Editorial: Trends and Serendipities ANNEGRET FAUSER
Articles
An Early Modern Hebrew Poem on Music in
Its Beginnings and at the End of Time
DON HARR�N
��wie ihn
uns Meister D�rer gemalt! �: Contest,
Myth, and Prophecy in Wagner�s Die Meistersinger von N�rnberg LYDIA GOEHR
�I have tried to capture you . . .�:
Rethinking the �Alma� Theme from Mahler�s Sixth Symphony
SETH MONAHAN
Goal-Directed Soul? Analyzing Rhythmic
Teleology in African American Popular Music
ROBERT FINK
Reviews
The Great Transformation of Musical
Taste: Concert Programming from Haydn to
Brahms,
by William Weber
BENJAMIN WALTON
Music in the Galant
Style, by Robert O. Gjerdingen; and
The Art of Musical Phrasing in the
Eighteenth
Century: Punctuating the Classical �Period,� by Stephanie D. Vial
MARY SUE MORROW
Musical Exoticism: Images and
Reflections, by Ralph P. Locke
SINDHUMATHI REVULURI
Jewish Identities: Nationalism, Racism,
and Utopianism in Twentieth-Century
Music, by Kl�ra M�ricz
MARK SLOBIN