Music and Letters

Articles

Sarah M. Stoycos

Making an Initial Impression: Lassus’s First Book of Five-Part Madrigals
Music and Letters 2005 86: 537-559; doi:10.1093/ml/gci104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Donald Burrows

‘Mr Harris’s Score’: A New Look at the ‘Mathews’ Manuscript of Handel’s ‘Messiah’
Music and Letters 2005 86: 560-572; doi:10.1093/ml/gci105 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

François de Médicis

Darius Milhaud and the Debate on Polytonality in the French Press of the 1920s
Music and Letters 2005 86: 573-591; doi:10.1093/ml/gci106 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Shersten Johnson

Britten’s Musical Syllables
Music and Letters 2005 86: 592-622; doi:10.1093/ml/gci103 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Reviews of Books

Jeremy Montagu

Musical Instruments: History, Technology, and Performance of Instruments of Western Music. By Murray Campbell, Clive Greated, and Arnold Myers. pp. x + 510. (Oxford University Press, Oxford and New York, 2004, £100. ISBN 0-19-816504-8.)
Music and Letters 2005 86: 623-625; doi:10.1093/ml/gci107 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Richard Freedman

‘L’Église des Français’ de Strasbourg (1538–1563): Rayonnement européen de sa liturgie et de ses psautiers. By Robert Weeda. pp. 170. Collection d’études musicologiques, 94. (Valentin Koerner, Baden-Baden and Bouxwiller, 2004, 58. ISBN 3-87320-594-7.)
Music and Letters 2005 86: 625-626; doi:10.1093/ml/gci108 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Buford Norman

Aesthetics of Opera in the Ancien Régime, 1647–1785. By Downing A. Thomas. pp. viii + 411. Cambridge Studies in Opera. (Cambridge University Press, 2002, £55. ISBN 0-521-80188-5.)
Music and Letters 2005 86: 626-629; doi:10.1093/ml/gci109 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Colin Lawson

The Birth of the Orchestra: History of an Institution, 1650–1815. By John Spitzer and Neal Zaslaw. pp. xx + 614. (Oxford University Press, Oxford and New York, 2004, £95. ISBN 0-19-916434-3.)
Music and Letters 2005 86: 629-633; doi:10.1093/ml/gci110 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Nicholas Temperley

Marsh of Chichester: Gentleman, Composer, Musician, Writer 1752–1828. Ed. by Paul Foster. pp. 158. Otter Memorial Papers, 19. (University College Chichester, Chichester, 2004, £18. ISBN 0-948765-34-8.)
Music and Letters 2005 86: 633; doi:10.1093/ml/gci111 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Martin Adams

Bunting’s Messiah. By Roy Johnston. pp. xii + 143. (Belfast Natural History and Philosophical Society, Belfast, 2003, £10. ISBN 0-9539604-6–3.)
Music and Letters 2005 86: 634-636; doi:10.1093/ml/gci112 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Barry Cooper

Beethoven after Napoleon: Political Romanticism in the Late Works. By Stephen Rumph. pp. ix + 295. (University of California Press, Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London, 2004, £29.95. ISBN 0-520-23855-9.)
Music and Letters 2005 86: 636-638; doi:10.1093/ml/gci113 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Andreas Giger

L’Opéra en France et en Italie (1791–1925): Une Scène privilégiée d’échanges littéraires et musicaux. Actes du colloque franco-italien tenu à l’Académie musicale de Villecroze (16–18 octobre 1997), ed. Hervé Lacombe. pp. 320. Publications de la Société française de musicologie, 8. (Société française de musicologie, Paris, 2000, 25. ISBN 2-85357-011-8.)
Music and Letters 2005 86: 638-642; doi:10.1093/ml/gci114 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

James Garratt

Die Anfänge einer Bach-Gesamtausgabe 1801–1865. By Karen Lehmann. pp. 584. Leipziger Beiträge zur Bach-Forschung, 6. (Olms, Leipzig and Hildesheim, 2004, 75. ISBN 3-487-12577-3.)
Music and Letters 2005 86: 642-644; doi:10.1093/ml/gci115 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Nicholas Marston

Robert Schumann — Musikalische Haus- und Lebensregeln: Faksimile mit übertragung und Textabdruck. Ed. by Gerd Nauhaus. pp. 105. Schumann-Studien, 2. (Studio, Sinzig, 2002. ISBN 3-89564-05507.)
Music and Letters 2005 86: 644-645; doi:10.1093/ml/gci116 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Jim Samson

The Virtuoso Liszt. By Dana Gooley. pp. xvi + 280. New Perspectives in Music History and Criticism. (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2004. £45. ISBN 0-521-83443-0.)
Music and Letters 2005 86: 645-646; doi:10.1093/ml/gci117 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Lawrence Archbold

The Interpretation of Romantic and Late-Romantic Music: Papers Read at the International Organ Symposium Stockholm, 3–12 September 1998. Ed. by Erik Kjellberg, Erik Lundkvist, and Jan Roström. pp. 165; CD. (Uppsala University Press, Uppsala, 2002. ISSN 1102-6960.)
Music and Letters 2005 86: 646-648; doi:10.1093/ml/gci118 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Richard Langham Smith

A la Recherche "des" Requiem de Fauré, ou L’Authenticité musicale en questions. By Mutien-Omer Houziaux. pp. xxiii + 249. Revue de la Société Liégeoise de Musicologie, 15–16 (2000). (Société Liégeoise de Musicologie, Liège, and Librairie Klincksieck, Paris, 2000, 25. ISBN 32-252-03344-4.)
Music and Letters 2005 86: 648-650; doi:10.1093/ml/gci119 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Amanda Glauert

Hugo Wolf: Letters to Melanie Köchert. Ed. and trans. by Louise McClelland Urban. pp. xxxviii + 293. (University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, 2004, $24.95. ISBN 0-299-19444-2.)
Music and Letters 2005 86: 650-652; doi:10.1093/ml/gci120 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Alexandra Wilson

Puccini: His Life and Works. By Julian Budden. pp. x + 527. Master Musicians Series. (Oxford University Press, Oxford and New York, 2002).
Music and Letters 2005 86: 652-654; doi:10.1093/ml/gci121 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Matthew Riley

The Cambridge Companion to Elgar. Ed. by Daniel M. Grimley and Julian Rushton. pp. xix + 253. (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2004, £50/£17.99. ISBN 0-521-53363-5/-82623-3.)
Music and Letters 2005 86: 654-658; doi:10.1093/ml/gci122 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

James R. Briscoe

The Cambridge Companion to Debussy. Ed. by Simon Trezise. pp. xviii + 326. Cambridge Companions to Music. (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2003, £18.95. ISBN 0-521-65478-5.) • Claude Debussy as I Knew Him and Other Writings by Arthur Hartmann. Ed. by Samuel Hsu, Sidney Grolnic, and Mark Peters. pp. xix + 339. (University of Rochester Press, Rochester, NY and Woodbridge, 2003, £60. ISBN 1-58046-104-2.)
Music and Letters 2005 86: 658-664; doi:10.1093/ml/gci123 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Nanette Nielsen

The Artist-Operas of Pfitzner, Krenek and Hindemith: Politics and the Ideology of the Artist. By Claire Taylor-Jay. pp. viii + 225. (Ashgate, Aldershot and Burlington, Vt., 2004, £42.50. ISBN 0-7546-0578-7.)
Music and Letters 2005 86: 664-668; doi:10.1093/ml/gci124 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Arnold Whittall

Letters from a Life: Selected Letters of Benjamin Britten, Vol. 3: 1946–1951. Ed. by Donald Mitchell, Philip Reed, and Mervyn Cooke. pp. xxvi + 758. (Faber, London, 2004, £25. ISBN 0-571-22282-X.)
Music and Letters 2005 86: 668-669; doi:10.1093/ml/gci125 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Daniel M. Grimley

Winter Music: Composing the North. By John Luther Adams. pp. xxiv + 204; CD. Wesleyan University Press, Middletown, Conn., 2004, $24.95. ISBN 0-8195-6742-6.)
Music and Letters 2005 86: 669-671; doi:10.1093/ml/gci126 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Peter Manuel

Dhrupad: Tradition and Performance in Indian Music. By Ritwik Sanyal and Richard Widdess. pp. xxii + 395; CD. SOAS Musicology Series. (Ashgate, Aldershot and Burlington, Vt., 2004, £65. ISBN 0-7546-0379-2.)
Music and Letters 2005 86: 671-673; doi:10.1093/ml/gci127 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Renee Timmers

Musical Excellence: Strategies and Techniques to Enhance Performance. Ed. by Aaron Williamon. pp. xvi + 300. (Oxford University Press, New York, 2004, £60/£24.95. ISBN 0-19-852534-6/-852535-4).
Music and Letters 2005 86: 673-675; doi:10.1093/ml/gci128 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Reviews of Music

James Grier

Melodien aus mittelalterlichen Horaz-Handschriften: Edition und Interpretation der Quellen. By Sylvia Wälli. pp. xii+379. Monumenta Monodica Medii Aevi, Subsidia, 3. (Bärenreiter, Kassel, 2002, 145.50. ISBN 3-7618-1597-2.)
Music and Letters 2005 86: 676-677; doi:10.1093/ml/gci129 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

John Morehen

Martin Peerson, Complete Works: I (Latin Motets), ed. Richard Rastall. (Antico Edition, Newton Abbot, 2003, £15.)
Music and Letters 2005 86: 677-679; doi:10.1093/ml/gci130 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

David Pinto

John Hilton, Ayres, or Fa La’s for Three Voyces (1627), ed. John Morehen. Recent Researches in the Music of the Renaissance, 137. (A–R Editions, Middleton, Wis., 2004, $53. ISBN 0-89579-549-3.)
Music and Letters 2005 86: 679-681; doi:10.1093/ml/gci131 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Barry Cooper

‘fitt for the Manicorde’: A Seventeenth-Century English Collection of Keyboard Music, ed. Christopher Hogwood. (Edition HH, Bicester, 2003, £22.50. ISBN 1-904229-40-9.)
Music and Letters 2005 86: 682-683; doi:10.1093/ml/gci132 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Peter Horton

John Marsh, Symphonies, Part 1: the Salisbury and Canterbury Symphonies (1778–1784); Part 2: the Chichester Symphonies and Finales (1778–1801), ed. Ian Graham-Jones. Recent Researches in the Music of the Classical Era, 62–3. (A–R Editions, Middleton, Wis., 2001, $92. ISBN 0-897579-486-1/-487-X.)
Music and Letters 2005 86: 683-684; doi:10.1093/ml/gci133 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Correspondence

Roger Wibberley

The Fiction of ‘Diatonic Ficta’
Music and Letters 2005 86: 685-686; doi:10.1093/ml/gci134 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Richard Turbet

The Motett Society
Music and Letters 2005 86: 686-687; doi:10.1093/ml/gci135 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Musikwissenschaftliches Institut der Universität Zürich.

IMS: ‘Transitions’. Call for Papers and Posters
Music and Letters 2005 86: 687; doi:10.1093/ml/gci136 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Notes to Contributors

Notes to Contributors
Music and Letters 2005 86: 688; doi:10.1093/ml/gci137 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Announcement

‘Music & Letters’ Awards and Authors of Articles in This Issue
Music and Letters 2005 86: 689; doi:10.1093/ml/gci138 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Books Received

Books Received
Music and Letters 2005 86: 690-692; doi:10.1093/ml/gci139 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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