...Megan Kaes Long In 1595 Thomas Morley published The First Booke of Balletts , a collection of “Italian madrigals Englished.” Rather than writing English words for unaltered Italian works as his predecessors had done, Morley created original compositions loosely modeled on Italian works. Analysis...

...Allan F. Moore Allan F. Moore is professor of popular music at the University of Surrey. His monograph Song Means: Analysing and Interpreting Recorded Song will be published in 2011. He is working on books on Anglo-Celtic folk song and on the music of U2. Everett Walter...

... of Erwin Stein?5 The particular bit of root to which Leslie Blasius, in his book Schenker’s Argument and the Claims of Music Theory, wants to reattach Schenker is that of fin-de-siecle German psychology, Philologie, and “the new musical sciences of the later nineteenth century” (86...

... instruction. In the words of Reilly Smethurst (2017: 515), Since Wilson did not write in an explicatory style, his exegetes have plenty of work to do. Microtonality and the Tuning Systems of Erv Wilson is the first book-length effort to focus exclusively on Wilson and his theories and it is hard to imag...

... systematized into a method and packaged into a compel- ling monograph. Doll s love for rock music and his eagerness to share that love are evident in the care he takes in choosing convincing examples, as well as in creating a system that best reflects the genre s idioms and construc- tions.1 The book is well...

... a challenge that no previous writer has taken on: to write an analytical and interpretive book on the nineteenth-century Lied that focuses primarily on rhythm and meter. That he should choose the Lied for such a study is entirely natural. After all, rhythm and meter...

... and organization, whether abstract tonal patterns or physical sources of sound. Wilde is more interested in the music s expressive significance, and specifically in traces of human presence within it. Robert S. Hatten s new book examines such modes of listening through the lens of virtual agency. Combining music...

... in Music with Text Oxford University Press, 2006: xii+409 pp. ($65.00 cloth) is an assistant professor of music at the University of Chicago. His book Tonality and Transformation is forthcoming from Oxford University Press. © 2008 by Yale University 2008 Buchler, Michael. 2007...

...Robert O. Gjerdingen Robert O. Gjerdingen is the author of several books, articles, and reviews in the fields of music theory, music perception, and eighteenth-century musical style. He has served on the editorial boards of Music Theory Spectrum , the Journal of Music Theory...

... Recorded Popular Song Ashgate, 2012: xvi + 395 pp. ($39.95, paperback) Christopher Doll Allan Moore’s Song Means is the most ambitious book about analyzing and interpreting popular music ever published. Over the course of its nearly four hundred concentrated pages, and citations of at least...

... Esser translated by Irene Schreier Scott New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2000 xxvii, 101 pp. REVIEWER Leslie Kinton The appearance of a “new” book by Heinrich Schenker is noteworthy...

... and adapted from the abstractions contained in elementary school rhetoric books. Moreover, he does not depend on the analogical connection that 2 artel’s B (1997, 106–11) list of theorists does, however, 5  On Mersenne’s scientific and mathematical contributions include the prominent...

...) in a book that was first pub- lished in 1892 and immediately became an international bestseller; see Max Nor- dau, Degeneration, reprint with introduction by George L. Mosse of the 1895 Eng- lish translation of the 2nd German edition (Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1968...

... and Jean-François Vallée, 95 -112. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. Burke, Peter. 1989 . “The Renaissance Dialogue.” Renaissance Studies 3 : 1 -12. Castiglione, Baldassare. 1967 . The Book of the Courtier [Il libro del cortegiano] . Translated by George Bull. London: Penguin. Chater...

... . 1940 . English Song-Books, 1651–1702 . London : Oxford University Press . Dodds Michael R. 1998 . “ Tonal Types and Modal Equivalence in Two Keyboard Cycles by Murschhauser .” In Tonal Structures in Early Music , edited by Judd Cristle Collins , 341 – 72 . New York...

... on what has long been established as one of the most impor- tant twentieth-century operas, with regular performances around the world, at least twenty-five recordings and videos now available, and an extensive lit- erature in books and articles. In keeping with its inclusion in the Oxford University...

... in Schenkerian thought, does an excellent job.1 Even within this framework, however, a couple of points deserve mention. Rather than addressing complete movements, or even complete tonal motions, the book concentrates primarily on fragments chosen to illuminate the unifying features that are its main...

... Cohn Audacious Euphony: Chromaticism and the Triad’s Second Nature Oxford University Press, 2012: xviii+237 pp. ($35.00 cloth) Scott Murphy Richard Cohn’s first book was over twenty years in the making. This turn of phrase, as a timeworn idiom, implies a level of commendation to its...

... from one episteme to the next. And so, after an attempt at methodological correction, The Archaeology of Knowledge—quite possibly Foucault’s most arid book—which al- ready modified and replaced the all-embracing episteme with the more nuanced and localized archive, Foucault moved on to other words...

...David Temperley Robert O. Gjerdingen Music in the Galant Style Oxford University Press, 2007: 514 pp. ($45.00 cloth) is associate professor of music theory at Eastman School of Music. His book Music and Probability was published in 2007 by MIT Press. 2006 2006 Cadwallader...