New Books in Musicology

Roberta Montemorra Marvin and Hilary Poriss, ed.

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:18:06 -0500

Fashions and Legacies of Nineteenth-Century Italian Opera, Cambridge University Press, 2009. 302 pp. $90. ISBN: 9780521889988. Buy it at Amazon

Rebecca Maloy

Mon, 8 Mar 2010 13:32:12 -0500

Inside the Offertory: Aspects of Chronology and Transmission, Oxford University Press, 2010. 464 pp. $55. ISBN: 9780195315172. Buy it at Amazon

Thomas D. Saler

Mon, 8 Mar 2010 10:27:23 -0500

Serving Genius: Carlo Maria Giulini, University of Illinois Press, 2010. 256 pp. $34.95. ISBN: 978-0-252-03502-9. Buy it at Amazon

William C. Banfield

Mon, 8 Mar 2010 10:26:54 -0500

Cultural Codes: Makings of a Black Music Philosophy: An Interpretive History From Spirituals to Hip Hop, Scarecrow Press, 2010. 254 pp. $40. ISBN: 978-0-8108-7286-8. Buy it at Amazon

Stana Nenadic, ed.

Mon, 8 Mar 2010 10:26:20 -0500

Scots in London in the Eighteenth Century, Bucknell University Press, 2010. 317 pp. $55. ISBN: 978-0838756539. Buy it at Amazon

Lovalerie King and Richard Schur, eds.

Mon, 8 Mar 2010 10:25:34 -0500

African American Culture and Legal Discourse, Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. 272 pp. $85. ISBN: 978-0-230-61988-3. Buy it at Amazon

Irene G. Dash

Tue, 2 Mar 2010 08:37:38 -0500

Shakespeare and the American Musical, Indiana University Press, 2010. 248 pp. $65/$24.95. ISBN: 978-0-253-35414-3. Buy it at Amazon

Richard Evans, transl.

Tue, 2 Mar 2010 08:33:33 -0500

Understanding Music: The Nature and Limits of Musical Cognition, by Hans Heinrich Eggebrecht, Ashgate, 2009. 151 pp. $79.95. ISBN: 978-0-7546-6612-7. Buy it at Amazon

Roberto Illiano and Massimiliano Sala, eds.

Mon, 1 Mar 2010 12:51:49 -0500

Music and Dictatorship in Europe and Latin America, Brepols, 2010. 700 pp. EUR 125. ISBN: 978-2-503-52779-6. Buy it at Amazon

Robert M. Keller, comp.

Thu, 25 Feb 2010 10:51:19 -0500

Early American Songsters, 1734-1820: An Index, Colonial Music Institute, 2010. CD-ROM. $25.

Jeongwon Joe and Sander L. Gilman, eds.

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 11:27:02 -0500

Wagner and Cinema, Indiana University Press, 2010. 504 pp. $75/$27.95. ISBN: 978-0-253-30030-0. Buy it at Amazon

Ian Bradley

Mon, 22 Feb 2010 11:35:35 -0500

Water Music: Making Music in the Spas of Europe and North America, Oxford University Press, 2010. 240 pp. $29.95. ISBN: 9780195327342. Buy it at Amazon

Patrick Burkart

Mon, 22 Feb 2010 11:35:13 -0500

Music and Cyberliberties, Wesleyan University Press, 2010. 180 pp. $70/$24.95. ISBN: 978-0-8195-6917-2. Buy it at Amazon

Michael Downes

Mon, 22 Feb 2010 11:34:35 -0500

Jonathan Harvey: "Song Offerings" and "White as Jasmine", Ashgate, 2010. 149 pp. $69.95. ISBN: 978-0-7546-6022-4. Buy it at Amazon

Deborah Howard and Laura Moretti

Mon, 22 Feb 2010 11:34:10 -0500

Sound and Space in Renaissance Venice: Architecture, Music, Acoustics, Yale University Press, 2010. 256 pp. $55. ISBN: 9780300148749. Buy it at Amazon

Steve Goodman

Tue, 16 Feb 2010 16:36:24 -0500

Sonic Warfare: Sound, Affect, and the Ecology of Fear, MIT Press, 2009. 240 pp. $35. ISBN: 978-0-262-01347-5. Buy it at Amazon

Harris M. Berger

Tue, 16 Feb 2010 16:35:53 -0500

Stance: Ideas About Emotion, Style, and Meaning for the Study of Expressive Culture, Wesleyan University Press, 2010. 200 pp. $70/$24.95. ISBN: 978-0-8195-6877-9. Buy it at Amazon

Regina B. Oost

Tue, 16 Feb 2010 16:35:16 -0500

Gilbert and Sullivan: Class and the Savoy Tradition, 1875-1896, Ashgate, 2009. 180 pp. £45. ISBN: 978-0-7546-6412-3. Buy it at Amazon

Lily E. Hirsch

Mon, 15 Feb 2010 07:08:44 -0500

A Jewish Orchestra in Nazi Germany: Musical Politics and the Berlin Jewish Culture League, University of Michigan Press, 2010. 276 pp. $70. ISBN: 978-0-472-11710-9. Buy it at Amazon

Benjamin Givan

Wed, 10 Feb 2010 09:51:42 -0500

The Music of Django Reinhardt, University of Michigan Press, 2009. 256 pp. $75. ISBN: 978-0-472-11499-3. Buy it at Amazon

Fang-Lan Hsieh

Wed, 10 Feb 2010 09:47:25 -0500

A History of Chinese Christian Hymnody: From Its Missionary Origins to Contemporary Indigenous Productions, Edwin Mellen Press, 2010. 296 pp. $109.95. ISBN: 978-0773438163. Buy it at Amazon

Laudan Nooshin, ed.

Wed, 10 Feb 2010 09:45:04 -0500

Music and the Play of Power in the Middle East, North Africa and Central Asia, Ashgate, 2009. 358 pp. £58.50. ISBN: 978-0-7546-3457-7. Buy it at Amazon

Nigel Simeone

Wed, 10 Feb 2010 09:43:03 -0500

Leonard Bernstein: West Side Story, Ashgate, 2009. 192 pp. £31.50. ISBN: 978-0-7546-6484-0. Buy it at Amazon

Kathryn Lowerre

Wed, 10 Feb 2010 09:41:06 -0500

Music and Musicians on the London Stage, 1695–1705, Ashgate, 2009. 428 pp. £54. ISBN: 978-0-7546-6614-1. Buy it at Amazon

Jonathan Cross

Wed, 10 Feb 2010 09:38:57 -0500

Harrison Birtwistle: The Mask of Orpheus, Ashgate, 2009. 196 pp. £31.50. ISBN: 978-0-7546-5383-7. Buy it at Amazon

Eric A. Galm

Wed, 10 Feb 2010 09:36:28 -0500

The Berimbau: Soul of Brazilian Music, University Press of Mississippi, 2010. 224 pp. $50. ISBN: 978-1-60473-405-8. Buy it at Amazon

Amy Herzog

Wed, 10 Feb 2010 09:32:29 -0500

Dreams of Difference, Songs of the Same: The Musical Moment in Film, University of Minnesota Press, 2009. 296 pp. $75/$25. ISBN: 978-0816660889. Buy it at Amazon

Katherine Bergeron

Wed, 10 Feb 2010 09:30:12 -0500

Voice Lessons: French Mélodie in the Belle Epoque, Oxford University Press, 2009. 424 pp. $29.95. ISBN: 9780195337051. Buy it at Amazon

Paul-Andé Bempéchat

Wed, 10 Feb 2010 09:27:38 -0500

Jean Cras, Polymath of Music and Letters, Ashgate, 2009. 608 pp. £40.50. ISBN: 978-0-7546-0683-3. Buy it at Amazon

Michael Eric Dyson and Sohail Daulatzai, eds.

Wed, 10 Feb 2010 09:24:08 -0500

Born to Use Mics: Reading Nas's Illmatic, Basic Civitas Books, 2009. 308 pp. $15.95. ISBN: 9780465002115. Buy it at Amazon

Maria Elena Cepeda

Wed, 10 Feb 2010 09:21:19 -0500

Musical ImagiNation: U.S-Colombian Identity and the Latin Music Boom, New York University Press, 2010. 272 pp. $22. ISBN: 9780814716922. Buy it at Amazon

Stefan Hagel

Wed, 10 Feb 2010 09:18:16 -0500

Ancient Greek Music: A New Technical History, Cambridge University Press, 2010. 504 pp. $115. ISBN: 9780521517645. Buy it at Amazon

Paul Corneilson

Mon, 1 Feb 2010 13:44:18 -0500

Hector & Felix. A Dialogue in Two Acts, CreateSpace, 2009. 60 pp. $9.99. ISBN: 978-1449982553. Buy it at Amazon

Derek B. Scott

Thu, 21 Jan 2010 09:07:00 -0500

The Ashgate Research Companion to Popular Musicology, Ashgate, 2009. 576 pp. £75. ISBN: 978-0-7546-6476-5. Buy it at Amazon

Su Zheng

Wed, 20 Jan 2010 11:39:55 -0500

Claiming Diaspora: Music, Transnationalism, and Cultural Politics in Asian/Chinese America, Oxford University Press, 2010. 448 pp. $65. ISBN: 9780195134377. Buy it at Amazon

Ian Bradley

Wed, 20 Jan 2010 11:36:52 -0500

Water Music: Making Music in the Spas of Europe and North America, Oxford University Press, 2010. 240 pp. $29.95. ISBN: 9780195327342. Buy it at Amazon

Steven Vande Moortele

Tue, 19 Jan 2010 10:07:08 -0500

Two-Dimensional Sonata Form: Form and Cycle in Single-Movement Instrumental Works by Liszt, Strauss, Schoenberg, and Zemlinsky, Leuven University Press, 2009. 200 pp. $55. ISBN: 978-90-5867-751-8. Buy it at Amazon

Annegret Fauser and Mark Everist, eds.

Tue, 19 Jan 2010 10:05:01 -0500

Music, Theater, and Cultural Transfer: Paris, 1830-1914, University of Chicago Press, 2009. 456 pp. $55. ISBN: 9780226239262. Buy it at Amazon

Peter C. Muir

Tue, 19 Jan 2010 10:02:46 -0500

Long Lost Blues: Popular Blues in America, 1850-1920, University of Illinois Press, 2010. 280 pp. $85/$35. ISBN: 978-0-252-03487-9. Buy it at Amazon

Paul Helmer

Tue, 19 Jan 2010 09:59:27 -0500

Growing with Canada: The Émigré Tradition in Canadian Music, McGill-Queen's University Press, 2009. 384 pp. $49.95. ISBN: 9780773535817. Buy it at Amazon

Michael J. Gilmour

Tue, 19 Jan 2010 09:56:11 -0500

Gods and Guitars: Seeking the Sacred in Post-1960s Popular Music, Baylor University Press, 2009. 180 pp. $19.95. ISBN: 9781602581395. Buy it at Amazon

Marc L. Moskowitz

Tue, 19 Jan 2010 09:54:21 -0500

Cries of Joy, Songs of Sorrow: Chinese Pop Music and Its Cultural Connotations, University of Hawai'i Press, 2009. 182 pp. $40. ISBN: 978-0-8248-3369-5. Buy it at Amazon

Corine Schleif and Volker Schier

Tue, 19 Jan 2010 09:14:40 -0500

Katerina's Windows: Donation and Devotion, Art and Music, as Heard and Seen Through the Writings of a Birgittine Nun, Penn State University Press, 2009. 624 pp. $110. ISBN: 978-0-271-03369-3. Buy it at Amazon

Irving Massey

Wed, 13 Jan 2010 08:37:34 -0500

The Neural Imagination: Aesthetic and Neuroscientific Approaches to the Arts, University of Texas Press, 2009. 195 pp. $55. ISBN: 978-0-292-75279-5. Buy it at Amazon

Rionach ui Ogain, ed.

Wed, 13 Jan 2010 08:30:35 -0500

Going to the Well for Water: The Séamus Ennis Field Diary 1942-1946, University of Cork Press, 2009. 616 pp. $77.95. ISBN: 978 1 85918 437 0. Buy it at Amazon

Deborah Holms and Lisa Silverman, eds.

Wed, 13 Jan 2010 08:28:42 -0500

Interwar Vienna: Culture between Tradition and Modernity, Camden House, 2009. 310 pp. $75. ISBN: 9781571134202. Buy it at Amazon

Ryan Moore

Wed, 13 Jan 2010 08:24:25 -0500

Sells like Teen Spirit Music, Youth Culture, and Social Crisis, New York University Press, 2009. 296 pp. $24. ISBN: 9780814757482. Buy it at Amazon

David Ledbetter

Wed, 13 Jan 2010 08:20:51 -0500

Unaccompanied Bach: Performing the Solo Works, Yale University Press, 2009. 288 pp. $45. ISBN: 9780300141511. Buy it at Amazon

Chris McDonald

Wed, 13 Jan 2010 08:18:48 -0500

Rush, Rock Music, and the Middle Class: Dreaming in Middletown, Indiana University Press, 2009. 272 pp. $22.95. ISBN: 978-0-253-22149-0. Buy it at Amazon

Deborah Pacini Hernandez

Wed, 13 Jan 2010 08:14:17 -0500

Oye Como Va! Hybridity and Identity in Latino Popular Music, Temple University Press, 2009. 238 pp. $69.50. ISBN: 978-1-43990-089-5. Buy it at Amazon

Ruth Katz

Wed, 13 Jan 2010 08:12:09 -0500

A Language of Its Own: Sense and Meaning in the Making of Western Art Music, University of Chicago Press, 2009. 384 pp. $48. ISBN: 9780226425962. Buy it at Amazon

Rimgaila Salys

Wed, 13 Jan 2010 08:08:34 -0500

The Musical Comedy Films of Grigorii Aleksandrov: Laughing Matters, University of Chicago Press, 2009. 240 pp. $35. ISBN: 9781841502823. Buy it at Amazon

T. J. H. McCarthy

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 10:45:29 -0500

Music, scholasticism and reform: Salian Germany 1024–1125, Manchester University Press, 2009. 288 pp. £60. ISBN: 9780719078897. Buy it at Amazon

Jon Gillock

Wed, 9 Dec 2009 11:54:30 -0500

Performing Messiaen's Organ Music: 66 Masterclasses, Indiana University Press, 2009. 428 pp. $39.95. ISBN: 978-0-253-35373-3. Buy it at Amazon

Jason Stoessel, ed.

Tue, 8 Dec 2009 10:02:51 -0500

Identity and Locality in Early European Music, 1028-1740. Ashgate, 2009. 272 pp. £55.00; Online: £49.50. ISBN: 978-0-7546-6487-1. Buy it at Amazon

Evan Jones, ed.

Thu, 3 Dec 2009 11:20:09 -0500

Intimate Voices: The Twentieth-Century String Quartet: Volume 1: Debussy to Villa-Lobos, and Volume 2: Shostakovich to the Avant-Garde, University of Rochester Press, 2009. 328 pp. $65 each. 25% discount mention code $09348 at publisher web site. ISBN: 9781580462297, 9781580463225. Buy vol. 1 at Amazon
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Derek Katz

Thu, 3 Dec 2009 11:17:45 -0500

Janaceck beyond the Borders, University of Rochester Press, 2009. 192 pp. $80. ISBN: 9781580463096. Mention code $09348 for 25% discount via Press web site. Buy it at Amazon

William Kinderman and Joseph E. Jones, eds.

Thu, 3 Dec 2009 11:14:36 -0500

Genetic Criticism and the Creative Process: Essays from Music, Literature, and Theater, University of Rochester Press, 2009. 240 pp. $75. ISBN: 9781580463171. Mention code $09348 for 25% discount via Press web site. Buy it at Amazon

Benjamin Brinner

Thu, 3 Dec 2009 11:12:15 -0500

Playing Across a Divide: Israeli-Palestinian Musical Encounters, Oxford University Press, 2009. 368 pp. $25. ISBN: 9780195395945. Buy it at Amazon

Ron Rodman

Thu, 3 Dec 2009 11:09:55 -0500

Tuning In: American Narrative Television Music, Oxford University Press, 2009. 368 pp. $21.95. ISBN: 9780195340259. Buy it at Amazon

John Koegel

Thu, 3 Dec 2009 10:09:39 -0500

Music in German Immigrant Theater: New York City, 1840-1940, University of Rochester Press, 2009. 593 pp. with CD. $80. ISBN: 9781580462150. Buy it at Amazon

Jon Hartley Fox

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 10:37:15 -0500

King of the Queen City: The Story of King Records, University of Illinois Press, 2009. 280 pp. $29.95. ISBN: 978-0-252-03468-8. Buy it at Amazon

Paul O. Jenkins

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 10:35:25 -0500

Richard Dyer-Bennet: The Last Minstrel, University Press of Mississippi, 2009. 192 pp. $50. ISBN: 978-1-60473-360-0. Buy it at Amazon

Glenda Dawn Goss

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 10:31:27 -0500

Sibelius: A Composer's Life and the Awakening of Finland, University of Chicago Press, 2009. 496 pp. $55. ISBN: 9780226304779. Buy it at Amazon

Alan Walker

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 10:27:41 -0500

Hans Von Bülow: A Life and Times, Oxford University Press, 2009. 544 pp. $39.95. ISBN: 9780195368680. Buy it at Amazon

Lucy Walker, ed.

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 11:22:54 -0500

Benjamin Britten: New Perspectives on His Life and Work, Boydell & Brewer / University of Rochester Press, 2009. 205 pp. $90. ISBN: 9781843835165. AMS members: 25% discount when ordering directly from Boydell & Brewer.
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Joseph N. Straus

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 08:19:00 -0500

Twelve-Tone Music in America, Cambridge University Press, 2009. 326 pp. $99. ISBN: 9780521899550. Buy it at Amazon

Andrew N. Weintraub and Bell Yung, eds.

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 08:16:03 -0500

Music and Cultural Rights, University of Illinois Press, 2009. 328 pp. $70/$25. ISBN: 978-0-252-03473-2. Buy it at Amazon

Jodah M. Cohen

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 08:13:19 -0500

The Making of a Reform Jewish Cantor: Musical Authority, Cultural Investment, Indiana University Press, 2009. 320 pp. $39.95. ISBN: 978-0-253-35365-8. Buy it at Amazon

Tim Lawrence

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 08:10:39 -0500

Hold On to Your Dreams: Arthur Russell and the Downtown Music Scene, 1973-1992, Duke University Press, 2009. 448 pp. $84.95. ISBN: 978-0-8223-4466-7. Buy it at Amazon

Joshua Dickson

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 08:03:43 -0500

The Highland Bagpipe: Music, History, Tradition, Ashgate, 2009. 408 pp. $69.95. ISBN: 978-0-7546-6669-1. Buy it at Amazon

Graham Johnson

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 08:00:22 -0500

Gabriel Fauré: The Songs and their Poets, Ashgate, 2009. 488 pp. $89.95. ISBN: 978-0-7546-5960-0. Buy it at Amazon

Court Carney

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 07:57:34 -0500

Cuttin’ Up: How Early Jazz Got America’s Ear, University Press of Kansas, 2009. 264 pp. $34.95. ISBN: 978-0-7006-1675-6. Buy it at Amazon

Stephen Zank

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 09:00:32 -0400

Irony and Sound: The Music of Maurice Ravel, Boydell & Brewer / University of Rochester Press, 2009. 449 pp. $85. ISBN: 9781580461894. AMS Members: mention promo code $09307 and receive a 25% discount at the Press web site. Buy it at Amazon

Alan Walker

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 08:55:16 -0400

Hans von Bülow: A Life and Times, Oxford University Press, 2009. 544 pp. $39.95. ISBN: 9780195368680. Buy it at Amazon

Alyn Shipton

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 11:26:26 -0400

I Feel a Song Coming On: The Life of Jimmy McHugh, University of Illinois Press, 2009. 312 pp. $35. ISBN: 978-0-252-03465-7. Buy it at Amazon

Caryl Clark

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 11:01:39 -0400

Haydn's Jews: Representation and Reception on the Operatic Stage, Cambridge University Press, 2009. 262 pp. $99. ISBN: 9780521455473. Buy it at Amazon

Mwenda Ntarangwi

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 10:57:50 -0400

East African Hip Hop: Youth Culture and Globalization, University of Illinois Press, 2009. 176 pp. $60/$20. ISBN: 978-0-252-03457-2. Buy it at Amazon

R. Larry Todd

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 08:41:00 -0400

Fanny Hensel: The Other Mendelssohn, Oxford University Press, 2009. 456 pp. $45. ISBN 9780195180800. Buy it at Amazon

Claudia R. Jensen

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 14:35:39 -0400

Musical Cultures in Seventeenth-Century Russia, Indiana University Press, 2009. 376 pp. $45. ISBN: 978-0-253-35354-2. Buy it at Amazon

Daniel Albright

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 14:41:16 -0400

Music Speaks: On the Language of Opera, Dance, and Song, University of Rochester Press / Boydell & Brewer, 2009. 248 pp. $75. ISBN: 9781580463249. AMS members: mention promotion code $09307 and receive a 25% discount. Buy it at Amazon

Lee Rothfarb

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 14:36:21 -0400

August Halm: A Critical and Creative Life in Music, University of Rochester Press/ Boydell & Brewer, 2009. 320 pp. $85. ISBN: 9781580463294. AMS members: mention promotion code $09307 and receive a 25% discount. Buy it at Amazon

Frances Dyson

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 14:29:30 -0400

Sounding New Media: Immersion and Embodiment in the Arts and Culture, University of California Press, 2009. 262 pp. $60/$24.95. ISBN: 9780520258983. Buy it at Amazon

Jonathan L. Friedmann, ed.

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 14:26:26 -0400

Perspectives on Jewish Music: Secular and Sacred, Lexington Books, 2009. 170 pp. $60. ISBN: 978-0-7391-4152-6. Buy it at Amazon

Pamela Fox

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 14:24:16 -0400

Natural Acts: Gender, Race, and Rusticity in Country Music, University of Michigan Press., 2009. 280 pp. $70/$26.95. ISBN: 978-0-472-07068-8. Buy it at Amazon

Alexander Sebastian Dent

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 14:21:28 -0400

River of Tears: Country Music, Memory, and Modernity in Brazil, Duke University Press, 2009. 312 pp. $84.95/$23.95. ISBN: 978-0-8223-4520-6. Buy it at Amazon

Richard L. Schur

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 14:16:03 -0400

Parodies of Ownership: Hip-Hop Aesthetics and Intellectual Property Law, University of Michigan Press, 2009. 256 pp. $65/$26.95. ISBN: 978-0-472-07060-2. Buy it at Amazon

Bálint András Varga

Fri, 9 Oct 2009 09:02:55 -0400

György Kurtág: Three Interviews and Ligeti Homages, University of Rochester Press, 2009. 192 pp. $75. ISBN: 9781580463287. AMS members: Mention promotion code $09308 when ordering and pay $56.25. Buy it at Amazon

Thomas S. Grey, ed.

Mon, 5 Oct 2009 10:47:35 -0400

Richard Wagner and His World, Princeton University Press, 2009. 576 pp. $70/$26.95. ISBN: 978-0691143651. Buy it at Amazon

Charles Edward McGuire

Mon, 5 Oct 2009 10:44:41 -0400

Music and Victorian Philanthropy: The Tonic Sol-Fa Movement, Cambridge University Press, 2009. 264 pp. $90. ISBN: 9780521449687. Buy it at Amazon

Richard Brent Turner

Mon, 5 Oct 2009 10:40:46 -0400

Jazz Religion, the Second Line, and Black New Orleans, Indiana University Press, 2009. 200 pp. $55/$21.95. ISBN: 978-0-253-35357-3. Buy it at Amazon

Jiri Sehnal

Fri, 2 Oct 2009 14:45:33 -0400

Pavel Vejvanovsky and the Kromeriz music collection. Olomouc: Palacky University in Olomouc, 2008 (c2009). (click on the link to send an email to the publisher)

Ian Rumbold with Peter Wright

Thu, 1 Oct 2009 13:50:51 -0400

Hermann Pötzlinger's Music Book: The St Emmeram Codex and its Contexts, Boydell & Brewer / University of Rochester Press, 2009. 374 pp. $115. ISBN: 9781843834632. AMS members: mention promotion code $09250 via the B&B/UR web site to receive 25% discount. Buy it at Amazon

Jonathan D. Bellman

Thu, 1 Oct 2009 09:25:26 -0400

Chopin’s Polish Ballade: Op. 38 as Narrative of National Martyrdom, Oxford University Press, 2009. 216 pp. $40. ISBN: 9780195338867. Buy it at Amazon

Eric C. Lai

Thu, 1 Oct 2009 08:32:38 -0400

The Music of Chou Wen-chung, Ashgate, 2009. 174 pp. $99.95/$89.96. ISBN: 978-0-7546-6500-7. Buy it at Amazon

Robert V. Wells

Thu, 1 Oct 2009 08:29:49 -0400

Life Flows On in Endless Song: Folk Songs and American History, University of Illinois Press, 2009. 240 pp. $65/$25. ISBN: 978-0-252-03455-8. Buy it at Amazon

Edward T. Cone

Thu, 1 Oct 2009 08:26:43 -0400

Hearing and Knowing Music: The Unpublished Essays of Edward T. Cone, ed. Robert P. Morgan, Princeton University Press, 2009. 240 pp. $27.95. ISBN: 978-0-691-14011-7. Buy it at Amazon

George Plasketes

Thu, 1 Oct 2009 08:24:09 -0400

B-Sides, Undercurrents and Overtones: Peripheries to Popular in Music, 1960 to the Present, Ashgate, 2009. 222 pp. $99.95/$89.96. ISBN: 978-0-7546-6561-8. Buy it at Amazon

Sterling Lambert

Mon, 28 Sep 2009 11:20:15 -0400

Re-reading Poetry: Schubert's Multiple Settings of Goethe, Boydell & Brewer / University of Rochester Press, 2009. 292 pp. $105. ISBN: 9781843834748. Buy it at Amazon

Johnny Reinhard

Tue, 22 Sep 2009 08:36:56 -0400

Bach and Tuning, American Festival of Microtonal Music, New York, 2009. 243 pp. $50/$20. No ISBN. Purchase from the AFMM web site only.

Danuta Mirka

Tue, 22 Sep 2009 08:27:25 -0400

Metric Manipulations in Haydn and Mozart: Chamber Music for Strings, 1787-1791, Oxford University Press, 2009. 352 pp. $55. ISBN: 9780195384925. Buy it at Amazon

Chris Walton

Tue, 22 Sep 2009 08:24:31 -0400

Othmar Schoeck: Life and Works, Boydell & Brewer/University of Rochester Press, 2009. 464 pp. $70. ISBN: 9781580463003. Offer to AMS members: mention promotion code $09295 when ordering and receive a 25% discount. Buy it at Amazon

Edmund Bowles

Thu, 10 Sep 2009 11:26:58 -0400

The Timpani Supplement More Pictures and Documents, Pendragon Press, 2009. 154 pp. $48. ISBN: 9781576471340. Buy it at Amazon

Keith Chapin and Lawrence Kramer, eds.

Tue, 8 Sep 2009 15:59:53 -0400

Musical Meaning and Human Values, Fordham University press, 2009. 208 pp. $65. ISBN: 9780823230099. Buy it at Amazon

Walter Rimler

Tue, 8 Sep 2009 15:59:27 -0400

George Gershwin: An Intimate Portrait, University of Illinois Press, 2009. 240 pp. $29.95. ISBN: 978-0-252-03444-2. Buy it at Amazon

Jessica C. E. Gienow-Hecht

Tue, 8 Sep 2009 15:58:25 -0400

Sound Diplomacy: Music and Emotions in Translatlantic Relations, 1850-1920, University of Chicago Press, 2009. 352 pp. $49/$5 [e-book]. ISBN: 9780226292151. Buy it at Amazon

Jocelyn R. Neal

Fri, 4 Sep 2009 08:50:40 -0400

The Songs of Jimmie Rodgers: A Legacy in Country Music, Indiana University Press, 2009. 344 pp. $55/$21.95. ISBN: 978-0-253-35315-3. Buy it at Amazon

Kristin A. McGee

Fri, 4 Sep 2009 08:45:51 -0400

Some Liked It Hot: Jazz Women in Film and Television, 1928–1959, Wesleyan University Press, 2009. 336 pp. $75/$27.95. ISBN: 978-0-8195-6907-3. Buy it at Amazon

Roy Howat

Fri, 4 Sep 2009 08:41:51 -0400

The Art of French Piano Music: Debussy, Ravel, Fauré, Chabrier, Yale University Press, 2009. 416 pp. $45. ISBN: 9780300145472. Buy it at Amazon

Roger Dean, Ed.

Thu, 3 Sep 2009 15:18:18 -0400

The Oxford Handbook of Computer Music, Oxford University Press, 2009. 624 pp. $150. ISBN: 9780195331615. Buy it at Amazon

Richard Wolf, ed.

Thu, 3 Sep 2009 15:16:29 -0400

Theorizing the Local: Music, Practice, and Experience in South Asia and Beyond, Oxford University Press, 2009. 344 pp. $29.95. ISBN: 9780195331387. Buy it at Amazon

Tim Crawford and Lorna Gibson, eds.

Thu, 3 Sep 2009 06:22:55 -0400

Modern Methods for Musicology: Prospects, Proposals, and Realities, Ashgate, 2009. 206 pp. $99.95 (online $89.96). ISBN: 978-0-7546-7302-6. Buy it at Amazon

Anthony R. DelDonna and Pierpaolo Polzonetti, eds.

Wed, 26 Aug 2009 10:19:01 -0400

The Cambridge Companion to Eighteenth-Century Opera, Cambridge University Press, 2009. 342 pp. $36.99. ISBN: 9780521873581. Buy it at Amazon

Richard Williams

Tue, 25 Aug 2009 11:32:16 -0400

The Blue Moment: Miles Davis's Kind of Blue and the Remaking of Modern Music, Faber, 2009. 320 pp. $32. ISBN: 978-0571245062. Buy it at Amazon

Suzanne G. Cusick

Tue, 25 Aug 2009 11:06:04 -0400

Francesca Caccini at the Medici Court: Music and the Circulation of Power, University of Chicago Press, 2009. 488 pp. $60. ISBN: 9780226132129. Buy it at Amazon

Kendra Preston Leonard

Tue, 18 Aug 2009 10:17:58 -0400

Shakespeare, Madness, and Music: Scoring Insanity in Cinematic Adaptations, Scarecrow Press, 2009. $34.95. 164 pp. ISBN: 978-0-8108-6946-2. Buy it at Amazon

Stephen Slottow

Tue, 18 Aug 2009 06:26:25 -0400

A Vast Simplicity: The Music of Carl Ruggles, Pendragon Press, 2009. 220 pp. $48. ISBN: 9781576471265. Buy it at Amazon

Wayne Heisler, Jr.

Wed, 12 Aug 2009 10:16:59 -0400

The Ballet Collaborations of Richard Strauss, University of Rochester Press, 2009. 368 pp. $85. (AMS members: mention promotion code $09250 at the U. of R. web site to receive the special price $63.75.) ISBN: 9781580463218. Buy it at Amazon

Daniel E. Freeman

Wed, 12 Aug 2009 08:27:05 -0400

Josef Myslivecek, "Il Boemo" The Man and His Music, Harmonie Park Press, 2009. 443 pp., $37.50. ISBN: 0-89990-148-4. Buy it at Amazon

Robert Carl

Mon, 27 Jul 2009 14:44:53 -0400

Terry Riley's In C, Oxford University Press, 2009. 160 pp. $45. ISBN: 9780195325287. Click for 30% AMS member discount Buy it at Amazon

Alexander Rehding

Mon, 27 Jul 2009 14:37:20 -0400

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Hilary Poriss

Mon, 27 Jul 2009 14:29:36 -0400

Changing the Score: Arias, Prima Donnas, and the Authority of Performance, Oxford University Press, 2009. AMS Studies, vol. 7. 244 pp. $39.95. ISBN: 9780195386714. Click for 30% AMS Member Discount Buy it at Amazon

Emma Hornby

Mon, 27 Jul 2009 14:07:17 -0400

Medieval Liturgical Chant and Patristic Exegesis: Words and Music in the Second-Mode Tracts, Boydell & Brewer, 2009. 344 pp. $105. ISBN: 9781843834717. 25% discount for AMS members: use promo code $09127.

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Roger Freitas

Mon, 20 Jul 2009 11:15:27 -0400

Portrait of a Castrato: Politics, Patronage, and Music in the Life of Atto Melani, Cambridge University Press, 2009. 452 pp. $99. ISBN: 9780521885218. Buy it at Amazon

Francesco Cotticelli and Paologiovanni Maione, eds.

Thu, 16 Jul 2009 16:23:31 -0400

Storia della musica e dello spettacolo a Napoli. Il Settecento, Napoli, Turchini Edizioni, 2009, 1000 pp., Euro 90.00. ISBN: 978-88-89491-04-1.

Barry Seldes

Thu, 9 Jul 2009 13:34:45 -0400

Leonard Bernstein: The Political Life of an American Musician, University of California Press, 2009. 296 pp. $24.95. ISBN: 9780520257641. Buy it at Amazon

Pirkko Moisala

Thu, 9 Jul 2009 13:31:37 -0400

Kaija Saariaho, University of Illinois Press, 2009. 144 pp. $40. ISBN: 978-0-252-03277-6. Buy it at Amazon

Deborah Andrews

Thu, 9 Jul 2009 13:29:09 -0400

How a Voice Teacher Shapes the Performance of His Students: A Study of the Pedagogy and Life of Giuseppe De Luca, Edwin Mellen Press, 2009. 256 pp. $109.95. ISBN: 978-0-7734-4865-0. Buy it at Amazon

Sarah Hibberd

Thu, 9 Jul 2009 13:25:01 -0400

French Grand Opera and the Historical Imagination, Cambridge University Press, 2009. 292 pp. $90. ISBN: 9780521885621. Buy it at Amazon

Daniel Leech-Wilkinson

Thu, 2 Jul 2009 12:25:42 -0400

The Changing Sound of Music: Approaches to Studying Recorded Musical Performance, Centre for the History and Analysis of Recorded Music, 2009. [Electronic publication, free access.]

Roland John Wiley

Thu, 2 Jul 2009 08:16:47 -0400

Tchaikovsky, Oxford University Press, 2009. 592 pp., $39.95. ISBN: 9780195368925. Buy it at Amazon

Craig H. Russell

Thu, 2 Jul 2009 08:14:54 -0400

From Serra to Sancho: Music and Pageantry in the California Missions, Oxford University Press, 2009. 480 pp., $65. ISBN: 9780195343274. Buy it at Amazon

Warwick Lister

Thu, 2 Jul 2009 08:12:30 -0400

Amico: The Life of Giovanni Battista Viotti, Oxford University Press, 2009. 544 pp., $74.95. ISBN 9780195372403. Buy it at Amazon

Ryan Andre Brasseaux

Thu, 2 Jul 2009 08:09:47 -0400

Cajun Breakdown: The Emergence of an American-Made Music, Oxford University Press, 2009. 336 pp. $35. ISBN: 9780195343069. Buy it at Amazon

Greg Milner

Tue, 23 Jun 2009 07:53:35 -0400

Perfecting Sound Forever: An Aural History of Recorded Music, Faber & Faber, 2009. 432 pp. $35. ISBN: 978-0-571-21165-4. Buy it at Amazon

Ora Frishberg Saloman

Mon, 22 Jun 2009 14:54:53 -0400

Listening Well: On Beethoven, Berlioz, and Other Music Criticism in Paris, Boston, and New York, 1764-1890, Peter Lang, 2009. 270 pp. $75.95. ISBN: 978-1-4331-0357-5. Buy it at Amazon

Jann Pasler

Thu, 18 Jun 2009 10:07:09 -0400

Composing the Citizen: Music as Public Utility in Third Republic France, University of California Press, 2009. 817 pp. $60. ISBN: 9780520257405. Buy it at Amazon

Giuseppe Gerbino

Thu, 18 Jun 2009 09:59:18 -0400

Music and the Myth of Arcadia in Renaissance Italy, Cambridge University Press, 2009. 456 pp. $117. ISBN-13: 9780521899567. Buy it at Amazon

Andrew Wright Hurley

Mon, 15 Jun 2009 10:42:52 -0400

The Return of Jazz: Joachim-Ernst Berendt and West German Cultural Change, Berghahn Books, 2009. 324 pp. $95. ISBN: 978-1-84545-566-8. Buy it at Amazon

Samuel Charters

Mon, 15 Jun 2009 10:32:08 -0400

A Language of Song: Journeys in the Musical World of the African Diaspora, Duke University Press, 2009. 368 pp. $89.95/$24.95. ISBN: 978-0-8223-4358-5. Buy it at Amazon

Colleen J. Sheehy and Thomas Swiss, eds.

Mon, 15 Jun 2009 10:26:49 -0400

Highway 61 Revisited: Bob Dylan’s Road from Minnesota to the World, University of Minnesota Press, 2009. 312 pp. $69/$22.95. ISBN: 978-0-8166-6099-5. Buy it at Amazon

Dorothy Lamb Crawford

Mon, 8 Jun 2009 12:58:17 -0400

A Windfall of Musicians: Hitler's Emigrés and Exiles in Southern California, Yale University Press, 2009. 336 pp. $35. ISBN: 9780300127348. Buy it at Amazon

Alan M. Gillmor and James K. Wright, eds.

Sat, 6 Jun 2009 07:52:36 -0400

Schoenberg's Chamber Music, Schoenberg's World, Pendragon Press, 2009. 272 pp. $54. ISBN: 9781576471302. Buy it at Amazon

David Suisman

Mon, 1 Jun 2009 11:37:40 -0400

Selling Sounds: The Commercial Revolution in American Music, Harvard University Press, 009. 368 pp. $29.95. ISBN: 978-0-674-03337-5. Buy it at Amazon

Jonathan Pieslak

Tue, 26 May 2009 09:52:04 -0400

Sound Targets: American Soldiers and Music in the Iraq War, Indiana University Press, 2009. 240 pp. $55/$21.95. ISBN: 978-0-253-22087-5. Buy it at Amazon

Leigh H. Edwards

Tue, 26 May 2009 09:51:33 -0400

Johnny Cash and the Paradox of American Identity, Indiana University Press, 2009. 256 pp. $50/$19.95. ISBN: 978-0-253-22061-5. Buy it at Amazon

Ralph P. Locke

Tue, 26 May 2009 08:59:31 -0400

Musical Exoticism: Images and Reflections, Cambridge University Press, 2009. 440 pp. $99. ISBN: 9780521877930. Buy it at Amazon

Cathy Ragland

Mon, 18 May 2009 14:06:39 -0400

Música Norteña: Mexican Americans Creating a Nation Between Nations, Temple University Press, 2009. 256 pp. $79.95. ISBN 9781592137473. Buy it at Amazon

Marcyliena Morgan

Mon, 11 May 2009 10:14:14 -0400

The Real Hiphop: Battling for Knowledge, Power, and Respect in the LA Underground, Duke University Press, 2009. 224 pp. $74.95/$21.95. ISBN: 978-0-8223-4362-2. Buy it at Amazon

Nicholas Tawa

Mon, 11 May 2009 10:11:19 -0400

The Great American Symphony: Music, the Depression, and War, Indiana University Press, 2009. 256 pp. $24.95. ISBN: 978-0-253-35305-4. Buy it at Amazon

Ray Argyle

Thu, 7 May 2009 10:28:57 -0400

Scott Joplin and the Age of Ragtime, McFarland, 2009. 231 pp. $35. ISBN 978-0-7864-4376-5. Buy it at Amazon

Peter Schmelz

Wed, 6 May 2009 16:02:20 -0400

Such Freedom, If Only Musical: Unofficial Soviet Music During the Thaw, Oxford University Press, 2009. 408 pp. $65. ISBN: 9780195341935. Buy it at Amazon

Amiri Baraka

Fri, 1 May 2009 08:32:52 -0400

Digging: The Afro-American Soul of American Classical Music, University of California Press, 2009. 436 pp. $26.95. ISBN: 978-0-520-25715-3. Buy it at Amazon

Timothy J. McGee

Mon, 27 Apr 2009 10:38:58 -0400

The Ceremonial Musicians of Late Medieval Florence, Indiana University Press, 2009. 352 pp. $39.95. ISBN: 978-0-253-35304-7. Buy it at Amazon

Tara Browner, ed.

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 11:32:15 -0400

Music of the First Nations: Tradition and Innovation in Native North America, University of Illinois Press, 2009. 184 pp. $35. ISBN: 978-0-252-02221-0. Buy it at Amazon

Philip V. Bohlman, ed.

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 11:26:49 -0400

Jewish Musical Modernism, Old and New, University of Chicago Press, 2009. 240 pp. $35. ISBN: 9780226063263. Buy it at Amazon

Richard King, ed.

Sat, 18 Apr 2009 10:38:01 -0400

Handel Studies: A Gedenkschrift for Howard Serwer, Pendragon Press, 2009. 365 pp. $54. ISBN: 9781576471548. Buy it at Amazon

Frank Tirro

Fri, 17 Apr 2009 09:19:06 -0400

The Birth of the Cool of Miles Davis and His Associates, Pendragon Press, 2009. 231 pp. $45. ISBN: 9781576471289. Buy it at Amazon

Barry Seldes

Thu, 16 Apr 2009 10:07:19 -0400

Leonard Bernstein: The Political Life of an American Musician, University of California Press, 2009. 296 pp. $24.95. ISBN: 978-0-520-25764-1. Buy it at Amazon

Darrell M. Berg, ed.

Wed, 15 Apr 2009 12:52:36 -0400

The Correspondence of Christian Gottfried Krause: A Music Lover in the Age of Sensibility, Ashgate, 2009. 306 pp. $124.95. ISBN: 978-0-7546-6429-1. Buy it at Amazon

Preethi de Silva, ed. & transl.

Wed, 15 Apr 2009 12:46:02 -0400

The Fortepiano Writings of Streicher, Dieudonné, and the Schiedmayers: Two Manuals and a Notebook, Edwin Mellen Press, 2009. 688 pp. $149.95. ISBN: 978-0-7734-4874-2. Buy it at Amazon

Julian Johnson

Wed, 15 Apr 2009 08:54:26 -0400

Mahler’s Voices: Expression and Irony in the Songs and Symphonies, Oxford University Press, 2009. 376 pp. $49.95. ISBN: 9780195372397. Buy it at Amazon

Ann Ommen van der Merwe

Tue, 14 Apr 2009 13:13:16 -0400

The Ziegfeld Follies: A History in Song, Scarecrow Press, 2009. 278 pp. $49.95. ISBN-13: 978-0-8108-6716-1. Buy it at Amazon

Bruce Boyd Raeburn

Mon, 13 Apr 2009 10:42:41 -0400

New Orleans Style and the Writing of American Jazz History, University of Michigan Press, 352 pp. $70 / $26.95. ISBN: 978-0472033218. Buy it at Amazon

John Howland

Mon, 6 Apr 2009 11:25:48 -0400

Ellington Uptown: Duke Ellington, James P. Johnson, and the Birth of Concert Jazz, University of Michigan Press, 2009. 360 pp., $75. ISBN: 978-0472033164. Buy it at Amazon

Christian Speck, ed.

Fri, 3 Apr 2009 09:31:20 -0400

Boccherini Studies, Vol. 2, Ut Orpheus, 2009. 236 pp. Euro120. ISBN: 978-88-8109-465-3.

Adam Bradley

Thu, 2 Apr 2009 09:20:24 -0400

Book of Rhymes: Poetics of Hip Hop, Basic Civitas Books, 2009. 304 pp. $16.95. ISBN: 9780465003471. Buy it at Amazon

Greg Thomas

Thu, 2 Apr 2009 09:14:04 -0400

Hip-Hop Revolution in the Flesh: Power, Knowledge, and Pleasure in Lil' Kim's Lyricism, Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. 256 pp. $79.95. ISBN: ISBN: 978-0-230-61180-1. Buy it at Amazon

Victoria Johnson

Thu, 2 Apr 2009 09:09:41 -0400

Backstage at the Revolution: How the Royal Paris Opera Survived the End of the Old Regime, University of Chicago Press, 2009. 304 pp. $45. ISBN: 9780226401959. Buy it at Amazon

Mark Zobel

Mon, 23 Mar 2009 09:16:01 -0400

The Third Symphony of Charles Ives (CMS Sourcebooks in American Music), Pendragon Press, 2009. 146 pp. $36. ISBN: 978-1576471425. Buy it at Amazon

John A. Rice

Mon, 16 Mar 2009 20:33:38 -0400

Mozart on the Stage, Cambridge University Press, 2009. 294 pp.$29.99. ISBN: 978-0521016612.Buy it at Amazon

Sander Van Maas

Mon, 16 Mar 2009 10:18:00 -0400

The Reinvention of Religious Music: Olivier Messiaen's Breakthrough Toward the Beyond, Fordham University Press, 2009. 224 pp. $55. ISBN: 978-0823230570. Buy it at Amazon

Julia Sutton and Rachelle Palnick Tsachor, eds.

Tue, 10 Mar 2009 09:33:50 -0400

Dances for the Sun King: André Lorin's "Livre de Contredance", Colonial Music Institute, 2009. 300 pp. $49.95. ISBN: 978-0-9818759-2-7.

Barney Hoskyns

Tue, 10 Mar 2009 09:08:45 -0400

Lowside of the Road: A Life of Tom Waits, Broadway, 2009. 640 pp. $29.95. ISBN: 978-0767927086. Buy it at Amazon

Albert R. Rice

Mon, 9 Mar 2009 10:32:53 -0400

From the Clarinet D'Amour to the Contra Bass: A History of Large Size Clarinets, 1740-1860, Oxford University Press, 2009. 488 pp. $99. ISBN: 9780195343281. Buy it at Amazon

James Leve

Fri, 6 Mar 2009 07:47:37 -0500

Kander and Ebb, Yale University Press, 2009. 384 pp. $40. ISBN: 9780300114874. Buy it at Amazon

Helen Rees, ed.

Fri, 6 Mar 2009 07:45:27 -0500

Lives in Chinese Music, University of Illinois Press, 2009. 232 pp. $45. ISBN: 978-0-252-03379-7. Buy it at Amazon

Barley Norton

Fri, 6 Mar 2009 07:43:12 -0500

Songs for the Spirits: Music and Mediums in Modern Vietnam, University of Illinois Press, 2009. 280 pp. $45. ISBN: 978-0-252-03399-5. Buy it at Amazon

Helen O'Shea

Fri, 6 Mar 2009 07:38:13 -0500

The Making of Irish Traditional Music, Cork University Press / Stylus, 2009. 236 pp. $50. ISBN: 978 1 85918 436 3. Buy it at Amazon

Jerome Carrington

Wed, 4 Mar 2009 09:50:44 -0500

Trills in the Bach Cello Suites: A Handbook for Performers, University of Oklahoma Press, March 2009, 216 pp., $40.00. ISBN: 978-0-8061-4001-8. Buy it at Amazon

Jeffrey Noonan

Mon, 23 Feb 2009 12:52:44 -0500

The Guitar in American Banjo, Mandolin and Guitar Periodicals, 1882-1933, MLA, 2009. 332 pp. $50. ISBN: 978-0-89579-644-8. Buy it at Amazon

Israel J. Katz

Mon, 23 Feb 2009 11:26:39 -0500

The Traditional Folk Music and Dances of Spain: A Bibliographical Guide to Research, Volume I, With a prologue by Joaquín Díaz. New York: The Hispanic Seminary of Medieval Studies, 2009. xlii, 337 pp. ISBN 13: 978-1-56954-132-6.

Jeffrey F. Hamburger, ed.

Tue, 22 Sep 2009 15:14:53 -0400

Leaves from Paradise: The Cult of John the Evangelist at the Dominican Convent of Paradies bei Soest. Houghton Library Studies 2. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Houghton Library of the Harvard College Library, 2008. 213 pp. $35. ISBN: 978-0976547280. Buy it at Amazon | See the facsimile

Harry White

Tue, 9 Jun 2009 08:04:14 -0400

Music and the Irish Literary Imagination, Oxford University Press, 2008. 288 pp. $115. ISBN: 9780199547326. Buy it at Amazon

Rossana Dalmonte & Francesco Spampinato, ed.

Fri, 10 Apr 2009 10:37:10 -0400

Il Nuovo in musica: Estetiche Tecnologie Linguaggi, Libreria Musicale Italiana (Atti del Convegno Trento, 18-20 gennaio 2008), Lucca, 2008, 317 pp. Euro 30. ISBN: 88-7096-551-3.

Mario Baroni, Rossana Dalmonte & Carlo Jacoboni

Fri, 10 Apr 2009 10:27:47 -0400

Les règles de la musique. Etude sur les mécanismes de la communication, Editions DELATOUR FRANCE, 2008. Preface by Jean-Jacques Nattiez. 476 pp. Euro 36.92. ISBN: 978-2-7521-0044-3.

Gordon D. McQuere, ed.

Thu, 19 Feb 2009 09:39:08 -0500

Russian Theoretical Thought in Music, University of Rochester Press, 2009. $39.95 (25% discount from UR Pess) ISBN: 9781580463195. Buy it at Amazon

Mary Hunter

Mon, 16 Mar 2009 20:28:45 -0400

Mozart’s Operas: A Companion, Yale University Press, 2008. 280 pp. $35. ISBN: 9780300118339. Buy it at Amazon

Robert C. Ketterer

Mon, 16 Mar 2009 10:08:43 -0400

Ancient Rome in Early Opera, University of Illinois Press, 2008. 272 pp. $40. ISBN: 978-0-252-03378-0. Buy it at Amazon

Georgia J. Cowart

Mon, 9 Mar 2009 21:12:56 -0400

The Triumph of Pleasure: Louis XIV and the Politics of Spectacle, University of Chicago Press, 2008. 299 pp. $55. Buy it at Amazon

Mark L. Kligman

Fri, 6 Mar 2009 07:35:20 -0500

Maqam and Liturgy: Ritual, Music, and Aesthetics of Syrian Jews in Brooklyn, Wayne State University Press, 2008. 288 pp. $34.95. ISBN: 9780814332160. Buy it at Amazon

Kevin Holm-Hudson

Fri, 6 Mar 2009 07:32:46 -0500

Genesis and "The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway", Ashgate, 2008. 184 pp. $99.95. ISBN: 978-0-7546-6139-9. Buy it at Amazon

Gregory Barnett

Fri, 6 Mar 2009 07:28:50 -0500

Bolognese Instrumental Music, 1660-1710: Spiritual Comfort, Courtly Delight, and Commercial Triumph, Ashgate, 2008. 414 pp. $114.95. ISBN: 978-0-7546-5871-9. Buy it at Amazon

Sarah Reichardt

Fri, 6 Mar 2009 07:26:09 -0500

Composing the Modern Subject: Four String Quartets by Dmitri Shostakovich, Ashgate, 2008. 238 pp. $89.95. ISBN: 978-0-7546-5884-9.Buy it at Amazon

Robert F. Waters

Fri, 6 Mar 2009 07:21:03 -0500

Deodat de Severac: Musical Identity in "Fin de Siecle" France, Ashgate, 2008. 288 pp. $114.95. ISBN: 978-0-7546-4105-6. Buy it at Amazon

Nathan Wiseman-Trowse

Fri, 6 Mar 2009 07:17:08 -0500

Performing Class in British Popular Music, Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. 216 pp. $75. ISBN: 978-0-230-21949-6. Buy it at Amazon

David J. Buch

Fri, 6 Mar 2009 07:13:23 -0500

Magic Flutes and Enchanted Forests: The Supernatural in Eighteenth-Century Musical Theater, University of Chicago Press, 2008. 480 pp. $50. ISBN: 9780226078090. Buy it at Amazon

Siegwart Reichwald, ed.

Fri, 6 Mar 2009 07:02:42 -0500

Mendelssohn in Performance, Indiana University Press, 2008. 260 pages; $39.95. ISBN: 978-0-253-35199-9. Buy it at Amazon

Anne Mischakoff Heiles

Thu, 19 Feb 2009 09:25:33 -0500

America's Concertmasters, Harmonie Park Press, 2008, Paperback, 584 pp. $40. ISBN: 978-0-89990-139-8. Buy it at Amazon

John Gunn, ed. Janice Dockendorff Bolan

Thu, 19 Feb 2009 07:02:55 -0500

The Art of Playing the German-Flute on New Principles Calculated to increase its powers, and give to it greater variety, expression, and effect, Pendragon Press, 2009. 92 pp. $48. ISBN: 9780967036830. Buy it at Amazon

Carolyn Livingston and Dawn Elizabeth Smith, eds.

Fri, 13 Feb 2009 10:16:18 -0500

Rhode Island’s Musical Heritage: An Exploration, Harmonie Park Press, 2009. 351 pp., $35. ISBN: 0899901433. Buy it at Amazon

Richard Bösel, ed.

Fri, 13 Feb 2009 09:37:37 -0500

La cultura del Fortepiano 1770-1830: Atti del Convegno internazionale di Studi Roma, 26-29 maggio 2004, Bologna, Ut Orpheus Edizioni, 2009 (QC, 3), 516 pp., ISBN: 978-88-8109-463-9.

Dorothea Gail

Fri, 13 Feb 2009 09:26:34 -0500

Charles E. Ives' Fourth Symphony: Quellen - Analyse - Deutung, Wolke Verlag Hofheim, 2009. 920 pp., 2 vol and reprint of New Music Edition 1929 of 2nd movement. € 119. ISBN: 978-3-936000-72-6.

Robert Adlington

Thu, 22 Jan 2009 14:21:25 -0500

Sound Commitments: Avant-Garde Music and the Sixties, Oxford University Press, 2009. 304 pp. $29.95. ISBN: 9780195336658. Buy it at Amazon

Steve Waksman

Thu, 22 Jan 2009 14:17:06 -0500

This Ain't the Summer of Love: Conflict and Crossover in Heavy Metal and Punk, University of California Press, 2009. 398 pp. $65/$24.95. ISBN: 978-0-520-25310-0. Buy it at Amazon

George S. Bozarth

Fri, 13 Feb 2009 10:08:28 -0500

Johannes Brahms & George Henschel: An Enduring Friendship, Harmonie Park Press, 2008. 355 pp., $44. ISBN: 08899901409. Buy it at Amazon

Tong Soon Lee

Mon, 12 Jan 2009 10:06:50 -0500

Chinese Street Opera in Singapore, University of Illinois Press, 2009. 218 pages; $40. ISBN: 978-0-252-03246-2. Buy it at Amazon

Michael Kassler

Wed, 28 Jan 2009 16:41:16 -0500

A. F. C. Kollmann's Quarterly Musical Register (1812): An Annotated Edition with an Introduction to His Life and Works, Ashgate, 2008. 510 pp. $144.95. ISBN: 978-0-7546-6064-4. Buy it at Amazon

Eric Saltzman and Thomas Desi

Mon, 12 Jan 2009 10:10:50 -0500

The New Music Theater: Seeing the Voice, Hearing the Body, Oxford University Press, 2008. 408 pp. $39.95. ISBN: 9780195099362. Buy it at Amazon

Michiel Schuijer

Mon, 5 Jan 2009 14:42:27 -0500

Analyzing Atonal Music: Pitch-Class Set Theory and Its Contexts, University of Rochester Press, 2008 (Eastman Studies in Music, 60). 306 pp. $90. ISBN: 9781580462709. (25% Discount to AMS members.) Buy it at Amazon

Tim Blanning

Sat, 3 Jan 2009 07:47:28 -0500

The Triumph of Music: The Rise of Composers, Musicians, and their Art, Belknap Press, 2008. 432 pp. $29.95. ISBN: 978-0674031043. Buy it at Amazon

David Butler Cannata, Gabriela Ilnitchi Currie, Rena Charnin Mueller, and John Louis Nadas, eds.

Tue, 30 Dec 2008 06:57:32 -0500

Quomodo cantabimus canticum? Studies in Honor of Edward H. Roesner, American Institute of Musicology, 2008. xii + 282 pp. $60. ISBN 978-1-59551-496-7. Buy it at Amazon

Graham Lock and David Murray

Mon, 22 Dec 2008 17:01:20 -0500

The Hearing Eye: Jazz & Blues Influences in African American Visual Art, Oxford University Press, 2008. 384 pp. $99. ISBN: 9780195340501. Buy it at Amazon

Fintan Vallely

Thu, 18 Dec 2008 07:50:36 -0500

Tuned Out: Traditional Music and Identity in Northern Ireland, Cork University Press, 2008. 196 pp. $62. ISBN: 9781859184431. Buy it at Amazon

Timothy Brennan

Thu, 18 Dec 2008 07:46:59 -0500

Secular Devotion: Afro-Latin Music and Imperial Jazz, Verso, 2008. 290 pp. $29.95. ISBN: 978-1844672912. Buy it at Amazon

Daniel Heartz

Thu, 18 Dec 2008 07:43:33 -0500

Mozart, Haydn, and Early Beethoven, 1781-1802, W. W. Norton, 2008. 800 pp. $75. ISBN: 978-0393066340. Buy it at Amazon

Susan Thomas

Thu, 18 Dec 2008 07:38:34 -0500

Cuban Zarzuela: Performing Race and Gender on Havana's Lyric Stage, University of Illinois Press, 2008. 250 pp. $40. ISBN: 978-0-252-03331-5. Buy it at Amazon

Marianne Wheeldon

Thu, 11 Dec 2008 12:28:51 -0500

Debussy's Late Style, Indiana University Press, 2008. 184 pp. $34.95. ISBN: 978-0-253-35239-2. Buy it at Amazon

Byron Almen

Mon, 8 Dec 2008 17:02:04 -0500

A Theory of Musical Narrative, Indiana University Press, 2008. 264 pp. $39.95. ISBN: 978-0-253-35238-5. Buy it at Amazon

Patrick Huber

Mon, 8 Dec 2008 10:30:53 -0500

Linthead Stomp: The Creation of Country Music in the Piedmont South, University of North Carolina Press, 2008. 432 pp. $30. ISBN: 978-0807832257. Buy it at Amazon

Bathia Churgin

Sat, 6 Dec 2008 15:01:07 -0500

Transcendent Mastery: Studies in the Music of Beethoven, Pendragon Press, 2008. 433 pp. $58. ISBN: 9781576471227. Buy it at Amazon

Bill F. Faucett, ed.

Sat, 6 Dec 2008 14:55:00 -0500

Music in America, 1860-1918: Essays, Reviews, and Remarks on Critical Issues, Pendragon Press, 2008. 274 pp. $46. ISBN: 9781576471418. Buy it at Amazon

Kathryn Marsh

Sat, 6 Dec 2008 08:56:58 -0500

The Musical Playground: Global Tradition and Change in Children's Songs and Games, Oxford University Press, 2008. Buy it at Amazon

Tina Fruhauf

Sat, 6 Dec 2008 08:53:52 -0500

The Organ and its Music in German-Jewish Culture, Oxford University Press, 2008. 296 pages, $74.00, ISBN 9780195337068. Buy it at Amazon

Chris Goertzen

Wed, 3 Dec 2008 08:57:57 -0500

Southern Fiddlers and Fiddle Contests, University Press of Mississippi, 2008. 163 pp. $50. ISBN: 978-1604731224. Buy it at Amazon

Nichole T. Rustin and Sherrie Tucker, eds.

Tue, 2 Dec 2008 08:39:03 -0500

Big Ears: Listening for Gender in Jazz Studies, Duke University Press, 2008. 472 pp. $94.95 / $26.95. ISBN: 978-0-8223-4336-3. Buy it at Amazon

Anthony Macias

Tue, 2 Dec 2008 08:34:33 -0500

Mexican American Mojo: Popular Music, Dance, and Urban Culture in Los Angeles, 1935-1968, Duke University Press, 2008. 408 pp. $89.95 / $24.95. ISBN: 978-0-8223-4339-4. Buy it at Amazon

Jeremy Wallach

Wed, 26 Nov 2008 11:39:14 -0500

Modern Noise, Fluid Genres: Popular Music in Indonesia, 1997-2001, University of Wisconsin Press, 2008. 320 pp. $50/$24.95. ISBN: 978-0-299-22904-7. Buy it at Amazon

James M. Burk

Tue, 25 Nov 2008 22:17:10 -0500

A Charles Ives Omnibus, Pendragon Press, 2008. 979 pp. $96, ISBN: 9781576471197. Buy it at Amazon

Siglind Bruhn

Tue, 25 Nov 2008 22:11:55 -0500

Sonic Transformations of Literary Texts: From Program Music to Musical Ekphrasis, Pendragon Press, 2008. $36. ISBN: 9781576471401. Buy it at Amazon

Nina Treadwell

Mon, 24 Nov 2008 11:24:18 -0500

Music and Wonder at the Medici Court: The 1589 Interludes for La pellegrina, Indiana University Press, 2008. $39.95, 304 pp., ISBN: 978-0-253-35218-7. Buy it at Amazon

John Brackett

Mon, 17 Nov 2008 13:52:25 -0500

John Zorn: Tradition and Transgression, Indiana University Press, 2008. 248 pp., Paper $24.95, Cloth $65.00, ISBN: 978-0-253-22025-7. Buy it at Amazon

Mark F. DeWitt

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 12:48:57 -0500

Cajun and Zydeco Dance Music in Northern California: Modern Pleasures in a Postmodern World, University Press of Mississippi, 2008. 282 pages; $50. ISBN: 978-1604730906. Buy it at Amazon

Charles M. Atkinson

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 12:37:30 -0500

The Critical Nexus: Tone-System, Mode, and Notation in Early Medieval Music, Oxford University Press, 2008. (AMS Studies in Music, 6) 320 pp., $49.95. ISBN: 978-0195148886. Buy it at Amazon

Simon Morrison

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 12:32:55 -0500

The People’s Artist: Prokofiev’s Soviet Years, Oxford University Press, 2008, 512 pages, $29.95, ISBN 9780195181678. Buy it at Amazon

Walter Everett

Thu, 6 Nov 2008 00:35:19 -0500

Walter Everett, The Foundations of Rock: From “Blue Suede Shoes” to “Suite: Judy Blue Eyes,” Oxford University Press, 2008, 448 pages, $29.95, ISBN 9780195310245. Buy it at Amazon

Francois-Joseph Fetis, Transl. Peter Landey

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 10:43:30 -0400

Complete Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Harmony (1844), Pendragon Press, 2008. $48. ISBN: 9781576471111. Buy it at Amazon

Alejandro L. Madrid

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 10:14:18 -0400

Sounds of the Modern Nation: Music, Culture, and Ideas in Post-Revolutionary Mexico, Temple University Press, 2008. 224 pp. $54.50. ISBN: 978-1592136940. Buy it at Amazon

Jeff McMillan

Thu, 23 Oct 2008 14:58:37 -0400

Delightfulee: The Life and Music of Lee Morgan, University of Michigan Press, 2008. 288 pages; $65 hardcover, $22.95 paperback. ISBN: 978-0472032815. Buy it at Amazon

Edward D. Latham

Thu, 23 Oct 2008 14:51:53 -0400

Tonality as Drama: Closure and Interruption in Four Twentieth-Century American Operas,University of North Texas Press, 2008. 224 pages; $41.95. ISBN: 9781574412499. Buy it at Amazon

Richard Taruskin

Thu, 16 Oct 2008 08:30:30 -0400

The Danger of Music and Other Anti-Utopian Essays, University of California Press, 2008. 512pp. $39.95, £23.95 hardcover. ISBN: 978-0-520-24977-6. Buy it at Amazon

Richard Taruskin

Thu, 16 Oct 2008 08:24:34 -0400

On Russian Music, University of California Press, 2008. 416 pp. $39.95, £23.95, hardcover. ISBN: 978-0-520-24979-0. Buy it at Amazon

Jane Gottlieb

Tue, 14 Oct 2008 09:21:36 -0400

Music Library and Research Skills, Pearson Prentice Hall, 2009. ISBN- 13: 978-0-13-158434-1. Buy it at Amazon

Jean-Paul C. Montagnier

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 15:23:07 -0400

Henry Madin (1698-1744). Un musicien lorrain au service de Louis XV. Preface by Davitt Moroney. Langres: Editions Dominique Guéniot, 2008, 360p. ISBN 978-2-87825-412-9.

Annie J. Randall

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 14:16:09 -0400

Dusty! Queen of the Postmods, Oxford University Press, 2008. 240 pp. $24.95. ISBN13: 978-0-19-532943-8. Buy it at Amazon

Siglind Bruhn

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 10:49:37 -0400

Messiaen's Interpretations of Holiness and Trinity: Echoes of Medieval Theology in the Oratorio, Organ Meditations, and Opera, Pendragon Press, 2008. 229 pp. $36.00 ISBN: 9781576471395. Buy it at Amazon

Clarence Bernard Henry

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 08:58:11 -0400

Let's Make Some Noise: Axé and the African Roots of Brazilian Popular Music, University Press of Mississippi, 2008. 208 pp, Cloth, $50.00. ISBN: 9781604730821. Buy it at Amazon

George Odam, ed.

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 08:53:59 -0400

Landscapes of the Mind: The Music of John McCabe, Ashgate, 2008. 276 pp. Paperback, £35. ISBN: 978-0-7546-5816-0. Buy it at Amazon

Mark Slobin, ed.

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 08:50:07 -0400

Global Soundtracks: Worlds of Film Music, Wesleyan University Press, 2008. 416 pp. $34.95 Paper, ISBN: 978-0-8195-6882-3, $85.00 Cloth, ISBN: 978-0-8195-6881-6. Buy it at Amazon

Gregory G. Butler, George B. Stauffer, & Mary Dalton Greer, eds.

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 08:47:03 -0400

About Bach, University of Illinois Press, 2008. $30. 232 pp. ISBN: 978-0-252-03344-5. Buy it at Amazon

Iannis Xenakis, transl. Sharon Kanach

Wed, 1 Oct 2008 13:11:14 -0400

Music and Architecture: Architectural Projects, Texts, and Realizations, Pendragon Press, 2008. 372 pp., $48. ISBN: 9781576471074.Buy it at Amazon

Eric Salzman and Thomas Desi

Tue, 23 Sep 2008 09:28:29 -0400

The New Music Theater: Seeing the Voice, Hearing the Body, Oxford University Press, 2008. Hardback, 416 pp. $39.95 ISBN13: 9780195099362. Buy it at Amazon

R.-Aloys Mooser, transl. Neal Johnson, ed. Mary S. Woodside

Mon, 22 Sep 2008 09:22:42 -0400

The Russian Life of R.-Aloys Mooser, Music Critic to the Tsars: Memoirs and Selected Writings. Edwin Mellen Press, 2008. 265 pp.; Hard cover; $119.95; Illus.; ISBN-13: 978-0-7734-5215-2. Foreword by Malcolm Hamrick Brown. Buy it at Amazon

Chad Berry, ed.

Thu, 18 Sep 2008 09:14:26 -0400

The Hayloft Gang: The Story of the National Barn Dance, University of Illinois Press; 215 pages; $65 hardcover, $24.95 paperback. ISBN: 978-0252075575. Buy it at Amazon

Patrick Burke

Thu, 18 Sep 2008 09:09:45 -0400

Come In and Hear the Truth: Jazz and Race on 52nd Street, University of Chicago Press; 314 pages; $35. ISBN: 978-0226080710. Buy it at Amazon

Camille Saint-Saëns, ed. and transl. Roger Nichols

Mon, 15 Sep 2008 11:16:29 -0400

On Music and Musicians, Oxford University Press, 2008, 208 pages, $29.95. ISBN13: 9780195320169. Buy it at Amazon

Carolyn Birdsall and Anthony Enns, eds.

Mon, 15 Sep 2008 09:06:38 -0400

Sonic Mediations: Body, Sound, Technology, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008. $79.99. ISBN: 9781847188397.

Stephen A. Crist and Roberta Montemorra Marvin, eds.

Tue, 9 Sep 2008 13:28:50 -0400

Historical Musicology: Sources, Methods, Interpretations, University of Rochester Press, 2008. $39.95. ISBN: 9781580463010. Buy it at Amazon

Gregory D. Booth

Tue, 9 Sep 2008 13:24:01 -0400

Behind the Curtain: Making Music in Mumbai’s Film Studios, Oxford University Press, 2008, 336 pages, $24.95, ISBN 9780195327649. Buy it at Amazon

Christian Ahrens, transl. Steven Plank

Fri, 5 Sep 2008 08:49:30 -0400

Valved Brass: The History of an Invention, Pendragon Press, 2008. $42. ISBN: 9781576471371. Buy it at Amazon

Ian Woodfield

Fri, 5 Sep 2008 08:43:59 -0400

Mozart's Cosi fan tutte: A Compositional History, Boydell & Brewer, 2008. $95. ISBN: 9781843834069. (25% Discount to AMS members.) Buy it at Amazon

Michael Talbot, ed.

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 08:46:55 -0400

Vivaldi, Motezuma and the Opera Seria: Essays on a Newly Discovered Work and its Background, Brepols, 2008. EUR 85, 218 pp., ISBN 978-2-503-52780-2.

Michael Long

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 08:41:37 -0400

Beautiful Monsters: Imagining the Classic in Musical Media, University of California Press, 2008. $60 (hardcover), $24.95 (paperback), 328 pp., 6 x 9. ISBN: 978-0-520-22897-9. Buy it at Amazon

Malcolm MacDonald

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 12:53:59 -0400

Schoenberg, Second Edition, Oxford University Press, 2008, $35, 400 pages, ISBN 9780195172010. Buy it at Amazon

Judith Tick, with Paul Beaudoin

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 12:51:40 -0400

Music in the USA: A Documentary Companion, Oxford University Press, 2008, 920 pages, $45, ISBN 9780195139884. Buy it at Amazon

Karol Berger

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 12:46:17 -0400

Bach's Cycle, Mozart's Arrow: An Essay on the Origins of Musical Modernity, University of California Press, 2008. $39.95 (hardcover), $24.95 (paperback), 432 pp., 6 x 9. ISBN: 978-0520257979. Buy it at Amazon

Charles Hiroshi Garrett

Thu, 7 Aug 2008 11:33:35 -0400

Struggling to Define a Nation: American Music and the Twentieth Century, University of California Press, 2008. $60 hardcover, $24.95 paper, 312 pages, 6 x 9 inches, 7 b/w photographs, 3 tables, 20 music examples. ISBN: 978-0-520-25486-2. Buy it at Amazon

Minoru Miki, transl. Marty Regan, ed. Philip Flain

Thu, 7 Aug 2008 11:28:41 -0400

Composing for Japanese Instruments, University of Rochester Press, Eastman Studies in Music, 288 pp., 57 b&w illus., 197 line illus., hardcover. ISBN 978-1-58046-273-0, $80.00. 25% Discount to AMS: to receive discount, members will need to mention offer code $08384 when ordering. Buy it at Amazon

Bella Brover-Lubovsky

Mon, 4 Aug 2008 23:34:01 -0400

Tonal Space in the Music of Antonio Vivaldi, Indiana University Press, 2008. 357 pp., $44.95, ISBN: 9780253351296. Buy it at Amazon

Marva Carter

Thu, 31 Jul 2008 09:35:06 -0400

Swing Along: The Musical Life of Will Marion Cook, Oxford University Press, 2008, $27.95 hardback, 208 pages, ISBN 9780195108910. Buy it at Amazon

Gregory F. Barz and Timothy J. Cooley, eds.

Thu, 31 Jul 2008 09:31:51 -0400

Shadows in the Field: New Perspectives for Fieldwork in Ethnomusicology, Second Edition, Oxford University Press, 2008, $29.95 paperback, 352 pages, ISBN 9780195324969. Buy it at Amazon

Gordon Thompson

Thu, 31 Jul 2008 09:22:31 -0400

Please Please Me: Sixties British Pop, Inside Out, Oxford University Press, 2008, $24.95 paperback, 360 pages, ISBN 9780195333251. Buy it at Amazon

Simon Morrison

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 10:26:06 -0400

Sergei Prokofiev and His World, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2008. $65.00 cloth, $26.95 paperback, 6x9, 592 pp., ISBN 978-0691138954. Buy it at Amazon

Jan Philipp Sprick, ed.

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 08:31:50 -0400

Musiktheorie im Kontext. 5. Kongress der Gesellschaft fuer Musiktheorie, Hamburg 2005. Berlin: Weidler-Verlag 2008. ISBN: 978-3-89693-515-1 (571 pages, 59.- Euro).

Marc Ponthus, ed.

Tue, 29 Jul 2008 11:04:30 -0400

Elliott Carter: A Centennial Celebration, Pendragon, 2008. 132 pp., 6 x 9 paperback, $42. Buy it at Amazon

Martine Clouzot

Tue, 29 Jul 2008 11:02:39 -0400

Images de musiciens (1350-1500), Typologies, figurations et pratiques sociales, 353 p., 150 colour ills., 190 x 290 mm, 2008,Brepols, PB, ISBN 978-2-503-52345, EUR 125.

Yolanda Plumley, Anne Stone (eds.)

Tue, 29 Jul 2008 10:57:41 -0400

Codex Chantilly, Ms. 564. Fac-similé et Commentaire/Commentary 174 p. (286 x 387 mm) et 214 p. (190 x 290 mm), Brepols, 2008, HB, ISBN 978-2-503-52349-1, EUR 250.

Christopher Washburne

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 09:34:28 -0400

Sounding Salsa: Performing Latin Music in New York City, Temple University Press, 2008; 272 pages; $82.50 hardcover, $26.95 paperback. ISBN: 978-1592133161. Buy it at Amazon

Gerry Bloustien, Margaret Peters, and Susan Luckman, eds.

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 09:33:15 -0400

Sonic Synergies: Music, Technology, Community, Identity, Ashgate Publishing Company, 2008; 236 pages; $99.95. ISBN: 978-0754657217. Buy it at Amazon

Nadya Zimmerman

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 09:30:59 -0400

Counterculture Kaleidoscope: Musical and Cultural Perspectives on Late Sixties San Francisco, University of Michigan Press, 2008; 240 pages; $26.95. ISBN: 978-0472115587. Buy it at Amazon

Kevin Karnes

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 16:58:04 -0400

Music, Criticism, and the Challenge of History, 2008. 240 pp. $55.00, ISBN 9780195368666. AMS Studies, 4.

Jeff S. Dailey

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 09:49:42 -0400

Sir Arthur Sullivan's Grand Opera Ivanhoe and Its Musical Precursors: Adaptations of Sir Walter Scott's Novel for the Stage, 1819-1891, Edwin Mellen Press, 2008. 256 pp. $109.95. ISBN: 978-0-7734-5068-4. Buy it at Amazon

Neil Gould

Mon, 7 Jul 2008 16:06:59 -0400

Victor Herbert: A Theatrical Life, Fordham University Press, 2008; 610 pages; $44.95. ISBN: 978-0823228713. Buy it at Amazon

Antje Pieper

Mon, 7 Jul 2008 16:01:16 -0400

Music and the Making of Middle-Class Culture: A Comparative History of Nineteenth-Century Leipzig and Birmingham, Palgrave Macmillan, 2008; 214 pages; $74.95. ISBN: 978-0230545137. Buy it at Amazon

David W. Music and Paul A. Richardson

Mon, 7 Jul 2008 15:55:26 -0400

I will Sing the Wondrous Story: A History of Baptist Hymnody in North America, Mercer University Press; 634 pages; $45. ISBN: 978-0865549487. Buy it at Amazon

Joy H. Calico

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 22:06:17 -0400

Brecht at the Opera, University of California Press, 2008. 304 pp., $45. ISBN: 978-0-520-25482-4. Buy it at Amazon

Jacob Smith

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 15:51:01 -0400

Vocal Tracks: Performance and Sound Media, University of California Press, 2008. 304 pp.; $60/$24.95, ISBN 978-0-520-25493-0. Buy it at Amazon

Kip Pegley

Mon, 23 Jun 2008 09:32:45 -0400

Coming to You Wherever You Are: MuchMusic, MTV, and Youth Identities, Wesleyan University Press, distributed by University Press of New England; 168 pages; $70 hardcover, $24.95 paperback. ISBN: 978-0819568700. Buy it at Amazon

Jean Starobinski, transl. C. Jon Delogu

Mon, 23 Jun 2008 09:29:13 -0400

Enchantment: The Seductress in Opera, Columbia University Press, 2008. 288 pp., $29.50. ISBN: 978-0231140904. Buy it at Amazon

Lloyd Whitesell

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 21:37:51 -0400

The Music if Joni Mitchell, Oxford University Press, 2008, 288 pages, $21.95, ISBN 9780195307993. Buy it at Amazon

Derek B. Scott

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 13:15:39 -0400

Sounds of the Metropolis: The 19th Century Popular Music Revolution in London, New York, Paris and Vienna, Oxford University Press, 2008. 320 pages, ISBN 9780195309461. Buy it at Amazon

David W. Bernstein

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 11:21:58 -0400

The San Francisco Tape Music Center: 1960s Counterculture and the Avant-Garde, Univ. of California Press, 2008. 344 pp. $65 hardcover, $27.50 paperback. ISBN 978-0-520-24892-2 and 978-0-520-25617-0. Buy it at Amazon

Millicent Hodson

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 07:33:49 -0400

Nijinsky's Bloomsbury Ballet: Reconstruction of the Dance and Design for Jeux, Pendragon Press, 2008. 546 pp. $76. ISBN: 9781576470428. Buy it at Amazon

Suzanne Cole

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 10:32:00 -0400

Thomas Tallis and his Music in Victorian England, Boydell Press; 232 pages; $90; AMS discount: $67.50. ISBN: 978-1843833802. (25% Discount to AMS members.) Buy it at Amazon

Philip Reed, Mervyn Cooke & Donald Mitchell, eds.

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 10:28:57 -0400

Letters from a Life: The Selected Letters of Benjamin Britten, 1913-1976, Volume Four: 1952-1957, Boydell Press; 680 pages; $90; AMS discount: $67.50. ISBN: 978-1843833826 . Buy it at Amazon

Hugh Macdonald

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 10:21:43 -0400

Beethoven's Century: Essays on Composers and Themes, University of Rochester Press; 272 pages; $80; AMS discount: $60. ISBN: 978-1580462754. Buy it at Amazon

Gayle Sherwood Magee

Tue, 10 Jun 2008 13:37:09 -0400

Charles Ives Reconsidered, University of Illinois Press, 2008. Cloth; 256 pp.; $35. ISBN: 978-0-252-03326-1. Buy it at Amazon

Sonya Szabo-Reynolds, ed.

Tue, 3 Jun 2008 11:50:12 -0400

Bohumil Fidler: My Life and Memories, The Dvorak Society for Czech and Slovak Music, 2008. 144 pp., paperback. ISBN 978-095327696-7 (£12.50), hardback ISBN 978-095327697-4 (£25.00)

Olle K. Edstrom, Transl. Joel Speerstra

Tue, 3 Jun 2008 11:12:36 -0400

A Different Story: Aesthetics and the History of Western Music, Pendragon Press, 2008. Cloth, 209 pp. ISBN 9781576471234. Buy it at Amazon

Philippe Vendrix, ed.

Wed, 28 May 2008 14:54:26 -0400

Music and Mathematics in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe, Brepols, 2008. 396 p., 235 x 178 mm, 2008, Paperback. ISBN 978-2-503-51597-7, EUR 75.00

Mary Cyr

Wed, 28 May 2008 12:14:04 -0400

Essays on the Performance of Baroque Music: Opera and Chamber Music in France and England, Ashgate, 2008. 344 pp., hardback, £62.50/£56.25. ISBN: 978-0-7546-5926-6. Buy it at Amazon

Walter B. Hewlett et al., eds.

Wed, 28 May 2008 12:11:27 -0400

Tonal Theory for the Digital Age (Computing in Musicology, 15), Center for Computer Assisted Research in the Humanities at Stanford University, 2008. ISBN: 978-0-936943-17-6.

Rebecca S. Miller

Tue, 27 May 2008 10:05:40 -0400

Carriacou String Band Serenade: Performing Identity in the Eastern Caribbean, Wesleyan University Press, 2008; 269 pages; $49.95. ISBN: 978-0819568588. Buy it at Amazon

Lewis Lockwood et al.

Tue, 27 May 2008 09:58:44 -0400

Inside Beethoven's Quartets: History, Performance, Interpretation, Harvard University Press; 285 pages; $35. ISBN: 978-0674028098. Buy it at Amazon

David Evans, ed.

Tue, 27 May 2008 09:50:25 -0400

Ramblin' on My Mind: New Perspectives on the Blues, University of Illinois Press; 430 pages; $75 hardcover, $27 paperback. ISBN: 978-0252074486. Buy it at Amazon

Charles Hersch

Tue, 27 May 2008 09:46:10 -0400

Subversive Sounds: Race and the Birth of Jazz in New Orleans, University of Chicago Press; 289 pages; $35. ISBN: 978-0226328676. Buy it at Amazon

Sergey Prokofiev, transl. Anthony Phillips

Tue, 27 May 2008 09:41:50 -0400

Diaries, 1915-1922: Behind the Mask, Cornell University Press; 848 pages; $49.95. ISBN: 978-0571226306. Buy it at Amazon

John Deathridge

Thu, 22 May 2008 12:17:10 -0400

Wagner Beyond Good and Evil, University of California Press, 2008. $39.95, £23.95 hardcover, 324 pp. ISBN: 978-0-520-25453-4. Buy it at Amazon

Michael H. Kater

Thu, 15 May 2008 14:48:40 -0400

Never Sang for Hitler: The Life and Times of Lotte Lehmann, Cambridge University Press; 400 pages; $35). ISBN-13: 978-0521873925. Buy it at Amazon

Kristine M. McCusker

Thu, 15 May 2008 14:46:11 -0400

Lonesome Cowgirls and Honky-Tonk Angels: The Women of Barn Dance Radio, University of Illinois Press, 2008; 192 pages; $60 hardcover, $19.95 paperback. ISBN-13: 978-0252075247. Buy it at Amazon

Jewel A. Smith

Thu, 15 May 2008 14:40:58 -0400

Music, Women, and Pianos in Antebellum Bethlehem, Pennsylvania: The Moravian Young Ladies' Seminary, Lehigh University Press; 216 pages; $55. ISBN-13: 978-0934223904. Buy it at Amazon

Erich Hoeprich

Thu, 15 May 2008 14:31:00 -0400

The Clarinet, Yale University Press; 395 pages; $40. ISBN-13: 978-0300102826. Buy it at Amazon

Marjorie W. Hirsch

Thu, 15 May 2008 14:27:10 -0400

Romantic Lieder and the Search for Lost Paradise, Cambridge University Press; 320 pages; $95. ISBN: 9780521845335. Buy it at Amazon

George E. Lewis

Mon, 12 May 2008 10:29:44 -0400

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

Barbara L. Kelly, ed.

Mon, 12 May 2008 10:11:48 -0400

French Music, Culture, and National Identity, 1870-1939. University of Rochester Press, Eastman Studies in Music, 288 pp. $90. ISBN: 978-1-58046-272-3. (25% Discount to AMS members.) Buy it at Amazon

Stephanie D. Vial

Mon, 12 May 2008 10:07:38 -0400

The Art of Musical Phrasing in the Eighteenth Century: Punctuating the Classical 'Period'. University of Rochester Press, Eastman Studies in Music, 384 pp. $85. ISBN: 9781580460347. (25% Discount to AMS members.) Buy it at Amazon

Siglind Bruhn

Tue, 6 May 2008 13:31:49 -0400

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

Philip Furia and Michael Lasser

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 21:38:51 -0400

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

Eve Badura-Skoda and Paul Badura-Skoda

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 21:37:09 -0400

Interpreting Mozart: The Performance of His Piano Works, Routledge 2008, ISBN13: 978-0-415-97750-0, $95.00.

Richard Kramer

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 10:01:17 -0400

Unfinished Music, Oxford University Press, 2008, 424 pages, ISBN 9780195326826. Buy it at Amazon

David Gramit (editor)

Mon, 28 Apr 2008 12:56:47 -0400

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.

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Mina Yang

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 14:04:08 -0400

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

Bill Ivey

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 09:43:51 -0400

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

Olivia A. Bloechl

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 12:09:27 -0400

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

Robert Tallant Laudon

Thu, 17 Apr 2008 23:08:01 -0400

The Era After The Baroque: Music and Fine Arts 1750-1900, Pendragon, 2008. $28. ISBN 9781576471241.

Benjamin Walton

Thu, 10 Apr 2008 09:46:46 -0400

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.

Vanessa Agnew

Mon, 7 Apr 2008 09:53:13 -0400

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

Steven Zohn

Wed, 19 Mar 2008 16:51:19 -0400

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

Vincent P. Benitez

Tue, 11 Mar 2008 09:20:51 -0400

Olivier Messiaen: A Research and Information Guide, Routledge, 2008. xvi, 337 p. ISBN10: 0-415-97372-4.

Marina Frolova-Walker

Tue, 11 Mar 2008 07:42:04 -0400

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

Charles O. Nussbaum

Tue, 27 May 2008 09:54:20 -0400

The Musical Representation: Meaning, Ontology, and Emotion, MIT Press, 2007; 388 pages; $38. ISBN: 978-0262140966. Buy it at Amazon

Jeffrey J. Noonan

Thu, 6 Mar 2008 07:52:55 -0500

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

Tom Beghin and Sander M. Goldberg, eds.

Thu, 6 Mar 2008 07:48:46 -0500

Haydn and the Performance of Rhetoric, University of Chicago Press, 2008. 366 pages; $45; includes compact disk. ISBN-13: 978-0-226-04129-2.

Karen Painter

Tue, 4 Mar 2008 21:53:00 -0500

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

David Russell Williams and C. Matthew Balensuela

Mon, 3 Mar 2008 11:25:42 -0500

Music Theory from Boethius to Zarlino: A Bibliography and Guide, Pendragon Press, 2008. ISBN-13: 9781576471579.

Kay Dickinson

Wed, 27 Feb 2008 12:41:55 -0500

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

Nikolai Findeizen

rjudd@ams-net.org — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 09:21:39 GMT

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.

Peter Bloom, ed.

Tue, 26 Feb 2008 10:57:40 -0500

Berlioz: Scenes from the Life and Work, Boydell & Brewer / University of Rochester Press, 2008. ISBN 9781580462099. (25% Discount to AMS members.) Buy it at Amazon

Alejandro L. Madrid

Mon, 25 Feb 2008 09:46:29 -0500

Nor-tec Rifa! Electronic Dance Music from Tijuana to the World, Oxford University Press, 2008. ISBN-13: 9780195342628.

Halina Goldberg

Fri, 22 Feb 2008 09:13:39 -0500

Music in Chopin's Warsaw, Oxford University Press, 2008. ISBN-13: 978-0195130737.

Jan Herlinger

Tue, 19 Feb 2008 11:49:54 -0500

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

Andrew Shenton

Tue, 19 Feb 2008 11:48:06 -0500

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

Joseph Kerman

Tue, 19 Feb 2008 11:29:28 -0500

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

Lewis Porter, Chris DeVito, David Wild, Yasuhiro “Fuji” Fujioka, and Wolf Schmaler

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 21:35:46 -0400

The John Coltrane Reference, Routledge 2008, ISBN13: 978-0-415-97755-5, $150.00

Susan M. Filler

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 21:38:05 -0400

Gustav and Alma Mahler: A Research and Information Guide, Routledge 2007, ISBN13: 978-0-415-94388-8, $95.00

Howard Mandel

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 21:33:36 -0400

Miles, Ornette, Cecil: Jazz Beyond Jazz, Routledge 2008, ISBN13: 978-0-415-96714-3, $30.00

Michael Mark

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 21:32:21 -0400

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

Andrea Olmstead

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 21:31:28 -0400

Roger Sessions: A Biography, Routledge 2008, ISBN13: 978-0-415-97714-2, $44.95.

Constantin Floros, transl. Ernest Bernhardt-Kabisch

Thu, 15 May 2008 14:35:13 -0400

Alban Berg and Hanna Fuchs: The Story of a Love in Letters,Indiana University Press, 2007; 145 pages; $24.95. ISBN: 978-0253349668. Buy it at Amazon

Ursula Kirkendale

Thu, 17 Apr 2008 23:05:48 -0400

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.

Warren and Ursula Kirkendale

Thu, 17 Apr 2008 23:03:00 -0400

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.

Giovanni Domenico Dinaccio

Wed, 19 Mar 2008 10:16:38 -0400

Rocco Rodio e la Messa "De Beata Virgine" (1562), Edizioni Musicali Novecento, 2007.

Diane Pecknold

Thu, 6 Mar 2008 07:54:51 -0500

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.

Roberta Montemorra Marvin (ed.)

Wed, 27 Feb 2008 12:24:28 -0500

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).

Peter Szendy

Thu, 10 Apr 2008 09:51:29 -0400

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.

Catherine Parsons Smith

Wed, 27 Feb 2008 10:01:29 -0500

Making Music in Los Angeles: Transforming the Popular, University of California Press, 2007. ISBN-13: 9780520251397.

Janie Cole

Wed, 27 Feb 2008 09:21:44 -0500

A Muse of Music in Early Baroque Florence: the Poetry of Michelangelo Buonarroti il Giovane, Olschki, 2007. ISBN-13: 9788822257048.

Ignacio Corona and Alejandro L. Madrid, eds.

Mon, 25 Feb 2008 09:47:38 -0500

Postnational Musical Identities: Cultural Production, Distribution, and Consumption in a Globalized Scenario, Lexington Books, 2007. ISBN-13: 9780739118214.

Alexandra Wilson

Wed, 20 Feb 2008 09:01:03 -0500

The Puccini Problem: Opera, Nationalism, and Modernity, Cambridge University Press, 2007. ISBN-13: 9780521856881.

Margaret Kartomi, Kay Dreyfus, with David Pear (eds)

Tue, 19 Feb 2008 09:23:40 -0500

Growing up Making Music: Youth Orchestras in Australia and the World, Lyrebird Press, Australia, 2007 ISBN-13: 978 0 734037 68 8.

Eleanor Selfridge-Field

rjudd@ams-net.org — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Song and Season: Science, Culture, and Theatrical Time in Early Modern Venice, Stanford University Press, 2007. ISBN-13 9780804757652.

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Eleanor Selfridge-Field

rjudd@ams-net.org — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 19:00:00 GMT

A New Chronology of Venetian Opera and Related Genres, 1660-1760, Stanford University Press, 2007. ISBN-13 9780804744379.

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Jarmila Gabrielová, Jan Kachlík, eds.

Thu, 11 Sep 2008 08:34:57 -0400

The Work of Antonín Dvořák (1841-1904): Aspects of Composition - Problems of Editing - Reception. Proceedings of the International Musicological Conference Prague, September 8 - 11, 2004. Published by the Institute of Ethnology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague 2007. ISBN 978-80-87112-05-2. EUR 78.

Susana Zapke, ed.

Mon, 31 Dec 2007 12:51:23 -0400

Musical-Liturgical Manuscripts: From Visigothic Origins to the Franco-Roman Transition (9th-12th Centuries), Fundacion BBVA, 2007. ISBN: 9788496515505.