From the Spring 2012 Musical Times, available now


Articles

Michael Graubart: ‘Beethoven’s Ninth: where does integration happen?’
Chris Walton: ‘Upstairs, downstairs: acoustics and tempi in Wagner’s “Träume” and Siegfried idyll’
Arnold Whittall: ‘Reforging The ring: origins and new beginnings’
Maria Euchner: ‘The ring’s Rhinemaidens: singing seductresses or women of wisdom?’
Kerry McCarthy & John Harley: ‘More books from the library of William Byrd’
Alan Howard: ‘The sources of John Blow’s Ode on the death of Mr Henry Purcell (1696)’
Ian Bartlett: ‘Was Boyce a Mason?’
Simon Fleming: ‘Charles Avison jnr and his book of organ voluntaries'

Book reviews

by Peter Phiilips, Andrew Thomson, Arnold Whittall and Peter Williams of

Kenneth Birkin: Hans von Bülow: a life for music
Holly Watkins: Metaphors of depth in German musical thought from E.T.A. Hoffman to Arnold Schoenberg
John Harley: The world of William Byrd: musicians, merchants and magnates
Michael Musgrave: The life of Schumann
Gordon DW Curtis: A provincial organ builder in Victorian England: William Sweetland of Bath

From the Winter 2011 Musical Times, available now


Articles

Raymond Holden: ‘The iconic symphony: performing Beethoven’s Ninth Wagner’s way’
Erica Buurman: ‘New evidence in an old argument: Beethoven’s metronome mark for the Trio of the Ninth Symphony’
Rodney Stenning Edgecombe: ‘The deictic in “diese Töne”: thoughts on the finale’s proem in the Ninth Symphony of Beethoven’
Judith Chernaik: ‘Schumann’s Doppelgängers: Florestan and Eusebius revisited’
Leo Black: ‘ “Eine ganz eigne Stimmung”: Schumann’s late piano music, and a new symposium’
Stephanus Muller: ‘Miniature blueprints, spider stratagems: a Michael Blake retrospective at 60'

Book reviews

by Patricia Howard, Andrew Thomson, Arnold Whittall and Peter Williams of

Dmitri Tymoczko: A geometry of music: harmony and counterpoint in the extended common practice
Steven Rings: Tonality and transformation
Charles Youmans, ed.: The Cambridge companion to Richard Strauss
Raymond Holden: Richard Strauss: a musical life
Ian Bartlett with Robert J. Bruce: William Boyce: a tercentenary sourcebook
Helen Berry: The castrato and his wife
Samantha Owens, Barbara M. Reul & Janice B. Stockigt, edd: Music at German courts, 1715-1760: changing artistic priorities
Stephen Rose: The musician in literature in the age of Bach
Patricia Hall: Berg’s Wozzeck

From the Autumn 2011 Musical Times, available now


Articles

Arnold Whittall: ‘Dendritic designs: Birtwistle’s String quartet: the tree of strings’
Allan W. Atlas: ‘On the proportions of the passacaglia (fourth movement) of Vaughan Williams’s Fifth Symphony’
Fabian Huss: ‘EJ Moeran: letters to Hubert Foss and Benjamin Britten’
Michael Hooper: ‘Reaching higher: Finnissy’s Greatest hits of all time as the impetus for innovation’
Caroline Rae: ‘Debussyist, modernist, exoticist: Marius-François Gaillard rediscovered’
Laura Hamer: ‘On the conductor’s podium: Jane Evrard and the Orchestre féminin de Paris'

Book reviews

by Patricia Howard, Andrew Thomson, Arnold Whittall and Peter Williams of

Roger Nichols: Ravel
Deborah Mawer, ed.: Ravel studies
David Schulenberg: The music of Wilhelm Friedemann Bach
Peter Holman: Life after death: the viola da gamba in Britain from Purcell to Dolmetsch
Paul Griffiths: Modern music and after, 3rd edition
Max Paddison & Irène Deliège: Contemporary music: theoretical and philosophical perspectives
Bojan Bujic: Arnold Schoenberg
Sabine Fest: Schoenberg’s new world: the American years
Thomas Schmidt-Beste: The sonata

From the Summer 2011 Musical Times, available now


Articles

Kevin O’Connell: ‘Hindemith’s voices’
Arnold Whittall: ‘Affirmative anger: James Clarke and the music of abstract expressionism’
Kenneth Gloag: ‘Nicholas Maw’s breakthrough: Scenes and arias reconsidered’
Andrew Thomson: Mystic modernist currents flowing from Berlioz’s Grande messe des morts’
Rodney Stenning Edgecombe: ‘Some instances of ornithomorphism in 18th- and 19th-century music’

Book reviews

by Paul Driver, Andrew Thomson, Arnold Whittall, David Wright and Chris Walton of

Charles Rosen: Music & sentiment
Tony Scotland: Lennox & Freda
Erik Levi: Mozart and the Nazis
Gundula Kreuzer: Verdi and the Germans
Benjamin M. Korstvedt: Listening for utopia in Ernst Bloch’s musical philosophy
Leo Black: BBC music in the Glock era and after
Johannes Volker Schmidt: Hans Rott: Leben und Werk

From the Spring 2011 Musical Times, available now

Articles

Donald Burrows: ‘HWV301 and all that: the history of Handel’s “oboe concertos”’
Paul Merrick: ‘“Teufelsonate”: Mephistopheles in Liszt’s Piano Sonata in B minor’
John Walter Hill: ‘Thematic transformation, folksong and nostalgia in Brahms’s Horn Trio op.40’
Barry Cooper: ‘Beethoven’s uses of silence’
RJ Stove: ‘Franck after Franck: the composer’s posthumous reputation’
David Cormack: ‘A Bayreuth extension lecturer: Carl Armbruster and music in the parks’
Howard Irving: Gender and Germanness in the British reception of the Viennese classics’
Robin Maconie: ‘Revisiting Mikrophonie I’

Book reviews

by Peter Williams, Andrew Thomson, Arnold Whittall, Patricia Howard and Peter Palmer of

Robin Maconie: Musicologia: musical knowledge from Plato to John Cage
Vincent Giroud: French opera: a short history
Philip Reed & Mervyn Cooke, edd.: Letters from a life: the selected letters of Benjamin Britten, volume five 1959–1965
Ian Woodfield: The Vienna Don Giovanni
Marc D. Moskovitz: Alexander Zemlinsky: a lyric symphony

From the Winter 2010 Musical Times, available now

Articles

Andrew Parrott: ‘Bach’s chorus: no change’
Benjamin Dwyer: ‘From the Celtic to the abstract: shifting perspectives in the music of John Buckley’
Sylvia Bowden: ‘Beethoven’s distant beloved: the “only” one’
Rodney Stenning Edgecombe: ‘Blessed assurance: some secular uses of the chorale’
John S. Jenkins: ‘Mozart and the castrati’
Carl Abbott: ‘Marguerite de Pachmann: a forgotten woman pianist and composer’
Godwin Sadoh: ‘The orchestral works of Samuel Akpabot, a Nigerian composer-ethnomusicologist’

Book reviews

by Peter Phillips, Andrew Thomson, Peter Williams, Patricia Howard, Chris Walton and Arnold Whittall of

Christopher Page: The Christian west and its singers: the first thousand years
Chris Walton: Othmar Schoeck: life and works
Emma Hornby & David Maw: Essays on the history of English music: sources, style, performance, historiography
John Cunningham: The consort music of William Lawes 1602–1645
Irving Godt: Marianna Martines: a woman composer in the Vienna of Mozart and Haydn
Nicholas Vazsonyi: Richard Wagner: self-promotion and the making of a brand
James Garratt: Music, culture and social reform in the age of Wagner
Lee Rothfarb: August Halm: a critical and creative life in music

From the Autumn 2010 Musical Times, available now

Articles

Arnold Whittall: ‘Weaving a spell: Wagnerian craft in Der fliegende Holländer’
Chris Walton: ‘Mendelssohn on the Mersey: the lives and work of Jakob Zeugheer’
Roger Bowers: ‘Of 1610: Claudio Monteverdi’s “Mass, motets and vespers”’
Alon Schab: ‘On the ground and off: a comparative study of two Purcell chaconnes’
Andrew Thomson: ‘The organ in some striking orchestral, operatic and choral contexts’
James MacMillan & Richard McGregor: ‘James MacMillan: a conversation and commentary’

Book reviews

by Patricia Howard, Nicholas Jones, Chris Walton, Arnold Whittall and Peter Williams of

Matthew Riley, ed.: British music and modernism, 1895–1960
Jennifer Shaw & Joseph Auner, edd.: The Cambridge companion to Schoenberg
Arved Ashby: Absolute music, mechanical reproduction
David Metzer: Musical modernism at the turn of the century
R. Larry Todd: Fanny Hensel: the other Mendelssohn
David Ledbetter: Unaccompanied Bach: performing the solo works
Ruth Katz: A language of its own: sense and meaning in the making of western art music
Ian Bradley: Water music: music making in the spas of Europe & North America

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