Notes articles from March 2007

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Early Lutheran hymnals and other musical sources in the Kessler Reformation collection at Emory University.
March 1, 2007... Emory University was founded in 1836 by the Georgia Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church. (1) It is therefore perhaps not the most likely location for a world-class collection of primary sources from the sixteenth-century German...

Beethoven in the auction market: a twenty-year review.
March 1, 2007... In memory of Ira F. Brilliant (1922-2006) In November 1827, Beethoven's estate containing music autographs, books, furniture, and other personal items sold at auction on behalf of the beneficiary, his nephew Karl. The estate inventory of...

Essential partners in collection development: vendors and music librarians.
March 1, 2007... The task of building music library collections necessarily involves the vendors who sell to our libraries the scores, books, journals (whether in printed or electronic formats), and recordings that enable the users of music libraries to make,...

Notes for Notes.(Stanford University Libraries receives gransts from National Historical Publications and Records Commission, Save America's Treasures)
March 1, 2007... Stanford University Libraries has received grants from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC) for $93,393 and from Save America's Treasures for $225,000 together with a grant to the Monterey Jazz Festival from the...

The Major Orchestra Librarians' Association.
March 1, 2007... The Major Orchestra Librarians' Association (MOLA) will hold its twenty-fifth anniversary annual conference in Chicago, 13-16 April 2007, at Hyatt Regency hotel. This is the first time MOLA has met in Chicago. The conference is hosted by the...

The Cambridge Mozart Encyclopedia.(Book review)
March 1, 2007... The Cambridge Mozart Encyclopedia. Edited by Cliff Eisen and Simon P. Keefe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. [xi, 674 p. ISBN 0-521-85659-0. $175.00.] Appendices, bibliographical references, indexes. The 250th anniversary of...

Mozart Handbuch.(Book review)
March 1, 2007... Mozart Handbuch. Edited by Silke Leopold. Kassel: Barenreiter, 2005. [xii, 719pp. ISBN 3-7618-2021-6. [euro]79.95.] Bibliographical references, indexes. As 2006 approached, the prospect of another Mozart year following the exhaustive (and...

Mozart: The Early Years, 1756-1781.(Book review)
March 1, 2007... Mozart: The Early Years, 1756-1781. By Stanley Sadie. New York: W. W. Norton, 2006. [xxv, 624 p. ISBN 0-393-06112-4. $35.00.] Illustrations, bibliography, indexes. Shortly before his death in March 2005, Stanley Sadie completed the...

Citation and Authority in Medieval and Renaissance Culture: Learning from the Learned.(Book review)
March 1, 2007... Citation and Authority in Medieval and Renaissance Culture: Learning from the Learned. Edited by Suzannah Clark and Elizabeth Eva Leach (Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Music, 4.) Rochester, NY: Boydell Press, 2005. [xxxii, 260p. ISBN...

Studies in the Printing, Publishing and Performance of Music in the 16th Century.(Book review)
March 1, 2007... Studies in the Printing, Publishing and Performance of Music in the 16th Century. By Stanley Boorman. (Variorum Collected Studies Series.) Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005. [xii, 362 p. ISBN 0-86078-970-5. $109.95.] Music examples, illustrations,...

Music in the Collective Experience in Sixteenth-Century Milan.(Book review)
March 1, 2007... Music in the Collective Experience in Sixteenth-Century Milan. By Christine Suzanne Getz. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005. [xii, 313 p. ISBN 0-7546-5121-5. $99.95]. Illustrations, music examples, appendices, bibliography, index. Christine Suzanne...

The Cambridge History of Seventeenth-Century Music.(Book review)
March 1, 2007... The Cambridge History of Seventeenth-Century Music. Edited by Tim Carter and John Butt. (Cambridge History of Music.) New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006 [xxvii, 591 p. ISBN 0-521-79273-8. $175.] References, index. The Cambridge...

Inventing the Business of Opera: The Impresario and His World in Seventeenth Century Venice.(Book review)
March 1, 2007... Inventing the Business of Opera: The Impresario and His World in Seventeenth Century Venice. By Beth L. Glixon and Jonathan E. Glixon. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. [xxvi, 398 p. ISBN 0-195-15416-9. $50.00] Illustrations,...

Music and Ideas in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries.(Book review)
March 1, 2007... Music and Ideas in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. By Claude V. Palisca, ed. by Thomas J. Mathiesen. (Studies in the History of Music Theory and Literature.) Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2006. [x, 302 p. ISBN 0-252-03156-3....

The Chamber Cantatas of Antonio Vivaldi.(Book review)
March 1, 2007... The Chamber Cantatas of Antonio Vivaldi. By Michael Talbot. Rochester: Boydell Press, 2006 [xiii, 234p. ISBN 1-84383-201-1. $80]. Tables, music examples, glossary, bibliography, indexes. In the opening to his book-length study of the...

Boccherini's Body: An Essay in Carnal Musicology.(Book review)
March 1, 2007... Boccherini's Body: An Essay in Carnal Musicology. By Elisabeth Le Guin. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006. [374 p. ISBN 0-520-24017-0. $39.95.] Illustrations, music examples, compact disc. Instrumental music of the second half...

Perspectives on Gustav Mahler.(Book review)
March 1, 2007... Perspectives on Gustav Mahler. Edited by Jeremy Barham. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2005. [xxx, 595 p. ISBN 0-754-60709-7. $134.95.] Bibliographical references, index. The essays collected in Perspectives on Gustav Mahler represent the broad...

The Mahler Family Letters.(Book review)
March 1, 2007... The Mahler Family Letters. Edited and translated by Stephen McClatchie. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. [xiii, 418 p. ISBN 0-195-14065-6. $65.00] Illustrations, bibliographic references, index. Stephen McClatchie's The Mahler...

Wagner and Wagnerism in Nineteenth-Century Sweden, Finland, and the Baltic Provinces: Reception, Enthusiasm, Cult.(Book review)
March 1, 2007... Wagner and Wagnerism in Nineteenth-Century Sweden, Finland, and the Baltic Provinces: Reception, Enthusiasm, Cult. By Hannu Salmi. (Eastman Studies in Music.) Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2006. [x, 310 p. ISBN 1-58046-207-3. $65.]...

Chou Wen-Chung: The Life and Work of a Contemporary Chinese-Born American Composer.(Book review)
March 1, 2007... Chou Wen-Chung: The Life and Work of a Contemporary Chinese-Born American Composer. By Peter M. Chang. (Composers of North America, No. 25.) Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2006. [241 p. ISBN 0-8108-5296-9. $65.] Music examples, illustrations,...

The Selected Correspondence of Aaron Copland.(Book review)
March 1, 2007... The Selected Correspondence of Aaron Copland. Edited by Elizabeth B. Crist and Wayne Shirley. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006. [xv, 269 p. ISBN 0-300-11121-5. $45.] Indexes, bibliographical notes, photographs. The life of Aaron...

Women Composers and Music Technology in the United States: Crossing the Line.(Book review)
March 1, 2007... Women Composers and Music Technology in the United States: Crossing the Line. By Elizabeth Hinkle-Turner. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2006. [301 p. ISBN 0754604616. $79.95.] Index, bibliography, discography, webliography. As Elizabeth...

Prokofiev's Ballets for Diaghilev.(Book review)
March 1, 2007... Prokofiev's Ballets for Diaghilev. By Stephen D. Press. Burlington, VT: Ash-gate, 2006. [xvii, 294 p. ISBN 0-7546-0404-0. $99.95.] Illustrations, music examples, bibliography, index. From specialists in Russian music to devotees of ballet,...

A Soviet Credo: Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony.(Book review)
March 1, 2007... A Soviet Credo: Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony. By Pauline Fairclough. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2006. [xxx, 261 p. ISBN 0-754-65016-2. $99.95.] Music examples, bibliography, index. Few twentieth-century compositions raise as many...

Changing Tunes: The Use of Pre-Existing Music in Film.(Book review)
March 1, 2007... Changing Tunes: The Use of Pre-Existing Music in Film. By Phil Powrie and Robynn Stilwell. (Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series.) Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2006. [226 p. ISBN 0-7546-5137-1. $89.95.] Illustrations, music examples, filmography,...

Jazz Consciousness: Music, Race, and Humanity.(Book review)
March 1, 2007... Jazz Consciousness: Music, Race, and Humanity. By Paul Austerlitz. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2005. [xxii, 260 p. ISBN 08195-6781-7. $24.95.] Videography, discography, bibliography, index. We ask a lot from jazz. To some...

The Dark Tree: Jazz and the Community Arts in Los Angeles.(Book review)
March 1, 2007... The Dark Tree: Jazz and the Community Arts in Los Angeles. By Steven L. Isoardi. With an Appendix by Roberto Miranda. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006. [xxi, 356 p. ISBN 0-520-24591-1. $34.95.] Illustrations, index, bibliography,...

Some Hustling This! Taking Jazz to the World, 1914-1929.(Book review)
March 1, 2007... Some Hustling This! Taking Jazz to the World, 1914-1929. By Mark Miller. Toronto: The Mercury Press, 2005. [207 p. ISBN 1-55128-119-8. $19.95] Bibliography, index, photographs. This is the latest in an impressive series of books by Mark...

Chasin' the Bird: The Life and Times of Charlie Parker.(Book review)
March 1, 2007... Chasin' the Bird: The Life and Times of Charlie Parker. By Brian Priestley. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. [x, 242 p. ISBN 0-195-30464-0. $28.] Illustrations, music examples. This book is a revised and expanded edition of Brian...

Books recently published.
March 1, 2007... For information about the scope of this column, consult the headline in the September 2006 issue (p. 125 of this volume). ENGLISH Adams, Ramsay, David Hnatiuk, and David Weiss. Music supervision: the complete guide to selecting music...

Classical Music Today.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2007... Classical Music Today. Edited by Robert Ardini. Ardini and Associates. Quarterly. Vol. 1, no. 1 (Spring 2006). Print format. Subscription or inquiries: Ardini and Associates, 331 West 57th Street, No. 541, New York, NY 10019. E-mail:...

Empirical Musicology Review (EMR).(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2007... Empirical Musicology Review (EMR). Edited by Dr. David Butler. Ohio State University Library. Bimonthly. Vol. 1, no. 1 (January 2006). ISSN 1559-5749. Online format (PDF). Access: http://emusicology.org. Subscription or inquiries:...

International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media (IJPADM).(Book review)
March 1, 2007... International Journal of Performance Arts & Digital Media (IJPADM). Edited by David Collins. School of Intermedia and Performance Arts at Doncaster College. Triannual. Vol. 1, no. 1 (April 2005). Print and online (PDF) format. ISSN 1479-4713....

Journal for the Society for American Music.(Brief article)
March 1, 2007... Journal for the Society for American Music, see the American Music entry in the Title, Frequency, and Publisher Changes; Cessations section of this column. A full announcement will appear when the first volume is released.

Journal of Schenkerian Studies.(NEW TITLES)(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2007... Journal of Schenkerian Studies. Edited by Jennifer Sadoff. University of North Texas, Center for Schenkerian Studies. Annual. Vol. 1 (Fall 2005). Print format. Subscription or inquiries: Jennifer Sadoff, Editor, College of Music, University of...

Perspectives.(NEW TITLES)(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2007... Perspectives. Edited by Jan Hall. Early Childhood Music & Movement Association (ECMMA). Quarterly. Vol. 1, no. 1 (Winter 2006). Subscription or inquiries: ECMMA, 805 Mill Avenue, Snohomish, WA 98290. E-mail: ecmma@ecmma.org. Annual subscription...

VSA Papers.(NEW TITLES)(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2007... VSA Papers. Edited by Brian Newman. Violin Society of America (VSA). Semiannual. Vol. 1, no. 1 (Summer 2005). ISSN 1556-5092. Print. Subscription or inquires: Violin Society of America, 48 Academy Street, Poughkeepsie, NY 12601. E-mail:...

Zeitschrift der Gesellschaft fur Musiktheorie (ZGM).(Book review)
March 1, 2007... Zeitschrift der Gesellschaft fur Musik-theorie (ZGM). Edited by Olive Schwab Felisch. Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Musik-theorie (GMTH). Semiannual. Vol. 1, no. 1 (2003). German and English. ISSN 1862-6742. Online format (HTML). Access:...

Electronica.(NEW PERIODICALS)
March 1, 2007... Reviews, new titles, and publisher and title changes announced elsewhere in this column include additional comments about electronic access. In April 2006, MIT Press journals migrated from the Ingenta platform to a MIT Press platform....

Title, frequency, and publisher changes; cessations.(NEW PERIODICALS)
March 1, 2007... Beginning January 2007, the journal American Music (ISSN 0734-4392) will no longer be affiliated with the Society for American Music (SAM). The journal will continue to be published by the University of Illinois Press and Michael Hicks of...

Special journal issues.(music journals)(Recommended readings)
March 1, 2007... Choral Journal. Vol. 46, no. 10 (April 2006): Elementary Choral Focus Issue. Guest edited by Angela Broeker, this issue includes articles on lesson planning, repertoire expansion and how to develop part-singing skills. Beethoven Journal....

Sheet Music Consortium.
March 1, 2007... Sheet Music Consortium. The Consortium, 2003. http://digital.library.ucla.edu/sheetmusic. [Requires a Web browser and an Internet connection.] The Sheet Music Consortium (SMC) is a collaborative project providing access to multiple digital...

Heinrich Marschner.(Hans Heiling)(Video recording review)
March 1, 2007... Heinrich Marschner. Hans Heiling. DVD. Orchestra and Chorus of the Teatro Lirico di Cagliari / Renato Palumbo. With Markus Werba, Anna Caterina Antonacci, Herbert Lippert, Gabriele Fontana. Directed by Pier Luigi Pizzi. Genova, Italy: Dynamic,...

Carl Nielsen.(Carl Nielsen. Complete Symphonies)(Video recording review)
March 1, 2007... Carl Nielsen. Complete Symphonies, including Karl Aage Rasmussen's documentary The Light and the Darkness: On Carl Nielsen's Life and Music. DVD. Danish National Symphony Orchestra/DR / Michael Schonwandt. Recorded live at the Danish Radio...

Franz Lehar.(Der Graf von Luxemburg)(Die Gezeichneten)(Video recording review)
March 1, 2007... Franz Lehar. Der Graf von Luxemburg. DVD. Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra / Alfred Eschwe. With Bo Skovhus, Juliane Banse, Rainer Trost, Gabriela Bone, Andreas Conrad. Georgsmarienhutte, Germany: CPO, 2006. 777 194-2. $34.98. Franz...

Igor Stravinsky.(Video recording review)
March 1, 2007... Igor Stravinsky. The Rake's Progress. DVD. Glyndebourne Chorus and London Philharmonic Orchestra / Bernard Haitink. Recorded live at the Glyndebourne Festival Opera, 1975. With Felicity Lott, Leo Goeke, Richard Van Allan, Samuel Ramey, Rosalind...

Moog.(Video recording review)
March 1, 2007... Moog. DVD. Directed by Hans Fjellestad. Brooklyn, NY: Plexifilm, 2005. PLX018. $24.95. Robert Moog (1934-2005) was a key figure in the development of electronic music in the United States during the second half of the twentieth century. As...

Gyorgy Kurtag--The Matchstick Man and Peter Eotvos--The Seventh Door.(Video recording review)
March 1, 2007... Gyorgy Kurtag--The Matchstick Man and Peter Eotvos--The Seventh Door. (Juxtapositions, 7.) DVD. Directed by Judit Kele. Paris: Ideale Audience International, 2005. DVD9DS16. $28.99. Halfway through The Seventh Door, Pierre Boulez...

Music from the Inside Out.(Video recording review)
March 1, 2007... Music from the Inside Out. DVD. Directed and produced by Daniel Anker. New York: Emerging Pictures, 2004. $24.95. "What is music?" The answers to this question are as varied as the people who are asked. Paul Anker's documentary Music from...

Manuel Barrueco: A Gift and a Life.("Aaron Shearer: A Life with the Guitar")(Video recording review)
March 1, 2007... Manuel Barrueco: A Gift and a Life. DVD. Directed by Michael Lawrence. [Baltimore, MD]: Michael Lawrence Films, 2005. $29.99. Aaron Shearer: A Life with the Guitar. DVD. Directed by Michael Lawrence. [Baltimore, MD]: Michael Lawrence Films,...

Broadway: The American Musical.(Video recording review)
March 1, 2007... Broadway: The American Musical. DVD. Directed by Michael Kantor. [United States]: PBS Home Video, 2005. 88571. $59.99. Have you ever wondered what made George M. Cohan's Little Johnny Jones so incredibly attractive to theatre goers in 1904?...

Legends of Jazz with Ramsey Lewis, Season One, Vol. One.(Legends of Jazz with Ramsey Lewis, Season One, vol. 2)(Legends of Jazz with Ramsey Lewis, Showcase)(Video recording review)
March 1, 2007... Legends of Jazz with Ramsey Lewis, Season One, Vol. One. DVD + CD. Chicago, IL: LRS Media, 2006. 090001. $24.98. Legends of Jazz with Ramsey Lewis, Season One, Vol. Two. DVD + CD. Chicago, IL: LRS Media, 2006. 090003. $24.98. Legends...

Swinging Bach: Bobby McFerrin and Guests.(Video recording review)
March 1, 2007... Swinging Bach: Bobby McFerrin and Guests. DVD. Presented by Nina Ruge and Alan Bangs. With Bobby McFerrin, Gil Shaham and Adele Anthony, Jacques Loussier Trio, King's Singers, German Brass, Jiri Stivin and Collegium Quodlibet, Turtle Island...

New York Doll.(Video recording review)
March 1, 2007... New York Doll. DVD. Directed by Greg Whiteley. Universal City, CA: Visual Entertainment, 2005. F10130. $19.98. Be forewarned, this is not a typical "rock-umentary" in the fashion of MTV or VH1. This is a comprehensive and deeply moving...

Made in Sheffield: The Birth of Electronic Pop.(Video recording review)
March 1, 2007... Made in Sheffield: The Birth of Electronic Pop. DVD. Directed by Eve Wood. Brooklyn, NY: Plexifilm, 2005. PLX017. $24.98. Ah! The glory that was post-punk pop, that period between 1978 and 1985 when all sorts of weirdness stormed the pop...

Africa Live: The Roll Back Malaria Concert.(Video recording review)
March 1, 2007... Africa Live: The Roll Back Malaria Concert. DVD. Directed by Mick Csaky. Paris: Ideale Audience International, 2005. DVD9M19. $24.99. In 2005, Senegalese superstar Youssou N'Dour helped organize a concert in Dakar, Senegal, to generate...

Cantiones sacrae 1625: Lateinische Motetten fur vier Stimmen und Basso continuo.(Video recording review)
March 1, 2007... Heinrich Schutz. Cantiones sacrae 1625: Lateinische Motetten fur vier Stimmen und Basso continuo. Neuausgabe von Heide Volckmar-Waschk. Kassel: Barenreiter, 2004. (Neue Ausgabe samtlicher Werke, 8/9.) [Pref., Ger., Eng., p. vii-xii; facsims.,...

Johannespassion: Passio secundum Joannem, Fassung II (1725), BWV 245/BC D 2b, fur Soli (SATBB), Chor (SATB), 2 Traversfloten, 2 Oboen/Oboen da caccia, Oboe d'amore, Viola da gamba, 2 Violinen, Viola und Basso continuo.(Johannespassion: Passio secundum Joannem, Fassung IV)(Matthaus-Passion: Fruhfassungen)(Lateinische Kirchenmusik, Passionen: Werke zweifelhafter Echtheit, Bearbeitungen fremder Kompositionen)(Passio secundum Marcum: Markuspassion, fur Soli)(Markus-Passion)(Messe in h-Moll fur Soli)(Fruhfassungen zur H-Moll-Messe: Missa)(Book review)
March 1, 2007... Johann Sebastian Bach. Johannespassion: Passio secundum Joannem, Fassung II (1725), BWV 245/BC D 2b, fur Soli (SATBB), Chor (SATB), 2 Traversfloten, 2 Oboen/Oboen da caccia, Oboe d'amore, Viola da gamba, 2 Violinen, Viola und Basso continuo....

Symphony in G Minor [1832].(Symphonies)(Sonatas for Violin and Pianoforte)(Book review)
March 1, 2007... Cipriani Potter. Symphony in G Minor [1832]. Edited by Julian Rushton. London: Stainer and Bell, 2001. (Musica Britannica, 77.) [Pref. in Eng., Fr., Ger., p. xvii-xix; introd., p. xxi-xxvi; the sources, p. xxvii-xxix; editorial notes, p....

Symphonie Nr. 5 in funf Satzen fur grosses Orchester.(Video recording review)
March 1, 2007... Gustav Mahler. Symphonie Nr. 5 in funf Satzen fur grosses Orchester. Kritische Neuausgabe von Reinhold Kubik. Frankfurt am Main: C. F. Peters, 2002. (Samtliche Werke, 5.) [2 plates; Abkurzungen, 1 p.; Vorwort, p. i-xi; Auffuhrungen der V....

Music received.
March 1, 2007... 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 2006 issue (p. 208 of this volume). All Web sites accessed...

Music publishers' catalogs.
March 1, 2007... For information regarding the scope of this column, consult the headnote in the September 2006 issue (p. 218 of this volume). All Web sites accessed 22 November 2006. Allegra Musikverlag, see Musikverlag Zimmermann. AMA Verlag,...

Communications.(Letter to the editor)
March 1, 2007... 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...