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  New Books in Musicology
05/12/2008
George E. Lewis
A Power Stronger Than Itself: The AACM and American Experimental Music. University of Chicago Press, 2008. 690 pp. $35. ISBN: 978-0226476957. Buy it at Amazon
 

05/12/2008
Barbara L. Kelly (editor)
French Music, Culture, and National Identity, 1870-1939. University of Rochester Press, Eastman Studies in Music, 288 pp., 22 b&w and 6 music exx., 6 x 9 in., hardcover, $90. ISBN: 978-1-58046-272-3. Buy it at Amazon
 

05/12/2008
Stephanie D. Vial
The Art of Musical Phrasing in the Eighteenth Century: Punctuating the Classical 'Period'. University of Rochester Press, Eastman Studies in Music, 384 pp., 110 music exx., 9 x 6 in., hardcover, $85. ISBN: 9781580460347
 

05/06/2008
Siglind Bruhn
Messiaen’s Explorations of Love and Death: Musico-poetic Signification in the Tristan Trilogy and Three Related Song Cycles, Pendragon, 2008. $36. ISBN 9781576471364. Buy it at Amazon
 

04/30/2008
Philip Furia and Michael Lasser
America’s Songs: The Stories Behind the Songs of Broadway, Hollywood, and Tin Pan Alley, Routledge 2008, ISBN13:978-0-415-99052-3, $19.95
 

04/30/2008
Eve Badura-Skoda and Paul Badura-Skoda
Interpreting Mozart: The Performance of His Piano Works, Routledge 2008, ISBN13: 978-0-415-97750-0, $95.00.
 

04/29/2008
Richard Kramer
Unfinished Music, Oxford University Press, 2008, 424 pages, ISBN 9780195326826. Buy it at Amazon
 

04/28/2008
David Gramit (editor)
Beyond the Art of Finger Dexterity: Reassessing Carl Czerny, Univ. of Rochester Press, 2008. Eastman Studies in Music, ISBN: 9781580462501, 304 pp., 7 b&w illus., 44 music exx., 6 x 9 in., hardcover, $75.

AMS Members may save 25% on this new title by using offer code $08144. Discount price is $56.25. Contact University of Rochester Press at 585-275-0419, boydell@boydellusa.net or www.urpress.com.


 

04/25/2008
Mina Yang
California Polyphony: Ethnic Voices, Musical Crossroads. Univ. of Illinois Press, 2008. 208 pp., $40. ISBN 978-0252032431. Buy it at Amazon
 

04/24/2008
Bill Ivey
Arts, Inc.: How Greed and Neglect Have Destroyed Our Cultural Rights, University of California Press, 2008. $24.95. ISBN: 978-0-520-24112-1. Buy it at Amazon
 

04/21/2008
Olivia A. Bloechl
Native American Song at the Frontiers of Early Modern Music, New Perspectives in Music History and Criticism, No. 17, Cambridge University Press, 2008. Hardcover. 304 pages. ISBN-13: 9780521866057.  Buy it at Amazon
 

04/17/2008
Robert Tallant Laudon
The Era After The Baroque: Music and Fine Arts 1750-1900, Pendragon, 2008. $28. ISBN 9781576471241.
 

04/10/2008
Benjamin Walton
Rossini in Restoration Paris: The Sound of Modern Life (Cambridge Studies in Opera). Cambridge University Press, 2008. 368 pp. $95 (hardcover) ISBN-13: 978-0521870603.
 

04/07/2008
Vanessa Agnew
Enlightenment Orpheus: The Power of Music in Other Worlds, Oxford University Press, 2008, 280 pages, ISBN 9780195336665.
 

03/19/2008
Steven Zohn
Music for a Mixed Taste: Style, Genre, and Meaning in Telemann's Instrumental Works, Oxford University Press, 2008, 686 pages, ISBN 9780195169775.
 

03/11/2008
Vincent P. Benitez
Olivier Messiaen: A Research and Information Guide, Routledge, 2008. xvi, 337 p. ISBN10: 0-415-97372-4.
 

03/11/2008
Marina Frolova-Walker
Russian Music and Nationalism: From Glinka to Stalin, Yale University Press, 2008; 402 pages; $50. ISBN 978-0300112733.
 

03/06/2008
Jeffrey J. Noonan
The Guitar in America: Victorian Era to Jazz Age, University Press of Mississippi, 2008. 239 pages; $50. ISBN-13: 978-1-934110-18-8.
 

03/06/2008
Tom Beghin and Sander M. Goldberg, eds.
Haydn and the Performance of Rhetoric, University of Chicago Press, 2008. 366 pages; $45; includes compact disk. ISBN-13: 978-0-226-04129-2.
 

03/04/2008
Karen Painter
Symphonic Aspirations: German Music and Politics, 1900-1945, Harvard University Press, 2008. ISBN-13: 978-0674026612.
 

03/03/2008
David Russell Williams and C. Matthew Balensuela
Music Theory from Boethius to Zarlino: A Bibliography and Guide, Pendragon Press, 2008. ISBN-13: 9781576471579.
 

02/27/2008
Kay Dickinson
Off Key: When Film and Music Don't Work Together, Oxford University Press, 2008. ISBN-13: 9780195326635 (cloth); 9780195326642 (paper).
 

02/27/2008
Nikolai Findeizen
History of Music in Russia from Antiquity to 1800, Translation by Samuel William Pring. Edited and annotated by Milos Velimirovic and Claudia R. Jensen with the assistance of Malcolm Hamrick Brown and Daniel C. Waugh. Two vols. Indiana University Press, 2008. ISBN-13 9780253348258, 9780253348265.
 

02/26/2008
Peter Bloom, ed.
Berlioz: Scenes from the Life and Work, Boydell & Brewer / University of Rochester Press, 2008. ISBN 9781580462099.
 

02/25/2008
Alejandro L. Madrid
Nor-tec Rifa! Electronic Dance Music from Tijuana to the World, Oxford University Press, 2008. ISBN-13: 9780195342628.
 

02/22/2008
Halina Goldberg
Music in Chopin's Warsaw, Oxford University Press, 2008. ISBN-13: 978-0195130737.
 

02/19/2008
Jan Herlinger
Prosdocimo de' Beldomandi's Musica Plana and Musica Speculativa, Univ. of Illinois Press, 2008. ISBN-13: 978-0252032592.
 

02/19/2008
Andrew Shenton
Olivier Messiaen's System of Signs: Notes Towards Understanding His Music, Ashgate, 2008. ISBN-13: 978-0754661689.
 

02/19/2008
Joseph Kerman
The Art of Fugue: Bach Fugues for Keyboard, 1715-1750, University of California Press, 2008. ISBN-13: 978-0520253896.
 

04/30/2008
Lewis Porter, Chris DeVito, David Wild, Yasuhiro “Fuji” Fujioka, and Wolf Schmaler
The John Coltrane Reference, Routledge 2008, ISBN13: 978-0-415-97755-5, $150.00
 

04/30/2008
Susan M. Filler
Gustav and Alma Mahler: A Research and Information Guide, Routledge 2007, ISBN13: 978-0-415-94388-8, $95.00
 

04/30/2008
Howard Mandel
Miles, Ornette, Cecil: Jazz Beyond Jazz, Routledge 2008, ISBN13: 978-0-415-96714-3, $30.00
 

04/30/2008
Michael Mark
Music Education: Source Readings from Ancient Greece to Today, Routledge 2008, ISBN13: 978-0-415-95779-3, $39.95
 

04/30/2008
Andrea Olmstead
Roger Sessions: A Biography, Routledge 2008, ISBN13: 978-0-415-97714-2, $44.95.
 

04/17/2008
Ursula Kirkendale
Antonio Caldara: Life and Venetian-Roman Oratorios, revised and translated by Warren Kirkendale, Florence, Leo S. Olschki, 2007, xi, 643 pp., 24 plates, five in color, hardcover, ISBN 978 88 222 5714 7. € 62. Historiae Musicae Cultores, CXIV.
 

04/17/2008
Warren and Ursula Kirkendale
Music and Meaning: Studies in Music History and the Neigbouring Disciplines, Florence, Leo S. Olschki, 2007, xi, 643 pp., 50 plates, four in color, hardcover, ISBN 978 88 222 5659 1. € 66. Historiae Musicae Cultores, CXIII.
 

03/19/2008
Giovanni Domenico Dinaccio
Rocco Rodio e la Messa "De Beata Virgine" (1562), Edizioni Musicali Novecento, 2007.
 

03/06/2008
Diane Pecknold
The Selling Sound: The Rise of the Country Music Industry, Duke University Press, 2007. 312 pages; $79.95 hardcover, $22.95 paperback. 978-0-8223-4080-5.
 

02/27/2008
Roberta Montemorra Marvin (ed.)
Giuseppe Verdi: Hymns/Inni (The Works of Giuseppe Verdi, Series IV, volume 1), The University of Chicago Press / Casa Ricordi, 2007. ISBN 0226853284 (University of Chicago Press) / ISBN 8875928223 (Casa Ricordi).
 

04/10/2008
Peter Szendy
Listen: A History of Our Ears Peter Szendy, Foreword by Jean-Luc Nancy, Translated by Charlotte Mandell Fordham University Press, 2007. $75.00 (hardcover) $22 (paper) ISBN: 9780823227990.
 

02/27/2008
Catherine Parsons Smith
Making Music in Los Angeles: Transforming the Popular, University of California Press, 2007. ISBN-13: 9780520251397.
 

02/27/2008
Janie Cole
A Muse of Music in Early Baroque Florence: the Poetry of Michelangelo Buonarroti il Giovane, Olschki, 2007. ISBN-13: 9788822257048.
 

02/25/2008
Ignacio Corona and Alejandro L. Madrid, eds.
Postnational Musical Identities: Cultural Production, Distribution, and Consumption in a Globalized Scenario, Lexington Books, 2007. ISBN-13: 9780739118214.
 

02/20/2008
Alexandra Wilson
The Puccini Problem: Opera, Nationalism, and Modernity, Cambridge University Press, 2007. ISBN-13: 9780521856881.
 

02/19/2008
Margaret Kartomi, Kay Dreyfus, with David Pear (eds)
Growing up Making Music: Youth Orchestras in Australia and the World, Lyrebird Press, Australia, 2007 ISBN-13: 978 0 734037 68 8.
 

02/14/2008
Eleanor Selfridge-Field
Song and Season: Science, Culture, and Theatrical Time in Early Modern Venice, Stanford University Press, 2007. ISBN-13 9780804757652.

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02/14/2008
Eleanor Selfridge-Field
A New Chronology of Venetian Opera and Related Genres, 1660-1760, Stanford University Press, 2007. ISBN-13 9780804744379.

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