Books Received

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The Best of No Depression: Writing about American Music. Ed. by Grant Alden and Peter Blackstock. pp. xii + 288. Brad and Michele Moore Roots Music Series. (University of Texas Press, Austin, 2005, £12.95. ISBN 0-19-517743-6.)

Bach in Berlin: Nation and Culture in Mendelssohn's Revival of the St. Matthew Passion. By Celia Applegate. pp. xiv + 288. (Cornell University Press, Ithaca and London, 2005, £18.50. ISBN 0-8014-4389-3.)

Britten's Children. By John Bridcut. pp. xviii + 334. (Faber and Faber, London, 2006, £18.99. ISBN 0-571-22839-9.)

A Shostakovich Casebook. Ed. by Malcolm Hamrick Brown. pp. xvi + 408. (Indiana University Press, Bloomington and Indianapolis, 2006, $24.95. ISBN 0-253-21823-3.)

Aus dem Takt: Rhythmus in Kunst, Kultur und Natur. Ed. by Christa Brüstle, Nadia Ghattas, Clemens Risi, and Sabine Schouten. pp. 339; DVD. (transcript, Bielefield, 2005, $27.80. ISBN 3-89942-292-9.)

Puccini: His Life and Works. By Julian Budden. pp. x + 527. The Master Musicians. (Oxford University Press, New York and Oxford, 2006, £14.99. ISBN 0-19-517974-9.)

E. T. A. Hoffmann's Musical Aesthetics. By Abigail Chantler. pp. xii + 202. (Ashgate, Aldershot and Burlington, Vt., 2006, £45. ISBN 0-7546-0706-2.)

The Stylus Phantasticus and Free Keyboard Music of the North German Baroque. By Paul Collins. pp. xvi + 229. (Ashgate, Aldershot and Burlington, Vt., 2005, £45. ISBN 0-7546-3416-7.)

MENC Handbook of Research Methodologies. Ed. by Richard Colwell. pp. xii + 404. (Ashgate, Aldershot and Burlington, Vt., 2006, £38.99. ISBN 0-19-518945-0.)

Jean Sibelius: Dagbok 1909–1944. Ed. by Fabian Dahlström. pp. 555. (Atlantis, Helsinki, 2005, €48. ISBN 951-583-125-3.)

Identität und Musik: Zwischen Kritik und Technik. By Dalibor Davidovid. pp. 272. (Mille Tre, Vienna, 2006, €37.40. ISBN 3-900198-09-8.)

Dancing Revelations: Alvin Ailey's Embodiment of African American Culture. By Thomas F. DeFrantz. pp. xviii + 300. (Oxford University Press, New York and Oxford, 2006, £11.99. ISBN 0-19-530171-4.)

The Old French Ballette: Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Douce 308. Ed. and trans. by Eglal Doss-Quinby and Samuel N. Rosenberg. Music Editions and Commentary by Elizabeth Aubrey. pp. clxii + 546. Publications Romanes et Françaises. (Librairie Droz, Geneva, 2006, £66. ISBN 2-600-01026-2.)

Music Theory and Analysis in the Writings of Arnold Schoenberg (1874–1951). By Norton Dudeque. pp. xvi + 274. (Ashgate, Aldershot and Burlington, Vt., 2006, £50. ISBN 0-7546-4139-2.)

Conjunto: Voice of the People, Songs from the Heart. By John Dyer. pp. vi + 121. (University of Texas Press, Austin, 2005, £12.95. ISBN 0-292-70931-5.)

Prescriptions for Choral Excellence: Tone, Text, Dynamic Leadership. By Shirlee Emmons and Constance Chase. pp. x + 334. (Oxford University Press, New York and Oxford, 2006, £17.99. ISBN 0-19-518242-1.)

Researching the Song: A Lexicon. By Shirlee Emmons and Wilbur Watkin Lewis. pp. xiv + 507. (Oxford University Press, New York and Oxford, 2006, £45. ISBN 0-19-515202-6.)

A Soviet Credo: Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony. By Pauline Fairclough. pp. xxxiv + 261. (Ashgate, Aldershot and Burlington, Vt., 2006, £55. ISBN 0-7546-5016-2.)

The Courtesan's Arts: Cross-Cultural Perspectives. Ed. by Martha Feldman and Bonnie Gordon. pp. xviii + 396; CD. (Oxford University Press, New York and Oxford, 2006, £45. ISBN 0-19-517028-8.)

Erinnerung und Entlehnung im Werk von Charles Ives. By Lucie Fenner. pp. 315. Musikwissenschaftliche Schriften der Hochschule für Musik und Theater München, 3. (Hans Schneider, Tutzing, 2005, €55. ISBN 3-7952-1195-6.)

Sigismondo D'India 'drammaturgo'. By Andrea Garavaglia. pp. xiv + 167. (De Sono, Turin, 2005, €18. ISBN 88-6040-018-X.)

Society, Culture and Opera in Florence, 1814–1830: Dilettantes in an 'Earthly Paradise'. By Aubrey S. Garlington. pp. xvi + 207. (Ashgate, Aldershot and Burlington, Vt., 2005, £47.50. ISBN 0-7456-3451-5.)

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