Notes articles from September 2004

Notes archives from September 2004

Notes: a sixtieth birthday retrospective.
September 1, 2004... Forty years ago, the late Frank Campbell, editor of Notes, needed an essay celebrating the journal's first twenty years. These were dark days for both the association and its journal: funds were short, and the vision was strong but not...

Sylvia Smith interviews herself on the thirtieth year of Smith Publications and Sonic Art Editions*.(Interview)
September 1, 2004... Q. Why did you create Smith Publications? Did the idea just pop into your mind one day? A. Actually, that is exactly how it happened. I was relaxing in the bathtub one evening after work and the idea popped into view like a calling. Ideas...

Knowing Mendelssohn: a challenge from the primary sources.(Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy)
September 1, 2004... The name of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809-1847) is familiar to every serious musician, and many of his works are familiar to everyone who has had any exposure to Western art music. He is mentioned at least briefly in every general...

Notes for notes.
September 1, 2004... New England Conservatory of Music (NEC; Jean A. Morrow, Director of Libraries) recently received a significant new collection of American composer George Whitefield Chadwick (1854-1931) materials that had been unavailable since 1932. Chadwick...

Martin Scorsese Presents The Blues: A Musical Journey.(African Music Everywhere)(Book Review)
September 1, 2004... Martin Scorsese Presents The Blues: A Musical Journey. Edited by Peter Guralnick, Robert Santelli, Holly George-Warren, and Christopher John Farley. New York: Amistad/HarperCollins, 2003. [288 p. ISBN 0-06-052544-4. $27.95.] Illustrations. ...

Representing African Music: Postcolonial Notes, Queries, Positions.(African Music Everywhere)(Book Review)
September 1, 2004... Representing African Music: Postcolonial Notes, Queries, Positions. By Kofi Agawu. New York; London: Routledge, 2003. [xxvii, 266 p. ISBN 0-415-94389-2. $85 (hbk.); ISBN 0-415-94390-6. $23.95 (pbk.).] Music examples, bibliography, index. ...

The African Diaspora: A Musical Perspective.(African Music Everywhere)(Book Review)
September 1, 2004... The African Diaspora: A Musical Perspective. Edited by Ingrid Monson. (Critical and Cultural Musicology, 3.) New York: Routledge, 2003. [vii, 366 p. ISBN 0-8153-2382-4. $50 (hbk.); ISBN 04159-6769-4. $19.95 (pbk.).] Music examples,...

Musical Arts in Africa: Theory, Practice and Education.(African Music Everywhere)(Book Review)
September 1, 2004... Musical Arts in Africa: Theory, Practice and Education. Edited by Anri Herbst, Meki Nzewi, and Kofi Agawu. Pretoria: University of South Africa, Unisa Press, 2003. [xv, 316 p. ISBN 1-86888-279-9. [pounds sterling]42.30; R399.] Illustrations,...

Paul Whiteman: Pioneer in American Music.(Popular Composers)(Book Review)
September 1, 2004... Paul Whiteman: Pioneer in American Music. Volume I: 1890-1930. By Don Rayno. (Studies in Jazz, 43.) Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, Inc., 2003. [xxviii, 775 p. ISBN 0-8108-4579-2. $49.95.] Illustrations, chronology, discography, bibliography,...

George Gershwin: A New Biography.(Popular Composers)(Book Review)
September 1, 2004... George Gershwin: A New Biography. By William G. Hyland. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2003. [xv, 279 p. ISBN 0-275-98111-8. $39.95.] Illustrations, bibliography, index. William G. Hyland's new biography of George Gershwin is written in an...

Richard Rodgers.(Popular Composers)(Book Review)
September 1, 2004... Richard Rodgers. By Geoffrey Block. (Yale Broadway Masters.) New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2003. [xii, 215 p. ISBN 0-300-09747-6. $32.50.] Music examples, illustrations, indexes. Geoffrey Block's Richard Rodgers inaugurates the Yale...

Luca Marenzio: the career of a musician between the renaissance and the counter-reformation.(Classical Composers)(Book Review)
September 1, 2004... Luca Marenzio: the Career of a Musician between the Renaissance and the Counter-Reformation. By Marco Bizzarini. Translated by James Chater. Aldershot, Hants, England; Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2003. [xvii, 370 p. ISBN 0-7546-0516-7. $84.95.]...

The Cambridge Companion to Mozart.(Classical Composers)(Book Review)
September 1, 2004... The Cambridge Companion to Mozart. Edited by Simon P. Keefe. (Cambridge Companions to Music.) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. [xvii, 272 p. ISBN 0-521-80734-4. $70 (hbk.); ISBN 0-521-00192-7. $26 (pbk.).] Music examples,...

The Cambridge Companion to Debussy.(Classical Composers)(Book Review)
September 1, 2004... The Cambridge Companion to Debussy. Edited by Simon Trezise. (Cambridge Companions to Music.) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. [xxviii, 326 p. ISBN 0-521-65478-5. $70 (hbk.); ISBN 0-521-65478-5. $26 (pbk.).] Music examples,...

Symphonic Metamorphoses: Subjectivity and Alienation in Mahler's Re-Cycled Songs.(Classical Composers)(Book Review)
September 1, 2004... Symphonic Metamorphoses: Subjectivity and Alienation in Mahler's Re-Cycled Songs. By Raymond Knapp. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2003. [xx, 320 p. ISBN 0-8195-6635-7. $70.00 (hbk.); ISBN 0-8195-6636-5. $24.95 (pbk.).] Music...

Sibelius Forum II: Proceedings from the Third International Jean Sibelius Conference.(Classical Composers)(Book Review)
September 1, 2004... Sibelius Forum II: Proceedings from the Third International Jean Sibelius Conference. Edited by Matti Huttunen, Kari Kilpelainen, and Veijo Murtomaki. Helsinki: Sibelius Academy, Department of Composition and Music Theory, 2003. [459 p. ISBN...

A Schoenberg Reader: Documents of a Life.(Classical Composers)(Book Review)
September 1, 2004... A Schoenberg Reader: Documents of a Life. By Joseph Auner. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003. [xxvi, 428 p. ISBN 0-300-09540-6. $45.] Music examples, illustrations, bibliography, index. Joseph Auner, one of the foremost scholars of...

The Music of Luigi Dallapiccola.(Classical Composersi)(Book Review)
September 1, 2004... The Music of Luigi Dallapiccola. By Raymond Fearn. (Eastman Studies in Music.) Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2003. [xviii, 303 p. ISBN 1-58046-078-X. $90.] Music examples, list of compositions, bibliography, index. English...

Music and Nazism; Art under Tyranny, 1933-1945.(Historical and Cultural Studies)(Book Review)
September 1, 2004... Music and Nazism; Art under Tyranny, 1933-1945. Edited by Michael H. Kater and Albrecht Riethmuller. Laaber: Laaber-Verlag, 2003. [328 p. ISBN 3-89007-516-9. DM 49.80.] Music examples, illustrations, index. In 1963 Joseph Wulf published...

The Literary Lorgnette: Attending Opera in Imperial Russia.(Historical and Cultural Studies)(Book Review)
September 1, 2004... The Literary Lorgnette: Attending Opera in Imperial Russia. By Julie A. Buckler. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2000. [vii, 294 p. ISBN 0-8047-3247-7. $45.] Illustrations, bibliography, index. Julie A. Buckler's The Literary...

From the Erotic to the Demonic: On Critical Musicology.(Historical and Cultural Studies)(Book Review)
September 1, 2004... From the Erotic to the Demonic: On Critical Musicology. By Derek B. Scott, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. [258 p. ISBN 0-19-515195-X. $65 (hbk.); 0-19-515196-8. $35 (pbk.).] Music examples, illustrations, index. It does not seem...

Bright Balkan Morning: Romani Lives and the Power of Music in Greek Macedonia.(Historical and Cultural Studies)(Book Review)
September 1, 2004... Bright Balkan Morning: Romani Lives and the Power of Music in Greek Macedonia. By Charles Keil; photographs by Dick Blau; text by Charles and Angeliki Keil; soundscape compact disc by Steven Feld. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press,...

The Keyboard Sonatas of Domenico Scarlatti and Eighteenth-Century Musical Style.(Instruments and Instrumental Music)(Book Review)
September 1, 2004... The Keyboard Sonatas of Domenico Scarlatti and Eighteenth-Century Musical Style. By W. Dean Sutcliffe. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. [xi, 400 p. ISBN 0-521-48140-6. $75.] Music examples, bibliography, index. Domenico...

C. F. Martin & His Guitars, 1796-1873.(Instruments and Instrumental Music)(Book Review)
September 1, 2004... C. F. Martin & His Guitars, 1796-1873. By Philip F. Gura. Chapel Hill; London: University of North Carolina Press, 2003. [xix, 250 p. ISBN 0-8708-2801-7. $45.] Illustrations, color plates, glossary, bibliographic references, index. The...

The Flute.(Instruments and Instrumental Music)(Book Review)
September 1, 2004... The Flute. By Ardal Powell. (Yale Musical Instrument Series.) New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002. [x, 347 p. ISBN 0-300-09341-1. $35 (hbk.); ISBN 0-300-09498-1. $20 (pbk.).] Music examples, illustrations, references, index. We learn...

Books recently published.
September 1, 2004... 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 ...

Muzikologija: casopis Muzikoloskog instituta Srpske akademije nauka i umetnosti.(New Periodicals)(Periodical Review)
September 1, 2004... This semiannual column selectively lists newly issued periodicals; describes their objectives, formats, and contents; and provides information about special issues, title and format changes, mergers, and cessations. The following resources were...

Chapter & Verse: A Journal of Popular Music and Literature Studies.(New Titles)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... Chapter & Verse: A Journal of Popular Music and Literature Studies. Edited by Simon Warner. Semiannual. [Vol. 1, no. 1] (Spring 2004). Online format (HTML). Access: http://www.popmatters.com/chapter. E-mail: journal@chapterandverse.org.uk or...

Discourses in Music.(New Titles)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... Discourses in Music. Edited by music graduate students at the University of Toronto. Partially funded by the Music Graduate Students' Association. Triannual (semiannual first two volumes). Vol. 1, no. 1 (Spring 2000). Online format (HTML); vol....

Frankfurter Zeitschrift fur Musikwissenschaft (FZMw): Online Publikation (Frankfurt Journal of Musicology).(New Titles)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... Frankfurter Zeitschrift fur Musikwissenschaft (FZMw): Online Publikation (Frankfurt Journal of Musicology). Edited by Wolfgang Krebs, Clemens Gresser, and Arne Stollberg. Musikwissenschaftliches Institut, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universitat...

Intercultural Musicology: The Bulletin of the Centre for Intercultural Music Arts, London, U.K.(New Titles)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... Intercultural Musicology: The Bulletin of the Centre for Intercultural Music Arts, London, U.K. Edited by Cynthia Tse Kimberlin and Robert Kwami. Centre for Intercultural Music Arts; Music Research Institute, Inc. Semiannual. Vol. 1, nos. 1-2...

MikroPolyphonie.(New Titles)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... MikroPolyphonie. Edited by David Hirst. La Trobe University (Melbourne, Victoria, Australia), the National Networked Facility for Research in Australian Music, and (vol. 1 print edition) the Australasian Computer Music Association. Irregular....

Moussikos loghos.(New Titles)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... Moussikos loghos (alternate spelling: Mousikos logos; title from cover: Exameniaia epitheorese mousikes). Edited by Panos Vlaghopoulos. Music Department of Ionian University (Corfu, Greece). Semiannual. Vol. 1 (Spring 2000). In Modern Greek....

Music Education Technology (MET): The Technology Resource for K-12 Music Educators.(New Titles)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... Music Education Technology (MET): The Technology Resource for K-12 Music Educators. Edited by Steve Oppenheimer. Primedia Business Magazines & Media. Quarterly. Vol. 1, no. 1 (Fall 2003). Print and partial online (HTML) formats. Subscription:...

MET, Electronic Musician, Keyboard Magazine, Mix Magazine.(New Titles)(Technology Institute for Music Educators)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... MET, Electronic Musician, Keyboard Magazine, Mix Magazine, and the newsletter TI:MEs are free to Technology Institute for Music Educators (TI:ME) members. TI:ME memberships: $35 individuals; $15 students; $25 libraries; $200...

News.(New Titles)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... News. Starr-Gennett Foundation, Inc. Quarterly. Vol. 1, no. 1 (Winter 2001-2). Print format. Subscription through membership: Starr-Gennett Foundation, Inc., 33 South 7th Street, Richmond, IN 47374. E-mail: info@starrgennett.org. $35 basic...

Ntama: Journal of African Popular Music and Culture.(New Titles)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... Ntama: Journal of African Popular Music and Culture. Edited by Wolfgang Bender. Institut fur Ethnologie und Afrikastudien; Johannes Gutenberg-Universitat Mainz. Frequency and first issue not apparent; no apparent back issues. Primarily in...

Research and Issues in Music Education (RIME).(New Titles)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... Research and Issues in Music Education (RIME). Edited by Bruce P. Gleason. Privately funded; international editorial board. Semiannual (according to Bruce P. Gleason [editor, RIME], e-mail message to Tracey Rudnick, dated 5 April 2004). Vol. 1,...

Schubert: Perspektiven.(New Titles)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... Schubert: Perspektiven (alternate title: Schubert: Perspektiven-Studien). Edited by Hans-Joachim Hinrichsen and Till Gerrit Waidelich. Semiannual. Vol. 1 (2001). In German. Print format. Subscription: Franz Steiner Verlag, Birkenwaldstr. 44,...

Soundscapes: Online Journal on Media Culture.(New Titles)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... Soundscapes: Online Journal on Media Culture (alternatively, soundscapes.info). Department of Psychological, Pedagogical, and Sociological Sciences at the University of Groningen. Quarterly. Vol. 1 (1998-99). Predominantly in Dutch or English....

STM Online.(New Titles)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... STM Online. Edited by Per F. Broman. Svenska samfundet for musikforskning. Annual. Vol. 1 (1998). In Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, English, or German. Online format (PDF and HTML). Access: http://www.musik.uu.se/ssm/stmonline/index_eng.html...

Trossinger Jahrbuch fur Renaissancemusik (TroJa).(New Titles)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... Trossinger Jahrbuch fur Renaissancemusik (TroJa). Edited by Nicole Schwindt. Institut fur Alte Musik der Staatlichen Hochschule fur Musik Trossingen. Annual. Vol. 1 (2001). ISBN 3-7618-1512-3. In German. Print format.

Voices: A World Forum for Music Therapy.(New Titles)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... Voices: A World Forum for Music Therapy. Edited by Carolyn Kenny and Brynjulf Stige. Sogn og Fjordane University College in affiliation with the Nordic Journal of Music Therapy and in collaboration with the World Federation of Music Therapy....

Women Who Rock.(New Titles)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... Women Who Rock. Quarterly. No. 1 (Spring 2002). Print format. Subscription: available through Web site. $17.95; $6 individual issues. ISSN 1538-537X, E-ISSN 1538-5701. Web site at http://www.womenwhorockmag.com includes selected magazine...

Electronica.
September 1, 2004... Reviews, new titles, and publisher and title changes announced elsewhere in this column include additional comments about electronic access. Ars Nova, see Sabinet Online announcement in this section. Contemporary Music Review, see OCLC...

Title, frequency, and publisher changes; Cessations.
September 1, 2004... Analitica: rivista italiana di studi musicologici (Italian Journal of Musicological Studies), an online journal described in OCLC WorldCat as triannual (but semiannual in practice), and published by the Gruppo analisi e teoria musicale (GATM)...

Special Journal Issues.
September 1, 2004... American Music. Vol. 20, no. 3 (Fall 2002): New Perspectives on Copland. Articles on his Mood for Piano no. 3, "Jazzy"; his Music for the Theatre; and The Tender Land. Vol. 21, no. 3 (Fall 2003): Nineteenth-Century Special Issue. Inspired by...

Jewish music on the Internet.(Digital Media Reviews)
September 1, 2004... This quarterly column offers reviews of music resources available in digital media or on the Internet. This includes CD-ROM products, World Wide Web sites, online subscription services and databases, and music-related software of any kind....

RILM online: a comparison of vendors.(Digital Media Reviews)(Repertoire International de Litterature Musicale)
September 1, 2004... (The following review is based on a presentation by the authors at the Electronic Reference Services Subcommittee session at the annual meeting of the Music Library Association in Arlington, Virginia, 12 February 2004. Some recent updates have...

Reggae music: a history and selective discography.(Sound Recording Reviews)
September 1, 2004... This column offers brief reviews of recent compact disc releases in a variety of musical styles and genres, covering both new releases and reissues. In alternating issues, a discographic essay focusing on a specific genre, historical period,...

Les organa a deux voix du manuscrit de Wolfenbuttel, Herzog August Bibliothek, Cod. Guelf. 1099 Hemst.(Critical Editions)(Book Review)
September 1, 2004... Les organa a deux voix du manuscrit de Wolfenbuttel, Herzog August Bibliothek, Cod. Guelf. 1099 Hemst. Edition etablie par Thomas B. Payne. (Le Magnus liber organi de Notre-Dame de Paris, 6a-b.) (Musica gallica.) Les Remparts, Monaco: Editions...

Early Masses and Mass-Pairs.(Critical Editions)(Sound Recordings Review)
September 1, 2004... Early Masses and Mass-Pairs. Transcribed and edited by Gareth Curtis. (Fifteenth-Century Liturgical Music, 4.) (Early English Church Music, 42.) London: Published for the British Academy by Stainer and Bell, c2001. [Foreword (John Caldwell), 1...

Ottaviano Petrucci.(Critical Editions)(Motetti de Passione, de Cruce, de Sacramento, de Beata Virgine et huiusmodi B, Venice, 1503)(Book Review)
September 1, 2004... Ottaviano Petrucci. Motetti de Passione, de Cruce, de Sacramento, de Beata Virgine et huiusmodi B, Venice, 1503. Edited with an introduction by Warren Drake. (Monuments of Renaissance Music, 11.) Chicago: University of Chicago Press, c2002....

Vesper and Compline Music for One Principal Voice.(Critical Editions)
September 1, 2004... Vesper and Compline Music for One Principal Voice. Edited with an introduction by Jeffrey Kurtzman. (Seventeenth-Century Italian Sacred Music, 11.) New York: Garland Publishing, 1995. [Gen. introd., p. vii-viii; editorial methods, p. ix-xi;...

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.(Facsimile Editions)(Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Fragmente)(Book Review)
September 1, 2004... Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Fragmente. Vorgelegt von Ulrich Konrad. (Neue Ausgabe samtlicher Werke. Ser. X, Supplement; Werkgruppe 30, Bd. 4.) Kassel: Barenreiter, c2002. [Einleitung, p. xi-xxi; facsim. reprod. of fragments (in color), p. 1-214;...

Daniel Asia.(Various Works by Daniel Asia)
September 1, 2004... Daniel Asia. Piano Trio [1996]. Bryn Mawr, PA: Merion Music; Theodore Presser Co., sole representative, c1999. [Score, 64 p.; notes on the composer, back cover verso; and 2 parts. Pub. no. 144-40305. Duration, ca. 30 min. $40.] Daniel...

Clara Kathleen Rogers.(Chamber Music)(Book Review)
September 1, 2004... Clara Kathleen Rogers. Chamber Music. Edited by Judith Radell and Dieter Wulfhorst. (Recent Researches in American Music, 42.) Middleton, WI: A-R Editions, Inc., c2001. [Acknowledgments, p. vi; introd., p. vii-xiii; 3 plates; score, 125 p.;...

Music received.
September 1, 2004... 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...

Music publishers' catalogs.
September 1, 2004... This column lists new and current publishers' catalogs received since the last issue, and aims at comprehensive coverage. Also included are stock order blanks, agents' catalogs, catalogs of books on music, catalogs of single series, substantial...

Communications.(Letter to the Editor)
September 1, 2004... 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...

Music library association administrative structure.
September 1, 2004... BOARD OF DIRECTORS PRESIDENT: Laura Dankner. 708 Hesper Avenue, Metairie, LA 70005; 504/837-8399; FAX: 504/837-7945; E-mail: dankner@loyno.edu (2003-5). VICE PRESIDENT/PRESIDENT-ELECT: Bonna J. Boettcher. Music Library & Sound...