Special Journal Issues.

Column editor's note: at this writing, special issues are not always readily apparent in journals that are accessed electronically through publisher Web sites. These online resources frequently omit cover and title pages, and do not fully reproduce table-of-contents pages that would identify special issues. Even if the reader discerns the presence of a special issue by reading the editorial and table of contents, it is still frequently not possible to identify the precise subtitle. This column editor is contacting selected publishers in hopes of rectifying the problem.

Black Music Research Journal (BMRJ). Vol. 21, no. 2 (Fall 2001): Samuel Coleridge-Taylor. Dominique-Rene de Lerma's introductory essay traces the recording history of Coleridge-Taylor's works; other articles explore the composer's youthful works, marriage (and British sociology), chamber works, his visits to the United States (laying the groundwork for the Harlem Renaissance), racial dichotomy and attitudes (pertaining to the African diaspora), criticism of Hiawatha, and research lacunae. Vol. 22, supplement (2002): Best of BMRJ. Scholars selected ten of BMRJ's most frequently cited, high impact articles for republication in celebration of the journal's twentieth anniversary.

Cambridge Opera Journal 15, no. 3 (November 2003). This special issue devoted to Venice, opera, dance, and in particular the work of the late Irene Alm, includes an article that distills central chapters of Alm's unfinished book manuscript on theatrical dance in Venetian opera.

Computer Music Journal. Vol. 28, no. 3 (Fall 2004): Metrical, Harmonic, and Motivic Analysis. Vol. 28, no. 4 (Winter 2004): Modeling Pitch Curves in Nonwestern Music.

Contemporary Music Review. Vol. 22, nos. 1-2 (March-June 2003): Temperaments, Tonalities and Microtonalities. Vol. 22, no. 3 (September 2003): Evolutionary Music: At the Crossroads of Evolutionary Computing and Musicology. The emerging field of evolutionary music (EM) draws from biological organisms, ecologies, and cultural systems to generate musical ideas or model "cultural transmission and change of the body of musical ideas of a population over time" (p. 2); articles explore applications and tools for both musical creation and research. Vol. 23, no. 1 (March 2004): Edgard Varese ... Offerings. Vol. 23, no. 2 (June 2004): Edgard Varese ... New Worlds. Vol. 23, nos. 3-4 (September-December 2004): Helmut Lachenmann--Inward Beauty. This issue includes background information on the composer, interviews, essays by the composer (translated for the first time), homages, serious and lighter articles on the works, and photographs. The online version is also supposed to include a bibliography and works list, but this was not confirmed. Vol. 24, no. 1 (February 2005): continues the focus on Lachenmann.

Current Musicology 75 (Spring 2003): Festschrift in Honor of Christopher Hatch.

Early Music 32, no. 3 (August 2004). This themed issue on early music outside of Europe includes music at Corpus Christi in colonial Cuzco; a colonial-era monastery of La Merced, Santiago de Chile; the loa in eighteenth-century Manila; and "Missionaries, Keyboards and Musical Exchange in the Ming and Qing courts."