Music and Letters

Nigel Fortune: An Appreciation

John Whenham

Nigel Fortune: An Appreciation
Music and Letters 2009 90: i-iii; doi:10.1093/ml/gcp058 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Articles

Get checked abstract Roger Bowers

Claudio Monteverdi and Sacred Music in the Household of the Gonzaga Dukes of Mantua, 1590–1612
Music and Letters 2009 90: 331-371; doi:10.1093/ml/gcp050 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract David R. M. Irving

Comparative Organography in Early Modern Empires
Music and Letters Advance Access published on May 18, 2009
Music and Letters 2009 90: 372-398; doi:10.1093/ml/gcp010 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Nathan Seinen

Kutuzov's Victory, Prokofiev's Defeat: The Revisions of ‘War and Peace’
Music and Letters Advance Access published on June 30, 2009
Music and Letters 2009 90: 399-431; doi:10.1093/ml/gcp019 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Joanna Bullivant

Modernism, Politics, and Individuality in 1930s Britain: The Case of Alan Bush
Music and Letters Advance Access published on June 26, 2009
Music and Letters 2009 90: 432-452; doi:10.1093/ml/gcp051 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Review-Article

Richard Taruskin

Material Gains: Assessing Susan McClary
Music and Letters Advance Access published on June 23, 2009
Music and Letters 2009 90: 453-467; doi:10.1093/ml/gcp049 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Reviews of Books

W. Dean Sutcliffe

Music in the Galant Style. By Robert O. Gjerdingen.
Music and Letters 2009 90: 468-473; doi:10.1093/ml/gcn127 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

John Butt

About Bach. Ed. by Gregory G. Butler, George B. Stauffer, and Mary Dalton Greer.
Music and Letters 2009 90: 473-475; doi:10.1093/ml/gcp011 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Ruth Smith

Händels Oratorien: Ein musikalischer Werkführer. By Claus Bockmaier.
Music and Letters 2009 90: 475-477; doi:10.1093/ml/gcp004 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Vassilis Vavoulis

Inventing the Business of Opera: The Impresario and his World in Seventeenth-Century Venice. By Beth L. Glixon and Jonathan E. Glixon.
Music and Letters 2009 90: 477-478; doi:10.1093/ml/gcp006 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Ruth DeFord

The Canzone villanesca alla napolitana: Social, Cultural and Historical Contexts. By Donna G. Cardamone.
Music and Letters 2009 90: 478-480; doi:10.1093/ml/gcp012 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Pieter Mannaerts

Creations: Medieval Rituals, the Arts, and the Concept of Creation. Ed. by Sven Rune Havsteen, Nils Holger Petersen, Heinrich W. Schwab, and Eyolf Østrem.
Music and Letters 2009 90: 480-483; doi:10.1093/ml/gcp003 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Lars Fischer

Der Topos der Juden. Studien zur Geschichte des Antisemitismus im deutschsprachigen Musikschrifttum. By Annkatrin Dahm.
Music and Letters 2009 90: 484-486; doi:10.1093/ml/gcp013 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

M. J. Grant

The Invention of ‘Folk Music’ and ‘Art Music’: Emerging Categories from Ossian to Wagner. By Matthew Gelbart.
Music and Letters 2009 90: 486-489; doi:10.1093/ml/gcn125 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Bennett Zon

The Pursuit of High Culture: John Ella and Chamber Music in Victorian London. By Christina Bashford.
Music and Letters 2009 90: 489-491; doi:10.1093/ml/gcn130 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

James Garratt

The Cambridge Companion to Schumann. Ed. by Beate Perrey.
Music and Letters 2009 90: 491-492; doi:10.1093/ml/gcp002 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

J. P. E. Harper-Scott

Edward Elgar and his World. Ed. by Byron Adams.
Music and Letters 2009 90: 492-495; doi:10.1093/ml/gcp014 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

J. P. E. Harper Scott

Twentieth-Century British Authors and the Rise of Opera in Britain. By Irene Morra.
Music and Letters 2009 90: 495-498; doi:10.1093/ml/gcp015 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

John Tyrrell

Josef Suk — dopisy o ivot hudebním i lidském. Ed. by Jana Vojtková.
Music and Letters 2009 90: 498-500; doi:10.1093/ml/gcn128 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

John Tyrrell

Josef Suk: Tematick katalog skladeb/Thematic Catalogue of the Works (JSkat). Ed. by Zdenk Nouza and Miroslav Nov.
Music and Letters 2009 90: 501-503; doi:10.1093/ml/gcp005 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Nick Chadwick

Alban Berg and Hanna Fuchs: The Story of a Love in Letters. By Constantin Floros. Trans. by Ernest Bernhardt-Kabisch.
Music and Letters 2009 90: 503-505; doi:10.1093/ml/gcp001 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

David Fanning

Zwischen Bekenntnis und Verweigerung: Schostakowitsch und die Sinfonie im 20. Jahrhundert. Ed. by Hans-Joachim Hinrichsen und Laurenz Lütteken. • Dmitri Schostakowitsch: Das Spätwerk und sein zeitgeschichtlicher Kontext. Ed. by Manuel Gervink and Jörn Peter Hiekel. • Schostakowitsch und die Symphonie: Referate des Bonner Symposions 2004. Ed. by Hartmut Hein and Wolfram Steinbeck. • Dmitrij ostakovi: Grauen und Grandezza des 20. Jahrhunderts. Ed. by Manfred Sapper and Volker Weichsel. • Der Komponist als Erzähler: Narrativität in Dmitri Schostakowitschs Instrumentalmusik. Ed. By Melanie Unseld and Stefan Weiss.
Music and Letters 2009 90: 505-510; doi:10.1093/ml/gcn124 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Elizabeth Wilson

A Soviet Credo: Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony. By Pauline Fairclough.
Music and Letters 2009 90: 510-513; doi:10.1093/ml/gcp008 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Arnold Whittall

Letters from a Life: The Selected Letters of Benjamin Britten, Volume Four 1952–1957. Ed. By Philip Reed, Mervyn Cooke, and Donald Mitchell.
Music and Letters 2009 90: 513-514; doi:10.1093/ml/gcn129 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Nicholas Jones

The Music of Hugh Wood. By Edward Venn.
Music and Letters 2009 90: 514-516; doi:10.1093/ml/gcp016 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Daniel March

The Music of Louis Andriessen. By Yayoi Uno Everett.
Music and Letters 2009 90: 516-519; doi:10.1093/ml/gcn126 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Edward Venn

Nicholas Maw: Odyssey. By Kenneth Gloag.
Music and Letters 2009 90: 519-521; doi:10.1093/ml/gcp007 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Raymond Monelle

What Kind of Theory is Music Theory? Epistemological Exercises in Music Theory and Analysis. Ed. by Per F. Broman and Nora A. Engebretsen.
Music and Letters 2009 90: 521-525; doi:10.1093/ml/gcp017 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Raymond Monelle

Deepening Musical Performance through Movement: The Theory and Practice of Embodied Interpretation. By Alexandra Pierce. • Sound in Motion: A Performer's Guide to Greater Musical Expression. By David McGill.
Music and Letters 2009 90: 526-527; doi:10.1093/ml/gcp018 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Recipients of 'Music & Letters' Awards

Recipients of ‘Music & Letters’ Awards
Music and Letters 2009 90: 528; doi:10.1093/ml/gcp054 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Notes to Contributors

Notes to Contributors
Music and Letters 2009 90: 529; doi:10.1093/ml/gcp052 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

'Music & Letters' Awards

‘Music & Letters’ Awards
Music and Letters 2009 90: 530; doi:10.1093/ml/gcp053 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Authors of Articles in this Issue

Authors of Articles in this Issue
Music and Letters 2009 90: 530; doi:10.1093/ml/gcp055 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Books Received

Books Received
Music and Letters 2009 90: 531-533; doi:10.1093/ml/gcp056 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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