Music and Letters

Articles

Elizabeth Eva Leach

‘The Little Pipe Sings Sweetly while the Fowler Deceives the Bird’: Sirens in the Later Middle Ages
Music and Letters 2006 87: 187-211; doi:10.1093/ml/gci250 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Laura Tunbridge

From Count to Chimney Sweep: Byron’s ‘Manfred’ in London Theatres
Music and Letters 2006 87: 212-236; doi:10.1093/ml/gci204 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Brian Hart

Vincent D’Indy and the Development of the French Symphony
Music and Letters 2006 87: 237-261; doi:10.1093/ml/gci231 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Review-Article

David Maw

Machaut and the ‘Critical’ Phase of Medieval Polyphony
Music and Letters 2006 87: 262-294; doi:10.1093/ml/gci233 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Reviews of Books

Jonathan Dunsby

The Philosophy of Music: Theme and Variations. By Aaron Ridley. pp. viii + 178. (Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 2004, £16.99. ISBN 0-7486-0902-4.)
Music and Letters 2006 87: 295-298; doi:10.1093/ml/gci188 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Christopher Wintle

Oxford Dictionary of Musical Terms, Ed. by Alison Latham. pp. 214. (Oxford University Press, Oxford and New York, 2004, £7.99. ISBN 0-19-860698-2.) • Oxford Dictionary of Musical Works. Ed. by Alison Latham. pp. 218. (Oxford University Press, Oxford and New York, 2004, £7.99. ISBN 0-19-861020-3.)
Music and Letters 2006 87: 298-300; doi:10.1093/ml/gci189 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Daniel Leech-Wilkinson

Eight Centuries of Troubadours and Trouvères: The Changing identity of medieval music By John Haines. pp. xii + 347. Musical Performance and Reception. (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2004, £50. ISBN 0-521-82672-1.)
Music and Letters 2006 87: 300-302; doi:10.1093/ml/gci184 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Joseph Dyer

The Echo of Music: Essays in Honor of Marie Louise Göllner. Ed. by Blair Sullivan. pp. xiv + 185. (Harmonie Park Press, Warren, Mich., 2004, $40. ISBN 0-89990-119-0.)
Music and Letters 2006 87: 302-306; doi:10.1093/ml/gci190 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

David Kidger

Vulgari Orecchie—Purgate Orecchie: De relatie tussen publiek en muziek in het Venetiaanse motetoeuvre van Adriaan Willaert. By Katelijne Schiltz. pp. 267; score. Symbolae Facultatis Litterarum Lovaniensis, B/31. (Universitaire Pers Leuven, Leuven, 2003, 34. ISBN 90-5867-328-6).
Music and Letters 2006 87: 306-308; doi:10.1093/ml/gci214 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Charles Dill

Angels and Monsters: Male and Female Sopranos in the Story of Opera, 1600–1900. By Richard Somerset-Ward. pp. xiv + 325. (Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2004, £25. ISBN 0-300-09968-1.)
Music and Letters 2006 87: 308-309; doi:10.1093/ml/gci148 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Matthew Peaceman

The Oboe. By Geoffrey Burgess and Bruce Haynes. pp. xiv + 418. Yale Musical Instrument Series. (Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2004, £19.95. ISBN 0-600-10053-1.)
Music and Letters 2006 87: 309-313; doi:10.1093/ml/gci191 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Jeanne Swack

The Italian Solo Concerto, 1700–1760: Rhetorical Strategies and Style History. By Simon McVeigh and Jehoash Hirshberg. pp. 372. (Boydell, Rochester, NY, 2004, £55. ISBN 1-84383-092-2.)
Music and Letters 2006 87: 313-316; doi:10.1093/ml/gci193 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

David Charlton

The Bals publics at the Paris Opéra in the Eighteenth Century. By Richard Semmens. pp. viii + 216. Dance & Music Series, 13. (Pendragon, Hillsdale, NY, 2004, $54. ISBN 1-57647-034-2.)
Music and Letters 2006 87: 316-319; doi:10.1093/ml/gci194 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Simon McVeigh

Salomon and the Burneys: Private Patronage and a Public Career. By Ian Woodfield. pp. 83. RMA Monographs, 12. (Ashgate, Aldershot and Burlington, Vt., 2003, £35. ISBN 0-7546-3612-7.)
Music and Letters 2006 87: 319-321; doi:10.1093/ml/gci195 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Nicholas Temperley

The English Bach Awakening: Knowledge of J. S. Bach and his Music in England 1750–1830. Ed. by Michael Kassler. pp. xxi + 455. (Ashgate, Aldershot, 2004, £65. ISBN 1-84014-666-4.)
Music and Letters 2006 87: 321-322; doi:10.1093/ml/gci151 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

D.M. G

Hans Christian Andersen and Music: The Nightingale Revealed. By Anna Harwell Celenza. pp. x + 269. (Ashgate, Aldershot, 2005, £45. ISBN 0-7546-0140-4.)
Music and Letters 2006 87: 322-324; doi:10.1093/ml/gci197 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

David Milsom

Instrumental Teaching in Nineteenth-Century Britain. By David J. Golby. pp. xvii + 361. Music in 19th-Century Britain. (Ashgate, Aldershot, 2004, £55. ISBN 1-84014-655-9.)
Music and Letters 2006 87: 324-326; doi:10.1093/ml/gci156 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

David Ferris

Schumann’s Piano Cycles and the Novels of Jean Paul. By Erika Reiman. pp. xiii + 229. (University of Rochester Press, Rochester, NY, and Woodbridge, 2004, £50. ISBN 1-58-46-145-X.)
Music and Letters 2006 87: 326-328; doi:10.1093/ml/gci207 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Julian Horton

Anton Bruckner: Persönlichkeit und Werk. By Constantin Floros. pp. 293. (Sabine Groenewald Verlag, Hamburg, 2004, 26. ISBN 3-434-50566-0.)
Music and Letters 2006 87: 328-332; doi:10.1093/ml/gci216 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Crawford Howie

Anton Bruckner Kritische Gesamtausgabe: Briefe 2, 1887–1896. Ed. by Andrea Harrandt and Otto Schneider. pp. xii + 383. (Musikwissenschaftlicher Verlag der Internationalen Bruckner-Gesellschaft, Vienna, 2003. 39.50. ISBN 3-900270-54-6.)
Music and Letters 2006 87: 332-334; doi:10.1093/ml/gci196 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

William Horne

The Variations of Johannes Brahms. By Julian Littlewood. The Poetics of Music. pp. xiv + 369. (Plumbago Books, London, 2004, £19.99. ISBN 0-9540123-3-X.)
Music and Letters 2006 87: 334-337; doi:10.1093/ml/gci217 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Antony Beaumont

Busoni in Berlin: Facetten eines kosmopolitischen Komponisten. Ed. by Albrecht Riethmüller and Hyesu Shin. pp. 283. (Steiner, Stuttgart, 2004, 39. ISBN 3-515-08603-X.)
Music and Letters 2006 87: 337-341; doi:10.1093/ml/gci198 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Antony Beaumont

Ferruccio Busoni: ‘A Musical Ishmael’. By Della Couling. pp. xvi + 391. (Scarecrow, Lanham, Md., 2005, £27. ISBN 0-8108-5142-3.)
Music and Letters 2006 87: 341-342; doi:10.1093/ml/gci199 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Alistair Wightman

Polish Music since Szymanowski. By Adrian Thomas. pp. xxxiii + 384. (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2005, £60. ISBN 0-521-58284-9.)
Music and Letters 2006 87: 342-346; doi:10.1093/ml/gci220 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

M. J. Grant

Wege zum musikalischen Strukturalismus: René Leibowitz, Pierre Boulez, John Cage und die Webern-Rezeption in Paris um 1950. By Inge Kovács. pp. 294. (Argus, Schliengen, 2003, 46. ISBN 3-931264-10-6.) • Die soziale Isolation der neuen Musik: Zum Kölner Musikleben nach 1945. By Michael Custodis. pp. 256. Beihefte zum Archiv für Musikwissenschaft, 54. (Franz Steiner, Stuttgart, 2004, 48. ISBN 3-515-08375-8.) • Reihe und System: Signaturen des 20. Jahrhunderts. Symposiumsbericht. Ed. by Sabine Meine. pp. 234. Monographien der Institut für Musikpädogogische Forschung der Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hannover, 9. (Institut für Musikpädagogische Forschung, Hannover, 2004, 12. ISBN 3-931852-68-7.)
Music and Letters 2006 87: 346-352; doi:10.1093/ml/gci202 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Evaggelia Vagopoulou

Xenakis: His Life in Music. By James Harley. pp. xii + 279. (Routledge, New York and London, 2004, £55. ISBN 0-415-97145-4.)
Music and Letters 2006 87: 352-354; doi:10.1093/ml/gci221 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Notes to Contributors

Notes to Contributors
Music and Letters 2006 87: 355; doi:10.1093/ml/gcl020 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Announcement

‘Music & Letters’ Awards and Authors of Articles in This Issue
Music and Letters 2006 87: 356; doi:10.1093/ml/gcl021 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

‘Music & Letters’ Awards and Authors of Articles in This Issue
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Books Received

Books Received
Music and Letters 2006 87: 357-359; doi:10.1093/ml/gcl045 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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