Music & Letters articles

Recent articles from Music & Letters

Anton Rubinstein and Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov: Selected Operas. Proceedings of the International Musicological Convention in Vorzel (Ukraine), May 4th-6th, 1994.(Review)
November 1, 1998... Ed. by Yelena S. Zinkevich. pp. 83. (Lucie Galland, Heilbronn, 1997, DM29. ISBN 3-925934-29-4.) This collection of essays, based on papers given at a conference commemorating the 150th anniversary of the birth of Rimsky-Korsakov and the centenary of the death of Anton Rubinstein,...

Anton Bruckner: III. Symphonie D-moll. Revisionbericht.(Review)
November 1, 1998... By Thomas Roder. pp. vi + 453. (Musikwissenschaftlicher Verlag der Internationalen Bruckner-Gesellschaft, Vienna, 1997, [pounds]22. ISBN 3-900270-15-5.) In providing this long-awaited revision report of the three printed versions of Bruckner's Third Symphony, Thomas Roder took as his...

Bruckner Studies.(Review)
November 1, 1998... Ed. by Timothy L. Jackson & Paul Hawkshaw. pp. xv + 301. (Cambridge University Press, 1997, [pounds]40. ISBN 0-521-57014-X.) This book has its origins in the International Bruckner Conference 'Perspectives on Anton Bruckner: Composer, Theorist, Teacher, Performer' held at Connecticut...

Giuseppe Verdi: 'Don Carlos'. Dossier de presse parisienne (1867).(Review)
November 1, 1998... Ed. by Herve Ganioux. pp. 270. (Lucie Galland, Heilbronn, 1997, DM59. ISBN 3-925934-31-6.) This collection of press responses to the premiere of Verdi's Don Carlos at the Paris Opera in 1867 is a recent addition to what has become a sizeable and well-established series, Lucie Galland's...

Celestial Airs of Antiquity: Music of the Seven-String Zither of China.(Review)
November 1, 1998... Transcriptions and CD, ed. Bell Yung. 'Recent Researches in the Oral Traditions of Music', v. (A-R Editions, Madison, 1997, $61.60 + $19.95 (CD). ISBN 0-89579-313-X.) If it hasn't already, the music of the Chinese qin (pronounced 'chin'; also called guqin, 'ancient qin'), a...