Volume 31, Number 20 · December 20, 1984
A Christmas Roundup
By Robert Craft
Principles of the Harpsichord
by Monsieur de Saint Lambert, translated and edited by Rebecca Harris-Warrick
Cambridge University Press, 138 pp., $14.95 (paper)
Postscript to 'The Name of the Rose'
by Umberto Eco, translated by William Weaver
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 84 pp., $8.95
Egon Schiele, an Exhibition
Museo d'Arte Moderna Ca' Pesaro, Venice (August 26–November 25)
Egon Schiele
by Serge Sabarsky
Edizione Mazzotta, 197 pp., 25,000 lire (paper)
Lulu: The Operas of Alban Berg, Volume II
by George Perle
University of California Press, 315 pp., $35.00
One of the most useful and enjoyable books to appear this year is the first English version of Saint Lambert's 1702 classic Les Principles du Clavecin Contenant une Explication exact de tout ce qui concerne la Tablature et le Clavier. The translation is felicitous, the introduction and notes are an uncommon instance of musical scholarship lucidly presented, and the volume is elegantly produced—format, cover (with Thomas Hill's painting Garton Orme at the Spinet), quality of paper, print, and music examples (both in facsimile and, for those containing more than one part, modern notation). This second publication in the Cambridge Musical Texts and Monographs series deserves high praise.
Review, 4246 words
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