[Ralph P. Locke]

The Wide-Ranging New Issue (No. 5) 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 fee, 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. (I am writing this as an active member of the advisory editorial board.)

—The recently release Issue 4 contains five scholarly articles on widely disparate topics. The authors include renowned specialist scholars, such as the Bach and Mozart authority Robert Marshall and the specialist on German lieder, Stephen Rodgers, plus an insightful essay by the composer Jeremy Gill. Each of the three reviews addresses, at least at times, performance issues, not least in the mass media (television and film). And all, like the articles, treat important topics that either have been neglected thus far or are here treated in a fresh and enlightening manner. One of the reviews, by Jürgen Thym, is given in German as well as English, continuing M&MP’s effort at being, as our subtitle has it, an international journal.

Articles

Indigenous Form, Innovative Harmony, and Ingenious Rhythm in Manuel de Falla’s “Aragonesa”
Richard E. Mueller Ph.D.

In Praise of Simplicity: Marie Hinrichs’s op. 1, Neun Gesänge
Stephen Rodgers

Mozart’s Jewish Librettist: A Brief History of a Poorly Kept Secret
Robert L. Marshall

Metric Expressivity: An Introduction
Felipe Avellar de Aquino

Orthography
Jeremy Gill

Reviews

Maestro, directed by Bradley Cooper. 2023.
Elizabeth A. Wells

Beethoven the European, edited by Malcolm Miller and William Kinderman. Turnhout: Brepols, 2023 [review].
Jürgen Thym

Beethoven the European, edited by Malcolm Miller and William Kinderman. Turnhout: Brepols, 2023 [review, German].

Jürgen Thym

The Music for “Victory at Sea”: Richard Rodgers, Robert Russell Bennett, and the Making of a TV Masterpiece, by George J. Ferencz. Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2023 [review].
Elizabeth A. Wells

Contributors

Contributors to Issue 5
Rob Haskins

—Articles in the first four issues of M&MP have already been downloaded by hundreds of readers, many of whom seem to have located the article through a keyword search.

—But I (speaking not just as an advisory editor but also as someone who contributes an occasional review) hope that more and more people will also look at entire issues of M&MP, not just single articles on one particular topic. They’ll find intriguing and important research, reflections, and documents about the art and practice of music in different places and times, including today.

—Some people have been wondering why the journal “Music & Musical Performance” has Florida International University as its institutional home. Briefly, it’s because one of the six Chief Editors, Tom Moore (Stephen Thomas Moore), is music librarian there, and he arranged for the library to be the journal’s home. We’ve had great support from the library staff, who catch little problems almost before they occur.

—The other Chief Editors of M&MP are located at universities in New Hampshire (Rob Haskins), Texas (Luisa Nardini), and—beyond the US—Brasilia (Beatriz Magalhães-Castro), Brussels (Catalina Vicens), and Melbourne (Melanie Plesch). https://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/mmp/editorialboard.html

—The Advisory Editorial Board is likewise intensively international, and similarly diverse in methodology and in areas of expertise (e.g., repertory).

—We encourage scholars, as well as performers with thoughts to share, to submit proposals or finished articles/essays through the online portal. Please read the guidelines before uploading anything! This helps us because we have no paid staff to, for example, standardize footnote citations. Looking forward to sharing issue 6 (nearly complete) with our growing readership!

Ralph P. Locke

Professor Emeritus of Musicology, Eastman School of Music (University of Rochester)
Senior Editor, Eastman Studies in Music (University of Rochester Press)

Research Affiliate, University of Maryland School of Music

RLocke@esm.rochester.edu

also: Ralph.P.Locke@gmail.com

Short biography and list of published writings: https://www.esm.rochester.edu/faculty/locke_ralph/   

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