Notes articles from September 2000

Notes archives from September 2000

THE NEW GROVE, SECOND EDITION.(George Grove)
September 1, 2000... I should like to begin by thanking the organizers of this conference for kindly inviting me to come here and talk to you, and to give me this opportunity to meet the front-rank users of the work in which I have been engaged over the last thirty...

THE GENESIS OF A MUSIC LIBRARY: SUNY AT BUFFALO.(The University of Buffalo)
September 1, 2000... PART 1 BY CAROL JUNE BRADLEY SUNY AT BUFFALO AND ITS MUSIC DEPARTMENT The University of Buffalo was chartered by the New York State Legislature on 11 May 1846. A medical school was the sole academic department until a school of...

HENRY COWELL AT THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY: A WHOLE WORLD OF MUSIC.
September 1, 2000... On 20 June 2000, the Henry Cowell Collection was opened to the public. Access, since Cowell's death thirty-five years ago, had been restricted by the composer's widow, Sidney Robertson Cowell. No one was permitted to see these materials except...

A VISIT TO PIANOPOLIS: BRAZILIAN MUSIC FOR PIANO AT THE BIBLIOTECA ALBERTO NEPOMUCENO.
September 1, 2000... The rich musical heritage and vital musical traditions of Brazil are the subject of increasing interest throughout the world. Contemporary popular musicians draw large and enthusiastic audiences in the United States, where knowledge of...

Stravinsky: A Creative Spring: Russia and France, 1882-1934.(Review)
September 1, 2000... Stravinsky: A Creative Spring: Russia and France, 1882-1934. By Stephen Walsh. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1999. [xvii, 698 p. ISBN 0-679-41484-3. $35.] When Alfredo Casella's 1926 biography of Igor Stravinsky was released (Igor Strawinski...

The Stravinsky Legacy.(Review)
September 1, 2000... The Stravinsky Legacy. By Jonathan Cross. (Music in the Twentieth Century.) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. [xi, 282 p. ISBN 0-521-56365-8. $64.95.] Though most of us, save Theodor Adorno, would not pair Richard Wagner and...

Concerto Conversations.(Review)
September 1, 2000... Concerto Conversations. By Joseph Kerman. (The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures, 1997-98.) Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1999. [175 p. + 1 compact disc. ISBN 0-674-15891-1. $24.95.] The set of Norton Lectures given by Joseph...

Fantasy Pieces: Metrical Dissonance in the Music of Robert Schumann.(Review)
September 1, 2000... Fantasy Pieces: Metrical Dissonance in the Music of Robert Schumann. By Harald Krebs. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. [xii, 290 p. ISBN 0-19-511623-2. $65.] Harald Krebs has spent a good deal of his professional life in the...

Schenker Studies 2.(Review)
September 1, 2000... Schenker Studies 2. Edited by Carl Schachter and Hedi Siegel. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. [xiii, 319 p. ISBN 0-521-47011-0. $85.] This wide-ranging collection of essays, many of which originated as papers presented at the...

Classical Form: A Theory of Formal Functions for the Instrumental Music of Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven.(Review)
September 1, 2000... Classical Form: A Theory of Formal Functions for the Instrumental Music of Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven. By William E. Caplin. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. [xii, 307 p. ISBN 0-19-510480-3. $75.] "When we listen to a Mozart piano...

Phantasmagoria: A Sociology of Opera.(Review)
September 1, 2000... Phantasmagoria: A Sociology of Opera. By David T. Evans. (Popular Cultural Studies, 14.) Aldershot, England: Ashgate, 1999. [x, 489 p. ISBN 1-85742-209-0. $43.95 (pbk.).] This is a profoundly cynical book, described by its author as "a...

When Literature Becomes Opera: Study of a Transformational Process.(Review)
September 1, 2000... When Literature Becomes Opera: Study of a Transformational Process. By Leonard Rosmarin. (Chiasma, 8.) Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1999. [160 p. ISBN 90-420-0694-3. $30.] In this book, Leonard Rosmarin, a professor of French at Brock University in...

The Illustrated Companion to South Indian Classical Music.(Review)
September 1, 2000... The Illustrated Companion to South Indian Classical Music. By Ludwig Pesch. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1999. [xvii, 376 p. ISBN 0-19-564382-8. $39.95.] Newcomers to the music of the Indian subcontinent often find the many music...

A Biographical Dictionary of English Court Musicians, 1485-1714.(Review)
September 1, 2000... A Biographical Dictionary of English Court Musicians, 1485-1714. Compiled by Andrew Ashbee and David Lasocki. Aldershot, England: Ashgate, 1998. [xxvi,. 1249 p. in 2 vols. ISBN 1-85928-087-0. $150.] Those interested in English musical...

Georg Philipp Telemann: Thematisch-Systematisches Verzeichnis seiner Werke: Telemann-Werkverzeichnis (TWV): Instrumentalwerke.(Review)
September 1, 2000... Georg Philipp Telemann: Thematisch-Systematisches Verzeichnis seiner Werke: Telemann-Werkverzeichnis (TWV): Instrumentalwerke. Vol. 3. Ed. Martin Ruhnke. (George Philipp Telemann. Musikalische Werke. Supplement.) Kassel: Barenreiter, 1999....

Joseph Martin Kraus (1756-1792): A Systematic-Thematic Catalogue of His Musical Works and Source Study.(Review)
September 1, 2000... Joseph Martin Kraus (1756-1792): A Systematic-Thematic Catalogue of His Musical Works and Source Study. By Bertil H. van Boer Jr. (Thematic Catalogues, 26.) Stuyvesant, N.Y.: Pendragon Press, 1998. [xxx, 342 p. ISBN 0-945193-69-6. $76.] ...

A Descriptive Catalogue of the Music of Charles Ives.(Review)
September 1, 2000... A Descriptive Catalogue of the Music of Charles Ives. By James B. Sinclair. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999. [xxv, 752 P. ISBN 0-300-07601-0. $75.] In January 1955, John Kirkpatrick (1905-1991) persuaded Harmony Twichell Ives that...

Olivier Messiaen: A Bibliographical Catalogue of Messiaen's Works.(Review)
September 1, 2000... Olivier Messiaen: A Bibliographical Catalogue of Messiaen's Works. By Nigel Simeone. (Musikbibliographische Arbeiten, 14.) Tutzing: Hans Schneider, 1998. [xix, 249 p. ISBN 3-7952-0947-1. DM 142.] The first thing that strikes the reader...

Discographie der ethnischen Aufnahmen.(Review)
September 1, 2000... Discographie der ethnischen Aufnahmen. Vol. 1. By Rainer E. Lotz, Andreas Masel, and Susanne Ziegler. (Deutsche National-Discographie, Ser. 5.) Bonn: Birgit Lotz Verlag, 1998. [x, 275 p. ISBN 3-9805808-2-2. DM 100.] Rainer Lotz is the...

A Critical Text and Translation, with an Introduction, Annotations, Indices, and New Manuscript Inventories.(Review)
September 1, 2000... Guido d'Arezzo's Regule rithmice, Prologus in antiphonarium, and Epistola ad Michahelem: A Critical Text and Translation, with an Introduction, Annotations, Indices, and New Manuscript Inventories. By Dolores Pesce. (Musicological Studies, 73.)...

Renaissance Music: Music in Western Europe, 1400-1600.(Review)
September 1, 2000... Renaissance Music: Music in Western Europe, 1400-1600. By Allan W. Atlas. (The Norton Introduction to Music History.) New York: W. W. Norton, 1998. [xxi, 729 p. ISBN 0-393-97169-4. $32.] Music in the Age of the Renaissance. By Leeman L....

Gestalt und Entstehung musikalischer Quellen im 15. und 16. Jahrhundert.(Review)
September 1, 2000... Gestalt und Entstehung musikalischer Quellen im 15. und 16. Jahrhundert. Edited by Martin Staehelin. (Quellen-studien zur Musik der Renaissance, 3; Wolfenbutteler Forschungen, 83.) Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1998. [243 p. ISBN 3-447-04118-8. DM...

Music, Science, and Natural Magic in Seventeenth-Century England.(Review)
September 1, 2000... Music, Science, and Natural Magic in Seventeenth-Century England. By Penelope Gouk. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999. [xii, 308 p. ISBN 0-300-07383-6. $35.] Several scholars have investigated the connection between music and magic in...

Bach's Works for Solo Violin: Style, Structure, Performance.(Review)
September 1, 2000... Bach's Works for Solo Violin: Style, Structure, Performance. By Joel Lester. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. [x, 186 p. ISBN 0-19-512097-3. $29.95.] Johann Sebastian Bach's sonatas and suites for unaccompanied strings have been a...

Strong on Music: The New York Music Scene in the Days of George Templeton Strong. Vol. 3: Repercussions, 1857-1862.(Review)
September 1, 2000... Strong on Music: The New York Music Scene in the Days of George Templeton Strong. Vol. 3: Repercussions, 1857-1862. By Vera Brodsky Lawrence. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999. [xxviii, 630 p. ISBN 0-226-47015-6 (cloth); 0-226-47016-4...

Blind Tom, the Black Pianist-Composer (1849-1908): Continually Enslaved.(Review)
September 1, 2000... Blind Tom, the Black Pianist-Composer (1849-1908): Continually Enslaved. By Geneva Handy Southall. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, 1999. [xvii, 214 p. ISBN 0-8108-3594-0. $35.] Biographies of nineteenth-century American musicians have been...

Nineteenth-Century British Music Studies.(Review)
September 1, 2000... Nineteenth-Century British Music Studies. Vol. 1. Edited by Bennett Zon. (Music in Nineteenth-Century Britain.) Aldershot, England: Ashgate, 1999. [xix, 324 p. ISBN 1-84014-259-6. $72.95.] This book comprises fifteen papers given at the...

Tchaikovsky and His Contemporaries: A Centennial Symposium.(Review)
September 1, 2000... Tchaikovsky and His Contemporaries: A Centennial Symposium. Edited by Alexandar Mihailovic. (Contributions to the Study of Music and Dance, 49.) Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1999. [xiv, 418 p. ISBN 0-313-30825-X. $69.50.] In October...

Hugo Wolf and the Wagnerian Inheritance.(Review)
September 1, 2000... Hugo Wolf and the Wagnerian Inheritance. By Amanda Glauert. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. [vii, 161 p. ISBN 0-521-49637-3. $54.95.] Will Crutchfield maintained in the New York Times (15 July 1999) that Hugo Wolf and others...

Saint-Saens: A Critical Biography.(Review)
September 1, 2000... Saint-Saens: A Critical Biography. By Stephen Studd. London: Cygnus Arts, 1999. [x, 356 p. ISBN 1-900541-65-3. $49.50.] Camille Saint-Saens was arguably the most famous and influential composer in France at the turn of the last century, a...

Dvorak: Cello Concerto.(Review)
September 1, 2000... Dvorak: Cello Concerto. By Jan Smaczny. (Cambridge Music Handbooks.) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. [x, 120 p. ISBN 0-521-66050-5 (cloth); 0-521-66903-0 (pbk.). $44.95 (cloth); $15.95 (pbk.).] In this monograph, Jan Smaczny...

Schoenberg and His World.(Review)
September 1, 2000... Schoenberg and His World. Edited by Walter Frisch. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999. [xi, 352 p. ISBN 0-691-04860-6 (cloth); 0-691-04861-4 (pbk.). $55 (cloth); $19.95 (pbk.).] Roughly half of Walter Frisch's Schoenberg and His...

Szymanowski on Music: Selected Writings of Karol Szymanowski.(Review)
September 1, 2000... Szymanowski on Music: Selected Writings of Karol Szymanowski. Translated and edited by Alistair Wightman. (Musicians on Music, 6.) London: Toccata Press, 1999. [390 p. ISBN 0-907689-38-8. [pounds]35.] One hundred and eighteen years have...

Britten and the Far East: Asian Influences in the Music of Benjamin Britten.(Review)
September 1, 2000... Britten and the Far East: Asian Influences in the Music of Benjamin Britten. By Mervyn Cooke. (Aldeburgh Studies in Music, 4.) Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 1998. [xx, 279 p. ISBN 0-85115-579-0. $81.] The influence of Asian music on...

The Cambridge Companion to Benjamin Britten.(Review)
September 1, 2000... The Cambridge Companion to Benjamin Britten. Edited by Mervyn Cooke. (Cambridge Companions to Music.) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. [xviii, 350 p. ISBN 0-52157384-X (cloth); 0-521-57476-5 (pbk.). $59.95 (cloth); $22.95 (pbk.).]...

William Walton: Music and Literature.(Review)
September 1, 2000... William Walton: Music and Literature. Edited by Stewart R. Craggs. Aldershot, England: Ashgate, 1999. [xiv, 269 p. ISBN 1-85928-190-7. $96.95.] As Michael Pope states in his foreword to this volume of essays on the life and work of William...

To Boulez and Beyond: Music in Europe since The Rite of Spring.(Review)
September 1, 2000... To Boulez and Beyond: Music in Europe since The Rite of Spring. By Joan Peyser. New York: Billboard Books, 1999. [xvii, 382 p. ISBN 0-8230-7875-2. $24.95.] In To Boulez and Beyond: Music in Europe since "The Rite of Spring, "Joan Peyser...

A Blues Life.(Review)
September 1, 2000... A Blues Life. By Henry Townsend and Bill Greensmith. (Music in American Life.) Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1999. [xiv, 145 p. ISBN 0-252 02526-1. $24.95.] Henry Townsend, born in 1909, is an African American blues singer and...

Alice Tully: An Intimate Portrait.(Review)
September 1, 2000... Alice Tully: An Intimate Portrait. By Albert Fuller. (Music in American Life.) Urbana, Ill.: University of Illinois Press, 1999. [xi, 156 p. ISBN 0-252-02509-1. $29.95.] Women's music patronage has recently emerged from the margins of...

Lily Pons: A Centennial Portrait.(Review)
September 1, 2000... Lily Pons: A Centennial Portrait. Edited by James A. Drake and Kristin Beall Ludecke. (Opera Biography Series, 11.) Portland, Ore.: Amadeus Press, 1999. [250 p. ISBN 1-57467-047-6. $29.95.] Nicolai Gedda: My Life and Art. By Nicolai Gedda...

The Beatles as Musicians: Revolver through the Anthology.(Review)
September 1, 2000... The Beatles as Musicians: Revolver through the Anthology. By Walter Everett. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. [xix, 395 p. ISBN 0-19-509553-7 (cloth); 0-19-512941-5 (pbk.). $65 (cloth); $24.95 (pbk.).] This long-awaited book by...

Frock Rock: Women Performing Popular Music.(Review)
September 1, 2000... Frock Rock: Women Performing Popular Music. By Mavis Bayton. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. [xii, 246 p. ISBN O-19-816615-X. $35.] The "frock" in "frock rock" is something of a misnomer, referring to the perception of women rather...

A History of the Portuguese Fado.(Review)
September 1, 2000... A History of the Portuguese Fado. By Paul Vernon. Aldershot, England: Ashgate, 1998. [xxii, 114 p. + 1 compact disc. ISBN 1-85928-377-2. $67.95.] Paul Vernon first encountered Portuguese fado music accidentally in 1987 in a secondhand shop...

The Muse That Sings: Composers Speak about the Creative Process.(Review)
September 1, 2000... The Muse That Sings: Composers Speak about the Creative Process. By Ann McCutchan. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. [xv, 262 p. ISBN 0-19-512707-2. $35.] In The Muse That Sings, Ann McCutchan has fashioned into monologues the raw...

The Sounds of Commerce: Marketing Popular Film Music.(Review)
September 1, 2000... The Sounds of Commerce: Marketing Popular Film Music. By Jeff Smith. (Film and Culture.) New York: Columbia University Press, 1998. [x, 288 p. ISBN 0-231-10862-X (cloth); 0-231-10862-1 (pbk.). $57 (cloth); $19 (pbk.).] A mere ten years...

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.(Review)
September 1, 2000... Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Skizzen. Vorgelegt von Ulrich Konrad. (Neue Ausgabe samtliche Werke, Ser. X: Supplement; Werkgruppe 30: Studien, Skizzen, Entwurfe, Fragmente, Varia, Bd. 3.) Kassel: Barenreiter, 1998. [Text volume (paper)....

Giuseppe Verdi.(Review)
September 1, 2000... Giuseppe Verdi. Il corsaro: [Melodramma tragico in Three Acts]; libretto by Francesco Maria Piave. Edited by Elizabeth Hudson. (The Works of Giuseppe Verdi, ser. I: Operas, vol. 13.) Chicago: University of Chicago Press; Milan: Ricordi, 1998....

John Field.(Critical Essay)
September 1, 2000... John Field. Nocturnes and Related Pieces. Edited by Robin Langley. (Musica Britannica, 71.) London: Stainer and Bell, 1997. [Pref. in Eng., Fr., Ger., p. xvii-xix; introd., p. xxi-xxviii; editorial method, p. xxix; acknowledgments, p. xxx;...

Dieterich Buxtehude.(works)(Critical Essay)
September 1, 2000... Dieterich Buxtehude. Preludes, Toccatas, and Ciacconas for Organ (pedaliter). Edited by Michael Belotti. (The Collected Works, vol. 15: Keyboard Works, pt. 1.) New York: The Broude Trust, 1998. [Sec. A: Music. Frontispiece; ser. introd., p....

Augusto Kuhnel.(Critical Essay)
September 1, 2000... Augusto Kuhnel. Sonate o partite ad una o due viole da gamba, con il basso continuo [Kassel, 1698]. Facsimile reprint of Gesamthochschul-Bibliothek Kassel 2[degrees] Mus. 44. Introduction: Piet Stryckers. Peer: Alamire, c1996. (Facsimile Series...

John Hingeston.(Critical Essay)
September 1, 2000... John Hingeston. The Suites for Five & Six Viols. Second edition. Edited by John Dornenburg. (Viol Consort Series, 6.) Albany, Calif.: PRB Productions, 1995, c1991. [Introd., 1 p.; 2 scores, 40, 29 p. and 7 parts. ISBN 1-56571-139-4; PRB JH....

Giovanni Contino.(Critical Essay)
September 1, 2000... Giovanni Contino. Missarum quatuor vocum, liber primus (1561). A cura di Ottavio Beretta. (Monumenti musicali italiani, 18.) (Opere di antichi musicisti bresciani, 6.) Milano: Edizioni Suvini Zerboni, 1995. [Prefazione, p. vii-xxv; criteri...

Luciano Berio.(Critical Essay)
September 1, 2000... Luciano Berio. Glosse per quartetto d'archi (1997). Vienna; London: Philharmonia Partituren in der Universal Edition, [1998], c1997. [Note in Ital., Eng., 1 p.; score, 20 p. ISMN M-008-05969-8; Philharmonia No. 546. DM 16; duration: 23'.] ...

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September 1, 2000... 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...

Correction.(Correction Notice)
September 1, 2000... A typesetting error left undetected by the editorial staff obscured the meaning of a passage in Stephen Blum's review of A Question of Balance by Taylor Aitken Greer (Notes, March 2000, pp. 731-33). In the paragraph beginning at the middle of...