Notes articles from March 2003

Notes archives from March 2003

Distant music: delivering audio over the Internet.(digitizing audio in academic libraries)
March 1, 2003... During the past two decades, the capacity of the personal computer to capture, store, deliver, and play sound has revolutionized audio services in libraries. The computer audio technology of the 1980s allowed librarians to begin transferring...

From Copenhagen and Paris: a Stravinsky photograph-autograph at the University of British Columbia.
March 1, 2003... Heeding a call in the introduction to my catalog of the new Stravinsky collection at the University of British Columbia (UBC) some nine months even before its publication, (1) and upon my recommendation, Kirsten Walsh, librarian of the...

A venetian world in letters: the Massi correspondence at the Hauptstaatsarchive in Hannover.(Critical Essay)
March 1, 2003... Although the northern German city of Hannover may seem an improbable place to look for sources on seventeenth-century Venetian opera, the Niedersachsische Hauptstaatsarchiv, nevertheless, holds a corpus of more than three hundred letters...

The American Institute of Musicology (AIM) has moved to the United States. (Notes for Notes).(A-R Editions, Inc. acquires assets from Hanssler Verlag)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... The American Institute of Musicology (AIM) has moved to the United States. On 17 July 2002, Paul L. Ranzini, the managing editor of A-R Editions, Inc., acquired the assets following a change in the strategic plans of Hanssler Verlag, the home...

Michigan State University Libraries (MSU) in East Lansing (Mary Black, Head, Fine Arts Library). (Notes for Notes).
March 1, 2003... Michigan State University Libraries (MSU) in East Lansing (Mary Black, Head, Fine Arts Library) reports that composers James Niblock and Wallace De Pue and choreographer Forrest W. Coggan have established their archives there. In addition, the...

Middlebury College (Jerry McBride, Music Librarian) has received a first edition of the vocal score of Jean-Baptiste Lully's Alceste. (Notes for Notes).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... Middlebury College (Jerry McBride, Music Librarian) has received a first edition of the vocal score of Jean-Baptiste Lully's Alceste (Paris: Printed by Henri de Baussen, 1708, RISM A/I: L2935) from Richard Gardner. The volume is from the first...

Notes staff news. (Notes for Notes).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... NOTES staff news. We welcome two editors to the staff with this issue. Alec McLane (Music Librarian and Director of the World Music Archives, Wesleyan University) is the new editor of the "Digital Media Reviews" column. He follows Stephen...

Anna Harriet Heyer died 12 August 2002 in Fort Worth, Texas, shortly before her 93d birthday. (Notes for Notes).(Obituary)
March 1, 2003... Anna Harriet Heyer died 12 August 2002 in Fort Worth, Texas, shortly before her 93d birthday. She came to Denton at the invitation of Wilfrid C. Ban in the fail of 1940 to create the music library at what is now the University of North Texas....

The Beatles as Musicians: The Quarry Men through Rubber Soul. (Book Reviews: Popular Musics).(Book Review)
March 1, 2003... The Beatles as Musicians: The Quarry Men through Rubber Soul. By Walter Everett. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. [xix, 452 p. ISBN 0-19-514104-0. $65 (hbk.); ISBN 0-19-514104-9. $24.95 (pbk.).] Music examples, maps, bibliography,...

Rock over the Edge: Transformations in Popular Music Culture. (Book Reviews: Popular Musics).(Book Review)
March 1, 2003... Rock over the Edge: Transformations in Popular Music Culture. Edited by Roger Beebe, Denise Fulbrook, and Ben Saunders. Durham, N. C.: Duke University Press, 2002. (392 p. ISBN 08223-2900-x. $64.94 (hbk.); ISBN 0-8223-2915-8.$22.95 (pbk.).]...

Yonder Come the Blues: The Evolution of a Genre. (Book Reviews: Popular Musics).(Book Review)
March 1, 2003... Yonder Come the Blues: The Evolution of a Genre. By Paul Oliver, Tony Russell, Robert M. W. Dixon, and others. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001. [xiii, 358 p. ISBN 0-521-78259-7. $65 (hbk.); ISBN 0-521-78777-7. $23 (pbk.).]...

World Musics in Context: A Comprehensive Survey of the World's Major Musical Cultures. (Book Reviews: Ethnomusicology).(Book Review)
March 1, 2003... World Musics in Context: A Comprehensive Survey of the World's Major Musical Cultures. By Peter Fletcher, with a Foreword by Laurence Picken. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. [xv, 734 P. ISBN 0-19-816636-2. $150.] Music examples,...

The Gamelan Digul and the Prison Camp Musician Who Built It. (Book Reviews: Ethnomusicology).(Book Review)
March 1, 2003... The Gamelan Digul and the Prison Camp Musician Who Built It. By Margaret J. Kartomi. Rochester, N.Y.: University of Rochester Press, 2001. [xxi, 123 p. ISBN 1-58046-088-7. $75.] Illustrations, bibliography, index, compact disc. The Gamelan...

Writing American Indian Music: Historic Transcriptions, Notations, and Arrangements. (Book Reviews: Ethnomusicology).(Book Review)
March 1, 2003... Writing American Indian Music: Historic Transcriptions, Notations, and Arrangements. Edited by Victoria Lindsay Levine. (Recent Researches in American Music, 44. Music of the United States of America, 11.) Madison, Wisc.: A-R Editions, 2002....

Rara! Vodou, Power, and Performance in Haiti and Its Diaspora. (Book Reviews: Ethnomusicology).(Book Review)
March 1, 2003... Rara! Vodou, Power, and Performance in Haiti and Its Diaspora. By Elizabeth McAlister. Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 2002. [xviii, 259 p. ISBN 0-520-22822-7. $60 (hbk.); ISBN 0-520-22822-7. $24.95 (pbk.).] Illustrations,...

From Spirituals to Symphonies: African-American Women Composers and Their Music. (Book Reviews: Composers).(Book Review)
March 1, 2003... From Spirituals to Symphonies: African-American Women Composers and Their Music. By Helen Walker-Hill. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2002. [xvi, 401 p. ISBN 0-313-29947-1. $94.95.] Illustrations, bibliography, index, discography. Helen...

Essential Cowell: Selected Writings on Music by Henry Cowell, 1921-1964. (Book Reviews: Composers).(Book Review)
March 1, 2003... Essential Cowell: Selected Writings on Music by Henry Cowell, 1921-1964. Edited by Dick Higgins. New York: McPherson, 2002. [345 p. ISBN 0-929701-63-1. $35.] Music examples, discography, index. Henry Cowell: Selected Writings, compiled by...

Clara Schumann: The Artist and the Woman. (Book Reviews: Composers).(Book Review)
March 1, 2003... Clara Schumann: The Artist and the Woman. By Nancy B. Reich. Revised ed. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2001. (xxvii, 385 p. ISBN 0-8014-3740-7. $50 (hbk.); ISBN 0-8014-8637-8. $21.95 (pbk.).] Illustrations, catalog of works,...

Heitor Vila-Lobos: A Life (1887-1959). (Book Reviews: Composers).(Book Review)
March 1, 2003... Heitor Vila-Lobos: A Life (1887-1959). By David P. Appleby. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, 2002. [xx, 201 p. ISBN 0-8108-4149-5. $39.95.] Illustrations, bibliography, index. "Tupi or not Tupi?" So queried the Brazilian writer Oswald de...

My Father. (Book Reviews: Composers).(Book Review)
March 1, 2003... My Father. By Peter Bartok. Homosassa, Fla.: Bartok Records, 2002. [iv, 331 p. ISBN 0-964-19612-3.) Music examples, illustrations. The term "canonization" applies to Bela Bartok in both senses of the word. First, he is one of the most...

Portrait of Percy Grainger. (Book Reviews: Composers).(Book Review)
March 1, 2003... Portrait of Percy Grainger. Edited by Malcolm Gillies and David Pear. (Eastman Studies in Music.) Rochester, N.Y.: University of Rochester Press, 2002. [xxxv, 220 p. ISBN 1-58046-087-9. $55.) Illustrations, bibliography, index. This is a...

Arnold Schoenberg's Journey. (Book Reviews: Composers).(Book Review)
March 1, 2003... Arnold Schoenberg's Journey. By Allen Shawn. New York: Farrar, Strauss, and Giroux, 2002. [xx, 340 p. ISBN 0-374-10590-1. $26.] Illustrations, bibliography, index. In the early 1920s, after a ten-year period (1913-23) of compositional...

The Early Works of Niels W. Gade: In Search of the Poetic. (Book Reviews: Composers).(Book Review)
March 1, 2003... The Early Works of Niels W. Gade: In Search of the Poetic. By Anna Harwell Celenza. Aldershot, Hant, England: Ashgate Publishing, 2001. [xvi, 251 p. ISBN 0-754-60401-2. $74.95.] Music examples, illustrations, bibliography, index. Along...

Handel as Orpheus: Voice and Desire in the Chamber Cantatas. (Book Reviews: Composers).(Book Review)
March 1, 2003... Handel as Orpheus: Voice and Desire in the Chamber Cantatas. By Ellen Harris. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2001. [xiv, 430 p. ISBN 0-674-00617-8. $39.95.] Music examples, illustrations, index. The study of Handel changed...

Gregorian and Old Roman Eighth-Mode Tracts: A Case Study in the Transmission of Western Chant. (Book Reviews: Diverse Topics).(Book Review)
March 1, 2003... Gregorian and Old Roman Eighth-Mode Tracts: A Case Study in the Transmission of Western Chant. By Emma Hornby. Aldershot, Hants, England: Ashgate, 2001. [xii, 401 p. ISBN 0-754-604244. $84.95.] Music examples, illustrations, facsimiles....

Holy Concord within Sacred Walls: Nuns and Music in Siena, 1575-1700. (Book Reviews: Diverse Topics).(Book Review)
March 1, 2003... Holy Concord within Sacred Walls: Nuns and Music in Siena, 1575-1700. By Colleen Reardon. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. [x, 289 p. ISBN 0-19-513295-5. $65.] Music examples, bibliography, index. The study of the musical activities...

Sweet Freedom's Song: "My Country 'Tis of Thee" and Democracy in America. (Book Reviews: Diverse Topics).
March 1, 2003... Sweet Freedom's Song: "My Country 'Tis of Thee" and Democracy in America. By Robert James Branham and Stephen J. Hartnett. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. [xii, 276 p. ISBN 0-19-513741-8. $29.95.] Illustrations, index. Americans...

Musical Meaning: Toward a Critical History. (Book Reviews: Diverse Topics).(Book Review)
March 1, 2003... Musical Meaning: Toward a Critical History. By Lawrence Kramer. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002. [ix, 335 p. ISBN 0-520-22824-3. $55. (hbk.); ISBN 0-520-23272-0. $22.50 (pbk.).] Compact disc, music examples, index. In...

The Letters of Arturo Toscanini. (Book Reviews: Diverse Topics).(Book Review)
March 1, 2003... The Letters of Arturo Toscanini. Compiled, edited, and translated by Harvey Sachs. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2002. [xxiii, 468 p. ISBN 0-375-40405-8. $35.] Illustrations, index. Harvey Sachs's collection of letters provides an ideal way to...

A Basic Course in Music Composition. (Book Reviews: Diverse Topics).(Book Review)
March 1, 2003... A Basic Course in Music Composition. By Ralph Shapey. King of Prussia, Pa.: Theodore Presser, 2001. [31 p. ISBN 0-417-41035. $10.] Music examples. Ralph Shapey (1921-2002) is probably best known to the world as an iconoclastic...

The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music. (Book Reviews: Reference Books).(Book Review)
March 1, 2003... The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music. Volume 6: The Middle Last. Edited by Virginia Danielson, Scott Marcus, and Dwight Reynolds. New York: Routledge, 2001. [xvii, 1,182 p. ISBN 0-824-06042-3. $250.] Compact disc, music examples,...

The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music. (Book Reviews: Reference Books).(Book Review)
March 1, 2003... The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music. Volume 7: East Asia: China, Japan, and Korea. Edited by Robert C. Provine, Yosihiko Tokumaru, and J. Lawrence Witzleben. New York: Routledge, 2002. [xxxv, 1,152 p. ISBN 0-824-06041-0. $250.] Compact...

The Tchaikovsky Handbook: A Guide to the Man and His Music. (Book Reviews: Reference Books).(Book Review)
March 1, 2003... The Tchaikovsky Handbook: A Guide to the Man and His Music. Compiled by Alexander Poznansky and Brett Langston. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2002. [2 vols. 1,572 p. ISBN 0-253-33921-9 (vol. 1); 0-25333947-2 (vol. 2). $270.1 Music...

Their Championship Seasons: Acquiring, Processing, and Using Performing Arts Archives. (Book Reviews: Reference Books).(Book Review)
March 1, 2003... Their Championship Seasons: Acquiring, Processing, and Using Performing Arts Archives, Edited by Kevin Winkler. (Performing Arts Resources, 22.) New York: Theatre Library Association, 2001. [142 p. ISBN 0-932-61019-6. $30.] The genre of...

Das deutsche Kirchenlied: Kritische Gesamtausgabe der Melodien. (Book Reviews: Reference Books).(Book Review)
March 1, 2003... Das deutsche Kirchenlied: Kritische Gesamtausgabe der Melodien. Abteilung III: Die Melodien aus edruckten Quellen bis 1680. Edited by the Gesellschaft zur wissenschaftlichen Edition des deutschen Kirchenlieds. Band 1: Die Melodien his 1570,...

New periodicals.(Bibliography)
March 1, 2003... 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. Arts and Humanities in Higher...

The Hymn Tune Index. (Digital Media Reviews).(Audiovisual Review)
March 1, 2003... The Hymn Tune Index. By Nicholas Temperley. Charles G. Manns, associate editor. Database and interface design by Joseph Herl and David Zeiders. http://hymntune.music.uiuc.edu. [Requires standard Web browser. Free.] Hymntune Index and...

A discography of Beethoven's chamber music--everything but the string quartets. (Sound Recording Reviews).
March 1, 2003... Ludwig van Beethoven is such a universally revered composer that recordings of his works form a significant part of most classical recording collections. While many discographies of Beethoven's music have highlighted the numerous excellent...

Missa Mexicana. (Briefly Noted).(Sound Recording Review)
March 1, 2003... Missa Mexicana. Harp Consort/Andrew Lawrence-King. Harmonia Mundi HMU 907293, 2002. In 1622, the Spanish composer Juan Gutierrez de Padilla relocated to the Mexican city of Puebla de los Angeles to assume the post of cantor and assistant...

Arias for Farinelli. (Briefly Noted).(Sound Recording Review)
March 1, 2003... Arias for Farinelli. Akademie fur Alte Musik Berlin; Vivica Genaux/Rene Jacobs. Harmonia Mundi HMC 901778, 2002. Popular interest in baroque music written for castrati hit a brief peak in 1994 with the release of the hit film Farinelli, a...

Johann Sebastian Bach. (Briefly Noted).(Sound Recording Review)
March 1, 2003... Johann Sebastian Bach. Sonatas for Flute and Fortepiano. Partita for Solo Flute. Susan Rotholz; Kenneth Cooper. Bridge 9115A/B, 2002. There is nothing especially startling about the presence of a fortepiano on a recording of Bach's flute...

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. (Briefly Noted).(Sound Recording Review)
March 1, 2003... Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Violin Concertos 1, 3, & 4. Viktoria Mullova; Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. Philips 289 470 292-2, 2002. For this delightful new recording of Mozart's much-loved violin concertos, the young Russian...

Gustav Mahler. Symphony no. 6. Alban Berg. Three Pieces for Orchestra. Franz Schubert. (Briefy Noted).(Sound Recording Review)
March 1, 2003... Gustav Mahler. Symphony no. 6. Alban Berg. Three Pieces for Orchestra. Franz Schubert. Andante in B Minor. SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden und Freiburg/Michael Gielen. Hanssler Classic CD 93.029, 2001. This idiosyncratic compilation...

Gabriel Faure. (Briefy Noted).(Nocturnes)(Sound Recording Review)
March 1, 2003... Gabriel Faure. Nocturnes. Sally Pinkas. Musica Omnia MO 0109, 2002. For a window on Gabriel Faure's growth and development as a composer of piano music, one could hardly do better than listen sequentially to all of his nocturnes. These were...

Daniel Gregory Mason. (Briefly Noted).(Sonata in G Minor for Violin and Piano, Op. 5; Sonata in C Minor for Violin and Piano, Op. 14)(Frederick Shepherd Converse. Sonata in A Major for Violin and Piano, Op. 1)(Sound Recording Review)
March 1, 2003... Daniel Gregory Mason. Sonata in G Minor for Violin and Piano, Op. 5; Sonata in C Minor for Violin and Piano, Op. 14. Frederick Shepherd Converse. Sonata in A Major for Violin and Piano, Op. 1. Kevin Lawrence; Phillip Bush. New World 80591-2,...

The Quintet. (Briefly Noted).(Jazz at Massey Hall)(Sound Recording Review)
March 1, 2003... The Quintet. Jazz at Massey Hall. Debut/Original Jazz Classics DCD-1244, 2002. The Quintet is an oddly generic name for a jazz ensemble, but it was probably the only one that would work politically in this ease: in 1953, when this concert...

Eden Atwood. (Briefly Noted).(Waves: The Bossa Nova Session)(Sound Recording Review)
March 1, 2003... Eden Atwood, Waves: The Bossa Nova Session. Groove Note GRV1012-2, 2002. Singer Eden Atwood's return to the studio follows a six-year absence, during which her already impressive skills have only deepened and matured. This album is billed...

Kerry Politzer Trio. (Briefly Noted).(Watercolor)(Sound Recording Review)
March 1, 2003... Kerry Politzer Trio. Watercolor. Polisonic 01, 2002. On her second album, pianist Kerry Politzer strips things down, foregoing vocals and limiting her accompaniment to drums and bass. As always, her compositions are complex and impressive:...

156 Strings: Nineteen Totally Original Acoustic Guitarists. (Briefly Noted).(Sound Recording Review)
March 1, 2003... 156 Strings: Nineteen Totally Original Acoustic Guitarists. Cuneiform 163, 2002. Henry Kaiser is one of the elder statesmen of avant-garde guitar, having played and recorded with such artists as Fred Frith, Diamanda Galas, Eugene...

Oingo Boingo. (Briefly Noted).(Best of Oingo Boingo: The Millenium Collection)(Sound Recording Review)
March 1, 2003... Oingo Boingo. Best of Oingo Boingo: The Millenium Collection. MCA 088 113 020-2, 2002. Written off early and often by critics who were offended by their smug wit, occasionally right-wing lyrical viewpoint, and cluttered, chaotic production...

Harry Partch. (Music Reviews).(Harry Partch. Barstow: Eight Hitchhiker Inscriptions from a Highway Railing at Barstow, California (1968 Version))(Book Review)
March 1, 2003... Harry Partch. Barstow: Eight Hitchhiker Inscriptions from a Highway Railing at Barstow, California (1968 Version). Edited by Richard Kassel. (Recent Researches in American Music, 39.) (Music of the United States of America, 9.) Madison, Wisc.:...

Ludwig van Beethoven. (Music Reviews).(Missa solemnis)(Book Review)
March 1, 2003... Ludwig van Beethoven. Missa solemnis. Herausgegeben von Norbert Gertsch. (Werke, ser. 8, vol. 3.) (Veroffentlichungen des Beethoven-Hauses Bonn.) Munich: G. Henle, c2000. [Vorwort, p. vii-viii; Zum vorliegenden Band, p. ix-xii; score, p. 1-263;...

The Si Placet Repertoire of 1480-1530. (Music Reviews).(Book Review)
March 1, 2003... The Si Placet Repertoire of 1480-1530. Edited by Stephen Self. (Recent Researches in the Music of the Renaissance, 106.) Madison, Wisc.: A-R Editions, Inc., c1996. [Acknowledgments, p. vi; introd., p. vii-xii; text and trans., p. xiii-xv; 2...

Alfonso Fontanelli. (Music Reviews).(Book Review)
March 1, 2003... Alfonso Fontanelli. Complete Madrigals. Edited by Anthony Newcomb. (Recent Researches in the Music of the Renaissance, 119, 121.) Madison, Wisc.: A-R Editions, c1999-2000. [Part 1: Primo libro di madregali a cinque voci (Ferrara, 1595)....

Rudolph di Lasso. (Music Reviews).(Book Review)
March 1, 2003... Rudolph di Lasso. Virginalia Eucharistica (1615). Edited by Alexander J. Fisher. (Recent Researches in the Music of the Baroque Era, 1114.) Middleton, Wisc.: A-R Editions, Inc., c2002 [Acknowledgments, p. vii; introd., p. ix-xiv; texts and...

Georg Philipp Telemann. (Music Reviews).(Seliges Erwagen: Passionsoratorium in neun Betrachtrungen)(Book Review)
March 1, 2003... Georg Philipp Telemann. Seliges Erwagen: Passionsoratorium in neun Betrachtrungen, TWV 5:2 Herausgegeben von Ute Poetzsch. (Musikalische Werke, 33.) Kassel: Barenreiter, 2001. [Zur Ausgabe, p. vii; Vorwort, p. viii-xxi; Krit. Bericht, p....

Louise Farrenc. (Music Reviews).(Book Review)
March 1, 2003... Louise Farrenc. Symphonie Nr. 1 c-Moll op. 32. Vorgelegt von Katharina Herwig. (Kritische Ausgabe Orchester- und Kammermusik sowie ausgewahlte Klavierwerke, vol. I/1.) Wilhelmshaven: Florian Noetzel Verlag, "Ars Musica"; sole agents: Glendale,...

Music received.(Bibliography)
March 1, 2003... A key to abbreviated imprints is found at the end of this column. For more information about the content and arrangement of this list, consult the introduction to the column in the September 2002 issue (p. 177 of this volume). SCHOLARLY &...