...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...

... on the perspectives of performers? The question is one of several running through the analyses of twentieth-century repertory collected in theorist-pianist Daphne Leong's compelling new book, Performing Knowledge: Twentieth-Century Music in Analysis and Performance . At the heart of the book are eight analyses...

... ry, it can be said Carl Dahlhaus s (1984: 23) state­ment that no Ital­ ian musi­cal the­ory has been ­able to exert any influ­ence beyond the Alps, with the except­ion of the spec­u­la­tive treat­ises of Giuseppe Tartini and the erud­ ite books of Father Martini, has prevailed. However, thanks...

... 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...

... 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 crafted and internally consistent enough that, even if one disagrees with specific points or analyses along the way, there is still room for debate...

... 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...

..., the passage is not directly concerned with musical materials 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...

... 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...

... bleed into one another can be outweighed by the propriety of its inclusivity and the suitability of its diversity to a distinctively eclectic medium. In that spirit, I give to this gifted author the last word, which is the last sentence of his book, and which conveys a sentiment that I also hold: “I am...

...Christopher Doll Allan F. Moore Song Means: Analysing and Interpreting 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...

... 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...

...David Neumeyer of that anxiety is offered by Max Nordau (1849–1923) 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...

... 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...

... of rock music, if not popular music more generally. Temperley cites Allan Moore's Rock: The Primary Text , Ken Stephenson's What to Listen for in Rock , and Walter Everett's The Foundations of Rock as important precursors of his book (8). Among these, Stephenson's is the most similar because...

.... sharpe, then the composer should not write a cadence on the third above the keynote but, rather, should cadence on the second or the fourth. Finally, 157Megan Kaes Long Seventeenth-Century English Key 18 Some pieces in the Cosyn Virginal Book (GB-Lbl R.M.23.l.4), completed in the 1620s, are labeled...

... 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...