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Autumn 2001

Different: In this issue’s guest editorial, Ivan Hewett considers the spectre haunting music, the spectre of ‘fusion’.

‘Renewal’ in recent British music: In this issue’s online feature article, Remastering the past, Richard Witts writes about a backward tendency among some senior British composers.

Articles in print

Overlapping opposites Arnold Whittall explores some approaches to Schoenberg: One sentence in Roberto Gerhard’s programme-book tribute (written in 1961: Gerhard had died in 1970) encapsulated the favoured way of accounting for man and work: ‘Schoenberg’s sense of belonging to a tradition and of working in the main stream of that tradition is alive in every phase of his evolution, even at his most boldly innovating.’

Mutually speaking Nicola Walker Smith encounters Wolff and Feldman: In 1973, Morton Feldman invited Christian Wolff to SUNY, Buffalo, where Feldman had recently been appointed the Varèse Professor of Music. In this brief introductory talk, given before a performance of Wolff’s music, Feldman gives a rare insight into the powerful impact that Christian Wolff had on the members of the so-called ‘New York School’ of composers in the 1950s.

Trumpet major Eric Altschuler considers the attribution of a celebrated fanfare, questioning whether Bach wrote the fanfare in Gottfried Reiche’s portrait.

A postcard from Rome? Christopher Maxim discusses Hugh Facy’s Ave Maria Stella, a little-known keyboard peice by the enigmatic seventeenth-century composer.

Books reviewed this issue

Deep water Nigel Simeone on La vie musicale sous Vichy Edited by Myriam Chimènes, and The music of Maurice Ohana by Caroline Rae

Flight paths Peter Williams on Theories of fugue from the age of Josquin to the age of Bach by Paul Mark Walker

Key advice Ann Bond on Early keyboard instruments: a practical guide by David Rowland

Lifelines Anthony Gritten on The atonal music of Arnold Schoenberg 1908–1923 by Bryan R. Simms

Text messages David Beard on Reading pop: approaches to textual analysis in popular music Edited by Richard Middleton

Review articles

All too human? Ivan Hewett welcomes three celebrations of timeless critical values

Fruit of good works William Drabkin engages with some recent Beethovenia

Under the microscope Richard Drakeford assesses some new writing on Bartók

Ladies intellectual Andrew Thomson lambasts a trend in modern musicology reviews