Notes articles from March 2005

Notes archives from March 2005

"All fairly engraven"?: punches in England, 1695 to 1706.
March 1, 2005... During the first decades of the eighteenth century, John Walsh (?1665/6-1736) was clearly the leading music publisher in all of Europe. A large part of his success was the result of him refining the music engraving process by stamping musical...

Virtual reference in the music library.
March 1, 2005... In December 2002, the Information Sharing Subcommittee (1) of the Music Library Association's Reference and Public Services Committee (RAPS) created and conducted a survey of virtual reference activity in music libraries. This survey was linked...

Jerome Moross: an introduction and annotated worklist.
March 1, 2005... Of the considerable number of accomplished American composers of the twentieth century, Jerome Moross (1 August 1913-25 July 1983, fig. 1) is one of the less familiar names, but he left an important legacy of music for stage, screen, and...

Notes for notes.(includes multiple articles )
March 1, 2005... The new Jean Gray Hargrove Music Library at the University of California, Berkeley, was formally dedicated on 26 September 2004. Mack Scogin Merrill Elam Architects of Atlanta designed the freestanding three-story building of 28,775 gross...

George Grove, Music and Victorian Culture.(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... George Grove, Music and Victorian Culture. Edited by Michael Musgrave. New York: Palgrave, 2003. [xiv, 346 p. ISBN 0-333-94804-1. $82.00] Illustrations, bibliography, index. Having grown up in a home graced with "Spy" cartoons of eminent...

The British Folk Revival, 1944-2002.(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... The British Folk Revival, 1944-2002. By Michael Brocken. (Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series.) Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2003. [xii, 236 p. ISBN 0-7546-3282-2. $29.95 pbk.] Discography, bibliography, index. The folk music revival...

Britten, Voice & Piano: Lectures on the Vocal Music of Benjamin Britten.(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... Britten, Voice & Piano: Lectures on the Vocal Music of Benjamin Britten. By Graham Johnson. (Guildhall Research Studies, 2.) Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing Co., 2003. [ix, 270 p. ISBN 0-7546-3872-3. $54.95.] Index, compact discs. The...

Giacomo Puccini: Catalogue of the Works.(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... Giacomo Puccini: Catalogue of the Works. By Dieter Schickling. Kassel: Barenreiter, 2003. [446 p. ISBN 3-7618-1582-2. $167.50.] Music examples. Many readers may remember a popular undergraduate music history text that made only begrudging...

The Harvard Dictionary of Music.(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... The Harvard Dictionary of Music. 4th ed. By Don Michael Randel. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2003. [xxvii, 978 p. ISBN 0-674-01163-5. $39.95]. Music examples, illustrations. It is likely that most subscribers to Notes have by...

Exploring Twentieth-Century Music: Tradition and Innovation.(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... Exploring Twentieth-Century Music: Tradition and Innovation. By Arnold Whittall. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. [xi, 238 p. ISBN 0521816424. $70.] Index, bibliography, music examples. In this new book, Arnold Whittall offers...

Electronic and Computer Music.(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... Electronic and Computer Music. By Peter Manning. Revised and expanded ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. [x, 474 p. ISBN 0-19-517085-7. $35.00.] Bibliography, illustrations, discography, index, photos. No other genre of music has...

Gabriel Yared's The English Patient: A Film Score Guide.(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... Gabriel Yared's The English Patient: A Film Score Guide. By Heather Laing. (Scarecrow Film Score Guides, no. 1.) Lanham, MD: Scarecrow, 2004. [xix, 195 p. ISBN 0-8108-4965-8. $34.95.] Music examples, bibliography, index. Elmer Bernstein's...

Higher Ground: Stevie Wonder, Aretha Franklin, Curtis Mayfield, and the Rise and Fall of American Soul.(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... Higher Ground: Stevie Wonder, Aretha Franklin, Curtis Mayfield, and the Rise and Fall of American Soul. By Craig Werner. NY: Crown Publishers, 2004. [xii, 337 p. ISBN 0-609-60993-9. $24.00.] Bibliography, discography, index. Craig Werner's...

Mavericks and Other Traditions in American Music.(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... Mavericks and Other Traditions in American Music. By Michael Broyles. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004. [387 p. ISBN 0-300-10045-0. $40.00.] Music examples, illustrations, bibliography, index. Michael Broyles's history of mavericks...

Singing in My Soul: Black Gospel Music in a Secular Age.(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... Singing in My Soul: Black Gospel Music in a Secular Age. By Jerma A. Jackson. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2004. [xii, 193 p. ISBN 0-8078-2860-2. $18.95.] Illustrations, index, bibliography. Since the original...

L'Apollonide de Leconte de Lisle et Franz Servais.(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... L'Apollonide de Leconte de Lisle et Franz Servais. By Malou Haine. Sprimont, Belgium: Mardaga, 2004. [293 p. ISBN 2-87009-813-8. [euro]29.00.] Music examples, illustrations, bibliography, index. This well-researched book tells the story of...

Bach and the Pedal Clavichord: An Organist's Guide.(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... Bach and the Pedal Clavichord: An Organist's Guide. By Joel Speerstra. Foreword by Hans Davidsson. (Eastman Studies in Music.) Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2004. [xiii, 205 p. ISBN 1-58046-135-2. $70.00.] Music examples,...

Death-Devoted Heart: Sex and the Sacred in Wagner's Tristan and Isolde.(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... Death-Devoted Heart: Sex and the Sacred in Wagner's Tristan and Isolde. By Roger Scruton. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. [vi, 238 p. ISBN 0-19-516691-4. $25.] Bibliography, index. Wagner's music dramas famously, and...

Dmitri Shostakovich, Pianist.(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... Dmitri Shostakovich, Pianist. By Sofia Moshevich. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2004. [x, 222 p. ISBN 0-7735-2581-5. $39.95.] Bibliography, discography, music examples, index. The dust-jacket blurb on Sofia...

Late Beethoven: Music, Thought, Imagination.(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... Late Beethoven: Music, Thought, Imagination. By Maynard Solomon. Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press, 2003. [xi, 327 pp. ISBN 0-520-23746-3. $29.95.] Index, bibliography, music examples. How Beethoven's...

The Life of Bach.(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... The Life of Bach. By Peter Williams. (Musical Lives.) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. [viii, 219 p. ISBN 0-521-82636-5. $60. (hbk.); ISBN 0-521-53374-0. $22. (pbk.).] Illustrations, bibliography, index. Peter Williams's The...

Metaphor and Musical Thought.(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... Metaphor and Musical Thought. By Michael Spitzer. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004. [x, 380 p. ISBN 0-226-769720. $60.00.] Music examples, illustrations, bibliography, index. At various times music has been called "the universal...

The Mozart Forgeries: A Caper Novel for the Serious Mozart Aficionado.(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... The Mozart Forgeries: A Caper Novel for the Serious Mozart Aficionado. By Daniel N. Leeson. New York, Lincoln, Shanghai: iUniverse, Inc., 2004 (address: 2021 Pine Lake Road, Suite 100, Lincoln, NE 68512). [x, 321 p. ISBN 0-595-31676-X (pbk.,...

Music and Women of the Commedia dell'arte in the Late Sixteenth Century.(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... Music and Women of the Commedia dell'arte in the Late Sixteenth Century. By Anne MacNeil. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. [xii, 360 p. ISBN: 0-19-816689-3. $85.] Music examples, illustrations, chronology, documents, bibliography,...

Music's Modern Muse: A Life of Winnaretta Singer, Princesse de Polignac.(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... Music's Modern Muse: A Life of Winnaretta Singer, Princesse de Polignac. By Sylvia Kahan. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2003. (Eastman Studies in Music.) [xxii, 547 p. ISBN 1-58046-133-6. $49.95.] Appendices, index,...

Opera in Theory and Practice, Image and Myth.(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... Opera in Theory and Practice, Image and Myth. Edited by Lorenzo Bianconi and Giorgio Pestelli. Translated by Kenneth Chalmers and Mary Whitall. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003. [xiv, 456 p. ISBN 0-226-04592-7. $70.] Music examples,...

Schumann's Piano Cycles and the Novels of Jean Paul.(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... Schumann's Piano Cycles and the Novels of Jean Paul. By Erika Reiman. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2004. (Eastman Studies in Music.) [xiii, 229 p. ISBN 1-58046-145-X. $75.00.] Music examples, illustrations, notes, bibliography,...

Books recently published.
March 1, 2005... For information about the scope of this column, consult the headnote in the September 2004 issue (p. 153 of this volume). ENGLISH Abel, E. Lawrence. Confederate sheet music. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, c2004. v, 258 p. ISBN 0-7864-1507-X...

International Journal of Music Education (IJME).(NEW PERIODICALS)
March 1, 2005... This semiannual column selectively lists newly issued periodicals; describes their objectives, formats, and contents; and provides information about special issues, title and format changes, mergers, and cessations. For information regarding...

ArtsJournal.com: The Daily Digest of Arts, Culture & Ideas.(NEW TITLES)(Periodical Review)
March 1, 2005... ArtsJournal.com: The Daily Digest of Arts, Culture & Ideas (alternate title: Arts Journal). Includes the ArtsJournal Daily Newsletter and ArtsBeat. Edited by Douglas McLennan. Daily and weekly. Online since September 1999 (according to...

Eighteenth-Century Music (ECM).(NEW TITLES)(Periodical Review)
March 1, 2005... Eighteenth-Century Music (ECM). Edited by W. Dean Sutcliffe, Cliff Eisen, and Simon P. Keefe. Semiannual. Vol. 1, no. 1 (March 2004). Print and online (PDF) format. ISSN 1478-5706, E-ISSN 1478-5714. Subscription: Cambridge University Press, 100...

Naturlaut: The Quarterly Newsletter of The Chicago Mahlerites.(NEW TITLES)(Periodical Review)
March 1, 2005... Naturlaut: The Quarterly Newsletter of The Chicago Mahlerites. Edited by James L. Zychowicz. Chicago Mahlerites: The Gustav Mahler Society of Chicago. Quarterly. Vol. 1, no. 1 (June 2002). Print or online (e-mailed PDF) format, with selected...

Nineteenth-Century Music Review.(NEW TITLES)(Brief Article)(Periodical Review)
March 1, 2005... Nineteenth-Century Music Review. Edited by Bennett Zon. Centre for Nineteenth-Century Music at the University of Durham, U.K. Semiannual. Vol. 1, no. 1 (2004). Print format. ISSN 1479-4098. Subscription: Customer Services, Ashgate Publishing...

Samples: Notizen, Projekte und Kurzbeitrage zur Popularmusikforschung (Samples: Notes, Projects, and Short Contributions to Popular Music Research).(NEW TITLES)(Brief Article)(Periodical Review)
March 1, 2005... Samples: Notizen, Projekte und Kurzbeitrage zur Popularmusikforschung (Samples: Notes, Projects, and Short Contributions to Popular Music Research). Edited by Dietrich Helms und Thomas Phleps [sic]. Arbeitskreis Studium Popularer Musik e.V....

Society for Eighteenth-Century Music Newsletter.(NEW TITLES)(Brief Article)(Periodical Review)
March 1, 2005... Society for Eighteenth-Century Music Newsletter. Edited by Margaret Butler. Society for Eighteenth-Century Music (SECM). Semiannual. No. 1 (October 2002). Online format (PDF). Access: http://www.secm.org/news.html. E-mail: mbutler@music.ua.edu....

Three Oranges Journal.(NEW TITLES)(Brief Article)(Periodical Review)
March 1, 2005... Three Oranges Journal. Edited by Noelle Mann (Prokofiev Archive curator). Serge Prokofiev Foundation. Semiannual. Print format. No. 1 (January 2001). ISSN 1472-9946. Subscription: Goldsmiths College, University of London, London SE14 6NW, U.K.;...

Twentieth-century music.(NEW TITLES)(Brief Article)(Periodical Review)
March 1, 2005... Twentieth-century music. Edited by Christopher Mark and Allan Moore. Semiannual. Vol. 1, no. 1 (March 2004). Print and online (PDF) format. ISSN 1478-5722, E-ISSN 1478-5730. Subscription: Cambridge University Press, 100 Brook Hill Drive, West...

Electronica.(New Periodicals)(Bibliography)
March 1, 2005... Reviews, new titles, and publisher and title changes announced elsewhere in this column include additional comments about electronic access. Anuario musical, see IIMP Full Text in this section. Black Music Research Journal, see IIBP...

Title, frequency, and publisher changes; Cessations.(New Periodicals)(The Galpin Society Journal)(The International Journal of Music Education)(Journal of Music Teacher Education)(The Journal of New Music Research)(Journal of the American Musicological Society)(Music Education International)(Music Review)(The SEAMUS Newsletter)(Circuit: Musiques Contemporaines)(CMJ New Music Report)(General Music Today)(Periodical Review)
March 1, 2005... Circuit: musiques contemporaines (formerly subtitled Revue nord-americaine de musique du XXe siecle; ISSN 1183-1693) is now published triannually starting with volume 11, number 1 (2000) by Les Presses de l'Universite de Montreal. It was...

Special Journal Issues.(New Periodicals)
March 1, 2005... American Music 22, no. 1 (Spring 2004): Music and Moving Image Special Issue. Thirteen short articles (more than the usual three to four articles) are drawn from two summer 2001 conferences, "Hollywood Musicals and Music and Hollywood"...

The Jazz Discography, Version 4.4 [CD-ROM].(Product/Service Evaluation)
March 1, 2005... For information regarding the scope of this column, consult the headnote in the September 2004 issue (p. 194 of this volume). All Web sites were accessed 24 November 2004. The Jazz Discography, Version 4.4 [CD-ROM]. Tom Lord. West...

Classic Archive.
March 1, 2005... This annual column presents reviews of significant video releases of interest to the field of music and to music libraries, as well as briefly noting other interesting titles. All genres of music in all video formats will be covered, with a...

More Treasures from American Film Archives, 1894-1931: 50 Films.(Video Recording Review)
March 1, 2005... More Treasures from American Film Archives, 1894-1931: 50 Films. Produced by the National Film Preservation Foundation; curator, Scott Simmon; music curator, Martin Marks. [United States]: Image Entertainment, 2004. DVD. ISBN: 0-97470-991-3....

Igor Stravinsky.(Sound Recording Review)
March 1, 2005... Igor Stravinsky. The Firebird. Produced by Jennifer Jonas, Daniel Iron, and Niv Fichman; directed by Barbara Willis Sweete; choreographed by James Kudelka. A Rhombus Media Production in Co-Production with NHK Japan. ISBN (VHS): 1-59458-075-8....

Samuel Scheidt.(Sound Recording Review)
March 1, 2005... Samuel Scheidt. Tabulatura nova. Herausgegeben von Harald Vogel. 3 vols. Wiesbaden: Breitkopf & Hartel, c1994-2002. [Pt. 1 (1994): introd. (Vogel), sources and dedication (Hans-Peter Koch) in Ger., Eng., p. 3-10; facsims., 7 p.; comments on the...

Michelangelo Rossi.(Sound Recording Review)
March 1, 2005... Michelangelo Rossi. The Madrigals of Michelangelo Rossi. Edited with an introduction by Brian Mann. (Monuments of Renaissance Music, 10.) Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, c2002. [Acknowledgments, p. ix; 6 plates; introd. (biography,...

William Lawes.(Sound Recording Review)
March 1, 2005... William Lawes. Collected Vocal Music. Edited by Gordon J. Callon. (Recent Researches in the Music of the Baroque Era, 120-123.) Middleton, WI: A-R Editions, Inc., c2002. [Pt. 1, Solo Songs: abbrevs., p. vii-viii; gen. pref., p. ix-xii; introd.,...

Arcangelo Corelli.(Sound Recording Review)
March 1, 2005... Arcangelo Corelli. 12 Concerti grossi, Op. 6/1-12. Edited by Richard Platt. New Urtext Edition. London: Ernst Eulenburg Ltd., c1997. [Pref. in Eng., Ger., Fr., p. v-xxxvii; textual notes, p. xxxviii-xlvi; facsim. reprod. of 1714 title page, p....

Giuseppe Verdi.(Sound Recording Review)
March 1, 2005... Giuseppe Verdi. Stiffelio. Libretto [in three acts] by Francesco Maria Piave. Edited by Kathleen Kuzmick Hansell. (The Works of Giuseppe Verdi. Ser. 1: Operas, vol. 16.) Chicago: University of Chicago Press; Milan: Ricordi, c2003. Pref. (Philip...

William Byrd.
March 1, 2005... William Byrd. Domine, tu jurasti. Edited by Ralph W. Buxton. (Notre Dame Choir Editions, 56.) New York: NDC Editions; C. F. Peters Corp., sole selling agent, c2002. [Score, 9 p.; editorial commentary, p. 10-11. $4.95.] William Byrd. Vide,...

Andres Segovia.(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... Andres Segovia. Preludios y estudios. (Obras para guitarra, 1.) Ancona, Italy: Berben, [1997]. [Essay "A Return to Segovia" (Eliot Fisk), in It., Sp., Eng., Fr., p. 6-13; pref. (Angelo Gilardino), p. 14-21; score, p. 22-66; appendix, p. 67-74....

Henri Lazarof.(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... Henri Lazarof. Invenzione Concertata for Brass Quintet [1997]. Bryn Mawr, PA: Merion Music; Theodore Presser Co., sole representative, c1997. [Score (in C), 8 p.; notes on composer, back cover verso; and 5 parts. Pub. no. 144-40300. Duration,...

Eric Ewazen.(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... Eric Ewazen. Sonata for Horn and Piano. San Antonio, TX: Southern Music Company, c1998. [Note on the composer, front cover verso; score, 47 p.; and part. SMC SU338. $20.] Eric Ewazen. Sonata for Trombone and Piano. San Antonio, TX:...

Music received.
March 1, 2005... 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 2004 issue (p. 243 of this volume). All Web sites accessed...

Music publishers' catalogs.(Bibliography)
March 1, 2005... For information regarding the scope of this column, consult the headnote in the September 2004 issue (p. 257 of this volume). All Web sites accessed on 24 November 2004. Alfred Publishing Verlag, Max-Planck-Strasse 4, D-53577...

Communications.(Letter to the Editor)
March 1, 2005... 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...