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  New Books in Musicology
07/07/2008
Neil Gould
Victor Herbert: A Theatrical Life, Fordham University Press, 2008; 610 pages; $44.95. ISBN: 978-0823228713. Buy it at Amazon
 

07/07/2008
Antje Pieper
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
 

07/07/2008
David W. Music and Paul A. Richardson
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
 

06/30/2008
Joy H. Calico
Brecht at the Opera, University of California Press, 2008. 304 pp., $45. ISBN: 978-0-520-25482-4. Buy it at Amazon
 

06/26/2008
Jacob Smith
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
 

06/23/2008
Kip Pegley
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
 

06/23/2008
Jean Starobinski, transl. C. Jon Delogu
Enchantment: The Seductress in Opera, Columbia University Press, 2008. 288 pp., $29.50. ISBN: 978-0231140904. Buy it at Amazon
 

06/20/2008
Lloyd Whitesell
The Music if Joni Mitchell, Oxford University Press, 2008, 288 pages, $21.95, ISBN 9780195307993. Buy it at Amazon
 

06/19/2008
Derek B. Scott
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
 

06/19/2008
David W. Bernstein
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
 

06/17/2008
Millicent Hodson
Nijinsky's Bloomsbury Ballet: Reconstruction of the Dance and Design for Jeux, Pendragon Press, 2008. 546 pp. $76. ISBN: 9781576470428. Buy it at Amazon
 

06/16/2008
Suzanne Cole
Thomas Tallis and his Music in Victorian England, Boydell Press; 232 pages; $90; AMS discount: $67.50. ISBN: 978-1843833802. Buy it at Amazon
 

06/16/2008
Philip Reed, Mervyn Cooke & Donald Mitchell, eds.
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
 

06/16/2008
Hugh Macdonald
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
 

06/10/2008
Gayle Sherwood Magee
Charles Ives Reconsidered, University of Illinois Press, 2008. Cloth; 256 pp.; $35. ISBN: 978-0-252-03326-1. Buy it at Amazon
 

06/03/2008
Sonya Szabo-Reynolds, ed.
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)
 

06/03/2008
Olle K. Edstrom, Transl. Joel Speerstra
A Different Story: Aesthetics and the History of Western Music, Pendragon Press, 2008. Cloth, 209 pp. ISBN 9781576471234. Buy it at Amazon
 

05/28/2008
Philippe Vendrix, ed.
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
 

05/28/2008
Mary Cyr
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
 

05/28/2008
Walter B. Hewlett et al., eds.
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.
 

05/27/2008
Rebecca S. Miller
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
 

05/27/2008
Lewis Lockwood et al.
Inside Beethoven's Quartets: History, Performance, Interpretation, Harvard University Press; 285 pages; $35. ISBN: 978-0674028098. Buy it at Amazon
 

05/27/2008
David Evans, ed.
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
 

05/27/2008
Charles Hersch
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
 

05/27/2008
Sergey Prokofiev, transl. Anthony Phillips
Diaries, 1915-1922: Behind the Mask, Cornell University Press; 848 pages; $49.95. ISBN: 978-0571226306. Buy it at Amazon
 

05/22/2008
John Deathridge
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
 

05/15/2008
Michael H. Kater
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
 

05/15/2008
Kristine M. McCusker
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
 

05/15/2008
Jewel A. Smith
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
 

05/15/2008
Erich Hoeprich
The Clarinet, Yale University Press; 395 pages; $40. ISBN-13: 978-0300102826. Buy it at Amazon
 

05/15/2008
Marjorie W. Hirsch
Romantic Lieder and the Search for Lost Paradise, Cambridge University Press; 320 pages; $95. ISBN: 9780521845335. Buy it at Amazon
 

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.
 

05/27/2008
Charles O. Nussbaum
The Musical Representation: Meaning, Ontology, and Emotion, MIT Press, 2007; 388 pages; $38. ISBN: 978-0262140966. Buy it at Amazon
 

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.
 

05/15/2008
Constantin Floros, transl. Ernest Bernhardt-Kabisch
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
 

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.

Use keyword "Opera08" when ordering from Stanford University Press to receive 20 percent AMS discount.

 

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

Use keyword "Opera08" when ordering from Stanford University Press to receive 20 percent AMS discount.

 

 

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