Sonneck Society for American Music
Bulletin, Volume XXIV, no. 3 (Fall 1998)
Some Recent Articles and Reviews
Compiled by William Kearns, University of Colorado at Boulder
AMERICAN HISTORY
(Oct 98): Edward Oxford, "Gershwin's Rhapsody," 16.
AMERICAN MUSIC TEACHER
(Aug/Sept 98): Richard Chronister and Louise Goss, "In Rememberance of Frances Clark
[piano pedagogue]," 22.
THE AMERICAN ORGANIST
(Sept 98): Gordon Anderson, "Marilyn Mason's 50 Years of Teaching," 60.
ASIAN MUSIC
(Sp/Sum 98): Vernon Charter & Jean DeBernardi, "Towards a Chinese Christian Hymnody: Processes of
Musical and Cultural Synthesis," 83; Ewald Hensler and Mayumi Adachi, "Nineteenth-Century Japanese
Hymnals: A Preliminary Study," 115.
ASSOCIATION FOR RECORDED SOUND COLLECTIONS JOURNAL
(Sp 98): John Koegel, "Preserving the Sounds of the 'Old' Southwest: Charles Lummis and His Cylinder
Collection of Mexican-American and Indian Music," 1.
ATLANTIC MONTHLY
(Oct 98): David Schiff, "Misunderstanding Gershwin," 100.
BULLETIN OF THE COUNCIL FOR RESEARCH IN MUSIC EDUCATION
(Winter 98): Joe W. Grant & Charles Norris, "Choral Music Education: A Survey of Research 1982-1995," 21; rev.
of Charles K. Bown's "Adult Community Bands in the Southeaster United States," (PhD, Florida State,
1995), by Richard Weerts, 60; William C. Powell's "Performance and Literature of African American Gospel
Music" (PhD, Florida State, 1993), by Lemuel Berry, Jr., 77.
BULLETIN OF HISTORICAL RESEARCH IN MUSIC EDUCATION
(May 98): Julie Dunbar, "Art Music on the Radio, 1927-37: Conflicting Views of Composers and Educators," 165;
Michael L. Mark, "Multicultural Music Education in the United States," 177; Paul D. Sanders, "Early Public School
Music Edcation in Zanesville, Ohio," 187.
COLLEGE BAND DIRECTORS NATIONAL ASSOCIATION JOURNAL
(Fall 97): Myron D. Ross, "Concert Band Music by African American Composers," 11.
(Sp 98): Mark D. Scatterday, "Karl Husa's Smetana Fanfare: An Analysis and Discussion of
Performance Issues," 38.
THE CANADIAN FOLK MUSIC BULLETIN
(June 98): "The Singing was the Important Thing," George W. Lyon interviews folklorist Phil Thomas, 3.
CHAMBER MUSIC
(Aug 98): Kyle Gann, "Fiddles, Garage Bands, and Record Players: Locating an American Chamber Music
Tradition", 22; Mark Swed, "Ned Rorem," 16.
CLASSIC CD
(Aug 98): Tony Blain, "Gershwin on Broadway," 42.
(Sept 98): Tony Blain surveys Gershwin's concert works, 53.
DIAPASON
(June 98): Marcia Van Oyen, "Portrait of composer Frank Ferko and his Hildegard works," 14.
ETHNOMUSICOLOGY
(Sp/Sum 98): Ron Emoff, "A Cajun Poetics of Loss and Longing," 283.
EX TEMPORE
(Sum 96): Maureen Mary, "Letters: The brief love of John Cage for Pauline Schindler, 1934-35," 1; "A
Conversation with Karel Husa in Honor of His 75th Birthday," 27.
THE HYMN
(July 98): David Douglas, "Amazing Grace: A Journey in Time and Faith," 9; Carlton R. Young, "Ethnic
Minority Hymns in the United States, Mainline Protestant Hymnals: Some Qualitative Considerations," 17;
David W. Music, "Worship in Song: A Friends Hymnal," 35.
INSTITUTE FOR STUDIES IN AMERICAN MUSIC
(Sp 98): Mark Slobin, "The American Music Landscape: Widening the Lens?," 1; Ray Allen, "Folkways at Fifty,"
3; Ellie M. Hisama, "(Re)discovering Miriam Gideon," 4; revs. of Judith Tick's Ruth Crawford Seeger: A Composer's
Search for American Music, by Bruno Nettl, 6; Charles Wolfe's The Devil's Box: Masters of Southern
Fiddling, by Jeff Titon, 8; Kip Lornell's and Ann Rasmussen's Musics of Multicultural America, by
Simon J. Bronner, 9; Doc Cheatham recordings, by Jeff Taylor, 11.
INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF JAZZ RECORD COLLECTORS JOURNAL
(Sp 98): Michael P. Zirpolo, "Artie Shaw and His Symphonic Swing -- 1941," (pt. 1), 20.
INTERNATIONAL PIANO ARCHIVES AT MARYLAND
(Winter 98): Richard J. Howe, "The Revolutionary Hickman Grand Piano Action and a Model of It, Salvaged
from the Ruins of a Once-Great Piano Company," 1.
ITA JOURNAL
(Sum 98): Ken Hanlon, "Carl Fontana: The Trombonist's Trombonist," 32.
THE INSTRUMENTALIST
(June 98); Robert Foster, 'The Circus Music Tradition," 42.
(July 98): Catherine S. Lenzini, "Gems of the Jazz Repertoire," 24.
(Sept 98): Peter L. Boonshaft, "A Conversation with H. Owen Reed," 44; S. Frederick Starr, "Louis
Moreau Gottschalk," 56.
INTERNATIONAL CHORAL BULLETIN
(July 98): Susan L. Reid, "The Changing Face of Native American Music," 6; Glenn E. Burleigh, "The Many
Faces of African-American Gospel Music," 7; Joshua R. Jacobson, "Jewish Choral Music in America," 9.
JAZZ EDUCATORS JOURNAL
(July 98): Bret Primak, "Jackie McLean, Man With a Mission," 37; Sandy Nelson, "Zildjian Company
Celebrates 375 Years," 44; Montreux Jazz Festival chronology, 50.
JOURNAL OF SINGING
(May/June 98): Ronald H. High, "Three African American Tenors of the Nineteenth Century: Thomas J. Bowers,
Wallace King, Sidney Woodward," 19.
JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN LISZT SOCIETY
(July-Dec 97): Joan Allison, "Remembering Leo Sirota, Virtuoso Pianist," 60.
JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MUSICOLOGICAL SOCIETY
(Sp. 98): revs. of Representing Jazz, and Jazz Among the Discourses, both ed. Krin Gabbard, by Mark
Tucker, 131; Robert Walser's Running with the Devel: Power, Gender, and Madness in Heavy Metal Music, by
Deborah Wong, 148.
JOURNAL OF THE CONDUCTORS GUILD
(Sum/Fall 96): Russel C. Mikkelson, "Interpreting Leslie Bassett's Sounds, Shapes, and Symbols," 102;
John Canarina, "Uncle Sam's orchestra," 120.
LATIN AMERICAN MUSIC REVIEW
(Sp/Sum 98): T.M. Scrugss, "Cultural Captial, Appropriate Transformations, and Transfer by Appropriation
in Western Nicaragua: El baile de la marimba," 1; Jane L. Florine, "Cuarteto: Dance-Hall Entertainment or
People's Music?," 31.
LIVING BLUES
(July/Aug 98): John A. Brisbin, "Joe 'Guitar' Hughes," 20; Roger Wood, "Calvin Owens: True Blue Texas Trumpet," 30;
Roger Wood, "Houston's Blues Teachers: Conrad Johnson, Henry Hayes, Rickie Dell Thomas, and Robert Murphy,"
40.
(Sept/Oct 98): John Sinclair, 'Walter Washington: The Wolfman is at Your Door," 20; Maureen Jung,
"Freddie Roulette's Zen of Lap-Steel Guitar," 30; Robert Stone, "Sacred Steel Guitar: From Little
Willie and His Talking Guitar to the Campbell Brothers and Beyond," 36.
MONTANA: THE MAGAZINE OF WESTERN HISTORY
(Sum 98): H. Bruce Lebaugh, "Harry Walker: Fort Benton Bandmaster, 1881-1882 -- Bringing Music to the
Upper Missouri," 48.
MUSIC AND LETTERS
(May 98): rev. of Philip Furia's The Art of the Lyricist Ira Gershwin, by Peter Dickinson, 301.
(Aug 98): revs. of Philip Lambert, ed., Ives Studies, by Arnold Whittall, 441; Guy Marco's Literature of
American Music III, 1983-1992 and Checklist of Writings on American Music, 1640-1992, by David Nicholls,
459; David Shiff's Gershwin "Rhapsody in Blue," by Kenneth Gloag, 453.
THE MUSICAL QUARTERLY
(Winter 97): Michael V. Pisani, "A Kapusnik in the American Opera House: Modernism and Prokofiev's Love for
Three Oranges," 487; Antonella Puca, "Steve Reich and Hebrew Cantillation," 537; Douglas Kahn, "John
Cage: Silence and Silencing," 556.
THE MUSICAL TIMES
(Sum 98): Nicholas Temperly and Alan Luff, "Everlasting Praise: The Hymn Tune Index," 46; Geoff Smith, 'Composing After
Cage: Permission Granted," 5; rev. of Anthony Tommasini's Virgil Thomson: Composer ont he Aisle, by Wilfrid Mellers, 53.
NARAS JOURNAL
(Winter/Sp 97-98): commemorative issue on Thomas Edison's contributions to the development of the phonograph.
19TH CENTURY MUSIC
(Sp 98): Celia Applegate, "How German Is It? Nationalism and the Idea of Serious Music in the Early Nineteenth
Century," 274.
NOTES: QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF THE MUSIC LIBRARY ASSOCIATION
(Sept 98): Phyllis Danner, "John Philip Sousa: The Illinois Collection," 9; Suzanne Flandreau, 'Black Music
in the Academy: The Center for Black Music Reserach," 26; Erik D. Gooding, 'Songs of the People: Plains Indian
Music and Recordings, 1968-1996," 37. Revs. of Scott DeVeaux's The Birth of Bebop: A Social and Musical History,
by David Brackett, 74; Bill Martin's Listening to the Future: The Time of Progressive Rock, 1968-1978, Edward Macan's
Rocking the Classics: English Progressive Rock and the Counterculture, and Paul Stump's The Music's All That
Matters: A History of Progressive Rock, by John Covach, 77; Richard Keeling's North American Indian Music:
A Guide ot Published Sources and Selected Recordings, by Brenda Romero, 94; Martin M. Marks's Music and the
Silent Film: Contexts and Case Studies, by H. Stephen Wright, 118; Charles Hamm's Irving Berlin, Songs from
the Melting Pot: The Formative Years, 1907-1914, by Jon W. Finson, 119; Gage Averill's A Day for the Hunter,
A Day for the Prey: Popular Music and Power in Haiti, by Shannon Dudley, 124; David Brackett's Interpreting
Popular Music, by Robert Walser, 126; Richard A. Peterson's Creating Country Music: Fabricating Authenticity,
by Aaron A. Fox, 127; Ingrid Monson's Saying Something: Jaxx Improvisation and Interaction, by Burton W. Peretti, 129;
Timothy D. Taylor's Global Pop: World Music, World Markets, by Robin Moore, 130; James A. Drake's Rosa Ponselle :
A centenary Biography, by Richard LeSueur, 134. Music Reviews: volumes from Nineteenth-Cnentury American
Musical Theater -- #12, Julius Eichberg, The Doctor of Alcantara (1879), ed. Charlotte R. Kaufman; #14, John
Philip Sousa, El Capitan (1896), ed. Paul E. Bierley; #15, Reginald de Koven, The Highwayman (1897), ed.
Orly L. Krasner; #16, Walter Damrosch, The Scarlett Letter (1896), ed. Elise K. Kirk -- all by John
Koegel 189; compositions by James Dillon, by Steven Wegt 195; John Harbison's Three City Block for
Wind Ensemble, Nicholas Maw's American Games for Symphonic Wind Ensemble, and Bernard Rands's Ceremonial
for Symphonic Wind Ensemble, by Daniel Gordon, 199.
OPERA
(Sept 98): Brian Kellow, "Fascinating Rhythm: A Century of Gershwin," 1026.
OPERA NEWS
(Aug 98): Gershwin articles: Steven Blier, "You Say Ee-ther and I say Eye-ther," 16; Paul Thomason,
"The Problem with Porgy and Bess," 18; Sheryl Flatow, "Who Could Ask for Anything More?," 24.
(Sept 98): Eric Myers, "Making Streetcar Sing [Andre Previn's opera], 34.
OPERA QUARTERLY
(Sum 98): revs. of Michael T.R.B. Turnbull's Mary Garden, by Malcolm S. Cole; Karen Ahlquist's Democracy
at the Opera: Music, Theater, and Culture in New York City, 1815-1860, by Victor Fell Yellin, 105; Marina
Boagno's Franco Corelli: A Man, A Voice, by William Albright, 116; Karyl L. Zietz's The National Trust
Guide to Great Opera Houses in America, by Roger Pines, 119.
OPTION
(Jul/Aug 98): Kevin McAlester, "Mr. Fix-it, Pop Handyman Money Mark [Mark Nishita]," 42; Neva Chonin,
"Hieroglyphics [Bay Area hip-hop group], 48; Kenny Berkowitz, "Miles [Davis] to Go" 54; Richard Martin, "Modest
Mouse [Brock]," 60; Erik Pederson, "Elliott Smith," 66.
ORFF ECHO
(Sum 98): Carol Orff, "How the Orff Instruments Came Into Being" [translation of segment from Orff's
memoirs], 7.
PERSPECTIVES OF NEW MUSIC
(Winter 97): essays in honor of Richard Swift, 70th birthday, 7-127; Naomi Cumming, "The Horrors of
Identification: Reich's Different Trains," 129; Eric Lai, "Modal Formations and Transformations in the
First Movement of Chou Wen-chung's Metaphors," 153; Frank X. Mauceri, 'From Experimental Music to Musical
Experiment," 187; Edward Pearsall, "Interpreting Music Durationally: A Set-Theory Approach to Rhythm,"
205; Carlton Wilkinson, "Robert Moev's Heptachronon for Solo Cello," 231.
PIANO AND KEYBOARD
(July/Aug 98): Joseph Smith, "What You Learn When You Edit [the music of Harry Burleigh, Samuel
Coleridge Taylor, Nathaniel Dett]," 16; Judith Tick, "Radical and Remarkable Ruth Crawford Seeger," 34.
POPULAR MUSIC
(May 1998): Gary Burns, "Visualizing 1950s hits on Your Hit Parade," 139; Carol Vernallis, "The Aesthetics
of Music Video: An Analysis of Madonna's 'Cherish'," 153; Peter Mercer-Taylor, "Songs from teh bell jar:
autonomy and resistance in the music of the Bangles," 187; Jonathan Burston, "Theatre Space as virtual
place: audio technology, the reconfigured singing body, and the megamusical," 219.
POPULAR MUSIC AND SOCIETY
(Sum 97): Pedro van der Lee, "Latin American Influence in Swedish Popular Music," 17; Martin Cloonan,
"State of the Nation: 'Englishness,' Popo, and Politics in the mid-1990s," 47; Leta Hendricks, 'A
Review of Rap Sound Recordings in Academic and Public Libraries," 91; B. Lee Cooper, "Wise Men Never Try: A Discography
of Food Songs, 1945-1995," 115.
RHYTHM MUSIC: GLOBAL SOUNDS AND IDEAS
(July 98): Patricia Meschino, "Beenie Man [Moses Davis]," 30.
(Aug 98): Mark Keating, "Ricardo Lemvo and Makina Loca: The Afro/Afro-Cuban Connection," 20; Tom
Terrill, 'Cuba: The TIme Has Come," 30.
(Sept 98): Robyn Loda, "Steve Riley and Gene Delafose [cajun]," 40.
SAXOPHONE JOURNAL
(July/Aug 98): Paul Cohen examines King saxophones in his "Vintage" column, 8.
SING OUT!
(Sum 98): Rob Weir "THe Donegal Reign of ALtan," 34; Ken Periman, "Bryan Bowers: Autoharp Master,"
44; Roger Hall, "The Simple Gifts of Shaker Music," 764.
STRINGS
(July/Aug 98): Dan Ouellette, "Bass Impulses: Christian McBride [jazz bassist]," 36.
SYMPHONY
(Aug 98): Michael Boriskin, "Hudson River Muse" [Aaron Copland home now a crative retreat], 56;
Sarah B. Miller, "Windy city Gabriel [trumpeter Bud Herseth]," 69.
(Sept/Oct 98): Rodney Greenberg, "Young Man in a Hurry [George Gershwin]," 24; "1998-99 Premiers," 38.
TEMPO
(July 98): Malcom Gillies, "Bartok and Boosey & Hawkes: The American Years," 8.
THE TRACKER
(42/1): Thomas Spacht, "Hymn Accompaniment in Pennsylvainia ca. 1850," 14; Michael Friesen, "The
Organ in 19th-Century Colorado," [articles on early organs and builder Charles Anderson], 18.
20TH CENTURY MUSIC
(June 98): Mark Alburger, Interview with Benjamin Lees, 1.
(August 98): Christopher Keyes, "Set Classes, 12-Tone Rows, and Tonality in the Third Movement of Samuel
Barber's Piano Sonata: The Non-Duality of Tonality and Atonality," 9.
WINDPLAYER
(58, 1998): A.J.S. Rayl, "Maynard Ferguson," 14; Shawn Woodyard, "Sam Rivers: Godfather of the
Avant-Garde [Saxophonists]," 32.
WOMEN OF NOTE QUARTERLY
(May 1998): Royal Brown, "call her Maestra: An Interview with Joann Falletta," 1; Thomas Erdmann,
"Jazz Trumpeter Ingrid Jensen," 12.
Updated 1/05/99