161st year

From the Spring 2005 Musical Times,
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In memoriam

Susan Bradshaw

Eric Sams

Felix Aprahamian

Articles

Donald Burrows: ‘The word-books for Handel’s performances of Samson’

David Cormack: ‘ “Wir welken und sterben dahinnen”: Carrie Pringle and the solo Flowermaidens of 1882’

Kevin O’Connell: ‘Stanford and the gods of modern music’

Jonathan R. Pieslak: ‘The challenges of plurality within contemporary composition’

Eno Koço: ‘Shostakovich, Kadaré and the nature of dissidence: an Albanian view’

Robin Maconie: ‘Musical acoustics in the age of Vitruvius’

Irving Godt: ‘Music: a practical definition’

Reviews

by Patricia Howard, Christopher Fox, Allen Shawn, Andrew Thomson, Chris Collins, John Fallas, Wilfrid Mellers, Lyn Henderson and Chris Walton of:

Paul Kildea, ed.: Britten on music
Donald Mitchell, Philip Reed & Mervyn Cooke, edd.: Letters from a life: selected letters of Benjamin Britten, volume 3: 1946–51
Claire Seymour: The operas of Benjamin Britten: expression and evasion
Nicholas Cook & Anthony Pople: The Cambridge history of twentieth-century music
Robert Craft: An improbable life: memoirs
David Fanning: Shostakovich: String Quartet no.8
Rachel Bekles Willson: György Kurtág: The Sayings of Péter Bornemisza
Robert Adlington: Louis Andriessen: De Staat
Daniel M. Grimley, ed.: The Cambridge companion to Sibelius
Arved Ashby, ed.: The pleasure of modernist music: listening, meaning, intention, ideology
Michael Broyles: Mavericks and other traditions in American music
Laurel E. Fay, ed.: Shostakovich and his world
Horst Weber & Manuela Schwartz, edd.: Quellen zur Geschichte emigrierter Musiker 1933–1950, vol.1: California

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