Notes articles from September 2001

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A BIBLIOGRAPHICAL STUDY OF ANTOINE MEISSONNIER'S PERIODICALS FOR VOICE AND GUITAR, 1811-27.
September 1, 2001... A salient feature of the growing music-publishing industry of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries was the vast production of brief song sheets with simple accompaniment for piano, harp, or guitar. This fashion seems to have been...

ELECTRONIC JOURNALS AND THE FUTURE OF SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION A CASE STUDY.
September 1, 2001... The Journal of Seventeenth-Century Music is not found on any bookshelf, but only on the World Wide Web. [1] I predict that in the year 2030, it will still be publishing on the Web, or whatever its cyberspace successor might be, and will have...

TAKING NOTE: ASSESSING THE PERFORMANCE OF REFERENCE SERVICE IN ACADEMIC MUSIC LIBRARIES.
September 1, 2001... A PROGRESS REPORT Higher education at the turn of the century is faced with dwindling resources and an increased emphasis on accountability. Together with our counterparts in general libraries, music librarians must justify the importance...

Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician & Bach.(Review)
September 1, 2001... Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician. By Christoph Wolff. New York: W. W. Norton, 2000. [xvii, 599 p. ISBN 0-393-04825-X. $39.95.] Bach. By Malcolm Boyd. 3d ed. (The Master Musicians.) Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press,...

Purcell Manuscripts: The Principal Musical Sources.(Review)
September 1, 2001... Purcell Manuscripts: The Principal Musical Sources. By Robert Shay and Robert Thompson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. [xxii, 353 p. ISBN 0-521-58094-3. $90.] It has to be said that there are catalogs of manuscript sources...

"Tristan und Isolde" on Record: A Comprehensive Discography of Wagner's Music Drama with a Critical Introduction to the Recordings.(Review)
September 1, 2001... "Tristan und Isolde" on Record: A Comprehensive Discography of Wagner's Music Drama with a Critical Introduction to the Recordings. By Jonathan Brown. (Discographies, 85.) Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2000. [xvii, 267 p. ISBN...

Reader's Guide to Music: History, Theory, Criticism.(Review)
September 1, 2001... Reader's Guide to Music: History, Theory, Criticism. Edited by Murray Steib. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn, 1999. [xxxvi, 891 p. ISBN 1-57958-143-9. $135.] This volume comprises approximately five hundred entries that "describe and evaluate...

The Divine Office in the Latin MiddleAges: Methodology and SourceStudies, Regional Developments, Hagiography.(Review)
September 1, 2001... The Divine Office in the Latin MiddleAges: Methodology and SourceStudies, Regional Developments, Hagiography. Edited by Margot E. Fassler and Rebecca A. Baltzer. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. [xxiv, 632 p. ISBN...

Henry Lawes: Cavalier Songwriter.(Review)
September 1, 2001... SEVENTEENTH AND EIGHTEENTH CENTURIES Henry Lawes: Cavalier Songwriter. By Ian Spink. (Oxford Monographs on Music.) Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. [xix, 172 p. ISBN 0-19-816556-0. $70.] With some 430 songs to his...

Schutz.(Review)
September 1, 2001... Schutz. By Basil Smallman. (The Master Musicians.) Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. [xvii, 218 p. ISBN 0-19-816674-5. $35.] The life and works of Heinrich Schutz (1585-1672), whom many esteem as the greatest German...

Von Luther zu Bach: Bericht uber die Tagung 22.-25. September 1996 in Eisenach.(My Only Comfort: Death, Deliverance, and Discipleship in the Music of Bach)(Review)
September 1, 2001... Von Luther zu Bach: Bericht uber die Tagung 22.-25. September 1996 in Eisenach. Edited by Renate Steiger. (Internationale Arbeitsgemeinschaft fur Theologische Bachforschung E.V.) Sinzig: Studio, 1999. [287 p. ISBN 3-89564-056-5. DM 68 (pbk.).]...

Dokumente zur Telemann-Rezeption, 1767 bis 1907.(Review)
September 1, 2001... Dokumente zur Telemann-Rezeption, 1767 bis 1907. By Christine Klein. (Schriftenreihe zur Mitteldeutschen Musikgeschichte, ser. 2: Forschungs-beitrage, 1.) Oschersleben: Ziethen, 1998. [xl, 370 P. ISBN 3-932090-31-4 (pbk.).] How does a...

High-Minded and Low-Down: Music in the Lives of Americans, 1800-1861.(Review)
September 1, 2001... High-Minded and Low-Down: Music in the Lives of Americans, 1800-1861. By Nicholas E. Tawa. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 2000. [xiii, 350 p. ISBN 1-55553-443-0 (cloth); 1-55553-442-2 (pbk.). $50 (cloth); $20 (pbk.).] Perhaps no...

Beethoven and His World.(Review)
September 1, 2001... Beethoven and His World. Edited by Scott Burnham and Michael P. Steinberg. (Bard Music Festival Series.) Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000. [x, 383 p. ISBN 0-691-07072-5 (cloth); 0-691-07073-3 (pbk.). $55 (cloth); $19.95 (pbk.).] ...

A Companion to Schubert's Schwanengesang: History, Poets, Analysis, Performance.(Review)
September 1, 2001... A Companion to Schubert's Schwanengesang: History, Poets, Analysis, Performance. Edited by Martin Chusid. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000. [ix, 230 p. ISBN 0-300-07289-9. $35.] What may we expect from the many handbooks and...

The Life of Schubert.(Review)
September 1, 2001... The Life of Schubert. By Christopher H. Gibbs. (Musical Lives.) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. [xiii, 211 p. ISBN 0-521-59426-X (cloth); 0-521-59512-6 (pbk.). $44.95 (cloth); $14.95 (pbk.).] In this new volume of the series...

Freidrich Kuhlau in the Mirror of His Flute Works.(Review)
September 1, 2001... Freidrich Kuhlau in the Mirror of His Flute Works. By Arndt Mehring. Translated by Laszlo and Doris Tikos. Edited by Jane Rausch. (Detroit Monographs in Musicology; Studies in Music, 27.) Warren, Mich.: Harmonie Park Press, 2000. [xviii, 103 p....

The Cambridge Companion to Berlioz.(Review)
September 1, 2001... The Cambridge Companion to Berlioz. Edited by Peter Bloom. (Cambridge Companions to Music.) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. [xxiv, 301 p. ISBN 0-521-59388-3 (cloth); 0-521-59638-5 (pbk.). $64.95 (cloth); $24.95 (pbk.).] A...

Brahms Studies.(Vol. 2.)(Review)
September 1, 2001... Brahms Studies. Vol. 2. Edited by David Brodbeck. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, in association with the American Brahms Society, 1998. [xiii, 242 p. ISBN 0-8032-6196-9. $60.] Like volume 1 of Brahms Studies (1994), this...

The Life of Verdi.(Review)
September 1, 2001... The Life of Verdi. By John Rosselli. (Musical Lives.) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. [x, 204 p. ISBN 0-521-66011-4 (cloth); 0-521-66957-X (pbk.). $49.95 (cloth); $17.95 (pbk.).] The spirit of John Rosselli's biography, issued...

Sound Figures.(Review)
September 1, 2001... Sound Figures. By Theodor W. Adorno. Translated by Rodney Livingstone. (Meridian.) Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1999. [ix, 229 p. ISBN 0-8047-3557-3 (cloth); 0-8047-3558-1 (pbk.). $49.50 (cloth); $16.95 (pbk.).] This first...

Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde & Mahler's Fourth Symphony.(Review)
September 1, 2001... Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde. By Stephen E. Hefling. (Cambridge Music Handbooks.) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. [xiv, 159 p. ISBN 0-521-47534-1 (cloth); 0-52147558-9 (pbk.). $42.95 (cloth); $15.95 (pbk.).] Mahler's Fourth...

Satie the Bohemian: From Cabaret to Concert Hall.(Review)
September 1, 2001... Satie the Bohemian: From Cabaret to Concert Hall. By Steven Moore Whiting. (Oxford Monographs on Music.) Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. [596 p. ISBN 0-19-816458-0. $105.] The central theme of Steven Moore Whiting's...

Louis Laloy (1874-1944) on Debussy, Ravel and Stravinsky.(Review)
September 1, 2001... Louis Laloy (1874-1944) on Debussy, Ravel and Stravinsky. Translated by Deborah Priest. Aldershot, Hants: Ashgate, 1999. [xii, 342 p. ISBN 1-84014-628-1. $83.95] Louis Laloy was a notable early-twentieth-century French music critic and...

Frederick Delius and Peter Warlock: A Friendship Revealed.(Review)
September 1, 2001... Frederick Delius and Peter Warlock: A Friendship Revealed. Edited by Barry Smith. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. [xxii, 542 p. ISBN 0-19-816706-7. $130.] Anyone acquainted with seminal biographical works on Frederick...

Bartok Perspectives: Man, Composer, and Ethnomusicologist.(Review)
September 1, 2001... Bartok Perspectives: Man, Composer, and Ethnomusicologist. Edited by Elliott Antokoletz, Victoria Fischer, and Benjamin Suchoff. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. [xvi, 316 p. ISBN 0-19-512562-2.$65.] In his 1996...

Perspectives on American Music, 1900-1950.(Review)
September 1, 2001... Perspectives on American Music, 1900-1950. Edited by Michael Saffle. (Essays in American Music, 3.) New York: Garland Publishing, 2000. [xi, 415 p. ISBN 0-8153-2145-7. $60.] James R. Heintze and Michael Saffle's four-volume series Essays...

William Grant Still: A Study in Contradictions.(Review)
September 1, 2001... William Grant Still: A Study in Contradictions. By Catherine Parsons Smith. (Music of the African Diaspora, 2.) Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000. [xvi, 368 p. ISBN 0-520-21542-7 (cloth); 0-520-21543-5 (pbk.). $50 (cloth); $19.95...

Leonard Warren: American Baritone.(Review)
September 1, 2001... Leonard Warren: American Baritone. By Mary Jane Phillips-Matz. (Opera Biography Series, 13.) Portland, Ore.: Amadeus Press, 2000. [471 p. ISBN 1-57467-053-0. $39.95.] At last, we have a biography of one of the greatest American baritones...

Tomorrow Never Knows: Rock and Psychedelics in the 1960s.(Sixties Rock: Garage, Psychedelic, and Other Satisfactions)(Review)
September 1, 2001... Tomorrow Never Knows: Rock and Psychedelics in the 1960s. By Nick Bromell. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000. [225 p. ISBN 0-226-07553-2. $22.50.] Sixties Rock: Garage, Psychedelic, and Other Satisfactions. By Michael Hicks....

Music and Humanism: An Essay in the Aesthetics of Music.(Review)
September 1, 2001... Music and Humanism: An Essay in the Aesthetics of Music. By R. A. Sharpe. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. [ix, 221 p. ISBN 0-19-823885-1. $35.] In his extended essay Music and Humanism, R. A. Sharpe claims expressive...

After the Heavenly Tune: English Poetry and the Aspiration to Song.(Review)
September 1, 2001... After the Heavenly Tune: English Poetry and the Aspiration to Song. By Marc Berley. (Medieval and Renaissance Literary Studies.) Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press, 2000. [xii, 418 p. ISBN 0-8207-0316-8. $59.] "Why do almost all of the...

A Theory of Art.(Review)
September 1, 2001... A Theory of Art. By Karol Berger. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. [xii, 287 p. ISBN 0-19-512860-5. $35.] In this work, Karol Berger sets his sights on the global question of the nature of art. The title intrigues: is the...

International Record Review.(Review)
September 1, 2001... International Record Review. Edited by Harriet Smith. Monthly. September 2000. Subscription: International Record Review Limited, 1 Haven Green, Ealing, London W5 2UU, Great Britain or subscriptions@recordreview.co.uk$80/yr (USA and Canada),...

Jazz Improv.(Review)
September 1, 2001... Jazz Improv. Edited by Eric and Jennifer Nemeyer. Quarterly. Vol. 2, no. 4 (2000). Subscription: E.S. Proteus, Inc., P.O. Box 57, Grafton, Vermont 05146-0057 or http://www.jazzimprov.com. $39.95/yr (United States), $59.95/yr (Canada), $89.95/yr...

Bel Canto: A History of Vocal Pedagogy.(Review)
September 1, 2001... Bel Canto: A History of Vocal Pedagogy. By James Stark. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1999. [xxv, 325 p. ISBN 0-8020-4703-3. $75.] James Stark's study of bel canto, the historic vocal method developed in Italy during the baroque...

Heart to Heart: Expressive Singing in England, 1780-1830.(Review)
September 1, 2001... Heart to Heart: Expressive Singing in England, 1780-1830. By Robert Toft. (Oxford Early Music Series.) Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. [xv, 198 p. ISBN 0-19-816662-1. $60.] Robert Toft's book on performance practices in...

The Cambridge Companion to Singing.(Review)
September 1, 2001... The Cambridge Companion to Singing. Edited by John Potter. (Cambridge Companions to Music.) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. [x, 286 p. ISBN 0-521-62225-5 (cloth); 0-521-62709-5 (pbk.). $59.95 (cloth); $21.95 (pbk.).] Joining...

Zarzuela: Spanish Operetta, American Stage.(Review)
September 1, 2001... Zarzuela: Spanish Operetta, American Stage. By Janet L. Sturman. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2000. (Music in American Life.) [x, 243. ISBN 0-252-02596-2. $29.95.] The zarzuela is the only musical genre named after a bush. Well, in...

Kiyomoto-bushi: Narrative Music of the Kabuki Theatre.(Review)
September 1, 2001... Kiyomoto-bushi: Narrative Music of the Kabuki Theatre. By Alison McQueen Tokita. (Studien zur traditionellen Musik Japans, 8.) Kassel: Barenreiter, 1999. [400 p. ISBN 3-7618-1469-0. DM 68.] Kiyomoto-bushi (or kiyamoto) is a branch of...

La cappella musicale di San Marco nell'eta moderna: Atti del convegno internazionale di studi, Venezia, Palazzo Giustinian Lolin, 5-7 settembre 1994.(Review)
September 1, 2001... La cappella musicale di San Marco nell'eta moderna: Atti del convegno internazionale di studi, Venezia, Palazzo Giustinian Lolin, 5-7 settembre 1994. Edited by Francesco Passadore and Franco Rossi. (Serie III, Studi musico-logici, B: Atti di...

Journal of Music in China.(Review)
September 1, 2001... Journal of Music in China. Edited by Qinru Zhou. Biannual. Vol. 2, no. 2 (October 2000). Subscription: Music in China, Inc., P.O. Box 251737, Los Angeles, CA 90025-9126. Institutions: $70/yr, Individuals: $40/yr, Students: $30/yr. ISSN...

Manchester Sounds.(Review)
September 1, 2001... Manchester Sounds. The Manchester Musical Heritage Trust. Edited by David Fallows and Rosemary Williamson. Vol. 1 (2000). Subscription: John Turner, 40, Parsonage Road, Heaton Moor, Stockport, SK4 4JR, Great Britian. [pound]5/yr. ISSN...

The Pendragon Review: A Journal of Musical Romanticism.(Review)
September 1, 2001... The Pendragon Review: A Journal of Musical Romanticism. Edited by Michael Saffle. Biannual. Vol. 1, no. 1 (Spring 2001). Subscription: Pendragon Press, 52 White Hill Lane, Hillsdale, NY 12529. Individuals: $36/yr, Institutions: $48/yr. ISSN...

International Classical Record Collector.(now Classical Record Collector)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... International Classical Record Collector (ISSN 1357-8189) changed its title with the Winter 2000 issue to Classical Record Collector.

MLA Newsletter.(Music Library Association, online)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... The MLA Newsletter (ISSN 0580-289X) is now only available online at www.musiclibraryassoc.org.

New Soundscape Newsletter.(Soundscape: The Journal of Acoustic Ecology)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... New Soundscape Newsletter changed its title with the Spring 2000 issue to Soundscape: The Journal of Acoustic Ecology.

Notes.(publication now online)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... Notes (ISSN 0027-4380) is now available online by Project Muse at muse. jhu.edu/journals/not. The ISSN number for the electronic version is ISSN 1534-1504X.

Open Ear.(changes name to Open Ear Journal: Dedicated to Sound and Music in Healing and Education)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... Open Ear (ISSN 1524-4024) changed its title in 2000 to Open Ear Journal: Dedicated to Sound and Music in Healing and Education.

Research Chronicle.(changes name to The Royal Musical Association Research Chronicle)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... Research Chronicle (ISSN 0080-4460) of the Royal Musical Association changed its title to The Royal Musical Association Research Chronicle.

Sonneck Society Bulletin.(changes name to The Bulletin of the Society for American Music)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... The Sonneck Society Bulletin (ISSN 0196-7967) changed its title with vol. 26, no. 1 (Spring 2000) to The Bulletin of the Society for American Music. It is now available online at American-Music.org/bulletn/bullindx.htm.

William Byrd.(Latin Motets II )(Review)
September 1, 2001... William Byrd. Latin Motets II (from Manuscript Sources). Edited by Warwick Edwards. (The Byrd Edition, 9.) London: Stainer & Bell, c2000. [Gen. pref. p. iv; pref. p. v-vii; editorial notes, p. vii-xiv; texts and trans., p. xxv-xix; score, p....

William Walton.(William Walton. Symphony No. 1, William Walton. Shorter Choral Works without Orchestra)(Review)
September 1, 2001... William Walton. Shorter Choral Works without Orchestra. Edited by Timothy Brown. (William Walton Edition, 6.) Oxford; New York: Music Department, Oxford University Press, c1999. [Pref., p. v-x; sources, p. xi-xiii; textual notes, p. xv-xx;...

Claude Debussy.(Claude Debussy. Nocturnes, Claude Debussy. Nocturnes: I. Nuages - II. Fetes - III. Sirenes, 1898 - 1899)(Review)
September 1, 2001... Claude Debussy. Nocturnes. Edition de Denis Herlin. (Euvres completes, ser. V, vol. 3.) Paris: Durand, c1999. [Gen. pref. in Fr., Eng., p. ix; foreword, p. xi-xxv; select bibliog., p. xxvii; score, 137 p.; abbrevs., p. 139-41; crit. notes, p....

Gioachino Rossini.(Gioachino Rossini. Cantata in onore del Sommo Pontefice Pio Nono)(Review)
September 1, 2001... Gioachino Rossini. Cantata in onore del Sommo Pontefice Pio Nono. Poesia di Giovanni Marchetti. Prima esecuzione: Roma - Aula Massima del Palazzo Senatoria sul Campidoglio le sera del [1.sum.[degree]] gennaro 1847. A cura di Mauro Bucarelli....

Stefano Landi.(Stefano Landi. La morte d'Orfeo: Tragicommedia pastorale)(Review)
September 1, 2001... Stefano Landi. La morte d'Orfeo: Tragicommedia pastorale. Edited by Silvia Herzog. (Recent Researches in the Music of the Baroque Era, 98.) Madison, Wisc.: A-R Editions, c1999. [Introd., p. vii-xvi; text and trans., p. xvii-xxxviii; 4 plates;...

Thomas Morley, Matthew Jeffries & Henry Aldrich.(Thomas Morley. II, Services, Matthew Jeffries. Consort, Full, and Verse Anthems, Henry Aldrich. Selected Anthems and Motet Recompositions)(Review)
September 1, 2001... Thomas Morley. II, Services. Transcribed and edited by John Morehen. (Early English Church Music, 41.) London: Published for the British Academy by Stainer and Bell, c1998. [Foreword, 1 p.; acknowledgments, 1 p.; introd., p. ix-xiii; score, 101...

Dedication Service for St. Gertrude's Chapel, Hamburg, 1607.(Review)
September 1, 2001... Dedication Service for St. Gertrude's Chapel, Hamburg, 1607. Edited by Frederick K. Gable. (Recent Researches in the Music of the Baroque Era, 91.) Madison, Wisc.: A-R Editions, c1998. [Acknowledgments, p. vi; introd., p. vii-xxxv; texts and...

Iacobus Gallus.(Iacobus Gallus. Harmoniae morales, Iacobus Callus. Moralia, Iacobus Gallus. V rokopisu ohranjene skladbe = Compositions Preserved in Manuscript)(Review)
September 1, 2001... Iacobus Gallus. Harmoniae morales. Transcription and revision by Edo Skulj. (Monumenta artis musicac Sloveniac, 26.) Ljubljana: Slovenska akademija znanosti in umetnosti, 1996. [Introd., editorial notes, trans. in Slov., Eng. p. xi-xxxv;...

The Robert Bloom Collection.(The Robert Bloom Collection: Solo Works and Chamber Music for Oboe)(Review)
September 1, 2001... The Robert Bloom Collection: Solo Works and Chamber Music for Oboe. Composed and edited by Robert Bloom; [with prefaces by Sarah Lambert Bloom.] First edition. Cranberry Isles, Maine: The Robert Bloom Collection, 1998. [Preface, 16 p. $5....

COMMUNICATIONS.(Review)
September 1, 2001... 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...