Special Journal Issues
Tracey Rudnick · Notes · 2005
Column editor's note: at this writing, special issues are not always readily apparent in journals that are accessed electronically through publisher Web sites. These online resources frequently omit cover and title pages, and do not fully reproduce table-of-contents pages that would identify special issues. Even if the reader discerns the presence of a special issue by reading the editorial and table of contents, it is still frequently not possible to identify the precise subtitle. This column editor is contacting selected publishers in hopes of rectifying the problem. Black Research Journal (BMRJ). Vol. 21, no. 2 (Fall 2001): Samuel Coleridge-Taylor. Dominique-Rene de Lerma's introductory essay traces the recording history of Coleridge-Taylor's works; other articles explore the composer's youthful works, marriage (and British sociology), chamber works, his visits to the United States (laying the groundwork for the Harlem Renaissance), racial dichotomy and attitudes (pertaining to the African diaspora), criticism of Hiawatha, and research lacunae. Vol. 22, supplement (2002): Best of BMRJ. Scholars selected ten of BMRJ's most frequently cited, high impact articles for republication in celebration of the journal's twentieth anniversary. Cambridge Opera Journal 15, no. 3 (November 2003). This special issue devoted to Venice, opera, dance, and in particular the work of the late Irene Alm, includes an article that distills central chapters of Alm's unfinished book manuscript on theatrical dance in Venetian opera. Computer Journal. Vol. 28, no. 3 (Fall 2004): Metrical, Harmonic, and Motivic Analysis. Vol. 28, no. 4 (Winter 2004): Modeling Pitch Curves in Nonwestern Music. Contemporary Review. Vol. 22, nos. 1-2 (March-June 2003): Temperaments, Tonalities and Microtonalities. Vol. 22, no. 3 (September 2003): Evolutionary Music: At the Crossroads of Evolutionary Computing and Musicology. The emerging field of evolutionary music (EM) draws from biological organisms, ecologies, and systems to generate musical ideas or model cultural transmission and change of the body of musical ideas of a population over (p. 2); articles explore applications and tools for both musical creation and research. Vol. 23, no. 1 (March 2004): Edgard Varese ... Offerings. Vol. 23, no. 2 (June 2004): Edgard Varese ... New Worlds. Vol. 23, nos. 3-4 (September-December 2004): Helmut Lachenmann--Inward Beauty. This issue includes background information on the composer, interviews, essays by the composer (translated for the first time), homages, serious and lighter articles on the works, and photographs. The online version is also supposed to include a bibliography and works list, but this was not confirmed. Vol. 24, no. 1 (February 2005): continues the focus on Lachenmann. Current Musicology 75 (Spring 2003): Festschrift in Honor of Christopher Hatch. Early 32, no. 3 (August 2004). This themed issue on early music outside of Europe includes music at Corpus Christi in colonial Cuzco; a colonial-era monastery of La Merced, Santiago de Chile; the loa in eighteenth-century Manila; and Missionaries, Keyboards and Musical Exchange in the Ming and Qing courts. Ethnomusicology Forum. Vol. 13, no. 1 (January 2004): themed issue with six articles on the Jewish Diaspora. Vol. 13, no. 2 (November 2004): semi-focus on Music and the Disney Theme Park Experience (three articles). Journal of New Research 33, no. 2 (June 2004): Special Issue: Perspectives on Xenakis. Journal of Popular Studies 14, no. 1 (March 2002): Special Section: 9/11. writers Geoffrey Jacques and Mark Anthony Neal (invited by the editorial collective) share their thoughts about music in this time of crisis....[and] how their experience of music has been changed by September 11 and the ensuing days (p. 1). Journal of Seventeenth-Century (JSCM). …