Music and Letters

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Joseph Kerman

Thematic Return in Late Bach Fugues
Music and Letters 2006 87: 515-522; doi:10.1093/ml/gcl082 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

John Potter

Beggar at the Door: The Rise and Fall of Portamento in Singing
Music and Letters 2006 87: 523-550; doi:10.1093/ml/gcl079 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Sarah Hibberd

Murder in the Cathedral? Stradella, Musical Power, and Performing the Past in 1830s Paris
Music and Letters 2006 87: 551-579; doi:10.1093/ml/gcl081 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Elissa S. Guralnick

‘Ah Clara, I am not worthy of your love’: Rereading ‘Frauenliebe und Leben’, the Poetry and the Music
Music and Letters 2006 87: 580-605; doi:10.1093/ml/gcl080 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Review-Article

Peter Dickinson

Hitchcock’s Ives: A New Edition of 129 Songs
Music and Letters 2006 87: 606-613; doi:10.1093/ml/gcl076 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Reviews of Books

Andrew V. Jones

Handel and the English Chapel Royal. By Donald Burrows. pp. xxiv + 651. Oxford Studies in British Church Music. (Oxford University Press, Oxford and New York, 2005, £85. ISBN 0-19-816228-6.)
Music and Letters 2006 87: 614-619; doi:10.1093/ml/gcl032 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

John Haines

Lark in the Morning: The Verses of the Troubadours, a Bilingual Edition. Ed. by Robert Kehew. Trans. by Ezra Pound, W. D. Snodgrass, and Robert Kehew. pp. xviii + 343. (University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London, 2005, £16. ISBN 0-226-42933-4.)
Music and Letters 2006 87: 619-621; doi:10.1093/ml/gcl059 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Arnold Whittall

Treacherous Bonds and Laughing F ire: Politics and Religion in Wagner’s Ring. By Mark Berry. pp. xii + 287. (Ashgate, Aldershot and Burlington, Vt., 2006, £50. ISBN 0-7546-5356-0.)
Music and Letters 2006 87: 621-623; doi:10.1093/ml/gcl068 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Hugh Benham

William Byrd’s Modal Practice. By John Harley. pp. xii + 162. (Ashgate, Aldershot and Burlington, Vt., 2005. £45. ISBN 0-7546-3441-8.)
Music and Letters 2006 87: 623-625; doi:10.1093/ml/gcl026 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Barry Cooper

The Beethoven Violin Sonatas: History, Criticism, Performance. Ed. by Lewis Lockwood and Mark Kroll. pp. x + 164. (University of Illinois Press, Urbana and Chicago, 2004, £34.95. ISBN 0-252-02932-1.)
Music and Letters 2006 87: 625-627; doi:10.1093/ml/gcl030 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Robert Orledge

Musical Encounters at the 1889 Paris World’s Fair. By Annegret Fauser. pp. xx + 391. Eastman Studies in Music, 32. (University of Rochester Press, Rochester, NY and Woodbridge, 2005, £40. ISBN 1-58046-185-9.) • Debussy’s Letters to Inghelbrecht: The Story of a Musical Friendship. Annotated by Margaret G. Cobb. Trans. by Richard Miller. pp. xxii + 131. (University of Rochester Press, Rochester, NY, 2005, £45. ISBN 1-58046-174-3.)
Music and Letters 2006 87: 627-630; doi:10.1093/ml/gcl058 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Margaret M. McGowan

Music, Discipline, and Arms in Early Modern France. By Kate Van Orden. pp. xiv + 322. (University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London, 2005, £28. ISBN 0-226-84976-7.)
Music and Letters 2006 87: 630-633; doi:10.1093/ml/gcl024 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Alessandro Arcangeli

The Eloquent Body: Dance and Humanist Culture in Fifteenth-Century Italy. By Jennifer Nevile. pp. xii + 247. (Indiana University Press, Bloomington and Indianapolis, 2005, $39.95. ISBN 0-253-34453-0.)
Music and Letters 2006 87: 633-636; doi:10.1093/ml/gcl051 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Desmond Hosford

Dramaturgie de la tragédie en musique (1673–1764). By Laura Naudeix. pp. 583. Lumière Classique, 54. (Honoré Champion, Paris, 2004, 95. ISBN 2-7453-1024-0.)
Music and Letters 2006 87: 636-639; doi:10.1093/ml/gcl015 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Jacqueline Waeber

Théâtre et opéra à l’âge classique: Une familière étrangeté. By Catherine Kintzler. pp. 335. Les Chemins de la musique. (Fayard, Paris, 2004. 20. ISBN 2-213-62125-X.)
Music and Letters 2006 87: 639-642; doi:10.1093/ml/gcl038 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Tomi Mäkelä

Musikwissenschaft als Kulturwissenschaft damals und heute. Internationales Symposion (1998) zum Jubiläum der Institutsgründung an der Universität Wien vor 100 Jahren. Ed. by Theophil Antonicek und Gernot Gruber. pp. 253. Wiener Veröffentlichungen zur Musikwissenschaft, 40. (Tutzing, Schneider, 2005, 48. ISBN 3-7952-1166-2.)
Music and Letters 2006 87: 642-644; doi:10.1093/ml/gcl023 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Michael Talbot

Cavalier Giovanni Battista Buonamente: Franciscan Violinist. By Peter Allsop. pp. xii + 252. (Ashgate, Aldershot and Burlington, Vt., 2005, £55. ISBN 1-84014-627-3.)
Music and Letters 2006 87: 645-647; doi:10.1093/ml/gcl017 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Pauline Fairclough

Five Operas and a Symphony: Words and Music in Russian Culture. By Boris Gasparov. pp. xxii + 268. Russian Literature and Throught. (Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2005, £30. ISBN 0-300-10650-5.)
Music and Letters 2006 87: 647-651; doi:10.1093/ml/gcl053 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Sandra Mangsen

Charles Avison’s Essay on Musical Expression. With Related Writings by William Hayes and Charles Avison. Ed. by Pierre Dubois. pp. xlviii + 222. (Ashgate, Aldershot and Burlington, Vt., 2004, £45. ISBN 0-7546-3460-4.)
Music and Letters 2006 87: 651-654; doi:10.1093/ml/gcl040 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

John Butt

Johann Sebastian Bach: Christmas Oratorio (BWV 248). By Ignace Bossuyt. Trans. by Stratton Bull. pp. 185. (Leuven University Press, Leuven, 2004, 40. ISBN 90-5867-421-5.)
Music and Letters 2006 87: 654-656; doi:10.1093/ml/gcl037 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Reinhard Strohm

Das italienische Oratorium 1625–1665: Music und Dichtung. By Christan Speck. pp. xxviii + 524; CD. (Brepols, Turnhout, 2003, 115. ISBN 2-503-52187-8.)
Music and Letters 2006 87: 656-658; doi:10.1093/ml/gcl062 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Nick Chadwick

German Modernism: Music and the Arts. By Walter Frisch. pp. x + 322. (University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles, 2005, £29.95. ISBN 0-520-24301-3.)
Music and Letters 2006 87: 658-663; doi:10.1093/ml/gcl054 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Matthias Brzoska

Chronologisch-thematisches Verzeichnis der Werk Ferdinando Paers (PaWV), vol. 1: Die Opern. By Wolfram Ensslin. pp. 807. Musikwissenschaftliche Publikationen. (Olms, Hildesheim 2004, 128. ISBN 3-487-11947-1.)
Music and Letters 2006 87: 663-664; doi:10.1093/ml/gcl013 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

William Drabkin

A Topical Guide to Schenkerian Literature: An Annotated Bibliography with Indices. By David Carson Berry. pp. xi + 585. (Pendragon, Hillsdale, NY, 2004, $62. ISBN 1-57647-095-4.)
Music and Letters 2006 87: 664-666; doi:10.1093/ml/gci200 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Nicholas Bannan

The Changing Role for the Composer in Society: A Study of the Historical Background and Current Methodologies of Creative Music-Making. By Jolyon Laycock. pp. 440. (Peter Lang, Berne, 2005, £43. ISBN 3-03910-227-X.)
Music and Letters 2006 87: 666-667; doi:10.1093/ml/gcl012 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Stephen Walsh

György Kurtág: The Sayings of Péter Bornemisza, Op. 7: A Concerto for Soprano and Piano. By Rachel Beckles Willson. pp. xvi + 192; CD. Landmarks in Music since 1950. (Ashgate, Aldershot and Burlington, Vt., 2004, £35. ISBN 0-7546-0809-3.)
Music and Letters 2006 87: 667-670; doi:10.1093/ml/gcl009 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Charles Hiroshi Garrett

Jazz on the River. By William Howland Kenney. pp. xii + 229. (University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London, 2005, £19.50. ISBN 0-226-43733-7.)
Music and Letters 2006 87: 670-672; doi:10.1093/ml/gcl006 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Oliver Neighbour

Instrumentale Konzeptionen in der Virginalmusik von William Byrd. By Martin Klotz. pp. 579. Tübinger Beiträge zur Musikwissenschaft, 27. (Schneider, Tutzing, 2005, 75. ISBN 3-7952-1169-7.)
Music and Letters 2006 87: 672-675; doi:10.1093/ml/gcl025 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Derek B. Scott

Oh Joy! Oh Rapture! The Enduring Phenomenon of Gilbert and Sullivan. By Ian Bradley. pp. xii + 220. (Oxford University Press, New York and Oxford, 2005, £18.50. ISBN 0-19-516700-7)
Music and Letters 2006 87: 676-678; doi:10.1093/ml/gcl004 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Jonathan Tyack

Handel: Water Music and Music for the Royal Fireworks. By Christopher Hogwood. pp. xii + 155. Cambridge Music Handbooks. (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2005, £12.99. ISBN 0-521-54496-6.)
Music and Letters 2006 87: 678-679; doi:10.1093/ml/gcl035 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Peter Van der Merwe

Gender and Sexuality in South African Music. Ed. by Chris Walton and Stephanus Muller. pp. xii + 97. (SUN ePreSS, Stellenbosch, 2005, R150. ISBN 1-919980-40-7.)
Music and Letters 2006 87: 680-683; doi:10.1093/ml/gcl033 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Laura Basini

Vocal Apparitions: The Attraction of Cinema to Opera. By Michal Grover-Friedlander. pp. xiv + 186. Princeton Studies in Opera. (Princeton University Press, Princeton and Oxford, 2005, £21.50. ISBN 0-691-12008-0.)
Music and Letters 2006 87: 683-685; doi:10.1093/ml/gcl010 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Joseph P. Swain

How Sondheim Found his Sound. By Steve Swayne. pp. xvi + 320. (University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, 2005, $30. ISBN 0-472-11497-2.)
Music and Letters 2006 87: 685-687; doi:10.1093/ml/gcl016 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Lloyd Whitesell

Benjamin Britten and Samuel Barber: Their Lives and their Music. By Daniel Felsenfeld. pp. xii + 180; CD. Parallel Lives, 2. (Amadeus Press, Pompton Plains, NJ and Cambridge, 2005, $19.95. ISBN 1-57467-108-1.)
Music and Letters 2006 87: 687-688; doi:10.1093/ml/gcl008 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Rosamund Bartlett

Le Destin russe et la musique: Un siècle de la Révolution à nos jours. By Frans C. Lemaire. pp. 736. Les Chemins de la musique. (Fayard, Paris, 2005, 30. ISBN 2-213-62457-7.)
Music and Letters 2006 87: 688-690; doi:10.1093/ml/gcl005 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Peter Holman

A Viola da Gamba Miscellanea. Ed. by Susan Orlando. pp. 244. (Ensemble Baroque de Limoges, Presses Universitaires de Limoges, Limoges, 2005, 40. ISBN 2-84287-353-X.)
Music and Letters 2006 87: 690-692; doi:10.1093/ml/gcl027 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

David Fanning

Sergej Prokofjew in der Sowjetunion: Verstrickungen—Mißverständnisse—Katastrophen: Ein internationales Symposium. Ed. by Ernest Kuhn. pp. x + 257. Prokofjew-Studien, 1: Studia Slavica Musicologica, 35. (Ernst Kuhn, Berlin, 2004, 49.95. ISBN 3-936637-01-6.) • Sergej Prokofjews viersätzige Klaviersonaten: Studien zu Form und Gehalt. By Ruth Goedicke. pp. 323. Prokofjew-Studien, 2: Studia Slavica Musicologica, 36. (Ernst Kuhn, Berlin, 2004, 59.95. ISBN 3-936637-02-4.) • Schräg zur Linie des sozialistischen Realismus?: Prokofjews spätere Sonaten sowie Orchester- und Bühnenwerke: Ein internationales Symposium. Ed. by Ernst Kuhn. pp. x + 289. (Prokofjew-Studien, 3: Studia Slavica Musicologica, 37. (Ernst Kuhn, Berlin, 2005, 59.95. ISBN 3-936637-03-2.) • Die Wahrheit über Prokofjew: Das Drama der letzten Jahre. By Mira Mendelson-Prokofjewa. Prokofjew-Studien, 4. (Ernst Kuhn, Berlin, 2005, 59.95. ISBN 3-936637-07-5.)
Music and Letters 2006 87: 692-694; doi:10.1093/ml/gcl031 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Simon Zagorski-Thomas

Wired for Sound: Engineering and Technologies in Sonic Cultures. Ed. by Paul D. Greene and Thomas Porcello. pp. viii + 288. (Wesleyan University Press, Middletown, Conn., 2005, $65.95/$24.95. ISBN 0-8195-6516-4/-6517-2.)
Music and Letters 2006 87: 694-697; doi:10.1093/ml/gcl011 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

David Nicholls

Aaron Copland and his World. Ed. by Carol J. Oja and Judith Tick. pp. xxiv + 503. (Princeton University Press, Princeton and Oxford, 2005, £35.95. ISBN 0-691-12469-8.)
Music and Letters 2006 87: 697-698; doi:10.1093/ml/gcl007 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Correspondence

Wolfgang Sandberger

Brahms-Briefwechsel-Verzeichnis
Music and Letters 2006 87: 699; doi:10.1093/ml/gcl087 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Notes to Contributors

Notes to Contributors
Music and Letters 2006 87: 700-701; doi:10.1093/ml/gcl086 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Books Received

Books Received
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