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Grétry’s Operas and the French Public from the Old Regime to the Restoration. By R. J. Arnold. Pp. xi+232. Ashgate Interdisciplinary Studies in Opera. (Ashgate, Farnham and Burlington, Vt., 2016. £95. ISBN 978-1-4724-3850-8.)
The Business of Opera. Ed. by Anastasia Belina-Johnson and Derek B. Scott. Pp. xiv + 218. Ashgate Interdisciplinary Studies in Opera. (Ashgate, Farnham and Burlington, Vt., 2015. £60. ISBN 978-1-4724-2945-2.)
King of Ragtime: Scott Joplin and his Era. By Edward A. Berlin. Pp. xvi + 434. (Oxford University Press, New York and Oxford, 2nd edn., 2016. £22.99. ISBN 978-0-19-974032-1.)
Rameau, entre art et science. Ed. by Sylvie Bouissou, Graham Sadler, and Solveig Serre. Pp. 554. Études et Rencontres de l’École des chartes, 47 (École nationale des chartes, Paris, 2016. €26.50. ISBN 978-2-35723-082-8.)
Pyotr Tchaikovsky. By Philip Ross Bullock. Pp. 224. Critical Lives. (Reaktion Books, London, 2016. £11.99. ISBN 978-1-78023-654-4.)
Interactions between Orality and Writing in Early Modern Italian Culture. Ed. by Luca Degl’Innocenti, Brian Richardson, and Chiara Sbordoni. Pp. xiii + 256. (Routledge, Abingdon and New York, 2016. £95. ISBN 978-1-4724-7490-2.)
Music for Life: Music Participation and Quality of Life of Senior Citizens. By C. Victor Fung and Lisa J. Lehmberg. Pp. ix+323. (Oxford University Press, New York and Oxford, 2016. £22.99. ISBN 978-0-19-937169-6.)
Goze:Women, Musical Performance, and Visual Disability in Traditional Japan. By Gerald Groemer. Pp. xxv + 304. (Oxford University Press, New York and Oxford, 2016. £22.99. ISBN 978-0-19-025904-4.)
Dissonance: Auditory Aesthetics in Ancient Greece. By Sean Alexander Gurd. Pp. vii + 239. Idiom: Inventing Writing Theory. (Fordham University Press, New York, 2016. $55. ISBN 978-0-8232-6965-5.)
Late Medieval Liturgies Enacted: The Experience of Worship in Cathedral and Parish Church. Ed. by Sally Harper, P. S. Barnwell, and Magnus Williamson. Pp. xxvi + 349. Music and Material Culture. (Ashgate, Farnham and Burlington, Vt., 2016. £95. ISBN 978-1-4724-4137-9.)
The Pathetick Musician:Moving an Audience in the Age of Eloquence. By Bruce Haynes and Geoffrey Burgess. Pp. xxix + 323. (Oxford University Press, New York and Oxford, 2016. £25.99. ISBN 978-0-19-937373-4.)
Franz Liszt: Musician, Celebrity, Superstar. By Oliver Hilmes, trans. Stewart Spencer. Pp. xiii + 353. (Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2016. £25. ISBN 978-0-300-18293-4.)
Samul Nori: Korean Percussion for a Contemporary World. By Keith Howard. Pp. xi+218. SOAS Musicology Series. (Ashgate, Farnham and Burlington, Vt., 2015. £60. ISBN 978-1-4724-6289-3.)
Schoenberg’s Program Notes and Musical Analyses. Ed. by J. Daniel Jenkins. Pp. xxix + 468. (Oxford University Press, New York and Oxford, 2016. £64. ISBN 978-0-19-538557-1.)
The Musical Life of Nineteenth-Century Belfast. By Roy Johnston and Declan Plummer. Pp. xvi + 383. Music in Nineteenth-Century Britain. (Ashgate, Farnham and Burlington, Vt., 2016. £75. ISBN 978-0-7546-6325-6.)
Ludo Musicology: Approaches to Video Game Music. Ed. by Michiel Kamp, Tim Summers, and Mark Sweeney. Pp. iv+231. Genre, Music, and Sound. (Equinox, Sheffield and Bristol, 2016. £19.99. ISBN 978-1-78179-198-1.)
Du langage au style: Singularités de Francis Poulenc. Ed. by Lucie Kayas and Hervé Lacombe. Publications de la Société française de musicologie, 3rd series, 17. Pp. 397. (Société française de musicology, Paris, 2016. €38. ISBN 978-2-85357-25502.)
Els sons de Barcelona a l’edat moderna. Ed. by Tess Knighton. Pp. 152. MUHBA Textures, 6 (Ajuntament de Barcelona, Barcelona, 2016. ISSN 2014-3516.)
Music’s Immanent Future: The Deleuzian Turn in Music Studies. Ed. by Sally Macarthur, Judy Lochhead, and Jennifer Shaw. (Routledge, Abingdon and New York, 2016. £95. ISBN 978-1472-46021-9.)
Exploring the World of J. S. Bach: A Traveler’s Guide. By Robert L. Marshall and Traute M. Marshall. Pp. xxx + 245. (University of Illinois Press, Urbana, Chicago, and Springfield, 2016. $29...

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