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Get checked abstract Mark Evan Bonds

Replacing Haydn: Mozart's ‘Pleyel’ Quartets
Music and Letters Advance Access published on May 8, 2007
Music and Letters 2007 88: 201-225; doi:10.1093/ml/gcl150 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Rita Steblin and Frederick Stocken

Studying with Sechter: Newly Recovered Reminiscences about Schubert by his Forgotten Friend, the Composer Joseph Lanz
Music and Letters 2007 88: 226-265; doi:10.1093/ml/gcl113 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Pauline Fairclough

The ‘Old Shostakovich’: Reception in the British Press
Music and Letters Advance Access published on May 8, 2007
Music and Letters 2007 88: 266-296; doi:10.1093/ml/gcm002 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract David Nicholls

Narrative Theory as an Analytical Tool in the Study of Popular Music Texts
Music and Letters 2007 88: 297-315; doi:10.1093/ml/gcm006 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Reviews of Books

Thomas J. Mathiesen

Ancient Greek Music in Performance: Symposion Wien 29. Sept.–1. Okt. 2003. Ed. by Stefan Hagel and Christine Harrauer.
Music and Letters 2007 88: 316-322; doi:10.1093/ml/gcl092 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Don Fader

A Thematic Catalogue of the Works of Michel-Richard de Lalande (1657–1726). By Lionel Sawkins. • Michel-Richard Delalande ou Le Lully latin. By Catherine Massip.
Music and Letters 2007 88: 322-327; doi:10.1093/ml/gcl089 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Steven Zohn

Cöthener Bach-Hefte, 12. Ed. by Andreas Waczkat.
Music and Letters 2007 88: 328-330; doi:10.1093/ml/gcl088 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Mary Térey-Smith

Geschichte, Bauweise und Spieltechnik der tiefen Streichinstrumente: 21. Musikinstrumentenbau-Symposium Michaelstein, 17. bis 19. November 2000. Ed. by Monika Lustig.
Music and Letters 2007 88: 330-333; doi:10.1093/ml/gcl090 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Lawrence Archbold

Organ Restoration Reconsidered; Proceedings of a Colloquium. Ed. by John R. Watson.
Music and Letters 2007 88: 333-335; doi:10.1093/ml/gcl094 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Andy Fry

Jazz Consciousness: Music, Race, and Humanity. By Paul Austerlitz.
Music and Letters 2007 88: 335-340; doi:10.1093/ml/gcl093 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Thomas Christensen

Musical Representations, Subjects, and Objects: The Construction of Musical Thought in Zarlino, Descartes, Rameau, and Weber. By Jairo Moreno.
Music and Letters 2007 88: 340-345; doi:10.1093/ml/gcl151 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

David Grayson

Mozart By Julian Rushton.
Music and Letters 2007 88: 345-347; doi:10.1093/ml/gcl102 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Björn Heile

The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century Opera. Ed. by Mervyn Cooke.
Music and Letters 2007 88: 347-353; doi:10.1093/ml/gcl107 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Kofi Agawu

Interpreting Musical Gestures, Topics, and Tropes: Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert. By Robert S. Hatten.
Music and Letters 2007 88: 353-355; doi:10.1093/ml/gcl098 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

D.M. G

Wagner and Wagnerism in Nineteenth-Century Sweden, Finland, and the Baltic Provinces: Reception, Enthusiasm, Cult. By Hannu Salmi.
Music and Letters 2007 88: 355-358; doi:10.1093/ml/gcl096 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Giorgio Biancorosso

Unsettling Scores: German Film, Music, and Ideology. By Roger Hillman.
Music and Letters 2007 88: 358-360; doi:10.1093/ml/gcl097 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

David Fanning

Alexander Skrjabin: Werk und Gedankenwelt. By Leonid Sabanejew.
Music and Letters 2007 88: 360-361; doi:10.1093/ml/gcl100 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

David Fanning

Prokofiev's Ballets for Diaghilev. By Stephen D.
Music and Letters 2007 88: 361-362; doi:10.1093/ml/gcl099 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Katharine Ellis

L’Écriture de la critique musicale au temps de Berlioz. By Emmanuel Reibel.
Music and Letters 2007 88: 362-364; doi:10.1093/ml/gcl103 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

James Garratt

Bach in Berlin: Nation and Culture in Mendelssohn's Revival of the St Matthew Passion. By Celia Applegate.
Music and Letters 2007 88: 364-367; doi:10.1093/ml/gcl106 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Deborah Mawer

The Composer as Intellectual: Music and Ideology in France 1914–1940. By Jane F. Fulcher.
Music and Letters 2007 88: 367-370; doi:10.1093/ml/gcl101 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Sarah Hibberd

Mimomania: Music and Gesture in Nineteenth-Century Opera. By Mary Ann Smart.
Music and Letters 2007 88: 370-374; doi:10.1093/ml/gcl148 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Robert Orledge

Harmonie en bleu et or: Debussy, la musique et les arts. By Jean-Michel Nectoux.
Music and Letters 2007 88: 375-377; doi:10.1093/ml/gcl105 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

M. J. Grant

Klang und Linie von Pierrot Lunaire zu Ionisation: Studien zur funktionalen Wechselwirkung von Spezialensemble, Formfindung und Klangfarbenpolyphonie. By Tomi Mäkelä.
Music and Letters 2007 88: 377-379; doi:10.1093/ml/gcl104 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Alf Björnberg

Echo and Reverb: Fabricating Space in Popular Music Recording, 1900–1960. By Peter Doyle.
Music and Letters 2007 88: 379-382; doi:10.1093/ml/gcl095 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Matthew Riley

Elgar: Child of Dreams. By Jerrold Northrop Moore.
Music and Letters 2007 88: 382-384; doi:10.1093/ml/gcl108 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Lucy Walker

Essays on Music and the Spoken Word and on Surveying the Field. Ed. by Suzanne M. Lodato and David Francis Urrows.
Music and Letters 2007 88: 385-390; doi:10.1093/ml/gcl109 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Antonio Cascelli

Claudio Monteverdi, Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria, ed. Alan Curtis.
Music and Letters 2007 88: 395-398; doi:10.1093/ml/gcl152 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Michael C. Tusa

Carl Maria von Weber, Abu Hassan, ed. Joachim Veit. • Carl Maria von Weber, Preciosa, ed. Frank Ziegler.
Music and Letters 2007 88: 398-400; doi:10.1093/ml/gcl153 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Reviews of Music

Sandra Mangsen

Biagio Marini, Sonate Sinfonie: Canzoni, Passemezzi, Balletti, Correnti, Gagliarde, & Ritornelli, a 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 & 6 voci per ogni sorte di stromento, Opera VIII, ed. Maura Zoni.
Music and Letters 2007 88: 391-395; doi:10.1093/ml/gcl154 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Books Received

Books Received
Music and Letters 2007 88: 403-404; doi:10.1093/ml/gcm001 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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