=== === ============= ==== === === == == == == == ==== == == = == ==== === == == == == == == == = == == == == == == == == == ==== M U S I C T H E O R Y O N L I N E A Publication of the Society for Music Theory Copyright (c) 1999 Society for Music Theory +-------------------------------------------------------------+ | Volume 5, Number 2 MARCH, 1999 ISSN: 1067-3040 | +-------------------------------------------------------------+ All queries to: mto-editor@smt.ucsb.edu or to mto-manager@smt.ucsb.edu +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ File: mto.99.5.1.bks Boydell & Brewer Richard Rastall, The Heaven Singing: Music in Early English Religious Drama Peter Pears (ed. Philip Reed), The Travel Diaries of Peter Pears, 1936-1978 _______________ *The Heaven Singing: Music in Early English Religious Drama* Richard Rastall "Its scope is impressive. Rastall's task has been to explore the wide musical spectrum of early English drama... a formidable achievement, indispensable for any serious and comprehensive study of early English drama." _Medium aevum_ Where should there be music in an anomymous English religious play of the fifteenth or sixteenth century? What sort of music should it be, and by what forces should it be performed? This volume shows how music was used at the time of the plays' production, both through a close examination of individual texts, and of the place of music in the intellectual and artistic life of the Middle Ages. 1 color illus -, 10 b/w illus., 61 line illus.; 454pp, 234 X 156, 0-85991550-6, L19.99 $36.00 c.April 1999 Boydell & Brewer PO Box 9, Woodbridge, Suffolk IP12 3DF Tel: 01394-411320; Fax: 01394-411477 PO Box 41026, Rochester, NY 14604-4126 _______________ *The Travel Diaries of Peter Pears, 1936-1978* Peter Pears Edited by Philip Reed "A valuable source of material on the musical development of both Pears and Benjamin Britten ... a 'must' for those interested in either." _Opera Journal_ This volume brings together all the travel diaries of Peter Pears (1910-1986). The first diary dates from 1936, the year before Pears's friendship with Britten began, when he went on tour in North America with the New English Singers. Other diaries record the five-month tour of the Far East and important encounters (especially for Britten) with the gamelan music of Bali and the Japanese Noh theatre; visits to Russia as guests of Mstistav Rostropovich and his wife Galina Vishnevskaya; attendance at the Ansbach Bach festival when Pears was at the height of his career; holidays in the Caribbean and Italy, a concert tour of the north of England, and accounts of the rehearsals and performances of the New York premieres of 'Billy Budd' and 'Death in Venice'. The diaries, rendered in Pears's highly individual prose, reveal much of his cultivated personality and add significantly to knowledge of Britten. They have been scrupulously annotated by Philip Reed, formerly at the Britten-Pears Library, now at English National Opera. 16 b/w illus.; 272pp, 234 x 156, 0-85115-741-6, c. $31.00 c.May 1999 US: Boydell & Brewer, Inc. PO Box 41026, Rochester, NY 14604-4126 +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ Copyright Statement [1] *Music Theory Online* (*MTO*) as a whole is Copyright (c) 1999, all rights reserved, by the Society for Music Theory, which is the owner of the journal. Copyrights for individual items published in (*MTO*) are held by their authors. Items appearing in *MTO* may be saved and stored in electronic or paper form, and may be shared among individuals for purposes of scholarly research or discussion, but may *not* be republished in any form, electronic or print, without prior, written permission from the author(s), and advance notification of the editors of *MTO*. [2] Any redistributed form of items published in *MTO* must include the following information in a form appropriate to the medium in which the items are to appear: This item appeared in *Music Theory Online* in [VOLUME #, ISSUE #] on [DAY/MONTH/YEAR]. It was authored by [FULL NAME, EMAIL ADDRESS], with whose written permission it is reprinted here. [3] Libraries may archive issues of *MTO* in electronic or paper form for public access so long as each issue is stored in its entirety, and no access fee is charged. Exceptions to these requirements must be approved in writing by the editors of *MTO*, who will act in accordance with the decisions of the Society for Music Theory. +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ END OF *MTO* ITEM