Music & Musical Performance, New Issue Publication Notice

The Wide-Ranging New Issue (No. 7) of Music & Musical Performance: An
International Journal

Music & Musical Performance: An International Journal is an open-access publication that
anybody can click on, read, or download. No subscription, no password:
https://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/mmp/.

—The word “Performance” in the title is meant to suggest that, in addition
to topics of the more usual sorts, we welcome contributions specifically addressing the
pleasures and challenges involved in the acts of making music and listening to it.

—The journal generally publishes two issues a year, identified by month and year
(there are no “volumes”). Issue 6 consisted entirely of a Memorial Colloquy for
Richard Taruskin, in which his ideas, writings, and interactions with colleagues were
explored by scholars from five nations, including Rose Rosengard Subotnik, Christopher H.
Gibbs, Marina Ritzarev, and nine others.

—The recently released Issue
7—https://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/mmp/vol1/iss7/—contains six scholarly articles
or essays on widely disparate topics. Several of the six articles and the reviews touch upon
performance issues. And all treat important topics that either have been neglected thus far
or are here treated in a fresh and enlightening manner.

—Martin Nedbal treats a major operatic project by Musorgsky that immediately preceded
Boris Godunov. Robert L. Marshall engages with some basic issues raised by Karol
Berger’s influential study, Bach’s Cycle, Mozart’s Arrow, Mary Natvig
gives a detailed account of the musical activities on an important musical patron and
organizer in early twentieth-century Ohio (Helen Beach Jones), Jürgen Thym reflects on
the contributions of music-theory scholar (and translator) John Rothgeb, and James Porter
offers an intriguing compare/contrast of two settings of the same Walt Whitman poem and a
separate article reflecting on his series of six such articles (published in this or other
journals) that examine two pieces side by side.

–The ten reviews are likewise wide-ranging in topic and approach: Peter Bloom on Berlioz,
George Adams on Philip Elwell, Keenan Reesor on Taruskin’s final book, James Parsons on
Lieder, Diana R. Hallman on a festschrift for H. Robert Cohen, Alison Maggart on esotericism
and music, Michael Mario Albrecht on pop music, Philip C. Carli on Wm. V. Wallace, Charles
Lwanga on music in Kenya, and Jennifer Ronyak on a new and different recording of
“Winterreise”

Ralph Locke
RLocke@esm.rochester.edu