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Edition review: French Baroque music
No full textThis article reviews the following editions: Jean-Féry Rebel: Les Elémens ed. Catherine Cessac, Musica Gallica (Salabert Editions, 1993); Jean-Joseph Cassanéa de Mondonville: De profundis ed. Sylvie Bouissou (Grands motets, i), Musica Gallica (Salabert Editions, 1993); André Campra: Deus noster refugium ed. Bernadette Lespinard (Grands motets, i), Musica Gallica (Salabert Editions, 1993); François Couperin: Les Nations [1726 edition: La Françoise–L'Espagnole–L'Impériale–La Piémontaise; Lyons Manuscript: La Pucelle–La Visionnaire–L'Astrée–La Steinkerque; Paris Manuscript: La Pucelle–La Visionnaire–L'Astrée–La Steinkerque] (Fac-similé Jean-Marc Fuzeau, 1993)
Beethoven and the development of wind instruments
No full textBeethoven's career coincided with a particularly dynamic period in the development of wind instruments. In our own day, period performance of his orchestral music has recently moved well beyond the experimental stage to become part of mainstream musical life, though there have been some timely reminders in print as to the degree of choice and taste that today's performers must inevitably exercise. An important part of the evidence is the music itself, charting the manner in which Beethoven responded to each of the various instruments, both within the wind chamber music of his 'classicising' period and also during the course of wide-ranging tonalities in his orchestral music
Book review: Claude Debussy avant Pelléas, ou, les années symbolistes [Claude Debussy before Pelléas, or, the symbolist years]
No full textBook review: 'Vivaldi: voice of the Baroque' by H. C. Robbins Landon; 'The master musicians: Vivaldi' by Michael Talbot
No full textBook review: 'Benedetto Vinaccesi: a musician in Brescia and Venice in the age of Corelli' by Michael Talbot
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Coups de tête: review article
No full textReviewed works: 'Sundry sorts of music books: essays on the British Library Collection presented to O. W. Neighbour on his 70th birthday' ed. Chris Banks, Arthur Seale, and Malcolm Turner; 'Musical Humanism and its legacy: essays in honour of Claude V. Palisca' ed. Nancy Kovaleff Baker and Barbara Russano Hanning; 'Companion to contemporary musical thought' ed. John Paynter, Tim Howell, Richard Orton, and Peter Seymour; 'Disciplining music: musicology and its canons' ed. Katherine Bergeron and Philip V. Bohlman
Sister of perpetual indulgence
No full textOn the 50th anniversary of her death, Richard Langham Smith makes the case for the sweetly-scented music of Cécile Chaminade
Degrees of choice
No full textUniversity or conservatoire? In recent years the provision of undergraduate music education at music colleges has undergone profound changes as conservatoires have reassessed their role within the education system. David Wright and Janet Ritterman offer two views of the choices and challenges facing the undergraduate college student