Music and Letters Vol. 97, No. 3, August 2016
Representing Russia: Luxury and Diplomacy at the Razumovsky Palace in Vienna, 1803–1815
Mark Ferraguto
Mendelssohn’s Performances of the ‘Matthäus-Passion’: Considerations of the Documentary Evidence
Peter Ward Jones
Music, Lyrics, and the Bengali Book: Hindustani Musicology in Calcutta, 1818–1905
Richard David Williams
Reviews
The Musica of Hermannus Contractus. Ed. and trans. by Leonard Ellinwood; rev. by John L. Snyder
John Caldwell
The Monstrous New Art: Divided Forms in the Late Medieval Motet. By Anna Zayaruznaya
Lawrence Earp
Verse and Voice in Byrd’s Song Collections of 1588 and 1589. By Jeremy L. Smith
Kerry McCarthy
Manuscript Inscriptions in Early English Printed Music. By David Greer
Kirsten Gibson
Bach’s Numbers: Compositional Proportion and Significance. By Ruth Tatlow
Yo Tomita
The Lives of George Frideric Handel. By David Hunter
Matthew Gardner
Venanzio Rauzzini in Britain: Castrato, Composer, and Cultural Leader. By Paul F. Rice
Ingeborg Zechner
George Smart and Nineteenth-Century Concert Life. By John Carnelley
Michael Musgrave
Wagner, Schumann and the Lessons of Beethoven’s Ninth. By Christopher Alan Reynolds
Roger Allen
Emil František Burian a jeho cesty za operou. By Helena Spurná
John Tyrrell
Savoy Curtain-Raisers. Ed. by Christopher O'Brien
David Russell Hulme
Virginia Woolf and Music. Ed. By Adriana Varga
Lei Zhang
Masculinity in Opera: Gender, History, and New Musicology. Edited by Philip Purvis
Amanda Hsieh
French Music and Jazz in Conversation: From Debussy to Brubeck. By Deborah Mawer
Jeremy F. Lane
Zur Rezeption Georg Friedrich Händels in den deutschen Diktaturen:Quellen in Kontext. Ed. by Katrin Gerlach, Lars Klingberg, Juliane Riepe, and Susanne Spiegler
Toby Thacker
Composing the Canon in the German Democratic Republic: Narratives of Nineteenth-Century Music. By Elaine Kelly
Mark Berry
On Sondheim: An Opinionated Guide. By Ethan Mordden
Stephen Banfield
Listening to War: Sound, Music, Trauma, and Survival in Wartime Iraq. By J. Martin Daughtry
Gavin Williams
Popular Music Matters: Essays in Honour of Simon Frith. Ed. by Lee Marshall and Dave Laing
Ross Cole
The Hip Hop and Obama Reader. Ed. by Travis L. Gosa and Erik Nielson
Laura Speers
Music and the Armenian Diaspora: Searching for Home in Exile. By Sylvia Angelique Alajaji
Jim Samson
Performing al-Andalus: Music and Nostalgia across the Mediterranean. By Jonathan Holt Shannon
Matthew Machin-Autenrieth