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Granville Bantock's Letters to William Wallace and Ernest Newman, 1893–1921: 'Our New Dawn of Modern Music'. Ed. By Michael Allis. Pp. xi + 298. (Boydell Press, Woodbridge and Rochester, NY, 2017. £75. ISBN 978-1-78327-233-4.)
A Theory of Musical Narrative. By Byron Almén. Pp. xiv + 248. (Indiana University Press, Bloomington, 2008/2017. $28.99. ISBN 978-0-253-03009-2.)
The Musical Thought and Spiritual Lives of Heinrich Schenker and Arnold Schoenberg. By Matthew Arndt. Pp. 282. Ashgate Studies in Theory and Analysis of Music after 1900. (Routledge, Abingdon and New York, 2017. £105. ISBN 978-1-1382-8725-9.)
Music, Modern Culture, and the Critical Ear. Ed. by Nicholas Attfield and Ben Winters. Pp. 270. (Routledge, Abingdon and New York, 2017. £105. ISBN 978-1-4724-7686-9.)
Le Modèle et l'invention: Messiaen at la technique de l'emprunt. By Yves Balmer, Thomas Lacôte, and Christopher Brent Murray. Pp. iv + 617. Collection Symétrie Recherche Série, 20–21. (Symétrie, Lyon, 2017. €65. ISBN 978-2-36485-045-3.)
Music in the West Country: Social and Cultural History across an English Region. By Stephen Banfield. Pp. xx+ 458. Music in Britain, 1600–2000. (Boydell Press, Woodbridge and Rochester, NY, 2018. £30. ISBN 978-1-78327-273-0.)
Andreas Werckmeister's Musicalische Paradoxal-Discourse: A Well-Tempered Universe. Trans. Dietrich Bartel. Pp. xv + 157. Contextual Bach Studies. (Lexington Books, Lanham, Md., Boulder, Col., New York, and London, 2018. £60. ISBN 978-1-4985-6634-6.)
György Ligeti's Cultural Identities. Ed. by Amy Bauer and Márton Kerékfy. Pp. 270 (Routledge, Abingdon and New York, 2017. £110. ISBN 978-1-4724-7364-6.)
Moving Scenes: The Circulation of Music and Theatre in Europe, 1700–1815. Ed. By Pierre-Yves Beaurepaire, Philippe Bourdin, and Charlotta Wolff. Pp. xi + 391. Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment. (Voltaire Foundation, Oxford, 2018. £75. ISBN 978-0-7294-1206-3.)
Späte Aufzeichnungen von Richard Strauss. Ed. by Marion Beyer, Jürgen May, and Walter Werbeck. Veröffentlichungen der Richard-Strauss-Gesellschaft. (Schott, Mainz, 2016. £49.99. ISBN 978-3-7957-1092-7.)
Veröffentlichungen der Johannes-Brahms-Gesellschaft Hamburg. Ed. by Beatrix Borchard and Kerstin Schüssler-Bach. Pp. 364. Brahms-Studien, 18. (Georg Olms Verlag, Hildesheim, Zurich, and New York, 2017. €25. ISBN 978-3-487-15648-4.)
Musical Improvisation and Open Forms in the Age of Beethoven. Ed. by Gianmario Borio and Angela Carone. Pp. 244. (Routledge, Abingdon and New York, 2017. £115. ISBN 978-1-1382-2296-0.)
The Montpellier Codex: The Final Fascicle. Contents, Contexts, Chronologies. Ed. By Catherine A. Bradley and Karen Desmond. Pp. xviii + 334. Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Music. (Boydell Press, Woodbridge and Rochester, NY, 2018. £75. ISBN 978-1-78327-272-3.)
Defining the Discographic Self: Desert Island Discs in Context. Ed. By Julie Brown, Nicholas Cook, and Stephen Cottrell. Pp. xxiv + 303. Proceedings of the British Academy. (Oxford University Press for the British Academy, New York and Oxford, 2017. £80. ISBN 978-0-19-726617-5.)
The Pop Palimpsest: Intertextuality in Recorded Popular Music. Ed. By Lori Burns and Serge Lacasse. Pp. xx + 360. Tracking Pop. (University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor,2018. $85. ISBN 978-0-472-13067-2.)
Posthuman Rap. By Justin Adams Burton. Pp. xv + 155. (Oxford University Press, New York and Oxford, 2017. £22.99. ISBN 978-0-19-023546-8.)
Manuel de Falla and Visions of Spanish Music. By Michael Christoforidis. Pp. 298. (Routledge, Abingdon and New York, 2017. £105. ISBN 978-0-7546-3193-4.)
Recomposing the Past: Representations of Early Music on Stage and Screen. Ed. by James Cook, Alexander Kolassa, and Adam Whittaker. Pp. 260. Ashgate Screen Music Series. (Routledge, Abingdon and New York, 2018. £115. ISBN 978-1-1382-8747-1.)
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