Book Review: THE RAMEAU COMPENDIUM

(ProQuest: ... denotes non-US-ASCII text omitted.) GRAHAM SADLER THE RAMEAU COMPENDIUM Woodbridge : Boydell , 2014 pp. xi + 269, isbn 978 1 84383 905 7 Reviews: Books The publication of The Rameau Compendium seems perfectly timed to take advantage of the recent flurry of activity associated with the sestercentennial of Jean-Philippe Rameau's death, but as author Graham Sadler remarks in the Introduction to the volume, the composer has been the focus of much scholarly and performing attention for some time. [...]the amount of material now available about this important composer, theorist, organist and aspiring scientist has reached significant levels, and the clear and thoughtful presentation of this quantity of information is one of the great advantages of this volume. Amongst the mass of bibliographic references within each dictionary article, I found only one dead end, in the entry on 'Versification': the siglum (a unique six-letter identifier for each bibliographic item) 'RosHip' used in the article does not appear in the bibliography, though several possible items by the relevant author (Lois Rosow) are included, and thus this siglum may represent an earlier layer of the revision process.