Notes articles from September 2002

Notes archives from September 2002

The origins of the music collections in the University of Toronto library: a tale of two scores.(Nania (imprints) by Hermann Goetz)(Statistical Data Included)
September 1, 2002... The Library of the of Music, University of Toronto, holds two copies of the twenty-four-page vocal score of Nania, a setting by Hermann Goetz for chorus and orchestra of Friedrich Schiller's poem "Nanie" in an English version by the Reverend J....

"Un cabinet de musique"--the library of an eighteenth-century musician.(Gabriel-Vincent Thevenard, France)(Statistical Data Included)
September 1, 2002... Gabriel-Vincent Thevenard (1669-1741) was a leading singer at the Paris Opera during its early, formative years. He was born probably in Orleans, but possibly in Paris (see plate 1), and is said to have been the son of a food merchant in whose...

The Music Library Association has announced its publication awards for 2000. (Notes for Notes).(United States)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... The Music Library Association has announced its publication awards for 2000. The Vincent H. Duckles Award for the best book-length bibliography or other research tool in music was presented to Robert Shay and Robert Thompson for Purcell...

Other MLA awards. (Notes for Notes).(Music Library Association, United States)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... Other MLA Awards. The Walter Gerboth Award was presented to John F. Anderies (Music Librarian, Haverford College) for his project "Tri-College Digital Music Initiative: Developing a Core Integrated Collection." The committee summarized the...

Kathryn E. (Kay) Burnett was recently named the first recipient of the music OCLC users group (MOUG) distinguished service award. (Notes for Notes).(Ohio College Library Center)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... Kathryn E. (Kay) Burnett was recently named the first recipient of the Music OCLC Users Group (MOUG) Distinguished Service Award. This award has been established to recognize and honor a librarian who has made significant professional...

The northwestern university music library (Don L. Roberts, head music librarian) has received over three hundred manuscripts composed or arranged by Robert Russell Bennett. (Notes for Notes).(grandson, Kean K. McDonald donation)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... The Northwestern University Music Library (Don L. Roberts, Head Music Librarian) has received over three hundred manuscripts composed or arranged by Robert Russell Bennett. The composer's grandson, Kean K. McDonald, donated this significant...

The University of Nebraska-Lincoln Music Library (Anita Breckbill, head) announces the dedication of the Rokahr Family Archive. (Notes for Notes).(opera music manuscript collection)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... The University of Nebraska-Lincoln Music Library (Anita Breckbill, Head) announces the dedication of the Rokahr Family Archive, one of the premier private collections of printed opera scores and related material. Jack Rokahr, an alumnus,...

With the acquisition during the 2001-2 academic year of eight important imprints dating from 1538 to 1568. (Notes for Notes).(Walter F. and Alice Gorham Collection of Early Music Imprints, 1501-1650 at Brandeis University Libraries)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... With the acquisition during the 2001-2 academic year of eight important imprints dating from 1538 to 1568, good fortune continued to shine upon the Walter F. and Alice Gorham Collection of Early Music Imprints, 1501-1650, located in the...

The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz. (Book Reviews: Reference).
September 1, 2002... The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz. 2d ed. Edited by Barry Kernfeld. London: Macmillan; New York: Grove's Dictionaries, 2002. [3 vols. ISBN 1-56159-284-6. $550.] Music examples, illustrations, bibliographies. The end of the last millennium...

Musical Memorials for Musicians: A Guide to Selected Compositions. (Book Reviews: Reference).
September 1, 2002... Musical Memorials for Musicians: A Guide to Selected Compositions. By R. Michael Fling. (MLA Index and Bibliography Series, 29.) Lanham, Md., Scarecrow Press and the Music Library Association, 2001. [376 p. ISBN 08108-401 3-8.$49.95.]...

Private Music Collections: Catalogs and Cognate Literature. (Book Reviews: Reference).
September 1, 2002... Private Music Collections: Catalogs and Cognate Literature. By James B. Coover. (Detroit Studies in Music Bibliography, 8.) Warren, Mich.: Harmonie Park Press, 2001. [xxxviii, 718 p. ISBN 0-89990-099-2. $75.] Index. Music historians have...

Music Since 1900. (Book Reviews: Reference).
September 1, 2002... Music Since 1900. 6th ed. By Laura Kuhn; Nicolas Slonimsky, editor emeritus. New York: Schirmer Reference, 2001. [xvii, 1174 p. ISBN 0-02-864787-4. $175.] Index. While Nicolas Slonimsky was preparing the first edition of Music Since 1900...

Making Music Modern: New York in the 1920s. (Book Reviews: Music Since 1900).
September 1, 2002... Making Music Modern: New York in the 1920s. By Carol J. Oja. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. [xii, 493 p. ISBN 0-19-505849-6. $39.95.] Music examples, illustrations, discography, bibliography, index. In her much anticipated study of...

Faure and French Musical Aesthetics. (Book Reviews: Music Since 1900).
September 1, 2002... Faure and French Musical Aesthetics. By Carlo Caballero. (Music in the Twentieth Century.) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. [xi, 333 p. ISBN 0-521-78107-8. $64.95.] Music examples, bibliography, index. Carlo Caballero has...

La vie musicale sous Vichy. (Book Reviews: Music Since 1900).
September 1, 2002... La vie musicale sous Vichy. Sous la direction de Myriam Chimenes. Brussels: Editions Complexe, 2001. [420 p. ISBN 2870278640. [euro]28.81.] Music examples, illustrations, index. In recent years there has been a growing interest in the...

The Music of Toru Takemitsu & Toru Takemitsu: A Rio-Bibliography. (Book Reviews: Music Since 1900).
September 1, 2002... The Music of Toru Takemitsu. By Peter Burt. (Music in the 20th Century.) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. [x, 294 p. ISBN 0521-78220-1. $64.95.] Music examples, diagrams, bibliography, index. Toru Takemitsu: A Rio-Bibliography....

Elliott Carter ou le temps fertile. (Book Reviews: Music Since 1900).
September 1, 2002... Elliott Carter ou le temps fertile. By Max Noubel. Geneve: Editions Contrechamps, 2000. [321 p. ISBN 2-940068-17-8. FS 35.] Music examples, lists of works, discography, bibliography, index. European musicians and new music enthusiasts have...

Virtual Music: Computer Synthesis of Musical Style. (Book Reviews: Genre Studies).
September 1, 2002... Virtual Music: Computer Synthesis of Musical Style. By David Cope. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2002. [xiii, 564 p. + 1 CD. ISBN 0-262-03283-X. $45.] Music examples, illustrations, bibliography, index, compact disc. David Cope is well...

Songs in the Key of Z: The Curious Universe of Outsider Music. (Book Reviews: Genre Studies).
September 1, 2002... Songs in the Key of Z: The Curious Universe of Outsider Music. By Irwin Chusid. Chicago: A Cappella Books, 2000. [xxvii, 271 p. ISBN1-55652-372-6. $16.95.] Illustrations, bibliography, discography, index. The term "outsider music" was...

The Sounds of Early Cinema. (Book Reviews: Genre Studies).
September 1, 2002... The Sounds of Early Cinema. Edited by Richard Abel and Rick Altman. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2001. [xvi, 327 p. ISBN 0-25333988-X.. $49.95. (hdbk.); ISBN 0-253-21479-3. $22.95. (pbk.).] Illustrations, bibliography, index. The...

Bernard Herrmann's Vertigo: A Film Score Handbook. (Book Reviews: Genre Studies).
September 1, 2002... Bernard Herrmann's Vertigo: A Film Score Handbook. By David Cooper. (Film Score Guides, 2.) Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2001. (xviii, 157 p. ISBN 0-313-31490-X. $52.] Music examples, illustrations, index. The history of film music...

Ballet and Opera in the Age of Giselle. (Book Reviews: Genre Studies).
September 1, 2002... Ballet and Opera in the Age of Giselle. By Marian Smith. (Princeton Studies in Opera.) Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2000. [xx, 306 p. ISBN 0-691-04994-7. $39.95.] Music examples, illustrations, index. In this...

Mozart's Piano Concertos: Dramatic Dialogue in the Age of Enlightenment. (Book Reviews: Genre Studies).
September 1, 2002... Mozart's Piano Concertos: Dramatic Dialogue in the Age of Enlightenment. By Simon P. Keefe. Rochester, N.Y.: Boydell Press, 2001. [x, 205 p. ISBN 0-851 15-834-X. $75.] Music examples, bibliography, index. Every scholar and performer of...

A History of Russian Music: From Kamarinskaya to Babi Yar. (Book Reviews: National Musics).
September 1, 2002... A History of Russian Music; From Kamarinskaya to Babi Yar. By Francis Maes. Translated by Arnold J. Pomerans and Erica Pomerans. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002. [xiv, 427 P. ISBN 0-520-21815-9. $45.] Illustrations, bibliography,...

German Opera: From the Beginnings to Wagner. (Book Reviews: National Musics).
September 1, 2002... German Opera: From the Beginnings to Wagner. By John Warrack. (Cambridge Studies in Opera.) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. [xiv, 447 p. ISBN 0-521-23532-4. $64.95.] Music examples, map, bibliography, index. While German opera...

Music of the Raj: A Social and Economic History of Music in Late Eighteenth-Century Anglo-Indian Society. (Book Reviews: National Musics).
September 1, 2002... Music of the Raj: A Social and Economic History of Music in Late Eighteenth-Century Anglo-Indian Society. By Ian Woodfield. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. [xvi, 274 p. ISBN 0-19-816433-5. $74.] Music examples, illustrations, glossary,...

Music and British Culture, 1785-1914: Essays in Honour of Cyril Ehrlich. (Book Reviews: National Musics).
September 1, 2002... Music and British Culture, 1785-1914: Essays in Honour of Cyril Ehrlich. Edited by Christina Bashford and Leanne Langley. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. [viii, 401 p. ISBN 019-81673-0-X. $99.] Music examples, illustrations, index. ...

Covent Garden, the Untold Story: Dispatches from the English Culture War, 1945-2000. (Book Reviews: National Musics).
September 1, 2002... Covent Garden, the Untold Story: Dispatches from the English Culture War, 1945-2000. By Norman Lebrecht. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 2000. [580 p. ISBN 1-55553-488-0. $37.50.] Bibliography, index. In the late 1990s, the Royal...

From Psalm to Symphony: A History of Music in New England. (Book Reviews: National Musics).
September 1, 2002... From Psalm to Symphony: A History of Music in New England. By Nicholas E. Tawa. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 2001. [xvi. 466 p. ISBN 155553-491-0. $35.] Illustrations, bibliography, index. From Psalm to Symphony: A History of...

Letters of Gerald Finzi and Howard Ferguson. (Book Reviews: Letters).
September 1, 2002... Letters of Gerald Finzi and Howard Ferguson. Edited by Howard Ferguson and Michael Hurd. Rochester, N.Y.: Boydell Press, 2001. [xiii, 310 p. ISBN 0-85115-823-4. $75.] Illustrations, indexes. No two composers have ever been less likely to...

Edvard Grieg: Letters to Colleagues and Friends & Edvard Grieg: Diaries, Articles, Speeches. (Book Reviews: Letters).
September 1, 2002... Edvard Grieg: Letters to Colleagues and Friends. Selected and edited by Finn Benestad. Translated by William H. Halverson. Columbus, Ohio: Peer Gynt Press, 2000. [xvi, 726 p. ISBN 0-9645238-2-5. $60.] Illustrations, indexes. Edvard Grieg:...

The Possessor and the Possessed: Handel, Mozart, Beethoven, and the Idea of Musical Genius. (Book Reviews: Diverse Topics).
September 1, 2002... The Possessor and the Possessed: Handel, Mozart, Beethoven, and the Idea of Musical Genius. By Peter Kivy. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001. [xiv, 287 p. ISBN 0-300-08758-6. $35.] Illustrations, bibliography, index. Peter Kivy's...

Music, Body, and Desire in Medieval Culture: Hildegard of Bingen to Chaucer. (Book Reviews: Diverse Topics).
September 1, 2002... Music, Body, and Desire in Medieval Culture: Hildegard of Bingen to Chaucer. By Bruce W. Holsinger. (Figurae: Reading Medieval Culture.) Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2001. [xviii, 469 p. ISBN 0-8047-3201-9. $65. (hdbk.); ISBN...

Early Keyboard Instruments: A Practical Guide. (Book Reviews: Diverse Topics).
September 1, 2002... Early Keyboard Instruments: A Practical Guide. By David Rowland. (Cambridge Handbooks to the Historical Performance of Music.) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. [x, l54p. ISBN 0-521-64366-X. $60. (hdbk.); ISBN 0-521-64385-6. $22....

The Cognition of Basic Musical Structures. (Book Reviews: Diverse Topics).
September 1, 2002... The Cognition of Basic Musical Structures. By David Temperley. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2001. [xvi, 404 p. ISBN 0-262-20134-8. $45.] Music examples, illustrations, bibliography, index. David Temperley's The Cognition of Basic Musical...

The Virtual Score: Representation, Retrieval, Restoration. (Book Reviews: Diverse Topics).
September 1, 2002... The Virtual Score: Representation, Retrieval, Restoration. Edited by Walter B. Hewlett and Eleanor Selfridge-Field. (Computing in Musicology, 12.) Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press; Stanford, Calif.: Center for Computer-Assisted Research in the...

Books recently published.
September 1, 2002... This column is compiled quarterly based on the output of the monographic music cataloging units of the Library of Congress. Entries appear on the list as they are cataloged by the library, regardless of the date of publication. ENGLISH ...

New periodicals.(music)(Column)
September 1, 2002... This semiannual column lists newly issued periodicals; describes their objectives, formats (e.g., print or electronic), and contents; and provides information about special issues, title and format changes, mergers, and cessations. Future...

SoundtrackNet: The Art of Film and Television Music. (Digital Media Reviews: Film Music Web Sites).(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... SoundtrackNet: The Art of Film and Television Music. Dan Goldwasser, editor in chief; David A. Koran, webmaster. http://www.soundtrack.net SoundtrackNet is probably the oldest comprehensive film music Site on the Web, if one takes its...

Film Score Monthly: The Online Magazine of Motion Picture and Television Music Appreciation. (Digital Media Reviews: Film Music Web Sites).(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... Film Score Monthly: The Online Magazine of Motion Picture and Television Music Appreciation. Edited by Lukas Kendall. http://www.filmscoremonthly.com Film Score Monthly's origins are humble in the extreme. This magazine (and its online...

Classical Music Used in Films & Classics from the Silver Screen: Classical Music in Movies. (Digital Media Reviews: Film Music Web Sites).(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... Classical Music Used in Films. Maintained by HNH International, Ltd. http://www.hnh.com/cmuif.htm Classics from the Silver Screen: Classical Music in Movies. Maintained by Benjamin Chee. http://home2.pacific.net.sg/~bchee/movies.html ...

Five Windows into Africa. (Digital Media Reviews: Film Music Web Sites).(Software Review)
September 1, 2002... Five Windows into Africa. By Patrick McNaughton, John H. Hanson, dele jegede, Ruth M. Stone, and N. Brian Winchester, in collaboration with the Teaching and Learning Technologies Laboratory, Indiana University. Bloomington: Indiana University...

D.S.C.H. Shostakovich on DVD-ROM. (Digital Media Reviews: Film Music Web Sites).(Software Review)
September 1, 2002... D.S.C.H. Shostakovich on DVD-ROM. Colchester, England: Chandos Multimedia CT-IAN 50001/CHAN 55001, 2000. [Requires IBM PC with 266MHz Pentium or higher with Windows 95/98/ME or higher, or Macintosh Power PC with MacOS 7.5 or higher; Quick Time...

Pianists that time forgot. (Sound Recording Reviews).
September 1, 2002... It is the same in almost every field of endeavor: the big stars shine so brightly they blot out many others whose efforts are also worthwhile. Over the past century of recordings, we have had many famous and excellent pianists who have made...

Words of the Angel. (Briefly Noted).
September 1, 2002... Words of the Angel. Trio Mediaeval. ECM 289 461 782-2, 2001. This is the debut recording of Trio Mediaeval, an Oslo-based ensemble of' women's voices whose repertoire focuses on polyphonic music of medieval England and France, Norwegian...

Johann Sebastian Bach. (Briefly Noted).(Morimur)
September 1, 2002... Johann Sebastian Bach. Morimur. Hilliard Ensemble; Christoph Poppen. ECM 289 461 895-2, 2001. The theory behind this recording is somewhat controversial, and a recording whose purpose is to illustrate a musicological theory should always...

Johann Sebastian Bach. (Briefly Noted).(Partitas nos. 1 and 2: English Suites nos. 2 and 3/The Six Partitas for Keyboard)
September 1, 2002... Johann Sebastian Bach. Partitas nos. 1 and 2. English Suites nos. 2 and 3. Anne-Marie McDermott. GMN GMNC 0112, 2001. (Briefly Noted) Rich Anderson Johann Sebastian Bach. The Six Partitas for Keyboard, BWV 825-830. Andrew Rangell....

Georg Friedrich Handel. (Briefly Noted).(Dettingen Te Deum)
September 1, 2002... Georg Friedrich Handel. Dettingen Te Deum, HWV 283. Collegium Vocale des Bach-Chores Siegen; Trompeten-Consort "Friedemann Immer"; Hannoverische Hofkapelle/Ulrich Stotzel. Hanssler Classic CD 98.365, 2001. Handel's Dettingen Te Deum is one...

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. (Briefly Noted).(Impresario: Mozart's Circle)
September 1, 2002... Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The Impresario. "Mozart's Circle." The Beneficent Dervish. Boston Baroque/Martin Pearlman. Telarc CD-80573, 2002. In the 1790s a group of performers attached to the Theater auf der Wieden, near Vienna, began...

Franz Liszt. Songs. Robert Schumann. (Briefly Noted).
September 1, 2002... Franz Liszt. Songs. Robert Schumann. Dichterliebe. Barbara Bonney; Antonio Pappano. Decca 289 470 289-2, 2002. Soprano Barbara Bonney's stylistic range is quite impressive. She is well known for her operatic work, and has performed...

Jean Sibelius. (Briefly Noted).(Complete String Quartets)
September 1, 2002... Jean Sibelius. Complete String Quartets. Sibelius Academy Quartet; New Helsinki Quartet. Finlandia 0927-40872-2, 2002. Cobbled together from recordings originally released in 1985, 1989 and 1998, this handy two-disc set offers the entirety...

Ted Piltzecker. (Briefly Noted).(Standing Alone)
September 1, 2002... Ted Piltzecker. Standing Alone. Equilibrium EQ43, 2001. Vibraphonist Ted Piltzecker is most often seen onstage as a member of the George Shearing Quintet or at the head of his own Ted Piltzecker Group. But on this unusual program he...

Bireli Lagrene. (Briefly Noted).(Gypsy Project)
September 1, 2002... Bireli Lagrene. Gypsy Project. Dreyfus Jazz FDM 36626-2, 2001. The heady music made in the 1930s by legendary guitarist Django Reinhardt and his Quintet of the Hot Club of France remains some of the most influential jazz ever recorded, and...

Bob Marley & the Wailers. (Briefly Noted).(Catch a Fire)
September 1, 2002... Bob Marley & the Wailers. Catch a Fire (Deluxe Edition). Tuff Gong/Island 314 548 635-2, 2001. There has been no scarcity of Bob Marley reissues on the market since the reggae patriarch's death in 1981, the best of them issued under Island...

DJ Spooky That Subliminal Kid. (Briefly Noted).(Modern Mantra)
September 1, 2002... DJ Spooky That Subliminal Kid. Modern Mantra. Shadow SDW135-2, 2002. Paul Miller, a.k.a. DJ Spooky That Subliminal Kid, is simultaneously one of the most exciting and irritating artists on the dance music scene. A young man of undisputed...

Elvis Costello. (Briefly Noted).(Brutal Youth)
September 1, 2002... Elvis Costello. Brutal Youth. Rhino R2 78390, 2002. It irritated Elvis Costello to no end when critics hailed this album, upon its original 1994 release, as a "return to form" and an exercise in "back to basics." But the simple fact...

Johannes Brahms. (Music Reviews).(Doppelkonzert a-Moll opus 102)
September 1, 2002... Johannes Brahms. Doppelkonzert a-Moll opus 102. Herausgegeben von Michael Struck. (Neue Ausgabe samtlicher Werke. Ser. I: Orchesterwerke, Bd. 10.) Munich: G. Henle Verlag, 2000. [Frontispiece (facsim. reprod. of pp. from autograph and 1st ed.);...

Hubert Waelrant. (Music Reviews).(Liber Sextus Sacrarum Cantionum)
September 1, 2002... Hubert Waelrant. Liber sextus sacrarum cantionum. Edited by Robert Lee Weaver. (Recent Researches in the Music of the Renaissance, 125.) Middleton, Wisc.: A-R Editions, Inc., c2001. [Introd., p. vii-xiv; texts and trans., p. xv-xx; 4 plates;...

Giovanni Rovetta. (Music Reviews).(Messa, e Salmi Concertati, op. 4)
September 1, 2002... Giovanni Rovetta. Messa, e salmi concertati, op. 4 (1639). Edited by Linda Maria Koldau. (Recent Researches in the Music of the Baroque Era, 109-10.) Middleton, Wisc.: A-R Editions, Inc., c2001. [Part 1. Acknowledgments, p. vi; introd., p....

Marc-Antoine Charpentier. (Music Reviews).(Meslanges Autographes: Facsimile du Manuscrit Paris)
September 1, 2002... Marc-Antoine Charpentier. Meslanges autographes: Fac-simile du manuscrit Paris, Bibliotheque nationale, Res. Vm (1) 259. Preface de Catherine Massip; introduction de H. Wiley Hitchcock. (CEuvres completes, ser. I.) (Musica Gallica.) Paris:...

Antoine Mahaut & Wilhelm Friedemann Bach & Wilhelm Friedemann Bach & Wilhelm Friedmann Bach & C.P.E. Bach.(music manuscript publications)
September 1, 2002... Antoine Mahaut. 6 Kammersonaten fur 2 Floten und Basso continuo. Herausgegeben von Janos Malina; Continuo-Aussetzung von Matyas Kovacs. Erstausgabe. Adliswil-Zurich: Edition Kunzelmann, c1993. [Heft 1: Nrn 1-3. Score, 45 p.; and 3 parts. GM...

Music Received.(to be reviewed in Notes)(Bibliography)
September 1, 2002... INTRODUCTION This column presents a comprehensive list of new music publications that have been sent recently by publishers and distributors for possible review in Notes. Self-published music is listed when a source of acquisition is...