spring 2012 Volume 153 Number 1918 issn 0027 4666
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Musical Times the musical times Spring 2012 1 ARTICLES Michael Graubart Beethoven’s Ninth: where does 3 integration happen? Chris Walton Upstairs, downstairs: acoustics and 7 tempi in Wagner’s ‘Träume’ and Siegfried idyll Arnold Whittall Reforging The ring: origins and 19 new beginnings Maria Euchner The ring’s Rhinemaidens: singing 37 seductresses or women of wisdom? Kerry McCarthy More books from the library of 53 & John Harley William Byrd Alan Howard The sources of John Blow’s Ode on 61 the death of Mr Henry Purcell (1696) Ian Bartlett Was Boyce a Mason? 87 Simon Fleming Charles Avison jnr and his book of 97 organ voluntaries REVIEW-ARTICLE Andrew Thomson Heaven & hell 107 Hans von Bülow: a life for music by Kenneth Birkin BOOK REVIEWS Arnold Whittall In deep 115 Metaphors of depth in German musical thought from E.T.A. Hoffman to Arnold Schoenberg by Holly Watkins
