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Kerry McCarthy
Byrd's Patrons at Prayer
Music and Letters Advance Access published on June 16, 2008
Music and Letters 2008 89: 499-509; doi:10.1093/ml/gcn019 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Candace Bailey
Blurring the Lines: ‘Elizabeth Rogers hir Virginall Book’ in Context
Music and Letters Advance Access published on September 27, 2008
Music and Letters 2008 89: 510-546; doi:10.1093/ml/gcn046 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

James A. Winn
Style and Politics in the Philips–Handel Ode for Queen Anne's Birthday, 1713
Music and Letters Advance Access published on September 14, 2008
Music and Letters 2008 89: 547-561; doi:10.1093/ml/gcn035 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

J. P. E. Harper-Scott
‘Our true north’: Walton's First Symphony, Sibelianism, and the Nationalization of Modernism in England
Music and Letters Advance Access published on September 15, 2008
Music and Letters 2008 89: 562-589; doi:10.1093/ml/gcn083 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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Matthew Riley
Sonata Principles
Music and Letters Advance Access published on July 15, 2008
Music and Letters 2008 89: 590-598; doi:10.1093/ml/gcn043 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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Ruth A. Solie
Critical Musicology and the Responsibility of Response: Selected Essays. By Lawrence Kramer.
Music and Letters 2008 89: 599-603; doi:10.1093/ml/gcn029 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Peter Ward Jones
Johann Georg Werdenstein (1542–1608): A Major Collector of Early Music Prints. By Richard Charteris.
Music and Letters 2008 89: 603-604; doi:10.1093/ml/gcm102 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Reinhard Strohm
Leonardo Vinci e il suo tempo: Atti dei Convegni internazionali di studi (Reggio Calabria, 10–12 giugno 2002; 4–5 giugno 2004). Ed. by Gatetano Pitarresi.
Music and Letters 2008 89: 604-605; doi:10.1093/ml/gcn045 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Hugh Benham
Liturgy and Contemplation in Byrd's Gradualia. By Kerry McCarthy.
Music and Letters 2008 89: 606-608; doi:10.1093/ml/gcn023 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Bojan Bujic
Music in Renaissance Florence: Studies and Documents. By Frank A. D’Accone.
Music and Letters 2008 89: 608-610; doi:10.1093/ml/gcn057 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Noel O’Regan
Music in Seventeenth-Century Naples: Francesco Provenzale (1624–1704). By Dinko Fabris.
Music and Letters 2008 89: 610-612; doi:10.1093/ml/gcn017 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Vassilis Vavoulis
Music in the Collective Experience in Sixteenth-Century Milan. By Christine Suzanne Getz.
Music and Letters 2008 89: 612-614; doi:10.1093/ml/gcn013 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

David Yearsley
Music and Theology: Essays in Honor of Robin A. Leaver. Edited by Daniel Zager.
Music and Letters 2008 89: 614-618; doi:10.1093/ml/gcm129 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Stephen Rose
The Creative Development of Johann Sebastian Bach, i: 1695–1717. Music to Delight the Spirit. By Richard D. P. Jones.
Music and Letters 2008 89: 618-620; doi:10.1093/ml/gcm124 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Matthew Dirst
The Cantatas of J. S. Bach. With their Librettos in German–English Parallel Text. By Alfred Dürr; revised and translated by Richard D. P. Jones.
Music and Letters 2008 89: 620-622; doi:10.1093/ml/gcn063 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

John Butt
J. S. Bach: A Life in Music. By Peter Williams.
Music and Letters 2008 89: 622-625; doi:10.1093/ml/gcn058 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

James Garratt
Schubert in the European Imagination, i: The Romantic and Victorian Eras; ii: Fin-de-Siècle Vienna. By Scott Messing.
Music and Letters Advance Access published on July 15, 2008
Music and Letters 2008 89: 625-628; doi:10.1093/ml/gcn040 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

W. Dean Sutcliffe
Pleasure and Meaning in the Classical Symphony. By Melanie Lowe.
Music and Letters 2008 89: 628-633; doi:10.1093/ml/gcn075 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

William Drabkin
Joseph Haydn. 6 String Quartets Opus 54/55. Full Score and Parts. Ed. by Simon Rowland-Jones • Joseph Haydn. 6 String Quartets Opus 64. Full Score and Parts. Ed. by Simon Rowland-Jones
Music and Letters 2008 89: 633-634; doi:10.1093/ml/gcn006 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Charles Edward McGuire
Vincent Novello (1781–1861): Music for the Masses. By Fiona M. Palmer.
Music and Letters 2008 89: 634-635; doi:10.1093/ml/gcn009 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Sean M. Parr
Divas and Scholars: Performing Italian Opera. By Philip Gossett.
Music and Letters 2008 89: 635-638; doi:10.1093/ml/gcn010 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Andrew Lamb
Johann Strauss: Leben und Werk in Briefen und Dokumenten, vol. 10: Ergänzungen und Korrekturen, Register. Ed. by Franz Mailer.
Music and Letters 2008 89: 638-639; doi:10.1093/ml/gcn056 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Kerry Murphy
François-Joseph Fétis, Correspondance. Compiled and Ed. by Robert Wangermée.
Music and Letters Advance Access published on July 15, 2008
Music and Letters 2008 89: 640-642; doi:10.1093/ml/gcn041 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Alexander Rehding
Helmholtz musicus: Die Objektivierung der Musik im 19. Jahrhundert durch Helmholtz’ Lehre von den Tonvorstellungen. By Matthias Rieger.
Music and Letters 2008 89: 642-646; doi:10.1093/ml/gcn011 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Paul B. Berry
Brahms and his World: A Biographical Dictionary. By Peter Clive.
Music and Letters 2008 89: 646-650; doi:10.1093/ml/gcn005 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Styra Avins
On Brahms and his Circle: Essays and Documentary Studies by Karl Geiringer. Revised and enlarged by George S. Bozarth.
Music and Letters Advance Access published on July 15, 2008
Music and Letters 2008 89: 650-653; doi:10.1093/ml/gcn037 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Katherine R. Syer
Wagner and the Art of the Theatre. By Patrick Carnegy.
Music and Letters 2008 89: 653-657; doi:10.1093/ml/gcn012 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Bennett Zon
Lectures on Musical Life: William Sterndale Bennett. Ed. By Nicholas Temperley and Yunchung Yang
Music and Letters 2008 89: 657-659; doi:10.1093/ml/gcm115 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Alexandra Wilson
Leoncavallo: Life and Works. By Konrad Dryden.
Music and Letters Advance Access published on July 15, 2008
Music and Letters 2008 89: 659-661; doi:10.1093/ml/gcn044 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Michael Allis
Edward Elgar and the Nostalgic Imagination. By Matthew Riley.
Music and Letters Advance Access published on July 17, 2008
Music and Letters 2008 89: 661-666; doi:10.1093/ml/gcn036 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Peter Franklin
The Mahler Family Letters. Ed., trans., and annotated by Stephen McClatchie.
Music and Letters 2008 89: 666-672; doi:10.1093/ml/gcn007 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Nick Chadwick
Die Unordnung der Dinge: Das musikalische Groteske in der Wiener Moderne (1885–1914). By Federico Celestini.
Music and Letters 2008 89: 672-675; doi:10.1093/ml/gcn059 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Jonathan Dunsby
Why Classical Music still Matters. By Lawrence Kramer.
Music and Letters 2008 89: 675-677; doi:10.1093/ml/gcn055 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Arnold Whittall
Berio's Sequenzas: Essays on Performance, Composition and Analysis. Ed. by Janet K. Halfyard.
Music and Letters 2008 89: 677-679; doi:10.1093/ml/gcn031 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Arnold Whittall
Olivier Messiaen: Music, Art and Literature. Ed. by Christopher Dingle and Nigel Simeone. • Olivier Messiaen: Oiseaux exotiques. By Peter Hill and Nigel Simeone.
Music and Letters 2008 89: 679-682; doi:10.1093/ml/gcn032 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Arnold Whittall
Ruth Crawford Seeger's Worlds: Innovation and Tradition in Twentieth-Century American Music. Ed. by Ray Allen and Ellie M. Hisama.
Music and Letters 2008 89: 682-684; doi:10.1093/ml/gcm103 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Edward Venn
All the Gods: Benjamin Britten's Night-piece in Context. By Christopher Wintle and ed. by Julian Littlewood.
Music and Letters 2008 89: 684-685; doi:10.1093/ml/gcn030 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Björn Heile
New Music, New Allies: American Experimental Music in West Germany from the Zero Hour to Reunification. By Amy C. Beal.
Music and Letters 2008 89: 686-687; doi:10.1093/ml/gcn008 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Gordon E. Smith
The North American Folk Music Revival: Nation and Identity in the United States and Canada, 1945–1980. By Gillian Mitchell.
Music and Letters 2008 89: 687-690; doi:10.1093/ml/gcm127 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Steven Martin
Bruce Montgomery/Edmund Crispin: A Life in Music and Books. By David Whittle.
Music and Letters 2008 89: 690-692; doi:10.1093/ml/gcn034 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Rachel Beckles Willson
Music Divided: Bartók's Legacy in Cold War Culture. By Danielle Fosler-Lussier.
Music and Letters Advance Access published on July 15, 2008
Music and Letters 2008 89: 692-697; doi:10.1093/ml/gcn038 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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Richard Charteris
Correspondence: To the Editors of ‘Music & Letters’
Music and Letters 2008 89: 698-700; doi:10.1093/ml/gcn093 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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Recipients of ‘Music & Letters’ Awards
Music and Letters 2008 89: 701; doi:10.1093/ml/gcn108 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

‘Music & Letters’ Awards
Music and Letters 2008 89: 703; doi:10.1093/ml/gcn107 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Authors of Articles In This Issue
Music and Letters 2008 89: 703; doi:10.1093/ml/gcn110 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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Notes To Contributors
Music and Letters 2008 89: 702; doi:10.1093/ml/gcn106 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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Books Received
Music and Letters 2008 89: 704-705; doi:10.1093/ml/gcn109 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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