Notes back issues from September 2005:
Editor's note.(Editorial)
Sep 01, 2005 ... With this issue, the journal begins its celebration of the 75th anniversary of the founding of the Music Library Association (MLA). For the next two years each issue will include at least one article that is devoted to a luminary of the association who has helped to shape it and the ...
Errant thoughts on some rare items in the Jean Gray Hargrove Music Library.
Sep 01, 2005; ... By way of an introduction to the specialized articles that follow in this issue, I shall attempt to sketch a general picture of the founding and early evolution of the music library at the University of California, Berkeley, with emphasis on its relationship to the music department, then ...
The Borel manuscript: a new source of seventeenth-century French harpsichord music at Berkeley.
Sep 01, 2005; ... During the summer of 2004 John H. Roberts, the head of the music library at the University of California, Berkeley, was able to acquire for our new Jean Gray Hargrove Music Library a particularly interesting seventeenth-century manuscript of French harpsichord music. This article is a ...
Charles Koechlin, Catherine Urner, and the Shatto-Urner manuscript collection at the University of California, Berkeley.
Sep 01, 2005; ... After the death of the organist Charles Shatto on New Year's Day 1983, the University of California at Berkeley (UCB) inherited a substantial collection of manuscripts by Shatto himself, his wife Catherine Urner (1891-1942), and their composition teacher and mentor, Charles Koechlin ...
Sealed documents and open lives: Ernest Bloch's private correspondence.
Sep 01, 2005; ... In the spring of 1997, philosopher Lydia Goehr visited Berkeley as that year's Bloch Lecturer. Living in the same apartment building as Suzanne Bloch, the daughter of Ernest Bloch who, as the name of the lecture series indicates, was the first beneficiary of the fund, Goehr felt it was ...
Notes for notes.
Sep 01, 2005 ... A. Ralph Papakhian and Sue Ellen Stancu are the joint recipients of the Music OCLC Users Group's (MOUG) Distinguished Service Award. This award was established to recognize and honor a librarian who has made significant professional contributions to music users of OCLC. The MOUG executive ...
Cuba and Its Music: From the First Drums to the Mambo.(Cuban Music from A to Z)(Cubano Be, Cubano Bop: One Hundred Years of Jazz in Cuba)(Divine Utterances: The Performance of Afro-Cuban Santeria)(Book Review)
Sep 01, 2005; ... Cuba and Its Music: From the First Drums to the Mambo. By Ned Sublette. Chicago: Chicago Review Press, 2004. [xv, 672 p. ISBN 1-55652-516-8. $36.00.] Illustrations, index, bibliography. Cuban Music from A to Z. By Helio Orovio. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2004. [xi, 235 ...
Archives for the Future: Global Perspectives on Audiovisual Archives in the 21st Century.(Book Review)
Sep 01, 2005; ... Archives for the Future: Global Perspectives on Audiovisual Archives in the 21st Century. Edited by Anthony Seeger and Shubha Chaudhuri. Gurgaon, Haryana, India: Archives and Research Centre for Ethnomusicology, American Institute of Indian Studies; Calcutta: Seagull Books, 2004. [xxviii, ...
Music and Copyright.(Book Review)
Sep 01, 2005; ... Music and Copyright, 2d ed. Edited by Simon Frith and Lee Marshall. New York: Routledge, 2004. [vi, 218 p. ISBN 0-415-97253-1. $24.95.] Index. Music copyright is a broad and complex issue. Philosophers and kings, governments and courts, publishers and musicians have all shaped ...
Speaking of Music: Music Conferences, 1835-1966.(Book Review)
Sep 01, 2005; ... Speaking of Music: Music Conferences, 1835-1966. Edited by James R. Cowdery, Zdravko Blazekovic, and Barry S. Brook. (RILM Retrospective Series, 4.) New York: Repertoire International de Litterature Musicale, 2004. [xxii, 762 p. ISBN 1-932765-00-X; ISSN 1547-9390. $295 (institutions); $65 ...
The Pianist's Dictionary.(Book Review)
Sep 01, 2005; ... The Pianist's Dictionary. By Maurice Hinson. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2004. [x, 221 p. ISBN 0-253-344050-0. $39.95.] Bibliography. For more than 30 years the industrious Maurice Hinson, professor of music at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, has produced a ...
Efrem Zimbalist: A Life.(Book Review)
Sep 01, 2005; ... Efrem Zimbalist: A Life. By Roy Malan. Pompton Plains, NJ: Amadeus Press, 2004. [xii, 368 p. ISBN 1-57467-091-3. $29.95.] Bibliography, discography, index. In the early years of the twentieth century, the violin studio of Leopold Auer at the Conservatory of Music in St ....
The Birth of the Orchestra: History of an Institution, 1650-1815.(Book Review)
Sep 01, 2005; ... The Birth of the Orchestra: History of an Institution, 1650-1815. By John Spitzer and Neal Zaslaw. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. [xviii, 614 p. ISBN0-19-816434-3. $175.] Music examples, illustrations, bibliography, index. In their preface to this monograph, the ...
The Beethoven Violin Sonatas: History, Criticism, Performance.(Book Review)
Sep 01, 2005; ... The Beethoven Violin Sonatas: History, Criticism, Performance. Edited by Lewis Lockwood and Mark Kroll. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2004. [164 p. ISBN0-252-02932-1. $45.] Music examples, index, bibliography. Previous scholarly inquiries into Beethoven's ten sonatas ...
Paul Bowles on Music.(Book Review)
Sep 01, 2005; ... Paul Bowles on Music. Edited by Timothy Mangan and Irene Herrmann. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003. [xviii, 292 p. ISBN 1417508124. $34.95.] Index, bibliography. Whether he wanted it or not, fame has found Paul Bowles (1910-1999). For some his reputation rests ...
Brahms and the German Spirit.(Book Review)
Sep 01, 2005; ... Brahms and the German Spirit. By Daniel Beller-McKenna. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2004. [xi, 243 p. ISBN 0-674-01318-2. $49.95.] Illustrations, music examples, index, notes. Daniel Beller-McKenna has set out to correct what he sees as a deficiency in Brahms ...
The Age of Chopin: Interdisciplinary Inquiries.(Book Review)
Sep 01, 2005; ... The Age of Chopin: Interdisciplinary Inquiries. Edited by Halina Goldberg. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2004. [xii, 368 p. ISBN 0-253-34319-4. $59.95.] Music examples, indexes, notes. The Age of Chopin: Interdisciplinary Inquiries, edited by Halina Goldberg, includes ...
Henry F. Gilbert: A Bio-Bibliography.(Book Review)
Sep 01, 2005; ... Henry F. Gilbert: A Bio-Bibliography. By Sherrill V. Martin. (Bio-Bibliographies in Music, 93.) Westport, CT: Praeger, 2004. [xii, 296 p. ISBN 0-313-27445-2. $79.95.] Index, discography. During the second decade of the twentieth century, some writers on music considered Henry ...
Gustav Mahler: Letters to his Wife.(Book Review)
Sep 01, 2005; ... Gustav Mahler: Letters to his Wife. Edited by Henry-Louis de la Grange and Gunter Weiss in collaboration with Knud Martner. First complete edition revised and translated by Antony Beaumont. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1995, 2004. [xxvii, 431 p. ISBN 0-8014-4340-7. $40.] ...
Divining the Oracle: Monteverdi's Seconda Prattica.(Book Review)
Sep 01, 2005; ... Divining the Oracle: Monteverdi's Seconda Prattica. By Massimo Ossi. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003. [xviii, 280 p. ISBN 0-226-63883-9. $60.] Music examples, illustrations, index, bibliography. In his fifth book of madrigals (1605), Claudio Monteverdi announced his ...
La casa del mugnaio: ascolto e interpretazione della Schone Mullerin, con l'edizione del ciclo liederistico secondo la Neue Schubert-Ausgabe.(Book Review)
Sep 01, 2005; ... La casa del mugnaio: ascolto e interpretazione della Schone Mullerin: con l'edizione del ciclo liederistico secondo la Neue Schubert-Ausgabe. By Giuseppina La Face Bianconi. (Historiae Musicae Cultores, 102.) Florence: Leo S. Olschki, 2003. [322 p. ISBN 88 222 4323 X. [euro]32.] Indexes. ...
The Cambridge Companion to Sibelius.(Book Review)
Sep 01, 2005; ... The Cambridge Companion to Sibelius. Edited by Daniel M. Grimley. (Cambridge Companions to Music.) New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. [xvii, 273 p. ISBN 0-521-81552-5. $75.] Music examples, index, bibliography. In 1933, at the height of the British Sibelius cult, Ernest ...
Bad Music: The Music We Love to Hate.(Book Review)
Sep 01, 2005; ... Bad Music: The Music We Love to Hate. Edited by Christopher Washburne and Maiken Derno. New York: Routledge, 2004. [x, 379 p. ISBN 0415-94366-3. $24.95.] Illustrations, index. Every now and then a book comes along that articulates something that is embedded in our collective ...
Historical Musicology: Sources, Methods, Interpretations.(Book Review)
Sep 01, 2005; ... Historical Musicology: Sources, Methods, Interpretations. Edited by Stephen A. Crist and Roberta Montemorra Marvin. (Eastman Studies in Music.) University of Rochester Press, 2004. [viii, 429 p. ISBN 1-58046-111-5. $95.] Music examples, index. With such names as Lewis Lockwood, ...
Listening to Reason: Culture, Subjectivity, and Nineteenth-Century Music.(Book Review)
Sep 01, 2005; ... Listening to Reason: Culture, Subjectivity, and Nineteenth-Century Music. By Michael P. Steinberg. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2004. [xiv, 246 p. ISBN 0-691-11685-7. $29.95.] Illustrations, index. With Listening to Reason: Culture, Subjectivity, and ...
Let the Church Sing!: Music and Worship in a Black Mississippi Community.(Book Review)
Sep 01, 2005; ... "Let the Church Sing!": Music and Worship in a Black Mississippi Community. By Therese Smith. Rochester, NY: Rochester University Press, 2004. [xxi, 293 p. ISBN 1-58046-157-3. $45.00.] Music examples, illustrations, bibliography, index. As a black American born and raised in the ...
Performing Ethnomusicology: Teaching and Representation in World Music Ensembles.(Book Review)
Sep 01, 2005; ... Performing Ethnomusicology: Teaching and Representation in World Music Ensembles. Edited by Ted Solis. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004. [vii, 322 p. ISBN 0-520-23831-1. $24.95.] Index, bibliography. World music ensembles can be found in any number of colleges and ...
Real Country: Music and Language in Working-Class Culture.(Book Review)
Sep 01, 2005; ... Real Country: Music and Language in Working-Class Culture. By Aaron A. Fox. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2004. [xv, 363 p. ISBN 0-8223-3348-1. $22.95.] Illustrations, index, bibliography. As a relatively young field of academic inquiry, country music benefits from a wide ...
Rockin' Las Americas: The Global Politics of rock in Latin/o America.(Book Review)
Sep 01, 2005; ... Rockin' las Americas: The Global Politics of Rock in Latin/o America. Edited by Deborah Pacini Hernandez, Hector Fernandez-L'Hoeste, and Eric Zolov. (Illuminations: Cultural Formations of the Americas.) Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh Press, 2004. [ix, 420 p. ISBN 0822958414. $24.95.] ...
Thai Classical Singing: Its History, Musical Characteristics and Transmission.(Book Review)
Sep 01, 2005; ... Thai Classical Singing: Its History, Musical Characteristics and Transmission. By Dusadee Swangviboonpong. (SOAS Musicology Series.) Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing Co., 2003. [xxiii, 232 p. ISBN 0-7546-0790-9 $94.95.] Music examples, illustrations, discography, bibliography, index. ...
Books recently published.
Sep 01, 2005; ... 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 Ashby, Arved Mark, ed. The ...
Acoustical Arts and Artifacts: Technology, Aesthetics, Communication (AAA/TAC).(Periodical Review)
Sep 01, 2005 ... Acoustical Arts and Artifacts: Technology, Aesthetics, Communication (AAA/TAC). Edited by Giovanni Morelli. Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Istituto per la musica, Venezia (Giorgio Cini Institute for Music, Venice); Istituti editoriali e poligrafici internazionali. Annual. Vol. 1 (2004). In ...
Action, Criticism and Theory for Music Education (ACT).(Periodical Review)
Sep 01, 2005 ... Action, Criticism & Theory for Music Education (ACT). Edited by Thomas Regelski. MayDay Group; Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville. Semiannual (in practice; not formally limited to any number). Vol. 1, no. 1 (April 2002). In English; other languages considered. ISSN 1545-4517 ....
Canadian Winds: The Journal of the Canadian Band Association / Vents canadiens: revue de l'Association canadienne de l'harmonie.(Periodical Review)
Sep 01, 2005 ... Canadian Winds: The Journal of the Canadian Band Association / Vents canadiens: revue de l'Association canadienne de l'harmonie. Edited by Denise Grant and Timothy Maloney. Canadian Band Association (CBA). Semiannual. Vol. 1, no. 1 (Autumn 2002). ISSN 1703-5295. Print format. Subscription: ...
Colloquium: Music, Worship, Arts.(Periodical Review)
Sep 01, 2005 ... Colloquium: Music, Worship, Arts. Edited by Margo E. Fassler and Bryan Spinks. Yale Institute of Sacred Music. Annual. Vol. 1 (September 2004). Print and online (HTML) formats; includes DVD. Access: http://www.yale.edu/ism/colloq_journal/Col_Journal.html. Inquiries: Margot E. Fassler, ...
Critical Studies in Improvisation / Etudes critiques en improvisation (CSI/ECI).(Periodical Review)
Sep 01, 2005 ... Critical Studies in Improvisation / Etudes critiques en improvisation (CSI/ECI). Edited by Ajay Heble, Ellen Waterman, and Frederique Arroyas. University of Guelph, Ontario. Semiannual. Vol. 1, no. 1 (September 2004). ISSN 1712-0624. Online (HTML and PDF) format. Access: ...
Field Notes: Southern Folklife Collection Newsletter.(Periodical Review)
Sep 01, 2005 ... Field Notes: Southern Folklife Collection Newsletter. Edited by Steven Weiss. Southern Folklife Collection (SFC), University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Annual. Vol. 1, no. 1 (Spring 2004). Print and online (PDF) formats. Access: http://www.lib.unc.edu/mss/sfc1/spubs.html. E-mail: ...
Journal of the Musical Arts in Africa.(Periodical Review)
Sep 01, 2005 ... Journal of the Musical Arts in Africa. Edited by Anri Herbst. South African College of Music, University of Cape Town, in collaboration with the University of Pretoria. Annual. Vol. 1 (2004). In English. ISSN 1812-1004; ISBN 1-919833-98-6 (vol. 1). Print and online (PDF) formats. ...
Musurgia.(Periodical Review)
Sep 01, 2005 ... Musurgia (subtitled Analyse et pratique musicales or Musicales revue trimestrielle d'analyse et de theorie musicale [Music Analysis and Practice, or, Quarterly Journal of Music Analysis and Theory]). Edited by Nicolas Meeus. Published with the assistance of the Societe francaise d'analyse ...
Newsletter [of the Institute for Canadian Music].(Periodical Review)
Sep 01, 2005 ... Newsletter [of the Institute for Canadian Music] (alternate title: ICM Newsletter). Edited by Robin Elliott. Institute for Canadian Music, Faculty of Music, University of Toronto. Triannual. Vol. 1, no. 1 (January 2003). ISSN 1705-1460. Print and online (HTML and PDF) formats. Access: ...
Online Journal of Bass Research (OJBR).(Periodical Review)
Sep 01, 2005 ... Online Journal of Bass Research (OJBR). Edited by Joelle Morton. International Society of Bassists (ISB). Semiannual (but annual to date). Vol. 1, no. 1 (July 2003). ISSN 1552-9657. Online (HTML and PDF) format. Access: http://www.ojbr.com/. Inquiries: Madeleine Crouch, General Manager, ...
Popular Music History.(Periodical Review)
Sep 01, 2005 ... Popular Music History. Edited by Robert Strachan. International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM). Semiannual. Vol. 1, no. 1 (April 2004). ISSN 1740-7133, E-ISSN 1743-1646. Print and online (PDF) formats. Subscription: Journals Department, Extenza-Turpin, Stratton Business ...
Soundscape: The Journal of Acoustic Ecology.(Periodical Review)
Sep 01, 2005 ... Soundscape: The Journal of Acoustic Ecology. Edited by Gary Ferrington, Nigel Frayne, and Hildegard Westerkamp. World Forum for Acoustic Ecology (WFAE). Semiannual. Vol. 1, no. 1 (Spring 2000). ISSN 1607-3304. Print and online (PDF) formats. Subscription: World Forum for Acoustic Ecology ...
Electronica.(NEW PERIODICALS)
Sep 01, 2005; ... Reviews, new titles, and publisher and title changes announced elsewhere in this column include additional comments about electronic access. 19th Century Music, see JSTOR announcement in this section. Asian Music, see Project Muse announcement in this section. ...
Title, frequency, and publisher changes; Cessations.
Sep 01, 2005; ... The quarterly French music theory journal Analyse Musicale (ISSN 0295-3722), published under the auspices of the Societe francaise d'analyse musicale, started with number 1 (November 1985) and suspended publication after number 32 (July 1993), then produced about twenty more issues from ...
Special Journal Issues.
Sep 01, 2005; ... 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 ...
Naxos Music Library (Internet music resource).(Product/Service Evaluation)
Sep 01, 2005; ... Naxos Music Library (Internet music resource). Naxos Digital Services Ltd. http://www.naxosmusiclibrary.com. [Requires: For PC users: Microsoft Windows 98, 2000, or XP with Internet Explorer 6.0, Mozilla 1.7.1, FireFox 1.0, Netscape 7.1, or Opera 7.53 and Media Player 9.0/10.0; for ...
Early American Anthems.(Anthems for Special Occasions)(Book Review)
Sep 01, 2005; ... Early American Anthems. Edited by Karl Kroeger. (Recent Researches in American Music, 36-37.) Madison, WI: A-R Editions, Inc., c2000. [Pt. 1: Anthems for Public Celebrations. Acknowledgments, p. vii; introd., p. ixxxv; 6 plates (3 p.); score, 185 p.; crit. report, p. 187-92; indexes of ...
Music received.
Sep 01, 2005; ... 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 provided. The primary aim of this column is ...
Music publishers' catalogs.(Directory)
Sep 01, 2005; ... 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 publishers' catalogs of single composers, and ...
Music library association administrative structure.(Directory)
Sep 01, 2005 ... BOARD OF DIRECTORS PRESIDENT: Bonna J. Boettcher. Music Library & Sound Recordings Archives, Wm. T. Jerome Library, 3rd floor, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH 43403-0179; 419/372-9929; FAX: 419/372-2499; E-mail: bboettc@bgnet.bgsu.edu (2005-7). PAST ...