Reviews (1992)

THE BENEVENTAN CHANT by Thomas Forest Kelly. Cambridge Studies in Music. Cambridge/New York: Cambridge University Press, 1989, xv, 350 pages. ALTRO POLO: ESSAYS ON ITALIAN MUSIC IN THE CINQUE‐CENTO. Edited by Richard Charteris. Frederick May Foundation for Italian Studies. University of Sydney, Sydney, 1990. IN DEFENCE OF MUSIC: THE CASE FOR MUSIC AS ARGUED BY A SINGER AND SCHOLAR OF THE LATE FIFTEENTH CENTURY by Don Harrán Lincoln & London: University of Nebraska Press, 1989. xiii, 175 pages. CORPUS ANTIPHONALIUM OFFICII ECCLESIARUM CENTRALIS EUROPAE: A PRELIMINARY REPORT by Lászlo Dobszay and Gabor Prószéky Budapest: Institute of Musicology, 1988. 396 pages. THE LAST TROUBADOURS: POETIC DRAMA IN ITALIAN OPERA 1597–1887 by Deirdre O'Grady. London and New York: Routledge, 1991. THE FLORENTINE CAMERATA: DOCUMENTARY STUDIES AND TRANSLATIONS by Claude V. Palisca. Music Theory Translation Series, ed. Claude V. Palisca. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1989, 234pp. THEMATIC CATALOGUE OF THE WORKS OF CARL PHILIPP EMANUEL BACH by E. Eugene Helm. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1989. xxvii, 271 pp. MARPURG'S THOROUGH/BASS AND COMPOSITION HANDBOOK. A NARRATIVE TRANSLATION AND CRITICAL STUDY, by David A. Sheldon. Harmonologia Series No. 2. Stuyvesant, NY: Pendragon Press, 1989. xx, 290 pp. THE BACH MANUSCRIPTS OF JOHANN PETER KELLNER AND HIS CIRCLE: A CASE STUDY IN RECEPTION HISTORY by Russell Stinson. Sources of Music and Their Interpretation, Duke Studies in Music, 2. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 1990. xvi, 184 pp. ALESSANDRO STRADELLA (1639–1682): A THEMATIC CATALOGUE OF HIS COMPOSITIONS by Carolyn Gianturco, Stuyvesant, N.Y.: Pendragon Press, 1990. THE CLASSICAL ERA: FROM THE 1740s TO THE END OF THE 18TH CENTURY. Neal Zaslaw, ed. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice‐Hall, 1989. 416 pages. MOZART'S SYMPHONIES: CONTEXT, PERFORMANCE PRACTICE, RECEPTION by Neal Zaslaw. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989. 617p. $55. MOZART'S OPERAS by Daniel Heartz. Edited with contributing essays by Thomas Bauman. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990. 363pp. HAYDN: THE CREATION by Nicholas Temperley. Cambridge Music Handbooks, Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1991. vii, 136 pp. JOHANN NEPOMUK HUMMEL, THE COMPLETE WORKS FOR PIANO, A SIX‐VOLUME COLLECTION OF REPRINTS AND FACSIMILES. Edited with introductions by Joel Sachs, 6 volumes in 7 books. New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1989. HAYDN AND THE ENLIGHTENMENT. THE LATE SYMPHONIES AND THEIR AUDIENCE by David P. Schroeder. Oxford Monographs on Music. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1990. viii, 219pp. MUSIC AS CULTURAL PRACTICE, 1800–1900 by Lawrence Kramer. California Studies in 19th Century Music, vol. 8. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990, xv, 226 pp. 28 musical examples. ITALIAN OPERA by David Kimbell. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1991. 684 pp. Carolyn Abbate and Roger Parker, editors. ANALYZING OPERA: VERDI AND WAGNER. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989. ix, 304pp. GUSTAV MAHLER: SONGS AND SYMPHONIES OF LIFE AND DEATH — INTERPRETATIONS AND ANNOTATIONS by Donald Mitchell. Berkeley & Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1985. 659 pp. GUSTAV MAHLER'S AMERICAN YEARS, 1907–1911: A DOCUMENTARY HISTORY by Zoltan Roman [Monographs in Musicology.] Stuyvesant, New York: Pendragon Press, 1989. xxvii, 544 pp. HUGO WOLF: LETTERS TO MELANIE KÖGHERT, English ed. Louise McClelland Urban, German ed. Franz Grasberger. Foreword by Martin Katz. New York: Schirmer Books, 1991. xxxviii, 293 pp. THE NEW SHOSTAKOVICH by Ian MacDonald. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1990. DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH: A CATALOGUE, BIBLIOGRAPHY, AND DISCOGRAPHY. Derek C. Hulme. 2nd ed., Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991. Price: $98.00 COLIN MCPHEE: COMPOSER IN TWO WORLDS by Carol J. Oja. Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1990. THE MUSIC OF BRITTEN AND TIPPETT: STUDIES IN THEMES AND TECHNIQUES. Second Edition. By Arnold Whittall. Cambridge/New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990. vii, 325 pp. REMAKING THE PAST: MUSICAL MODERNISM AND THE INFLUENCE OF THE TONAL TRADITION, by Joseph Straus, Cambridge, Massachusetts, and London: Harvard University Press, 1990. PHRASE RHYTHM IN TONAL MUSIC by William Rothstein. New York: Schirmer Books, 1989. xi, 379pp. EXPLORATIONS IN MUSIC, THE ARTS, AND IDEAS: ESSAYS IN HONOR OF LEONARD B. MEYER, Eugene Narmour and Ruth A. Solie, eds. (Festschrift Series No. 7.) Stuyvesant, N.Y.: Pendragon Press, 1988. xiii, 473 pp. BETWEEN MODES AND KEYS, GERMAN THEORY 1592–1802 by Joel Lester (Harmonologia Series, No.3) Stuyvesant, NY: Pendragon Press, 1989. xxv + 240 pp. THE ANALYSIS AND COGNITION OF BASIC MELODIC STRUCTURES: THE IMPLICATION‐REALIZATION MODEL by Eugene Narmour. Chicago/London: The University of Chicago Press, 1990. ELLINGTON: THE EARLY YEARS by Mark Tucker. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, ix, 258 p., photos, transcriptions, dis‐cography. JAZZ PERFORMERS. An Annotated Bibliography of Biographical Materials by Gary Carner. Foreword by John Chilton. Music Reference Collection, Number 26, New York: Greenwood Press, 1990 xviii, 364pp. MUSIC, RITUAL, AND FALASHA HISTORY by Kay Kaufman Shelemay. East Lansing: African Studies Center, Michigan State University, 1986. (Ethiopian Series, Committee on Northeast African Studies, 17). 2nd printing 1989. xv, 415 pp. TRADITIONAL SAMOAN MUSIC by Richard Moyle. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990. xv, 271 pp.