Books Received

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Sounds of Secrets: Field Notes on Ritual Music and Musical Instruments on the Islands of Vanuatu. By Raymond Ammann. pp. 314. KlangKulturStudien, 7. (Lit Verlag, Zurich and Berlin, 2012, €31.90. ISBN 978-3-643-80130-2.)

Music, Language and Human Evolution. Ed. by Nicholas Bannan. pp. xii + 345. (Oxford and New York, Oxford University Press, 2012, £75. ISBN 978-0-19-922734-1.)

Victory over the Sun: The World’s First Futurist Opera. Ed. by Rosamund Bartlett and Sarah Dadswell. pp. xv + 328. Exeter Performance Studies. (University of Exeter Press, Exeter, 2012, £60. ISBN 978-0-85989-839-3.)

Representations of Jews in the Musical Theater of the Habsburg Empire (1788–1807). By David J. Buch. pp. 140. Yuval Music Series, 9. (Jewish Music Research Centre, Jerusalem, 2012.)

Elliott Carter’s What Next? Communication, Cooperation, and Separation. By Guy Capuzzo. pp. xiv + 419. Eastman Studies in Music. (University of Rochester Press, Rochester, NY, and Boydell & Brewer, Woodbridge, Suffolk, 2012, £50. ISBN 978-1-58046-419-2.)

L’Opéra de Paris, La Comédie-Française et l’Opéra-Comique: Approches comparés (1669–2010). Ed. by Sabine Chaouche, Denis Herlin, and Solveig Serre. pp. 424. Études et rencontres de L’École des Chartes, 38. (École des Chartes, Paris, 2012, €37. ISBN 978-2-35723-023-1.)

Performing Pain: Music and Trauma in Eastern Europe. By Maria Cizmic. pp. xiv + 233. (Oxford University Press, New York and Oxford, 2012, £40. ISBN 978-0-19-973460-3.)

Music and Ethics. By Marcel Cobussen and Nanette Nielsen. pp. x +180. (Ashgate, Farnham, Surrey, and Burlington, Vt., 2012, £55. ISBN 978-1-4094-3496-2.)

Instrumentalmusik in der ‘Nation Chantante’: Theorie und Kritik eines Repertoires im Zerfall. By Giacomo Fornari. pp. x + 325. Tübinger Beiträge zur Musikwissenschaft, 33. (Hans Schneider, Tutzing, 2012, €65. ISBN 978-3-86296-035-4.)

The Art of Record Production: An Introductory Reader for a New Academic Field. Ed. by Simon Frith and Simon Zagorski-Thomas. pp. xxi + 301. (Ashgate, Farnham, Surrey, and Burlington, Vt., 2012, £19.99. ISBN 978-1-4094-0678-5.)

Postmodernism in Music. By Kenneth Gloag. pp. xvi + 205. Cambridge Introductions to Music. (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge and New York, 2012, £16.99/$27.99. ISBN 978-0-521-15157-3.)

Liszt et la France: Musique, culture et société dans l’Europe du xix^esiècle. Ed. by Malou Haine and Nicolas Dufetel. pp. 605. (Vrin, Paris, 2012, €48. ISBN 978-2-7116-2369-3.)

Wien—Budapest—Pressburg: Facetten biedermeierlicher Musikkultur. Ed. by Andrea Harrandt and Erich Wolfgang Partsch. pp. 213. Publikationen des Instituts für Osterreichische Musikdokumentation. (Hans Schneider, Tutzing, 2012, €48. ISBN 978-3-86296-042-2.)

The Orchestra: A Very Short Introduction. By D. Kern Holomon. pp. x +158. Very Short Introductions. (Oxford University Press, New York and Oxford, 2012, £7.99/$11.95. ISBN 978-0-19-976028-2.)

Music as Intangible Cultural Heritage: Policy, Ideology, and Practice in the Preservation of East Asian Traditions. Ed. by Keith Howard. xiii + 277 pp. (Ashgate, Farnham, Surrey, and Burlington, Vt., 2012, £60. ISBN 978-1-4094-3907-3.)

‘...über jeden Ausdruck erhaben und schön’: Die Schweizer Reise der Familie Mendelssohn 1822 Ed. by Hans-Günter Klein. pp. 170. (Reichert Verlag, Wiesbaden, 2012, €29.90. ISBN 978-3-89500-851-1.)

The Dramatic Symphony: Issues and Explorations from Berlioz to Liszt. By Robert Tallant Laudon. pp. ix +156. Franz Liszt Studies Series, 12. (Pendragon Press, New York, 2012, $46. ISBN 978-1576471678.)

Music, Poetry, Propaganda: Constructing French Cultural Soundscapes at the BBC during the Second World War. By Claire Launchbury. pp. xi + 211. Modern French Identities, 78. (Peter Lang, Bern, 2012, £32. ISBN 978-3-0343-0239-5.)

Music 109: Notes on Experimental Music. By Alvin Lucier. pp. xi + 217. (Wesleyan University Press, Middleton, Conn., 2012, $24.99. ISBN 978-0-8195-2797-4.)

Ravel. By Roger Nichols. pp. xiv + 430. (Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2012, £14.99. ISBN 978-0-300-18776-2.)

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