Clara '96 at ClaraSchumann.net

6/97

• Mason, Laura. Singing the French Revolution: Popular Culture and Politics, 1787-1799. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1996. [268 pp. $39.95, call number: ML3621.R48M37]
• Rosselli, John. The Life of Bellini. Musical Lives. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. [184 pp., $39.95, call number: ML410.B44R77]

5/97

• Gibbs, Christopher H., ed. Cambridge Companion to Schubert. Cambridge Companions to Music. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. [340 pp., $59.95, call number: ML410.S3C18; one chapter each on: songs, operas, choral music]
• Girdham, Jane. English Opera in Late Eighteenth-Century London: Stephen Storace at Drury Lane. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997. [272 pp., $85.00, call number: ML1731.8.L72G57]
• Minturn, Neil. Music of Sergei Prokofiev. Composers of the Twentieth Century. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1997. [241 pp., $30.00, call number: ML410.P865M56; chapter 8 deals with his vocal music (30 pp.)]
• Mordden, Ethan. Make Believe: The Broadway Musical in the 1920s. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. [257 pp., $30.00, call number: ML1711.M75]
• Sherman, Bernard D. Inside Early Music: Conversations with Performers. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. [414 pp., $35.00, call number: ML457.S52; primarily on performance practice; chapter 2 is entitled: "You Can't Sing a Footnote."]
• Smith, Richard Langham, ed. Debussy Studies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. [235 pp., $59.95, call number: ML410.D28D39; chapter 2 is entitled: "Waiting for Golaud: The Concept of Time in Pelléas et Mélisande;" and chapter 8 is entitled: "Semantic and Structural Issues in Debussy's Mallarmé songs."]
• Tick, Judith. American Women Composers Before 1870. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 1995. [238 pp., $59.00, call number: ML390 .T52 1995]

4/97

• Ahlquist, Karen Ethel. Democracy at the Opera: Music, Theater, and Culture in New York City, 1815-60. Music in American Life. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1997. [248 pp., $29.95, call number: ML1711.8.N3A45]
• Clive, H. P. Schubert and His World: A Biographical Dictionary. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997. [310 pp., $45.00, call number: ML410.S3C48]
• Hall, Patricia. A View of Berg's Lulu Through the Autograph Sources. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996. [184 pp., $42.00, call number: ML410.B47H35]
• Huot, Sylvia. Allegorical Play in the Old French Motet: The Sacred and the Profane in Thirteenth-Century Polyphony. Figurae [Series]. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1997. [236 pp., $39.50, call number: ML2627.2.H86]
• Musgrave, Michael. Brahms: A German Requiem. Cambridge Music Handbooks. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. [97 pp., $34.95, call number: ML410.B8M86]
• Newbould, Brian. Schubert: The Music and the Man. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997. [465 pp., $39.95, call number: ML410.S3N48]
• Robinson, Paul. Ludwig van Beethoven: Fidelio. Cambridge Opera Handbook. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. [191 pp., $54.95, call number: ML410.B4R46]

3/97

• Bartok, Bela. Bela Bartok Studies in Ethnomusicology. Ed. by Benjamin Suchoff. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1997. [Folksong; 295 pp., $40.00, call number: ML3580.B37]
• Daverio, John. Robert Schumann: Herald of a "New Poetic Age." New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. [607 pp., $45.00, call number ML410.S4B38; selected chapters: Musical Love Letters in the Higher and Smaller Forms; Fierce Battles and Blissful Songs; Musical Dramatist.]
• Hodgart, Matthew John Caldwell. Joyce's Grand Operoar: Opera in Finnegans Wake. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1997. [341 pp., $49.95, call number: ML80.J75H6]
• Sutcliffe, Tom. Believing in Opera. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996. [464 pp., $24.95, call number ML1700.S9485]
• Wilson, Ruth Mack. Anglican Chant and Chanting in England, Scotland, and America 1660 to 1820. Oxford Studies in British Church Music. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996. [332 pp., $85.00, call number: ML3166.W55]
• Youens, Susan. Schubert, Müller, and Die schöne Müllerin. Cambridge University Press, 1997. [245 pp., $59.95, call number ML410.S3Y72, chapters: Behind the scenes: the genesis of Wilhelm Müller's cycle; Variations on a poetic theme: hunters, millers, and miller maids; Before and after Schubert: at the mill with other composers; "Lilies that fester": sex and death in Müller's and Schubert's cycles.]

2/97

• Cooke, Mervyn. Britten: War Requiem. Cambridge Music Handbooks. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. [115 pp., $32.95, call number ML410.B853C76]
• Frogley, Alain, ed. Vaughan Williams Studies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. [241 pp., $49.16, call number ML410.V3V46]
• Hamm, Charles. Irving Berlin: Songs from the Melting Pot: The Formative Years, 1907-1914. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. [292 pp., $35.00, call number ML410.B499H36]

1/97

• Byrd, William. A Byrd Anthology: 14 Anthems and Motets. Selected by John Milsom. Oxford: Oxford University Press Music Department, 1996. [114 pp., $12.95, call number M2062...]
• Kennedy, Michael. A Catalogue of the Works of Ralph Vaughan Williams. 2nd ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996. [322 pp., $45.00, call number: ML134.V3K4]
• Leonardi, Susan J., and Rebecca A. Pope. The Diva's Mouth: Body, Voice, Prima Donna Politics. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1996. [293 pp., $50.00, call number: ML400.L46; chapters include: Sirens Avenged: Divas in a Different Key; Diva Truths, Diva Lies, Diva Lives; Divas, Death, and Detectives; Divas Do the Movies; Diamanda Galas: Callas with an Attitude; and more.]
• Morgan, Christopher. Don Carlos and Company: The True Stories Behind Eight Well-Loved Operas. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996. [264 pp., $19.95 paperback, call number: ML1700.M75, includes Verdi's Simon Boccanegra, Il Trovatore, Rigoletto, Don Carlos, Un Ballo in Maschera, and La Traviata; Donizetti's Lucia; Puccini's La Bohéme.]

12/96

• Keates, Jonathan. Purcell: A Biography. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1996. [304 pp., $28.70, call number: ML410.P93K4]
• Kesting, Jürgen. Luciano Pavarotti: The Myth of the Tenor. Trans. by Susan H. Ray Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1996. [246 pp., $24.95, call number: ML420.P35K5; trans. of Luciano Pavarotti: Ein essay über den Mythos der Tenorstimme.]
• Pesce, Delores, ed. Hearing the Motet: Essays on the Motet of the Middle Ages and Renaissance. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. [380 pp., $70.00, call number: ML3275.H4]
• Porter, Cecelia Hopkins. Rhine as Musical Metaphor: Cultural Identity in German Romantic Music. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1996. [322 pp., $55.00, call number: ML3838.P67; discussion and lists of Rheinlieder]
• Tambling, Jeremy. Opera and the Culture of Fascism. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996. [274 pp., $55.00, call number: ML1720.T36; concerns Wagner, Verdi (Otello, Falstaff), Puccini (Tosca, Butterfly, Turandot), Strauss (Salome, Elektra), Schreker, Brecht.]

10/96

• Bradley, Ian, ed. Complete Annotated Gilbert and Sullivan. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996. [1197 pp., $39.95, call number: ML49.S9A1, libretti of G&S operettas]
• Smith, Ruth. Handel's Oratorios and Eighteenth-Century Thought. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. [484 pp., $69.95, call number: ML410.H3S58]
• Tanner, Michael. Wagner. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996. [236 pp., $19.95, call number: ML410.W13T36]
• Williams, William H. A. 'Twas Only an Irishman's Dream: The Image of Ireland and the Irish in American Popular Song Lyrics, 1800-1920. Music in American Life. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1996. [311 pp., $42.50, call number: ML3554.W77]

9/96

• Jefferson, Alan. Elisabeth Schwarzkopf. Boston, MA: Northeastern University Press, 1996 [285 pp., call number: ML420.S4J44, $29.95]
• Kravitt, Edward F. The Lied: Mirror of Late Romanticism. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1996. [323 pp., call number: ML2829.K7, $35.00]
• McKay, Elizabeth Norman. Franz Schubert: A Biography. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996. [362 pp., call number: ML410.S3M34, $35.00]
• Youens, Susan. Schubert's Poets and the Making of Lieder. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. [384 pp., call number: ML410.S3Y73, $64.95]

7/96

• Beveridge, David R., ed. Rethinking Dvorak: Views from Five Countries. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996. [305 pp., $60.00, call number: ML410.D99R48; 4 chapters on his song cycle Cypresses, 4 chapters on his operas.]
• Burden, Michael, ed. Performing the Music of Henry Purcell. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996. [302 pp., $85.00, call number: ML410.P93P4; 2 chapters on Purcell's singers, 7 chapters on his operas.]
• Jablonski, Edward. Harold Arlen: Rhythm, Rainbows, and Blues. Boston, MA: Northeastern University Press, 1996. [popular songs; 426 pp., $29.95, call number: ML410.A76J33]
• Kendrick, Robert L. Celestial Sirens: Nuns and their Music in Early Modern Milan. Oxford Monographs on Music. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996. [Vocal polyphony; 556 pp., $95.00, call number: ML290.8.M4K46]
• Walls, Peter. Music in the English Courtly Masque, 1604-1640. Oxford Monographs on Music. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996. [372 pp., $95.00, call number: ML52.W35M87]

4/96

• Cooper, Sarah, ed. Girls! Girls! Girls!: Essays on Women and Music. New York: New York University Press, 1996. [170 pp., $40.00, call number ML82.G57, includes chapter: Where are the mothers in opera? by Jennifer Barnes]
• Stone, Desmond. Alec Wilder in Spite of Himself: A Life of the Composer. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996. [244 pp., $30.00, call number ML410.W6975S76, American Popular Song.]
• Warrack, John Hamilton. Concise Oxford Dictionary of Opera. 3rd Ed. Oxford Paperback Reference. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996. [571 pp., $15.95, call number ML102.O6W35]

3/96

• Attridge, Derek. Poetic Rhythm: An Introduction. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. [274 pp., $54.95, call number: PE1505.A86 but shelved in RSCH; about English versification, rhythm, poetics; helpful in studying poems in songs.]
• Bell, A. Craig. Brahms: The Vocal Music. Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press; Cranbury, NJ: distributed by Associated University Presses, 1996. [262 pp., $38.50, call number: ML410.B8B38]
• Gallo, F. Alberto. Music in the Castle: Troubadours, Books, and Orators in Italian Courts of the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Centuries. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995. [147 pp., $45.00; call number: ML290.2.G313; (marginal, but about vocal music)]
• Schmidt, Carl B. Music of Francis Poulenc (1899-1963): A Catalogue. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995. [608 pp., $105.00; call number: ML134.P87S 1995]

2/96

• Brown, Bruce Alan. W. A. Mozart, Cosi fan tutte. Cambridge Opera Handbooks. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. [208 pp., $49.95]
• Forte, Allen. American Popular Ballad of the Golden Era 1924-1950. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1995. [366 pp., $39.50, call number: ML3477.F67]
• Heine, Heinrich. Songs of Love and Grief: a Bilingual Anthology Translated in the Verse Forms of the Originals. Trans. by Walter W. Arndt. European Poetry Classics. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 1995. [227 pp., $49.95, call number: PT2316.A4A76, to be shelved in RSCH.]

1/96

• Gilbert, Steven E. Music of Gershwin. Composers of the twentieth century. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1995. [255 pp., $32.50; some on songs and musicals.]
• Neuls-Bates, Carol. Women in Music: an Anthology of Source Readings From the Middle Ages to the Present. Rev. ed. Boston, MA: Northeastern University Press, 1996. [400 pp., $40.00]

12/95

• Howard, Patricia. Gluck: An Eighteenth-Century Portrait in Letters and Documents. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995. [Call number ML410.G5H668, 271 pp., $55.00]
• Petkov, Steven, ed. Frank Sinatra Reader. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. [Call number ML420.S565F74, 297 pp., $27.50]
• Schebera, Jürgen. Kurt Weill: An Illustrated Life. Trans. by Caroline Murphy. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1995. [Call number ML410.W395S3513, 381 pp., $35.00]
• Stein, Deborah Jane. Poetry into Song: Performance and Analysis of Lieder. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996. [Call number MT110.S74, 413 pp., $35.00; Foreword by Elly Ameling.]

11/95

• Blackmer, Corinne E., ed. En Travesti: Women, Gender Subversion, Opera. Between men--between women. New York: Columbia University Press, 1995. [Call number: ML2100.E6; 381 pp.]
• Citron, Stephen. Wordsmiths: Oscar Hammerstein 2nd and Alan Jay Lerner. Great Songwriters Series. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. [Call number: ML403.C56; 446 pp.]
• Grey, Thomas S. Wagner's Musical Prose: Texts and Contexts. New Perspectives in Music History and Criticism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. [Call number: ML410.W19G83; 397 pp.]
• Melamed, Daniel R. J. S. Bach and the German Motet. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. [Call number: ML410.B13M33; 229 pp.]
• Price, Curtis, ed. Purcell Studies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. [Call number: ML410.P93P87; 305 pp.; two chapters of particular interest: "Continuity and tempo in Purcell's vocal works" and "Poetic metre, musical metre and the dance in Purcell's songs."]

8/95

• Feldman, Martha. City Culture and the Madrigal at Venice. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995. [ML2633.8.V46F4, 473 pp.]
• Kramer, Lawrence. Classical Music and Postmodern Knowledge. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995. [ML3845.K813, 297 pp.; includes a chapter on Haydn's Creation and another on Mendelssohn's lieder on poetry by Goethe]
• LaRue, C. Steven. Handel and His Singers: The Creation of the Royal Academy Operas, 1720-1728. Oxford Monographs on Music. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995. [ML410.H13L23, 213 pp.]
• Lornell, Kip. Happy in the Service of the Lord: African-American Sacred Vocal Harmony Quartets in Memphis. 2nd ed. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1995. [ML3187.L67, 250 pp.]
• Rosen, Charles. Romantic Generation. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1995. [ML196.R67 for Reserve; 723 pp.; has chapters on Mountains & song cycles & Schubert; Chopin; Liszt; Berlioz; Mendelssohn's religious music; romantic opera; Schumann, Beethoven, Clara Schumann, ETA Hoffmann.]
• Straus, Joseph Nathan. The Music of Ruth Crawford Seeger. Music in the Twentieth Century. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press., 1995. [260 pp., call number: ML410.S4446 S77; good notes and bibliography, description of style; section on her music in the context of the history of women in music, list of works, analyses of two songs from the Sandburg set.]

7/95

• Bauman, Thomas, ed. Opera and the Enlightenment. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. [Call number: ML1720.3.O64]
• Smith, Ruth. Handel's Oratorios and Eighteenth-Century Thought. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. [Call number: ML410.H3S58]
• Tosi, Pier Francesco. Introduction to the Art of Singing by Johann Friedrich Agricola. Ed. by Julianne C. Baird. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. [Call number: MT892.T6713]

6/95

• Brodbeck, David, ed. Brahms Studies. Vol. 1. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1994. [ML410.B8]
• Cord, William O. Introduction to Richard Wagner's 'Der Ring des Nibelungen': A Handbook. 2nd ed., rev. and enl. Athens: Ohio University Press, 1995. [ML410.W22C67]
• Price, Curtis Alexander. Italian Opera in Late Eighteenth-Century London, vol. 1, The King's Theatre, Haymarket, 1778-1791. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995. [first of 2 volumes, ML1731.8.L72P76]
• Pullen, Robert. Montserrat Caballe : Casta Diva. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1995. [ML420.C17P85]

4/95

• Adams, Martin. Henry Purcell: The Origins and Development of His Musical Style. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. [probable call number: MUS ML410.P96A32; 388 pp.; emphasizes his odes, dramatic music; a chapter on song: "'The Energy of English Words': independent songs for one or more voices."]
• Dunsby, Jonathan. Performing Music: Shared Concerns. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995. [104 pp., probable call number: ML457.D86; the chapter titles are: The writer's position; Musical performance studies as a 'Discipline'; Anxiety and artistry; Recent thought; The Romantic legacy; The Sound of music; Design in music.]
• Frederiksen, Elke P. and Katherine R. Goodman, eds. Bettina Brentano-von Arnim: Gender and Politics. Kritik [series]. Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press, 1995. [Call number: RSCH PT 1808.A4B38; Includes a chapter by Ann Willison: "Bettine Brentano-von Arnim: The Unknown Musician," pp.304-345; music was predominantly lieder; largely unpublished.]

2/95

• Dunn, Leslie C. Embodied Voices: Representing Female Vocality in Western Culture. New Perspectives in Music History and Criticism. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994. [254 pp.; probable call number: ML82.E55; interdisciplinary.]
• Holman, Peter. Henry Purcell. Oxford Studies of Composers. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994. [250 pp.; probable call number: ML410.P93H63]
• Hudson, Richard. Stolen Time: The History of Tempo Rubato. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994. [473 pp.; probable call number: ML437.H83; general interest; great title.]
• Hyland, William G. The Song is Ended: Songwriters and American Music, 1900-1950. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995. [336 pp., probable call number: ML3477.H95]
• Kmetz, John, ed. Music in the German Renaissance: Sources, Styles, and Contexts. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994. [289 pp.; probable call number: ML275.2.M88; includes a couple of chapters on Renaissance song, as well as polyphony and the motet.]
• Shreffler, Anne Chatoney. Webern and the Lyric Impulse: Songs and Fragments on Poems of Georg Trakl. Studies in Musical Genesis and Structure. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994. [256 pp.; probable call number: MT145.W38S5; for the brave and ambitious.]

12/94

• Cooper, Barry A. R. Beethoven's Folksong Settings: Chronology, Sources, Style. Oxford Monographs on Music. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994. [270 pp., $49.95, call number: ML410.B42C67]
• Fenner, Theodore. Opera in London: Views of the Press, 1785-1830. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1994. [788 pp., $80.00, call number: ML1731.8.L7F4]
• Parker, Roger, ed. Oxford Illustrated History of Opera. Oxford Illustrated Histories. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994. [541 pp., $39.95, call number: ML1700.O95]
• Spicer, Paul, selector. English Pastoral Partsongs. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994. [118 pp., Call number: M1579.E53, No solo songs, but partsongs by Finzi, Bainton, Delius, Farrar, Gibbs, Holst, Howells, Ireland, Moeran, Murrill, Vaughn Williams, Walker, and Warlock.]

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