Music and Letters

Articles

Get checked abstract Regula Hohl Trillini

The Gaze of the Listener: Shakespeare's Sonnet 128 and Early Modern Discourses of Music and Gender
Music and Letters Advance Access published on September 24, 2007
Music and Letters 2008 89: 1-17; doi:10.1093/ml/gcm045 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Roger Savage

Alice Shortcake, Jenny Pluckpears, and the Stratford-Upon-Avon Connections of Vaughan Williams's ‘Sir John in Love’
Music and Letters Advance Access published on December 5, 2007
Music and Letters 2008 89: 18-55; doi:10.1093/ml/gcm083 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Marcia J. Citron

‘An honest contrivance’: Opera and Desire in ‘Moonstruck’
Music and Letters Advance Access published on September 21, 2007
Music and Letters 2008 89: 56-83; doi:10.1093/ml/gcm046 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Mark Berry

Arnold Schoenberg's ‘Biblical Way’: From ‘Die Jakobsleiter’ to ‘Moses Und Aron’
Music and Letters Advance Access published on November 21, 2007
Music and Letters 2008 89: 84-108; doi:10.1093/ml/gcm068 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Reviews of Books

Benjamin Skipp

Repeating Ourselves: American Minimal Music as Cultural Practice. By Robert Fink.
Music and Letters 2008 89: 109-112; doi:10.1093/ml/gcm026 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Michael Talbot

Il ‘concerto grosso’ romano: Questioni di genere e nuove prospettive storiografiche. By Agnese Pavanello.
Music and Letters 2008 89: 112-113; doi:10.1093/ml/gcm050 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Claudia R. Jensen

Eighteenth-Century Russian Music. By Marina Ritzarev.
Music and Letters 2008 89: 113-117; doi:10.1093/ml/gcm075 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Andrew Steptoe

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: A Biography. By Piero Melograni.
Music and Letters 2008 89: 117-118; doi:10.1093/ml/gcm074 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Andrew Steptoe

Mozart: The First Biography. By Franz Xaver Niemetschek, trans. by Helen Mautner.
Music and Letters 2008 89: 118-119; doi:10.1093/ml/gcm052 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Lucy Walker

Voicing Gender: Castrati, Travesti, and the Second Woman in Early-Nineteenth-Century Italian Opera. By Naomi André.
Music and Letters 2008 89: 119-121; doi:10.1093/ml/gcm076 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Stefanie Tcharos

Operatic Migrations: Transforming Works and Crossing Boundaries. Ed. by Roberta Montemorra Marvin and Downing A. Thomas.
Music and Letters 2008 89: 121-124; doi:10.1093/ml/gcm051 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Barry Cooper

Musical Childhoods and the Cultures of Youth. Ed. by Susan Boynton and Roe-Min Kok.
Music and Letters 2008 89: 124-126; doi:10.1093/ml/gcm021 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Julian Rushton

George Onslow, Gentleman Compositeur. By Viviane Niaux.
Music and Letters 2008 89: 126-127; doi:10.1093/ml/gcm053 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Michael Spitzer

Nietzsche and Music. By Georges Liébert.
Music and Letters 2008 89: 128-129; doi:10.1093/ml/gcm072 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Michael Saffle

Reflections on Liszt. By Alan Walker. • The Cambridge Companion to Liszt. Ed. by Kenneth Hamilton.
Music and Letters 2008 89: 129-132; doi:10.1093/ml/gcm043 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Gurminder Kaur Bhogal

The Ballets of Maurice Ravel: Creation and Interpretation. By Deborah Mawer.
Music and Letters 2008 89: 132-134; doi:10.1093/ml/gcm071 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Aidan J. Thomson

Edward Elgar, Modernist. By J. P. E. Harper-Scott.
Music and Letters 2008 89: 134-139; doi:10.1093/ml/gcm042 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

David Fanning

Variations on the Theme: Galina Ustvolskaya. By Simon Bokman. Trans. by Irina Behrendt.
Music and Letters 2008 89: 139-141; doi:10.1093/ml/gcm073 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Arnold Whittall

Music, Theatre and Politics in Germany: 1848 to the Third Reich. Ed. by Nikolaus Bacht.
Music and Letters 2008 89: 141-143; doi:10.1093/ml/gcm018 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Edward Venn

Benjamin Britten: The Spiritual Dimension. By Graham Elliott.
Music and Letters 2008 89: 143-148; doi:10.1093/ml/gcm023 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

John Paynter

Music in Educational Thought and Practice: A Survey from 800 BC. 2nd edn. By Bernarr Rainbow with Gordon Cox.
Music and Letters 2008 89: 148-149; doi:10.1093/ml/gcm048 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Anthony Gritten

The Discourse of Musicology. By Giles Hooper.
Music and Letters 2008 89: 149-154; doi:10.1093/ml/gcm049 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Carol A. Hess

The Spanish Song Companion. Devised and translated by Jacqueline Cockburn and Richard Stokes.
Music and Letters 2008 89: 154-155; doi:10.1093/ml/gcm069 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Jonathan Stock

The Musical Human: Rethinking John Blacking's Ethnomusicology in the Twenty-First Century. Ed. by Suzel Ana Reily.
Music and Letters 2008 89: 155-157; doi:10.1093/ml/gcm070 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

The Westrup Prize and Recipients of 'Music & Letters' Awards

‘Music & Letters’ Awards
Music and Letters 2008 89: 159; doi:10.1093/ml/gcn002 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Notes to Contributors

Notes to Contributors
Music and Letters 2008 89: 158; doi:10.1093/ml/gcn003 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Books Received

Books Received
Music and Letters 2008 89: 160-162; doi:10.1093/ml/gcm116 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

To see an article, click its [Full Text] or [PDF] link. To review many abstracts, check the boxes to the left of the titles you want, and click the 'Get All Checked Abstract(s)' button. To see one abstract at a time, click its [Abstract] link.