Notes articles from March 2004

Notes archives from March 2004

A tribute from Johannes Eccard to Orlando Di Lasso at Concordia Seminary, St. Louis.
March 1, 2004... A few years ago the library of Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, Missouri, obtained an unusual copy of the 1590 second edition of Icones sire Imagines virorum literis illustrium by Nicolaus Reusner (1545-1602). (1) It contains many blank leaves...

Information literacy and the music library.
March 1, 2004... Over the past two decades we have experienced an information explosion coupled with leaping advances in technology which have provided broader access to various information resources. The challenge posed by broader access and proliferation of...

Warp, weft, and waffle: weaving information literacy into an undergraduate music curriculum.
March 1, 2004... I have had the privilege of working with bibliographic instruction and information literacy at St. Olaf College for more than twenty years. (1) As a liberal arts college, our institution has always been committed to the concept of lifelong...

Info lit and the diva: integrating information literacy into the Oberlin Conservatory of Music opera theater department.
March 1, 2004... The teacher wondered... what the problem was. (1) Her students had been having such difficulties with finding research materials for their papers. Perhaps it was the assignments themselves, which were admittedly quite demanding of their...

The Music Library Association is pleased to announce the receipt by the MLA Archives of primary source materials.(Notes For Notes)
March 1, 2004... The Music Library Association is pleased to announce the receipt by the MLA Archives of primary source materials from the landmark publication Resources of American Music History: A Directory of Source Materials from Colonial Times to World War...

The Metropolitan Opera Guild has placed on deposit at the Pierpont Morgan Library.(Notes For Notes)
March 1, 2004... The Metropolitan Opera Guild has placed on deposit at the Pierpont Morgan Library (J. Rigbie Turner, Mary Flagler Cary Curator of Music Manuscripts and Books) nearly fifty of its most valuable music manuscripts and letters. Among the autograph...

Eric Moe, senior composer on the music faculty at the University of Pittsburgh.(Notes For Notes)
March 1, 2004... Eric Moe, senior composer on the music faculty at the University of Pittsburgh, has donated his music manuscripts to the university's Theodore M. Finney Music Library (James P. Cassaro, Head Librarian). The collection includes sketches, fair...

The Special Collections Department of the University of South Florida in Tampa.(Notes For Notes)
March 1, 2004... The Special Collections Department of the University of South Florida in Tampa (Lorel Reinstrom, Special Collections Cataloger), has recently received two collections of interest to music researchers and scholars. Dr. Benjamin Suchoff and Dr....

In September 2003, East Carolina University (ECU; David Hursh, Head Music Librarian).(Notes For Notes)
March 1, 2004... In September 2003, East Carolina University (ECU; David Hursh, Head Music Librarian) received the compact disc collection of past ECU music professor David Serrins. This well-rounded collection of approximately one thousand titles is notable...

Over this past summer, dance materials were transferred from Princeton University's Firestone Library to the Mendel Music Library.(Notes For Notes)
March 1, 2004... Over this past summer, dance materials were transferred from Princeton University's Firestone Library to the Mendel Music Library in the Woolworth Center for Musical Studies (Paula Matthews, Librarian). These books, reference materials,...

Harry L. Kownatsky, formerly curator of the Fleisher Collection of Orchestral Music.(Notes For Notes)(Obituary)
March 1, 2004... Harry L. Kownatsky, formerly curator of the Fleisher Collection of Orchestral Music housed in the Free Library of Philadelphia, died 23 June 2003 in Philadelphia, one day before his eighty-ninth birthday. Except for his military service during...

Proof Through the Night: Music and the Great War.(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... By Glenn Watkins. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003. [xvi, 598 p. ISBN 0-520-23158-9. $49.95.] Music examples, illustrations, bibliography, index, compact disc. Composers, soldiers, politicians, citizens, and musicians left...

The Modern Invention of Medieval Music: Scholarship, Ideology, Performance.(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... By Daniel Leech-Wilkinson. (Musical Performance and Reception.) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. [xi, 335 p. ISBN 0-521-81870-2. $65.] Music examples, illustration, bibliography, index. The Modern Invention of Medieval Music is...

Palestrina and the German Romantic Imagination: Interpreting Historicism in Nineteenth-Century Music.(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... By James Garratt. (Musical Performance and Reception.) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. [xiv, 318 p. ISBN 0-521-80737-9. $70.] Music examples, bibliography, index. For many years, scholars customarily outlined the history of...

Motives for Allusion: Context and Content in Nineteenth-Century Music.(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... By Christopher Alan Reynolds. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2003. [xii, 230 p. ISBN 0-674-01037-X. $45.] Music examples, index. Motives for Allusion plumbs two difficult questions: what constitutes a musical allusion, and--the...

Nordic Art Music: From the Middle Ages to the Third Millennium.(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... By Frederick Key Smith. Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 2002. [xviii, 193 p. ISBN 0-275-97399-9. $64.95.] Bibliography, discography, index. The term "Nordic" comes from the political and historic ties between the countries of Norway,...

Intereulturalite, intertextualite: les livrets d'opera (fin XIXe-debut XXe siecle).(Review)
March 1, 2004... Edited by Walter Zidaric. Nantes: Universite de Nantes, 2003. [320 p. ISBN 2-86939-189-7. 20 [euro].] Music examples. From conference to published proceedings in less than a year, timeliness uncharacteristic of our field, Walter Zidaric has...

Cambridge Companion to Blues and Gospel Music.(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... Edited by Allan Moore. (Cambridge Companions to Music.) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. [xviii, 208 p. ISBN 0-521-90635-6. $60. (hbk.); ISBN 0-521-00107-2. $22. (pbk.).] Music examples, illustrations, bibliography, discography,...

Gyorgy Ligeti: Music of the Imagination.(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... By Richard Steinitz. London: Faber and Faber; Boston: Northeastern University Press, 2003. [xvii, 499 p. ISBN 1-55553-551-8. $35.] Music examples, illustrations, glossary, discography, bibliography, index. Prior to this book by Richard...

Vaughan Williams Essays.(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... Edited by Byron Adams and Robin Wells. Aldershot, Hants, Eng.: Ashgate, 2003. [xxii, 280 p. 1-85928-387-X. $84.95.] Music examples, illustrations, bibliography, index. The eleven contributors to this volume of essays have all been Ralph...

The Mendelssohns: Their Music in History.(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... Edited by John Michael Cooper and Julie D. Prandi. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. [xxii, 382 p. ISBN 0-19-816723-7. $98.] Music examples, illustrations, bibliography, indexes. The Mendelssohns: Their Music in History is a...

A Portrait of Mendelssohn.(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... By Clive Brown. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003). [xxxiii, 551 p. ISBN 0-300-09539-2. $45.] Illustrations, bibliography, index. Mendelssohn scholars are usually loathe to recommend a biography of the composer. Eric Werner's...

Carl Maria von Weber and the Search for a German Opera.(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... By Stephen C. Meyer. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2003. [xii, 253 p. ISBN 0-253-34185-X. $39.95.] Music examples, illustrations, appendices, bibliography, index. The title of Stephen Meyer's book hints at one of the problems...

A History of Performing Pitch: The Story of "A".(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... By Bruce Haynes. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 9002. [lvi, 578 p. ISBN 0-8108-4185-1. $80.] Illustrations, graphs, bibliography, index. The relationship of musical composition and performance to the notion of an absolute pitch standard is...

Songs of a Kaumatua Sung by Kino Hughes.(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... By Mervyn McLean and Margaret Orbell. Auckland, New Zealand: Auckland University Press, 2002. [xii, 278 p. ISBN 1-86940-258-8. $59.95 (pbk.).] Music examples, bibliography, indexes, 2 compact discs. By example rather than rhetoric, Mervyn...

The Amazing Secret History of Elmore James.(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... By Steve Franz. St. Louis, MO: BlueSource Publications, 2002. [xv, 328 p. ISBN 0-9718038-1-1. $40 (pbk.).] Available from: BlueSource Publications, PO Box 20074, St. Louis, MO 63144-0074. Illustrations, bibliography, indexes. Elmore James...

Rudolf Serkin, A Life.(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... By Stephen Lehmann and Marion Faber. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2003. [xii, 332 p. ISBN 0-19-513046-4. $35.] Illustrations, discography, bibliography, index, compact disc. The first piano recital that I ever attended was given by...

Lost in the Stars: The Forgotten Musical Life of Alexander Siloti.(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... By Charles F. Barber. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2002. [xix, 429 p. ISBN 0-8108-4108-8. $49.95.] Music examples, illustrations, bibliography, discograpy, personalia, index, compact disc. The Weimar studio of Franz Liszt attracted untold...

The Honolulu Symphony: A Century of Music.(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... By Dale E. Hall. Honolulu, HI: Goodale Publishing, 2002. [xvi, 224 p. ISBN 0-9662945-6-4. $39.95.] Illustrations, index. While some social critics may question its relevance in modern society, the symphony orchestra, and the musicians who...

Gegeven den Sangeren: Meerstemmige muziek bij de Illustre Lieve Vrouwe Broederschap te 's-Hertogenbosch in de zestiende eeuw.(Review)
March 1, 2004... By Veronique Roelvink. s-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands: Adr. Heinen, 2002. [376 p. ISBN 9070706555. 36.50 [euro].] Music examples, illustrations, bibliography, compact disc. Although only a small part of the Renaissance music produced in the...

Seventeenth-Century British Keyboard Sources.(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... By Candace Bailey. (Detroit Studies in Music Bibliography, 83.) Warren, MI: Harmonie Park Press, 2003. [xiii, 151 p. ISBN 0-89990-113-1. $42.50.] Music examples, illustrations, bibliography, index. This volume is a welcome addition to the...

Caruso Records.(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... By John R. Bolig. Highlands Ranch, CO: Mainspring Press, 2002. [x, 206 p. ISBN 0-95718193-3. $49.] Illustrations, indexes. John R. Bolig is a seasoned discographer of the recordings of the Italian tenor Enrico Caruso. In 1973 he published...

Women and Music in America Since 1900: An Encyclopedia.(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... Edited by Kristine H. Burns. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2002. 2 vols. [xxx, 747 p. ISBN 1-57356-267-X (set). $150; ISBN 1-57356-308-0 (v.1). $74.95; ISBN 1-57356-309-9 (v.2). $74.95.] With the impact of feminist study on historical and...

A History of the Trump in Pictures: Europe and America.(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... By Frederick Crane. Mt. Pleasant, IA: 2003. [iv, 182 p. No ISBN. $22.] Available from: Frederick Crane, 601 N. White St., Mt. Pleasant, IA 53641. Illustrations, iconography, bibliography. The silly title notwithstanding, the...

Television Opera: The Fall of Opera Commissioned for Television.(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... By Jennifer Barnes. Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK: Boydell & Brewer, 2003. [x, 124 p. ISBN 0-85115-912-5. $60.] Illustrations, facsimiles, bibliography, index. Since the advent of the age of mechanical reproduction, opera production has...

Introduction to Audio.(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... By Peter Utz. (The Computer Music and Digital Audio Series, 20.) Middleton, WI: A-R Editions, Inc., 2003. [xii, 268 p. ISBN 0-89579-512-4. $36.95.] Illustrations, glossary, index. Established in 1985 by founding editor John Strawn, A-R...

Books recently published.
March 1, 2004... For information about the scope of this column, consult the headnote in the September 2003 issue (p. 194 of this volume). ENGLISH Abt, John L. The biography of Valentine Abt: mandolin and harp virtuoso, composer, and teacher,...

Remix.(Review)
March 1, 2004... Edited by John Pledger. Quarterly (through vol. 2, no. 4 [Fall 2000]); monthly (starting vol. 3, no. 1 [January 2001]). Vol. 1 (1999). Reviewed: Vol. 3, no. 9 (September 2001) through vol. 5, no. 10 (October 2003). Subscription: PO Box 2044,...

eStand[TM] Electronic Music Stand.
March 1, 2004... Stand-alone electronic score display device, available in several models. $4,500-$12,000 list price, eStand, Inc., Skokie, Ill. http://www.estand.com. For the past year eStand, Inc. has been marketing an innovation with the potential to...

The French Violin School: from Viotti to Beriot.
March 1, 2004... In 1782, a young Italian violinist debuted at the Concert spirituel in Paris. His name was Giovanni Battista Viotti and he had recently toured Europe with his teacher Gaetano Pugnani. His concerts were a revelation, and have influenced violin...

Antoine Brumel. Missa Et ecce terrae motus.(Review)
March 1, 2004... Ensemble Clement Janequin; Les Sacqueboutiers de Toulouse/ Dominique Visse. Harmonia Mundi HMC 901738, 2003. As a pupil of Josquin Desprez and a prominent exponent of the dense and virtuosic style of choral writing associated with the...

Andreas Hammerschmidt. Sacred works.(Sound Recording Review)
March 1, 2004... Weser-Renaissance/Manfred Cordes. CPO 999 846-2, 2003. Although documentary evidence exists to indicate that Heinrich Schutz admired his work and encouraged him in it, no one knows who Andreas Hammerschmidt's teachers were or where he...

Bachanalia: Instrumental Music of the Bach Family.(Sound Recording Review)
March 1, 2004... Hanoverian Ensemble. Musicians Showcase MS1082, n.d. [rec. 2001]. Johann Sebastian Bach cast an enormous musical shadow in his own time and after his death by virtue of his towering musical oeuvre, but that shadow was lengthened even...

Fugue Around the Clock.(Sound Recording Review)
March 1, 2004... Amsterdam Loeki Stardust Quartet. Channel Classics CCS 19498, 2003. The Amsterdam Loeki Stardust Quartet is to the recorder consort something like what the Kronos Quartet has been to the string quartet--a group willing both to celebrate the...

Lera Auerbach. 24 Preludes for Violin and Piano.(Sound Recording Review)
March 1, 2004... T'filah. Postlude. Vadim Guzman; Angela Yoffe. BIS CD 1242, 2003. The prodigiously talented composer, pianist, prose author, and poet Lera Auerbach, a native of Chelyabinsk, Russia, defected to the United States during the collapse of the...

Philip Glass. Heroes, Low Symphonies.(Sound Recording Review)
March 1, 2004... American Composers Orchestra; Brooklyn Philharmonic Orchestra/ Dennis Russell Davies. Philips B0000840-2, 2003. Philip Glass, David Bowie, and Brian Eno represent an almost irresistible marketing triumverate: the label that manages to...

Thelonious Monk. Criss-Cross.(It's Monk Time)(Underground)(Sound Recording Review)
March 1, 2004... Thelonious Monk. Criss-Cross. Columbia CK 63537, 2003. Thelonious Monk. It's Monk's Time. Columbia CK 63532, 2003. Thelonious Monk. Underground. Columbia CK 63535, 2003. By the beginning of the 1960s, jazz critics had almost...

Modern Jazz Quartet.(Sound Recording Review)
March 1, 2004... The Complete Modern Jazz Quartet Prestige & Pablo Recordings. Prestige/Pablo 4PRCD-4438-2, 2003. The Modern Jazz Quartet is not single-handedly responsible for turning jazz from a popular dance music into an elite concert music. By the...

Flutology.(Sound Recording Review)
March 1, 2004... First Date. Capri 74060-2, 2003. The "summit session"--in which several prominent players of a single instrument get together to make a recording as a temporary ensemble--has a long and dignified history in jazz. The sextet that calls...

Le Vente du Nord.(Sound Recording Review)
March 1, 2004... Maudite Moisson! Borealis BCD 151, 2003. Le Vente du Nord is something of a Quebecois supergroup--it includes former members of such respected (even legendary) traditional and neotraditional ensembles as La Bottine Souriante, Ad Vielle Que...

David Byrne. Lead Us Not into Temptation: Music from the Film Young Adam.(Sound Recording Review)
March 1, 2004... Thrill Jockey 133, 2003. David Byrne, founding member of Talking Heads and peripatetic solo artist, has worked on film music before, notably for the movies The Last Emperor and Married to the Mob, and has written scores for various...

Music publishers' catalogs.
March 1, 2004... For information about the scope of this column, consult the headnote in the September 2003 issue (p. 259 of this volume). All Web sites accessed 25 November 2003. Akademische Druck- und Verlagsanstalt, Schongaugasse 6, A-8010 Graz,...

Thomas Fritsch. Novum et insigne opus musicum (Breslau 1620).(Review)
March 1, 2004... Herausgegeben von Rudolf Walter. (Das Erbe deutscher Musik. Sonderreihe, 9-10.) Kassel: Barenreiter, c2002. [Teil I: Nr. 1-60. Vorwort, p. vii-ix; plates, p. x-xi; score, 378 p. Cloth. ISMN M-006-01808-6. 410 [euro]. Teil II: Nr. 61-119. Score,...

Claudio Monteverdi. The Third Book of Madrigals for Five Voices (Apt for Voices, Viols and Recorders).
March 1, 2004... Claudio Monteverdi. The Third Book of Madrigals for Five Voices (Apt for Voices, Viols and Recorders). Edited by Richard Charteris. (Viol Consort Series, 34.) Albany, CA: PRB Productions, c2000. [Acknowledgments, 1 p.; plates, p. iii-iv; table...

Giovanthomaso Cimello. The Collected Secular Works: Canzone villanesche al modo napolitano (1545).(Libro primo de canti a quatro voci (1548))(Primo libro de madrigali a cinque voci)(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... Giovanthomaso Cimello. The Collected Secular Works: Canzone villanesche al modo napolitano (1545), edited by Donna G. Cardamone; Libro primo de canti a quatro voci (1548), edited by James Haar. (Recent Researches in the Music of the...

Johannes Martini. Masses. Edited by Elaine Moohan and Murray Steib.(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... (Recent Researches in the Music of the Middle Ages and Early Renaissance, 34-35.) Madison, WI: A-R Editions, c1999. [Pt. 1: Masses without Known Polyphonic Models. Acknowledgments, p. vi; introd., p. vii-xxiii; 4 plates; score, 243 p.; crit....

Olivier Messiaen. Eclairs sur l'au-dela ... pour grand orchestre [1991].
March 1, 2004... Olivier Messiaen. Eclairs sur l'au-dela... pour grand orchestre [1991]. Full score. Paris: Editions musicales Alphonse Leduc (T. Presser), c1998. [Premiere partie, nos. I a VI: instrumentation, 1 p.; list of performances, 1 p.; notes by Yvonne...

Alec Wilder. Suite for Horn and Piano [1956].(Suite (Twelve Duets) for Horn and Tuba)(Horn Sonata)(Horn! for Horn in F and Piano.)(Review)
March 1, 2004... Alec Wilder. Suite for Horn and Piano [1956]. Newton Centre, MA: Margun Music, c1964. [About the composer, 1 p.; score, p. 3-20; and part. Pub. no. MM111. Duration, 11 min. $16.] Alec Wilder. Suite (Twelve Duets) for Horn and Tuba [1978]....

Sergio Assad. Jobiniana no. 3 pour guitare.
March 1, 2004... Sergio Assad. Jobiniana no. 3 pour guitare. (Collection Sergio Assad.) Paris: Editions Henry Lemoine (T. Presser), c1998. [Score, 8 p. ISMN M-2309-6574-3; pub. no. 26574 H. L. 9.30 [euro].] Sergio Assad. Jobiniana no. 1 pour 2 guitares....

Music received.
March 1, 2004... 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 2003 issue (p. 302 of this volume). SCHOLARLY &...

Communications.(Letter to the Editor)
March 1, 2004... 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...