Embellishments is a newsletter dedicated to the musicians and composers found in the the Recent Researches publications of A-R Editions, Inc. Each issue of Embellishments includes features about new or recent publications, a spotlight on music already published in the Recent Researches catalog, and a complete list of new and forthcoming titles. We publish three issues each year, in Spring, Summer, and Fall.

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Current Issue

No. 34 Spring 2008 (PDF)

• Feature: Selected German Works for Unaccompanied Men's Chorus by Johann Herbeck of Vienna, edited by William E. Hettrick
• Spotlight:  Women Composers in Recent Researches Editions

Back Issues

No. 33  Fall 2007 (PDF)

• Feature: The Discovery of Der Stein der Weisen by David J. Buch
• Spotlight:  Theater Pieces for Voices and Keyboard

No. 32  Summer 2007 (PDF)

• Feature: Luzzasco Luzzaschi: Complete Unaccompanied Madrigals by Anthony Newcomb
• Spotlight:  Music of the French Baroque

No. 31  Spring 2007 (PDF)

• Feature:  Orlando di Lasso: The Complete Motets
• Spotlight:  Nineteenth-Century Orchestral Works

No. 30  Fall 2006 (PDF)

• Feature:  George Whitefield Chadwick: String Quartets Nos. 1-3, edited by Marianne Betz
• Spotlight:  Seventeenth-Century Opera

No. 29  Summer 2006 (PDF)

• Feature:  Giovanni Francesco Anerio: Selva armonica (Rome, 1617), edited by Daniele V. Filippi
• Spotlight:  Early Instrumental Music, ca. 1550 to ca. 1650

No. 28  Spring 2006 (PDF)

• Feature:   Franz Clement: Violin Concerto in D Major, edited by Clive Brown
• Spotlight:  Recent Editions of Orchestral Works

• Feature:   George Whitefield Chadwick: Two Overtures: Rip Van Winkle (1879) and Adonais (1899), edited by Bill F. Faucett
• Spotlight:  Stravinsky's Sketches for Histoire du soldat

• Feature:   Neapolitan Lute Music: Fabrizio Dentice, Giulio Severino, Giovanni Antonio Severino, Francesco Cardone, edited by John Griffiths and Dinko Fabris

• Feature:   Musica Ecclesiae: Daniel Read's Final tunebook, edited by Karl and Marie Kroeger

• Feature:  Charles Ives: 129 Songs, edited by H. Wiley Hitchcock

• Feature:  Music for Macbeth, edited by Amanda Eubanks Winkler

• Feature:  Symphonies, edited by Alice Mary Smith
• Spotlight:  Deutsche Lieder für Jung und Alt

• Feature: A New Series of Performing Editions by Reinhard Goebel
• Spotlight: A New Edition of Songs by Charles Ives

• Feature:  Giovanni Felice Sances's "Motetti a una, due, tre, e quattro voci" (1638), edited by Steven Saunders
• Spotlight:  Masses with Orchestra

• Feature  An A-R Edition Reintroduces a Salieri Mass to the Viennese, edited by Jane Schatkin Hettrick 
• Spotlight  Selected Chamber Music for Strings 
• In Memory of Eugene K. Wolf

• Feature  Writing American Indian Music: A Musicological Odyssey, edited by Victoria Lindsay Levine 
• Spotlight  Keyboard Concertos in Recent Researches Editions

• Feature  Charles-Marie Widor's Symphonie pour orgue et orchestre, opus 42[bis], edited by John R. Near 
• Spotlight  Symphonies in Recent Researches Editions

• Feature  Isabella Leonarda: La Musa Novarese, edited by Stewart Carter 
• Spotlight  Oratorios in Recent Researches Editions

• Feature  Thomas "Fats" Waller: Performances in Transcription, edited by Paul S. Machlin 
• Spotlight  Opera in Recent Researches Editions

• Feature  Johann Ludwig Bach: Motets, edited by Daniel R. Melamed 
• Spotlight  Music from Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century France

• Feature  Gustav Mahler: Die Drei Pintos, edited by James L. Zychowicz 
• Spotlight  The Latest Oral Traditions Volume: The Folk Songs of Askenaz, edited by Philip V. Bohlman and Otto Holzapfel

• Feature  Harry Partch: Barstow, edited by Richard Kassel 
• Spotlight  Lieder and Solo Song in Recent Researches Editions

• Feature  Alessandro Scarlatti: Venere, Amore e Ragione: Serenata a 3, edited by Judith L. Schwartz 
• Spotlight  Italian Cantatas from the Baroque Era

• Feature  The Original Version of the First Movement of Felix Mendelssohn's Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra in E Major, edited by Stephan D. Lindeman 
• Spotlight  Lute Music and Intabulations 

• Feature  Alfonso Fontanelli: The Complete Madrigals, edited by Anthony Newcomb 
• Spotlight  Chant from Two Traditions 

• Feature  Four Viennese String Quintets, edited by Cliff Eisen 
• Spotlight  Chansons in Modern Editions 

• Feature  Lou Harrison: Selected Keyboard and Chamber Music, 1937–1994, edited by Leta E. Miller 
• Spotlight  Arias, Lieder, and Songs 

• Feature  The St. Stanislaus Oratorio of Franz Liszt, edited by Paul Munson 
• Spotlight  The Complete Madrigals of Andrea Gabrieli (c. 1510–1586), edited by A. Tillman Merritt 

• Feature  Questions and Answers about Rousseau and Le Devin du village: An Interview with Charlotte Kaufman 
• Spotlight  Early Italian Opera in Modern Editions: Caccini, Peri, Cesti, and Albinoni 

• Feature  An Anthology of Ethiopian Christian Liturgical Chant, edited by Kay Kaufman Shelemay and Peter Jeffery 
• Spotlight  The Core Repertory of American Psalmody and other Major Collections 

• Feature  Irving Berlin: Early Songs, 1907–1914, edited by Charles Hamm 
• Spotlight  Women Composers in New Editions 
• Editor's Note  

• Feature  The Symphonies for Organ of Charles-Marie Widor, edited by John R. Near 
• Spotlight  Marc-Antoine Charpentier (1643–1704) 
• Editor's Note  

• Feature  New Edition in the Renaissance Series: The Motets of Lasso, edited by Peter Bergquist 
• Spotlight  Jean-Marie Leclair (1697–1764) 
• Editor's Note