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The Harmonious Musick of John Jenkins, ii: Airs and Vocal Music. By Andrew Ashbee. Pp. 311. (Toccata Press, London, 2020. £45. Isbn 978-0-907689-47-8.)
Experiencing Mahler: A Listener's Companion. By Arved Ashby. Pp. xvii 249. The Listener's Companion. (Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham, Boulder, New York, and London, 2020. £24.95. Isbn 978-1-5381-0486-6.)
Both from the Ears and Mind: Thinking about Music in Early Modern England. By Linda Phyllis Austern. Pp. 384. (University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London, 2020. $55. Isbn 978-0-226-70159-2.)
Singing and Survival: The Music of Easter Island. By Dan Bendrups. Pp. 224. (Oxford University Press, New York and Oxford, 2019. £64. Isbn 978-0-19-029704-6.)
Unsettled Scores: Politics, Hollywood, and the Film Music of Aaron Copland and Hans Eisler. By Sally Bick. Pp. xiii 232. Music in American Life. (University of Illinois Press, Urbana, Chicago, and Springfield, 2019. $28. Isbn 978-0-252-08464-5.)
Schoenberg's Atonal Music: Musical Idea, Basic Image, and Specters of Tonal Function. By Jack Boss. Pp. 404. Music Since 1900. (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge and New York, 2019. £90. Isbn 978-1-108-41913-0.)
The Karl Muck Scandal: Classical Music and Xenophobia in World War I America. By Melissa D. Burrage. Pp. 456. Eastman Studies in Music. (University of Rochester Press, Rochester, NY, and Woodbridge, 2020. £25. Isbn 978-1-58046-950-0.)
George Frideric Handel: Collected Documents, iv: 1742–1750. Ed. by Donald Burrows, Helen Coffey, John Greenacombe, and Anthony Hicks. Pp. xvi 972. (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge and New York, 2020. £140. Isbn 978-1-107-08021-8.)
Rancière and Music. Ed. by João Pedro Cachopo, Patrick Nickleson, and Chris Stover. Pp. 416. (Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 2020. £85. Isbn 978-1-4744-4022-6.)
The Beatles and Sixties Britain. By Marcus Collins. Pp. 382. (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge and New York, 2019. £90. Isbn 978-1-108-47724-6.)
Musical Exchange between Britain and Europe, 1500–1800: Essays in Honour of Peter Holman. Ed. by John Cunningham and Bryan White. Pp. 336. Music in Britain, 1600–2000. (Boydell Press, Woodbridge and Rochester, NY, 2020. £60. Isbn 978-1-78327-492-5.)
The Cambridge History of Music Criticism. Ed. by Christopher Dingle. Pp. 842. The Cambridge History of Music. (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge and New York, 2019. £120. Isbn 978-1-107-03789-2.)
Felice Giardini and Professional Music Culture in Mid-Eighteenth-Century London. By Cheryll Duncan. Pp. 126. (Routledge, Abingdon and New York, 2020. £45. Isbn 978-0-3673-2205-2.)
What Goes On: The Beatles, their Music and their Time. By Walter Everett and Tim Riley. Pp. 304. (Oxford University Press, New York and Oxford, 2019. £74. Isbn 978-0-19-021317-6.)
Moravian Soundscapes: A Sonic History of the Moravian Missions in Early Pennsylvania. By Sarah Justina Eyerly. Pp. 354. (Indiana University Press, Bloomington and Indiana, 2020. £72 Isbn 978-0-253-04766-3.)
Inside Arabic Music: Arabic Maqam performance and Theory in the 20th Century. By Johnny Farraj and Sami Abu Shumays. Pp. 448. (Oxford University Press, New York and Oxford, 2019. £81. Isbn 978-0-19-065836-6.)
Postmodernity's Musical Pasts. Ed. by Tina Frühauf. Pp. 325. (Boydell Press, Woodbridge and Rochester, NY, 2020. £70. Isbn 978-1-78327-496-3.)
George Bizet's Carmen. By Nelly Furman. Pp. 152. Oxford Keynotes. (Oxford University Press, New York and Oxford, 2020. £10.99. Isbn 978-0-19-005915-6.)
Faces of Tradition in Chinese Performing Arts. Ed. by Levi S. Gibbs. Pp. vii 178. Encounters: Explorations in Folklore and Ethnomusicology. (Indiana University Press, Bloomington and Indiana, 2020. $30. Isbn 978-0-253-04583-6.)
Child Composers in the Old Conservatories: How Orphans Became Elite Musicians. By Robert O. Gjerdingen. Pp. 368. (Oxford University Press, New York and Oxford, 2020. £22.99. Isbn 978-0-19-065359-0.)
Cultivate by Hand: Amateur Musicians in the Early American Republic. By Glenda Goodman. Pp. 256. New Cultural History of Music. (Oxford University Press...

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