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Women’s Voices across Musical Worlds. Ed. by Jane A. Bernstein, pp. xvi + 353. (Northeastern University Press, Boston, 2004, $22.50. ISBN 1-55553-588-7.)
Opera in Theory and Practice, Image and Myth. Ed. by Lorenzo Bianconi and Giorgio Pestelli. Trans, by Kenneth Chalmers and Mary Whittall. pp. xiv + 456. The History of Italian Opera, 6. (University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London, 2003, $70. ISBN 0-226-04592-7.)
The Aquitanian Kyrie Repertory of the Tenth and Eleventh Centuries. By David A. Bjork. Ed. by Richard L. Crocker, pp. ix + 394. (Ashgate, Aldershot, 2003, £42.50. ISBN 0-7546-3290-3.)
Drama and the World of Richard Wagner. By Dieter Borchmeyer. Trans, by Daphne Ellis, pp. x + 391. (Princeton University Press, Princeton and Oxford, 2003, £26.95. ISBN 0-691-11497-8.)
Debussy’s Ibéria’. By Matthew Brown, pp. xvi + 177. Studies in Musical Genesis and Structure. (Oxford University Press, Oxford and New York, 2003, £50. ISBN 0-19-816199-9.)
The Musical Madhouse: An English Translation of Berlioz’s Les Grotesques de la musique. Ed. and trans, by Alastair Bruce and Hugh Macdonald. pp. xxiv + 239. (University of Rochester Press, Rochester and Woodbridge, 2003, £50. ISBN 1-58046-132-8.)
The Oboe. By Geoffrey Burgess and Bruce Haynes. pp. xiv + 418. Yale Musical Instrument Series. (Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2004, £19.95. ISBN 0-300-10053-1.)
Teaching Music Globally. By Patricia Shehan Campbell. pp. xxvii + 258; CD. (Oxford University Press, New York and Oxford, 2004, £14.99. ISBN 0-19-517143-8.)
The Cambridge Companion to Grand Opera. Ed. by David Charlton, pp. xxi + 496. The Cambridge Companion Series. (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2003, £50. ISBN 0-521-64118-7.)
Dictionnaire Berlioz. Ed. by Pierre Citron, Cécile Reynaud, Jean-Pierre Bartoli, and Peter Bloom, pp. 613. (Fayard, Paris, 2003, €35. ISBN 2-213-61528-4.)
The Life and Music of Brian Boydell. Ed. by Gareth Cox, Axel Klein, and Michael Taylor, pp. 132. (Irish Academic Press, Dublin and Pordand, Ore., 2004, £35. ISBN 0-7165-2762-6.)
Sir Arthur Somervell on Music Education: His Writings, Speeches and Letters. Ed. by Gordon Cox. pp. xv + 144. Classic Texts in Music Education, 26. (Boydell Press, Woodbridge, 2003, £25. ISBN 1-84383-019-1.)
Nicolas-Étienne Framery and Lyric Theatre in Eighteenth-Century France. By Mark Darlow. pp. xi + 400. Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century, 2003, no. 11. (Voltaire Foundation, Oxford, 2003, £59. ISBN 0-7294-0836-1.)
Stravinsky à Bruxelles 1920–1960. By Valérie Dufour. pp. 316. (Académie royale de Belgique, Brussels, 2003, €28. ISBN 2-8031-0197-1.)
Musik zwischen Mythologie und Sozialgeschichte: Ausgewahlte Aufsdtze aus den Jahren 1972 bis 2000. By Arnfried Edler. pp. 408. Publikationen der Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hannover, 13. (Wissner, Augsburg, 2003, €35. ISBN 3-89639-379-0.)
Music and Mathematics: From Pythagoras to Fractals. Ed. by John Fauvel, Raymond Flood, and Robin Wilson. pp. 189. (Oxford University Press, New York and Oxford, 2003, £39.50. ISBN 0-19-851187-6.)
Early Music History, vol. 22. Ed. by Iain Fenlon. pp. 335. Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Music. (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2003, £70. ISBN 0-521-83109-1.)
Dialogue on Ancient and Modern Music. By Vincenzo Galilei. Trans, by Claude V. Palisca. pp. lxix + 390. (Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2004, £50. ISBN 0-300-09045-5.)
Essays on Music and Poetry in the Late Middle Ages. By Marie Louise Göllner. pp. viii + 277. Münchner Veröffentli-chungen zur Musikgeschichte, 61. (Hans Schneider, Tutzing, 2003, €45. ISBN 3-7952-1107-7.)
L’Apollomde de Leconte de Lisle et Franz Servais: 20 ans de collaboration. By Malou Haine. pp. 293. (Mardaga, Sprimont, 2004, €29. ISBN 2-87009-813-8.)
Philipp de Monte (1521–1603): Komponist, Kapellmeister, Korrespondent. By Thorsten Hindrichs. pp. xi + 257. (Hainholz, Gottingen, 2002, €79. ISBN 3-932622-73-1.)
Nineteenth-Century British Music Studies. Ed. by Peter Horton and Bennett Zon. pp. xxiii + 309. Music in 19th-century Britain. (Ashgate, Aldershot, 2003, £55. ISBN 0-7546-3614-3.)
George Gershwin: A New Biography. By William G Hyland. pp. xv + 279. (Praeger, Westport, Conn, and London, 2003, £25.80. ISBN 0-275-98111-8.)
Bunting’s Messiah. By Roy Johnston, pp. xii + 143. (Belfast Natural History and Philosophical Society, Belfast, 2003, £10. ISBN 0-9539604-6-3.)
Theodor W. Adorno: Moments musicaux. Ed. and trans, by Martin Kaltenecker. pp. 211. (Contrechamps, Geneva, 2003, €22. ISBN 2-940068-19-4.)
Charles Edward Horn’s Memoirs of his Father and Himself. Ed. by Michael Kassler. pp. ix + 131. (Ashgate, Aider-shot, 2003, £20. ISBN 0-7546-3174-5.)
Music Entries at Stationers’Hall 1710–1818. Comp. and ed. by Michael Kassler. pp. xxviii + 735. (Ashgate, Aider-shot, 2004, £70. ISBN 0-7546-3458-2.)
Recorded Music in American Life: The Phonograph and Popular Memory, 1890–1945. By William Howland Kenney. pp. xix + 258. (Oxford University Press, New York and Oxford, 2004, £17.99. ISBN 0-19-517177-2.)
Musikalische Quellen — Quellen zur Musikgeschichte: Festschrift für Martin Staehelin zum 65 Geburtstag. Ed. by Ulrich Konrad. pp. x + 507. (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen, 2002, €79. ISBN 3-525-27820-9.)
Fantasy Pieces: Metrical Dissonance in the Music of Robert Schumann. By Harald Krebs. pp. xiv + 290. (Oxford University Press, New York and Oxford, 2003, £24.99. ISBN 0-19-516946-8.)
L’Opéra en France et en Italie (1792–1925): Une scène prtvilégiée d’échanges littéraires et musicaux. By Hervé [End Page 519] Lacombe. pp. 320. Publications de la Société française de Musicologie, 8. (Société française de Musicologie, Paris, 2000, €25. ISBN 2-85357-011-8.)
Sing, Artel: Essays and Thoughts for Alexander Goehr’s Seventieth Birthday. Ed. by Alison Latham, pp. xxii + 369; CD. (Ashgate, Aldershot, 2003, £47.50. ISBN 0-7546-3497-3.)
Joseph D’Ortigue: Écnts sur la musique 1827–1846. Comp. and ed. by Sylvia L’Écuyer. pp. 723. Publications de la Société française de Musicologie, 17. (Société française de Musicologie, Paris, 2003, €40. ISBN 2-85357-012-6.)
Athena Sings: Wagner and the Greeks. By M. Owen Lee. pp. x + 110. (University of Toronto Press, Toronto, 2003, £20. ISBN 0-8020-8795-7.) Paperback edn. of a book first published in 1999.
Bach’s Works for Solo Violin: Style, Structure, Performance. By Joel Lester, pp. x + 186. (Oxford University Press, New York and London, 2004, £12.99. ISBN 0-19-517144-6.) Paperback edn. of a book first published in 1999.
Music from the Age of Shakespeare: A Cultural History. By Suzanne Lord. pp. xxiv + 236. (Greenwood Press, Westport, Conn, and London, 2003, $45. ISBN 0-313-31713-5.)
Mallarmé and Debussy: Unheard Music, Unseen Text. By Elizabeth McCombie. pp. xix + 219. Oxford Modern Languages and Literature Monographs. (Oxford University Press, Oxford and New York, 2004, £55. ISBN 0-19-926637-9.)
Paul Bowles on Music. Ed. by Timothy Mangan and Irene Herrman. pp. xviii + 292. (University of California Press, Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London, 2003, $34.95. ISBN 0-520-23655-6.)
Performing Brahms: Early Evidence of Performance Style. Ed. by Michael Musgrave and Bernard D. Sherman. pp. xviii + 391; CD. Musical Performance and Reception. (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2003, £60. ISBN 0-521-65273-1.)
Sounding Art: Eight Literary Excursions through Electronic Music. By Katherine Norman, pp. xiii + 227; CD. (Ashgate, Aldershot, 2004, £47.50. ISBN 0-7546-0426-8.)
Divining the Oracle: Monteverdi’s Seconda Prattica. By Massimo Ossi. pp. 280. (University of Chicago Press, 2003, $60. ISBN 0-226-63883-9.)
Symphonik 1930–1950: Gattungsgeschichtliche und analytische Beiträge. Ed. by Wolfgang Osthoff and Giselher Schubert. pp. 310. Schott Musikwissenschaft. (Schott, Mainz, 2003, €36. ISBN 3-7957-0115-5.) Reviewed on pp. 498–9 above.
Lisztian Keyboard Energy: An Essay on the Planum of Franz Liszt. By Bertrand Ott. Trans, by Donald H. Windham. pp. xxiv + 261. (Edwin Mellen, Lewiston, NY, Queenston, and Lampeter, 1992, $119.95. ISBN 0-7734-9589-4.)
The Collected Essays of Milton Babbitt. Ed. by Stephen Peles, Stephen Dembski, Andrew Mead, and Joseph N. Straus, pp. xi + 517. (Princeton University Press, Princeton and Oxford, 2003, $26.95. ISBN 0-691-08966-3.)
The Clarinet in the Classical Period. By Albert R. Rice. pp. xx + 316. (Oxford University Press, New York and Oxford, 2003, £50. ISBN 0-19-514483-X.)
Music in Bulgaria: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture. By Timothy Rice. pp. xviii + 119; CD. (Oxford University Press, New York and Oxford, 2003, £19.99. ISBN 0-19-514147-4.)
Words on Music: Essays in Honor of Andrew Porter on the Occasion of his 75th Birthday. Ed. by David Rosen and Claire Brook, pp. xiii + 346. Festschrift Series, 20. (Pendragon Press, Stuyvesant, NY, 2003, £42.50. ISBN 1-57647-097-0.)
Music in North India: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture. By George E. Ruckert. pp. xii + 100; CD. (Oxford University Press, New York and Oxford, 2004, £14.99. ISBN 0-19-513993-3.)
Vulgan Orecchie — Purgate Orecchie. By Katelijne Schiltz. pp. 267. (Leuven University Press, Leuven, 2003, €34. ISBN 90-5867-328-6.)
A Geometer of Sound Crystals: A Book on Herschkowitz. By Dmitri Smirnov. pp. viii + 264. Studia Slavica Musico-logica, 34. (Ernst Kuhn, Berlin, 2003, €59.95. ISBN 3-928864-99-8.)
Bach: The Mass in B minor. The Great Catholic Mass. By George B. Stauffer. pp. xiv + 311. Yale Music Master-works Series. (Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2004, £12.95. ISBN 0-300-09966-5.)
Broadway Yearbook 2001–2002. By Steven Suskin. pp. ix + 398. (Oxford University Press, New York and Oxford, 2003, £45. ISBN 0-19-515876-8.)
Hugo Wolf: Letters to Melame Köchert. Ed. and trans, by Louise McClelland Urban, pp. xxxviii + 293. (University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, 2004, $24.95. ISBN 0-299-19444-2.)
The Cappella Musicale of San Petromo in Bologna under Giovanni Paolo Colonna (1674–95). Marc Vanscheeu-wijck. pp. 422; CD. Institut historique beige de Rome: Études d’histoire de l’art, 8. (Brepols, Brussels and Rome, 2003, €46.73. ISBN 90-74461-52-2.)
Music in South India. By T. Viswanathan and Matthew Harp Allen, pp. xxv + 150. (Oxford University Press, New York and Oxford, 2004, £14.99. ISBN 0-19-514591-7.)
History, Imagination and the Performance of Music. By Peter Walls, pp. xiv + 184. (Boydell Press, Woodbridge, 2003, £40. ISBN 1-84383-005-1.)
A New Way of Making Fowre Parts in Counterpoint by Thomas Campion and Rules how to Compose by Giovanni Coprano. Ed. by Christopher R. Wilson, pp. x + 122. (Ashgate, Aldershot, 2003, £39.95. ISBN 0-7546-0515-9.) [End Page 520]

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