Notes articles from March 2002

Notes archives from March 2002

A bibliographical footnote to Benton and Halley: Discovery of Jean-Baptiste Phillis's methode courte et facile.
March 1, 2002... Our late colleague Rita Benton is remembered and admired for her many accomplishments including a book entitled Pleyel as Music Publisher: A Documentary Sourcebook of Early-Nineteenth-Century Music, which was completed after her death by Jeanne...

The economics of information: DW3 and the case for creating a music megasite.
March 1, 2002... In recent years, the age-old library paradigm of every institution developing and maintaining its own collections has come under careful scrutiny--perhaps even attack--as issues of both budget and space have made cooperation among libraries and...

An early-seventeenth-century collection of sacred vocal music and its Augsburg connections.
March 1, 2002... Despite extensive study of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, relatively little is known about the repertories of specific churches of the time, and about how their music was acquired and used. One institution about which valuable...

Notes for notes.(various music library news)
March 1, 2002... The Scheide Music Library in the Woolworth Center for Musical Studies at Princeton University (Paula Matthews, Music Librarian) was renamed on 30 July 2001 the Arthur Mendel Music Library. Arthur Mendel served as chair of the Department of...

A Catalogue of Polyphonic Songs, 14 15--1480. (Book Reviews).
March 1, 2002... A Catalogue of Polyphonic Songs, 14 15--1480. By David Fallows. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. [vi, 777 p. ISBN 0-19-816291-X. $175.] From the very beginnings of his scholarly career, David Fallows has carried on what can only be...

Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians. (Book Reviews).
March 1, 2002... Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians. Centennial edition. Editor emeritus, Nicolas Slonimsky; Series advisory editor, Laura Kuhn. New York: Schirmer Books, 2001. [6 vols. ISBN 0-02-865525-7. $595.] Almost as interesting as new...

Comedy in Music: A Historical Bibliographical Resource Guide. (Book Reviews).
March 1, 2002... Comedy in Music: A Historical Bibliographical Resource Guide. By Enrique Alberto Arias. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2001. [234 p. ISBN 0-313-29980-3. $59.] It has been said that dying is easy, but comedy is hard. But what is really...

Dictionnaire musical des vines de province. (Book Reviews).
March 1, 2002... Dictionnaire musical des vines de province. By Francois Lesure. (Domaine musicologique.) Paris: Librarie C. I, 1999. [367 p. ISBN 2-252-03284-0. Fr 280.] Francois Lesure died 25 June 2001 at the age of 78. He was a prolific and respected...

Dizionario degli editori musicali italiani, 1750-1930. (Book Reviews).
March 1, 2002... Dizionario degli editori musicali italiani, 1750--1930. By Bianca Maria Antolini. Pisa: Edizioni ETS Societa Italiana di Musicologica, 2000. [427 p. ISBN 88-467-035-88. L 65,000.] This splendid directory of Italian music publishers needs to...

Lexikon Programmusik. (Book Reviews).
March 1, 2002... Lexikon Programmusik. By Klaus Schneider. Kassel: Barenreiter, 1999-2000. [Vol. 1, Stoffe und Motif. ISBN 3-7618-1431-3; Vol. 2, Figuren und Personen. ISBN 3-7618-1497-6. DM 146.] Most subject headings included in bibliographic records to...

America's Musical Life: A History. (Historical Topics).
March 1, 2002... America's Musical Life: A History. By Richard Crawford. New York: Norton, 2001. [xv, 976 p. ISBN 0-393-04810-1. $45.] The appearance of an ambitious history of American music by a scholar as distinguished as Richard Crawford is an eagerly...

Untwisting the Serpent: Modernism in Music, Literature, and Other Arts & Revealing Masks: Exotic Influences and Ritualized Performance in Modernist Musical Theater. (Historical Topics).
March 1, 2002... Untwisting the Serpent: Modernism in Music, Literature, and Other Arts. By Daniel Albright. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000. [xiv, 395 p. ISBN 0-226-01235-0. $70.] Revealing Masks: Exotic Influences and Ritualized Performance in...

Aspects of Orality and Formularity in Gegorian Chant. (Historical Topics).
March 1, 2002... Aspects of Orality and Formularity in Gegorian Chant. By Theodore Karp. Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern University Press, 1998. [xvii, 489 p. ISBN 0-8101-1238-8. $99.95.] Gregorian chant has long been a focus of musicological research, and...

Courtly Song in Late Sixteenth-Century France. (Historical Topics).
March 1, 2002... Courtly Song in Late Sixteenth-Century France. By Jeanice Brooks. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000. [xvi, 560 p. ISBN 0-226-07587-7. $80.] Although musicmaking at the French court in the late sixteenth century encompassed many...

Masqued Mysteries Unmasked: Early Modem Music Theater and Its Pythagorean Subtext. (Historical Topics).
March 1, 2002... Masqued Mysteries Unmasked: Early Modem Music Theater and Its Pythagorean Subtext. By Kristin Rygg. (Interplay, 1.) Hillsdale, N.Y.: Pendragon Press, 2000. [xxxix, 267 p. ISBN 0-945193-035-0. $45.] Kristin Rygg examines Pythagorean...

Music of the Baroque. (Historical Topics).
March 1, 2002... Music of the Baroque. By David Schulenberg. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. [2 vols. ISBN 0-19-512232-1 (hbk.). $39.95. ISBN 0-19-512233-X (Anthology of Scores). $35.] In Britain the idea of a single-authored published...

Western Music and its Others: Difference, Representations, and Appropriations in Music. (Cultural Topics).
March 1, 2002... Western Music and its Others: Difference, Representations, and Appropriations in Music. Edited by Georgina Born and David Hesmondhalgh. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2000. [xi, 360 p. ISBN 0-520-22083-8. $60 (hbk.);...

Music and Gender. (Cultural Topics).
March 1, 2002... Music and Gender. Edited by Pirkko Moisala and Beverley Diaraond. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2000. [xiii, 376 p. ISBN 0-252-06865-3. $24.95.] From Ellen Koskoff's pithy foreword to Marcia Herndon's posthumous...

The Free Fantasia and the Musical Picturesque. (Cultural Topics).
March 1, 2002... The Free Fantasia and the Musical Picturesque. By Annette Richards. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. [xiii, 256 p. ISBN 0-521-64077-6. $59.95.] This is a highly unusual book, one that persuasively views music in the context of...

Music in Lubavitcher Life. (Cultural Topics).
March 1, 2002... Music in Lubavitcher Life. By Ellen Koskoff. (Music in American Life.) Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2000. (225 p. ISBN 0-252-02591-1. $39.95.] The Hasidic rebbe (spiritual tcacher) Hillel of Parichi, Byelorussia, is...

The Lord's Song in a Strange Land: Music and Identity in Contemporary Jewish Worship. (Cultural Topics).
March 1, 2002... The Lord's Song in a Strange Land: Music and Identity in Contemporary Jewish Worship. By Jeffrey Summit. (American Musicspheres.) New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. [xiii, 203 p. + 1 CD. ISBN 0-19-511677-1. $29.95.] Jeffrey Summit, a...

Images: Iconography of Music in African-American Culture, 1770s-1920s. (Cultural Topics).
March 1, 2002... Images: Iconography of Music in African-American Culture, 1770s-1920s. By Eileen Southern and Josephine Wright. New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 2000. [xxiii, 299 p. ISBN 0-8153-2875-2. $95.00] While many facets of African American music...

Music and the Racial Imagination. (Cultural Topics).
March 1, 2002... Music and the Racial Imagination. Edited by Ronald Radano and Philip V. Bohlman. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000. [xv, 703 p. ISBN 0-226-70200-6. $29.] From its first line: "A specter lurks in the house of music, and it goes by...

Patterns in Play: A Model for Text Setting in the Early French Songs of Guillaume Dufay. (Composers).
March 1, 2002... Patterns in Play: A Model for Text Setting in the Early French Songs of Guillaume Dufay. By Graeme M. Boone. (American Musicological Society Monographs.) Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1999. [xi, 326 p. ISBN 0-8032-1235-6. $ 80.] ...

The Chansons of Orlando di Lasso: Music, Piety, and Print in Sixteenth-Century France. (Composers).
March 1, 2002... The Chansons of Orlando di Lasso: Music, Piety, and Print in Sixteenth-Century France. By Richard Freedman. (Eastman Studies in Music, 15.) Rochester, N.Y.: University of Rochester Press, 2001. [xxiv, 259 p. ISBN 1-58046-075-5. $75.] ...

Meilensteine der Bach-Interpretation 1750-2000: Eine Werkgeschichte im Wandel. (Composers).
March 1, 2002... Meilensteine der Bach-Interpretation 1750-2000: Eine Werkgeschichte im Wandel. By Martin Elste. Stuttgart and Weimar: Metzler; Kassel: Barenreiter, 2000. [xx, 460 P. + CD. ISBN 3-476-01714-1 (Metzler); 3-7618-1419-4 (Barenreiter). DM 78.] ...

"Mi vuoi tu corbellar"--Die Opere Ruffe von Giovanni Paisiello-- Analysen und Interpretationen. (Composers).
March 1, 2002... "Mi vuoi tu corbellar"--Die Opere Ruffe von Giovanni Paisiello-- Analysen und Interpretationen. By Christine Villinger. (Mainzer Studien zur Musikwissenschaft, 40.) Tutzing: Hans Schneider, 2000. [ix, 444 p. ISBN 3-7952-1020-8. DM 165.] ...

Returning Cycles: Contexts for the Interpretation of Schubert's Impromptus and Last Sonatas. (Composers).
March 1, 2002... Returning Cycles: Contexts for the Interpretation of Schubert's Impromptus and Last Sonatas. By Charles Fisk. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001. [xi, 308 p. ISBN 0-520-22564-.3. $45.] A volume devoted to detailed analytic...

The Cambridge Companion to Ravel. (Composers).
March 1, 2002... The Cambridge Companion to Ravel. Edited by Deborah Mawer. (Cambridge Companions to Music.) Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000. [xv, 294 p. ISBN 0-521-64026-1. $69.95 (hdb.); ISBN 0-521-64856-4. $24.95 (pbk.).] This...

The Atonal Music of Arnold Schoenberg 1908-1923. (Composers).
March 1, 2002... The Atonal Music of Arnold Schoenberg 1908-1923. By Bryan R. Simms. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. [ix, 265 p. ISBN 0-19512826-5. $49.95.] The music that Schoenberg wrote between his break with tonality and his...

Sibelius Studies. (Composers).
March 1, 2002... Sibelius Studies. Edited by Timothy L. Jackson and Veijo Muromaki. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001. (xx, 397 p. ISBN 0-521-62416-9. $74.95.] Like its companions in Cambridge University Press's continuing series of...

A Dictionary-Catalog of Modern British Composers. (Twentieth-Century British Composers).
March 1, 2002... A Dictionary-Catalog of Modern British Composers. By Alan Poulton. (Music Reference Collection, 82.) Westport, Conn.; London: Greenwood Press, 2000. [3 vols. (lxxvi, 1,700 p.) ISBN 0-313-31623-6 (set). $250.] Were I a gratuitously...

Gerhard on Music: Selected Writings. (Twentieth-Century British Composers).
March 1, 2002... Gerhard on Music: Selected Writings. Edited by Meirion Bowen. Aldershot, [Hants, England; Burlington, Vt.]: Ashgate Publishing, 2000. [xiv, 276 p. ISBN 0-7546-0009-2. $84.95.] The life of Roberto Gerhard (1896-1970), composer, journalist,...

Alan Rawsthorne: Portrait of a Composer. (Twentieth-Century British Composers).
March 1, 2002... Alan Rawsthorne: Portrait of a Composer. By John McCabe. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. [xvii, 311 p. + 1 CD. ISBN 0-19- 816693-1. $70.] The late 1990s witnessed a revival of interest in the English composer...

Lennox Berkeley: A Source Book. (Twentieth-Century British Composers).
March 1, 2002... Lennox Berkeley: A Source Book. By Stewart R. Craggs. Aldershot, Hants, England: Ashgate, 2000. [xii, 383 p. ISBN 0-85967-933-0. $99.95.] In one of the more ironic turns of the whirligig of time, the convenient designation "English Musical...

The Music of Harrison Birtwistle. (Twentieth-Century British Composers).
March 1, 2002... The Music of Harrison Birtwistle. By Robert Adlington. (Music in the Twentieth Century.) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. [xiv, 242 p. ISBN 0-521-63082-7. [pounds sterling]42.50.] The sixty-fifth birthday of Harrison Birtwistle...

Musical Ekphrasis: Composers Responding to Poetry and Painting. (Diverse Topics).
March 1, 2002... Musical Ekphrasis: Composers Responding to Poetry and Painting. By Siglind Bruhn. (Interplay, 2.) Hillsdale, N.Y.: Pendragon Press, 2000. [xxi, 667 p. ISBN 1-57642-036-9. $46.] Siglind Bruhn's subject inhabits a conceptual universe that is...

Training Soprano Voices. (Diverse Topics).
March 1, 2002... Training Soprano Voices. By Richard Miller. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. [177 p. ISBN 0-19-513018- 9. $20.] Richard Miller has been an active performer, vocal pedagogue and author for many years. Leafing through the pages of the...

Orgelfuhrer Europa. (Diverse Topics).
March 1, 2002... Orgelfuhrer Europa. By Karl-Heinz Gottert and Eckhard Isenberg. Kassel: Barenreiter, 2000. [175 P. ISBN 3-7618-1475-5. DM 48.] A recent essay by Timothy Garton Ash, entitled "The European Orchestra" (New York Review of Books 48 [17 May...

The Mozart Effect for Children: Awakening Your Child's Mind, Health, and Creativity with Music. (Diverse Topics).
March 1, 2002... The Mozart Effect[R] for Children: Awakening Your Child's Mind, Health, and Creativity with Music. By Don Campbell. New York: William Morrow; Harper Collins, 2000. [xiv, 263 p. ISBN: 0-380-97782-6. $25.] Over the last eight years there has...

Annual Review of Jazz Studies 9, 1997-98. (Diverse Topics).
March 1, 2002... Annual Review of Jazz Studies 9, 1997-98. Edited by Edward Berger, David Gayer, Henry Martin, and Dan Morgenstern. (Studies in Jazz.) Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, 2000. [viii, 416 p. ISBN 0-8103-3771-4. $69.50.] The ninth volume of the...

International Journal of Arts Management. (New Periodicals).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... International Journal of Arts Management. Editor: Francois Colbert. 3 issues per year. vol. 1, no. 1 (fall 1998). Subscription: International Journal of Arts Management, 3000, chemin de la Cote-Ste-Catherine, Montreal; (Quebec) H3T 2A7, Canada....

Newsletter of the Rebecca Clarke Society. (New Periodicals).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Newsletter of the Rebecca Clarke Society. Contact: info@rebeccaclarke.org. Semiannual. vol. 1, no. 1 (spring 2001). Subscription/Membership: Rebecca Clarke Society, Women's Studies Program, Mailstop 082, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA...

Early polyphony to 1300. (Sound Recording Reviews).
March 1, 2002... In mainstream western Christian Europe, music was originally monophony and liturgical music was chant--a single melodic line. Polyphony began when a second melodic line was added to chant at the consonant intervals of fourth, fifth and octave....

Arthur Sullivan. (Briefly Noted).(Arthur Sullivan)(Review)
March 1, 2002... Arthur Sullivan. The Golden Legend. New London Chorus & Orchestra, Ronald Corp. Hyperion CDA67280, 2001. Although he is primarily known for the incredibly popular operettas he composed in collaboration with librettist W. S. Gilbert, Arthur...

Arvo Part. (Briefly Noted).(Review)
March 1, 2002... Arvo Part. Johannes-Passion. Candomino Choir, Tauno Satomaa. Finlandia 8573-87182-2, 2001. The music of Arvo Part can be somewhat polarizing; recordings of his works sell well, but the critical commentary is less predictable. While many...

David Moritz Michael. (Briefly Noted).(Review)
March 1, 2002... David Moritz Michael. Parthien 10-14. Pacific Classical Winds. New World 805502, 2001. Born and raised in Germany, the Moravian composer David Moritz Michael moved in 1795 to Pennsylvania, where he served as a music director for the...

Matthew Locke. (Briefly Noted).(Review)
March 1, 2002... Matthew Locke. Consorts in Two Parts. Masques. Dorian DOR-90300, 2001. Given his relative obscurity in our time, it is easy to forget that at the peak of his career in the late 1660s, Matthew Locke was probably England's most prominent...

Tierney Sutton. (Briefly Noted).
March 1, 2002... Tierney Sutton. Blue in Green. Telarc Jazz CD-83522, 2001. Singer Tierney Sutton's debut (Introducing Tierney Sutton [Challenge 73111, 1998]) was a wonderful blast of fresh air; her voice is light, dry, and crystal-clear, yet her emotional...

James "Blood" Ulmer. (Briefly Noted).(Blue Blood)
March 1, 2002... James "Blood" Ulmer. Blue Blood. Innerhythmic INR-005, 2001. Having made a name for himself in the mainstream jazz world as a house guitarist at Minton's Playhouse in New York in the early 1970s, and then having grown in stature under the...

Ramones. (Briefly Noted).
March 1, 2002... Ramones. Ramones. Rhino/Warner Bros. R2 74306, 2001. The arguments over who invented punk rock are endless, and will probably never be fully resolved. The standard story line--according to which punk was born in England with the first Sex...

Kirsty MacColl. (Briefly Noted).
March 1, 2002... Kirsty MacColl. Tropical Brainstorm. Instinct INS 557-2, 2001. In folk-music terms, Kirsty MacCoIl was a child of royal birth. The daughter of the great British singer Ewan MacCoIl (composer of "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face") and...

Frank Profitt. (Briefly Noted).
March 1, 2002... Frank Profitt. Traditional Songs and Ballads of Appalachia. Folk-Legacy CD-1, 2001. The Folk-Legacy label began a reissue series in the mid-1990s, going back to its rich catalog of mostly New England and Maritime folk recordings and making...

Niney the Observer. (Briefly Noted).
March 1, 2002... Niney the Observer. Microphone Attack: 1974-78. Blood & Fire BAF CD 037, 2001. The roots of rap, which became a recognizable pop music subgenre in the United States around 1980, actually lie in Jamaica, where "chatting" or "toasting" over...

Georg Friedrich Handel. (Music Reviews).(Bibliography)
March 1, 2002... Georg Friedrich Handel. Aci, Galatea e Polifemo: Serenata a tre, HWV 72. Herausgegeben von Wolfgang Windszus unter Mitarbeit von Annerose Koch und Annette Landgraf. (Hallische Handel-Ausgabe, Ser. 1: Oratorien und gro[beta]e Kantaten, Bd. 5.)...

Orlando di Lasso. (Music Reviews).
March 1, 2002... Orlando di Lasso. II primo libro de mottetti a cinque et a sei voci (Antwerp, 1556). Edited by James Erb. (The Complete Motets, 1.) (Recent Researches in the Music of the Renaissance, 114.) Madison, Wisc.: A-R Editions, c1998. [Abbrevs., p....

Georg Rhau. (Music Reviews).
March 1, 2002... Georg Rhau. Officia de Nativitate, Wittenberg 1545. Herausgegeben von Franz Krautwurst. (Musikdrucke aus den Jahren 1538-1545 in praktischer Neuausgabe, 12.) Kassel: Barenreiter, 1999. [Pref. in Ger., Eng.: p. ix-xvi; facsims., p. xvii-xxi;...

John Dowland. (Music Reviews).
March 1, 2002... John Dowland. Ayres for Four Voices. Newly edited by David Greer. (Musica Britannica, 6 [new ed.].) London: Published for the Musica Britannica Trust by Stainer and Bell, 2000. [Gen. foreword, p. xix; introd., p. xxi-xxiii; editorial notes, p....

Johann Gottfried Walther. (Organ Music).
March 1, 2002... Johann Gottfried Walther. Samtliche Orgeiwerke. Herausgegeben von Klaus Beckmann. Wiesbaden: Breitkopf & Hartel, c1998-99. [Vol. 1: Freie Orgelwerke; Konzerttranskriptionen. Introd. in Ger., Eng., p. 4-7; score, p. 8-153; Revisionsbericht, p....

John Knowles Paine. (Organ Music).
March 1, 2002... John Knowles Paine. The Complete Organ Works. Edited by Wayne Leupold and Murray Forbes Somerville. (American Classic and Romantic Organ Music, 1-2.) Boston: Wayne Leupold Editions, Inc.; sole USA and Canadian selling agent: ECS Publishing,...

Communications.
March 1, 2002... 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...