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The Musical Identities of Harry Partch
S. Andrew Grenade, ed. University of Rochester Press, 2026. 310 pp. $130.00 / £95.00. ISBN: 9781648251276. Worldcat.
Granville Bantock and the Orchestral Refiguring of Literature
Michael Allis. Boydell & Brewer, 2026. 308 pp. $190.00 / £130.00. ISBN: 9781837651740. Worldcat.
Transported: The Everyday Magic of Musical Daydreams
Elizabeth Margulis. Liveright, 2026. 240 pp. $29.99. ISBN: 9781324095798. Worldcat.
The Museum of Imaginary Musical Instruments
Deirdre Loughridge and Thomas Patteson. Reaktion, 2026. 200 pp. $25.00. ISBN: 9781836391852. Worldcat.
Double Stopping: How Migration Shaped the Careers of Australia's Celebrity Violinists
Suzanne Robinson and Curt Thompson, eds. Bloomsbury Academic, 2026. 296 pp. $126.00. ISBN: 9798765135044. Worldcat.
Sikh Kirtan and Its Journeys: Instruments, Theories, Technologies
Gurminder Kaur Bhogal. University of Chicago Press, 2025. 332 pp. $32.50. ISBN: 9780226845951. Worldcat.
Searching for Wagner in Japan
Brooke McCorkle Okazaki. Oxford University Press, 2026. 352 pp. $140.00. ISBN: 9780197620410. Worldcat.
"Ich höre die Steine, sehe den Klang und lese das Wasser": Inszenierungen von Wahrnehmung im zeitgenössischen Hör-Musiktheater
Margarethe Maierhofer-Lischka. Wolke Verlag, 2026. 256 pp. €44,00. ISBN: 9783955936068.
Wegzeichen Neue Musik. Salzburg und die musikalische Zeitgenoss*innenschaft / Salzburg and Musical Contemporaneity
Thomas Hochradner and Matthew Werley, eds. Hollitzer Verlag, 2025. 372 pp. €45,00. ISBN: 9783990942093. Worldcat.
La Regina Saba Fux WV II.1.2 (E 96)
Elena Abbado, ed. Hollitzer Verlag, 2025. 192 pp. €199,00. ISBN: 9783990941492. Worldcat.
Die DDR als Sammlerin. Ethik und Konzept im Musikinstrumentenmuseum
Josef Focht and Heike Fricke, eds. Hollitzer Verlag, 2026. 224 pp. €30,00. ISBN: 9783990946381. Worldcat.
Anton Webern at the Dawn of Modernism
Sebastian Wedler. Cambridge University Press, 2025. 234 pp. $130.00. ISBN: 9781009453646/9781009453691. Worldcat.
«Sicut in caelo»: Sacred Music in Early Modern Italy
Galliano Ciliberti, Thomas Neal, eds. Brepols, 2026. xx + 480 pp. €155,00. ISBN: 9782503621852. Worldcat.
Music in Fifteenth-Century Bohemia: Between Reform and Identity Building
Edited by Hana Vlhová-Wörner and Jan Ciglbauer. University of Rochester Press, 2025. 292 pp. $130.00/£95.00. ISBN: 9781648251252. Worldcat.
Musical Amateurs as Artistic Citizens in Schubert’s Vienna
Nancy November and Imogen Morris. Boydell & Brewer, 2025. 228 pp. $120.00/£85.00. ISBN: 9781837652440. Worldcat.
Maddalena Casulana: Music Advocating for Women in Early Modern Italy
Catherine Deutsch. Cambridge University Press, 2025. xviii+284 pp. $130.00. ISBN: 9781009569163. Worldcat.
Die DDR als Sammlerin. Ethik und Konzept im Musikinstrumentenmuseum
Josef Focht and Heike Fricke. Hollitzer Verlag, 2025. 224 pp. €30,00. ISBN: 9783990946381. Worldcat.
Die GötterVERdämmerung. Ein Opernroman
Rainer Buland and Claudia Steiner-Fridrich. Hollitzer Verlag, 2025. 336 pp. €25,00. ISBN: 9783990946183. Worldcat.
Musical Meaning and Interpretation: Perspectives, Reflections, Critique
Michael J. Puri, Jason Geary, and Seth Monahan, eds. Oxford University Press, 2025. 320 pp. $132.00. ISBN: 9780197601297. Worldcat.
Classical and Popular Music in Israel
Malcom Miller. University of Rochester Press, 2025. 524 pp. $135.00 / £90.00. ISBN: 9781648251115. Worldcat.
Unlocking Meaning in Art Song: A Singer's Guide to Practical Analysis Using Schubert Songs
Beverly Stein. Rowman & Littlefield, 2024. 329 pp. $73.50. ISBN: 9781538187869.
Quand le Brésil inspire la France. Partitions et presse musicale (1838-1894;1920-1938)
Zélia Chueke. L’Harmattan, 2025. 278 pp. £29.00. ISBN: 9782336436678.
Pepe Romero
Walter Aaron Clark and Pepe Romero. University of Rochester Press, 2025. 262 pp. $36.95 / £29.95. ISBN: 9781648251184. Worldcat.