Special Journal Issues.(New Periodicals)

American Music 22, no. 1 (Spring 2004): Music and Moving Image Special Issue. Thirteen short articles (more than the usual three to four articles) are drawn from two summer 2001 conferences, "Hollywood Musicals and Music and Hollywood" (Boulder, CO) and "Music/Image in Film and Multimedia" (New York City). Includes related book and recording reviews.

Beitrage zur Popularmusikforschung. Vol. 31 (2003): Clipped Differences: Geschlechterreprasentationen im Musikvideo. Discusses gender issues in music videos; includes bibliography; has since been reissued as a monograph by the same title (Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, 2003. ISBN 3-89942-146-9. [euro]14.80). Vol. 32 (October 2004): 9/11--The World's All Out of Tune. Populare Musik nach dem 11. September 2001. Contains papers from a recent Arbeitskreis Studium Popularer Musik e.V. (ASPM) meeting. Also reissued as a monograph (ISBN 3-89942-256-2. [euro]19.80). For more information about ASPM publications, see the Samples announcement under New Titles in this column. See also a recent announcement at the International Association for the Study of Popular Music Web page at http://www.iaspm.net/newpublicationaspm.html and the publisher's Web page at http://www.transcript-verlag.de/main/prg_pop_bck.htm.

Choral Journal 44, no. 8 (March 2004): Technology Focus Issue. Articles on the Musica database, ChoralNet Web site, music printed on demand, and recording.

Circuit: musiques contemporaines 14, no. 3 (2004): Frank Zappa: 10 ans apres (Ten Years After). Includes "articles in French by Louise Morand, Nicolas Masino, Nathalie Gatti and Michel F. Cote, and in English by British journalist Ben Watson and composer John Rea. The issue is also illustrated by eleven original works by Cal Schenkel, who created numerous covers for Frank Zappa's recordings" (Julie Lebel, Circuit administrative director, e-mail message to Tracey Rudnick, 3 September 2004). Article abstracts in English and French, plus illustration reproductions, are at Circuit's Web site at http://www.revuecircuit.ca/.

Computer Music Journal. Vol. 28, no. 1 (Spring 2004): Real-Time Computer Music in 1951. Adds a "new prologue" to electronic music history by introducing computer programmers who had "previously devised methods to coax rudimentary music from a mainframe computer's beeping facilities" (p. 1). Vol. 28, no. 2 (Summer 2004): Music Information Retrieval. Includes papers from the 2003 International Symposium on Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR). "As reflected in three of the ... articles, a central concern of the field is how to assess and compare the performance of different MIR systems--a complex matter made more difficult by legal impediments to a publicly accessible corpus of audio recordings for use as test material" (p. 1).

Early Music. Vol. 31, nos. 1 (February 2003) and 2 (May 2003): Ars Subtilior in performance. Each issue features a pair of articles that originated at the 2000 American Musicological Society meeting in Toronto and continues the debate regarding this perplexing music as "sound." Vol. 31, no. 3 (August 2003): Close Readings: Essays in Honour of John Stevens and Philip Brett. Essays examine single vocal works or small groups of works, serving as tribute to two scholars who wrote "wisely and critically about the relationship between words and music ... [and] were 'close readers' of individuals pieces" (p. 323).

International Journal of Music Education 22, no. 2 (August 2004): Special Focus Issue on the Four ISME Honorary Presidents. The International Society for Music Education (ISME) celebrates its fiftieth anniversary by "presenting essential data on these four Presidents' lives and work.... We do not intend a monumental or antiquarian celebration, but ... the recognition of their work may prompt us to a better understanding of the present and evoke responsible and sensitive actions in the future" (pp. [91]-92). See also a separate review of this journal in this column.