (p. 156 of this volume). A-R Editions, 8551 Research Way. Suite 180, Middleton, Wl 53562. http://www.aredidons.com/ Embellishments no. 33,...