Notes articles from September 1998

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John Philip Sousa: the Illinois collection.
September 1, 1998... THE ILLINOIS COLLECTION During the seventy-seven years of his life, John Philip Sousa (1854-1932) served under eight Presidents; witnessed the American Civil War, the Spanish-American War, and World War. I; followed astounding developments in...

Black music in the academy: the Center for Black Music Research.
September 1, 1998... THE CENTER FOR BLACK MUSIC RESEARCH The contributions of people of African descent to the history of Western music extend far into the past. The earliest artistic depictions of black musicians in Europe date back to the Middle Ages, and the...

Songs of the people: Plains Indian music and recordings, 1968-1996.
September 1, 1998... INTRODUCTION The recording of American Indian music began with Jesse Walter Fewkes's study of Passamaquoddy songs in February and March 1890, thirteen years after Thomas Edison's invention of the phonograph in 1877. By the end of the...

Defining Russia Musically: Historical and Hermeneutical Essays.
September 1, 1998... By Richard Taruskin. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1007. [xxxii, 561 p. ISBN 0-601-01156-7. $40.50.] Don't skip Taruskin's opening essay, "Others: A Mythology and a Demurrer (By Way of Preface)"! It's the best short course on...

The Birth of Bebop: A Social and Musical History.
September 1, 1998... By Scott DeVeaux. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997. [xv, 572 p. ISBN 0-520205790. $35.] Simply put, The Birth of Bebop: A Social and Musical History sets new standards for musicological work on jazz. In its blend of historical and...

Listening to the Future: The Time of Progressive Rock, 1968-1978.
September 1, 1998... By Bill Martin. (Feedback, 2.) Chicago: Open Court, 1998. [xvii, 356 p. ISBN 0-8126-9368-X. $19.95.] The past few years have seen an increased interest in rock music on the part of musicologists and music theorists. Every department, it seems,...

Rocking the Classics: English Progressive Rock and the Counterculture.
September 1, 1998... By Edward Macan. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. [xiii, 290 p. ISBN 0-19-509887-0 (cloth); ISBN 0-19-509888-9 (pbk.). $45 (cloth); $17.95 (pbk.).] The past few years have seen an increased interest in rock music on the part of...

The Music's All That Matters: A History of Progressive Rock.
September 1, 1998... By Paul Stump. London: Quartet Books, 1997. [384 p. ISBN 0-7043-8036-6. [pounds]12.] The past few years have seen an increased interest in rock music on the part of musicologists and music theorists. Every department, it seems, is either...

The Furtwangler Sound, 5th ed.
September 1, 1998... 5th ed. By John Hunt. London: John Hunt (Flat 6, 37 Chester Way, London SEll 4UR), 1996. [248 p. ISBN 09525827-4-0. $30.] Forty-four years after his death in 1954, Wilhelm Furtwangler remains one of the most significant conductors of the...

Wilhelm Furtwangler: A Discography.
September 1, 1998... By Rent Tremine. Bezons, France: Productions Tahra, 1997; distributed by Jem Music, 303 Fifth Ave., New York, N.Y. 10016. [56 p. $25.] Forty-four years after his death in 1954, Wilhelm Furtwangler remains one of the most significant conductors...

Wilhelm Furtwangler: Concert Listing, 1906-1954.
September 1, 1998... By Rent Tremine. Bezons, France: Productions Tahra, 1997; distributed by Jem Music, 303 Fifth Ave., New York, N.Y. 10016. [68 p. $25.] Forty-four years after his death in 1954, Wilhelm Furtwangler remains one of the most significant conductors...

Music Theory in Concept and Practice.
September 1, 1998... Edited by James M. Baker, David W. Beach, and Jonathan W. Bernard. (Eastman Studies in Music, 8.) Rochester, N.Y.: University of Rochester Press, 1997. [529 pp. ISBN 1-878822-79-9. $120.] This book, a Festschrift honoring Allen Forte on the...

Mahler Studies.
September 1, 1998... Edited by Stephen E. Hefling. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. [xvi, 309 p. ISBN 0-521-47165-6. $59.95.] As one of the newest volumes of single-composer studies published by Cambridge University Press, Mahler Studies, edited by...

The History of the English Organ.
September 1, 1998... By Stephen Bicknell. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. [xxi, 407 p. ISBN 0-521-55026-2. $59.95.] This is the first major study devoted exclusively to the development of the English organ between 900 A.D., when the instrument is...

A Catalog of Music for the Cornett.
September 1, 1998... By Michael Collver and Bruce Dickey. (Publications of the Early Music Institute.) Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1996. [212 p. ISBN 0-25320974-9. $18.95.] By 1700, the cornett (or cornetto or Zink) was already regarded as archaic....

Random House Encyclopedic Dictionary of Classical Music.
September 1, 1998... Edited by David Cummings. New York: Random House, 1997. [iv, 788 p. ISBN 0-67945851-4. $45.] The Random House Encyclopedic Dictionary of Classical Music is the most recent incarnation of the Everyman Dictionary of Music, originally published...

North American Indian Music: A Guide to Published Sources and Selected Recordings.
September 1, 1998... By Richard Keeling. (Garland Library of Music Ethnology, 5; Garland Reference Library of the Humanities, 1440.) New York: Garland Publishing, 1997. [xlix, 420 p. ISBN 0-8153-0232-0. $75.] Those who study and teach the musics of North American...

The Keyboard Music of Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck: Its Style, Significance, and Influence.
September 1, 1998... By Pieter Dirksen. (Muziekhistorische monografieen, 15.) Utrecht: Koninklijke Vereniging voor Nederlandse Muziekgeschiedenis, 1997. [713 p. ISBN 90-6375159-1. Dfl. 150.] This volume will surely be the standard reference for years to come on...

The Catalogus Librorum Musicorum of Jan Evertsen van Doorn.
September 1, 1998... (Catalogi Redivivi.) Utrecht: HES Publishers, 1996. [102 p. ISBN 90-6194-2284. f. 132.50.] Jan Evertsen van Doorn was a bookseller and publisher active in Utrecht from about 1610 until his retirement in 1644. In addition to books, he also...

The Registration of Baroque Organ Music.
September 1, 1998... By Barbara Owen. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1997. [ix, 284 p. ISBN 0-253-33240-0. $39.95.] Barbara Owen's new monograph on the registration of baroque organ music fills an important gap in the literature on keyboard performance...

Antonio Vivaldi: The Red Priest of Venice.
September 1, 1998... By Karl Heller. Translated by David Marinelli. Portland, Ore.: Amadeus Press, 1997. [360 p. ISBN 157467-015-8. $34.95.] It is indeed true, as the author states in the preface to this book, that "a new biography of Antonio Vivaldi certainly does...

Goldoni and the Musical Theatre.
September 1, 1998... Edited by Domenico Pietropaolo. New York: Legas, 1995. [142 p. ISBN 0921252-42-0. Can$15.] The nine essays in Goldoni and the Musical Theatre offer various approaches to analysis and interpretation of eighteenth-century music history and...

After Beethoven: Imperatives of Originality in the Symphony.
September 1, 1998... By Mark Evan Bonds. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1996. [212 p. ISBN 0-674-00855-3. $35.] The impact of literary criticism on musicological inquiry continues unabated. Critical theories that examine music, "deconstructing" it from...

Franz Schubert: A Biography.
September 1, 1998... By Elizabeth Norman McKay. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996. [xiv, 362 p. ISBN 0-19-816523-4. $35.] These two books by established Schubert scholars are among the most substantial recent works in English-language Schubert studies, even given the...

Schubert: The Music and the Man.
September 1, 1998... By Brian Newbould. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997. [465 p. ISBN 0-520-21065-4. $39.95.] These two books by established Schubert scholars are among the most substantial recent works in English-language Schubert studies, even...

Schubert, Muller, and 'Die schone Mullerin.'
September 1, 1998... By Susan Youens. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. [xviii, 245 p. ISBN 0-521-56364-X. $59.95.] Susan Youens's Schubert, Muller, and "Die schone Mullerin" aims to "broaden the frame" (p. xiii) around Franz Schubert's great song cycle...

The Cambridge Companion to Schubert.
September 1, 1998... Edited by Christopher H. Gibbs. (Cambridge Companions to Music.) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. [xiii, 340 p. ISBN 0-52148229-1 (cloth); 0-521-48424-3 (pbk.). $64.95 (cloth); $19.95 (pbk.).] The Cambridge Companion to Schubert...

Franz Danzi: Briefwechsel (1785-1826).
September 1, 1998... Edited by Volkmar von Pechstaedt. Tutzing: Hans Schneider, 1997. [309 p. ISBN 3-7952-0871-8. DM 148.] Franz Danzi (1763-1826) lived at a significant time in the history of European concert music. His career, spanning the transition from the...

New Light on Liszt and His Music: Essays in Honor of Alan Walker's 65th Birthday.
September 1, 1998... Edited by Michael Saffle and James Deaville. (Analecta Lisztiana, 2; Franz Liszt Studies Series, 6.) Stuyvesant, N.Y.: Pendragon Press, 1997. [xix, 338 p. ISBN 0-94519373-4. $54.] Following hard on the heels of Alan Walker's third and final...

Die Tondichtungen von Richard Strauss.
September 1, 1998... By Walter Werbeck. (Dokumente und Studien zu Richard Strauss, 2.) Tutzing: Hans Schneider, 1996. [x, 561 p. ISBN 3-7952-0870-X. DM 225.] This excellent book will add momentum to a recent surge in Strauss studies that is finally bringing Richard...

Alfredo Barili and the Rise of Classical Music in Atlanta.
September 1, 1998... By N. Lee Orr. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1996. [xvi, 292 p. ISBN 0-7885-0137-2. $24.95.] The state of Georgia has hardly begun to be mined for its musical treasures. Some of the wealth is on display in Macon's newly erected Georgia Music Hall...

Music in the Silent Film: Contexts and Case Studies, 1895-1924.
September 1, 1998... By Martin Miller Marks. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. [xvi, 303 p. ISBN 0-19-506891-2. $45.] The origins of film music, a genre ubiquitous yet still little understood, lie in the rapidly receding world of silent film. The phrase...

Irving Berlin, Songs from the Melting Pot: The Formative Years, 1907-1914.
September 1, 1998... By Charles Hamme. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. [xii, 292 p. ISBN 0-19-507188-3. $35.] Charles Hamm's new book on Irving Berlin's early songs is everything we have come to expect from this senior scholar of American music. With its...

Black People: Entertainers of African Descent in Europe and Germany.
September 1, 1998... By Rainer E. Lotz. Bonn: Birgit Lotz Verlag, 1997. [xviii, 398 p. + 1 compact disc. ISBN 3-0803461-8-8. DM 100.] The revelations of Eileen Southern's Music of Black Americans (1971) anticipated the rise and generally accepted legitimacy of...

A View of Berg's 'Lulu' Through the Autograph Sources.
September 1, 1998... By Patricia Hall. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1906. [xi, 184 p. ISBN 0-520-08819-0. $42.] Patricia Hall's thorough and imaginative treatment of Alban Berg's sketches, known from her previous articles, is highlighted in this...

Julian Bream: The Foundations of a Musical Career.
September 1, 1998... By Stuart W. Button. Aldershot, England: Scolar Press, 1997. [xviii, 160 p. ISBN 1-859283-90-X. $59.95.] Stuart Button examines the struggles of the famous English lutenist and guitarist Julian Bream at the very outset of his career. He...

A Day for the Hunter, a Day for the Prey: Popular Music and Power in Haiti.
September 1, 1998... By Gage Averill. (Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology.) Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997. [xxix, 276 p. ISBN 0-226-03292-2 (pbk.). $17.95.] A Day for the Hunter, a Day for the Prey. is about music, language, social style, class,...

Interpreting Popular Music.
September 1, 1998... By David Brackett. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. [xiv, 260 p. ISBN 0-521-47337-3. $54.95.] Job listings, curricula, and publishers' catalogs all confirm it: we are in a boom time for academic popular-music studies. This is a...

Creating Country Music: Fabricating Authenticity.
September 1, 1998... By Richard A. Peterson. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997. [xiv, 306 p. ISBN 0-226-66284-5. $24.95.] Creating Country Music is an important volume. Students of the genre have waited a long time for a book-length study of the "politics...

Saying Something: Jazz Improvisation and Interaction.
September 1, 1998... By Ingrid Monson. (Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology.) Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996. [xii, 253 p. ISBN 0-226-53478-2. $39.95.] Ingrid Monson's closely observed and theoretically rich study of jazz improvisation focuses first on...

Global Pop: World Music, World Markets.
September 1, 1998... By Timothy D. Taylor. New York: Routledge, 1997. [xxiii, 271 p. ISBN 0-415-91872-3. $17.05 (pbk.).] Timothy Taylor's new publication, based in part on his 1993 University of Michigan dissertation, examines the politics of global commercial...

Since Records Began: EMI, the First 100 Years.
September 1, 1998... By Peter Martland. Portland, Ore.: Amadeus Press, 1997. [359 p. ISBN 1-57467-033-6. $39.95.] Peter Martland's Since Records Began: EMI, the First 100 Years is the first book to focus entirely on the history of one of the six multinational...

Twenty Israeli Composers: Voices of a Culture.
September 1, 1998... By Robert Fleisher. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1997. [380 p. ISBN 0-8143-2648-X. $39.95.] In 1986, Robert Fleisher spent two months at the center for visiting artists and scholars known as Mishkenot Sha'ananim opposite the wall of...

Rosa Ponselle: A Centenary Biography.
September 1, 1998... By James A. Drake. Portland, Ore.: Amadeus Press, 1997. [494 p. ISBN: 1-57467-019-0. $39.95.] The life of Rosa Ponselle is usually told as a legend, and like most legends it contains some fact and some fiction. James Drake has tried to be fair...

Believing in Opera.
September 1, 1998... By Tom Sutcliffe. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996. [xv, 464 p. ISBN 0-691-01563-5. $24.95.] In Britain, the title is "producer." The Germans use the French word regisseur, while the French themselves refer to the metteur en scene....

Computer Music: Synthesis, Composition, and Performance, 2d ed.
September 1, 1998... 2d ed. By Charles Dodge and Thomas A. Jerse. New York: Schirmer Books, 1007. [xv, 455 p. ISBN 0-02-864682-7. $42.] This book is a valuable source of techniques for computer sound synthesis and sound processing. It explains the concepts that an...

Graph Theoretical Models of Abstract Musical Transformation: An Introduction and Compendium for Composers and Theorists.
September 1, 1998... By Jeffrey Johnson. (Music Reference Collection, 69.) Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1997. [xii, 900 p. ISBN 0-013-$0158-1. $75.] Jeffrey Johnson's second book for Greenwood Press is designed to provide an introduction to graph theory for...

Music, Gender, Education.
September 1, 1998... By Lucy Green. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. [xii, 282 p. ISBN 0-521-55517-5. $59.95.] This book is not what I expected. It is much more, almost like two books in one. Its two parts encompass quite different content, goals, and...

Mazurki kompozytorow polskich na fortepian: Antologia ze zbiorow Biblioteki Narodowej, 3 vols.
September 1, 1998... Piano Mazurkas of Polish Composers: Anthology from the Collection of the National Library. Chosen, prepared, and edited by Elzbieta Wasowska. Warsaw: Biblioteka Narodowa, 1995. [Vol. 1: nos. 1-40. Facsims., 6 p.; score, p. 1-129. Vol. 2: nos....

Frederic Chopin: Mazurkas.
September 1, 1998... Paris: Henry Lemoine (T. Presser), c1995. [Pref. in Eng., Get., Ft., Span., 2 p.; chronology of Chopin's mazurkas, 2 p.; references consulted, 1 p.; table thematique, 2 p., score, p. 2-226. Cloth. U.L. 190. F 168.] No genre of Frederic...

Stiftsbibliothek Sankt Gallen, Codices 484 and 381, 3 vols.
September 1, 1998... Edited in facsimile with commentary by Wulf Arlt and Susan Rankin in collaboration with Cristina Hospenthal. 3 vols. Winterthur: Amadeus, 1996. [Vol. 1: Commentary (in Ger, Eng.). Foreword, contents, introd., p. 5-18; pt. 1: "The Construction of...

Robert Schumann: Klavierkonzert a-Moll, Opus 54: Faksimile der autographen Partitur.
September 1, 1998... Hrsg. vom Heinrich-Heine-Institut, Dusseldorf mit Geleitworten von Joseph A. Kruse und Akio Mayeda und einer Einfuhrung von Bernhard R. Appel. (Documenta musicologica. Zweite Reihe: Handschriften-Faksimiles, 28.) Kassel: Barenreiter, 1996....

Julius Eichberg: The Doctor of Alcantara (1879); Libretto by Benjamin E. Woolf.
September 1, 1998... Edited by Charlotte R. Kaufman. (Nineteenth-Century American Musical Theater, 12: Early Operetta in America.) New York: Garland, 1994. [Ser. and vol. introd., p. vii-xxi; plates, p. xxii-xxvi; vocal score, 143 p. Cloth; acid-free paper. ISBN...

John Philip Sousa: El Capitan (1896); Libretto by Charles Klein.
September 1, 1998... Edited by Paul E. Bierley. (Nineteenth-Century American Musical Theater, 14: Later Operetta, pt. 1.) New York: Garland, 1994. [Set. and vol. introd., p. vii-xxvi; libretto, p. 1-44; stage manager's guide, p. 45-106; vocal score, p. 107-305....

Reginal de Koven: The Highwayman (1897); Libretto by Harry B. Smith.
September 1, 1998... Edited by Orly Leah Krasner. (Nineteenth-Century American Musical Theater, 15: Later Operetta, pt. 2.) New York: Garland, 1994. [Set. and vol. introd., p. vii-xxviii; libretto, p. 1-108; vocal score, p. 109-327. Cloth; acid-free paper. ISBN...

Walter Damrosch: The Scarlet Letter (1896); Libretto by George Parson Lathrop.
September 1, 1998... Edited by Elise K. Kirk. (Nineteenth-Century American Musical Theater, 16: Grand Opera in America.) New York: Garland, 1994. [Ser. and vol. introd., p. vii-xxi; li- bretto, p. 1-43; vocal score, p. 45355. Cloth; acid-free paper. ISBN...

James Dillon: La femme invisible (for) Chamber Ensemble.
September 1, 1998... [1989]. London: Edition Peters, c1993. [Orchestration, performance notes, notes on the work, 2 p.; score (facsim. reprod. of the composer's ms.), p. 5-79. No. 7404. $50; duration: ca. 16'.] James Dillon. Vernal Showers [for] Solo Violin and...

James Dillon: L'oeuvre au noir (for) Chamber Ensemble and Live Electronics.
September 1, 1998... [1990]. London: Edition Peters, c1993. [Notes on the work, orchestration, performance notes, electronics, 4 p.; score (facsim. reprod. of the composer's ms.), p. 6-72. No. 7406. $45; duration: ca. 11'.] James Dillon. Vernal Showers [for] Solo...

James Dillon: Eileadh sguaibe (for) Brass Ensemble, Percussion, and Live Electronics.
September 1, 1998... [1990]. London: Edition Peters, c1993. [Orchestration, performance notes, electronics, notes on the work, 4 p.; score (facsim. reprod. of the composer's ms.), p. 7-50. No. 7407. $40; duration: ca. 12'.] James Dillon. Vernal Showers [for] Solo...

James Dillon: Introitus (for) Twelve Strings, Tape, and Live Electronics.
September 1, 1998... [1990]. London: Edition Peters, c 1993. [Notes on the work, orchestration, performance notes, electronics, 4 p.; score (facsim. reprod. of the composer's ms.), p. 6-88. No. 7408. $75; duration: 28'.] James Dillon. Vernal Showers [for] Solo...

James Dillon: Second String Quartet.
September 1, 1998... [1991]. London: Edition Peters, c1993. [Performance notes, 1 p.; score (facsim. reprod. of the composer's ms.), p. 3-40. No. 7412. $30; duration: ca. 16'.] James Dillon. Vernal Showers [for] Solo Violin and Chamber Ensemble, [1992]. London:...

John Harbison: Three City Blocks for Wind Ensemble.
September 1, 1998... [1991]. New York: Associated Music Publishers; distributed by Hal Leonard, 1995, c1993. [Program note by the composer and instrumentation, 2 p.; full score, 92 p. ISBN 0-7935-4512-9; AMP-8081; HL50482273. $25; duration: ca. 15'. Performance...

Nicholas Maw: American Games for Symphonic Wind Ensemble.
September 1, 1998... (1991). London: Faber Music, c1996. [Instrumentation, 1 p.; study score, 88 p. ISBN 0-0-571-51444-8. GBP20; duration: ca. 23'. Instrumental parts available on hire from publisher.] Ensembles of wind instruments have undergone a notable...

Bernard Rands: Ceremonial for Symphonic Wind Ensemble.
September 1, 1998... [1992]. U.S.A.: Helicon Music; sole agent: European American Music Distributors, c1993. [Instrumentation, 1 p.; study score, 52 p. Acid-free paper. EA 740. $35; duration: ca. 13'. Full score and parts available on hire.] Ensembles of wind...

Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Lobgesang: Eine Symphonie-Kantate nach Worten der Heiligen Schrift (Symphonie Nr. 2) fur soli, Chor, Orchester und Orgel, Op. 52.
September 1, 1998... Hrsg. von Wulf Konold. Wiesbaden: Breitkopf & Hartel, c1996. [Pref. in Ger., Eng., Fr., 3 p.; 1 plate (title page of the 1st ed.); score, 316 p.; krit. Bericht, 2 p. Partitur-Bibliothek 5102. $118.50; duration: ca. 65'. DM 160.] Over the past...

Ballet Music from the Mannheim Court, part 1.
September 1, 1998... Christian Cannabich: Le rendes-vous, ballet de chasse; Georg Joseph Vogler: Le rendez-vous de chasse, ou Les vendanges interrompues par les chasseurs. Edited by Floyd K. Grave. (Recent Researches in the Music of the Classical Era, 45.) Madison,...

Gian Francesco de Majo: Ifigenia in Tauride.
September 1, 1998... Ifigenia in Tauride. Edited by Paul Corneilson. (Recent Researches in the Music of the Classical Era, 46.) Madison, Wis.: A-R Editions, c1996. [Acknowledgments, p. vii; introd. (opera seria at the Mannheim Court, 1742-1778; Iphigenia and opera...

Ballet Music from the Mannheim Court, part 2.
September 1, 1998... Carl Joseph Toeschi, Mars et Venus; Christian Cannabich, Medee et Jason. Edited by Nicole Baker. (Recent Researches in the Music of the Classical Era, 47.) Madison, Wis.: A-R Editions, c1997. [Pref. and acknowledgments, p. vii-viii; introd....