Musical Improvisation in the Baroque Era

edited by Fulvia Morabito, Turnhout, Brepols, 2019 (Speculum Musicae, 33), ISBN: 978-2-503-58369-3.

In the Baroque period there is a large discrepancy between sound entity and musical notation. In a context where the musical tradition, handwritten and printed, at times suggests …

Cinema Changes: Incorporations of Jazz in the Film Soundtrack

edited by Emile Wennekes and Emilio Audissino, Turnhout, Brepols, 2019 (Speculum Musicae, 34).

Cinema is the form of entertainment that can be, above all, identified with the twentieth century. It gradually replaced theatre as a popular form of performed storytelling, …

Music Criticism 1950-2000

edited by Roberto Illiano and Massimiliano Locanto, Turnhout, Brepols, 2019 (Music, Criticism & Politics, 8).

This book addresses the complex world of music criticism during the second half of the twentieth century, with particular emphasis on the relationship between music …

MCN Studies 1 – Perspectives on the French Musical Press in the Long Nineteenth Century

edited by Mark Everist, Lucca Centro Studi Opera Omnia Luigi Boccherini (MCN Studies, 1), ISBN: 978-88-9434-010-5.

Contents

Mark Everist: Introduction – Trading in the Unthinkable

Beverley Jerold: Marmontel’s Polymnie and Criticism

Kirsten Strandberg: Altruism and the Artiste…

Journal of Music Criticism – Volume 2, (2018)

Contents

Vicent Minguet (Institut-Escola Artístic Oriol Martorell, Barcelona, Spain): La crítica estética y social de Adorno al determinismo serial:
la forma musical, el material y su función social.

Georg Burgstaller (RILM, NY): Ideological Currents in Heinrich Schenker’s Post-War Polemics against …

Boccherini, Luigi. 9 Quintets for guitar, 2 violins, viola and violoncello (G 445-450, 451, 453) [Opera Omnia – Vol. XXII]

edited by Fulvia Morabito and Andrea Schiavina, Bologna, Ut Orpheus Edizioni, 2019 [Opera Omnia – Vol. XXII], ISMN: 979-0-2153-2538-8, ISBN: 978-88-8109-509-4, BCE 8.

Of the 16 Quintets for guitar and string quartet composed by Luigi Boccherini only 9 survived: nn. …

Nineteenth-Century Programme Music: Creation, Negotations, Reception

edited by Jonathan Kregor, Turnhout, Brepols, 2018 (Speculum Musicae, 32), pp. XIV+ 490, ISBN 978-2-503-58346-4. 

The history of program music stretches back centuries, but only in the nineteenth century did it enter into widespread use. Indeed, seminal compositions by Ludwig …

Locatelli, Pietro Antonio. Sonata in G Minor ‘Leufsta’ for Violin and Continuo

Critical Edition by Fulvia Morabito – Massimiliano Sala, Bologna, Ut Orpheus Edizioni, 2018 (LOC 2), ISMN 979-0-2153-2539-5.

The “Leufsta” Sonata in G minor for violin and basso continuo by Pietro Antonio Locatelli (Bergamo, 1695 – Amsterdam, 1764) is produced by …

Music Criticism 1900-1950

edited by Jordi Ballester and German Gan Quesada, Turnhout, Brepols, 2018 (Music, Criticism & Politics, 7), pp. xiv+526, ISBN 978-2-503-58072-2.

Music and Power in the Baroque Era

edited by Rudolf Rasch, Turnhout, Brepols, 2018 (Music, Criticism & Politics, 6), pp. xii+463, ISBN: 978-2-503-58071-5.

Music always functions in a specific environment. And, viewed from the other side, environments use music to confirm and strengthen their identities. Institutions of …

Boccherini, Luigi. 6 Sextets for Strings Op. 23 (G 454-459) [Opera Omnia – Vol. XIX]

edited by Fabrizio Ammetto and Christian Speck, Bologna, Ut Orpheus Edizioni, 2018 [Opera Omnia – Vol. VI], ISMN: 979-0-2153-2537-1, ISBN: 978-88-8109-508-7, BCE 7. 

The volume contains all sextets for two violins, violas and cellos composed by Boccherini according to current …

The Many Faces of Camille Saint-Saëns

edited by Michael Stegemann, Turnhout, Brepols, 2018 (Speculum Musicae, 31), pp. XIV+ 406, ISBN 978-2-503-58070-8. 

French composer Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921) is certainly one of the most fascinating and important figures in the music history of the 19th and early …

John Williams. Music for Films, Television, and the Concert Stage

edited by Emilio Audissino, Turnhout, Brepols, 2018 (Contemporary Composers, 1), pp. xxiv+440, ISBN 978-2-503-58034-0.

Once mostly considered a commercial composer and a mere rewriter of previous composers’ styles, only recently – and quite belatedly – Williams’ music has begun to …

Ad Parnassum Journal – Vol. 16 – No. 32 – October 2018

ARTICLES

Sonatas for Harpsichord or Piano Opp. 7-10

edited by Luca Lévi Sala and Rohan H. Stewart-MacDonald, Bologna, Ut Orpheus Edizioni, 2018 (Italian National Edition of Muzio Clementi’s Complete Works, VIII.2).

Muzio Clementi’s Sonatas Opp. 7, 8, 9 and 10 belong to the ‘Viennese’ compositions, originating from the …

Ad Parnassum Journal – Vol. 16 – No. 31 – April 2018 pp. 128

ARTICLES

Graham Pont
Handel’s Extempore

Erica Buurman
Three Symphonies in One Year? Beethoven’s Sketches of 1812

Francesco Geminiani – [Opera Omnia – Vol. 14]

Dictionaire harmonique | Dictionarium harmonicum (1756) – Guida Armonica Op. 10 (1756) – A Supplement to the Guida Armonica (1758) – The Harmonical Miscellany (1758)

edited by Richard Maunder and Rudolf Rasch, Bologna 2018 Ut Orpheus Edizioni (GCE 10), ISMN: …

Francesco Geminiani – [Opera Omnia – Vol. 7]

12 Concertos after Corelli’s Sonatas Op. 5 (1726, 1729) (H. 132-143)

edited by Christopher Hogwood and Rudolf Rasch, Bologna 2018 Ut Orpheus Edizioni (GCE 9), ISMN: 979-0-2153-2503-6.

Concerto for Piano and Orchestra Op-sn 30

edited by Luca Lévi Sala, Bologna, Ut Orpheus Edizioni, 2012 (Italian National Edition of Muzio Clementi’s Complete Works, II.5), ISMN: 979-0-2153-1996-7, ISBN: 978-88-8109-477-6 (CCE 2).

We are aware only of a single manuscript source of the Concerto in C, composed …

The Correspondence of Muzio Clementi

edited by David Rowland, Bologna, Ut Orpheus Edizioni, 2010 (Italian National Edition of Muzio Clementi’s Complete Works, XIV).