Notes articles from September 1996

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Sheet music special issues: formats and functions.
September 1, 1996... The appearance of the standard sheet music issue from the first half of this century, especially that of a popular song, is familiar to both musicians and the general public. Typically, the item is either a single sheet folded into a folio to...

Thomas De Hartmann: A Composer's Life.
September 1, 1996... Even for the most promising young composer, steering one's career in the direction of success may be likened to walking through a minefield: one false step can bring the promise of obscurity. Cast this quandary against a backdrop of social and...

Heartland Excursions: Ethnomusicological Reflections on Schools of Music.
September 1, 1996... By Bruno Nettl. (Music in American Life.) Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1995. [xiii, 170 p. ISBN 0-252-06468-2. $12.95.] There once was a saw among ethnomusicologists that "ethnomusicology is what ethnomusicologists do." The saying...

Mourning into Joy: Music, Raphael, and Saint Cecilia.
September 1, 1996... By Thomas Connolly. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1994. [xv, 365 p. ISBN 0-300-05901-9. $35.00.] Thomas Connolly (University of Pennsylvania) has written a learned and absorbing study of the legend and cult of St. Cecilia. His...

Gustav Mahler, vol 2, Vienna: The Years of Challenge, 1897-1904.
September 1, 1996... By Henry-Louis de la Grange. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995. [xviii, 892 p. ISBN 0-19-315159-6. $45.00.] Henry-Louis de la Grange has been researching Gustav Mahler for more than four decades. The story of his biography is the story...

Richard Wagner and the Anti-Semitic Imagination.
September 1, 1996... By Marc A. Weiner. (Texts and Contexts, 12.) Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1995. [xii, 439 p. ISBN 0-8032-4775-3. $40.00.]; The flow of books on that very troubling yet profoundly gifted figure, Richard Wagner, never ceases....

Richard Wagner's Prose Works.
September 1, 1996... Translated by William Ashton Ellis. Lincoln: Bison Books/University of Nebraska Press, 1993-1995. [8 vols., individual titles of which are: The Art-Work of the Future and Other Works; Opera and Drama; Judaism in Music, and Other Essays; Art and...

First Philharmonic: A History of the Royal Philharmonic Society.
September 1, 1996... By Cyril Ehrlich. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995. [307 p. ISBN 0-19816232-4. $49.95.] The importance of London in music history has been a direct outcome of its political and economic position. In the nineteenth century it was by far the...

The Musical Life of the Crystal Palace.
September 1, 1996... By Michael Musgrave. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. [xiv, 272 p. ISBN 0-52137562-2. $54.95] The importance of London in music history has been a direct outcome of its political and economic position. In the nineteenth century...

Never Without a Song: The Years and Songs of Jennie Devlin, 1865-1952.
September 1, 1996... By Katharine D. Newman. (Music in American Life.) Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1995. [xviii, 291 p. ISBN 0-252-06371-6 (pbk.). $16.95.] The topic of Never without a Song has become a distinct type in the Anglo-American folk-song...

Music and Spectacle in Baroque Rome: Barberini Patronage Under Urban VIII.
September 1, 1996... By Frederick Hammond. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1994. [xxiv, 369 p. ISBN 0-300-05528-5. $40.00.] Pope Urban VIII (r. 1623-1644), born Maffeo Barberini, was the longest reigning pope of the seventeenth century. He was also one of the...

Kastratengesang: Hormonelle, konstitutionelle und padagogische Aspekte.
September 1, 1996... By Hans Fritz. (Musikethnologische Sammelbande, 13.) Tutzing: Schneider, 1994. [255 p. ISBN 3-7952-0797-5. DM 130.00.] Here are two German books, published within a year of each other, on the intriguing world of the castrati; two books with...

Engel wider Willen: Die Welt der Kastraten: Eine andere Operngeschichte.
September 1, 1996... By Hubert Ortkemper. Munchen: Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, 1995. [415 p. ISBN 3-423-30486-5 (pbk.). $24.75.] Here are two German books, published within a year of each other, on the intriguing world of the castrati; two books with...

Queer Noises: Male and Female Homosexuality in Twentieth-Century Music.
September 1, 1996... By John Gill. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1995. [184 p. ISBN 0-8166-2719-3. $14.95.] Queer Noises aims to account for the presence of lesbians, gay men, and bisexuals in a multitude of musical genres in the twentieth...

Catalogue du fonds musical de la Bibliotheque de Versailles.
September 1, 1996... By Denis Herlin. (Publications de la Societe Franc,aise de Musicologie, 2d series, 14.) Paris: Editions Klincksieck, 1995. [clxxiv, 778 p. ISBN 2-252-03006-2. FF480.00.] Denis Herlin's catalogue of the rich musical resources of the...

Harp Music Bibliography: Compositions for Solo Harp and Harp Ensemble.
September 1, 1996... By Mark Palkovic. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995. [x, 352 p. ISBN 0-253-32887-X. $35.00.] Harp Music Bibliography: Compositions for Solo Harp and Harp Ensemble fills a lacuna in literature on harp repertory. Previous works have...

Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Harpists: A Bio-Critical Sourcebook.
September 1, 1996... By Wenonah Milton Govea. (Bio-Critical Sourcebooks on Musical Performance.) Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1995. [xii, 330 p. ISBN 0-31327866-0. $79.50.] There is a certain tragedy in the loss of biographical detail and attendant...

Musica enchiriadis and Scolica enchiriadis.
September 1, 1996... Trans. with introduction and by Raymond Erickson. (Music Theory Translation Series.) New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995. [liv, 106 p. ISBN 0-300-05818-7.] Scholarly mills grind slowly. For over two centuries medievalists have pondered...

Essays on Medieval Music in Honor of David G. Hughes.
September 1, 1996... Edited by Graeme M. Boone. (Isham Library Papers, 4.) Cambridge: Harvard University Department of Music, 1995. [xiv, 496 p. ISBN 0-674-26706-0. $39.95.] The papers in this volume were delivered in October 1990 at a conference in honor of...

The Lira da Braccio.
September 1, 1996... By Sterling Scott Jones. (Publications of the Early Music Institute.) Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995. [121 p. ISBN 0-953-20911-0 (pbk.). $22.50.] The lira da braccio evolved out of the medieval fiddle in the late...

Polyphony in Portugal c. 1530-c. 1620: Sources from the Monastery of Santa Cruz, Coimbra.
September 1, 1996... By Owen Rees. (Outstanding Dissertations in Music from British Universities.) New York: Garland Publishing, 1995. [xxi, 461 p. ISBN 0-8153-2029-9. $103.00.] Documentation of music in Portugal remains problematical at best, making this book...

Iconografia Palestriniana: Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, immagini e documenti del suo tempo.
September 1, 1996... By Lino Bianchi and Giancarlo Rostirolla, with Annalisa Bini and Fabio Failla. (L'arte armonica, Serie 4: Iconografia e Cataloghi, 1.) Lucca: Libreria Musicale Italiana, 1994. [375 p. ISBN 88-7096-100-1. Lire 150,000.] Picture books about...

Musique et societe: le modele d'Arles a l'epoque de l'absolutisme, 1600-1789.
September 1, 1996... By Marc Signorile. (Vie musicale dans les provinces francaises, 8.) Geneva: Editions Minkoff, 1993. [321 p. ISBN 2-8266-0910-6.] From early times Arles distinguished itself as a vital musical center. By the middle of the first-century, the...

Ars et musica in liturgia: Essays Presented to Casper Honders on His Seventieth Birthday.
September 1, 1996... Edited by Frans Brouwer and Robin A. Leaver. (Studies in Liturgical Musicology, 1.) Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press 1994. [206 p. ISBN 0-8108-2948-7. $29.50.] This slim volume is a collection of eleven very specialized essays dealing with...

A Thematic Catalog of the Works of Robert Valentine.
September 1, 1996... By J. Bradford Young. (MLA Index and Bibliography Series, 27.) Canton, Mass.: Music Library Association, 1994. [xxvi, 95 p. ISBN 0-914954-46-6. $30.00.] Robert Valentine was a member of an important family of English regional musicians, who...

John Christian Bach: Mozart's Friend and Mentor.
September 1, 1996... By Heinz Gartner. Translated by Reinhard G. Pauly, Portland, Ore.: Amadeus Press, 1994. [xiii, 400 p. ISBN 0-931340-79-9. $29.95.] Because of Johann Christian Bach's compositional versatility and position as a bridge between early and late...

Der Palestrina-Stil als Satzideal in der Musiktheorie zwischen 1750 und 1900.
September 1, 1996... By Peter Luttig. (Frankfurter Beitrage zur Musikwissenschaft, 23.) Tutzing: Hans Schneider, 1994. [407 p. ISBN 3-7952-0804-1. DM 155.00.] Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina was the first composer to become a "classic"; that is, the first to be...

Beethoven.
September 1, 1996... By William Kinderman. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995. [xvi, 374 p. ISBN 0-520-08796-8. $35.00.] The embargo on interdisciplinarity was lifted some time ago in musicology and specialist perspectives on Ludwig van Beethoven's...

Carl Maria von Weber und Hector Berlioz: Studien zur franzosischen Weber-Rezeption.
September 1, 1996... By Frank Heidlberger. (Wurzburger musikhistotische Beitrage, 14.) Tutzing: Hans Schneider. 1994. [556 p. ISBN 3-7952-0773-8. DM 132.00.] The nineteenth century's reception of Carl Maria von Weber is a topic that is largely unexplored. To be...

The All-Round Man: Selected Letters of Percy Grainger, 1914-1961.
September 1, 1996... Edited by Malcolm Gillies and David Pear. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994. [xxvi, 301 p. ISBN 0-19-816377-0. $39.95.] Examples of the expatriate Australian artist abound. To name a few: actress Judith Anderson, singer Joan Sutherland, writers...

The Messiaen Companion.
September 1, 1996... Edited by Peter Hill. Portland, Ore.: Amadeus Press, 1995. [xi, 581 p. ISBN 0-931340-94-2 (pbk.). $24.95.] The Messiaen Companion is the first scholarly study of Olivier Messiaen's music to appear since the composer's death. First published...

Minimalism: Origins.
September 1, 1996... By Edward Strickland. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1993.[312 p. ISBN 0-253-35499-4.] Edward Strickland's Minimalism: Origins is the first study that attempts to put minimalism in a historical perspective across various artistic...

On Mahler and Britten: Essays in Honour of Donald Mitchell on His Seventieth Birthday.
September 1, 1996... Edited by Philip Reed. (Aldeburgh Studies in Music, 3.) Woodbridge, Suffolk: The Boydell Press, 1995. [xvii, 355 p. ISBN 0-85115-382-8. $63.00.] This volume is a Festschrift of twenty-eight essays in honor of Donald Mitchell, one of...

Max: The Life and Music of Peter Maxwell Davies.
September 1, 1996... By Mike Seabrook. London: Victor Gollancz, 1994.[281 p. ISBN 0-575-05672-X. $29.95.] The means and ends of this biography are somewhat mismatched. The author refers to the book in his preface as not only a life story but, "an attempt to...

The Sound of the Dove: Singing in Appalachian Primitive Baptist Churches.
September 1, 1996... By Beverly Bush Patterson. (Music in American Life.) Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1995. [x, 238 p. + 1 cassette. ISBN 0-252-02123-1. $37.50. Cassette, ISBN 0252-02173-8. $10.95.] Beverly Bush Patterson's The Sound of the Dove...

Steinway & Sons.
September 1, 1996... By Richard K. Lieberman. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995. [ix, 374 p. ISBN 0-300-06364-4. $35.00.] For those interested in pianos and piano playing, the appearance of two comprehensive and well-documented books about Steinway & Sons...

The Steinway Saga: An American Dynasty.
September 1, 1996... By D. W. Fostle. New York: Scribner, 1995. [ix, 710 P. ISBN 0-684-19318-3. $35.00.] For those interested in pianos and piano playing, the appearance of two comprehensive and well-documented books about Steinway & Sons in the same year as...

The Wind Ensemble and Its Repertoire: Essays on the Fortieth Anniversary of the Eastman Wind Ensemble.
September 1, 1996... Essays on the Fortieth Anniversary of the Eastman Wind Ensemble. Edited by Frank J. Cipolla and Donald Hunsberger. Rochester, N.Y.: University of Rochester Press, 1994. [vi, 312 p. ISBN 1-878822-46-2.] The Eastman Wind Ensemble was founded...

The Voice of Nations: European National Anthems and Their Authors.
September 1, 1996... By F. Gunther Eyck. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1995. [xx, 236 p. ISBN 0-313-29320-1. $55.00.] The powers of passion and persuasion emanating from the singing voice are, as Orpheus reminds us, at once tangible yet elusive, understood...

Flamenco Deep Song.
September 1, 1996... By Timothy Mitchell. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1994. [vi, 232 p. ISBN 0-30006001-7. 528.50.] . The idea that traditions are invented has been explored by many scholars in the fields of history and cultural studies. Since Eric...

My Music Is My Flag: Puerto Rican Musicians and Their New York Communities, 1917-1940.
September 1, 1996... By Ruth Glasser. (Latinos in American Society and Culture, 3.) Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995. [xxiv, 253 p. ISBN 0-520-08122-6. $30.00.] Writing as an "ethnic historian," Ruth Glasser has fashioned a remarkably detailed and...

Caribbean Currents: Caribbean Music from Rumba to Reggae.
September 1, 1996... By Peter Manuel with Kenneth Bilby and Michael LArgey Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1995. [xvi, 272 p. ISBN 1-56639-339-6 (pbk.). $18.95.] As stated in the preface by Peter Manuel, Caribbean Currents is intended as an introductory...

Adolescents and Their Music: If it's Too Loud, You're Too Old.
September 1, 1996... Edited by Jonathon S. Epstein. (New Directions in Sociology, 1.) New York: Garland Publishing, 1994. [xxxiv, 401 p. ISBN 0-8153-0614-8. $55.00.] Chuck Berry was over thirty by the rime he had his biggest hits. Elvis Presley was young, of...

Analyzing Fugue: A Schenkerian Approach.
September 1, 1996... By William Renwick. (Harmonologia Series, 8.) Stuyvesant, N.Y.: Pendragon Press, 1995. [viii, 229 p. ISBN 0-945193-85-1. $54.00.] Analyzing Fugue explores the relationship between rite polyphonic procedures and tonal structures of fugues,...

Performing Music: Shared Concerns.
September 1, 1996... By Jonathan Dunsby. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995. [vii, 98 p. ISBN 0-19-816459-9. $24.00.] It is easy to see this rather plaintive little book as an endeavor by Jonathan Dunsby to reconcile his two careers as a musician. Dunsby is a...

Music, Value and the Passions.
September 1, 1996... By Aaron Ridley. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1995. [xi, 199 p. ISBN 0-8014-3035-6. $27.95.] In Music, Value and the Passions Aaron Ridley asks how the passions we attribute to music are related to the value of music as art....

Offenbach: La Vie Parisienne.
September 1, 1996... La Vie parisienne. Opera de Lyon. Jean-Yves Ossonce, conductor; Alain Francon, director. Helene Delavault (Metella), Claire Wauthion (Baroness de Gondremarck), Isabelle Mazin (Gabrielle), Jean-Yves Chatelais (Baron de Gondremarck), Jean-Francois...

Offenbach: Les Brigands.
September 1, 1996... Les Brigands. Opera de Lyon. Claire Gibault, conductor; Louis Erlo and Alain Maratrat, directors. Valerie Chevalier (Fiorella), Colette Alliot-Lugaz (Fragoletto), Michel Trempont (Falsacappa), Riccardo Cassinelli (Pietro), Jean-Luc Maurette (Duke...

New England Dances: Squares, Quadrilles, Step Dances.
September 1, 1996... Squares, Quadrilles, Step Dances. Featuring Phil Johnson (Maple Sugar Band), John Campbell and Norman MacEachern (Canadian-American Victory Club), William Chaisson and Joe Cormier (French-American Victory Club). Multicultural Media MCM1002 (VHS;...

New England Fiddles: Playing Down the Devil.
September 1, 1996... Playing Down the Devil. Featuring Joe Cormier, Jerry Robichaud, Ben Guillemette, Paddy Cronin, Wilfred Guillette, Harold Luce and Ron West. Multicultural Media MCM1003 (VHS; 1 videocassette; 48 minutes). Taken together, these two videos...

Bournonville Ballet Technique: Fifty Enchainements.
September 1, 1996... Fifty Enchainements; notated by Hans Beck (1893). Selected and reconstructed by Vivi Flindt and Knud Arne Jurgensen. Performed by Rose Gad and Johan Kobborg of the Royal Danish Ballet. Pennington, NJ.: Princeton Book Company, 1992 (A Dance...

Il codice Squarcialupi.
September 1, 1996... Studi raccolti a cure di F. Alberto Gallo. (Ars Nova.) Florence: Giunti Barbera; Lucca: Libreria Musicale Italiana (OMI--Old Manuscripts & Incunabula, P.O. Box 6019, FDR Station, New York, N.Y. 10150), 1992. [Text volume in Ital., Eng.: 287 p.,...

Latin Sacred Music.
September 1, 1996... Robert Parsons. Transcribed and edited by Paul Doe. (Early English Church Music, 40.) London: Stainer and Bell, 1994. [Acknowledgments, intro., notes on performance & editorial commentary, pp. viii-xix; score, pp. 1-143; appendix, pp. 141-43;...

A Tallis Anthology: 17 Anthems and Motets.
September 1, 1996... Selected by John Milsom. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992. [Intro., 1 p.; score, pp. 1-116; ISBN 0-19-353410-X.] During the second half of the sixteenth century and the first half of the seventeenth, there were at least four English...

Consort Music.
September 1, 1996... Richard Mico. Transcribed and edited by Andrew Hanley. (Musica Britannica, 65.) London: Stainer & Bell, 1994. [Preface in Eng., Fr., Ger., pp. xv-xvii; intro., sources, editorial notes, acknowledgments, pp. xix-xxvi; plates, pp. xxvii-xxx; score,...

The Four-Part Consort Music.
September 1, 1996... Richard Mico. Edited by Meredith Tyler. London and Bermuda: Fretwork Editions, 1992. [Intro., editorial notes, critical commentary, 4 p.; score, pp. 2-72. ISBN 0-9517524-4-8/FE 7. $24.00 plus postage $7.00; partbooks, each 22 p., each $19.00 or...

Missa stylo a cappella, C-Dur, gemischter Chor: 1767.
September 1, 1996... Antonio Salieri. C-Dur, gemischter Chor (1767). Hrsg. von Jane Schetkin [Schatkin] Hettrick. Vienna-Munich: Doblinger, 1993. [Vorwort in Ger., Eng., 6 p.; score, pp. 3-22. 44 009. $5.95.] Though renowned for over forty operas, Antonio...

Mass in D Major.
September 1, 1996... Antonio Salieri. Edited by Jane Schatkin Hettrick. (Recent Researches in the Music of the Classical Era, 39.) Madison, Wis.: A-R Editions, 1994. [Preface, pp. vii-xxiii; plates, pp. xxiv-xxv; score, pp. 3-157; ISBN 0-89579-288-5; $49.50;...

Messe Es-Dur fur Soli, gemischten Chor, Orchester und Orgel, op. 80, 1804.
September 1, 1996... Johann Nepomuk Hummel. Hrsg. von John Eric Floreen. Vienna-Munich: Doblinger, 1994. [Vorwort in Ger., Eng., 3 p., facsim., 1 p.; score, pp. 3-288; zur Edition, die Quellen, Revisionsbericht, pp. 229-35. 46 081. $155.95; duration: cat 38'. Organ...

Werke fur Klavier und ein Instrument; Horn (Violoncello), Flote (Violine), Mandoline.
September 1, 1996... Ludwig van Beethoven. Hrsg. von Armin Raab. (Werke, Abt. V/Bd. 4.) Munich: Henle, 1993. [Vorwort, pp. vii-xii; score, 141 p.; kritischer Bericht, pp. 143-71. HN 4165 $145.00 (cloth); HN 4164 $130.00 (paper).1 This new volume in the complete...

Lucas et Cecile, comedie melee d'ariettes.
September 1, 1996... Joseph Quesnel. Realisation par John Beckwith. Quebec: Les Editions Doberman-Yppan, 1992. [Intro., Notes critiques, in Fr., Eng., pp. iii-xi; English prose translation, p. xv-xvi; score, 69 p.; appendice, p.70. ISBN 2-921204-103-7/DO 130.] ...

Early Melodrama in America: The Voice of Nature.
September 1, 1996... The Voice of Nature (1803), edited by Karl Kroeger; The Aethiop (1813), orchestral restoration by Victor Fell Yellin. (Nineteenth-Century American Musical Theater, 2.) New York: Garland, 1994. [Intro. material, pp. vii-xxvii; The Voice of Nature:...

Uncle Tom's Cabin: 1852.
September 1, 1996... By George L. Aiken and George C. Howard, edited by Thomas Riis. (Nineteenth-Century American Musical Theater, 5.) New York: Garland, 1994. [Intro. material, pp. vii-xxii; libretto, pp. 3-62; musical numbers, pp. 63-101. ISBN 0-8153-1366-7....

Later Melodrama in America: Monte Cristo, ca. 1883.
September 1, 1996... Monte Cristo (ca. 1883), edited by Anne Dhu McLucas. (Nineteenth-Century American Musical Theater, 4.) New York: Garland, 1994. [Intro. material, pp. vii-xxx; plates, pp. xxxi-xii; script [melodrama by Charles Fechter, based on the novel Comte de...

Triskelion.
September 1, 1996... Bruce Adophe. St. Louis, Mo.: Norruth Music, Inc. (MMB), 1991. [Score, 30 p.] Triskelion was commission by the Music Library Association six years ago to celebrate its sixtieth anniversary. The American Brass quintet gave the first...

Quatuor a cordes: 1990-92.
September 1, 1996... Gilbert Amy. Paris: Amphion Editions Musicales (Presser), 1992. [Note, 1 p.; score, 54 p.; $74.59; duration: 29'.] Gilbert Amy is one of a number of French composers from the generation after Pierre Boulez who have continued to compose in a...

Beijing in the Mist.
September 1, 1996... Chou Wen-chung. New York: C. F. Peters (1993). [Performance notes, instrumentation, program note 2 p.; score, 37 p. Edition Peters 67082. $20.00; duration: cat 12'. Performance material available on rental.] Born in 1923, Chou Wen-chung...

Dream's End.
September 1, 1996... William Mayer. New York: Gaudia Music and Arts, Inc. (E. C. Schirmer), 1991. [Score, 69 p. and parts. GM4001. $65.00; duration: cat 19'.] William Mayer's Dream's End is an attractive and brilliantly scored nineteen-minute work for oboe,...

Piano Pieces, 3 vols..
September 1, 1996... Nikos Skalkottas. Newton Centre, Mass.: Margun Music, 1992. [Vol.1: bio., 1 p.; noses, 2 p.; score, pp. 2-44; acid-free paper. MM098. Vol. 2: big., 1 p.; notes, 2 p., score, pp. 2-52; acid-free paper. MM099. Vol. 3: big., 1 p.; notes, 2 p.;...

The Tempest: Opera in Three Acts.
September 1, 1996... Lee Hoiby. Libretto by Mark Shulgasser after William Shakespeare. New York: G. Schirmer (Hal Leonard), 1986. [Piano-vocal score, pp. 2-324. HL50481437/ISBN 0-7935-0630-1. $40.00] Lee Hoiby has been an important presence in the music world...