Fassler hagiographic on Hildegard; Zanovello enlightening on sacred music and architecture in Renaissance Florence; Polzonetti on Tartini's instrumental music used for devotion of Saint Anthony's relics; Quillen on the politics and economics of new music in post-Soviet Russia; very mixed colloquy on the Lied, which strains to make its points sound more imporatant by gussied up theoretical language (borders on self-parody at times). various reviews. A fairly average issue of the Journal. ( )

Maloy on the development of Old Hispanic chant. Ferraguto on Beethoven's use of Russian folksongs in a learned style. Chybowski on Elizabeth Taylor, a black American singer in the 19th century. Givan on Schuller's analysis of Sonny Rollins. Various reviews, notably on digital media and scholarship. ( )

Richards on CPE Bach's portraits; Leistra-Jones on Brahms & Joachim; Tunbridge on Hempel's historical recitals; Berger on missionary music in German Tanganyika; colloquy on cosmopolitanism & nationalism ( )

Grier fascinating on musical literacy in teh 11th century; Anderson on musical symbolism in teh Renaissance; Esse on remnants of improvvisatrice practice in 19th opera; Barg on Stratyhorn; mixed bag olloquy ( )

Journal of the American Musicological Society 66/1 (Spring 2013) - Sisman fascinating, but not totally convincing on the cosmological aspects of Haydn's Tageszeiten symphonies; Gossett is learned and sensible on scholarly editions of Verdi and Puccini; Bick celebrates Cowell's role in the music program at the New School for Social Research; Hess excellent on Copland's several trips to Argentina through Argentine eyes; several scholars in colloquy on Rousseau, not of much interest to me, almost tangentially related to music. Various reviews. ( )