New Books on Music

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.

Polnische und Wiener Musiksalons. Studie und Vergleich

Mateusz Kawa. Hollitzer Verlag, 2025. 316 pp. €48,00. ISBN: 9783990945919. Worldcat.

Johann Strauss-Topographien. Klang | Raum | Wien

Isabella Sommer, ed. Hollitzer Verlag, 2025. 204 pp. €40,00. ISBN: 9783990946145. Worldcat.

Gisela Frankl. Werdegang einer Wiener Komponistin

Ursula Erhart-Schwertmann. Hollitzer Verlag, 2025. 192 pp. €40,00. ISBN: 9783990946084. Worldcat.

Die GötterVERdämmerung. Ein Opernroman

Rainer Buland and Claudia Steiner-Fridrich. Hollitzer Verlag, 2025. 336 pp. €25,00. ISBN: 9783990946183. Worldcat.

Das Max Reinhardt Seminar. Im Weltgarten des Spiels 1928–1965

Peter Roessler. Hollitzer Verlag, 2025. 768 pp. €38,00. ISBN: 9783990942772. 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.

Hungarian Dances and Musical Life in Eighteenth-Century Vienna

Catherine Mayes. Oxford University Press, 2025. 208 pp. $99.00. ISBN: 9780197805763. 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.

In the Realm of Tones

Allen Shawn. University of Rochester Press, 2025. 232 pp. £24.99 / $34.95. ISBN: 9781648251177. Worldcat.

The Purcell Compendium

Peter Holman and Bryan White. Boydell & Brewer, 2025. 286 pp. $105.00 / £75.00. ISBN: 9781837652686. Worldcat.

Brahms: Symphonist

Robert Pascall. Boydell & Brewer, 2025. 372 pp. $170.00 / £115.00. ISBN: 9781783277780. Worldcat.

Re-Reading the Beethoven Violin Sonatas

Daniel Tong. Boydell & Brewer, 2025. 244 pp. £95.00 / $130.00. ISBN: 9781837650378. Worldcat.

Zanaida

Johann Christian Bach. Packard Humanities Institute, 2025. 265 pp. $75.00. ISBN: 9781938325588. Worldcat.

Carattaco

Johann Christian Bach. Packard Humanities Institute, 2024. 312 pp. $75.00. ISBN: 9781938325601. Worldcat.

Forgery in Musical Composition: Aesthetics, History, and the Canon

Frederick Reece. Oxford University Press, 2025. 256 pp. $65.00. ISBN: 9780197618301. Worldcat.

Musical Network across Borders: The Multiplicity of Musical Creation

Bella Brover-Lubovsky and Irit Youngerman, eds.Ut Orpheus Edizioni, 2025. 440 pp. € 93,00. ISBN: 9788881095469. Worldcat.

Cultural History of the Guitar in Latin America: News from Argentina, Guatemala, México, and Perú

Luis Diaz-Santana Garza, ed.
Vernon Press, 2025. 216 pp. $113.00. ISBN: 9798881902483. Worldcat.

Early Music Pedagogy Then and Now: From the Classical Antiquity to the Renaissance

Marcello Mazzetti, Livio Ticli, ed. Brepols, 2025. 448 pp. €110,00. ISBN: 9782503615660. Worldcat.

European Musical Competitions, 1700-1940: History, Context and Meanings

Charles Edward McGuire, ed. Brepols, 2025. 412 pp. €135,00. ISBN: 9782503618616. Worldcat.

Transcending Nationalism? Shifts of Perspective in Eastern European Music History

Christoph Flamm, ed.
Brepols, 2025. 354 pp. €130,00. ISBN: 9782503618647. Worldcat.

Formulating Foster: Stephen C. Foster and the Creation of a National Musical Myth

Christopher Lynch. Oxford University Press, 2025. 416 pp. $45.00. ISBN: 9780197811696. Worldcat.

Genre and the Production of Gendered Identity on the Lyric Stage

Mark Everist and Jennifer Walker, eds.
Brepols, 2025. 317 pp. € 130,00. ISBN: 9782503615585. Worldcat.

Music of the Josquin Era, 1460-1560: Studies in Honor of Joshua Rifkin.

David Fallows, Jesse Rodin, and Mitchel P. Brauner, eds.
AIM Verlag Corpusmusicae GmbH, 2024. 678 pp. $125.00. ISBN: 9781595515681. Worldcat.

Luigi Dallapiccola between Politics, Text and Musical Thought: With an Appendix of New Sources

Roberto Illiano, ed.
Brepols, 2025. 354 pp. € 110,00. ISBN: 9782503615677. Worldcat.

A Cultural History of the Violin in Nineteenth-Century London

Tom Wilder
Boydell & Brewer, 2025. 316 pp. £95.00 / $130.00. ISBN: 9781837652587. Worldcat.

Mexican Canto Nuevo: Music, Politics, and Resistance

Claudio Palomares-Salas
Oxford University Press, 2025. 336 pp. $132.00. ISBN: 9780197772706. Worldcat.