Music and Letters

Articles

Roger Harmon

Plato, Aristotle, and Women Musicians
Music and Letters 2005 86: 351-356; doi:10.1093/ml/gci068 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Donna G. Cardamone

Erotic Jest and Gesture in Roman Anthologies of Neapolitan Dialect Songs
Music and Letters 2005 86: 357-379; doi:10.1093/ml/gci066 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Don Fader

The ‘Cabale du Dauphin’, Campra, and Italian Comedy: The Courtly Politics of French Musical Patronage around 1700
Music and Letters 2005 86: 380-413; doi:10.1093/ml/gci069 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Mark Kroll

Two Important New Sources for the Music of Charles Avison
Music and Letters 2005 86: 414-431; doi:10.1093/ml/gci067 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Alexandra Wilson

Modernism and the Machine Woman in Puccini’s ‘Turandot’
Music and Letters 2005 86: 432-451; doi:10.1093/ml/gci102 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Review-Article

Pauline Fairclough

Facts, Fantasies, and Fictions: Recent Shostakovich Studies
Music and Letters 2005 86: 452-460; doi:10.1093/ml/gci070 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Reviews of Books

Noel O’Regan

Music of the Renaissance. By Giulio Ongaro. pp. xvi + 202. (Greenwood, Westport, Conn. and Oxford, 2003, £23.99. ISBN 0-313-32263-5.)
Music and Letters 2005 86: 461-462; doi:10.1093/ml/gci071 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Jon Banks

Improvisation in the Arts of the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Ed. by Timothy J. McGee. pp. xii + 331. Early Drama, Art and Music Monograph Series, 30. (Medieval Institute Publications and Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Mich., 2003, $35. ISBN 1-58044-044-4.)
Music and Letters 2005 86: 462-463; doi:10.1093/ml/gci072 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

John Griffiths

Fronimo de Vincenzo Galilei. By Philippe Canguilhem. pp. 235. Centre d’Études Supérieures de la Renaissance: Collection ‘Épitome musical’. (Minerve, Paris and Tours, 2001, 40. ISBN 2-86931-101-X.)
Music and Letters 2005 86: 464-466; doi:10.1093/ml/gci073 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

John Morehen

Thomas East and Music Publishing in Renaissance England. By Jeremy L. Smith. pp. 233. (Oxford University Press, New York and Oxford, 2003, £45. ISBN 0-19-5139054.)
Music and Letters 2005 86: 466-468; doi:10.1093/ml/gci074 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Owen Rees

Música vocal profana en el Madrid de Felipe IV: El Libro de Tonos Humanos (1656). By Alejandro Vera. pp. 559. (Institut d’Estudis Ilerdencs, Lleida, 2002. ISBN 84-89943-62-1.)
Music and Letters 2005 86: 468-471; doi:10.1093/ml/gci075 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Kimberly Marshall

The Keyboard in Baroque Europe. Ed. by Christopher Hogwood. pp. xviii + 245. Musical Performance and Reception. (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2004, £50. ISBN 0-521-81055-8.)
Music and Letters 2005 86: 471-473; doi:10.1093/ml/gci076 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Philip Olleson

Concert Life in Eighteenth-Century Britain. Ed. by Susan Wollenberg and Simon McVeigh. pp. xvi + 299. (Ashgate, Aldershot and Burlington, Vt., 2004, £52.50. ISBN 0-7546-3868-5.)
Music and Letters 2005 86: 473-476; doi:10.1093/ml/gci077 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Robin Stowell

Stradivarius: Five Violins, One Cello and a Genius. By Toby Faber. pp. xviii + 294. (Macmillan, London, 2004, £16.99. ISBN 0-333-98976-7.)
Music and Letters 2005 86: 476-478; doi:10.1093/ml/gci078 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

W. Dean Sutcliffe

Internationales Musikwissenschaftliches Symposium ‘Haydn & das Streichquartett’ im Rahmen des ‘Haydn Streichquartett Weekend’: Eisenstadt, 1.-5. Mai 2002; Referate und Diskussionen. Ed by Georg Feder and Walter Reicher. pp. 217. Eisenstädter Haydn-Berichte, 2. (Schneider, Tutzing, 2003, $48. ISBN 3-7952-1133-6.)
Music and Letters 2005 86: 478-482; doi:10.1093/ml/gci079 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Michael Hurd

Bound for America: Three British Composers. By Nicholas Temperley. pp. xiii + 236. (University of Illinois Press, Champaign, Ill., 2003, $34.95. ISBN 0-252-02847-3.)
Music and Letters 2005 86: 482-484; doi:10.1093/ml/gci080 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Christopher Morris

Words on Music: Essays in Honor of Andrew Porter on the Occasion of his 75th Birthday. Ed. by David Rosen and Claire Brook. pp. xiii + 346. Festschrift Series, 20. (Pendragon Press, Hillsdale, NY, 2004, £42.50. ISBN 1-57647-097-0.)
Music and Letters 2005 86: 484-486; doi:10.1093/ml/gci081 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Lucy Walker

Opera: The Art of Dying. By Linda Hutcheon and Michael Hutcheon. pp. x + 239. (Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass. and London, 2004, £18.95. ISBN 0-674-01326-3.)
Music and Letters 2005 86: 486-491; doi:10.1093/ml/gci082 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Robin Stowell

Les Frères Wieniawski: Documents conservés dans les collections de la Bibliothèque Royal de Belgique. Ed. by Marc Appelmans and Christine Servais. pp. 73 + xxvii. (Bibliothèque royale de Belgique, Brussels, 2002, £6.50. ISBN 2-87093-140-9.)
Music and Letters 2005 86: 491-492; doi:10.1093/ml/gci083 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

John Parsons

Theory and Practice in Late Nineteenth-Century Violin Performance: An Examination of Style in Performance, 1850—1900. By David Milsom. pp. 287; CD. (Ashgate, Aldershot, 2003, £40. ISBN 0-7546-0756-9.).
Music and Letters 2005 86: 492-493; doi:10.1093/ml/gci084 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Robert P. Morgan

The Cambridge History of Twentieth-Century Music. Ed. by Nicholas Cook and Anthony Pople. pp. xviii + 818. (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2004, £100. ISBN 0-521-66256-7.)
Music and Letters 2005 86: 493-497; doi:10.1093/ml/gci085 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Elliott Antokoletz

Bartók’s Viola Concerto: The Remarkable Story of his Swansong. By Donald Maurice. pp. xii + 222. Studies in Musical Genesis and Structure. (Oxford University Press, New York and Oxford, 2004, £42.99. ISBN 0-19-515690-0.)
Music and Letters 2005 86: 497-501; doi:10.1093/ml/gci086 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Tim Howell

The Cambridge Companion to Stravinsky. Ed. by Jonathan Cross. pp. xii + 327. Cambridge Companions to Music. (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2003, £17.95. ISBN 0-521-66377-6.)
Music and Letters 2005 86: 501-503; doi:10.1093/ml/gci087 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Charles Wilson

Varèse: Astronomer in Sound. By Malcolm MacDonald. pp. xx + 423. (Kahn & Averill, London, 2003, £24.95. ISBN 1-871082-79-X.)
Music and Letters 2005 86: 503-507; doi:10.1093/ml/gci088 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Elizabeth B. Crist

The Dickinson Songs of Aaron Copland. By Larry Starr. pp. xi + 139; CD. CMS Sourcebooks in American Music. (Pendragon Press, Hillsdale, NY, 2002, £23. ISBN 1-57647-092-X.)
Music and Letters 2005 86: 507-508; doi:10.1093/ml/gci089 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Marcia J. Citron

Women’s Voices across Musical Worlds. Ed. by Jane A. Bernstein. pp. xvi + 353. (Northeastern University Press, Boston, 2004, $22.50. ISBN 155553-588-7.)
Music and Letters 2005 86: 508-512; doi:10.1093/ml/gci090 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

David Fanning

Soviet Music and Society under Lenin and Stalin: The Baton and the Sickle. Ed. by Neil Edmunds. pp. xvi + 240. (RoutledgeCurzon, London, 2004, £65. ISBN 0-415-30219-6.)
Music and Letters 2005 86: 512-513; doi:10.1093/ml/gci091 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Arnold Whittall

The Operas of Benjamin Britten: Expression and Evasion. By Claire Seymour. pp. x + 358. (The Boydell Press, Woodbridge, 2004, £55. ISBN 0-85115-865-X.)
Music and Letters 2005 86: 513-516; doi:10.1093/ml/gci092 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Martin Adams

The Life and Music of Brian Boydell. Ed. by Gareth Cox, Axel Klein, and Michael Taylor. pp. 132. (Irish Academic Press, Dublin and Portland, Ore., 2004, £35. ISBN 0-7165-2762-6.)
Music and Letters 2005 86: 516-520; doi:10.1093/ml/gci093 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Arnold Whittall

Pli selon pli de Pierre Boulez: Entretien et études. Ed. by Philippe Albèra. pp. 112. (Contrechamps, Geneva, 2003, $ 17. ISBN 2-940068-23-2.)
Music and Letters 2005 86: 520-521; doi:10.1093/ml/gci094 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Arnold Whittall

Louis Andriessen: ‘De Staat’. By Robert Adlington. pp. xi + 167; CD. Landmarks in Music since 1950. (Ashgate, Aldershot and Burlington, Vt., 2004, £35. ISBN 0-7546-0925-1.)
Music and Letters 2005 86: 521-523; doi:10.1093/ml/gci095 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Kofi Agawu

Music in West Africa: Expressing Music, Expressing Culture. By Ruth M. Stone. pp. xvi + 112; CD. Global Music Series. (Oxford University Press, New York and Oxford, 2005, $17.95. ISBN 0-19-514499-6.)
Music and Letters 2005 86: 523-525; doi:10.1093/ml/gci096 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Tong Soon Lee

Huju: Traditional Opera in Modern Shanghai. By Jonathan P. J. Stock. pp. viii + 279. A British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship Monograph. (Oxford University Press for The British Academy, New York and Oxford, 2003, £45. ISBN 0-19-726273-2.)
Music and Letters 2005 86: 525-527; doi:10.1093/ml/gci097 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Lloyd Whitesell

Elvis Costello, Joni Mitchell, and the Torch Song Tradition. By Larry David Smith. pp. xviii + 313. (Praeger, Westport, Conn., 2004, £25.99. ISBN 0-275-97392-1.)
Music and Letters 2005 86: 527; doi:10.1093/ml/gci098 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Announcements

The Westrup Prize and Recipients of ‘Music & Letters’ Awards
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‘Music & Letters’ Awards and Authors of Articles in This Issue
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Books Received

Books Received
Music and Letters 2005 86: 532-535; doi:10.1093/ml/gci101 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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