Notes articles from March 2009

Notes archives from March 2009

MLA-L at twenty.
March 1, 2009... ABSTRACT MLA-L, the electronic-mail distribution list for music librarians, is now twenty years old. Before the establishment of the list in 1989, professional communication among music librarians was paper based and slow. The growth of...

Copyright and historical sound recordings: recent efforts to change U.S. law.
March 1, 2009... ABSTRACT Constantly expanding copyright laws in the U.S. have made it increasingly difficult for archives to preserve our past effectively, and for the public to legally access it. This is especially true in the field of historical sound...

Are we on the right track? Issues with LP record collections in U.S. academic libraries.(Report)
March 1, 2009... ABSTRACT This article reports on the findings of a survey on collection development and circulation practices of LP records in U.S. academic libraries conducted in September of 2007. Areas of special interest included the size of LP...

Notes for notes.(Thomas J. Dodd Research Center at the University of Connecticut Libraries; and grant for Center for American Music of the University Library System )
March 1, 2009... The Thomas J. Dodd Research Center at the University of Connecticut Libraries has recently made the finding aid for the Samuel and Ann Charters Archives of Blues and Vernacular African American Musical Culture available online. Samuel Charters...

Music Reference.(Maestros in America: Conductors in the 21st Century; A Conductor's Guide to Nineteenth-Century Choral-Orchestral Works; Chambonnieres, A Thematic Catalogue: The Complete Works of Jacques Champion de Chambonnieres )(E-book review)(Book review)
March 1, 2009... Chambonnieres, A Thematic Catalogue: The Complete Works of Jacques Champion de Chambonnieres (1601/02-1672). Compiled by Bruce Gustafson. http://sscm-jscm.press.uiuc.edu//instrumenta.html (accessed 19 November 2008). The high quality and...

Music Cataloging.(Uniform Titles for Music; Shelflisting Music: Guidelines for Use with the Library of Congress Classificationl; M)(Book review)
March 1, 2009... Uniform Titles for Music. By Michelle S. Koth. (Music Library Association Technical Reports, no. 31.) Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2008. [xiv, 277 p. ISBN 13-9780810852815. $50.] Bibliographic references, index. Shelflisting Music:...

Records and Recording.(Inside the Recording Studio: Working with Callas, Rostropovich, Domingo and the Classical Elite)(Book review)
March 1, 2009... Inside the Recording Studio: Working with Callas, Rostropovich, Domingo and the Classical Elite. By Peter Andry with Robin Stringer and Tony Locantro. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2008. [x, 222 p. ISBN-13: 978-0-81086026-1. $45.] Illustrations,...

Renaissance music and musicians.(Warrior, Courtier, Singer: Giulio Cesare Brancaccio and the Performance of Identity in the Late Renaissance)(Book review)
March 1, 2009... Warrior, Courtier, Singer: Giulio Cesare Brancaccio and the Performance of Identity in the Late Renaissance. By Richard Wistreich. Burlington, VT: Ashgate Press, 2007. [xii, 332 p. ISBN-13: 9780754654148. $99.95.] Illustrations, music examples,...

Eighteenth-Century Music.(Bach's Cycle, Mozart's Arrow: An Essay on the Origins of Musical Modernity)(Book review)
March 1, 2009... Bach's Cycle, Mozart's Arrow: An Essay on the Origins of Musical Modernity. By Karol Berger. (Simpson Imprint in Humanities.) Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007. [xi, 420 p. ISBN-13: 9780520250918. $39.95.] Music examples,...

Twentieth-Century Music.(Alban Berg and Hanna Fuchs: The Story of a Love in Letters)(Book review)
March 1, 2009... Alban Berg and Hanna Fuchs: The Story of a Love in Letters. By Constantin Floros. Translated by Ernest Bernhardt-Kabisch. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2008. [xx, 145p. ISBN-13: 9780253349668. $24.95.] Illustrations, music examples,...

Music in France.(French Music, Culture, and National Identity, 1870-1939)(Book review)
March 1, 2009... French Music, Culture, and National Identity, 1870-1939. By Barbara L. Kelly. (Eastman Studies in Music.) Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2008. [xix, 260 p. ISBN-13: 9781580462723. $90.] Illustrations, music examples,...

African Music and Musicians.(Keeping the Embers Alive: Musicians of Zimbabwe)(Book review)
March 1, 2009... Keeping the Embers Alive: Musicians of Zimbabwe. By Myrna Capp, with photos by Kristin Capp and drawings by Terri Capp. Trenton, New Jersey and Asmara, Ethiopia: Africa World Press, Inc. 2008. [127 pp. ISBN 1-59221-430-4. $24.95.] In...

Musical Instruments.(Origins and Development of Musical Instruments)(Book review)
March 1, 2009... Origins and Development of Musical Instruments. By Jeremy Montagu. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2007. [xvi, 257 p. ISPN-13: 9780810856578. $75.] Illustrations, maps, bibliographic references, index. Jeremy Montagu's Origins and Development...

Books recently published.(Bibliography)
March 1, 2009... ENGLISH Accardi, Joseph J. Beloit's Club Pop House. Charleston, SC: Arcadia, 2008. 127 p. ISBN 9780738552095. ISBN 0738552097. LC 2007-940597. Images of America Adinolfi, Francesco. Mondo exotica: sounds, visions, obsessions of...

New periodicals.
March 1, 2009... 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. The following resources are...

Digital Media Reviews.(ARTstor, American Music Center, DRAM)(Website overview)
March 1, 2009... For information regarding the scope of this column, consult the headnote in the September 2008 issue (p. 136 of this volume). The dates of access for each review of an online source indicate the dates during which the reviewer was evaluating...

Vedio Reviews.(The Full Monteverdi, Maskarade, La cambiale di matrimonio, La pietra del paragone)(Video recording review)
March 1, 2009... This semiannual column presents reviews of significant video releases of interest to the field of music and to music libraries, as well as occasionally briefly noting other interesting titles. All genres of music in all video formats will be...

Notre Dame Conductus.(Monophonic Tropes and Conductus of W1: The Tenth Fascicle)(Book review)
March 1, 2009... Monophonic Tropes and Conductus of W1: The Tenth Fascicle. Edited by Jann Cosart. Middleton, WI: A-R Editions, c2007. (Recent Researches in the Music of the Middle Ages and Early Renaissance, 38.) [Sigla, p. vii; acknowledgments, p. viii;...

Chamber Orchestra Music.(Book review)
March 1, 2009... Karel Husa. Sinfonietta pro maly orchestr = for chamber orchestra. Praha: Cesky Rozhlas, c2007. [Pref. in Czech, Eng., by Radim Kolek on front-cover verso and title-page verso; composer's notes in Czech, Eng., p. [3]; score, p. 5-128;...

Organ Editions From Barenreiter.(Weimarer Orgeltabulatur: Die fruhesten Notenhandschriften Johann Sebastian Bachs sowie Abschriften seines Schulers Johann Martin Schubart; German Organ and Keyboard Music from Bach's Period: Collection of First Editions; The Large-scale Partitas; 3eme symphonie)(Book review)
March 1, 2009... Weimarer Orgeltabulatur: Die fruhesten Notenhandschriften Johann Sebastian Bachs sowie Abschriften seines Schulers Johann Martin Schubart. Mit Werken von Dietrich Buxtehude, Johann Adam Reinken und Johann Pachelbel. Herausgegeben von Michael...

Music Received.
March 1, 2009... 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 issue (p. 164 of this volume). All Web sites accessed 19...

Music Publishers' Catalogs.
March 1, 2009... Acoustic Music Records, Postfach 1945, D-49009 Osnabruck, Germany. http://www.acoustic-music.de/Catalog, 2008. [2007] 114 p. Aelifor Editions, blv. Zahn d'Ark, Kulla, Jeshville 2, 8/3. Tirana, Albania. http://www.editions@aelifor.com/ ...