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Music and Letters 87.4 (2006) 710-711


Books Received
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Briefwechsel. By Theodor W. Adorno and Erich Doflein. Ed. by Andreas Jacob. pp. 435. Folkwang Studien, 2. (Georg Olms, Hildesheim, Zurich, and New York, 2006, €44. ISBN 3-487-13029-7.)
Philosophy of New Music (New Translation). By Theodor W. Adorno. Ed. and trans. by Robert Hullot-Kentor. pp. xxxi + 208. (University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis and London, 2006, $34.95. ISBN 0-8166-3666-4.)
The Chevalier de Saint-Georges: Virtuoso of the Sword and the Bow. By Gabriel Banat. pp. xxiv + 566. Lives in Music Series, 7. (Pendragon Press, Hillsdale, NY, 2006, £37.50. ISBN 1-57647-109-8.)
Bach's Changing World: Voices in the Community. Ed. by Carol K. Baron. pp. xvi + 264. Eastman Studies in Music, 37. (University of Rochester Press, Rochester, NY and Woodbridge, 2006, £45. ISBN 1-58046-190-5.)
Musik — Zu Begriff und Konzepten: Berliner Symposion zum Andenken an Hans Heinrich Eggebrecht. Ed. by Michael Beiche and Albrecht Riethmüller. pp. 155. (Franz Steiner, Stuttgart, 2006, €32. ISBN 3-515-08848-2.)
Remembering the Future. By Luciano Berio. pp. xiv + 141. (Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 2006, £16.95. ISBN 0-674-02154-1.)
Catalogo tematico delle composizioni teatrali di Antonio Salieri: Gli autografi. By Elena Biggi Parodi. pp. clviii + 957. Strumenti della ricerca musicale collana della Società Italiana di Musicologia, 8. (Libreria Musicale Italiana, Lucca, 2005, €90. ISBN 88-7096-307-1.)
Musical Childhoods and the Cultures of Youth. Ed. by Susan Boynton and Roe-Min Kok. pp. xvi + 256. (Wesleyan University Press, Middletown, Conn., 2006, $24.95. ISBN 0-8195-6803-1.)
Structure and Meaning in Tonal Music: Festschrift in Honor of Carl Schachter. Ed. by L. Poundie Burstein and David Gagné. pp. vi + 290. Harmonologia Series, 12. (Pendragon Press, Hillsdale, NY, 2005, £40. ISBN 1-57647-112-8.)
Edvard Grieg in England. By Lionel Carley. pp. xx + 488. (The Boyell Press, Woodbridge, Suffolk, 2006, £45. ISBN 1-84383-207-0.)
Die Unordnung der Dinge: Das musikalische Groteske in der Wiener Moderne (1885–1914). By Federico Celestini. pp. 294. Beihefte zum Archiv für Musikwissenschaft, 56. (Franz Steiner, Stuttgart, 2006, €59. ISBN 3-515-08712-5.)
Ecological Thinking: The Politics of Epistemic Location. By Lorraine Code. pp. xvi + 322. Studies in Feminist Philsophy. (Oxford University Press, New York and Oxford, 2006, £19.99. ISBN 0-19-515944-6.)
MENC Handbook of Musical Cognition and Development in Music Teaching and Learning. Ed. by Richard Colwell. pp. xii + 276. (Oxford University Press, New York and Oxford, 2006, £38.99. ISBN 0-19-518923-X.)
Euridice: Momenti dell'umanesimo civile fiorentino. By Gaspare De Caro. pp. 252. (UT Orpheus, Bologna, 2006, €30. ISBN 88-8109-456-8.)
Die Bach-Quellen der Sing-Akademie zu Berlin: Katalog, Historischer Überblick, Abbildungen, Register. Ed. by Wolfram Ensslin. pp. 782. Leipziger Beiträge zur Bach-Forschung, 8.1, 8.2. (Georg Olms, Hildesheim, Zurich, and New York, 2006, €86. ISBN 3-487-13108-0/13109-9.)
Der Davidsbündler August Gathy (1800–1858). By Renate Federhofer-Königs. pp. 199. (Hans Schneider, Tutzing, 2006, €55. ISBN 3-7952-1204-9.)
The Courtesan's Arts: Cross-Cultural Perspectives. Ed. by Martha Feldman and Bonnie Gordon. pp. xxviii + 396; CD. (Oxford University Press, New York and Oxford, 2006, £14.99. ISBN 0-19-517029-6.)
Repeating Ourselves: American Minimal Music as Cultural Practice. By Robert Fink. pp. xvi + 280. (University of California Press, Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London, 2006, $24.95. ISBN 0-520-24550-4.)
Empire of Dirt: The Aesthetics and Rituals of British Indie Music. By Wendy Fonarow. pp. xiv + 315. (Wesleyan University Press, Middletown, Conn., 2006, $24.95. ISBN 0-8195-6811-3.)
Crossing Confessional Boundaries: The Patronage of Italian Sacred Music in Seventeenth-Century Dresden. By Mary E. Frandsen. pp. xiv + 514. (Oxford University Press, New York and Oxford, 2006, £29.99. ISBN 0-19-517831-9.)
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