Books Received

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A Handbook of Diction for Singers, Italian, German, French (Second Edition). By David Adams. pp. xx + 227. (Oxford University Press, New York and Oxford, 2008, £45. ISBN 0-19-532558-4.)

Enlightenment Orpheus:The Power of Music in Other Worlds. By Vanessa Agnew. pp. xiv + 263. (Oxford University Press, New York and Oxford, 2008, £13.99. ISBN 0-19-533666-5.)

Imposing Harmony: Music and Society in Colonial Cuzco. By Geoffrey Baker. pp. x + 308. (Duke University Press, Durham, NC and London, 2008, £12.99. ISBN 0-8223-4160-4.)

In Search of Alberto Guerrero. By John Beckwith. pp. xviii + 159. (Wilfred Laurier University Press, Waterloo, Ont., 2006, £19.50. ISBN 0-88920-496-6.)

Prokofiev's Piano Sonatas. By Boris Berman. pp. xiv + 240. (Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2008, £25. ISBN 0-300-11490-4.)

Berlioz: Scenes from the Life and Work. Ed. by Peter Bloom. pp. xiv + 254. Eastman Studies in Music, 52. (University of Rochester Press, Rochester, NY and Woodbridge, 2008, £40. ISBN 1-58046-209-9.)

Händels Oratorien: Ein musikalischer Werkführer. By Claus Bockmaier. pp. 144. (C. H. Beck, Munich, 2008, €7.90. ISBN 3-406-44808-9.)

The Rosary Cantoral: Ritual and Social Design in a Chantbook from Early Renaissance Toledo. By Lorenzo Candelaria. pp. x + 215. Eastman Studies in Music, 51. (University of Rochester Press, Rochester, NY and Woodbridge, 2008, £30. ISBN 1-58046-205-1.)

The Musical Voyager: Berlioz in Europe. Ed. by David Charlton and Katharine Ellis. pp. xviii + 322. Perspektiven der Opernforschung, 14. (Peter Lang, Frankfurt, New York, and Oxford, 2007, £41.90. ISBN 3-631-55343-5.)

The Memoirs of Alton Augustus Adams, Sr. First Black Bandmaster of the United States Navy. Ed. by Mark Clague. pp. xvi + 367. Music of the African Diaspora, 12. (University of California Press, Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London, 2008, £29.95. ISBN 0-520-25131-1.)

La musica di Jean-Jacques Rousseau. By Amalia Collisani. pp. 353. Harmonia mundi, 2. (L'Epos, Palermo, 2007, €34.80. ISBN 88-8302-236-3.)

Der Topos der Juden: Studien zur Geschichte des Antisemitismus im deutschsprachigen Musikschrifttum. By Annkatrin Dahm. pp. 388. Jü;dische Religion, Geschichte und Kultur, 7. (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen, 2007, €69.90. ISBN 3-525-56996-2.)

Recevez ce mien petit labeur: Studies in Renaissance Music in Honour of Ignace Bossuyt. Ed. by Mark Delaere and Pieter Bergé. pp. 311. (Leuven University Press, Leuven, 2008, €59.50. ISBN 90-5867-650-4.)

Off Key: When Film and Music Won't Work Together. By Kay Dickinson. pp. xiv + 247. (Oxford University Press, New York and Oxford, 2008, £11.99. ISBN 0-19-532664-2.)

Live Fast, Love Hard: The Faron Young Story. By Diane Diekman. pp. xiv + 267. Music in American Life. (University of Illinois Press, Urbana and Chicago, 2008, £16.99. ISBN 0-252-03248-6.)

Gypsy Jazz: In Search of Django Reinhardt and the Soul of Gypsy Swing. By Michael Dregni. pp. xvi + 333. (Oxford University Press, New York and Oxford, 2008, £14.99. ISBN 0-19-531192-1.)

A Different Story: Aesthetics and the History of Western Music. By Olle Edström. pp. 309. Aesthetics in Music, 8. (Pendragon Press, Hillsdale, NY, 2008, £24. ISBN 1-57647-123-4.)

Chorgesang als Medium von Interkulturalität: Formen, Kanäle, Diskurse. Ed. by Erik Fischer. pp. 428. Berichte des interkulturellen Forschungsprojekts 'Deutsche Musikkultur im östlichen Europa', 3. (Franz Steiner, Stuttgart, 2007, €48. ISBN 3-515-09011-7.)

Alban Berg and Hanna Fuchs: The Story of a Love in Letters. By Constantin Floros. Trans. By Ernest Bernhardt-Kabisch. pp. xxii + 145. (Indiana University Press, Bloomington and Indianapolis, 2008, $24.95. ISBN 0-253-34966-8.)

Beyond Jerusalem: Music in the Women's Institute, 1919-1969. By Lorna Gibson. pp. xiv + 200. (Ashgate, Aldershot and Burlington, Vt., 2008, £45. ISBN 0-7546-6349-2.)

Music in Chopin's Warsaw. By Halina Goldberg. pp. viii + 330. (Oxford University Press, New York and Oxford, 2008, £26.99. ISBN 0-19-513073-7.)

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