Music and Letters

Articles

Rogério Budasz

Of Cannibals and the Recycling of Otherness
Music and Letters Advance Access published on December 16, 2005
Music and Letters 2006 87: 1-15; doi:10.1093/ml/gci163 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

K. M. Knittel

‘Late’, Last, and Least: On Being Beethoven’s Quartet in F Major, op. 135
Music and Letters 2006 87: 16-51; doi:10.1093/ml/gci162 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Nicholas Baragwanath

Musicology and Critical Theory: The Case of Wagner, Adorno, and Horkheimer
Music and Letters Advance Access published on December 16, 2005
Music and Letters 2006 87: 52-71; doi:10.1093/ml/gci177 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Review-Article

Björn Heile

Recent Approaches to Experimental Music Theatre and Contemporary Opera
Music and Letters 2006 87: 72-81; doi:10.1093/ml/gci179 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Reviews of Books

Helen Deeming

The Appearances of Medieval Rituals: The Play of Construction and Modification. Ed. by Nils Holger Petersen, Mette Birkedal Bruun, Jeremy Llewellyn, and Eyolf Østrem. pp. xii + 219. (Brepols,Turnhout, 2004, 60. ISBN 2-503-51513-4.)
Music and Letters 2006 87: 82-85; doi:10.1093/ml/gci141 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Sarah Fuller

With Voice and Pen: Coming to Know Medieval Song and How It was Made. By Leo Treitler. pp. xxx + 506; CD. (Oxford University Press, Oxford and New York, 2003, £95. ISBN 0-19-816644-3.)
Music and Letters 2006 87: 85-88; doi:10.1093/ml/gci142 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Sarah Fuller

Guillaume de Machaut and Reims: Context and Meaning in his Musical Works. By Anne Walters Robertson. pp. xx + 456. (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2002, £65. ISBN 0-521-41876-3.)
Music and Letters 2006 87: 88-90; doi:10.1093/ml/gci143 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Lora Matthews and Paul Merkley

Regards croisés: Musiques, musiciens, artistes et voyageurs entre France et Italie au XV^e siècle. Ed. by Nicoletta Guidobaldi. pp. 188. Centre d’études supérieures de la Renaissance: Collection ‘Épitome musical’. (Minerve, Paris and Tours, 2002, 25. ISBN 2-86931-103-6.)
Music and Letters 2006 87: 90-93; doi:10.1093/ml/gci169 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Jeremy L. Smith

John Taverner: His Life and Music. By Hugh Benham. pp. xvii + 332. (Ashgate, Aldershot and Burlington, Vt., 2003, £52.50. ISBN 0-7546-0142-0.)
Music and Letters 2006 87: 93-96; doi:10.1093/ml/gci144 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Candace Bailey

A New Way of Making Fowre Parts in Counterpoint by Thomas Campion and Rules how to Compose by Giovanni Coprario. Ed. by Christopher R. Wilson. pp. x + 122. (Ashgate, Aldershot, 2003, £39.95. ISBN 0-7546-0515-9.)
Music and Letters 2006 87: 96-98; doi:10.1093/ml/gci145 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

William E. Hettrick

Syntagma Musicum III: Michael Praetorius. Ed. & trans. by Jeffery Kite-Powell. pp. xxix + 265. Oxford Early Music Series. (Oxford University Press, New York and Oxford, 2004, £46.99. ISBN 0-19-514563-1.)
Music and Letters 2006 87: 98-101; doi:10.1093/ml/gci146 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Emanuele Senici

Opera on Stage. Ed. by Lorenzo Bianconi and Giorgio Pestelli. Trans. by Kate Singleton. pp. xii + 346. The History of Italian Opera, 5. (University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London, 2002, $55. ISBN 0-226-04591-9.) • Opera in Theory and Practice, Image and Myth. Ed. by Lorenzo Bianconi and Giorgio Pestelli. Trans. by Kenneth Chalmers and Mary Whittall. pp. xiv + 456. The History of Italian Opera, 6. (University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London, 2003, $70. ISBN 0-226-04592-7.)
Music and Letters 2006 87: 101-104; doi:10.1093/ml/gci147 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Greer Garden

François Couperin and ‘The Perfection of Music’. By David Tunley, pp. viii + 167. (Ashgate, Aldershot and Burlington, Vt., 2004, £45. ISBN 0-7546-0928-6).
Music and Letters 2006 87: 104-107; doi:10.1093/ml/gci149 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

H. Diack Johnstone

The Solo Cantata in Eighteenth-Century Britain: A Thematic Catalog. Ed. by Paul F. Rice. pp. xxi + 463 (Harmonie Park Press, Warren, Mich., 2003, $65. ISBN 0-8990-114-X.)
Music and Letters 2006 87: 107-109; doi:10.1093/ml/gci150 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

David Grayson

Words about Mozart: Essays in Honour of Stanley Sadie. Ed. by Dorothea Link with Judith Nagley. pp. xvi + 251. (Boydell, Woodbridge, 2005, £60. ISBN 0-85115-794-7.)
Music and Letters 2006 87: 109-112; doi:10.1093/ml/gci178 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Julian Rushton

From Garrick to Gluck: Essays on Opera in the Age of Enlightenment. By Daniel Heartz and ed. by John A. Rice. pp. xvi + 335. Opera Series, 1. (Pendragon, Hillsdale, NY, 2004, $54. ISBN 1-57647-081-4.)
Music and Letters 2006 87: 112-113; doi:10.1093/ml/gci152 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Julian Rushton

Nicolas-Etienne Framery and Lyric Theatre in Eighteenth-Century France. By Mark Darlow. pp. xi + 400. Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century, 2003: 11. (Voltaire Foundation, Oxford, 2003, £59. ISBN 0-7294-0836-1.)
Music and Letters 2006 87: 113-115; doi:10.1093/ml/gci153 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Sarah Hibberd

La Révolution des Bouffons: L’opéra italien au Théâtre de Monsieur 1789–1792. By Alessandro Di Profio. pp. 561. Sciences de la musique. (CNRS Éditions, Paris, 2003, 45. ISBN 2-271-06017-6.)
Music and Letters 2006 87: 115-118; doi:10.1093/ml/gci154 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Robin Wallace

Empress Marie Therese and Music at the Viennese Court, 1792–1807. By John A. Rice. pp. xx + 386. (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2003, £47.50. ISBN 0-521-66330-X.)
Music and Letters 2006 87: 118-120; doi:10.1093/ml/gci155 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Peter Dickinson

Mavericks and Other Traditions in American Music. By Michael Broyles. pp. x + 388. (Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2004, £25. ISBN 0-300-10045-0.)
Music and Letters 2006 87: 120-123; doi:10.1093/ml/gci170 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Kerry Murphy

Joseph d’Ortigue: Écrits sur la musique 1827–1846. Compiled & ed. by Sylvia L’Écuyer. pp. 723. Publications de la Société française de musicologie, 17. (Société française de musicologie, Paris, 2003, 40. ISBN 2-85357-012-6.)
Music and Letters 2006 87: 123-126; doi:10.1093/ml/gci171 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Arnold Whittall

Intertextuality in Western Art Music. By Michael L. Klein. pp. xi + 182. (Indiana University Press, Bloomington and Indianapolis, 2005. $44.95. ISBN 0-253-34468-9.)
Music and Letters 2006 87: 126-128; doi:10.1093/ml/gci172 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Christopher Morris

Richard Wagner: The Last of the Titans. By Joachim Köhler. Trans. by Stewart Spencer. pp. xiv + 688. (Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2004, £29.95. ISBN 0-300-10422-7.)
Music and Letters 2006 87: 128-132; doi:10.1093/ml/gci157 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Crawford Howie

Bruckner’s Symphonies: Analysis, Reception and Cultural Politics. By Julian Horton. pp. x + 280. (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2004, £45. ISBN-10: 0-521-82354-4/ISBN-13: 978-0-521-82354-8.)
Music and Letters 2006 87: 132-136; doi:10.1093/ml/gci158 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Styra Avins

Brahms and the German Spirit. By Daniel Beller-McKenna. pp. xi + 243. (Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass. and London, 2004, £32.95. ISBN 0-674-01318-2.)
Music and Letters 2006 87: 136-141; doi:10.1093/ml/gci173 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Nick Chadwick

The Correspondence of Camille Saint-Saëns and Gabriel Fauré: Sixty Years of Friendship. Ed. by Jean-Michel Nectoux. Trans. by J. Barrie Jones. pp. xx + 153. (Ashgate, Aldershot, 2004. £49.95. ISBN 0-7546-3280-6.)
Music and Letters 2006 87: 141-147; doi:10.1093/ml/gci174 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Jeremy Barham

Gustav Mahler: Briefe und Musikautographen aus den Moldenhauer-Archiven in der Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek. pp. 248. Kulturstiftung der Länder, 157. (Kulturstiftung der Länder und Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich, 2003. 14.80. ISSN 0941-7036.)
Music and Letters 2006 87: 147-153; doi:10.1093/ml/gci159 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Kenneth Birkin

The Richard Strauss Companion. Ed. by Mark-Daniel Schmid. pp. xvi + 466. (Praeger, Westport, Conn. and London, 2003, £65. ISBN 0-313-27901-2.)
Music and Letters 2006 87: 153-157; doi:10.1093/ml/gci160 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Marcia J. Citron

Encyclopedia of Opera on Screen: A Guide to More than 100 Years of Opera Films, Videos, and DVDs. By Ken Wlaschin. 2nd, rev. edn. pp. xiv + 872. (Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2004, £45. ISBN 0-300-10263-1.) • Cinema’s Illusions, Opera’s Allure: The Operatic Impulse in Film. By David Schroeder. pp. xii + 372. (Continuum, New York and London, 2003, £12.99. ISBN 0-8264-1536-9.)
Music and Letters 2006 87: 157-161; doi:10.1093/ml/gci175 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Mervyn Cooke

Satchmo Blows up the World: Jazz Ambassadors Play the Cold War. By Penny M. Von Eschen. pp. x + 329. (Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 2004, £19.95. ISBN 0-674-01501-0.)
Music and Letters 2006 87: 161-163; doi:10.1093/ml/gci176 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

David Beard

Aspects of British Music in the 1990s. Ed. by Peter O’Hagan. pp. xviii + 164. (Ashgate, Aldershot, 2003, £45. ISBN 0-7546-3041-2.)
Music and Letters 2006 87: 163-166; doi:10.1093/ml/gci161 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Reviews of Music

Liz Garnett

New Historical Anthology of Music by Women, ed. James R. Briscoe. Plus Companion CDs. (Indiana University Press, Bloomington and Indianapolis, 2004, $39.95. ISBN 0-253-21683-4, CDs: 0-253-34406-9.)
Music and Letters Advance Access published on January 17, 2006
Music and Letters 2006 87: 167-171; doi:10.1093/ml/gci164 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Hugh Benham

Nicholas Ludford, Mass Inclina cor meum deus and Antiphons, ed. David Skinner. Early English Church Music, 44. (Stainer & Bell, London, 2003, £47.50. ISBN 0-85249-869-1.)
Music and Letters Advance Access published on January 17, 2006
Music and Letters 2006 87: 171-173; doi:10.1093/ml/gci165 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Hugh Benham

Robert Fayrfax, Masses Tecum principium and O quam glorifica, ed. Roger Bray. Early English Church Music, 45. Stainer & Bell, London, 2004, £55. ISBN 0-85249-883-7.)
Music and Letters Advance Access published on January 17, 2006
Music and Letters 2006 87: 173-176; doi:10.1093/ml/gci166 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Richard Freedman

Jean Guyot de Chatelet. Chansons, ed. Annie Coeurdevey and Philippe Vendrix. Collection Épitome musicale. (Minerve, Paris, 2001, 23. ISBN 2-86931-099-4.) • Le Rossignol musical des chansons (Antwerp, 1597), ed. Gerald R. Hoekstra. Recent Researches in the Music of the Renaissance, 138. (A–R Editions, Middleton, Wis., 2004, $94. ISBN 0-89579-555-8.)
Music and Letters 2006 87: 176-179; doi:10.1093/ml/gci167 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Steven Saunders

Giovanni Croce, Musica Sacra (1608), ed. John Morehen. The English Madrigalists, 14. (Stainer & Bell, London, 2003, £40. ISBN 0-85249-873-X.)
Music and Letters Advance Access published on January 17, 2006
Music and Letters 2006 87: 179-180; doi:10.1093/ml/gci168 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Correspondence

Grants for Venetian Research
Music and Letters 2006 87: 181; doi:10.1093/ml/gci180 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Mark Kroll

Charles Avison
Music and Letters 2006 87: 181; doi:10.1093/ml/gci186 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Receipients of Music and Letters Awards

Recipients of ‘Music & Letters’ Awards
Music and Letters 2006 87: 181; doi:10.1093/ml/gci187 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Notes to Contributors

Notes to Contributors
Music and Letters 2006 87: 182; doi:10.1093/ml/gci226 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Announcement

‘Music & Letters’ Awards and Authors of Articles in This Issue
Music and Letters 2006 87: 183; doi:10.1093/ml/gci181 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

‘Music & Letters’ Awards and Authors of Articles in This Issue
Music and Letters 2006 87: 183; doi:10.1093/ml/gci227 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Books Received

Books Received
Music and Letters 2006 87: 184-185; doi:10.1093/ml/gci211 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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