The North American British Music Studies Association
NABMSA Reviews Fall 2014
The latest edition of NABMSA Reviews is now out and can be accessed at
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compiled by Jennifer Oates
Journal News
Journal of Film Music, Vol. 5, Nos. 1-2, is a special double issue in memoriam to Anne Dhu McLucas. Seventeen articles from the “From Nineteenth-Century Stage Melodrama to Twenty-First Century Film Scoring: Musicodramatic Practice and Knowledge Organization” conference held at California State University, Long Beach, in 2012.
Scottish Journal of Performance (http://www.scottishjournalofperformance.org/) is an open-access, peer-reviewed journal managed by doctoral students and published by The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland in Glasgow. The board consist of faculty members from the Royal Conservatoire and the University of Edinburgh. The journal’s goal is “to promote and stimulate discussion, development and dissemination of original research” on Scottish performance, Scottish music, or research by Scottish scholars and artists. The first two issues are available via the journal’s website.
Articles
Bernard Hughes, Bernard. “Sound Judgment: Piers Hellawell in Interview.” Tempo 68 (October 2014): 48-56.
“In Memoriam: Malcolm MacDonald (1948-2014).” Tempo 68 (October 2014): 68-73.
Johnstone, H. Diack. “Westminster Abbey and the Academy of Ancient Music: A Library once Lost and now Partially Recovered.” Music and Letters 95/3 (August 2014): 329-373.
McGuire, Charles Edward. “John Bull, Angelica Catalani and Middle-Class Taste at the 1820s British Musical Festival.” Nineteenth-Century Music Review 11/1 (June 2014): 3-31.
Rogers, Vanessa L. “John Gay, Ballad Opera and the Théâtres de la foire.” Eighteenth-Century Music, 11/2 (September 2014): 173-213.
Scheer, Christopher. “The Importance of Cheltenham: Imperialism, Liminality and Gustav Holst.” Journal of Victorian Culture 19/3 (2014): 365-82.
Taylor, Benedict. “The Triumph in the Eighteenth Century: Handel’s Il Trionfo del Tempo and Historical Conceptions of Musical Temporality.” Eighteenth-Century Music, 11/2 (September 2014): 257-281.
Whitehead, Lance. “Three London Harpsichord Makers: Slade, Mahoon, and Hitchcock.” Keyboard Perspectives 6 (2013).
Windram, Heather F., Terence Charlston, and Christopher J. Howe. “A Phylogenetic Analysis of Orlando Gibbons’s Prelude in G.” Early Music 42/4 (November 2014): 515-28.
Winkler, Amanda Eubanks. “Politics and the Reception of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Phantom of the Opera.” Cambridge Opera Journal 26/3 (November 2014): 271–287.
Books
Frogley, Alain and Aidan J. Thomson. The Cambridge Companion to Vaughan Williams. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Herissone, Rebecca. Musical Creativity in Restoration England. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Rodmell, Paul. Opera in the British Isles, 1875-1918. Farnham, Surrey; Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2013.
Seddon, Laura. British Women Composers and Instrumental Chamber Music in the Early Twentieth Century. Farnham, Surrey; Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2013.
Scores
Birtwistle, Harrison. Oboe Quartet. For Oboe, Violin, Viola, and Cello. London: Boosey, 2013.
Britten, Benjamin. Collected Songs, High Voice (63 Songs). Edited by Richard Walters. London: Boosey, 2013.
Britten, Benjamin. Collected Songs, Medium/Low Voice (60 Songs). Edited by Richard Walters. London: Boosey, 2013.
Britten, Benjamin. Six Early Songs (1929-31), Medium Voice. London: Faber Music, 2013.
Britten, Benjamin. Three songs for Les Illuminations. Words by Arthur Rimbaud. Orchestra for High Voice and Strings by Colin Matthews. Full Score. London: Boosey, 2013.
Britten, Benjamin. Two Pieces for Violin, Viola, and Piano (1929). London: Faber, 2013.
Britten, Benjamin. Two Psalms: Out of the Deep; Praise Ye the Lord. Full Score. London: Chester, 2013.
Britten, Benjamin. Two Psalms for SATB Chorus and Orchestra. Vocal Score. London: Chester, 2013.
Britten, Benjamin. Variations for Piano (1965). London: Faber, 2013.
Davies, Peter Maxwell. Orkney Saga V: Westerly Gale in Biscay, Salt in the Bread Broken. For Orchestra and Chorus (SATB). London: Boosey, 2013.
English Keyboard Music c. 1600-1625. Edited by Alan Brown. Musica Britannica, v. 96. London: Stainer, 2014.
Fifteenth-Century Liturgical Music VIII: Settings of the Gloria and Credo. Transcribed and Edited by Peter Wright. Early English Church Music, v. 55. London: Published for the British Academy by Stainer & Bell, 2013.
Vaughan Williams, Ralph. Bucolic Suite. Edited by Julian Rushton. Study Score. Oxford: Oxford, 2012.
Vaughan Williams, Ralph. Burley Heath. Edited by James Francis Brown. Study Score. Oxford: Oxford, 2013.
Vaughan Williams, Ralph. Fantasia for Piano and Orchestra. Edited by Graham Parlett. Study Score. Oxford: Oxford, 2013.
Vaughan Williams, Ralph. Harnham Down. Edited by James Francis Brown. Study Score. Oxford: Oxford, 2013.
Vaughan Williams, Ralph. Serenade in A Minor (1898). Edited by Julian Rushton. Study Score. Oxford: Oxford, 2012.
Vaughan Williams, Ralph. The Solent. Edited by James Francis Brown. Study Score. Oxford: Oxford, 2013.
DVDs
Elgar, Edward. Enigma Variations. DVD. Leonard Bernstein/BBC Symphony Orchestra. Directed by Peter Butler and Humphrey Burton. [London]: ICA Classics, 2013. ICAD 5098.
Congratulations to the following NABMSA friends on successfully defending their Ph.D. theses:
John-Bede Pauley, “Benjamin Britten, Herbert Howells, and Silence as the Ineffable in English Cathedral Music,” Durham University, January 2014. (supervisor: Bennett Zon)
Katie Guthrie, “Music and Cultural Values in 1940s’ Britain,” King’s College London, April 2014. (1st supervisor: Roger Parker; 2nd supervisor: Heather Wiebe)
Thank you to Jennifer Oates for compiling this list. As always, please let me know if you have publications or other news items to post to this blog.
Articles
Allis, Michael. “Bantock and Southey: Musical Otherness and Fatalism in Thalaba the Destroyer.” Music and Letters 95/1 (Feb 2014): 39-69
Angell, Jane. “Music and Charity on the British Home Front during the First World War.” Journal of Musicological Research 33/1-3 (Jan–Sept 2014): 184-205.
Duncan, Cheryll. “‘A Debt contracted in Italy’: Ferdinando Tenducci in a London Court and Prison.” Early Music 42/2 (May 2014): 219-29.
Guthrie, Kate. “Propaganda Music in Second World War Britain: John Ireland’s Epic March.” Journal of the Royal Musical Association 139, 1 (April 2014): 137–175.
Meinhart, Michelle. “Memory and Private Mourning in an English Country House During the First World War: Lady Alda Hoare’s Musical Shrine to a Lost Son.” Journal of Musicological Research 33/1-3 (Jan–Sept 2014): 39-95.
Shansky, Carol L. “Patriotism and the Skirl of the Pipes: The Scottish Highland Pipe Band and World War I British Recruiting in New York, 1916–1918.” Journal of Musicological Research 33/1-3 (Jan–Sept 2014): 241-67.
Williams, Vanessa. “‘Welded in a single mass’: Memory and Community in London’s Concert Halls during the First World War.” Journal of Musicological Research 33/1-3 (Jan–Sept 2014): 27-38.
Books
Downes, Stephen C. After Mahler: Britten, Weill, Henze, and Romantic Redemption. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Frith, Simon, Matt Brennan, Martin Cloonan, and Emma Webster. The History of Live Music in Britain. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2013.
Golding, Rosemary. Music and Academia in Victorian Britain. Farnham: Ashgate, 2013.
Herbert, Trevor and Helen Barlow. Music and the British Military in the Long Nineteenth Century. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013.
MacFarlane, Thomas. The Beatles and McLuhan: Understanding the Electric Age. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2013.
McGeary, Thomas. The Politics of Opera in Handel’s Britain. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Morra, Irene. Britishness, Popular Music, and National Identity: The Making of Modern Britain. New York: Routledge, 2014.
Rupprecht, Philip Ernest, ed. Rethinking Britten. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013.
Scores
Birtwistle, Harrison. String Quartet: The Tree of Strings. London: Boosey, 2013.
Birtwistle, Harrison. Trio for Violin, Cello, and Piano. London: Boosey, 2013.
Britten, Benjamin. Double Concerto for Violin, Viola, and Orchestra (1932). Edited by Colin Matthews. Study Score. London: Chester, [2013].
Coleridge-Taylor, Samuel. Symphony in A Minor, Op. 8. With the Earlier Finales and Idyll, Op. 44. Edited by John L. Snyder. Recent Researches in the Music of the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries, vol. 60. Middleton, Wisc: AR Editions, 2013.
MacMillan, James. Seraph for Trumpet and String Orchestra. London: Boosey, 2013.
MacMillan, James. Violin Concerto (2009). Miniature score. London: Boosey, 2013.
Purcell, Henry. Services. Edited under the Supervision of the Purcell Society by Margaret Laurie and Burce Wood. Works, vol. 23. London: Stainer, 2013.
Songs in British Sources, c. 1150-1300. Transcribed and Edited by Helen Deeming. Musica Britannica, vol. 95. London: Stainer, 2013.
Tavener, John. The Protecting Veil for Cello and String Orchestra (1987). Piano score. London: Chester, 2012.
Compiled by Jennifer Oates
Articles
Atlas, Allan W. “On the cyclic integrity of Vaughan Williams’s Songs of travel: one new question – no new answer.” Musical Times, vol. 154, no. 1924 (Autumn 2013): 5-17.
Britton, Andrew. “The guitar and the Bristol school of artists.” Early Music, vol. 41, no. 4 (November 2013): 585-594.
Sparks, Paul. “Clara Ross, Mabel Downing and ladies’ guitar and mandolin bands in late Victorian Britain.” Early Music, vol. 41, no. 4 (November 2013): 621-632.
Thomson, Aidan J. “Bax and the ‘Celtic North’.” Journal of the Society for Musicology in Ireland, vol. 8 (2012-13): 51-87.
Thomson, Aidan J. “Elgar and the City: the Cockaigne Overture and Contributions of Modernity.” Musical Quarterly, vol. 96 (Summer 2013): 219-62.
Wiley, Christopher. “Music and Literature: Ethel Smyth, Virginia Woolf, and ‘The First Woman to Write an Opera’.” Musical Quarterly, vol. 96, no. 2 (Summer 2013): 263-295.
Books
Aspden, Suzanne. The Rival Sirens: Performance and Identity on Handel’s Operatic Stage. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Beard, David. Harrison Birtwistle’s Operas and Music Theatre. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Calhoun, Scott D., Ed. Exploring U2: Is This Rock ‘n’ Roll?: Essays on the Music, Work, and Influence of U2. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2012.
Gilman, Todd. The Theatre Career of Thomas Arne. Newark, DE: University of Delaware Press, 2013.
Gloag, Kenneth and Nicholas Jones, eds. The Cambridge Companion to Michael Tippett. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Korczynski, Marek, Michael Pickering, and Emma Robertson. Rhythms of Labour: Music at Work in Britain. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Mackenzie, Bridget. Piping Traditions of the Isle of Skye. Edinburgh: John Donald, 2012.
Mackenzie, Bridget. The Piping Tradition of the Inner Isles of the West Coast of Scotland. Edinburgh: John Donald, 2012.
McCarthy, Kerry. Byrd. The Master Musicians Series. New York; Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013.
McCleave, Sarah Yuill. Dance in Handel’s London Operas. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2013.
Motherway, Susan H. The Globalization of Irish Traditional Song Performance. Farnham, UK: Ashgate, 2013.
Powell, Neil. Benjamin Britten: A Life for Music. New York: Henry Holt, 2013.
Scores
MacMillan, James. Violin Concerto (2009). Violin-Piano Score arranged by Stephen Gibson. London: Boosey, 2013.
