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Abstract: The increasing cost of commercial textbooks used in higher education has been well-documented, as has the negative effect of expensive course materials on student learning and success.1 A variety of solutions have been proposed to address the high prices of commercial textbooks, such as Open Educational Resources (OER), textbook affordability initiatives, and inclusive access programs. OER are materials for teaching and learning that may be used and adapted, as specified by an assigned license or by virtue of being in the public domain.2 They are often in the form of a digital book that can be adopted or adapted for use as an assigned course text. Academic libraries and other campus partners increasingly support ... Read More PubDate: 2023-02-20T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Michel Foucault has wisely observed that it is difficult to have a theory of "the edition" if one does not first have a theory of "the work."1 At first glance, this seems a sensible—for Foucault an uncharacteristically common-sensical—observation: one cannot decide what editions are and what purposes they should serve unless one has at least a provisional idea of the nature of the entities that editions are supposed to represent. But textual scholars in the verbal disciplines have long been aware that the relationship between editions and works operates in both directions. The editions in which we encounter works present those works in certain ways, and the ways in which they present works shape our ideas about ... Read More PubDate: 2023-02-20T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: In 2018, I published an examination of LP record circulation at the University of Colorado (CU) Boulder.1 That article considered the items that circulated during the last year (2014) in which the LP collection was housed on-site and only circulated to University of Colorado patrons. I was curious to see how closely the circulated items mapped to the music degree programs at the university. One could have presumed that all of the circulated items would have been directly connected to existing programs, since circulation was in-house use only. That turned out to not be the case, and even with narrow circulation parameters, a wide spectrum of the collection was explored by patrons. Additionally, I investigated how ... Read More PubDate: 2023-02-20T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: The Riemenschneider Bach Institute (RBI) at Baldwin Wallace University invites applications for two financial awards in support of scholarship.The Martha Goldsworthy Arnold Fellowship provides support to scholars visiting the RBI to do research in the collections. See https://libguides.bw.edu/rbi/research/scholars.The American Bach Society's Frances Alford Brokaw Grant supports an undergraduate student from any college or university to do independent research in the RBI, with the assistance of our faculty. See https://www.americanbachsociety.org/research.html.A renowned research center located at Baldwin Wallace University in Berea, Ohio, the Riemenschneider Bach Institute houses numerous rare items, ranging from ... Read More PubDate: 2023-02-20T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: In summer 2022, Amoeba Music, arguably the best independent record store chain in the United States, published its annual Music We Like zine. One item from its lists of recommended recordings—by Felix (no last name given), a staff member from Berkeley, California—featured this endorsement of Daniel Hope and Alekseĭ Botvinov's release of Schnittke's violin and piano music: "Nothing on this compilation is predictable, for Alfred Schnittke's music is multifaceted and quite entertaining. His skills involved adopting old traditional music into contemporary form without concern [for] any one idiom. Easily one of the most underrated and overlooked composers of the 20th century. I encourage you to embrace this captivating ... Read More PubDate: 2023-02-20T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Over the course of his fifty-eight-year career at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, pianist and musicologist Maurice Hinson (1930–2015) produced a remarkable legacy of repertory guides and bibliographies related to the piano. Highlights include his Keyboard Bibliography (Cincinnati: Music Teachers National Association, 1968), Guide to the Pianist's Repertoire (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1973, 1987, 1991, 1994, 2000, 2014), Piano Music in Nineteenth-Century America (Chapel Hill, NC: Hinshaw Music, 1975), The Piano in Chamber Ensemble: An Annotated Guide (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1978, 2006, 2021), The Piano Teacher's Source Book: An Annotated Bibliography of Books Related to the ... Read More PubDate: 2023-02-20T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: There was a period of ten years between the fourth and fifth editions of Orchestral Music. A gap of a mere seven years has seen the appearance of the sixth. While the gap has been reduced, there has been a quantum increase in the heft of this basic reference work. While the fifth edition weighed in at five pounds and 885 pages, the sixth edition presents itself at seven and a half pounds spanning some 1,443 pages. In fact, the sixth edition is so heavy that some users—the present reviewer is an example—will find it a chore just to lift it. If one might offer a solution to the authors and publisher, they might consider breaking the seventh edition into two volumes. This can easily be accomplished by putting the ... Read More PubDate: 2023-02-20T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: "Impressive" is the first word that comes to mind when one looks at these two thick, handsome volumes. But the adjective is nonetheless a paltry assessment of the early-music festival being described. The sheer number and importance of the activities listed, the quality of the participating performers, the significance of the repertories unearthed, and the sociocultural impact of the festival strikes this reviewer as the monumental achievement of a major cultural enterprise.The Festival de Música Antigua de Úbeda y Baeza (FeMAUB), initiated in 1997 with four concert programs, each played in both cities, has developed into an important, multifaceted event, with twenty-four concerts and academic events in 2019 (a ... Read More PubDate: 2023-02-20T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Ludwig van Beethoven's legacy is not one that we associate with Spain. At least it is not immediately apparent what sort of influence he and his music might have exercised on Spanish composers, concert artists, and audiences. We associate Beethoven with the genre of the symphony, but symphonic organizations were slow to develop in Spain during the 1800s, and Beethoven's symphonies only gradually gained traction with concert audiences there. And Spanish composers themselves never cultivated the symphony with any notable results. True, they composed an abundance of orchestral music, especially tone poems, ballets, and concertos, many of which have found a secure niche in the canonical repertoire. But one strains to ... Read More PubDate: 2023-02-20T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: The essay collection Theatres of Belief is the result of a collaborative project between a transnational group of musicologists who share interest in the convergence of religion, sound, and early modern urban spaces. Eleven chapters by different authors provide multiple case studies drawn from cities located in Europe and the Americas between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries. These studies showcase a variety of approaches to religious confession, conversion, and soundscape.A leading thread of this volume is interactions between sound and confessionalization in the early modern world. In this regard, the authors' tendency to eschew the overarching narratives that have conflated local experience with universal ... Read More PubDate: 2023-02-20T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: The struggles of the past two years with COVID-19 cannot help but remind us of the devastating tolls of earlier pandemics, especially the episodes of bubonic plague that raged with chilling regularity during the Middle Ages. On the first page of her masterful study, Sarah Ann Long bridges a seven-century gap with the statement, "Plague epidemics affected everyone, forcing men and women of all walks of life to come face to face with their mortality. … One can imagine a certain helplessness that people felt when confronted with this disease, causing them to routinely seek divine intervention from patron saints thought to have special protective powers" (p. 1). It is the devotion to these saints, specifically to the ... Read More PubDate: 2023-02-20T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Evyatar Marienberg has written a revealing and well-researched book exploring the influences of Catholicism and spirituality on the music of one of popular music's most compelling and literate icons, Sting (born Gordon Matthew Sumner). Marienberg is an associate professor in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His prior texts are largely centered around religion and spirituality, particularly Catholicism, and this is his first book addressing a musical topic. Admittedly, religious influences on music are a complex subject for any author and made even more so when involving a complex and private artist such as Sting. Marienberg relies on prior scholarship, primary ... Read More PubDate: 2023-02-20T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: "Augusta Browne's outsider status and self-agency," author Bonny H. Miller explains in the introduction, "offer a potent narrative that transcends antebellum and Victorian-era norms in America. She constructed a substantial legacy in American music and journalism through talent, craft, persistence, outreach, and nineteenth-century equivalents of modern marketing strategies" (p. 1). Indeed, upon reading Miller's biography, one might call Augusta Browne (1820–1882) a nineteenth-century "multihyphenate," to invoke an au courant term. Browne taught, performed, composed, and wrote, melding all of those activities into a career spanning over fifty years. This impressive biography asks us to question what is canonic music ... Read More PubDate: 2023-02-20T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: The first comprehensive biography of composer, conductor, and educator Tania León (b. 1943) is arriving at a peak moment, an accented stride if you will, in León's career. She has been selected as an honoree in the 45th Kennedy Center Honors ceremony in December 2022—a celebration set to occur several months following the writing of this review. As attendees and viewers watch her don the familiar rainbow ribbon, it will likely ignite a desire for the back-story of this creative genius. Alejandro L. Madrid's biography is waiting to satiate this intrigue, chronicling León's journey from a poor neighborhood in Cuba, to accompanying the Dance Theatre of Harlem, to her conducting lessons with Leonard Bernstein, to ... Read More PubDate: 2023-02-20T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: I am often amazed and secretly pleased at the public's fascination with Leonard Bernstein. Certainly, he is of great interest to me, as he is the subject of my doctoral dissertation and continuing research, but I am a bit surprised to realize how many other people find him equally compelling, although I should not be, given Bernstein's vast talent and charisma. Two recent books add to the extensive literature on him, likely because of his birth centennial a few years ago. Although neither work specifies the target audience, both seem to be intended for the general reader, and both came out in the same year, but the similarities stop there.Leonard Bernstein, draws on Paul Laird's rich knowledge as one of the leading ... Read More PubDate: 2023-02-20T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: "One of the greatest and most original composers of the early twentieth century," reads the back cover of this book, "Leoš Janáček (1854–1928) occupied a pre-eminent position in Moravian culture, not only as a composer but also as a folksong collector, journalist, educator and nationalist." The Janáček Compendium is the work of Nigel Simeone, musicologist and conductor formerly at Bangor University and Sheffield University in the UK, who presently might be described as an independent music professional. Simeone's interest in Czech music, specifically the works of Janáček, began at a young age. "My own discovery of Janáček," Simeone explains, "began when I was a teenager, not only with recordings but also with three ... Read More PubDate: 2023-02-20T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: When I heard that the composer Mason Bates was going to register one of his operas as a nonfungible token (NFT), the story struck me as an archetypal embodiment of the times, on two interrelated fronts: The phenomenon of the NFT (in which blockchain technology is used to exchange unreplicable iterations of digital media) has been invoked as the potential savior of music's financial valuation, allowing undercompensated artists in the era of streaming to achieve the market scarcity specific to the contemporary art world. Meanwhile, Bates, in embracing the technological fetishism of Silicon Valley and the electronic dance music (EDM) world, has been received by classical music institutions as the potential savior of a ... Read More PubDate: 2023-02-20T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: A Case for Charpentier is an edition with English translation of a late seventeenth-century or early eighteenth-century French music theory manuscript. It follows on from published translations of several other important sources that have been long available, including Etienne Loulié's Elements or Principles of Music (ed. Albert Cohen [New York: Institute of Mediaeval Music, 1965]), Michel de Saint-Lambert's Principles of the Harpsichord (ed. Rebecca Harris-Warwick [Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984]), A New Treatise on Accompaniment: With the Harpsichord, the Organ, and with Other Instruments (ed. John S. Powell [Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1991]), and Denis Delair's Accompaniment on Theorbo ... Read More PubDate: 2023-02-20T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Postbop jazz was an enormously influential approach to composition and improvisation that developed alongside the more widely known modal and free jazz styles; all three originated at the end of the 1950s and developed throughout the 1960s and 1970s. In addition to the three seminal figures mentioned in the title, other significant postbop pioneers included saxophonist Joe Henderson and trumpeters Booker Little and Woody Shaw (though Shaw did not produce his most mature work until the mid-1970s). Students have studied these compositions in university jazz programs and conservatories for decades, but it is only in the last twenty years or so that scholars such as Steven Strunk, Henry Martin, Patricia Julien, Bill ... Read More PubDate: 2023-02-20T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: This column is compiled quarterly from a variety of sources, including publisher and vendor websites and announcements. If you are an author or editor of a recently-published music book and would like it to be included in a future column, please send a request to music.library@louisville.edu.Abels, Birgit. Music worlding in Palau: chanting, atmospheres, and meaningfulness. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2022. 204 p. ISBN 9789463725125.Global Asia; 14Abril, Carlos R., and Brent M. Gault, eds. General music: dimensions of practice. New York: Oxford University Press, 2022. xii, 357 p. ISBN 9780197509012.Adams, Julia R. Musical humor and Antonín Dvořák's comic operas. Berlin: Peter Lang, 2022. 383 p. ISBN ... Read More PubDate: 2023-02-20T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: The Kurt Weill Edition is an ongoing project which documents Weill's works in four series—Stage, Screen, Concert, and Miscellanea—in editions as definitive as possible based on available sources. All of the volumes examined by this writer have been exemplary in editing, textual background, and engraving. This new edition of Happy End continues this excellent and thorough work, particularly since the preparation of this project presented numerous challenges to the editors.As described in the separate Critical Report, this project "publishes Happy End for the first time as a musicodramatic entity that comprises spoken scenes intercalated with musical numbers in full score format" (p. 9). The road to produce this ... Read More PubDate: 2023-02-20T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: This year marks the thirty-fifth anniversary of the founding of the Centre de Musique Baroque Versailles (CMBV). Vincent Berthier de Lioncourt and Philippe Beaussant established the CMBV in 1987 in the wake of the early music revival, and since then the center has become indispensable to both scholars and performers of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century French music.The two editions reviewed here represent a sampling of recent publications from the CMBV's editions catalog, which includes over two thousand works published in more than three hundred fifty editions. Their catalog comprises eight different series: works for solo voice-vocal ensemble, choral works, works for choir and orchestra, solo instrumental ... Read More PubDate: 2023-02-20T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: The publication of this performing edition of Luigi Nono's Prometeo, tragedia dell'ascolto (Prometeo, a tragedy of listening) (1975–85) is unambiguously a cause for celebration. Despite the fact that Prometeo is arguably one of the finest pieces by one of the most prominent post-war composers, I suspect it is little enough known that a review of it ought also to try to provide some additional contexts in framing the value and significance. This useful and usable edition is accompanied by a rich and extensive—some two hundred pages in the English version of the trilingual text—set of notes on performing the piece, principally from the pen of André Richard. As Richard's foreword notes (p. 315), he had a major ... Read More PubDate: 2023-02-20T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: This column features musical settings of Black poetry. Asterisks indicate music by Black composers. The column was compiled by Gwen Gemmell, poet, and the column editor. Resources used were the Poetry Foundation website and the Theodore Front catalog.(Contains texts written by multiple Black poets.)*Adams, Leslie. Collected Songs: For Voice and Piano (1990). American Composers Alliance, 2021. Black poets included: H. Leslie Adams, Countee Cullen, and Paul Laurence Dunbar. Score, 101 p. $41.50.*Adams, Leslie. Nightsongs: For Voice and Piano. American Composers Alliance, 1996. Black poets included: L. Morgan Collins, Georgia Douglas Johnson, Langston Hughes, Clarissa Scott Delaney, and James Weldon Johnson. Score, 59 ... Read More PubDate: 2023-02-20T00:00:00-05:00
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