Cinema Changes: Incorporations of Jazz in the Film Soundtrack

edited by Emile Wennekes and Emilio Audissino, Turnhout, Brepols, 2019 (Speculum Musicae, 34), pp. XXVI+334, ISBN 978-2-503-58447-8

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

Intercambios musicales entre España e Italia en los siglos XVIII y XIX / Gli scambi musicali fra Spagna e Italia nei secoli XVIII e XIX

editado por / a cura di Víctor Sánchez Sánchez, Bologna, Ut Orpheus Edizioni, 2019 (Ad Parnassum Studies, 11), pp. xiv+516, ISBN: 978-88-8109-513-1.

España e Italia mantuvieron unas fuertes relaciones culturales a lo largo de su historia. El mismo Miguel de …

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…

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 …

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).