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The Music Trade in Regional Britain, 1650–1800
Stephanie Carter, Simon D. I. Fleming, ed. Boydell & Brewer, 2025. 254 pp. £85.00 / $120.00. ISBN: 9781783277940. Worldcat.
Reading Texts in Music and Literature of the Long Nineteenth Century
Phyllis Weliver and Katharine Ellis, ed. Boydell & Brewer, 2025. 218 pp. £85.00 / $120.00. ISBN: 9781837651832. Worldcat.
Musik und Suizidalität. Interdisziplinäre Perspektiven
Julia Heimerdinger, Hannah Riedl, Thomas Stegemann, ed. mdwPress, 2025. 236 pp. €37,00. ISBN: 9783837674286. Worldcat.
Clara and Robert Schumann in Context
Joe Davies, Roe-Min Kok, ed. Cambridge University Press, 2026. 376 pp. $120.00. ISBN: 9781108834278. Worldcat.
Cage, Nono and 1960s Hauntology: Sonic Ghosts
Orestis Papaioannou. Cambridge University Press, 2026. 88 pp. $25.00. ISBN: 9781009487955. Worldcat.
Between Speech and Song: Aspects of Hybrid Voice in Twentieth-Century German Opera
Orestis Papaioannou. Cambridge University Press, 2026. 75 pp. $25.00. ISBN: 9781009676601. Worldcat.
Barbara Strozzi in Context
Beth Glixon, Wendy Heller, ed. Cambridge University Press, 2026. 412 pp. $125.00. ISBN: 9781009288729. Worldcat.
Bach: The Cello Suites
Edward Klorman. Cambridge University Press, 2026. 188 pp. $20.00. ISBN: 9781009054591. Worldcat.
A History of Music in the Czech Lands
Martin Nedbal, Kelly St. Pierre, Hana Vlhová-Wörner, ed. Cambridge University Press, 2026. 532 pp. $160.00. ISBN: 9781009168656. Worldcat.
Cultural History of the Guitar in Latin America: News from Argentina, Guatemala, México, and Perú
Luis Díaz-Santana Garza, ed. Vernon Press, 2025. 216 pp. $113.00. ISBN: 9798881902483. Worldcat.
Prince, Musical Genre, and the Construction of Racial Identity
Griffin Woodworth. University of Michigan Press, 2025. 341 pp. $80.00. ISBN: 9780472077342. Worldcat.
Musik und Heimat
Christiane Wiesenfeldt. Bärenreiter & Metzler, 2025. 286 pp. €39,99. ISBN: 9783761826584.
Improvising Otherwise: A Decolonial Feminist Approach to Improvisation in Early Modern English Culture
Fatima Lahham. Open Book Publishers, 2025. 196 pp. £32.95. $110.00. ISBN: 9781805115205.
The Cantigas de Santa Maria: Power and Persuasion at the Alfonsine Court
Henry T. Drummond. Oxford University Press, 2024. 304 pp. $110.00. ISBN: 9780197670590. Worldcat.
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.
