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Challenging the Modern: Conservative Revolution in German Music 1918–33. By Nicholas Attfield. Pp. ix + 222. (Oxford University Press, New York and Oxford, 2017. £75. ISBN 978–0-19–726613-7.)
Rethinking Mahler. Ed. by Jeremy Barham. Pp. xxx + 394. (Oxford University Press, New York and Oxford, 2017. £47.99. ISBN 978–0-19–931609-0.)
The Pro Arte Quartet: A Century of Musical Adventure on Two Continents. By John W. Barker. Pp. xvii + 326. (University of Rochester Press, Rochester, NY, and Woodbridge, 2015. £25. ISBN 978–1-58046–906-7.)
I Sang the Unsingable: My Life in Twentieth-Century Music. By Bethany Beardslee with Minna Zallman Proctor. Pp. xii + 406. (University of Rochester Press, Rochester, NY, and Woodbridge, 2015. £25. ISBN 978–1-58046–900-5.)
Chopin and his World. Ed. by Jonathan D. Bellman and Halina Goldberg. Pp. x + 371. (Princeton University Press, Princeton and Oxford, 2017. £27.95. ISBN 978–0-691–17776-2.)
'Very Good for an American': Essays in Edward MacDowell. Ed. by E. Douglas Bomberger. Pp. xiii + 234. American Music and Musicians Series No. 5. (Pendragon Press, Hillsdale, NY, 2017. £40. ISBN 978–1-57647–305-4.)
An Orientation to Musical Pedagogy: Becoming a Musician-Educator. By Birch Browning. Pp. viii + 229. (Oxford University Press, New York and Oxford, 2017. £64. ISBN 978–0-19–992822-4.)
Composing for the State: Music in Twentieth-Century Dictatorships. Ed. by Esteban Buch, Igor Contreras Zubillaga, and Manuel Deniz Silva. Pp. x + 224. Musical Cultures of the Twentieth Century. (Ashgate, New York and Abingdon, 2017. £70. ISBN 978–1-4724–3749-5.)
The Music of Simon Holt. Ed. by David Charlton. Pp. xv + 343. (Boydell Press, Woodbridge and Rochester, NY, 2017. £65. ISBN 978–1-78327–223-5.)
Beethoven and Freedom. By Daniel K. L. Chua. Pp. xi + 273. (Oxford University Press, New York and Oxford, 2017. £29.99. ISBN 978–0-19–976932-2.)
The Politics of Opera: A History from Monteverdi to Mozart. By Mitchell Cohen. Pp. xxxii + 477. (Princeton University Press, Princeton and Oxford, 2017. £32.95. ISBN 978–0-691–17502-7.)
Pat Metheny: The ECM Years, 1975–1984. By Mervyn Cooke. Pp. xxii + 298. Oxford Studies in Recorded Jazz. (Oxford University Press, New York and Oxford, 2017. £12.99. ISBN 978–0-19–989766-7.)
Ritratto di Gaffurio. Ed. by Davide Daolmi. Pp. 244. Studie Saggi 3. (Libreria Musicale Italiana, Lucca, 2017. €30. ISBN 978–88-7096–910-8.)
Sonata Fragments: Romantic Narratives in Chopin, Schumann, and Brahms. By Andrew David. Pp. ix + 203. Musical Meaning and Interpretation. (Indiana University Press, Bloomington, 2017. £28.99. ISBN 978–0-253–02893-8.)
Violeta Parra: Life and Work. Ed. by Lorna Dillon. Pp. xiii + 199. (Tamesis, Boydell & Brewer, Woodbridge and Rochester, NY, 2017. £60. ISBN 978–1-85566–321-3.)
Mirrors of Heaven or Worldly Theaters:Venetian Nunneries and their Music. By Jonathan E. Glixon. Pp. xvii + 451. (Oxford University Press, New York and Oxford, 2017. £35.99. ISBN 978–0-19–025912-9.)
Interpreting Musical Gestures, Topics and Tropes: Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert. By Robert S. Hatten. Pp. ix + 359. (Indiana University Press, Bloomington, 2017. £28.99. ISBN 978–0-253–03007-8.)
Sources and Style in Moore's Irish Melodies. By Una Hunt. Pp. xvi + 190. (Routledge, New York and Abingdon, 2017. £110. ISBN 978–1-4094–0561-0.)
Gender and Rock. By Mary Celeste Kearney. Pp. xxvii + 363. (Oxford University Press, New York and Oxford, 2017. £22.99. ISBN 978–0-19–935951-6.)
Language Arts, Math and Science in the Elementary Music Classroom: A Practical Tool. By Kim Milai. (Oxford University Press, New York and Oxford, 2017. £25.99. ISBN 978–0-19–066188-5.)
Karl Goeyvaerts—Karlheinz Stockhausen: Briefwechsel/Correspondence 1951–1958. Bilingual edition. Ed. by Imke Misch and Mark Delaere. Pp. xxiv + 423. (Stockhausen...

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