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Music and Letters 86.3 (2005) 532-535



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The Songwriter Goes to War: The Story of Irving Berlin's World War II All-Army Production of This is the Army. By Alan Anderson. pp. xviii + 361. (Limelight Editions, Pompton Plains, NJ, 2004, $27.95. ISBN 0-87910-304-3.)

Studien zur Musikwissenschaft: Beihefte der Denkmšler der Tonkunst in ÷sterreich. Ed. by Theophil Antonicek and Elisabeth Theresia Fritz-Hilscher. pp. 255. (Schneider, Tutzing, 2004, €62. ISBN 3-7952-1168-9.)

Catalogue raisonnè as Memoir: A Composer's Life. By Dominick Argento. pp. xviii + 230. (University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis and London, 2004, $22.95. ISBN 0-8166-4505-1.)

The Cambridge Companion to Verdi. Ed. by Scott L. Balthazar. pp. xxvi + 336. (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2004, £17.99. ISBN 0-521-63535-7/ ISBN 978-0-521-63535-6.)

Michele Carafa, Le Solitaire: Dossier de presse Parisienne (1822). Ed. by Olivier Bara. pp. 79. Critiques de l'opÈra franÁais du XIXe siËcle, 15. (Lucie Galland, Weinsberg, 2004, €22. ISBN 3-925934-60-X.)

Muzikoloski Zbornik. Ed. by Matjaz Barbo. pp. 166; 276. (University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, 2003-4, both €20. ISSN 0580-373X.)

Musikerautographen in Sammlung Helmut Nanz: Katalog. Foreword by Axel Beer. pp. 164. (Schneider, Tutzing, 2005, €33. ISBN 3-7952-1170-0.)

Music Scenes: Local, Translocal, and Virtual. Ed. by Andy Bennett and Richard A. Peterson. pp. xvi + 264. (Vanderbilt, Nashville, Tenn., 2004, £21.50/42.50. ISBN 0-8265-1451-0/ -1450-2.)

Hector Berlioz: The Musical Madhouse (Les Grotesques de la musique). Ed. and trans. by Alastair Bruce. pp. xxiv + 239. (University of Rochester Press, Rochester, NY, 2003, £17.99. ISBN 1-58046-182-4.)

A Topical Guide to Schenkerian Literature: An Annotated Bibliography with Indices. By David Carson Berry. pp. xi + 585. (Pendragon, Hillsdale, NY, 2004, $62. ISBN 1-57647-095-4.)

Music in Art: International Journal for Music Iconography. Ed. by Zdravko Blazekovic. pp. 175. (Research Centre for Music Iconography, New York, 2001, $30. ISSN 1522-7464.)

The Robert Shaw Reader. Ed. by Robert Blocker. pp. xii + 465. (Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2004, £25. ISBN 0-300-10454-5.)

Letters from a Life: Selected Letters of Benjamin Britten, iii: 1946-1951. Ed. by Donald Mitchell, Philip Reed, and Mervyn Cooke. pp. xxvi + 758. (Faber and Faber, London, 2004, £25. ISBN 0-571-22282-X.)

Johann Sebastian Bach: Christmas Oratorio (BWV 248). By Ignace Bossuyt. Trans. by Stratton Bull. pp. 185. (Leuven University Press, Leuven, 2004, €40. ISBN 90-5867-421-5.)

Thöne und Melodeyen, Arien und Canzonetten: Zur Musik des deutschen Barockliedes. By Werner Braun. pp. xiv + 498. Frühe Neuzeit, 100. (Niemeyer, Tübingen, 2004, €96. ISBN 3-484-36600-1.)

Puccini: His Life and Works. By Julian Budden. pp. x + 527. (Oxford University Press, Oxford and New York, 2002, £24.50. ISBN 0-19-816468-8.)

A History of Baroque Music. By George J. Buelow. pp. ix + 701. (Indiana University Press, Bloomington and Indianapolis, 2004, $75. ISBN 0-253-34365-8.)

Trumpet Technique. By Frank Gabriel Campos. pp. 188. (Oxford University Press, New York and Oxford, 2005, £39.50/£15.50. ISBN 0-19-516692-2/-516693-0.)

British Music; The Journal of the British Music Society. Ed. by Roger Carpenter. pp. 80. (Arc and Throstle Press, Todmorden, Lancs., 2004, £5.)

Concierto barrocco: Estudios sobre música, dramaturgia e historia cultural. Ed. by Juan José Carreras and Miguel Ángel Mar ín. pp. 405. (University of Rioja, Rioja, 2004, €20. ISBN 84-95301-94-6.)

A New Definition of Art. By Lawrence Casler. pp. xi + 77. (Vantage Press, New York, 2004, $18.50. ISBN 0-533-14612-7.)

Hans Christian Andersen and Music: The Nightingale Revealed. By Anna Harwell Celenza. pp. x + 269. (Ashgate, Aldershot, 2005, £45. ISBN 0-7546-0140-4.)

Actes de colloque: Fromental Halévy, Paris, Novembre 2000. Ed. by F. Claudon...

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