{"title":"Clara Schumann, Drei Romanzen für Violine und Klavier, Three Romances for Violin and Piano, Op. 22, ed. Jacqueline Ross (Basel: Bärenreiter-Verlag, 2021), ix + 27 pp. € 19.95.","authors":"J. Davies","doi":"10.1017/s1479409822000301","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s1479409822000301","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41351,"journal":{"name":"Nineteenth-Century Music Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46424448","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Music-Making as Witness in the Mexican–American War: Testimony, Embodiment and Trauma","authors":"Elizabeth Morgan","doi":"10.1017/S1479409822000246","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S1479409822000246","url":null,"abstract":"During the two years of the Mexican–American War (1846–48) and in its immediate aftermath, American composers and publishers produced numerous pieces on topics related to the conflict. Many of these were written for solo piano or voice with keyboard accompaniment and marketed as popular entertainment to amateur musicians performing in the home. This repertoire comprises lament songs, battle pieces and patriotic songs and dances. Works include musical depictions of violent and tragic scenes, but most pieces are in major keys, featuring lyrical melodies and upbeat dance rhythms – the typical fare of parlour music of the period.","PeriodicalId":41351,"journal":{"name":"Nineteenth-Century Music Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41380796","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Digital Sources for Nineteenth Century Music in Spain: The Digitization Project of the National Library in Context","authors":"Teresa Cascudo García-Villaraco, Gorka Rubiales Zabarte","doi":"10.1017/S1479409822000155","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S1479409822000155","url":null,"abstract":"The National Library of Spain (Biblioteca Nacional de España, BNE) is the head of the Spanish library system. It holds all books published in Spain, and also several collections of different types, including the Music and Audiovisuals Department's sound recordings and sheet music. Its Department of Bibliographic Control of Periodicals catalogues both newspapers and magazines. In addition, the BNE offers a number of online services including the Hispanic Digital Library (Biblioteca Digital Hispánica, BDH) and the Digital Newspaper Library (Hemeroteca Digital, HemD). The BDH, was created in 2008 and currently provides free and open access to more than 220,000 digitized documents, including recordings and scores.1 In contrast, HemD, which is part of the BDH, focuses on the public dissemination of the digital collection of Spanish historical presses.2 It currently offers around 2,500 titles and more than 70,000,000 pages.3 Newspapers and magazines are available in PDF format and searches are facilitated by OCR (Optical Character Recognition).","PeriodicalId":41351,"journal":{"name":"Nineteenth-Century Music Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44211812","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Russell Stinson, Bach's Legacy: The Music as Heard by Later Masters (New York: Oxford University Press, 2020). 177 pp. £22.99","authors":"J. Garratt","doi":"10.1017/s1479409822000362","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s1479409822000362","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41351,"journal":{"name":"Nineteenth-Century Music Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-09-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47294540","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Lysistrata in Kleindeutschland: The German-American Reception of Schubert's Die Verschworenen (D. 787)","authors":"Evan A. MacCarthy","doi":"10.1017/s1479409822000283","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s1479409822000283","url":null,"abstract":"Franz Schubert's final attempt at a Singspiel was Die Verschworenen (The Conspirators, D. 787), a loose adaptation of three comedies by Aristophanes: Lysistrata, Ecclesiazusae (Assemblywomen) and Thesmophoriazusae (Women at the Thesmophoria). Composed in 1823, but not premiered until 1861 (in Vienna), the work was successfully revived for its United States premiere 18 months later, in Hoboken, New Jersey, for a thriving German-American cultural community at the time of the American Civil War. The historical conditions of early performances in Hoboken and the Kleindeutschland neighbourhood of Manhattan, and the reasons for the work's programming by its conductor, Friedrich Adolf Sorge, a prominent German-American political and labour leader who wanted the arts to ‘shake up the people’, are addressed. Schubert's Singspiel had several layers of meaning for its audiences of mostly German immigrants living in the New York City area: as an adaptation of Aristophanes’s Lysistrata, set in the Crusades, it was a comic plea for peace both in the early years of the Civil War and amid the violent political strife on the path toward German unification. Its use of parts of Aristophanes’s Ecclesiazusae suggested relevance to labour disputes that Sorge had been involved in since the 1850s and would eventually lead himself after establishing the New York Section of the International Workingmen's Association. In this context, Schubert's work becomes both Germanic and Hellenic, medieval and modern, thereby becoming an assurance of Old-World culture for its varied German-American audiences.","PeriodicalId":41351,"journal":{"name":"Nineteenth-Century Music Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-09-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43963429","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Charles Youmans, ed. Mahler in Context (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021). 344 pp. £84.99.","authors":"Nicholas Attfield","doi":"10.1017/S1479409822000313","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S1479409822000313","url":null,"abstract":"ent type of virtuosity and, to borrow Dunsby’s term, it is the symbiosis of the composer and performer that determines the exact virtuosity type. The essays of this book deepen our understanding of the concept of virtuosity and of different approaches. Some essays require previous knowledge of the source described to be fully comprehended. As a collection, the book re-evaluates virtuosity, specifically its given definitions and practices, through Liszt’s own understanding in connection to his contemporaries. However, the topic of audience reception is not addressed much, and it could have enhanced further the conception of virtuosity. The question to what extent something is virtuosic when the external difficulty is not so visual has been raised in a similar vein by few authors. Could this feature be called something different? Is there more than one virtuosity? Some chapters hint, indirectly and directly, that indeed there are different conceptions of the term. One must also consider, though, that virtuosity and its definition as having a specific level of difficulty was comprehended differently not only by composers and performers but also by the audience when a work was first heard, even though today’s audiences expect technical demanding works. There was a mutual collaboration between audiences, composers and performers for the conception and definition of virtuosity.","PeriodicalId":41351,"journal":{"name":"Nineteenth-Century Music Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-09-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46619859","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Under Cover in Babylon: Rossini's Cyrus the Great for the Lenten Season","authors":"R. Ketterer","doi":"10.1017/s1479409822000295","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s1479409822000295","url":null,"abstract":"Rossini's Ciro in Babilonia, ossia, La caduta di Baldassare (Cyrus in Babylon, or, The Fall of Belshazzar) was performed during Lent in 1812 at Ferrara's Teatro Comunale. This study examines how the opera's librettist Francesco Aventi synthesized disparate sources that included the Greek historian Herodotus and the Biblical prophets, ancient and early modern prose treatises on the Persian king Cyrus the Great, and baroque operatic representations of imperial power; and how Rossini responded to those sources musically for the particular historical moment in March of 1812. The piece is of interest as the first serious opera for the librettist and the composer both. It displays innovative approaches to classicizing material familiar from the eighteenth-century, as exemplified in Metastasio's Ciro riconosciuto and Sarti's Giulio Sabino, and it presents the secular hero Cyrus as a Christological figure that suffers and then triumphs with divine help. Musically it anticipates developments in Rossini's own Mosè in Egitto and Semiramide. The title “Under cover in Babylon” refers first to Aventi's and Rossini's use of the standard operatic plot device of the disguised lover to motivate Cyrus's entry into the enemy city of Babylon. Second, by calling the piece an “oratorio” and including Biblical material, they disguised an opera as an entertainment appropriate for Lent. Finally, the piece carries possible but subtly expressed messages connected with Napoleonic Italy and the Ferrarese Jewish community.","PeriodicalId":41351,"journal":{"name":"Nineteenth-Century Music Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-09-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48196365","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Data Scraping YouTube for the Study of Lieder Reception","authors":"Rachel E. Scott","doi":"10.1017/S1479409822000143","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S1479409822000143","url":null,"abstract":"A growing body of literature has shifted aesthetic attention from composition to performance, or the performing activity, and asserts that the act of performance creates meaning.1 Scholars have emphasized differences between the passive consumption and active making of – or even listening to – music.2 As I sought to understand the impact of performance on Alma Mahler's legacy, I identified the need to gather as much data as possible on who, what, where, when, why, and how her songs were performed. This need led me to evaluate the metadata associated with recordings of Alma Mahler's songs in the WorldCat union catalogue and the video sharing platform YouTube. Recent studies have shown the utility of leveraging big data for musicology, although few scholars have done so to investigate reception history. This essay outlines one approach to data scraping YouTube with emphasis on the value to those researching recent Lieder reception, and in doing so highlights some of the promise and limitations associated with web scraping.","PeriodicalId":41351,"journal":{"name":"Nineteenth-Century Music Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-08-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45783721","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Notes on Article Contributors","authors":"","doi":"10.1017/s1479409822000374","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s1479409822000374","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41351,"journal":{"name":"Nineteenth-Century Music Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48385077","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Antonín Dvořák, Biblické písně (Biblical Songs), op. 99, Urtext, edited by Eva Velická, foreword by David R. Beveridge (Kassel: Bärenreiter, 2021). BA 10425 (low voice). BA 10426 (high voice). xix + 38.","authors":"D. Manning","doi":"10.1017/s1479409822000167","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s1479409822000167","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41351,"journal":{"name":"Nineteenth-Century Music Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41875955","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}