Notes articles from March 2008

Notes archives from March 2008

The skeleton score of Verdi's Una vendetta in domino: two surviving fragments.(Giuseppe Verdi)
March 1, 2008... For many years I have been fascinated by the kind of information to be found in auction and dealer catalogs. Unfortunately, we do not always have direct access to the manuscripts described in these catalogs. Nonetheless, even the descriptions...

The Roger Reynolds Collection at the Library of Congress.(List)
March 1, 2008... One of the foremost living American composers, Roger Reynolds (b. 1934), and his music are well known by those who follow the contemporary music scene in America. Critic and musicologist Kyle Gann noted that Reynolds was "the first composer...

Writing (British) concert history: the blessing and curse of ephemera.
March 1, 2008... It has probably not escaped librarians' notice that since the mid-1990s there has been an upsurge in intellectual interest in the history of musical life in Britain from the eighteenth century onwards. This has produced a range of journal...

Notes for notes.
March 1, 2008... The University at Buffalo Music Library is pleased to announce that it has been awarded a grant in the amount of $11,000 by the J. Warren Perry & Charles Donald Perry Memorial Trust of the Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo. The funds...

Music, Libraries, and the Academy: Essays in Honor of Lenore Coral.(Book review)
March 1, 2008... Music, Libraries, and the Academy: Essays in Honor of Lenore Coral. Edited by James P. Cassaro. Middleton, Wisconsin: A-R Editions, Inc., 2007. [xi, 265 pp. ISBN-10 0895796120; ISBN-13 9780895796127. $50.] Illustrations, appendix, music. ...

A Composer in Africa: Essays on the Life and Work of Stefans Grove, with an Annotated Work Catalogue and Bibliography.(Book review)
March 1, 2008... A Composer in Africa: Essays on the Life and Work of Stefans Grove, with an Annotated Work Catalogue and Bibliography. By Stephanus Muller and Chris Walton. Foreword by John Tyrrell. Stellenbosch, South Africa: Sun Press, 2006. [v, 172 p....

Music and Urban Geography.(Book review)
March 1, 2008... Music and Urban Geography. By Adam Krims. New York: Routledge, 2007. [xli, 203 p. ISBN-10 0415970113; ISBN-13 9780415970112. $95.] Illustrations, music examples, bibliographic references, index. In Music and Urban Geography, Adam Krims...

The Temple of Night at Schonau: Architecture, Music, and Theater in a Late Eighteenth-Century Viennese Garden.(Book review)
March 1, 2008... The Temple of Night at Schonau: Architecture, Music, and Theater in a Late Eighteenth-Century Viennese Garden. By John A. Rice. (Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society, v. 254 [i.e., 258].) Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society,...

Essays from the Third International Schenker Symposium.(Book review)
March 1, 2008... Essays from the Third International Schenker Symposium. Edited by Allen Cadwallader, assisted by Jan Miyaka. (Studien und Materialien zur Musikwissenschaft, Bd. 42.) Hildesheim: Olms, 2006. [xix, 305 p. ISBN-10: 3487132001; ISBN-13:...

How Equal Temperament Ruined Harmony (and Why You Should Care).(Book review)
March 1, 2008... How Equal Temperament Ruined Harmony (and Why You Should Care). By Ross W. Duffin. New York: W. W. Norton, 2007. [196 p. ISBN-10: 0393062279; ISBN-13: 9780393062274. $25.95.] Illustrations, appendix, endnotes, bibliography, sources and...

Introduction to Early Medieval Notation.(Book review)
March 1, 2008... Introduction to Early Medieval Notation. By Constantin Floros. (Detroit Monographs in Musicology/Studies in Music, No. 45.) Enlarged Second Edition. Revised, Translated and with an illustrated chapter on Cheironomy by Neil K. Moran. Warren,...

Sung Birds: Music, Poetry, and Nature in the Later Middle Ages.(Book review)
March 1, 2008... Sung Birds: Music, Poetry, and Nature in the Later Middle Ages. By Elizabeth Eva Leach. Ithaca: Cornel University Press, 2007. [xiii, 345 p. ISBN-10 0801444908; ISBN-13 9780801444913. $55.] Illustrations, music examples, bibliographical...

Heinrich Scheidemann's Keyboard Music: Transmission, Style and Chronology.(Book review)
March 1, 2008... Heinrich Scheidemann's Keyboard Music: Transmission, Style, and Chronology. By Pieter Dirksen. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2007. [xxiii, 254 p. ISBN-10 0754654419; ISBN-13 9780754654414. $99.95.] Illustrations, maps, music examples, bibliographic...

Vivaldi's Music for Flute and Recorder.(Book review)
March 1, 2008... Vivaldi's Music for Flute and Recorder. By Federico Maria Sardelli. Translated by Michael Talbot. Burlington, VT: Ashgate in association with Istituto Italiano Antonio Vivaldi/Fondazione "Giorgio Cini", 2007. [xxii, 336 p. ISBN-10 075463714X;...

Handel's Operas 1726-1741.(Book review)
March 1, 2008... Handel's Operas 1726-1741. By Winton Dean. Rochester: Boydell Press, 2006. [xx, 565 p. ISBN-10 1843832682; ISBN-13 9781843832683. $85.] Illustrations, music examples, bibliographic references, indexes. This volume concludes a project begun...

Mendelssohn, Goethe, and the Walpurgis Night: The Heathen Muse in European Culture, 1700-1850.(Book review)
March 1, 2008... Mendelssohn, Goethe, and the Walpurgis Night: The Heathen Muse in European Culture, 1700-1850. By John Michael Cooper. (Eastman Studies in Music.) Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2007. [xvi, 248 p. ISBN-10: 1580462529; ISBN-13...

The Organ Music of Johannes Brahms.(Book review)
March 1, 2008... The Organ Music of Johannes Brahms. By Barbara Owen. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007. [ix, 184 p. ISBN-10 0195311078; ISBN-13 9780195311075. $35.] Discography, index, references, appendices. Johannes Brahms's musical legacy is built...

Leoncavallo: Life and Works.(Book review)
March 1, 2008... Leoncavallo: Life and Works. By Konrad Dryden. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2007. [xvi, 351 p. ISBN-10 0810858800; ISBN-13 9780810858800. $75.] Illustrations, references, bibliography, appendix, index. No scholar deserves more credit for...

John Stainer: A Life in Music.(Book review)
March 1, 2008... John Stainer: A Life in Music. By Jeremy Dibble. (Music in Britain, 1600-1900.) Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2007. [xiv, 362 p. ISBN-10: 1843-832976; ISBN-13: 9781843832973. $55.] Illustrations, music examples, work-list, bibliography, index....

Gustav Mahler: New Insights into His Life, Times and Work.(Book review)
March 1, 2008... Gustav Mahler: New Insights into His Life, Times and Work. By Alfred Mathis-Rosenzweig. Translation, annotation and commentary by Jeremy Barham. (Guildhall School of Music & Drama, Research Studies, 5.) Burlington, VT: Ashgate. 2007. (vii,...

Ruth Crawford Seeger's Worlds: Innovation and Tradition in Twentieth-Century American Music.(Book review)
March 1, 2008... Ruth Crawford Seeger's Worlds: Innovation and Tradition in Twentieth-Century American Music. Edited by Ray Allen and Ellie M. Hisama. Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2007. [x, 308 p. ISBN-10: 15804612; ISBN-13: 9781580462129. $75.]...

Joan Tower: The Comprehensive Bio-Bibliography.(Book review)
March 1, 2008... Joan Tower: The Comprehensive Bio-Bibliography. By Ellen. K. Grolman. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2007. [vii, 221 p. ISBN-10: 0810856530; ISBN-13: 9780810856530. $60.] Bibliographic references, index, discography, illustrations. Composer...

The Rock History Reader.(Book review)
March 1, 2008... The Rock History Reader. Edited by Theo Cateforis. New York: Routledge, 2007. [xvii, 360 p. ISBN-10: 041597500X; ISBN-13: 9780415975001. $95.] Bibliographic references, music examples, index. As Theo Cateforis acknowledges in his preface to...

Interaction, Improvisation, and Interplay in Jazz.(Book review)
March 1, 2008... Interaction, Improvisation, and Interplay in Jazz. By Robert Hodson. New York: Routledge, 2007. [ix, 197 p. ISBN-10: 041597680-4; ISBN-13: 9780415976800. $95.] Music examples, bibliographical references, index. The present volume began as...

Books recently published.
March 1, 2008... For information about the scope of this column, consult the headline in the September 2007 issue (p. 93 of this volume). ENGLISH Abbott, Lynn, and Doug Seroff. Ragged but right: black traveling shows, "coon songs," and the dark pathway...

Jazz Perspectives.(NEW PERIODICALS)(Book review)
March 1, 2008... Jazz Perspectives. Edited by John Howland and Lewis Porter. Routledge Journals. Semiannual. Vol. 1, no. 1 (April 2007). ISSN 1749-4060 (print); ISSN 1749-4079 (online). Print and online (PDF and HTML) format. Access:...

Journal of Mathematics and Music.(NEW PERIODICALS)(Periodical review)
March 1, 2008... Journal of Mathematics and Music. Edited by Thomas Noll and Robert Peck. Taylor and Francis. Triannual. Vol. 1, no. 1 (March 2007). ISSN 1745-9737 (print); ISSN 1745-9745 (online). Print and online (PDF and HTML) format. Access:...

JAZZed: the Jazz Educator's Magazine.(NEW TITLES)(Periodical review)(Brief article)
March 1, 2008... JAZZed: the Jazz Educator's Magazine. Edited by Christian Wissmuller. Symphony Publishing. Bimonthly. Vol. 1, no. 1 (October/November 2006). Print format. Subscription or inquiries: JAZZed Magazine, 21 Highland Circle Suite One, Needham, MA...

Journal on Audio, Speech and Music Processing.(NEW TITLES)(Periodical review)(Brief article)
March 1, 2008... Journal on Audio, Speech and Music Processing. Edited by Douglas O'Shaughnessy. European Association for Speech, Signal and Image Processing (EURASIP). Article-by-article. Vol. 2007. ISSN 1687-4714 (print); 1687-4722 (online). Print and online...

Radical Musicology.(NEW TITLES)(Periodical review)
March 1, 2008... Radical Musicology. Edited by Ian Biddle and Richard Middleton. International Centre for Music Studies at Newcastle University. Annual. Vol. 1 (2006). ISSN 1751-7788. Online (PDF and HTML) format. Access: http://www.radical-musicology.org.uk....

Electronica.(NEW PERIODICALS)(Website list)
March 1, 2008... Reviews, new titles, and publisher and title changes announced elsewhere in this column include additional comments about electronic access. All issues of Australian Journal of Music Therapy (ISSN 1036-9457) are now available online to...

Title, frequency, and publisher changes; cessations.(NEW PERIODICALS)(List)
March 1, 2008... African Music, published by the International Library of African Music (ILAM), Rhodes University, South Africa, is back in print with volume 8, number 1, 2007. The journal has been on hiatus since volume 7, number 4 (1999). The journal is...

Special journal issues.(NEW PERIODICALS)
March 1, 2008... Beethoven Journal 21, no. 2 (Winter 2006): dedicated to the memory of Elliot Forbes; guest edited by Kevin Bazzana. Includes the full text of Martin Anderson's obituary for Elliot Forbes, the shortened version of which appeared in The...

Music Index Online.(Product/service evaluation)
March 1, 2008... Music Index Online. Published by Harmonie Park Press. http://www.harmonieparkpress.com/Musiclndex.asp and http://www.EBSCOhost.com/thisTopic.php?marketID=1&topicID=179 (accessed October 2006-October 2007). [Available on Harmonie Park Press's...

The art of the Ballets Russes captured: reconstructed ballet performances on video.(Organization overview)
March 1, 2008... It is impossible to underestimate the influence of Sergei Diaghilev (1872-1929) on twentieth-century ballet history. But it may be easy at times to underestimate his uncanny ability as an impresario to bring together artists from diverse...

The Plow That Broke the Plains and The River.(BRIEFLY NOTED)(Brief article)(Video recording review)
March 1, 2008... The Plow That Broke the Plains and The River. DVD. Written and directed by Pare Lorentz. Music by Virgil Thomson. [United States]: Naxos, 2007. 2.110521. $19.99. Arguably two of the most important documentary films of the twentieth...

Strings Attached: Sarod & Cello.(BRIEFLY NOTED)(Brief article)(Video recording review)
March 1, 2008... Strings Attached: Sarod & Cello. DVD. Performed by Amaan Ali Khan, Matthew Barley, Ayaan Ali Khan and others. [England]: Navras, 2006, 2002. NRDVD 513-N. $19.98. The sarod, perhaps one of the most important instruments in Hindustani music,...

Claude Debussy.
March 1, 2008... Claude Debussy. OEuvres pour piano a quatre mains: Symphonie; Andante cantabile; Diane ouverture; Triomphe de Bacchus; Intermezzo; L'enfant prodigue; Divertissement; Printemps. Edition de Noel Lee. Paris: Durand, c2002. (OEuvres completes de...

Music received.
March 1, 2008... 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 2007 issue (p. 145 of this volume). All Web sites accessed...

Music publishers' catalogs.
March 1, 2008... For information regarding the scope of this column, consult the headnote in the September 2007 issue (p. 156 of this volume). All Web sites accessed 21 November 2007. Alfred Publishing Company, Box 10003, Van Nuys, CA 91410-0003. ...