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Giacomo Francesco Milano e il ruolo dell'aristocrazia nel patrocinio delle attivita musicali nel secolo XVIII, iv by Talbot, Michael

“…"Giacomo Francesco Milano e il ruolo dell'aristocrazia nel patrocinio delle attivita musicali nel secolo XVIII, iv" edited by Gaetano Pitarresi is reviewed…”
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Albert Roussel (1869-1937): un marin musicien by Rae, Caroline

“…"Albert Roussel (1869-1937): un marin musicien" by Damien Top is reviewed…”
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A Ned Rorem Reader by Nicholls, David

“…"A Ned Rorem Reader" by Ned Rorem is reviewed…”
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Album musical de Maria Szymanowska by Goldberg, Halina

“…"Album musical de Maria Szymanowska" edited by Renata Suchowiejko is reviewed…”
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'I have just written a song which came out of my soul': Lay Music Production and the Death of President John F. Kennedy by Clark, Jennifer, Grigg, H. E. R, Schortz, Jemima

“…ABSTRACT The death of President John F. Kennedy in November 1963 drew a mass outpouring of public and private grief. Thousands of people from all over the…”
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Song, Dance, and Sex: The Social Role of the Carole in Thirteenth-Century Clerical Thought and Vernacular Literature by Thomson, Matthew P

“…ABSTRACT In the thirteenth century, the carole dance and its refrain songs simultaneously delighted the characters of vernacular French literature, troubled…”
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Mahler's Symphony No. 1 in the Centre and on the Periphery by Batstone, Leah

“…ABSTRACT Following the end of his tenure with the Vienna Philharmonic in 1901, Gustav Mahler conducted more concerts than ever outside the imperial capital,…”
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Not just a Fairy Tale: Parody, Late Fascism, and Ghedini’s ‘La pulce d’oro’ (1940) by Campisi, Maria Grazia Aurora

“…ABSTRACT At first glance, La pulce d’oro (1940), a one-act comic opera by Giorgio Federico Ghedini, might seem at odds with the turmoil of late-fascist Italy…”
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Songs at the Docks: Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc and Musical Entanglements in Seventeenth-Century Marseille by Van der Miesen, Leendert

“…ABSTRACT Building on recent musicological research that emphasizes the mobility of songs, this article investigates Marseille as a site of cultural encounter…”
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The World of Sound as a Prison: Ideal and Actual Concepts of Music in the Writings of Huldrych Zwingli by Lundberg, Mattias

“…ABSTRACT Huldrich Zwingli held a highly censorious view of music in private and public worship. It has often been noted that his stance was almost the polar…”
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Correcting the ‘grossest faults’: Charles Jennens and the Composition of Handel’s Messiah by Burrows, Donald

“…ABSTRACT The correspondence between Charles Jennens and Edward Holdsworth includes criticisms by Jennens, sometimes trenchant, of Handel’s setting of the text…”
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towards a history of the eccentric artist: beethoven’s bad manners and the lure of the anecdote by Fine, Abigail

“…ABSTRACT Since the late nineteenth century, Beethoven’s bad manners have been framed as a political act of resistance against the stilted affect of the…”
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The Etymology of the ‘English’ Cadence by Chan, Eleanor

“…ABSTRACT One thing above others is known widely about the so-called ‘English’ cadence: that it is not English. Ever since musicologists of the mid-twentieth…”
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Colonial Mobility and the Cultural Replication of British Music: Granville Bantock’s Australian Tour, 1938–1939 by Watt, Paul, Oates, Jennifer

“…ABSTRACT Legions of foreign musicians have toured Australia in an effort to transplant old musical cultures. One such tour was undertaken by Granville Bantock…”
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The Poetics of the Wise Fool in the Music and Letters of Ignatius Sancho by Cypess, Rebecca

“…ABSTRACT While the correspondence of the Black British writer, musician, butler, and shopkeeper Ignatius Sancho has long been recognized as pioneering in its…”
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The Custodial History of the Sadler Partbooks (Oxford, Bodleian Library Mss Mus. E. 1–5) by Burke, James

“…ABSTRACT The Sadler partbooks (Oxford, Bodleian Library, MSS Mus. e. 1–5), one of the most important English polyphonic sources to survive from the sixteenth…”
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From Ancient to Modern: Identifying Anglicanism in an Anglo-Jewish Hymnal by Padley, Danielle

“…ABSTRACT In 1899, Francis L. Cohen and David M. Davis published Kol Rinnah U’Tefillah: The Voice of Prayer and Praise. This pioneering ‘Handbook of Synagogue…”
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An Unnatural Attitude: Phenomenology in Weimar Musical Thought by Benjamin Steege (review) by Gabriel, John

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Reading Creativity Forwards and Backwards: Process and Product Revisited with Herbert von Karajan's Legato Aesthetic and Hypermasculinity by Behan, Adam

“…ABSTRACT One issue central to research in musical performance studies concerns the notion of musical product and process. Most empirical studies of recorded…”
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Artes Novae by Bent, Margaret

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