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THEMATIC INDEX OF ARTICLES –
MP has now indexed its articles thematically. All articles will now be listed both on the current reverse chronological page (i.e. most recent is top) and on this page, which is ordered by subject. You can jump straight to the subject you want using the list that follows here, or scroll down to see all subjects.
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1) media
Books
Printed Music etc.
Surveys of recorded music
Music on radio, TV and film
2) writing
on Criticism
on Composition and Aesthetics
3) live events
Masterclasses
Research events and concerts in conservatoires, educational institutions
Lecture, commemorative and study events in concert halls / museums etc
Live music plus (concert reviews raising more general issues)
4) general
on Competitions
Performance Practice: Instruments
Technical Issues
Musical buildings and structures
Obituaries, tributes and surveys of musical figures
Music in the News
Note: within each category, articles are currently still listed in reverse chronological order unless otherwise stated.
It is obviously the case that the subjects covered by articles may overlap into more than one category - readers should search all relevant sections, but a few articles are indexed twice for clarity.
Comments and responses to Articles particularly welcomed
Book reviews (alphabetical by surname of author and /or of subject, if biography) including audio books.
Bach: A Life in Music (Peter Williams)
Book Reviews: Ruth Fleischmann 's Celebration of 50 years of Cork International Choral Festival & Aloys Fleischmann biography
David Rothenberg Why Birds Sing
Dmitri Smirnov A Geometer of Sound Crystals - A Book on Herschkowitz
Book Reviews: SERKIN, SILOTI AND PACHMANN
Dmitri
Smirnov A Geometer of Sound Crystals - A Book on Herschkowitz
Vladislav Spilman The Pianist
Holiday reading suggestion : Mortal Mischief by psychologist/musician Dr Frank Tallis, a psychological murder mystery set in musical Vienna at turn of Century, with Mahler & Freud putting in appearances.
Frank Tallis Vienna Blood (sequel to Mortal Mischief)
Conrad Williams The Concert Pianist and Vladislav Spilman The Pianist
Bach: A Life in Music (Peter Williams)
Marjorie Wright – How not to be a Bad Singer
The Making of Music (BBC Audiobooks)
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Printed music and digital study material (alphabetical by composer or editor, compilations and general at end)
Peter Feuchtwanger Piano Exercises
Claus Kühnl: Der beleidigte Papagei (The offended parrot)
Spectrum 4 (ABRSM Thalia Myers)
Franz Schmidt CD and study score
Interactive Guides to Indian Classical Music and Beethoven piano music
COPYRIGHT by Theo Wyatt
Merton Music - a publishing miracle
Recorded Music: Articles on specific works; surveys of recordings, indexed by composer, and compilations at the end.
Malcolm Arnold and Robert Simpson: the Fox and the Hedgehog
Bach Mass: Does size matter? (Bach Mass in B minor BWV 232/ Jos van Veldhoven)
Beethoven Op. 109-111 - Spiritualism informed by musicology
Beethoven: Schnabel's Beethoven recordings (2)
Beethoven Diabelli Variations revisited (Schnabel to Battersby and Uri Caine)
Clarke: Tackling James Clarke and his Isolation
Dillon: Tradition and Invention: Ian Pace ~ a personal response to Dillon's The Book of Elements
Grieg Piano Concerto: 15 and 90 - Anita Chen and Artur Rubinstein in Grieg's Piano Concerto
Haydn String Quartets: Do we really need another recording of...?
(Carducci's Haydn Quartets)
Schubert ‘Trout’ D667: Arrangements of canonic favourites
Schubert: Schubert's Piano Music (Goldstone, Schuchter, Staier and Tverskaya)
Simpson: Malcolm Arnold and Robert Simpson: the Fox and the Hedgehog
Tchaikovsky Symphonies: The Age of the Bargain Box
A day's listening... (PGW 2007)
"Musical Stretching" and H.I.P. (Homburger/Guy)
A month of Naxos
John Steane's “Dozen leading voices on record”
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Music programmes on TV and radio; musical films
Some links to listening / viewing programmes after first transmission may have a time limit.
Music and the Brain
Paul Potts (Britain's Got Talent)
Heather O'Donnell - Ives, Herrmann & Lang from Cologne
Genius Children (Channel 4 documentary film)
Prom Matinee - theatre and film on radio only! (Shostakovich)
Proms at home
Mahler/ Schönberg/Stravinsky/Berio (Frank Scheffer documentary films)
Pierre Boulez - exposition of Eclat & Sur Incises
Hear And Now Italians
Two Radio 3 Programmes ( Hear & Now and Discovering Music )
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Criticism
Do we know less about classical music?
(response to Sir Peter Maxwell Davies)
Classical Sauce: if music be the love of food....
The music critic blinks (Reflections upon Charles Rosen & Malcolm Gladwell)
EDITORIAL How we listen now? [2]
Listening to Gloriana on CD and DVD
(Responses How people listen )
How we listen now? (English Piano Quartets)
The Best? Some thoughts about hype and hyperbole
DISTINCTION by Ian Pace
HYPE AND REALITY Schubert Extravaganza
" Only a Website " - reflections on prejudice and discrimination, with reader responses
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Compostion and Aesthetics
Downie What is the Masterprize? + Reply by Ian Pace
Amateur and Expert Wieland Hoban
Macmillan ringtone ( What would Teddie Say? ) Wieland Hoban
Dmitri Smirnov - The Rhythmical Aspect of the Sacrificial Dance by Igor Stravinsky
and with a link to his article on Twelve Rhythmic Patterns of Ligeti's Lontano
Gordon Downie & Ian Pace - a dialogue about music, visual art, culture, modernism, Marxism and Britain
Tradition and Invention: a personal response by Ian Pace to Dillon's The Book of Elements and contemporary culture
New reconstruction of the Finale of Bruckner's Symphony No.9
Concepts of Rhythm in the Performance Practice of Twentieth Century Music - Mieko Kanno
Music and Utopia
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Live events – Masterclasses (indexed by surname or name of group)
Teresa Berganza Masterclasses
Malcolm Bilson ‘ Knowing the Score ' DVD and J.S. Bach master classes
José Cura Masterclass (British Youth Opera & Royal Academy of Music)
Sir Colin Davis Conducting Masterclass
Francois Le Roux Masterclass (Guildhall School)
Alexander Satz Piano Master Classes at GSMD and RCM , London
Wihan Quartet Master Class
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Live events - general events at and organised by conservatoires
Lachenmann at Royal College of Music 2006
Beethoven and Clementi (RAM Research Workshop)
Rzewski Festival (Trinity College of Music)
Another evening at RAM: Mozart, Clementi & a Marimba recital
Prokofiev Study Day (Goldsmiths College)
A day at the Royal Academy of Music
York Gate Research Seminars etc (Royal Academy of Music Public Teaching Events 2005 )
Stravinsky & Mendelssohn-Hensel (RAM research events)
SCHILLERFEST Royal Academy of Music
Christopher Wood Jerwood Library seminar
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Live events – commemorative and study events in concert halls, museums etc.
Myra Hess Celebration at the National Gallery
Takacs Quartet Lecture Recital (Bartok No 6) - 5.5.03
Inside Monteverdi Study Weekend (Let there be lights!)
Lontano at 30 (celebration concert)
Proms Composer Portrait (Jonathan Harvey)
The Music of Stefan Wolpe,Tate Modern September 2002
Mörike Lieder Study Afternoon
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Live music plus (concert reviews that raise wider issues)
Robert Levin at "Steven Isserlis Beethoven Day"
Two String Quartet recitals
Wagner Society
UK Young Singer programmes
Tokyo String Quartet (Schubert D887 at Wigmore Hall and on Radio 3 Listen Again )
Staging Shostakovich's Lady Macbeth operas in London
Operetta at Holland Park
Concerts in churches and their presentation for broadcasting (City of London Festival)
Mostly Mozart at The Barbican
Stockhausen's Mixtur in the dark
"Cutting Edges" of contemporary music (Editorial reflections)
HYPE AND REALITY Schubert Extravaganza
City of London Festival July 2005
The emphasis is upon bringing international artists into the magnificent churches and Livery Halls, with acoustic considerations secondary.
New reconstruction of the Finale of Bruckner's Symphony No.9
Got Carter? (Elliott Carter in contexts)
Responses to "Got Carter?"
Bartók String Quartet No 4 in contexts (Carter & Muzikas)
Francis Schwartz's music theatre presentations
February Reports
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About competitions
Style in the 'Art' of the International Violin Competition (Elizabeth Wallfisch Early Music Review) An important contribution to the mounting body of literature expressing concern about music performance competitions
Guardian/BBC Proms Young Composers Competition
- hear the winning compositions online (Duncan Ward - Trinity & Dartford)
Performance practice; instruments
Playing Bach's Clavieruebungen (Peter Watchorn on Elizabeth de la Porte)
New & Old; Loud & Soft (British Clavichord Society 31 March 2007)
The Pianola Institute 21st Anniversary
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Technical issues
About CD booklets
Is Sound Quality declining? (Ying Chang)
Yet More about filming at concerts another view
More about filming at concerts (Proms 2007)
New transfers of recordings out of copyright: Bach Goldberg Variations; Partita No. 5 (Glenn Gould; Obert-Thorn transfer)
Does Sound Quality Matter?
Computer models of interpretations in Musicology:
The Mazurka Project (4)
Listening on computer to Cavalli's Apollo & Dafne (Naxos CD)
Amplification of Indian music: Totally acoustic (Trilok Gurtu at QEH)
Sign language: Signing Handel's Xerxes at ENO
The end of the Surtitles Controversy
Amplification: "Why not amplify?"
Digital media: Who'll need CDs? (Aviv & Jerusalem String Quartets on the internet, etc)
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Musical Buildings /structures – indexed alphabetically by building
Listening outside the Barbican Hall
Mostly Mozart at The Barbican
Concerts in churches and their presentation for broadcasting (City of London Festival)
City of London Festival July 2005
The emphasis is upon bringing international artists into the magnificent churches and Livery Halls, with acoustic considerations secondary.
Destruction during Renovation - the Cutty Sark
Opera Holland Park - Testing the new Theatre
Operetta at Holland Park
Mozart House - Mozart Experience
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Surveys of musical figures - obituaries and general, alphabetical by surname,
Felix Aprahamian - self-taught music critic
Shura Cherkassky - Philip Fowke lecture at Trinity College of Music
Heather O'Donnell on Charles Ives
LUIGI NONO AND THE BRITISH MUSICAL 'INTELLIGENTSIA'
Luis de Pablo at 75
Luis de Pablo Article originally published in Music Web
Prokofiev in America (50th Anniversary Conference & Recital at University of London)
Rostropovich (1927-2007)
Scelsi, a memoir - Natura Renovatur
Ustvolskaya Obituary (PGW in The Guardian, 13 January 2007)
Critical Notice (Unknown Public and BMIC) contemporary British composers
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Music in the News
The Joyce Hatto hoax 2007 (1)
Hatto Week 2; fictitious recordings and blind listenings (2)
Hatto: her widower's "confession" (3)
Hatto Research: The Mazurka Project (4)
Hatto – The End of the Affair
Sawkins, Ex Cathedra and Hyperion
Blinkers off ! (Musica Sacra 2006 threatened)
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Links & URLs to PGW's S&H reviews & reports since 1999
Musical Pointers Launch & mission statement (2002)
Alexa's Hats Parade
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