Notes articles from September 2008

Notes archives from September 2008

"One day it'll all make sense": hip-hop and rap resources for music librarians.(Discography)
September 1, 2008... Despite being an object of derision within academia for many years, the study of hip-hop culture and rap music ahs now largely gained respectability in the academy, and is considerably less marginalized than it was only a decade ago. Scholars...

Not just a policies and procedures manual anymore: the University of Houston Music Library manual wiki.
September 1, 2008... The University of Houston (UH) Music Library is a branch of the UH Libraries and is located in the Moores School of Music. Similar to other music libraries located within music schools or departments, it enjoys a close relationship with music...

The Music Library Association (MLA).(NOTES FOR NOTES)(Brief article)
September 1, 2008... The Music Library Association (MLA) has awarded the MLA Citation to A. Ralph Papakhian, in recognition of his career-long distinguished service to music librarianship. MLA president, Philip Vandermeer, announced the award at the association's...

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries.(Notes for notes)(Brief article)
September 1, 2008... The University of Pennsylvania Libraries (Richard Griscom, head, Otto E. Albrecht Music Library) has acquired a collection of early-nineteenth-century editions of music by Philadelphia bandleader and composer Francis Johnson (1792-1844)....

Columbia University's Rare Book & Manuscript Library.(NOTES FOR NOTES)
September 1, 2008... Columbia University's Rare Book & Manuscript Library has acquired a large collection of manuscripts, unpublished scores, librettos, correspondence, photographs, and ephemera from the estate of Harry Lawrence Freeman (1869-1954), one of the...

Kent State University Libraries and Media Services.(NOTES FOR NOTES)
September 1, 2008... Kent State University Libraries and Media Services announces the receipt of two major gifts in support of music and its planned Performing Arts Library. The John Mack Estate has given to Kent State the music collection of Mr. Mack, the late...

The music library at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.(NOTES FOR NOTES)(Brief article)
September 1, 2008... The music library at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) is pleased to announce the acquisition of a comprehensive collection of scores and archival materials related to Finnish composer Yrjo Kilpinen.The collection was donated...

RILM is pleased to announce the publication of all data in XML format.(NOTES FOR NOTES)(Repertoire International de Litterature Musicale)
September 1, 2008... RILM is pleased to announce the publication of all data in XML format, bringing with it a number of enhancements for RILM users: * Retrospective records covering conference proceedings dating back to 1835, first published in Speaking of...

Susan T. ("Suki") Sommer (1935-2008).(NOTES FOR NOTES)(Obituary)
September 1, 2008... Susan T. ("Suki") Sommer (1935-2008). The Music Library Association (MLA) has lost its spiritual leader: Suki Sommer passed away on 4 March 2008, about one week after returning from our annual conference in Newport, Rhode Island. Born Susan...

Music and Meaning: Studies in Music History and the Neighbouring Disciplines.(Book review)
September 1, 2008... Music and Meaning: Studies in Music History and the Neighbouring Disciplines. ByWarren and Ursula Kirkendale (Historiae Musicae Cultores, 113.) Florence: Leo S. Olschki Editore, 2007. [xi, 643p. ISBN-13 9788822256591. [Euro]66.] Music examples,...

Johann Nepomuk Hummel: A Musician's Life and World.(Book review)
September 1, 2008... Johann Nepomuk Hummel: A Musician's Life and World. By Mark Kroll. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2007. [xiv, 503p. ISBN-13 9780810859203. $85.] Illustrations, music examples, bibliographic references, appendix, index. With his publication...

The Cambridge Companion to Schumann.(Book review)
September 1, 2008... The Cambridge Companion to Schumann. Edited by Beate Perrey. (Cambridge Companions to Music.) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. [xx, 302 p. ISBN-10: 0521783410; ISBN-13: 978-0521783415. $90.] Bibliographic references, index,...

The Tragic and the Ecstatic: The Musical Revolution of Wagner's Tristan and Isolde.(Book review)
September 1, 2008... The Tragic and the Ecstatic: The Musical Revolution of Wagner's Tristan and Isolde. By Eric Chafe. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. [viii, 330 p. ISBN-10: 0195176472; ISBN-13: 9780195176476. $60.] Bibliographical references, music...

Symphonic Aspirations: German Music and Politics, 1900-1945.(Book review)
September 1, 2008... Symphonic Aspirations: German Music and Politics, 1900-1945. By Karen Painter. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2007. [vi, 354 p. ISBN-13: 9780674026612. $49.95.] Index, bibliographical references. The title of Karen Painter's most...

The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century.(Book review)
September 1, 2008... The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century. By Alex Ross. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007. [xiv, 624 p. ISBN-13: 978-0-374-24939-7. $30.] Illustrations, bibliographic references, discography, index. Music librarians...

Leo Ornstein: Modernist Dilemmas, Personal Choices.(Book review)
September 1, 2008... Leo Ornstein: Modernist Dilemmas, Personal Choices. By Michael Broyles and Denise Von Glahn. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2007. [xvi, 392 p. ISBN-13: 9780253348944. $34.95.] Illustrations, music examples, works list, biographical...

John Cage.(Book review)
September 1, 2008... John Cage. By David Nicholls. (American Composers.) Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2007. [144 p. ISBN 978-0-252-03215-8. $35.] Index, illustrations, bibliographical references, discography. The larger-than-life John Cage challenged...

Lutoslawski on Music.(Book review)
September 1, 2008... Lutoslawski on Music. By Witold Lutoslawski. Edited and translated by Zbigniew Skowron. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2007. [xxiii, 347 p. ISBN-13: 9780810848047. $80.] Illustrations, music examples, references, bibliography, index. Of all...

Sofia Gubaidulina: A Biography.(Book review)
September 1, 2008... Sofia Gubaidulina: A Biography. By Michael Kurtz. (Russian Music Studies.) First English edition, revised and expanded. Edited by Malcolm Hamrick Brown, translated by Christoph K. Lohmann. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2007. [xviii,...

The Music of Michael Nyman: Texts, Contexts and Intertexts.(Book review)
September 1, 2008... The Music of Michael Nyman: Texts, Contexts and Intertexts. By Pwyll ap Sion. Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing, 2007. [xviii, 232 p. ISBN-13: 9781859282106. $99.95.] Illustrations, music examples, bibliographical references, index. The...

The Schenker Project: Culture, Race, and Music Theory in Fin-de-siecle Vienna.(MUSIC THEORY)(Book review)
September 1, 2008... The Schenker Project: Culture, Race, and Music Theory in Fin-de-siecle Vienna. By Nicholas Cook. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007. [xi, 355, p. ISBN-13: 9780195170566. $ 65.] Illustrations, music examples, bibliographic references,...

America's Concertmasters.(Book review)
September 1, 2008... America's Concertmasters. By Anne Mischakoff Heiles. (Detroit Monographs in Musicology/Studies in Music, No. 51.) Sterling Heights, Michigan: Harmonie Park Press, 2007. [xvii, 564 p. ISBN-10: 0899901395; ISBN-13: 9780899901398. $50.]...

English.(BOOKS RECENTLY PUBLISHED)
September 1, 2008... 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 ...

Afrikaans.(BOOKS RECENTLY PUBLISHED)(Brief article)
September 1, 2008... Cronje, Carel F. Sonja, meisie van Nigel: 'n lewensverhaal. Pinegowrie (South Africa): SON Music, 2007. 316 p., 36 p. of col. plates. ISBN 9780620380591. ISBN 0620380594. LC 2007-492151.

Armenian.(BOOKS RECENTLY PUBLISHED)
September 1, 2008... Nshanean-Muratlean, Anna. Erge hushers = Song of my memories-. Los Ancheles: A. Nshanian, 2003. 7, 300 p. + 2 CDs. LC 2007-557366.

Azerbaijani.(BOOKS RECENTLY PUBLISHED)
September 1, 2008... Mammadova, Mehri. Muslum Maqomayev arxivinin tasviri Baki: Nurlan, 2005. 151 p. LC 2005-447908.

Bulgarian.(BOOKS RECENTLY PUBLISHED)(Brief article)
September 1, 2008... Sagaev, Liubomir. Kniga za baleta. Solifa: IK "Bratia Sagaevi", 2006. 415 p. TSBN 954918451X. ISBN 9789549184518. LC 2006-467380. VidUchki, Emil. Laskite na orisnitsata: iz li-bretoto na moia zhivot. Sofila: RabotilniBa za knizhnina "Vasil...

Catalan.(BOOKS RECENTLY PUBLISHED)(Brief article)
September 1, 2008... Hortal Brugues, Eulalia, and Josep Bargallo i Badia. Danses i costums del Baix Emporda. Girona: CCG, 2005. 256 p. ISBN 849548370X. LC 2007-354104. Quaderns de les 7 Sivelles

Croatian.(BOOKS RECENTLY PUBLIHSED)(Brief article)
September 1, 2008... Cic, Emil. Hrvatska glazba i glazbenici: stotinu izabrani clanaka. Split: Naklada Boskovic, 2005. 512 p. ISBN 9537090701. LC 2007-479358. Summary and notes on author in English. Ruck, Lovorka. Glazba s/bez granice: skica glazbenog...

Czech.(BOOKS RECENTLY PUBLISHED)(Brief article)
September 1, 2008... La Belle et la Bete = Kraska a Zvire. Narodni divadlo, Divadlo bratri Formanu, Philip Glass. Prague: Narodni Divadlo Opera, 2004. 1 vol. ISBN 8072581600. LC 2006-513045. Blazek, Petr, Roman Laube, and Filip Pospisil. Lennonova ze v Praze:...

Dutch.(BOOKS RECENTLY PUBLISHED)(Brief article)
September 1, 2008... Bruls, Willem, ed. En route: de geschiedenis van Opera Forum Filharmonisch. Zutphen: Walburg Pers, 2006. 158 p. ISBN 905730404X. LC 2007-427880. Heijne, Bas. Zang. Amsterdam: Uitgeverij 521, 2006. 121 p. + 1 CD. ISBN 9049970117. ISBN...

Estonian.(BOOKS RECENTLY PUBLISHED)(Brief article)
September 1, 2008... Meeskoor ja meestelaul. koostaja Urve Lippus. Tallinn: Eesti Muusika- ja Teatriakadeemia, 2007. 190 p. ISBN 9985851382. ISBN 9789985979709. LC 2007-466911. Eesti Rahvusraamatukogu. Eesti noodid 1918-1944. Tallinn: Eesti Rahvusraama-tukogu,...

Finnish.(BOOKS RECENTLY PUBLISHED)(Brief article)
September 1, 2008... Aberg, Kai, and Risto Blomster. Suomen romanimusiikki. Helsinki: Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2006. 288 p. ISBN 9517467826. ISBN 9789517467827. LC 2007-413397. Suomalaisen Kirjallismuuden Seurani toimituksia;1058 Creutlein, Tarja...

French.(BOOKS RECENTLY PUBLISHED)
September 1, 2008... Aboucaya, Jacques. Dernieres nouvelles du jazz. Lausanne, Suisse: Age d' homme, 2005. 104 p. ISBN 2825119911. ISBN 9782825119914. LC 2007-438862. Anakesa, Apollinaire. L'Afrique subsaharienne dans la musique savante occidentale au XXe...

Galician.(BOOKS RECENTLY PUBLISHED)(Brief article)
September 1, 2008... Alonso Girgado, Luis, ed. A gaita gallega: repinica muineiras, alboradas e fandangos, unha vez o mes: A Habana, 1885-1889. Santiago de Compostela: Xunta de Galicia, Secretaria Xeral de Politica Linguistic a, 2006. 297 p. ISBN 8445342037. ISBN...

German.(BOOKS RECENTLY PUBLISHED)
September 1, 2008... Abbuhl, Mauro, Chudi Burgi, and Dagmar Kopse, eds. Soukous, Kathak und Bachata: Musik und Tanz aus Afrika, Asien und Lateinamerika in der Schweiz. Zurich: Limmat, 2004. 278 p. + 1 CD. ISBN 3857914688. LC 2006-374333. Kultur und Entwicklung...

Greek.(BOOKS RECENTLY PUBLISHED)(Brief article)
September 1, 2008... Daloukas, Manoles. Helleniko rok: historia tes neanikes koultouras apo te genia tou Chaous mechri ton thanato tou Paulou Sideropoulou. Athena: Ankyra, 2006. 404 p. ISBN 9604223860. LC 2007-483854. Isegone, Margarita I. Polyagapemene mou...

Hungarian.(BOOKS RECENTLY PUBLISHED)(Brief article)
September 1, 2008... Baranyi, Ferenc. OperA-B-C: operak, operi-stak, operahazak, Budapest: Hungarovox, 2006. 157 p. ISBN 9637504265. LC 2007-443391. Csajaghy, Gyorgy. A "Lehel-kurt": a lovas nepek kurtjei, rangjelz ivokurtjei es a "Lehel-kurt". Budapest:...

Italian.(BOOKS RECENTLY PUBLISHED)
September 1, 2008... Agamennone, Maurizio, and Vincenzo Lombardi, eds. Musiche tradizionali del Molise: le registrazioni di Diego Carpitella e Alberto Mario Cirese (1954). Roma: Squilibri, 2005, 196 p. + 1 CD. ISBN 9788889009130. LC 2007-429175. AEM, Archivi...

Latvian.(BOOKS RECENTLY PUBLISHED)(Brief article)
September 1, 2008... Baltakmens, Raimonds, and Dzintars Gilba.Gaismas pils augsamcelejs Haralds Mednis. Riga: Valters un Rapa, 2006. 424 p. ISBN 9984768821. LC 2007-530194. Kaijaks, Janis. Mazliet par sevi un Operetes teatri. Riga: Izdevnieciba "Petergailis",...

Moldavian.(BOOKS RECENTLY PUBLISHED)(Brief article)
September 1, 2008... Axionov, Vladimir. Tendinte stilistice in creatia componistica din Republica Moldova (mizica instrumentala). Chisinau: Cartea Moldovei, 2006. 214 p. ISBN 9789975600125, LC 2007-443246. Balan, Lilia, and Angela Juraveli. Constantin Rusnac:...

Norwegian.(BOOKS RECENTLY PUBLISHED)(Brief article)
September 1, 2008... Bakken, Thorbjorn. Vidar sandbeck: hans liv og virke. N.p.: Trysil-forlaget, 2005. 390 p. ISBN' 8291352526. ISBN 9788291352527. LC 2007-481662. Skreien, Norvall. Lars Soraas: far og sonn: skolesangens og kirkesangens herolder Oslo: Lunde...

Polish.(BOOKS RECENTLY PUBLISHED)(Brief article)
September 1, 2008... Dziadek, Magdalena. Opera Poznanska 1919-2005: dzieje sceny i mysli. Poznan: Poznanskie Towarzystwo Przyjaciol Nauk, 2007. 423, 1 p. ISBN 9788370634827. ISBN 8370634826. LC 2007-488209. Poznanskie Studia Operowe; l. 8 In Polish;...

Portuguese.(BOOKS RECENTLY PUBLISHED)
September 1, 2008... Albin, Ricardo Cravo. MPB mulher. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: Instituto Cultural Ricardo Cravo Albin, 2006. 193 p. + 1 CD. ISBN 8598706086. LC 2007-349123. Anais. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: Conservatorio Brasileiro de Musica FAPERJ, Fundacao de...

Russian.(BOOKS RECENTLY PUBLISHED)
September 1, 2008... Afanas'ev, S. G. Muzykal'noe iskusstvo kak predmet kompleksnogo issledovaniia. Moskva: 11-i format, 2006. 149 p. LC 2007-488570. Almazova, A. A. Tatarskaia muzyka XX veka: problemy aksiologii. Kazan': Kazanskii gos. universitet, 2006. 270...

Serbian.(BOOKS RECENTLY PUBLISHED)(Brief article)
September 1, 2008... Iring, Widogast. Cisto Stimovanje u muzici: novo prera eno izdanje od Widogasta Iringa. Fototipsko izdanje iz 1908. Beograd: Ranatovic, 2003. 82 p. ISBN 8690217541. LC 2007-479933. In Serbian and German. Jevtic, Milos. Svet muzike:...

Slovenian.(BOOKS RECENTLY PUBLISHED)(Brief article)
September 1, 2008... Kuret, Primoz. Ljubljanska filharmonicna druzba: 1794-1919: kronika Ijubljanskega glasbenega zivljenja v stoletju mes canov in revolucij. Ljubljana: Nova revija, 2006. 794 p. ISBN 9616580035. LC 2007-396648. summary in German. COMPILED...

Spanish.(BOOKS RECENTLY PUBLISHED)
September 1, 2008... Aballe, Guada. Del tiempo de Carlitos: recuerdos de Gardel y su epoca. Buenos Aires?: Editions de La Rue du Canon d' Arcole, 2006. 149 p. ISBN 9872193517. LC 2006-509089. Aboitiz, Maitena. Antologia del rock argentino: la historia detras...

Swedish.(BOOKS RECENTLY PUBLISHED)(Brief article)
September 1, 2008... Bengtsson, Johan, and Henrik Karlsson. Ovan stridsvimlet: Kungl. Musikaliska akademien och Tyskland 1920-45. Lund: Forfattarma och Sekel Bokforlag, 2006. 157 p. ISBN 9197522376. LC 2007-476639. COMPILED BY JULIA GRAEPEL AND KAREN R. LITTLE

Ukrainian.(BOOKS RECENTLY PUBLISHED)(Brief article)
September 1, 2008... Cherkas'kyi, L. M. Ukrains'kyi narodnyi muzychnyi instrumentarii na mezhi tysiacholit': mystetstvoznavchi zapysky viddilu ukrains'kykh narodnykh muzychnykh instrurnentiv Muzeru teatral noho, muzych-noho ta kinomystetstva Ukrainy. Kyiv:...

New periodicals.(Bibliography)
September 1, 2008... 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...

Digital media reviews.(Website overview)
September 1, 2008... This quarterly column offers reviews of music resources in a variety of digital media, excluding any in purely digital audio format that would normally be reviewed as sound recordings. This includes CD-ROM products, World Wide Web sites, online...

Video reviews.(Video recording review)
September 1, 2008... This semiannual column presents reviews of significant video releases of interest to the field of music and to music libraries, as well as occasionally briefly noting other interesting titles. All genres of music in all video formats will be...

Music reviews.(Sound recording review)
September 1, 2008... Gioseffo Zarlino. Motets from 1549. Edited by Cristle Collins Judd. (Recent Researches in the Music of the Renaissance, 145, 149.) Middleton WI: A-R Editions, c2006-7. [Part 1, Motets Based on the Song of Songs: acknowledgments, p. vi; introd.,...

Music received.(Discography)
September 1, 2008... 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, 2008... 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.(Correction notice)
September 1, 2008... 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. The...

Music Library Association administrative structure 1 April 2008.
September 1, 2008... BOARD OF DIRECTORS President: Philip R. Vandermeer. Music Library, CB#3906, Wilson Library, 301 South Road, UNC-Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27514; 919-966-1113; FAX: 919-843-0418; vanderme@email.unc.edu (2006-7). VICE...