Books Received

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Red Strains: Music and Communism outside the Communist Bloc. Ed. by Robert Adlington. Pp. xvii + 309. Proceedings of the British Academy, 185. (The British Academy and Oxford University Press, Oxford and New York, 2013. £65. ISBN 978-0-19-726539-0.)

The Rival Sirens: Performance and Identity on Handel’s Operatic Stage. By Suzanne Aspden. Cambridge Studies in Opera. Pp. xv + 291. (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge and New York, 2013. £65. ISBN 978-1-107-03337-5.)

Composing for the Red Screen: Prokofiev and Soviet Film. By Kevin Bartig. Pp. xv + 228. (Oxford University Press, New York and Oxford, 2013. £37.50. ISBN 978-0-19-996759-9.)

The Classical Revolution: Thoughts on New Music in the 21st Century. By John Borstlap. Pp. xxiv + 147. (Scarecrow Press, Inc., Lanham, Md., Toronto, and Plymouth, UK, 2013. £34.95. ISBN 978-0-8108-8457-1.)

A. P. Borodin: Prince Igor. Piano score of the original version ed. by A. V. Bulycheva. Pp. 360. (Classica-XXI, Moscow, 2012. ISMN 979-0-706365-44-2.)

Pražský Divadelní Almanach: 230 let Stavovského divadla [Prague Theatre Almanac: 230 Years of the Estates Theatre]. By Ondřej Černý, Alena Jakubcová, Petra Ježková, Jitka Ludvová, Václav Petrbok, Milan Pospíšil, Martin J. Švejda, and Věra Velemanová. Pp. 214. (Institut umĕní – Divadelní ústav, Prague, 2013. ISBN 978-80-7008-293-5.)

Federico Moreno Torroba: A Musical Life in Three Acts. By Walter Aaron Clark and William Craig Krause. Pp. xxi + 356. Currents in Latin American and Iberian Music. (Oxford University Press, New York and Oxford, 2013. £30. ISBN 978-0-19-531370-3.)

Electronic Music. By Nick Collins, Margaret Schedel, and Scott Wilson. Pp. xi + 228. Cambridge Introductions to Music. (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge and New York, 2013. £17.99. ISBN 978-1-107-64817-3.)

The Aesthetic Life of Cyril Scott. By Sarah Collins. Pp. xxxiii + 248. (The Boydell Press, Woodbridge, Suffolk and Rochester, NY, 2013. £55. ISBN 978-1-84383-807-4.)

Barocco Padano 7: Atti del XV Convegno internazionale sulla musica italiana nei secoli XVII–XVIII. Ed. by Alberto Colzani, Andrea Luppi, and Maurizio Padoan. Pp. 766. (AMIS, Como, 2012. ISBN 978-88-97859-00-0.)

Dissonance in the Republic of Letters: The Querelle des Gluckistes et des Piccinnistes. By Mark Darlow. Pp. x + 229. (Legenda, Oxford, 2013. £45. ISBN 978-1-907975-54-7.)

Art Music: Love, Listening and Soulfulness. By Matthew Del Nevo. Pp. xiii + 294. (New Brunswick, NJ, and London, Transaction Publishers, 2013. $34.95. ISBN 978-1-4128-5161-9.)

Theory and Practice of Technology-Based Music Instruction. By Jay Dorfman. Pp. x + 227. (Oxford University Press, New York and Oxford, 2013. £17.99. ISBN 978-0-19-979559-8.)

Elgar’s Earnings. By John Drysdale. Pp. xii + 241. (The Boydell Press, Woodbridge, Suffolk and Rochester NY, 2013. £50. ISBN 978-1-84383-741-1.)

The Sociology of Wind Bands: Amateur Music between Cultural Domination and Autonomy. By Vincent Dubois, Jean-Matthieu Méon, and Emmanuel Pierru. Pp. xix + 225. Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series (Ashgate, Farnham, Surrey and Burlington, Vt., 2013. £55. ISBN 978-1-4094-6185-2.)

Chopin: Âme des salons parisiens, 1830–1848. By Jean-Jacques Eigeldinger. Pp. 336. (Fayard, Paris, 2013. €30. ISBN 978-2-213-67243-4.)

Josquin des Prez and his Musical Legacy: An Introductory Guide. By Willem Elders. Pp. 247. (Leuven University Press, Leuven, 2013. €35. ISBN 978-90-5867-941-3.)

The Politics of Plainchant in Fin-de-Siècle France. By Katharine Ellis. RMA Monographs, 20. Pp. xxiii + 140. (Ashgate, Farnham, Surrey, and Burlington, Vt., 2013. £45. ISBN 978-1-4094-6373-3.)

Keith Jarrett’s The Köln Concert. By Peter Elsdon. Oxford Studies in Recorded Jazz. Pp. x + 171 (Oxford University Press, New York and Oxford, 2013. £10.99. ISBN 978-0-19-977926-0.)

Icelandic Men and Me: Sagas of Singing, Self and Everyday Life. By Robert Faulkner. SOAS Musicology Series. Pp. x + 239 (Ashgate, Farnham, Surrey, and Burlington, Vt., 2013. £55. ISBN 978-1-4094-4976-8...