This bibliography presents selected articles, books, electronic documents, and other sources that are useful in understanding scholarly electronic publishing efforts on the Internet and other networks.

Scholarly electronic publishing bibliography

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This bibliography lists citations of English-language articles, books and other printed and electronic sources that are useful in understanding scholarly electronic publishing efforts on the Internet. Most sources have been published from 1990 through 2007; however, a limited number of key sources published prior to 1990 are also included.

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Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography: 2008 Annual Edition

Music in the market-place

From the advent of electronic music, and even from early organ consoles and other remote manipulated instruments, much of the design and research of new musical interfaces has focused on abstracting (both physically and in the design process) the “controller” from the “synthesizer” and then investigating how to best interface those two classes of hardware with each other and the player. Yet, many of the striking lessons from our history of intimate expressive musical instruments lie in the blurred boundaries between player, controller, and sound producing object. Bowed strings, winds, and certainly the human voice all blur these boundaries, both in the design and construction of the “instrument” and in the resulting controls and expressions. This article looks at some of the issues involved with creating new expressive electronic musical instruments, and presents an overview of a number of recent projects in the co-design of musical controllers and computer sound synthesis algorithms. Specific cases are d...

Remutualizing the Musical Instrument: Co-Design of Synthesis Algorithms and Controllers

This book is a new edition of the most comprehensive life-and-works study of the great Baroque-era organist and composer Dieterich Buxtehude (ca. 1637-1707), released to celebrate the tercentenary of the composer's death. Originally published in 1987 and long out of print, "Dieterich Buxtehude: Organist in Lubeck" is considered by most musicologists to be the definitive biography. It also includes close description of Buxtehude's compositional output, from trio sonatas to the famed Abendmusiken: Buxtehude's yearly oratorio presentations. The young J. S. Bach traveled to Lubeck on foot in 1705 to learn as much as he could from the great master of the organ and of Lutheran church music. The revised edition contains new information on the organs that Buxtehude played in Scandinavia and Lubeck, excerpts from the newly available account books from St. Mary's in Lubeck, a discussion of newly discovered sources, including one written by J. S. Bach, an evaluation of recent scholarship on Buxtehude, and an extensive bibliography. Written for both the casual reader and the serious scholar. The accompanying CD provides examples of all genres discussed in the book - vocal works, a trio sonata, harpsichord music, and organ music newly recorded on the North German meantone organ in Gothenburg, Sweden, by a noted specialist in this repertoire, Hans Davidsson, who is professor of organ at the University of Rochester's Eastman School of Music and the founder of the Goteborg Organ Art Center (GOArt). Kerala J. Snyder is professor emerita of musicology, Eastman School of Music (University of Rochester).

Dieterich Buxtehude, organist in Lübeck

The Organ as A Mirror of Its Time

The Journal of Seventeenth-Century Music is not found on any bookshelf, but only on the World Wide Web. [1] I predict that in the year 2030, it will still be publishing on the Web, or whatever its cyberspace successor might be, and will have reached its volume thirty-six. And I further predict that by that year every music journal will be published electronically, and that few of them, if any, will be printing on paper. Here in the year 2000, 1 stand exactly halfway between that seemingly distant date, 2030, and the year in which I received my Ph.D. degree, 1970. I began subscribing to the Journal of the American Musicological Society as a graduate student in 1968, the year that the American Musicological Society held its annual meeting in New Haven. My bookshelf is now sagging beneath the weight of all those issues of JAMS, most of which I confess I have not read from cover to cover, except for those few years when I served on the editorial board. My overcrowded study represents a tiny fraction of the problem most libraries face in trying to find space for all those books and journals, and weighing their subscription lists carefully as the prices continue to rise. But apart from that, if every music journal were starting fresh today, without any past history, why would anyone want to publish a music journal on paper, which can offer musical sounds only to those readers who can conjure them up in their imaginations from printed music examples? Paper is wonderful for holding and reading text, and a printed music example can often convey an analytical point more quickly than ten hearings. I myself print out nearly everything from the Web that I want to read. But paper cannot sing! Most of the members of the Society for Seventeenth-Century Music did not see it that way in 1994, however, when they authorized their publication committee to produce a prototype electronic journal. We were then a very new society, only two years old, and we wanted to have a journal in order to establish our identity and support our community of scholarly interests. When we began to explore this issue in 1993, virtually everyone automatically assumed that ajournal meant a printed journal. This was the avenue that we first investigated, and it was only when we had learned that our membership was too small to support a printed journal without exorbitant cost that the society agreed to consider the electronic route. Most of us had not even heard of the Web in 1994. Three enthusiasts worked together on that prototype issue: John Howard, who had put RISM (Repertoire international des sources musicales) onto the Web; [2] Robert Judd, who was then managing Music Theory Online; [3] and I. With their greater technological knowledge, the division of labor was clear: I would edit the articles, as in a print journal; Bob would mark up the text using hypertext markup language (HTML); and John would publish it on the Web via the RISM server at Harvard. I still remember the exhilaration of showing off that first issue in the exhibition hall of the 1995 American Musicological Society meeting as "the journal that sings." John had rented a laptop computer on which we demonstrated Sally Sanford's audio examples for her article comparing French and Italian singing in the seventeenth century. The members of the Society for Seventeenth-Century Music adopted the Journal of Seventeenth-Century Music as their official journal at that meeting, and now we have reached volume six, number one, our first special issue devoted to a single topic, the patronage of sacred music in seventeenth-century Italy. Jeffrey Kurtzman served as guest editor, and it contains articles by Noel O'Regan, Edmond Strainchamps, and Kimberlyn Montford, with responses by Robert R. Holzer, Susan Parisi, and Robert Kendrick, respectively. There are many other electronic journals. I am told that the Yale University Library has some 7,600 titles on its master list of electronic journals and databases. …

Electronic Journals and the Future of Scholarly Communication

Because it has always represented a rich collaboration of the music, art, architecture, handicraft and science of its day, the organ, more than any other instrument, continues to reflect the spirit of the age in which it was built. The Organ as a Mirror of its Time, the first book to consider this instrument's historical and cultural significance, reflects the efforts of twenty leading scholars of the organ. The book chronicles the history of six organs in Scandinavia and Northern Germany, at least one specimen for every century from 1600 to the present. By considering their original contexts and their histories since they were built, as well as the extraordinary coincidences that link them together, the book offers a unique perspective on the cultural history of northern Europe. A CD with appropriate repertoire played on each of the six instruments accompanies the book.

Kerala J. Snyder

Papers

Dieterich Buxtehude, organist in Lübeck

The Organ as A Mirror of Its Time

Electronic Journals and the Future of Scholarly Communication

The organ as a mirror of its time : north European reflections, 1610-2000

Organs As Historical And Aesthetic Mirrors