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Teaching General Music: Approaches, Issues, and Viewpoints. Ed. by Carlos R. Abril and Brent M. Gault. Pp. xiii + 376. (Oxford University Press, New York and Oxford, 2016. £22.99. ISBN 978-0-19-932810-9.)
The African Imagination in Music. By Kofi Agawu. Pp. xi + 372. (Oxford University Press, New York and Oxford, 2016. £18.99. ISBN 978-0-19-026321-8.)
Real Love, No Drama: The Music of Mary J. Blige. By Danny Alexander. Pp. viii + 198. (University of Texas Press, Austin, Tex. £17.99. ISBN 978-0-292-75943-5.)
Translating for Singing: The Theory, Art, and Craft of Translating Lyrics. By Ronnie Apter and Mark Herman. Pp. xxvi + 282. Bloomsbury Advances in Translation. (Bloomsbury Academic, London and New York, 2016. £19.99. ISBN 978-1-4725-7188-5.)
Benigno Zerafa (1726–1804) and the Neapolitan Galant Style. By Frederick Aquilina. Pp. xii + 335. (Boydell Press, Woodbridge and Rochester, NY, 2016. £65. ISBN 978-1-78327-086-6.)
The Idea of Art Music in a Commercial World, 1800–1930. Ed. by Christina Bashford and Roberta Montemorra Marvin. Music in Society and Culture. (Boydell Press, Woodbridge and Rochester, NY, 2016. £65. ISBN 978-1-78327-065-1.)
The Richard Rogers Reader. By Geoffrey Block. Pp. xii + 356. Readers on American Musicians. (Oxford University Press, New York and Oxford, 2002/2016. £36.99. ISBN 978-0-19-531343-7.)
She is Cuba: A Genealogy of the Mulata Body. By Melissa Blanco Borelli. Pp. xii + 226. (Oxford University Press, New York and Oxford, 2016. £19.99. ISBN 978-0-19-996817-6.)
Musical Listening in the Age of Technological Reproduction. Ed. by Gianmario Borio. Pp. xxii + 407. Musical Cultures of the Twentieth Century. (Ashgate, Farnham and Burlington, Vt., 2015. £85. ISBN 978-1-4724-4216-1.)
Advocate for Music: A Guide to User-Friendly Strategies. By Lynn M. Brinckmeyer. Pp. xix + 149. (Oxford University Press, New York and Oxford, 2016. £16.99. ISBN 978-0-19-021915-4.)
The Quest for the Gesamtkunstwerk and Richard Wagner. By Hilda Meldrum Brown. Pp. xii + 287. (Oxford University Press, New York and Oxford, 2016. £60. ISBN 978-0-19-932543-6.)
Mozarts Ausbildung zum Komponisten (1761–1765): Periodebau und Taktordnung in Menuett, Sonate und Sinfonie. By Wolfgang Budday. 2 vols. 1: pp. 561; 2: pp. 103. Studien und Materialien zur Musikwissenschaft, 89. (Georg Olms Verlag, Hildesheim, Zurich, and New York, 2016. ISBN 978-3-487-15398-8 and 978-3-487-15399-5.)
Curious and Modern Inventions: Instrumental Music as Discovery in Galileo’s Italy. By Rebecca Cypess. Pp. xxi + 307. (University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London, 2016. £38.50. ISBN 978-0-226-31944-5.)
Popular Music and the Politics of Novelty. By Pete Dale. Pp. viii + 225. (Bloomsbury Academic, New York and London, 2016. $34.95. ISBN 978-1-5013-0703-4.)
Harmony in Beethoven. By David Damschroder. Pp. xiii + 292. (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge and New York, 2015. £64.99. ISBN 978-1-107-13458-4.)
Words and Music. By Peter Dickinson. Pp. x + 318. (Boydell Press, Woodbridge and Rochester, NY, 2016. £30. ISBN 978-1-78327-106-1.)
Bach and the Organ. Ed. by Matthew Dirst. Pp. ix + 124. Bach Perspectives, 10. (University of Illinois Press, Urbana, Chicago, and Springfield, 2016. £44. ISBN 978-0-252-04019-1.)
Resounding Transcendence: Transition in Music, Religion, and Ritual. Ed. by Jeffers Engelhardt and Philip V. Bohlman. Pp. xvi + 280. (Oxford University Press, New York and Oxford, 2016. £22.99. ISBN 978-0-19-973765-9.)
Sound und Performance: Positionen, Methoden, Analysen. Ed. by Wolf-Dieter Ernst, Nora Niethammer, Berenika Szmanski-Düll, and Anno Mungen. Pp. 726. Thurnauer Schriften zum Musiktheater, 27. (Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg, 2015. €58. ISBN 978-3-8260-5473-0.)
Greek Orthodox Music in Ottoman Istanbul: Nation and Community in the Era of Reform. By Merhi Erol. Pp. xix + 265. (Indiana University Press, Bloomington and Indiana, 2015. $35. ISBN 978-0-253-01833-5.)
Johnny Mercer: Southern Songwriter for the World. By Glenn T. Eskew. Pp. xx + 512. (University of Georgia...

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