Works on Classical and Fine Art Music
Recent Scholarship (2005)
Banfield, William C. Black Notes: Essays of a Musician Writing in a
Post Album Age. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (January).
Berger, William. Puccini without Excuses: A Refreshing Reassessment of
the World's Most Popular Composer. Knopf Publishing Group
(November).
Boorman, Stanley. Studies in the Printing, Publishing, and Performance
of Music in the 16th Century. Ashgate Publishing (September).
Bundrick, Sheramy. Music and Image in Classical Athens. Cambridge
University Press (August).
Burrows, John, ed. Eyewitness Companions: Classical Music. DK
Publishing (April).
Busse, Anna Maria, and Maria Berger. Medieval Music and the Art of
Memory. University of California Press (June).
Byrne, Lorraine, ed. Goethe: Musical Poet, Musical Catalyst.
Carysfort Press (April).
Condee, William Faricy. Coal and Culture: Opera Houses in Appalachia.
Ohio University Press (February).
Couling, Della. Ferruccio Busoni: "a Musical Ishmael". Rowman &
Littlefield Publishers (February).
Felsenfeld, Daniel. Samuel Barber and Benjamin Britten: A Listener's
Guide: Their Lives and Their Music (Parallel Lives). Amadeus
Press (March).
Fifield, Christopher. Max Bruch: His Life and Works. Boydell & Brewer,
Limited (July).
Fink, Robert. Repeating Ourselves: American Minimal Music as Cultural
Practice. University of California Press (September).
Fortune, Nigel, ed. Music and Theatre: Essays in Honour of Winton
Dean. Cambridge University Press (February, paperback ed.).
Fryer, Paul. Opera Singer and the Silent Film. McFarland and
Company (July).
Glixon, Beth. Macro Faustini and Opera Production in Seventeenth
Century Venice. Oxford University Press (October).
Griffiths, Paul. The Penguin Companion to Classical Music. Penguin
Group (August).
Grover-Friedlander, Michal. Vocal Apparitions: The Attraction of
Cinema to Opera. Princeton University Press (April).
Halliwell, Michael. Opera and the Novel: The Case of Henry James.
Rodopi (January).
Hansen, Jack Winsor. The Sybil Sanderson Story. Hal Leonard
Corporation (February).
Harper, Nancy Lee. Manuel de Falla: His Life and Music . Rowman
and Littlefield Publishers (July).
Hold, Trevor. Parry to Finzi: Twenty English Song-Composers.
Boydell & Brewer, Limited (September).
Horowitz, Joseph. Classical Music in America: A History of Its Rise
and Fall. W.W. Norton and Company (March).
Huebner, Steven. French Opera at the Fin de Siecle: Wagnerism,
Nationalism, and Style. Oxford University Press (July,
paperback ed.).
Jacobson, Julius H. Classical Music Experience. Sourcebooks
Incorporated (April, paperback ed.).
Jeppesen, Knud. The Style of Palestrina and the Dissonance.
Dover Publishing (April, paperback ed.).
Kirk, Elise K. American Opera. University of Illinois Press
(July, paperback ed.).
Kitcher, Philip, and Richard Schacht. Finding an Ending: Reflections
on Wagner's Ring. Oxford University Press (September,
paperback ed.).
Lahee, Henry Charles. Grand Opera in America. Kessinger Publishing
(April).
Lavignac, Albert. Music Dramas of Richard Wagner and His
Festival Theatre in Bayreuth. University Press of the Pacific
(June, paperback ed.).
Lependorf, Jeffrey. Masterpieces of Western Music: Classics from
the Baroque to the Modern (Portable Professor Series).
Barnes and Noble Books (May).
Lowerson, John. Amateur Operatics: A Social and Cultural History.
Manchester University Press (October).
Mannering, Derek. Mario Lanza: Singing to the Gods. University
Press of Mississippi (July).
Morgenstern, Sheldon. No Vivaldi in the Garage: A Requiem for
Classical Music in North America. Northeastern University Press
(November).
Randall, Annie J., and Rosalind Gray Davis. Puccini and the Girl:
History and Reception of the Girl of the Golden West. University
of Chicago Press (January).
Salmi, Hannu. Wagner and Wagnerism in Nineteenth-Century Sweden,
Finland, and the Baltic Provinces: Reception, Enthusiasm, Cult.
Boydell & Brewer (November).
Soll, Beverly. I Dream a World: The Operas of William Grant Still.
University of Arkansas Press (April).
Staines, Joe, and Duncan Clark, eds. The Rough Guide to Classical
Music: The A-Z of Composers, Key Works and Top Recordings.
Rough Guides, Limited (August, rev.).
Stevens, Lewis. Composers of Classical Music of Jewish Descent.
Valentine-Mitchell (June, paperback ed.).
Strohm, Reinhard. Rise of European Music, 1380-1500. Cambridge
University Press (February, paperback ed.)
Tindall, Blair. Mozart in the Jungle: Sex, Drugs, and Classical
Music. Grove/Atlantic (July).
Tyrrell, John. Czech Opera. Cambridge University Press (June,
paperback ed.).
Woodstra, Chris, Gerald Brennan, and Allen Schrott, eds. All Music
Guide to Classical Music: The Definitive Guide to Classical
Music. Backbeat Books (October).
