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Year 2006
- Vol. 63 Nbr. 2, December 2006
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- Vol. 62 Nbr. 4, June 2006
- Vol. 62 Nbr. 3, March 2006
The collection-development and acquisitions staff add MARC bibliographic records for new titles to the online integrated system-downloading them from OCLC WorldCat or vendor databases, or keying them in manually-in many cases adding uniform tides and LC subject headings, and overlaying unauthorized name and tide headings with authorized ones. Furthermore, only 5 among the 190 articles published through the year 2000 that are cited in the "Collection Development and Management" chapter of Car...
Toledo Cathedral's Collection of Manuscript Plainsong Choirbooks: A Preliminary Report and Checklist
The collection of cantorales is of enormous musical and liturgical interest, by definition the most important (if, alas, incomplete) surviving record of the chant dialect known as canto toledano, and important too for the study of all aspects of manuscript book production in Spain.5 The artistic quality of the many illuminations ranges from mediocre to extremely fine and priceless.
A series of lectures and workshops aimed at school children, college students, and lifelong learners will enhance people's knowledge and understanding of this manuscript and Byrd's seminal position in the development of English keyboard repertoire. Jazz, America's Art Form, a grant program sponsored by the National Video Resources, the American Library Association, and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
The Stylus Phantasticus and Free Keyboard Music of the North German Baroque
EARLY MODERN EUROPE The Stylus Phantasticus and Free Keyboard Music of the North German Baroque. (I was unable to compare the dissertation to the book, because access to the dissertation is blocked at Northern University of Ireland, Maynooth; the only copies exist there and at the Library of Congress.) I should mention in passing that the editing is meticulous throughout, although a few items, such as Christoph Bernhard's treatises and Claudio Monteverdi's 1638 publication Madrigali guerrier...
Echoes of Women's Voices: Music, Art, and Female Patronage in Early Modern Florence
Not only is it a sorely-needed comprehensive study of the musical and artistic works pertaining to the early seventeenth-century regents of Florence, Christine of Lorraine and Maria Maddalena of Austria, it is also a savvy critical study that demands of its readers a rigorous confrontation with some of the great, overarching questions of our time: the interaction of critical theory with archival source studies; the translation of an inherendy masculine conception of patronage into the realm o...
Mary Hunter analyzes the sonata form structure of Haydn's buffa and seria arias in her 1982 dissertation ("Haydn's Aria Forms: A Study of the Arias in the Italian Operas Written at Esterháza, 1766-1783" [Ph.D. diss., Cornell University, 1982]) but stops short of considering L'anima del filosofo since it was conceived in a different time and place for a paying public audience far from Eszterháza; my own dissertation from 1991 ("The opera buffa finales of Joseph Haydn" [Ph.D. diss., Cornell Uni...
The Composer As Intellectual: Music and Ideology in France 1914-1940
University of California Press, 1996, p. 1486, n. 58; if it must be put into English, it should at least reflect the plural and not read, as Fulcher has it, Symphony for Wind Instruments (p. 169).
Making much use of Saint-Saèns's many writings, his correspondence (many excerpts from which are published here for the first time), and the observations and opinions of contemporaries, Gallois has crafted an engaging introduction to the life, ideas, and works of this extremely gifted and prolific composer.
Musical Encounters at the 1889 Paris World's Fair
The translations from the French are impeccable, the control of the secondary literature in several disciplines impressive, and the flowing narrative replete with well-chosen quotations, long-forgotten information, thought-provoking footnotes, and perceptive comments galore. Amidst the babble of visitors, bands blared, musical entertainers worked the cafes, dancers glided or stamped or wriggled to various musics, audiences assembled in the acoustically deficient concert hall at Trocadéro for...
The Virtuoso Conductors. By Raymond Holden
Despite these dire predictions of the demise of "classical music," conductors still hold the world stage as the superstars of the orchestral world, flitting from one engagement to another, or acting as the music director of several orchestras at one time.
Researching the Song: A Lexicon
Not only will it shed light on all those mysterious names and places included in songs texts, but it will offer biographical information on the poets and include lists of composers who have composed songs using the same poetry.
Moriz Rosenthal in Word and Music: A Legacy of the Nineteenth Century
Yet another aspect of Rosenthal's activity which the co-editors seem to have overlooked is the series of nearly fifty piano works by Liszt that he edited in the 1920s for the Berlin publisher Ullstein.
Expressive Forms in Brahms's Instrumental Music: Structure and Meaning in His 'Werther' Quartet
Such an expression indeed emerges in Brahms's piano quartet in C minor, op. 60, the Werther Quartet, which takes its name from Brahms's own characterization of it in letters to his friends Hermann Deiters and Theodore Billroth: "Imagine a man who is about to shoot himself, and for whom there is no other way out," and "An illustration, as it were, to the last chapter of the man in a blue swallow-tail coat and yellow waistcoat" (p. 1). Smith's purpose is "to engage the quartet as a case study ...
The book is divided into a prologue and two main parts: "The Private Intellectual Context of Strauss's Early Career"-with chapters on the composer's conversion to Wagnerism and appropriation of Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, and Goethe, respectively -and "Orchestral Composition as Philosophical Critique" with chapters on the two cycles of tone poems and two later "symphonies." The book's title, however, does not represent its contents accurately; the discussion of Strauss's orchestral works occupi...
Much of the new information is tawdry (sex, drugs, and death), but the details bring home the point that apart from their public image and preference for Motown over delta blues, not much separated the Beatles from the Rolling Stones. There are a number of obvious errors in the photo section of the book (e.g., "George, with Pattie Boyd, soon after they met on the set of Help!"), and presumably they will be corrected in a second edition.
The medium of the Internet enabled the continuation of the editorial voice of Musical America, reporting on the international musical scene, and provided a home for their International Directory of the Performing Arts among other resources. Additional features include news articles, press releases submitted by various organizations, the full content of directory articles (1999-), industry links, and indexes of Musical America's photo archives, directory articles (1961-1998), and magazine art...
Facts On File, 2006. vii, 136 p. ISBN 0816065160 (hbk.: alk. paper). Biersdorfer, J. D. IPod shuffle fan book: life is a playlist. Originally presented as the author's thesis Ph. Willie Cottingim: an oral history. Darling, Charles W. Messages of dissent: struggle songs in American history. Kontakt 2 power!: the comprehensive guide. Oxford University Press, 2006. xiv, 169 p. ISBN 0198162588 (alk. paper). Froehlich, Mary Ann. 101 ideas for piano group class: building an inclusive music c...
La Veloutée: Sonatas for Flute and Harpsichord/Sonatas for Two Bassoons and Continuo
The ensemble Les Buffarins is flutist Frank Theuns, harpsichordist Ewald Demeyere, and gamba player Martin Bauer; judging by its recorded history, Les Buffarins appears to be the name under which Theuns records chamber music of this period with a shifting array of colleagues. However, recent technical advances had made the bassoon a reasonable candidate as a solo instrument in a sonata setting, and the works on this program were published with a note indicating their suitability for "cello, ...
Netherlands Bach Society / Jos Van Veldhoven/Cantus Cölln / Konrad Junghänel
Both the Netherlands Bach Society and Cantus Cölln perform on period instruments and use small vocal forces, and in both cases the resulting sound is pleasingly intimate (though a bit warmer and more immediate in the former than in the latter case, while Cantus Cölln tends to take tempos just a little more briskly).
Impromptus, D. 935; Sonata in B Flat, D. 960
. A library that already owns several good versions of these works need not consider this an essential purchase, but it would make a very fine alternate version for any collection.
The Miraculous Mandarin; Dance Suite; Hungarian Pictures
Given what we know about Béla Bartók's deep aversion to urban life (and even, it could be argued, to modernity itself), it seems only natural that he would team up with the Expressionist writer Menyhért Lengyel to create the pantomime ballet, The Miraculous Mandarin, The dark and gruesome story line deals primarily with thuggery, prostitution, and elaborate murder in the inner city, and Bartók described the music he composed for it as "hellish."
When evaluating the work of a singer, it is important to bear in mind the difference between vocal skill and a good voice.
Mcnally's Row of Flats: Irish Songs of Old New York by Harrigan and Braham
For this delightful album, Irish folk legend Mick Moloney took fourteen songs from the Harrigan repertoire and imaginatively reconstructed them in a variety of settings, from neo-traditional ensemble folk ("The Regular Army O") to a sort of village band sound ("Are You There Moriarty?," "Patrick's Day Parade") with occasional excursions into the parlor ballad ("My Dad's Dinner Pail").
The Greatest Hits: Why Try Harder
Equally popular as a DJ, a remix artist, and a purveyor of original material, Fatboy Slim is one of the architects of the dance music genre known as Big Beat: a fusion of house, funk, hip hop, dub, and techno recognizable by its reliance on fat, funky breakbeats and often humorous sampling.
For information about the content and arrangement of this list, consult the introduction to the column in the September 2006 issue (p. 208 of this volume). Recent Researches in the Music of the Baroque Era, 141. ISBN 0-253-21680-X. x p.; score, 686 p. Plastic comb binding. $175. Version for Soloists, Women's Chorus, and Piano (1843). A Full-Color Facsimile of the Autograph Piano-Vocal Score held in the Museum of Educational Heritage at Tamagawa University. Concerto in D Major for Violin ...
Various Compositions by Samuel Wesley
Twelve Short Pieces for the Organ with a Full Voluntary Added, KO 617; Variations on God Save the King for Organ, KO 619; Variations on Rule Britannia for Organ, KO 620. Duett for the Organ (Grand Duet in Three Movements for Piano Forte or Organ), KO 604; Introduction to the Grand Fugue in E Flat by Johann Sebastian Bach, KO 669; Fuga à 5 con pedale pro organo pleno by Johann Sebastian Bach (arranged for 4 hands by Vincent Novello). an overture of his composition was performed, that it cont...
For information regarding the scope of this column, consult the headnote in the September 2006 issue (p. 218 of this volume). Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles, 22 avenue de Paris, F-78003 Versailles, France. Emerson Edition, Windmill Farm, Ampleforth, North Yorkshire YO62 4HF, England. Japan Federation of Composers, 311 5th Sky Building, 3-3-8 Sendagaya, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 151-0051, Japan. Music, art, theater, and film, Frühling 2006. Upbeat, Christmas 2006.
Book Reviews
In the final chapter, "Some Problems and Resources of Music Theory," Lewin suggests that Babbitt's serial technique enacts the central weaving imagery in Philomel (a suggestion, as we learn in an appendix added here, that was corroborated by the composer). Moreover, his methodological discussion alerts us to habits of mind that dangerously simplify our discourse: a predilection for the false dichotomies that he calls "political/ legal," that force us (often inappropriately) to choose a side ...
The Royal Chapel in the Time of the Habsburgs: Music and Court Ceremony in Early Modern Europe
An effective symbol of the continuity of tradition and authority was the chapel architecture itself, which maintained its fifteenthcentury appearance even after the great renovation of the Alcázar palace by 1560 (see pp. 200-02). lain Fenlon's contribution on Florentine and Venetian rites of succession complements Álvarez-Ossorio's exploration of the coming of age of the young king Charles II on Epiphany in 1675; the latter's appearance and participation in the liturgical ritual of the chapel...