New Periodicals

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New Periodicals Erin Mayhood This semiannual column selectively lists newly issued periodicals; describes their objectives, formats, and contents; and provides information about special issues, title and format changes, mergers, and cessations. The following resources were frequently consulted when assembling this column: International Index to Music Periodicals (IIMP; http://music.chadwyck.com ), Music Index (MI; http://www.hppmusicindex.com ), RILM Abstracts of Music Literature (RILM; http://www.RILM.org ), OCLC WorldCat and Ulrich’s Periodical Directory ( http://www.ulrichsweb.com/ulrichsweb ). All Web sites were accessed on 23 May 2008 unless otherwise specified. Activate! Edited by Kris Kropff. Lorenz Corporation. Bi-monthly. Vol. 1, no. 1 (October/November 2006). ISSN 1931-4736. Print format. Subscription or inquires: 501 E. Third Street, P.O. Box 802, Dayton, OH 45401. E-mail:activate@lorenz.com. $64.95. Lorenz Corporation, founded in 1890, is primarily known for publishing printed music and magazines for church musicians and music educators. Fitting well into this portfolio is one of their newest magazines: Activate!, a magazine aimed at music educators. This magazine is aimed at educators dealing with students in kindergarten through grade six and is very practical in nature. Because it is intended for use as a classroom tool, theoretical approaches to the subject matter are limited. The magazine balances vocal, instrumental, theory and movement activities well. Age- and skill-appropriate vocal and instrumental arrangements (including simple Orff arrangements) are included along with dance and movement activities and games introducing musical concepts. To aid teachers in curriculum planning and classroom implementation, the magazine regularly references the National Standards for Music Education and includes full lesson plans. In addition, all student pages are reproducible. Advances in Acoustics and Vibration. Edited by M. Osman Tokhi. Hindawi Publishing Corporation. Quarterly. Vol. 1 (2007). ISSN 1687-6261 (print); ISSN 1687-627X (online). Print and online format (PDF). Access: http://www.hindawi.com/journals/aav . Subscription or inquiries: Hindawi Publishing Corporation, 410 Park Avenue, 15th Floor, No. 287 PMB, New York, NY 10022. E-mail:orders@hindawi.com. $195 (print), online access is free. Targeting researchers and practitioners, Advances in Acoustics and Vibration is a “platform for dissemination of innovative and original research and development” ( http://www.hindawi.com/journals/aav/aims.html ) in the area of acoustics and vibration. The journal is peer-reviewed, accepting articles that are theoretical or experimental with either a research or an application focus. The subject areas range widely to ensure comprehensiveness: computational acoustics, numerical techniques, human response to sound and vibration and acoustic signal processing all fall within its purview. Submissions on musical subjects, including audio and musical acoustics, are also welcome. As with other Hindawi journals, Advances in Acoustics and Vibration is open-access and updated continuously. An important component of this journal is the simultaneous publication of special issues. Proposals for [End Page 130] special issues are welcomed at any time, and each has a guest editor. Special issues are accessed online along with regularly published issues and can be viewed and downloaded on the individual article level or as a single PDF of the full volume. Print copies are for sale on Amazon.com ( http://www.amazon.com ). Gamut. Edited by Philip Ewell. Newfound Press. Article-by-article. Vol. 1, no. 1 (2008). ISSN 1938-6690. Online format (PDF). Access: http://dlc.lib.utk.edu/web/ojs/index.php/first/index . Inquiries: Gamut, 149 John C Hodges Library, 1015 Volunteer Boulevard, Knoxville, TN 37996. E-mail:gamuteditor@utk.edu. Free. Gamut is the peer-reviewed, online journal of the Music Theory Society of the Mid-Atlantic, published by Newfound Press, a digital imprint of the University of Tennes-see, Knoxville. Like other Newfound Press journals, Gamut is fully searchable and browsable and is registered with the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ). Gamut is “a journal of criticism, commentary, research, and scholarship,” and to that end the editors seek submissions focusing on any aspect of music theory and its cognate disciplines. They especially encourage interdisciplinary submissions. At time of writing only one article and one review had been published in Gamut. The article, by Brian Hulse and entitled “On Bergson’s Concept of the Virtual,” contains a discussion of how the concept...