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Notes: Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association, is regarded as the foremost scholarly journal for music libraries and librarianship. Since 1931, Notes has presented interesting, informative, and well-written articles on music librarianship, music bibliography, the music trade, discography, and certain aspects of music history. Each quarterly issue offers critical reviews of significant books and printed music, as well as columns providing complete bibliographic citations for new books, music, and music publishers' catalogs.
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Volume 80, Number 3, March 2024Table of Contents
Notes for Notes
Book Reviews
Edited by Brien Weiner
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View Bach against Modernity by Michael Marissen, and: Bach in the World: Music, Society, and Representation in Bach’s Cantatas by Markus Rathey, and: Music and Urban Life in Baroque Germany by Tanya Kevorkian (review)
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View Karl Straube (1873–1950): Germany’s Master Organist in Turbulent Times by Christopher Anderson (review)
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Stage and Screen
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View A Fine Romance: Adapting Broadway to Hollywood in the Studio System Era by Geoffrey Block (review)
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pp. 491-494pp. 494-499pp. 499-501Organology
pp. 501-504pp. 504-507pp. 507-510The City That Never Sleeps
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View The Williamsburg Avant-Garde: Experimental Music and Sound on the Brooklyn Waterfront by Cisco Bradley (review)
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pp. 514-517Music, Culture, and Politics
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View Sonic Overload: Alfred Schnittke, Valentin Silvestrov, and Polystylism in the Late USSR by Peter J. Schmelz (review)
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View Musical Lives and Times Examined: Keynotes and Clippings, 2006–2019 by Richard Taruskin (review)
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Women Musicians
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View Singing Sappho: Improvisation and Authority in Nineteenth-Century Italian Opera by Melina Esse (review)
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Jazz, Folk, and Rock
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View The Routledge Companion to Jazz and Gender ed. by James Reddan, Monika Herzig, and Michael Kahr (review)
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View The Dylan Tapes: Friends, Players, and Lovers Talking Early Bob Dylan by Anthony Scaduto (review)
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pp. 539-541Recording History
pp. 541-544pp. 544-547Spain, Medieval and Modern
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View Understanding the Old Hispanic Office: Texts, Melodies and Devotion in Early Medieval Iberia by Emma Hornby, Kati Ihnat, Rebecca Maloy, and Raquel Rojo Carrillo (review)
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pp. 550-553Classroom, Concert Hall, and Kitchen
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View Feasting and Fasting in Opera: From Renaissance Banquets to the Callas Diet by Pierpaolo Polzonetti (review)
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Books Recently Published
Music Reviews
Edited by Matthew Ertz
The First Volume in Bärenreiter’s Collected Works of Tartini
A Little-Known Operatic Masterwork by Bizet
pp. 572-575A New Reconstruction of Mozart’s Requiem
pp. 576-579




