Books Received

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Alla ricerca di luce e chiarezza: L’epistolario Helmut Lachenmann–Luigi Nono (1957–1990). Ed. by Angela Ida de Benedictis and Ulrich Mosch. Pp. 298. Archivio Luigi Nono Studi IV. (Leo S. Olschki, Florence, 2012. €35. ISBN 978-88-222-6181-6.)

The Oxford Handbook of Children’s Musical Cultures. Ed. by Patricia Shehan Campbell and Trevor Wiggins. Pp. xix + 636 (Oxford University Press, New York and Oxford, 2013. £95. ISBN 978-0-19-973763-5.)

The Ma’ūf in Contemporary Libya: An Arab Andalusian Musical Tradition. By Philip Ciantar. Pp. xviii + 183. (Ashgate, Farnham, Surrey, and Burlington, Vt., 2013. £60. ISBN 978-1-4094-4472-5.)

The Act of Musical Composition: Studies in the Creative Process. Ed. by Dave Collins. Pp. xxiii + 284. SEMPRE Studies in the Psychology of Music. (Ashgate, Farnham, Surrey, and Burlington, Vt., 2013. £60. ISBN 978-1-4094-3425-2.)

The Pleasure Garden, from Vauxhall to Coney Island. Ed. by Jonathan Conlin. Pp. vi + 316. (University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, 2013. £45. ISBN 978-0-8122-4438-0.)

Music and the Politics of Negation. By James R. Currie. pp. xxi + 225. Musical Meaning and Interpretation. (Indiana University Press, Bloomington and Indianapolis, 2012. $34.95. ISBN 978-0-253-35703-8.)

Lennox Berkeley and Friends: Writings, Letters and Interviews. Ed. by Peter Dickinson. Pp. xii + 315. (Boydell Press, Woodbridge, Suffolk and Rochester, NY, 2012. £45. ISBN 978-1-84383-785-5.)

Messiaen’s Final Works. By Christopher Dingle (Ashgate, Farnham, Surrey, and Burlington, Vt., 2013. £65. ISBN 978-1-4094-0633-8.)

Toscanini in Britain. By Christopher Dyment. Pp. xxv + 372. (Boydell Press, Woodbridge, Suffolk and Rochester, NY, 2012. £30. ISBN 978-1-84383-789-3.)

History in Mighty Sounds: Musical Constructions of German National Identity 1848–1914. By Barbara Eichner. Pp. xii + 297. Music in Society and Culture (Boydell Press, Woodbridge, Suffolk and Rochester, NY, 2012. £55. ISBN 978-1-84383-754-1.)

Twentieth-Century Music and Politics: Essays in Memory of Neil Edmunds. Ed. by Pauline Fairclough. pp. xix + 292. (Ashgate, Farnham, Surrey, and Burlington, VT, 2013. £65. ISBN 978-1-4094-0026-4.)

The History of Live Music in Britain, i: 1950–1967: From Dance Hall to the 100 Club. By Simon Frith, Matt Brennan, Martin Cloonan, and Emma Wilson. Pp. xiii + 221. (Ashgate, Farnham, Surrey, and Burlington, Vt., 2013. £55. ISBN 978-1-4094-2280-8.)

Stravinsky’s Piano: Genesis of a Musical Language. By Graham Griffiths. Pp. xviii + 335. Music since 1900. (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge and New York, 2013. £60. ISBN 978-0-521-19178-4.)

Rethinking Hanslick: Music, Formalism, and Expression. Ed. by Nicole Grimes, Siobh´n Donovan, and Wolfgang Marx. Pp. xv + 360. Eastman Studies in Music. (University of Rochester Press, Rochester, NY and Boydell & Brewer, Woodbridge, Suffolk, 2013. £60. ISBN 978-1-58046-432-1.)

Pierre Cochereau: Organist of Notre-Dame. By Anthony Hammond. Pp. x + 346. Eastman Studies in Music. (University of Rochester Press, Rochester, NY and Boydell & Brewer, Woodbridge, Suffolk, 2012. £55. ISBN 978-1-58046-405-5.)

Portuguese Piano Music: An Introduction and Annotated Bibliography. By Nancy Lee Harper. Pp. xxvii + 329 (includes CD). (The Scarecrow Press, Inc., Lanham, Md., Toronto and Plymouth, UK, 2013. £95. ISBN 978-0-8108-8299-7.)

Antonio Caldara: Due antifone mariane: ‘Salve Regina’, ‘Te decus virginum’. Ed. by Warren Kirkendale. (Libreria Musicale Italiana, Lucca, 2011. €25. ISBN 978-88-7096-637-4.)

Loading the Silence: Australian Sound Art in the Post-Digital Age. By Linda Ioanna Kouvaras. Pp. ix + 277. (Ashgate, Farnham, Surrey, and Burlington, Vt., 2013. £60. ISBN 978-1-4094-4156-4.)

Carl Nielsen Studies V. Ed. by Niels Krabbe. Pp. 393 (The Royal Library, Copenhagen, 2012. £35. ISBN 978-1-4094-6213-2.)

British Composer Profiles: A Biographical Dictionary of Past Composers 1800–2010. By Gerald Leach, rev. and enlarged by Ian Graham-Jones. Pp. xiii + 249 (The British Music Society, 3/2012. £15. ISBN 978-1-8705-3699-8.)

Our Ancient National Airs: Scottish Song Collecting from the Enlightenment to the Romantic Era. By Karen McAulay. Pp. xv + 279...