https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/145 Project MUSE®: Latest articles in Notes. daily 1 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 text/html en-US Vol. 57 (2000/01) through current issue Latest Articles: Notes TWO Project MUSE® Notes 1534-150X 0027-4380 Latest articles in Notes. Feed provided by Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983516 <p></p> Minstrels and Minstrelsy in Late Medieval England. By Richard Rastall with Andrew Taylor. Boydell, 2023. [xxviii, 445 p. ISBN 9781837650392 (hardback), $160; ISBN 9781837652556 (paperback), $59.95; ISBN 9781800109353 (ebook: EPDF), $39.95; ISBN 9781800109360 (ebook: EPUB), $39.95.] Music examples, illustrations, bibliography, index.There are many myths and misconceptions about minstrels, their life, their music, and their social and artistic standing during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries in late medieval England. In the preface to this book, Richard Rastall enumerates many of these myths, along with the difficulties of defining what exactly a minstrel was from the documentary sources. Previous research on ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983527">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/145/image/coversmall Minstrels and Minstrelsy in Late Medieval England by Richard Rastall with Andrew Taylor (review) 2026-02-24 text/html en-US Minstrels and Minstrelsy in Late Medieval England by Richard Rastall with Andrew Taylor (review) 2026-02-24 2026 TWO Project MUSE® 8613 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 2026-02-24 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983515 <p></p> The Art of Counterpoint from Du Fay to Josquin. By Jesse Rodin. Cambridge University Press, 2025. [xvii, 372 pp. ISBN 9781107184596 (hardcover), $130; ISBN 9781316886861 (ebook), $130.] Music examples, illustrations, bibliography, discography, indexes.This book, as the title states, concerns contrapuntal music in Western Europe from Guillaume Dufay to Josquin des Prez, that is, from roughly 1425 to 1520. It is not, however, a study of contrapuntal technique during this period, as distinct from the practice of Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina and his contemporaries (as interesting as that might have been to many of us); rather, it concerns the artistic and especially the aesthetic differences in the contrapuntal ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983527">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/145/image/coversmall The Art of Counterpoint from Du Fay to Josquin by Jesse Rodin (review) 2026-02-24 text/html en-US The Art of Counterpoint from Du Fay to Josquin by Jesse Rodin (review) 2026-02-24 2026 TWO Project MUSE® 16564 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 2026-02-24 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983514 <p></p> Edward Elgar and Adrian Boult. By Nigel Simeone. Boydell, 2025. [xxiv, 316 p. ISBN 9781837652204 (hardcover), $85; ISBN 9781805435228 (ebook: EPDF), $19.95; ISBN 9781805435235 (ebook: EPUB), $19.95.] Music examples, illustrations, bibliography, discography, index.Notes readers will be familiar with the work of Nigel Simeone, if not for his own painstakingly detailed reviews of scores in this journal, then for his publications on French music, Leo&#x161; Jan&#xE1;&#x10D;ek, and Leonard Bernstein. Over the last decade or so, Simeone has increasingly turned his attention to British subjects. With the publication of Edward Elgar and Adrian Boult, Simeone continues to explore the deep musical and personal relationships cultivated by the ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983527">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/145/image/coversmall Edward Elgar and Adrian Boult by Nigel Simeone (review) 2026-02-24 text/html en-US Edward Elgar and Adrian Boult by Nigel Simeone (review) 2026-02-24 2026 TWO Project MUSE® 12270 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 2026-02-24 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983513 <p></p> Johann Sebastian Bach&#39;s Goldberg Variations Reimagined. By Erinn E. Knyt. Oxford University Press, 2024. [xiv, 343 p. ISBN 9780197690628 (hardcover), $120; ISBN 9780197690635 (ebook), $87.21]. Music examples, illustrations, bibliography, index.Few single compositions have been subjects of as many books as Johann Sebastian Bach&#39;s Goldberg Variations. But there has never been a book about any composition quite like Erinn E. Knyt&#39;s Johann Sebastian Bach&#39;s &#x22;Gold-berg Variations&#x22; Reimagined. Eschewing the background-and-analysis of conventional treatments, Knyt offers a &#x22;reception history&#x22; (p. 1) by chronicling arrangements, &#x22;multi-composer works,&#x22; dances, films, theatrical adaptations, and other &#x22;reimaginings&#x22; that ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983527">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/145/image/coversmall Johann Sebastian Bach's Goldberg Variations Reimagined by Erinn E. Knyt (review) 2026-02-24 text/html en-US Johann Sebastian Bach's Goldberg Variations Reimagined by Erinn E. Knyt (review) 2026-02-24 2026 TWO Project MUSE® 23398 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 2026-02-24 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983512 <p></p> Thomas Ad&#xE8;s Studies. Edited by Edward Venn and Philip Stoecker. Cambridge University Press, 2022. [xxxi, 304 p. ISBN 9781108486651 (hardcover), $106; ISBN 9781108708135 (paperback), $32.99; ISBN 9781108788496 (ebook), $32.99.] Music examples, illustrations, bibliography, index.In retrospect, Thomas Ad&#xE8;s&#39;s meteoric rise, as well as his metamorphosis from the darling child of the British contemporary music establishment into one of its most celebrated grandees, appears to have been inevitable. His music in the 1990s was greeted by a profound sense of excitement within the contemporary music scene. Having been educated at the University of Cambridge at a time when the Cambridge music faculty was entwined with BBC ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983527">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/145/image/coversmall Thomas Adès Studies ed. by Edward Venn and Philip Stoecker (review) 2026-02-24 text/html en-US Thomas Adès Studies ed. by Edward Venn and Philip Stoecker (review) 2026-02-24 2026 TWO Project MUSE® 18609 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 2026-02-24 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983511 <p></p> Pierre Boulez&#39;s sur Incises and Its World. By Peter O&#39;Hagan. (Ashgate Studies in Theory and Analysis of Music After 1900.) Routledge, 2025. [xiii, 270 p. ISBN 9781032507675 (hardcover) , $126; ISBN 9781003435990 (ebook), $45.59.] Music examples, illustrations, bibliography, index.The centenary of the birth of composer and conductor Pierre Boulez (1925&#x2013;2016) has been celebrated in several publications and with prominent performances of his music. Boulez was one of the most outspoken members of the post&#x2013;World War II avant-garde, initially espousing the viewpoint that composers needed to adopt serialism, total organization of music&#39;s constituent elements&#x2014;pitch, rhythm, expression, and even formal planning&#x2014;in order to ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983527">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/145/image/coversmall Pierre Boulez's sur Incises and Its World by Peter O'Hagan (review) 2026-02-24 text/html en-US Pierre Boulez's sur Incises and Its World by Peter O'Hagan (review) 2026-02-24 2026 TWO Project MUSE® 12669 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 2026-02-24 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983510 <p></p> Music at World&#39;s End: Three Exiled Musicians from Nazi Germany and Austria and Their Contributions to Music in Iceland. By &#xC1;rni Heimer Ing&#xF3;lfsson. State University of New York Press, 2025. [xi, 315 p. ISBN 9798855800685 (hardcover), $130; ISBN 9798855800692 (paperback), $37.95; also available as ebook (ISBN and price vary).] Illustrations, bibliography, index.In his important book, Music at World&#39;s End: Three Exiled Musicians from Nazi Germany and Austria and Their Contributions to Music in Iceland, &#xC1;rni Heimer Ing&#xF3;lfsson documents the lives and careers of musicians Victor Urbancic (1903&#x2013;1958), Heinz Edelstein (1902&#x2013;1959), and R&#xF3;bert Abraham Ott&#xF3;sson (1912&#x2013;1974), Austrian and German musicians who emigrated to ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983527">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/145/image/coversmall Music at World's End: Three Exiled Musicians from Nazi Germany and Austria and Their Contributions to Music in Iceland by Árni Heimer Ingólfsson (review) 2026-02-24 text/html en-US Music at World's End: Three Exiled Musicians from Nazi Germany and Austria and Their Contributions to Music in Iceland by Árni Heimer Ingólfsson (review) 2026-02-24 2026 TWO Project MUSE® 11242 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 2026-02-24 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983509 <p></p> Made in NuYoRico: Fania Records, Latin Music, and Salsa&#39;s Nuyorican Meanings. By Marisol Negr&#xF3;n. (Refiguring American Music.) Duke University Press, 2024. [xvi, 328 p. ISBN 9781478026662 (hardcover), $109.95; ISBN 9781478030898 (paperback), $29.95; ISBN 9781478059875 (ebook), price varies.] Illustrations, discography, filmography, bibliography, index.In Made in NuYoRico, Marisol Negr&#xF3;n offers a nuanced cultural history of salsa, tracing its Nuyorican origins from the establishment of Fania Records in 1964 through its ascendance in the 1970s. The author contends that salsa served as a critical site of resistance for New York&#39;s working-class Puerto Ricans, providing an alternative public sphere through which to ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983527">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/145/image/coversmall Made in NuYoRico: Fania Records, Latin Music, and Salsa's Nuyorican Meanings by Marisol Negrón (review) 2026-02-24 text/html en-US Made in NuYoRico: Fania Records, Latin Music, and Salsa's Nuyorican Meanings by Marisol Negrón (review) 2026-02-24 2026 TWO Project MUSE® 13391 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 2026-02-24 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983508 <p></p> Talkin&#39; Greenwich Village: The Heady Rise and Slow Fall of America&#39;s Bohemian Music Capital. By David Browne. Hachette Books, 2024. [xiii, 381 p. ISBN 9780306827631 (hardcover), $32.50; ISBN 9780306827655 (ebook), $15.99.] Illustrations, bibliography, index.There may be no patch of real estate that looms larger in the US cultural imagination than New York&#39;s Greenwich Village. Though the lower Manhattan neighborhood measures less than one-third of a square mile in size, it has long exercised disproportionate influence over the trajectory of US arts and letters. As early as the 1880s, the Village was already a destination for poets and novelists, including Walt Whitman and Mark Twain. During the interwar decades, a ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983527">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/145/image/coversmall Talkin' Greenwich Village: The Heady Rise and Slow Fall of America's Bohemian Music Capital by David Browne (review) 2026-02-24 text/html en-US Talkin' Greenwich Village: The Heady Rise and Slow Fall of America's Bohemian Music Capital by David Browne (review) 2026-02-24 2026 TWO Project MUSE® 13704 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 2026-02-24 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983507 <p></p> The Cambridge Companion to Women Composers. Edited by Matthew Head and Susan Wollenberg. (Cambridge Companions to Music.) Cambridge University Press, 2024. [xxv, 348 p. ISBN 9781108489157 (hardcover), $90; ISBN 9781108733519 (paperback), $29.99; ISBN 9781108787949 (ebook), $29.99.] Music examples, illustrations, bibliography, index.Up until now, every endeavor to cover the music of women composers has owed a debt of gratitude to Judith Tick and the late Jane M. Bowers, the pioneering editors of Women Making Music: The Western Art Tradition, 1150&#x2013;1950 (University of Illinois Press, 1986). Their book&#x2014;now forty years old&#x2014;holds the venerable status as the first to chart the waters of women&#39;s early and classical music ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983527">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/145/image/coversmall The Cambridge Companion to Women Composers ed. by Matthew Head and Susan Wollenberg (review) 2026-02-24 text/html en-US The Cambridge Companion to Women Composers ed. by Matthew Head and Susan Wollenberg (review) 2026-02-24 2026 TWO Project MUSE® 10412 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 2026-02-24 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983506 <p></p> Blues Mamas and Broadway Belters: Black Women, Voice, and the Musical Stage. By Masi Asare. (Refiguring American Music.) Duke University Press, 2024. [xviii, 283 p. ISBN 9781478026730 (hardcover), $104.95; ISBN 9781478030959 (paperback), $27.95; ISBN 9781478059967 (ebook), price varies.] Illustrations, bibliography, index.In Blues Mamas and Broadway Belters, Masi Asare advances new insights into the people, sounds, and repertory that frame the symbiotic relationship that existed between musical theater and US popular culture during the first half of the twentieth century. This book is not a conventional study of Black musical theater and its history. It might best be categorized as an intellectual invention that ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983527">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/145/image/coversmall Blues Mamas and Broadway Belters: Black Women, Voice, and the Musical Stage by Masi Asare (review) 2026-02-24 text/html en-US Blues Mamas and Broadway Belters: Black Women, Voice, and the Musical Stage by Masi Asare (review) 2026-02-24 2026 TWO Project MUSE® 9463 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 2026-02-24 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983505 <p></p> The Cambridge Companion to West Side Story. Edited by Paul R. Laird and Elizabeth A. Wells. (Cambridge Companions to Music.) Cambridge University Press, 2024. [xxii, 300 p. ISBN 9781108489959 (hardcover), $90; ISBN 9781108747752 (paperback), $29.99; ISBN 9781108800549 (ebook), $29.99.] Music examples, illustrations, bibliography, indexes.Since its Broadway premiere in 1957, West Side Story has remained one of the most culturally significant, academically explored, and revisited Broadway musicals of the past nearly seventy years. Therefore, it is not surprising that The Cambridge Companion to &#x22;West Side Story&#x22; marks the first entry in the series to focus on a single US musical. This collection represents one of the ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983527">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/145/image/coversmall The Cambridge Companion to West Side Story ed. by Paul R. Laird and Elizabeth A. Wells (review) 2026-02-24 text/html en-US The Cambridge Companion to West Side Story ed. by Paul R. Laird and Elizabeth A. Wells (review) 2026-02-24 2026 TWO Project MUSE® 11215 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 2026-02-24 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983504 <p></p> Weep, Shudder, Die: On Opera and Poetry. By Dana Gioia. Paul Dry Books, 2024. [xii, 220 p. ISBN 9781589881969 (paperback), $15.96; ISBN 9781589883895 (ebook), $9.99.] Index.&#x22;Weep, shudder, die&#x22; and &#x22;bright, urgent, communicative&#x22; are two intentionally emotive statements about what the operatic art, through the agency of the human voice, must cause and can be. The first is found in a well-known letter that Vincenzo Bellini wrote to his librettist, Count Carlo Pepoli, urging him to understand these are the sensations that the operatic art&#x2014;through singing&#x2014;must provoke in the listener. The second is a famous description of Franco Corelli&#39;s tenor voice made by Alan Rich in a 1966 New York Herald Tribune review. Dana ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983527">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/145/image/coversmall Weep, Shudder, Die: On Opera and Poetry by Dana Gioia (review) 2026-02-24 text/html en-US Weep, Shudder, Die: On Opera and Poetry by Dana Gioia (review) 2026-02-24 2026 TWO Project MUSE® 13321 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 2026-02-24 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983503 <p></p> Dreaming in Ensemble: How Black Artists Transformed American Opera. By Lucy Caplan. Harvard University Press, 2025. [324 p. ISBN 9780674268517 (hardcover), $35; ISBN 9780674299528 (ebook), price varies.] Music examples, illustrations, bibliography, index.In Dreaming in Ensemble, Lucy Caplan brings to the forefront many aspects of Black opera that have been relegated to the invisible (and inaudible). Spanning a timeframe that has suffered from a &#x22;presumption of absence&#x22; (p. 3)&#x2014;from H. Lawrence Freeman&#39;s 1893 opera The Martyr to Marian Anderson&#39;s famous 1955 operatic debut&#x2014;Caplan refocuses our attention away from the objectifying gaze of Blackness as representation toward Blackness as subject (p. 3). Caplan brings a ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983527">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/145/image/coversmall Dreaming in Ensemble: How Black Artists Transformed American Opera by Lucy Caplan (review) 2026-02-24 text/html en-US Dreaming in Ensemble: How Black Artists Transformed American Opera by Lucy Caplan (review) 2026-02-24 2026 TWO Project MUSE® 13125 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 2026-02-24 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983502 <p></p> Music, Medicine and Religion at the Ospedale di Santo Spirito in Rome, 1550&#x2013;1750. By Naomi J. Barker. (Music in Society and Culture, 12.) Boydell, 2024. [xi, 286 p. ISBN 9781837650651 (hardcover), $130; ISBN 9781805432159 (ebook: EPDF), $24; ISBN 9781805432166 (ebook: EPUB), $24.] Music examples, illustrations, bibliography, index.For anyone interested in early Italian music, there is a peculiarly prominent overlap of musicians with charitable and medical care institutions. These institutions formed a significant part of the infrastructure of various Italian cities, and the presence of music within them came to a head in the sixteenth through eighteenth centuries. The contingent of musicians employed by hospitals ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983527">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/145/image/coversmall Music, Medicine and Religion at the Ospedale di Santo Spirito in Rome, 1550–1750 by Naomi J. Barker (review) 2026-02-24 text/html en-US Music, Medicine and Religion at the Ospedale di Santo Spirito in Rome, 1550–1750 by Naomi J. Barker (review) 2026-02-24 2026 TWO Project MUSE® 13683 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 2026-02-24 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983501 <p></p> Forging Repertories: Cathedral Music in New Spain and Its Performance. By Drew Edward Davies. Oxford University Press, 2024. [xvi, 255 p. ISBN 9780199729906 (hardcover), $99; ISBN 9780197759042 (ebook), $88.44.] Music examples, illustrations, bibliography, index.In Forging Repertories, Drew Edward Davies offers a searching account of how cathedral music was produced, adapted, and remembered in colonial Mexico between the sixteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Drawing on over two decades of archival work across institutions in Mexico City, Durango, and Puebla, Davies moves beyond traditional composer biographies or stylistic surveys to focus instead on the labor of cathedral musicians&#x2014;the copyists, singers ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983527">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/145/image/coversmall Forging Repertories: Cathedral Music in New Spain and Its Performance by Drew Edward Davies (review) 2026-02-24 text/html en-US Forging Repertories: Cathedral Music in New Spain and Its Performance by Drew Edward Davies (review) 2026-02-24 2026 TWO Project MUSE® 13831 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 2026-02-24 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983500 <p></p> Music&#39;s Making: The Poetry of Music, the Music of Poetry. By Michael Cherlin. State University of New York Press, 2024. [xxix, 280 p. ISBN 9781438498454 (hardcover), $99; 9781438498461 (paperback), $34.95; also available as ebook (ISBN and price vary).] Bibliography, index.When I was asked to review Michael Cherlin&#39;s Music&#39;s Making: The Poetry of Music, The Music of Poetry, my interest was piqued because my own first theory teacher was one of Cherlin&#39;s students. By reading, I hoped to learn something about myself by tracing my intellectual family tree. This turned out to be a good approach for this book, since Cherlin himself spends many pages reflecting on the impact of his teachers on his own thinking. In the ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983527">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/145/image/coversmall Music's Making: The Poetry of Music, the Music of Poetry by Michael Cherlin (review) 2026-02-24 text/html en-US Music's Making: The Poetry of Music, the Music of Poetry by Michael Cherlin (review) 2026-02-24 2026 TWO Project MUSE® 12181 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 2026-02-24 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983499 <p></p> Embodied Expression in Popular Music: A Theory of Musical Gesture and Agency. By Timothy Koozin. (Oxford Studies in Music Theory.) Oxford University Press, 2024. [ix, 294 p. ISBN 9780197692981 (hardcover), $90; ISBN 9780197693001 (ebook), $53.86.] Music examples, illustrations, bibliography, indexes.Musical topic analysis addresses how music conveys meaning. The discipline has grown from investigating classical-era composers&#39; use of topics&#x2014;subjects for musical discourse, or recognizable, culturally coded signs within music&#x2014;into interrogating almost any repertoire&#39;s topics and how they signify. In Embodied Expression in Popular Music, Timothy Koozin analyzes Western popular music across roughly the last seventy ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983527">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/145/image/coversmall Embodied Expression in Popular Music: A Theory of Musical Gesture and Agency by Timothy Koozin (review) 2026-02-24 text/html en-US Embodied Expression in Popular Music: A Theory of Musical Gesture and Agency by Timothy Koozin (review) 2026-02-24 2026 TWO Project MUSE® 13113 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 2026-02-24 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983498 <p></p> Seeing Voices: Analyzing Sign Language Music. By Anabel Maler. (Oxford Studies in Music Theory.) Oxford University Press, 2024. [xv, 234 p. ISBN 9780197601976 (hardcover), $132; ISBN 9780197601983 (paperback), $29.99; ISBN 9780197602003 (ebook), $26.99.] Music examples, illustrations, bibliography, index, companion website (https://global.oup.com/us/companion.websites/9780197601983).In Seeing Voices, Anabel Maler challenges hearing-based music-theoretical approaches by centering Deaf musical practices. She analyzes music created in American Sign Language (ASL) with a focus on visual, kinesthetic, and haptic aspects of such music making. Through movement-based frameworks, she rethinks fundamental elements of ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983527">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/145/image/coversmall Seeing Voices: Analyzing Sign Language Music by Anabel Maler (review) 2026-02-24 text/html en-US Seeing Voices: Analyzing Sign Language Music by Anabel Maler (review) 2026-02-24 2026 TWO Project MUSE® 12208 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 2026-02-24 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983497 <p></p> Music, Subjectivity, and Schumann. By Benedict Taylor. Cambridge University Press, 2022. [xii, 368 p. ISBN 9781009158084 (hardcover), $120; ISBN 9781009158077 (paperback), $36.99; ISBN 9781009178488 (ebook), $36.99.] Music examples, bibliography, index.In this book, Benedict Taylor seeks to more precisely identify ways in which subjectivity may be expressed, heard, and understood in music, particularly in that of Robert Schumann. Schumann has long been associated with subjectivity because of his rich and troubled internal world; his adoption of alter egos; the emphasis on narrative elements in his character pieces for piano and his lieder; the intimate scale and inward style of this music, often emphasizing an ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983527">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/145/image/coversmall Music, Subjectivity, and Schumann by Benedict Taylor (review) 2026-02-24 text/html en-US Music, Subjectivity, and Schumann by Benedict Taylor (review) 2026-02-24 2026 TWO Project MUSE® 13534 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 2026-02-24 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983496 <p></p> Romantic Music Aesthetics: Creating a Politics of Emotion. By Mat-thew Pritchard. Cambridge University Press, 2024. [xi, 274 p. ISBN 9781009491648 (hardcover), $120; ISBN 9781009491624 (ebook), $120.] Music examples, illustrations, bibliography, index.There is much that is fresh and brilliant in Matthew Pritchard&#39;s keenly anticipated monograph, as well as a good deal that is deliberately provocative and at times tendentious. Pritchard gamely debunks what could be called the &#x22;Dahlhaus paradigm,&#x22; presented most famously in The Idea of Absolute Music (Carl Dahlhaus, trans. Roger Lustig [University of Chicago Press, 1989]) and its immense influence on a generation of scholars, including Lydia Goehr, Karol Berger, and ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983527">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/145/image/coversmall Romantic Music Aesthetics: Creating a Politics of Emotion by Matthew Pritchard (review) 2026-02-24 text/html en-US Romantic Music Aesthetics: Creating a Politics of Emotion by Matthew Pritchard (review) 2026-02-24 2026 TWO Project MUSE® 13803 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 2026-02-24 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983495 <p></p> The Music &#x26; Recorded Sound Division of the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts has acquired two remarkable collections.The archive of legendary jazz musician Wayne Shorter. Shorter, who died in 2023 at 89 years old, touched virtually every aspect of jazz, influencing generations of artists in various fields to push the boundaries of music. Shorter&#39;s sound is heard on his famous solo work, in compositions like Black Nile, Yes or No, Infant Eyes, Footprints, and Speak No Evil as well as through collaborations with Art Blakey, Miles Davis, Weather Report, Milton Nascimento, Don Henley, Joni Mitchell, Carlos Santana, and his longtime best friend Herbie Hancock. The collection includes:Two hundred and fifty ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983527">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/145/image/coversmall Notes for Notes 2026-02-24 text/html en-US Notes for Notes 2026-02-24 2026 TWO Project MUSE® 14648 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 2026-02-24 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983494 <p></p> This annual column explores topics related to music pricing and library collections, offering insights related to budgetary trends.Generative artificial intelligence (AI) has become a prevalent topic in library discussions over the past two years resulting in the creation of numerous AI library research guides, working groups and committees, use policies, and conference program themes. Initially, discussions of AI in libraries addressed predictable areas such as digesting articles,1 cataloging and metadata creation,2 text generation,3 and database searching.4 However, the integration of generative AI also has significant implications for library collections&#x2014;affecting what is researched, and what is acquired. ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983527">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/145/image/coversmall Topics in Music Pricing: Implications of AI in Music Collecting 2026-02-24 text/html en-US Topics in Music Pricing: Implications of AI in Music Collecting 2026-02-24 2026 TWO Project MUSE® 15876 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 2026-02-24 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983493 <p></p> In her article about Digital Scholarship in a recent issue of Notes, Anna Kijas concludes that &#x22;looking to the future of digital scholarship will require that we look back from time to time in order to see what we&#39;ve done, how we did things, what worked, and what didn&#39;t.&#x22;1 I believe this is important not only to the furthering of new digital scholarship, but also the sustainability of current digital resources. With the sunsetting of music notation software, Finale, in August 2025, we know the sustainability of even the most longstanding of digital tools/resources is uncertain.2In Digital Humanities Quarterly, Drew VandeCreek suggests that sustainability is seldom based on one deciding action, but in the string of ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983527">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/145/image/coversmall Studies in Sustainability: The Development of Three Long-Term Digital Projects in Music 2026-02-24 text/html en-US Studies in Sustainability: The Development of Three Long-Term Digital Projects in Music 2026-02-24 2026 TWO Project MUSE® 119250 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 2026-02-24 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983517 <p></p> The Jazzmen: How Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and Count Basie Transformed America. By Larry Tye. Mariner Books, 2024. [xiii, 393 p. ISBN 9780358380436 (hardcover), $26; ISBN 9780063444860 (paperback), $15.99; ISBN 9780358380429 (ebook), $12.99.] Illustrations, bibliography, index.Larry Tye credits the subjects of his earlier work, Rising from the Rails: Pullman Porters and the Making of the Black Middle Class (Henry Holt, 2004), for suggesting the focus of his 2009 biography of Satchel Paige, Satchel: The Life and Times of an American Legend (Random House), and his latest book, The Jazzmen: How Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and Count Basie Transformed America. This triptych constitutes a remarkable view of ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983527">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/145/image/coversmall The Jazzmen: How Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and Count Basie Transformed America by Larry Tye (review) 2026-02-24 text/html en-US The Jazzmen: How Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and Count Basie Transformed America by Larry Tye (review) 2026-02-24 2026 TWO Project MUSE® 10557 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 2026-02-24 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983518 <p></p> Beyond the Bandstand: Paul Whiteman in American Musical Culture. Edited by W. Anthony Sheppard. (Music in American Life.) University of Illinois Press, 2024. [ix, 316 p. ISBN 9780252046100 (hardcover), $125; ISBN 9780252088209 (paperback), $32; ISBN 9780252047329 (ebook), $19.95.] Illustrations, bibliography, index.The more I learn about the bandleader Paul Whiteman (1890&#x2013;1967), the more I pare down the number of roles that may be attributed to him. He was not a composer or an arranger, yet he hired several of the best of them during the 1920s and 1930s. Although he was a violinist and a capable violist in symphony orchestras, he was never as good as the soloists he hired and featured in his dance bands. Although ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983527">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/145/image/coversmall Beyond the Bandstand: Paul Whiteman in American Musical Culture ed. by W. Anthony Sheppard (review) 2026-02-24 text/html en-US Beyond the Bandstand: Paul Whiteman in American Musical Culture ed. by W. Anthony Sheppard (review) 2026-02-24 2026 TWO Project MUSE® 13373 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 2026-02-24 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983519 <p></p> The Permanent Holdout: Jackson Browne, His Music, His America. By Cornel Bonca. Rowman &#x26; Littlefield, 2025. [xxv, 193 p. ISBN 9781538172872 (hardcover), $22.40; ISBN 9798881864613 (ebook: EPDF), $20.16; ISBN 9781538172889 (ebook: EPUB), $20.16.] Bibliography, index.Over the past several years there have been numerous celebrations marking the fiftieth anniversary of some milestone in rock music&#39;s history. In 2019, there was the rerelease of the Beatles&#39; Abbey Road (1969) and the release of Martin Scorcese&#39;s film Rolling Thunder Review, devoted to Bob Dylan&#39;s famous 1975&#x2013;76 tour. More recently, there have been &#x22;looks back&#x22; at the music of Saturday Night Live, Sly and the Family Stone, Woodstock, and others. A big ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983527">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/145/image/coversmall The Permanent Holdout: Jackson Browne, His Music, His America by Cornel Bonca (review) 2026-02-24 text/html en-US The Permanent Holdout: Jackson Browne, His Music, His America by Cornel Bonca (review) 2026-02-24 2026 TWO Project MUSE® 15332 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 2026-02-24 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983520 <p></p> The Cambridge Companion to the Electric Guitar. Edited by Jan-Peter Herbst and Steve Waksman. (Cambridge Companions to Music.) Cambridge University Press, 2024. [xviii, 356 p. ISBN 9781009224406 (hardcover), $90; ISBN 9781009224451 (paperback), $29.99; ISBN 9781009224437 (ebook), $29.99.] Music examples, illustrations, bibliography, index.An internet search on &#x22;electric guitar&#x22; yields a seemingly infinite number of results, but three basic types stand out: those modeled after the Fender Stratocaster, Fender Telecaster, and Gibson Les Paul. Aside from the influence of the Fender and Gibson brands, there is much more to the story, as revealed in The Cambridge Companion to the Electric Guitar. It includes ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983527">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/145/image/coversmall The Cambridge Companion to the Electric Guitar ed. by Jan-Peter Herbst and Steve Waksman (review) 2026-02-24 text/html en-US The Cambridge Companion to the Electric Guitar ed. by Jan-Peter Herbst and Steve Waksman (review) 2026-02-24 2026 TWO Project MUSE® 13765 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 2026-02-24 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983521 <p></p> Music Information Literacy: Inclusion and Advocacy. Edited by Kathleen A. Abromeit and Dyani Sabin. Library Juice, 2024. [xii, 228 p. ISBN 9781634001465 (paperback), $60.] Bibliography, index.Music Information Literacy: Inclusion and Advocacy provides the reader with a plethora of perspectives and case studies on how music librarians can conceive of, teach, and advocate for more inclusionary practices of teaching information literacy in the music classroom. The authors invite us all to imagine ways to make our music information literacy more inclusive and equitable. As Ruha Benjamin writes in Imagination: A Manifesto, &#x22;The most effective means to refute the prevailing ideologies is to do so collectively&#x2014;crafting ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983527">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/145/image/coversmall Music Information Literacy: Inclusion and Advocacy ed. by Kathleen A. Abromeit and Dyani Sabin (review) 2026-02-24 text/html en-US Music Information Literacy: Inclusion and Advocacy ed. by Kathleen A. Abromeit and Dyani Sabin (review) 2026-02-24 2026 TWO Project MUSE® 12800 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 2026-02-24 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983522 <p></p> This column is compiled quarterly from a variety of sources, including publisher and vendor websites and announcements. If you are an author or editor of a recently-published music book and would like to request inclusion in a future column, please send a message to music.library@louisville.edu.Ackfeldt, Anders. Islamic themes in US hip-hop culture. Edinburgh University Press, 2025. 206 p. ISBN 9781399537537.Music and performance in Muslim contextsAdams, Shane. Songwriting breakthroughs: strategies and prompts for writing your next song. Berklee Press, 2025. 80 p. ISBN 9780876392331.Albrecht, Theodore, ed. Beethoven&#39;s conversation books. Volume 5: Nos. 44 to 59 (October 1823 to March 1824). Boydell Press, 2025. ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983527">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/145/image/coversmall Books Recently Published 2026-02-24 text/html en-US Books Recently Published 2026-02-24 2026 TWO Project MUSE® 35347 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 2026-02-24 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983523 <p></p> This semiannual column selectively lists new periodicals; describes their objectives, formats, and contents; and provides information about special issues, title and format changes, mergers, and cessations. Ulrich&#39;s Periodical Directory (www.ulrichsweb.com/ulrichsweb) and the Directory of Open Access Journals (http://www.doaj.org) were consulted when assembling this column.Edited by Holly Tessler and Paul Long. Published online and openly accessible. Vol. 1, no. 1 (2022). eISSN 2754-7019. https://liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/journal/jbs. Published semiannually in association with the University of Liverpool, this title welcomes &#x22;articles of original scholarship &#x2026; performance and exhibition reviews covering ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983527">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/145/image/coversmall New Periodicals 2026-02-24 text/html en-US New Periodicals 2026-02-24 2026 TWO Project MUSE® 53496 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 2026-02-24 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983524 <p></p> Johann Christian Bach. Zanaida. Edited by Paul Corneilson with introduction by Michael Burden. Packard Humanities Institute, 2025. (Operas and dramatic works, v. 5) [1 score (lv, 266 p.) ISBN 9781938325588. $75]Johann Christian Bach. Carattaco. Edited by Jason B. Grant with introduction by Stephen Roe. Packard Humanities Institute, 2025. (Operas and dramatic works, v. 7) [1 score (xliii, 312 p.) ISBN 9781938325601. $75]These are two of fifteen projected volumes that will contain the major secular vocal compositions of Johann Christian Bach. The latter, youngest son of Johann Sebastian Bach, has long been recognized as a major mid-eighteenth-century composer, important especially for his influence on the young ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983527">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/145/image/coversmall Zanaida by Johann Christian Bach, and: Carattaco by Johann Christian Bach (review) 2026-02-24 text/html en-US Zanaida by Johann Christian Bach, and: Carattaco by Johann Christian Bach (review) 2026-02-24 2026 TWO Project MUSE® 26753 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 2026-02-24 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983525 <p></p> Franz Schubert. Der Spiegelritter, D. 11. Edited by Felix Loy. B&#xE4;renreiter-Verlag, 2023. (Neue Schubert Ausgabe. Serie II, Band 11). [1 score (xxviii, 221 p.) BA 5582-01. $385]The posthumous fate of composers can be fickle: some die in obscurity and never live to witness their reversal of favor with the public; others enjoy fame in their lifetimes but gradually fade into anonymity. The reputation of Franz Schubert leans more towards the former case. Locally recognized during his lifetime for his songs, Schubert died with unfulfilled aspirations to greater recognition and memorialized as the &#x22;prince of song&#x22; on his tombstone. However, from the mid-nineteenth century to the present, his reputation has undergone a ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983527">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/145/image/coversmall Der Spiegelritter by Franz Schubert (review) 2026-02-24 text/html en-US Der Spiegelritter by Franz Schubert (review) 2026-02-24 2026 TWO Project MUSE® 15871 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 2026-02-24 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983526 <p></p> This column presents a comprehensive list of new music publications sent recently by publishers and distributors for possible review in Notes. Self-published music is listed when a source of acquisition is provided. The primary aim of this column is to provide brief listings of a broad range of new editions of music, thereby assisting in the selection and ordering for libraries or personal collections. After preparing the listing, the publications are sent selectively to Matthew Ertz, the &#x22;Music Reviews&#x22; column editor. Many thanks to Melvin Nimtz for assistance with this column.Scholarly &#x26; Historical Editions: Primarily volumes of collected editions and monumental series. Extensive critical apparatus is generally ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983527">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/145/image/coversmall Quarterly Scores List 2026-02-24 text/html en-US Quarterly Scores List 2026-02-24 2026 TWO Project MUSE® 18316 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 2026-02-24 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983527 <p></p> Page 297 of the December 2025 issue of Notes incorrectly identified the &#x22;Quarterly Scores List&#x22; as consisting of &#x22;Operas by Indigenous Composers.&#x22; The subtitle should have been &#x22;Music by Indigenous Composers.&#x22; We regret the ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983527">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/145/image/coversmall Communications 2026-02-24 text/html en-US Communications 2026-02-24 2026 TWO Project MUSE® 1225 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 2026-02-24