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Get checked abstract Joseph Dyer

Speculative ‘Musica’ and the Medieval University of Paris
Music and Letters 2009 90: 177-204; doi:10.1093/ml/gcn089 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Demmy Verbeke

The Need for Latin Textual Scholarship in Renaissance Musicology
Music and Letters Advance Access published on November 20, 2008
Music and Letters 2009 90: 205-214; doi:10.1093/ml/gcn091 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Bettina Varwig

‘Mutato semper habitu’: Heinrich Schütz and the Culture of Rhetoric
Music and Letters Advance Access published on January 7, 2009
Music and Letters 2009 90: 215-239; doi:10.1093/ml/gcn092 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Sanna Pederson

Defining the Term ‘Absolute Music’ Historically
Music and Letters 2009 90: 240-262; doi:10.1093/ml/gcp009 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Reviews of Books

Leeman L. Perkins

The Crisis of Music in Early Modern Europe 1470–1530. By Rob C. Wegman
Music and Letters 2009 90: 263-268; doi:10.1093/ml/gcn086 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Leeman L. Perkins

Sounding Objects: Musical Instruments, Poetry, and Art in Renaissance France. By Carla Zecher
Music and Letters 2009 90: 268-271; doi:10.1093/ml/gcn087 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Esperanza Rodríguez-García

Cristóbal de Morales. Sources, Influences, Reception. Ed. by Owen Rees and Bernadette Nelson.
Music and Letters 2009 90: 271-274; doi:10.1093/ml/gcn099 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Paul R. Laird

Devotional Music in the Iberian World, 1450–1800: The Villancico and Related Genres. Ed. by Tess Knighton and Álvaro Torrente.
Music and Letters 2009 90: 274-276; doi:10.1093/ml/gcn097 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

David Ledbetter

Chambonnières: A Thematic Catalogue—The Complete Works of Jacques Champion de Chambonnières (1601/02–1672). By Bruce Gustafson.
Music and Letters 2009 90: 276-278; doi:10.1093/ml/gcn098 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

David Pinto

The Viola da Gamba Society Index of Manuscripts Containing Consort Music, Vol. 2. Compiled by Andrew Ashbee, Robert Thompson, and Jonathan Wainwright.
Music and Letters 2009 90: 278-280; doi:10.1093/ml/gcn116 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

David Yearsley

J. S. Bach's Concerted Ensemble Music: The Concerto. Ed. by Gregory Butler.
Music and Letters 2009 90: 280-283; doi:10.1093/ml/gcn118 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Julian Rushton

Mozart's Viennese Instrumental Music. A Study of Stylistic Re-Invention. By Simon P. Keefe.
Music and Letters 2009 90: 283-287; doi:10.1093/ml/gcn100 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Richard Will

The Cambridge Companion to Haydn. Ed. by Caryl Clark.
Music and Letters 2009 90: 287-289; doi:10.1093/ml/gcn103 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Amanda Glauert

Heinrich Heine and the Lied. By Susan Youens.
Music and Letters 2009 90: 289-292; doi:10.1093/ml/gcn115 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Laura Tunbridge

Robert Schumann: The Book of Songs. By Jon W. Finson.
Music and Letters 2009 90: 292-294; doi:10.1093/ml/gcn102 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Peter Tregear

Listening to Reason: Culture, Subjectivity, and Nineteenth-Century Music. By Michael P. Steinberg.
Music and Letters 2009 90: 294-295; doi:10.1093/ml/gcn101 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Nicholas Attfield

Symphonic Aspirations: German Music and Politics, 1900–1945. By Karen Painter.
Music and Letters 2009 90: 296-298; doi:10.1093/ml/gcn094 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

DMG

Jean Sibelius. Dagbok 1909–1944. Ed. by Fabian Dahlström. • Jean Sibelius: Poesie in der Luft. Studien zu Leben und Werke. By Tomi Mäkelä. • Sibelius. By Andrew Barnett.
Music and Letters 2009 90: 298-304; doi:10.1093/ml/gcn104 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Amanda Bayley

Bartók and the Grotesque: Studies in Modernity, the Body, and Contradiction in Music. By Julie Brown.
Music and Letters 2009 90: 304-307; doi:10.1093/ml/gcn112 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Amy Bauer

Ligeti, Kurtág, and Hungarian Music during the Cold War. By Rachel Beckles Willson.
Music and Letters 2009 90: 307-310; doi:10.1093/ml/gcn095 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Ivana Medic

Sofia Gubaidulina: A Biography. By Michael Kurtz. Trans. by Christoph K. Lohmann and ed. by Malcolm Hamrick Brown.
Music and Letters 2009 90: 311-313; doi:10.1093/ml/gcn105 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Stephen Broad

Messiaen Studies. Ed. by Robert Sholl.
Music and Letters 2009 90: 313-315; doi:10.1093/ml/gcn114 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Marcia J. Citron

The Gendered Score: Music in 1940s Melodrama and the Woman's Film. By Heather Laing.
Music and Letters 2009 90: 315-317; doi:10.1093/ml/gcn096 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Naomi Waltham-Smith

Silence, Music, Silent Music. Ed. by Nicky Losseff and Jenny Doctor.
Music and Letters 2009 90: 317-320; doi:10.1093/ml/gcn117 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Carlo Cenciarelli

Off Key: When Film and Music Won't Work Together. By Kay Dickinson.
Music and Letters 2009 90: 320-322; doi:10.1093/ml/gcn123 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Philip V. Bohlman

Music and Urban Geography. By Adam Krims.
Music and Letters 2009 90: 322-324; doi:10.1093/ml/gcn113 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Notes to Contributors

Notes to Contributors
Music and Letters 2009 90: 325; doi:10.1093/ml/gcp029 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

'Music & Letters' Awards

‘Music & Letters’ Awards
Music and Letters 2009 90: 326; doi:10.1093/ml/gcp030 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Authors of Articles in this Issue

Authors of Articles in this Issue
Music and Letters 2009 90: 326; doi:10.1093/ml/gcp031 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Books Received

Books Received
Music and Letters 2009 90: 327-329; doi:10.1093/ml/gcp032 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Nigel Fortune (1924-2009)

Nigel Fortune (1924–2009)
Music and Letters 2009 90: 330; doi:10.1093/ml/gcp033 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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