NOTESPub Date : 2023-09-01DOI: 10.1353/not.2023.a905321
Sonia Archer-Capuzzo
{"title":"Education for Music Librarianship","authors":"Sonia Archer-Capuzzo","doi":"10.1353/not.2023.a905321","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/not.2023.a905321","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44162,"journal":{"name":"NOTES","volume":"80 1","pages":"109 - 115"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44626947","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}
NOTESPub Date : 2023-09-01DOI: 10.1353/not.2023.a905332
Marci Cohen
{"title":"No Machos or Pop Stars: When the Leeds Art Experiment Went Punk by Gavin Butt (review)","authors":"Marci Cohen","doi":"10.1353/not.2023.a905332","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/not.2023.a905332","url":null,"abstract":"a guided tour through a wide variety of approaches in Britten scholarship. Such a book can serve as an effective introduction to the composer for music students and as a valuable resource for professional scholars searching for a new perspective on the composer. Also included are excellent summaries of British musical life before and during Britten’s life, which are helpful to both groups. That said, this broad approach resulted in a relative lack of in-depth score analysis of his works, but, as indicated earlier, this was not part of the editors’ expressed intent. By focusing on context, the volume does not examine the music itself, instead focusing on extramusical, societal aspects. With Benjamin Britten in Context, Stroeher and Vickers have provided a platform from which new researchers can embark in order to further explore Britten’s life, work, and the world in which he lived. In doing so, they have proven to be among the foremost advocates for the continued study of the composer and his music in what they have dubbed the second century of Britten scholarship.","PeriodicalId":44162,"journal":{"name":"NOTES","volume":"80 1","pages":"157 - 159"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45055817","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}
NOTESPub Date : 2023-09-01DOI: 10.1353/not.2023.a905333
Alex Burtzos
{"title":"Elliott Carter Speaks: Unpublished Lectures ed. by Laura Emmery (review)","authors":"Alex Burtzos","doi":"10.1353/not.2023.a905333","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/not.2023.a905333","url":null,"abstract":"exposure to curriculum and ideas went on to influence both their music and their visual presentation as musical acts. In addition to a close reading of specific school assignments, art performances, record sleeves, and the like, these chapters include tangents on lower-profile acts to cast a wider net and demonstrate how these influences resonated with others. While the Mekons have maintained a cult following and most of the others are mainstays of their era, with songs in regular rotation on SiriusXM’s First Wave station, Fad Gadget has much lower name recognition. The book would have benefitted from providing more context for Tovey, an explanation of why he is worthy of extended analysis beyond fitting the criterion of a Leeds-art-student-turnedmusician in that era. The dive into primary sources is impressive. The author conducted dozens of interviews over six years, including two with Andy Gill, the influential Gang of Four guitarist who died before the book’s publication. He consulted a few formal archives but also the personal archives of more than thirty people, including musicians and art faculty members. This work is borne out by the copious photos of musicians and events and other ephemera that predated their wider, more heavily documented fame. This is a book for a very limited audience, for research collections supporting popular music studies but not for public libraries. While some of the musical acts profiled, especially the Mekons and Gang of Four, have had enduring low-level fame, the writing style is far too dry to appeal to fans or a general music audience. The only levity arises in the direct quotes. Like too much scholarship on punk or postpunk, the analytical tone fails to convey the excitement of the music. The topic of punk’s relationship to arts education is too niche, and the revelations are not sufficiently generalizable to warrant including this in a broader music collection. It would be useful for area and cultural studies, however, especially the cross-pollination between visual and performing arts. It also captures an aspect of youth culture in Northern England during the British postwar consensus on the verge of the Thatcher era.","PeriodicalId":44162,"journal":{"name":"NOTES","volume":"80 1","pages":"159 - 162"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42677258","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}
NOTESPub Date : 2023-09-01DOI: 10.1353/not.2023.a905337
Kevin Edward Mooney
{"title":"For the Sake of the Song: Essays on Townes Van Zandt ed. by Ann Norton Holbrook and Daniel Beller-McKenna (review)","authors":"Kevin Edward Mooney","doi":"10.1353/not.2023.a905337","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/not.2023.a905337","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44162,"journal":{"name":"NOTES","volume":"80 1","pages":"171 - 173"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44416759","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}
NOTESPub Date : 2023-09-01DOI: 10.1353/not.2023.a905315
Kate Lambaria, Joe C. Clark
{"title":"Reference Services","authors":"Kate Lambaria, Joe C. Clark","doi":"10.1353/not.2023.a905315","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/not.2023.a905315","url":null,"abstract":"The number of reference transactions in academic libraries is dramatically declining,1 and given the abundance of free resources on the internet, some may question whether music reference services are valuable. Many people believe that everything is available online and discoverable via Google. However, librarians understand that this is not the case and that the world of music research is immense; a guide could be quite helpful in navigating its complexities. As part of the Notes’ 2000 “Music Librarianship at the Turn of the Century” special issue, David Lasocki addressed the past, present, and possible future of music reference.2 Subsequent publications have also examined these topics.3 By exploring a definition of reference as well as its practices, developments, and challenges, the authors provide an updated view on these services. The authors posit that, while the goal remains the same, the who, where, and how continues to change.4","PeriodicalId":44162,"journal":{"name":"NOTES","volume":"80 1","pages":"58 - 65"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46093897","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}
NOTESPub Date : 2023-09-01DOI: 10.1353/not.2023.a905338
Laina Dawes
{"title":"Bet My Soul on Rock 'n' Roll: Diary of a Black Punk Icon by Jean Beauvoir with John Ostrosky (review)","authors":"Laina Dawes","doi":"10.1353/not.2023.a905338","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/not.2023.a905338","url":null,"abstract":"from the hard realities of a lived experience with bipolar disorder and depression” (p. 170). Ultimately, Quaglia argues that Van Zandt’s Austin fans, in particular, respond to the songwriter’s patterns of self-destructive behavior “but [reduce] them to a romantic and cautionary tale that may be removed from, and then be read back against, his music” (p. 170). Giving Van Zandt the last words in this collection, particularly his voice outside of the songs, For the Sake of the Song concludes with “Townes in His Own Words: Excerpts from Richard Dobson’s The Gulf Coast Boys.” Dobson (1942–2017) was a singer–songwriter and author, and in 1974 he joined Van Zandt and several other musicians on a tour that was originally planned to promote his new album’s release. The record company shelved the album, but the tour went on anyway, according to archivist Norie Guthrie, who introduced and edited the excerpts from Dobson’s eye-witness account of his time with Van Zandt based on his notebooks and cassette recordings of “the wide-ranging conversations, jokes, and bickering taking place among Van Zandt, his future wife Cindy Morgan” and the other members of the tour (p. 188; Richard Dobson, The Gulf Coast Boys [Bryan, TX: Greater Texas Publishing, 1998]). While the essays throughout this book center on documenting and interpreting the singer– songwriter’s artistic voice expressed in his songs, the excerpts in this final chapter present what one could characterize as Van Zandt’s conversational voice, at least as recorded and commented upon from a particular place and time. Each of the essays is extensively researched and includes sources that inspire further reading. The collection includes both a bibliography and index, the latter mostly focusing on names, song and album titles, and institutions mentioned in the text. Curiously, the bibliography does not include Dobson’s Gulf Coast Boys. Van Zandt himself never recorded a hit song. Nor does his music fit comfortably into any one genre. Nevertheless, if you have too long heard of the significance, genius, and brilliance of the songwriting of Van Zandt and have yet to discover his songs for yourself, this collection of essays published by University of North Texas Press will guide your journey into an exploration of why Van Zandt has been called “a songwriter’s songwriter.”","PeriodicalId":44162,"journal":{"name":"NOTES","volume":"80 1","pages":"173 - 176"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48799082","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}
NOTESPub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.1353/not.2023.a897452
Kathleen Abromeit
{"title":"Music Received","authors":"Kathleen Abromeit","doi":"10.1353/not.2023.a897452","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/not.2023.a897452","url":null,"abstract":"Music Received Compiled by Kathleen Abromeit A key to abbreviated imprints is found at the end of this column. For information about the content and arrangement of this list, consult the introduction to the column in the December issue (p. 274 of this volume). SCHOLARLY & HISTORICAL EDITIONS Bach, Carl Philipp E. Passion According to St. Matthew (1785): Incorporating Music by J. S. Bach. Edited by Ulrich Leisinger. (Bach, C. P. E. - The Complete Works, Ser. IV, Vol. 4.5). Packard Humanities Institute, 2022. ISBN 9781938325106. xxii p.; score, 122 p. Cloth. $49. Bach, Carl Philipp E. Quartalstücke V. Edited by Wolfram Enßlin. (Bach, C. P. E. - The Complete Works, Ser. V, Vol. 2.5). Packard Humanities Institute, 2022. ISBN 9781933280882. xxvi p.; score, 219 p. Cloth. $64. Bach, Carl Philipp E. Quartalstücke VII. Edited by Jason B. Grant. (Bach, C. P. E. - The Complete Works, Ser. V, Vol. 2.7). Packard Humanities Institute, 2022. ISBN 9781938325458. xxiii p.; score, 190 p. Cloth. $64. Benda, Georg Anton. Philon und Theone. Edited by Austin Glatthorn. (Recent Researches in the Music of the Classical Era, Vol. 115). A-R Editions, 2022. C 115. ISBN 9781987204568. xxiv p.; score, 166 p. $270. Green, Maurice. Complete Harpsichord Music. Transcribed and edited by H. Diack Johnstone. (Musica Britanica, Vol. 106). Stainer, 2022. MB 106. ISBN 9780852499641. xxxviii p.; score, 200 p. Cloth. $144. Melani, Alessandro. L'empio punito. Edited by Luca Della Libera. (Recent Researches in the Music of the Baroque Era, Vol. 228). A-R Editions, 2022. B 228. ISBN 9781987208122. xcvii p.; score, 361 p. $620. Lo spedale: Dramma burlesco. Edited by Naomi Matsumoto. (Recent Researches in the Music of the Baroque Era, Vol. 229). A-R Editions, 2022. B 229. ISBN 9781987208146. xxxvi p.; score, 76 p. $180. Tallis, Thomas. Latin Church Music I: Mass Salve intemerata & Antiphons. Transcribed and edited by David Skinner. (Early English Church Music, Vol. 64). Stainer, 2022. EC 64. ISBN 9780852499689. xxviii p.; score, 158 p. Cloth. $130. FACSIMILE EDITIONS Bach, Carl Philipp E. Die Auferstehung und Himmelfahrt Jesu: Facsimile Edition of the Autograph Score. (Bach, C. P. E. - The Complete Works, Ser. IV, Supplement). Packard, 2020. ISBN 9781938325397. xv p.; score, 191 p. $56. Bach, Carl Philipp E. Double Concerto in E-Flat Major, Wq 47: Facsimile Edition of The Autograph Score. (Bach, C. P. E. - The Complete Works, Ser. III, Supplement). Packard, 2019. ISBN 9781938325380. ix p.; score, 94 p. $32. Bach, Carl Philipp E. Klopstocks Morgengesang Am Schöpfungsfeste: Facsimile Edition. (Bach, C. P. E. - The Complete Works, Ser. VI, Supplement). Packard, 2021. ISBN 9781938325472. xi p.; score, 44 p. $24. Bach, Carl Philipp E. Quartets for Keyboard, Flute, and Viola, Wq 94-95: Facsimile Edition of the Autograph Scores. (Bach, C. P. E. - The Complete Works, Ser. II, Supplement). Packard, 2015. ISBN 9781938325366. xii p.; score, 34 p. $23. [End Page 668] Bach, Carl Philipp E. Six Sonates p","PeriodicalId":44162,"journal":{"name":"NOTES","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135947068","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}