Notes articles from March 2000

Notes archives from March 2000

FOREWORD.
March 1, 2000... So here we are, engulfed in a millennial madness utterly unrelated to anything performed by the earth and moon in all their natural rotations and revolutions. Steven J. Gould [1] The idea for this issue came out of an afternoon trip to...

COLLECTION DEVELOPMENT AND MANAGEMENT.
March 1, 2000... Looking through the literature of music librarianship, one is struck by the curious fact that what is considered by music librarians to be their most profound and sacred professional trust--the intellectual activity of selecting materials with...

PRESERVATION.
March 1, 2000... It has been a century of destruction unparalleled in human history, but the twentieth has been the preservation century for libraries. Awareness of the problem of the acidity of mass-produced paper became widespread only by the 1950s, even...

CATALOGING.
March 1, 2000... The major developments in library music cataloging during the recent past are the result of the application of computer and networking technologies and the corresponding organizational efforts to promote cooperative cataloging in that...

TECHNOLOGY.
March 1, 2000... In an astonishing 1945 article, scientist Vannevar Bush offered his vision of a marvelous machine he called the "memex." [1] As depicted by Bush, the memex would enable scholars to search a vast repository of scholarly information, take notes,...

COPYRIGHT.
March 1, 2000... Most music librarians have a working knowledge of the United States Copyright Law with respect to situations that arise in the library, especially with respect to the use of musical works captured on paper, recordings, and film. Few at the...

REFERENCE.
March 1, 2000... After fifteen years in the music reference business, I still find the very idea of reference miraculous. I mean, to have someone highly qualified in the library whose job it is to help you do your research or simply find what you need: isn't...

REFERENCE SOURCES.
March 1, 2000... THE PAST FIFTY YEARS: A VARIETY OF LANDMARKS There was a time, half a century ago, when each new monthly issue of The Music Index [1] was eagerly sought and carefully inspected by researchers for new pieces of bibliographic information...

USER EDUCATION.
March 1, 2000... A late-twentieth-century reference interview in the music library of my local institution of higher learning: Erstwhile Researcher: (obviously frustrated) I need information for this paper I have to do on Schubert's Trout Quintet. ...

MUSIC PUBLISHING.
March 1, 2000... Music Publishing. The art of bringing a musical product to a public. What could be more obvious? But in order really to understand music publishing, one must be clear on the meaning of these three simple terms. My choice of the first term...

SOUND RECORDINGS.
March 1, 2000... Sound recordings are a fundamental resource for American music libraries as they enter the twenty-first century. This represents a change from the status quo at mid-twentieth century, when sound recordings could be viewed as supplemental to the...

THE ANTIQUARIAN MUSIC MARKET.
March 1, 2000... Commerce in antiquarian music materials is a small but vibrant part of the "business" of the wider world of music. This commerce is conducted internationally, mostly by specialist antiquarian booksellers dealing exclusively in the subject area...

ARCHIVES.
March 1, 2000... In Colin Dexter's 1989 novel The Wench is Dead, [1] the principal character is a police detective who becomes interested in a murder case from 1859 Oxford. His interest eventually leads him to inspect the bulky original physical evidence, which...

EDUCATION FOR MUSIC LIBRARIANSHIP.
March 1, 2000... TRADITIONAL TRAINING For over two generations, members of the Music Library Association have concerned themselves with the adequate education and training of music librarians. Several articles in Notes and Fontes artis musicae and...

AFTERWORD.
March 1, 2000... But history can also be viewed as a series of adventures-hazardous, elective exploits undertaken for the chance of great gain but with their outcome always in doubt. Richard Ford [1] Music librarians have accomplished much--both...

The Lila Acheson Wallace Library of the Juilliard School.
March 1, 2000... The Lila Acheson Wallace Library of the Juilliard School has undergone a complete renovation. Demolition and construction began immediately following the school's ninty-fourth commencement on 21 May 1999, and the library reopened on 30 August...

Fallen Leaf Press.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2000... Fallen Leaf Press, founded and run by Ann Basart, is closing, as its owner felt it was time for retirement. The press was established in 1984 for the purpose of publishing reference books in music as well as scores of contemporary American...

The University of North Texas Music Library.
March 1, 2000... The University of North Texas Music Library has recently revised and enhanced its Lully Web Project with the assistance of a grant from TexShare, a consortium of Texas university libraries. Now titled "The University of North Texas...

The Mozart Society of America.
March 1, 2000... The Mozart Society of America was founded in November 1996 during the Baltimore meeting of the American Musicological Society. Among the specific goals of the society are the encouragement of new approaches to research, performance, and...

John A. Emerson.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2000... John A. Emerson, longtime music librarian at the University of California, Berkeley, and distinguished scholar, died on 21 July 1999 in Benicia, California, at the age of 73. Born in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, on 17 May 1926, he received a B.M....

Swingin' the Dream: Big Band Jazz and the Rebirth of American Culture.(Review)
March 1, 2000... Swingin' the Dream: Big Band Jazz and the Rebirth of American Culture. By Lewis A. Erenberg. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998. [xxi, 320 p. ISBN 0-226-21516-4. $28.] Lewis A. Erenberg introduces his book Swingin' the Dream as...

The Jazz Cadence of American Culture.(Review)
March 1, 2000... The Jazz Cadence of American Culture. Edited by Robert G. O'Meally. New York: Columbia University Press, 1998. [xvi, 665 p. ISBN 0-231-10448-0 (cloth); 0-231-10449-9 (pbk.). $49.50 (cloth); $19.50 (pbk.).] Jazz scholarship is remarkably...

Just My Soul Responding: Rhythm and Blues, Black Consciousness, and Race Relations.(Review)
March 1, 2000... Just My Soul Responding: Rhythm and Blues, Black Consciousness, and Race Relations. By Brian Ward. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. [xi, 600 p. ISBN 0-520-21297-5 (cloth); 0-520-21298-3 (pbk.). $60 (cloth); $24.95 (pbk.).] ...

Analysing Musical Multimedia.(Review)
March 1, 2000... Analysing Musical Multimedia. By Nicholas Cook. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. [xiv, 278 p. ISBN 0-19-816589-7. $65.] A reviewer of a mystery novel would be chastised (and rightly so) for giving away the name of the murderer in the...

Franz Schubert: Sexuality, Subjectivity, Song.(Review)
March 1, 2000... Franz Schubert: Sexuality, Subjectivity, Song. By Lawrence Kramer. (Cambridge Studies in Music Theory and Analysis, 13.) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. [xii, 183 p. ISBN 0-521-58210-5. $59.95.] Lawrence Kramer is well known...

Of Mind and Music.(Review)
March 1, 2000... Of Mind and Music. By Laird Addis. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1999. [xi, 141 p. ISBN 0-8014-3589-7. $29.95.] Of Mind and Music is an ambitious attempt to offer a new theory of music's power in representing emotions. In this book,...

South America, Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean.(Review)
March 1, 2000... South America, Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean. Edited by Dale A. Olsen and Daniel E. Sheehy. (The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music, 2.) New York: Garland Publishing, 1998. [xix, 1082 p. + 1 compact disc. ISBN 0-8240-4947-0....

Harmonic Experience: Tonal Harmony from Its Natural Origins to Its Modern Expression.(Review)
March 1, 2000... Harmonic Experience: Tonal Harmony from Its Natural Origins to Its Modern Expression. By W. A. Mathieu. Rochester, Vt.: Inner Traditions International. 1997. [xii, 564 p. ISBN 0-89281-560-4. $39.95.] Intended as a self-instruction text, W....

Source Readings in Music History.(Review)
March 1, 2000... Source Readings in Music History. Rev. ed. Edited by Leo Treitler. New York: W. W. Norton, 1998. [xxii, 1552 p. ISBN 0-393-03752-5. $75.] "It would hardly be extravagant to say that the last twenty years have witnessed a revolution in our...

Maestros of the Pen: A History of Classical Music Criticism in America.(Review)
March 1, 2000... Maestros of the Pen: A History of Classical Music Criticism in America. By Mark N. Grant. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1998. [xxi, 374 p. ISBN 1-55553-363-9. $37.50.] Maestros of the Pen is an ambitious historical account of...

The Cambridge Companion to the Organ.(Review)
March 1, 2000... The Cambridge Companion to the Organ. Edited by Nicholas Thistlethwaite and Geoffrey Webber. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. [xiv, 340 p. ISBN 0-521-57309-2 (cloth); 0-521-57584-2 (pbk.). $57.95 (cloth); $21.95 (pbk.).] The...

Johann Joachim Quantz: Thematischsystematisches Verzeichnis (QV).(Review)
March 1, 2000... REFERENCE Johann Joachim Quantz: Thematischsystematisches Verzeichnis (QV). By Horst Augsbach. Stuttgart: Carus-Verlag, 1997. [xxxiii, 333 p. ISBN 3-923053-47-9.] Johann Joachim Quantz (1697-1773) has long been recognized for his...

Isaac Albeniz: A Guide to Research.(Review)
March 1, 2000... Isaac Albeniz: A Guide to Research. By Walter A. Clark. (Composer Resource Manuals, 45.) New York: Garland Publishing, 1998. [xii, 256 p. ISBN 0- 8153-2095-7. $60.] Manuel de Falla: A Bio-bibliography. By Nancy Lee Harper....

George Whitefield Chadwick: A Bio-bibliography.(Review)
March 1, 2000... George Whitefield Chadwick: A Bio-bibliography. By Bill F. Faucett. (Bio-bibliographies in Music, 66.) Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1998. [xv, 304 p. ISBN 0-313-30067-4. $75.] Finally, we have a book-length catalog of the works of one...

Johannes Brahms: An Annotated Bibliography of the Literature from 1982 to 1996, with an Appendix on Brahms and the Internet.(Review)
March 1, 2000... Johannes Brahms: An Annotated Bibliography of the Literature from 1982 to 1996, with an Appendix on Brahms and the Internet. By Thomas Quigley. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, 1998. [xiii, 697 p. ISBN 0-8108-3439-1. $85.] This bibliography,...

Music Subject Headings Compiled from Library of Congress Subject Headings.
March 1, 2000... Music Subject Headings Compiled from Library of Congress Subject Headings. 2d ed. Compiled by Harriette Hemmasi. (Soldier Creek Music Series, 4.) Lake Crystal, Minn.: Soldier Creek Press, 1998. [x, 600 p. ISBN 0-936996-76-5. $90 (pbk.).] ...

Catalogo del fondo musicale della Biblioteca Comunale di Treviso.(Review)
March 1, 2000... Catalogo del fondo musicale della Biblioteca Comunale di Treviso. By Umberto Nensi. (Cataloghi e bibliografia, 4.) Venice: Edizioni Fondazione Levi, 1998. [3 vols.] This enormous, painstakingly prepared catalog inventories a miscellany of...

Fauvel Studies: Allegory, Chronicle, Music, and Image in Paris, Bibliotheque Nationale de France, MS francais 146.(Review)
March 1, 2000... Fauvel Studies: Allegory, Chronicle, Music, and Image in Paris, Bibliotheque Nationale de France, MS francais 146. Edited by Margaret Bent and Andrew Wathey. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998. [xix, 666 p. ISBN 019-816579.X. $165.] The Roman...

Oltre San Marco: Organizzazione e prassi della musica nella chiese di Venezia nel Rinascimento.(Review)
March 1, 2000... Oltre San Marco: Organizzazione e prassi della musica nella chiese di Venezia nel Rinascimento. By Elena Quaranta. (Studi di musica veneta, 26.) Florence: Leo S. Olschki, 1998. [x, 489 p. ISBN 88-222-4662-4. L 95,000 (pbk.).] Elena...

Music in Spain during the Eighteenth Century.(Review)
March 1, 2000... Music in Spain during the Eighteenth Century. Edited by Malcolm Boyd and Juan Jose Carreras. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. [vii, 269 p. ISBN 0-521-48139-2. $69.95.] The growth of interest in Spanish music history over the...

Antonio Salieri and Viennese Opera.(Review)
March 1, 2000... Antonio Salieri and Viennese Opera. By John A. Rice. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998. [648 p. ISBN 0-226-71125-0. $95.] This engagingly written, meticulously detailed book on Antonio Salieri's career as an opera composer finally...

Mozart Studies 2.(Review)
March 1, 2000... Mozart Studies 2. Edited by Cliff Eisen. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997. [vi, 208 p. ISBN 0-19-816343-6. $77.] Doubtless reflecting a postbicentennial relaxation of scholarly energies, this sequel to Mozart Studies (Oxford: Clarendon Press,...

Beethoven Forum 6.(Review)
March 1, 2000... Beethoven Forum 6. Edited by Glenn Stanley. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1998. [xi, 256 p. ISBN 0-8032-4267-0.$55.] In his review of the fifth and sixth volumes of Beethoven Forum (Music & Letters 80 [1999]: 290-92), Daniel K. L....

Beethoven's Concertos.(Review)
March 1, 2000... Beethoven's Concertos: History, Style, Performance. By Leon Plantinga. New York: W. W. Norton, 1999. [xi, 403 p. + 1 booklet of music examples, 108 p. ISBN 0-393-04691-5. $49.95.] Leon Plantinga's long-awaited study of Ludwig van...

Schubert Studies.(Review)
March 1, 2000... Schubert Studies. Edited by Brian Newbould. Aldershot, England: Ash-gate, 1998. [xiii, 277 p. ISBN 1-8592S253-9. $76.95.] In his introduction to this volume, Brian Newbould writes that "Schubert Studies is addressed to the reader who has...

Democracy at the Opera: Music, Theater, and Culture in New York City, 1815-60.(Review)
March 1, 2000... Democracy at the Opera: Music, Theater, and Culture in New York City, 1815-60. By Karen Ahlquist. (Music in American Life.) Urbana, Ill.: University of Illinois Press, 1997. [xvii, 248 p. ISBN 0-252-02272-6. $29.95.] Karen Ahlquist...

Elgar: "Enigma" Variations.(Review)
March 1, 2000... C. By Julian Rushton. (Cambridge Music Handbooks.) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. [ix, 114 p. ISBN 0521-63175-0 (cloth); 0-521-63637-X (pbk.). $44.95 (cloth); $12.95 (pbk.).] Edward Elgar's "Enigma" Variations is unique in the...

Diaries, 1898-1902.(translated by Antony Beaumont)(Review)
March 1, 2000... Diaries, 1898-1902. By Alma Mahier-Werfel. Selected and translated by Antony Beaumont. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1999. [xix, 494 p. ISBN 0-8014-3654-0. $35.] One of the most interesting collections of diaries from recent...

The Gershwin Style: New Looks at the Music of George Gershwin.(Review)
March 1, 2000... The Gershwin Style: New Looks at the Music of George Gershwin. Edited by Wayne Schneider. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. [xiv, 290 p. ISBN 0-19-509020-9. $35.] In the wake of the centenary of George Gershwin's birth (1998)...

Aaron Copland: The Life and Work of an Uncommon Man.(Review)
March 1, 2000... Aaron Copland: The Life and Work of an Uncommon Man. By Howard Pollack. New York: Henry Holt, 1999. [xi, 690 p. ISBN 0-8050-4909-6. $37.50.] Howard Pollack's authoritative new study of the life, works, and times of Aaron Copland is an...

Harry Partch: A Biography.(Review)
March 1, 2000... Harry Partch: A Biography. By Bob Gilmore. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998. [xii, 468 p. ISBN 0-300-06521-3. $35.] Among the many mythical heroes in American music, Harry Partch stands tall. Taking to the road for several stints as a...

Silencing the Sounded Self: John Cage and the American Experimental Tradition.(Review)
March 1, 2000... Silencing the Sounded Self: John Cage and the American Experimental Tradition. By Christopher Shultis. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1998. [xxiii, 180 p. ISBN 1-55553-377-9. $50.] Americans studying their own culture have always...

Samuel Beckett and the Arts: Music, Visual Arts, and Non-print Media.(Review)
March 1, 2000... Samuel Beckett and the Arts: Music, Visual Arts, and Non-print Media. Edited by Lois Oppenheim. (Border Crossings, 2.) New York: Garland Publishing, 1999. [xxi, 389 p. ISBN 0-8153-2527-4.$75.] Border Crossings is a new interdisciplinary...

A Question of Balance: Charles Seeger's Philosophy of Music.(Review)
March 1, 2000... A Question of Balance: Charles Seeger's Philosophy of Music. By Taylor Aitken Greer. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. [xv, 273 p. ISBN 0-520-21152-9. $55.] Given Charles Seeger's lifelong obsession with questions of balance,...

Recorded Music in American Life: The Phonograph and Popular Memory, 1890-1945.(Review)
March 1, 2000... Recorded Music in American Life: The Phonograph and Popular Memory, 1890-1945. By William Howland Kenney. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. [xix, 258 p. ISBN 0-19-510046-8. $45.] Focusing on the era of 78-rpm discs, jazz musician and...

Seize the Dance! BaAka Musical Life and the Ethnography of Performance.(Review)
March 1, 2000... Seize the Dance! BaAka Musical Life and the Ethnography of Performance. Michelle Kisliuk. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. [xiv, 241 p. + 2 compact discs. ISBN 0-19-511786-7. $55.] From the title, this book would appear to be an...

Maria Callas: Sacred Monster.(Review)
March 1, 2000... Maria Callas: Sacred Monster. By Stelios Galatopoulos. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1998. [ix, 564 p. 0-684-85985-8. $35.] Over two decades after her death in 1977 at age fifty-three, Maria Callas continues to be a figure of extraordinary...

Jane Hicks Gentry: A Singer among Singers.(Review)
March 1, 2000... Jane Hicks Gentry: A Singer among Singers. By Betty N. Smith. Lexington, Ky.: University of Kentucky Press, 1998. [xiv, 226 p. ISBN 0-8131-0936-1. $35 (pbk.).] Jane Gentry (1863-1925) farmed, ran a boarding house, and raised children in...

Fundamentals of Digital Audio.(Review)
March 1, 2000... Fundamentals of Digital Audio. By Alan P. Kefauver. (Computer Music and Digital Audio Series, 14.) Madison, Wis.: A-R Editions, 1999. [x, 174 p. ISBN 0-89579-405-5. $39.95 (pbk.).] Alan P. Kefauver's Fundamentals of Digital Audio is a slim...

NEW PERIODICALS.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2000... This semiannual column lists newly issued periodicals; describes their objectives, formats, and contents; and provides information about special issues, title and format changes, mergers, and cessations. British Journal of Ethnomusicology....

The Bulletin of Historical Research in Music Education.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2000... The Bulletin of Historical Research in Music Education became the Journal of Historical Research in Music Education (JHRME) with volume 21, number 1 in fall 1999. JHRME is owned and published by the School of Music at Arizona State University....

Computer Music Journal.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2000... Computer Music Journal (ISSN 0148-9267) is now available to subscribers electronically as well as in print. Electronic coverage began with volume 23, number 1 (21 June 1999). Subscribers must register for the electronic version which is found...

International Society of Bassists magazine.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2000... International Society of Bassists magazine (ISSN 0892-0532) became Bass World with volume 21, number 1 (1996). It is published three times a year.

Israel Studies in Musicology.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2000... Israel Studies in Musicology (ISSN 0334-2026) became Min-ad: Israel Studies in Musicology Online in summer 1999 after six volumes of print issues. It is available free of charge at http://www.biu.ac.il/hu/mu/ims/Min-ad.

New York Opera Newsletter.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2000... New York Opera Newsletter (ISSN 1043-2361) became Classical Singer with volume 11, number 9 (September 1998). It continues to be offered monthly except August.

The Seventeenth Century.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2000... The Seventeenth Century (ISSN 0268-117X) is now available online at http:// www.man.ac.uk/mup/. It is available free to institutional subscribers.

SPFM Newsletter.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2000... SPFM Newsletter became the Film Music Society Newsletter in September 1997. Information about the newsletter can be found at http://www.filmmusicsociety.org, the Web site of its sponsoring organization.

Ethiopian Christian Liturgical Chant.(Brief Article)(Review)
March 1, 2000... Ethiopian Christian Liturgical Chant: An Anthology. Edited by Kay Kaufman Shelemay and Peter Jeffery. (Recent Researches in the Oral Traditions of Music, 1-3.) Madison, Wis.: A-R Editions, c1993-97. [Vol. 1: General Introduction and...

Lou Harrison.(Brief Article)(Review)
March 1, 2000... Lou Harrison. Selected Keyboard and Chamber Music, 1937-1994. Edited by Leta E. Miller. (Recent Researches in American Music, 31.) (Music of the United States of America, 8.) Madison, Wis.: Published for the American Musicological Society by...

Paula Robison Flute Masterciass.(Brief Article)(Review)
March 1, 2000... Paula Robison Flute Masterciass: Music of Paul Hindemith. Book & CD recording with drawings by Paul Hindemith. Mainz: Schott, c1996. [Introd., p. 7; chronology and biography (Irna Priore), p. 8-9; foreword, p. 11; The 1920's (8 Pieces for Solo...

Claude Debussy.(Brief Article)(Review)
March 1, 2000... Claude Debussy. La mer. Edition de Marie Rolf. (CEuvres completes, ser. V, vol. 5.) (Musica gallica.) Paris: Durand, c1997. [Gen. pref. in Fr., Eng., p. ix; foreword, p. xi-xvii; bibliog., p. xix; score, 180 p.; abbrs., p. 181-83; crit. notes,...

Charles Hommann.(Brief Article)(Review)
March 1, 2000... Charles Hommann. Chamber Music for Strings. Edited by John Graziano and Joanne Swenson-Eldridge. (Recent Researches in American Music, 30.) Madison, Wis.: A-R Editions, c1998. [Introd. (the composer, the music of the edition, list of works by...

Franz Schubert.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2000... Franz Schubert. Lieder, Band 12. Vorgelegt von Walther Durr. Kassel: Barenreiter, c1996. (Neue Ausgabe samtlicher Werke, Ser. IV: Lieder, Bd. 12.) [Zur Edition, p. vii-viii; Vorwort, p. ix-xxix; facsims., p. xxx-xxxvi; score, 203 p.; Anhang, p....

Christoph Willibald Gluck.(Brief Article)(Review)
March 1, 2000... Christoph Willibald Gluck. Ipermestra (Venedig 1744): Dramma per musica in drei Akten von Pietro Metastasio. Hrsg. von Axel Beer. (Samtliche Werke, Abt. III: Italienische Opere serie und Opernserenaden, Bd. 6.) Kassel: Barenreiter, 1997....

Anthology of Renaissance Music.(Brief Article)(Review)
March 1, 2000... Anthology of Renaissance Music: Music in Western Europe, 1400-1600. Edited by Allan W. Atlas. New York: W. W. Norton, c1998. [Pref., p. ix; scores, p. 1-486; translations, p. 487-96. $31. Discography of works contained in vol. at...

INSTRUMENTAL ENSEMBLE MUSIC.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2000... Bernard Rands. "... sans voix parmi les voix . . .": for Flute, Viola, and Harp. [U.S.A.]: Helicon Music; sole agent: Valley Forge, Penn.: European American Music Distributors, c1995. [Score, 12 p. and 3 parts. EA 793. $24.95.] John...

Gyorgy Ligeti.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2000... Gyorgy Ligeti. Etudes pour piano, premier livre (1985). Final edition. Mainz: Schott, [1998], c1996. ISMN M-001-08329-6; ED 7989. [Note in Eng., Ger., 1 p.; score, p. 6-55. DM 36; duration: ca. 20'.] Gyorgy Ligeti. Etudes pour piano,...

Correction.(Brief Article)(Correction Notice)
March 1, 2000... At some point during the editorial process of Valerie Samson's review of Celestial Airs of Antiquity (Notes, June 1999, pp. 988-91), the English translation for the guqin piece Liushui on page 988, column 2, lines 6-7 was changed from the...

THE 2000-YEAR-OLD MUSIC LIBRARIAN.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2000... For the 1996 MLA Midwest Chapter meeting in South Bend, Indiana, I was asked to contribute to the chapter's fifty-fifth anniversary celebration by writing a short comedy sketch. I immediately thought of "The Two-Thousand-Year-Old Man," the...