Seventeenth-century British keyboard sources

Musical Times, Autumn 2003 by Smith, David J

Books received

Charles Barber: Lost in the stars: the forgotten musical life of Alexander Siloti. Scarecrow Press, L37.95 (includes CD).

Jean Ashworth Bartle: Sound advice: becoming a better children's choir conductor. Oxford UP, L25.

Peter Bloom, ed.: Berlioz: past, present, future. University of Rochester Press, L50, $70.

Esteban Buch: Beethoven's Ninth: a political history. University of Chicago Press, L19.50, $27.50.

Lorraine Byrne: Schubert's Goethe settings. Ashgate, L55.

Stuart Campbell, ed.: Russians on Russian music 1880-1917: an anthology. Cambridge UP, L45, $65.

Fabio Carboni, Valeria de Lucca & Agostino Ziino, edd.: Tullio Cima, Domenico Massenzio e la musica del low tempo. Ibimus.

Victor Anand Coelho: The Cambridge companion to the guitar. Cambridge UP, L45, $65/L15.95, $23 pbk.

Jonathan Cross, ed.: The Cambridge companion to Stravinsky. Cambridge UP, L47.50, $70 / L17.95, $26 pbk.

Peter Dickinson: The music of Lennox Berkeley, second edition. The Boydell Press, L25, $39.95.

Henri Dutilleux: Music - mystery and memory: conversations with Claude Glayman. Ashgate, L39.95.

Agnes Eisenberger & Siegmund Levarie, edd.: The Brahms notebooks. Pendragon, L26.

Christopher Fifield, ed.: Letters and diaries of Kathleen Ferrier. The Boydell Press, L25, $39.95.

Michael Foster: Plotting gigantic worx: the story of Elgar's Apostles trilogy. The Worcestershire Press, L8.99 pbk.

Saverio Franchi, ed.: Percorsi dell' oratorio Romano da 'historia sacra' a melodramma spirituale. Ibimus.

Jonathan Glixon: Honoring God and the city: music at the Venetian confraternities. Oxford UP, L65.

Daniel Heartz: Music in European capitals: the galant style, 1720-1780. Norton, $100.

Barbara Urner Johnson: Catherine Urner (1891-1942) and Charles Koechlin (1867-1950): a musical affaire. Ashgate, L42.50.

Graham Johnson: Britten, voice & piano: lectures on the vocal music of Benjamin Britten. Guildhall School of Music & Drama/Ashgate, L29.95, $54.95 pbk (includes 2 CDs).

Simon P. Keefe, ed.: The Cambridge companion to Mozart. Cambridge UP, L47.50, $70 / L17.95, $26 pbk.

Hans Keller (ed. Christopher Wintle): Music and psychology: from Vienna to London, 1939-52. Plumbago Books, L20 pbk.

Paul Kildea, ed.: Britten on music. Oxford UP, L30.

Kevin Korsyn: Decentering music: a critique of contemporary musical research. Oxford UP, L40.

Daniel Leech-Wilkinson: The modern invention of medieval music: scholarship, ideology, performance. Cambridge UP, L47.50, $65..

Stephen Lehmann & Marion Faber: Rudolf Serkin: a life. Oxford UP, L20 (includes CD).

Hans Lennenberg: On the publishing and dissemination of music, 1500-1850. Pendragon, L32.50.

Lewis Lockwood: Beethoven: the music and the life. Norton, L28.

R. Allen Lott: From Paris to Peoria: how European piano virtuosos brought classical music to the American heartland. Oxford UP, L35.

Allan F. Moore, ed.: Analyzing popular music. Cambridge UP, L40, $60.

Michael Musgrave, ed.: George Grove, music and Victorian culture. Palgrave Macmillan, L55.

George Odam, ed.: Seeking the soul: the music of Alfred Schnittke. Guildhall School of Music & Drama/Ashgate, L20 pbk.