Books submitted

Music books received July-December 2024

• Anton Voigt: Alfred Cortot. Keyboard poet - teacher - cultural actor, Solo Portraits and Profiles, 285 p., € 28.00, Edition Text+Kritik, Munich 2024, ISBN 978-3-96707-708-7
• Corinne Holtz: World in the work. Klaus Huber (1924-2017), Biography, 309 p., Fr. 54.00, Schwabe, Basel 2024, ISBN 978-3-7965-5148-2
• Hanspeter Spörri: Steff Signer. The musical biography, A piece of Swiss rock, pop and highmatt history, 400 p., Appenzeller Verlag, Schwellbrunn 2024, ISBN 978-3-85882-888-0
• Ernst Kurth / Guido Adler: Correspondence 1908-1936edited by Luitgard Schader, 205 p., € 22.80, Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2024, ISBN 978-3-8260-7969-6
• Barbara Busch and Barbara Metzger: 44 warm-ups for instrumental lessons(=üben & musizieren Praxis), 80 p., € 24.50, Schott, Mainz 2024, ISBN 978-3-7957-3172-4
• Joachim Kühn and Michael Brüning: The bold factor. Free + independent: no limits in jazz, 320 p., € 24.95, Alfred Music, Cologne 2024, ISBN 978-3-947998-59-3
• Correspondence Arnold Schönberg - Heinrich Jalowetzed. by Simon Obert, (=Publications of the Paul Sacher Foundation, Volume 13; Briefwechsel der Wiener Schule, Volume 7), 408 p., Schott, Mainz 2024, ISBN 978-3-7957-3341-4
• Howard Griffiths: Barboza and the sounding tree - a musical journey through Switzerland, music by Fabian Künzli, played by the Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg; narrator Fernando Tiberini illustrations by Andrea Peter, 52 p., audio download, Fr. 29.80, GH 11817, Hug Musikverlage, Zurich 2024, ISBN 978-3-03807-145-7
• Building authority in music, ed. by Bernd Brabec, Marc-Antoine Camp, Dorit Klebe, 280 p., Fr. 38.00, Chronos, Zurich 2024, ISBN 978-3-0340-1734-3
• Marko Simsa: Waltz step and polkahit. Johann Strauss for children, picture book with music (CD or download), illustrations by Silke Brix, 32 p., € 24.00, Jumbo, Hamburg, ISBN 978-3-8337-4800-4
• Peter Benary. Composer, musicologist, publicist and lecturer, edited by Niccolò Raselli and Hans Niklas Kuhn, ca. 229 pages, ca. Fr. 46.00, Schwabe, Basel 2024, ISBN 978-3-7965-5109-3
  >> Review by Torsten Möller
• Bernhard Suter: Guiding creative processes in music lessons. A design-based research study on the reflection-based competence development of primary school teachers entering the profession, 334 p., Potsdamer Schriftenreihe zur Musikpädagogik, vol. 10, Universitätsverlag Potsdam, 2024, ISBN 978-3-86956-567-5, open access
• Luigi Nono. On the question of the turning point, Music Concepts No. 206, edited by Ulrich Tadday, 121 pages, € 28.00, Edition Text+Kritik, Munich 2024, ISBN 978-3-96707-966-1
• Friedrich Chrysander. Musicologist of the first hour, edited by Ivana Rentsch, Hamburg Yearbook of Musicology Volume 4, 266 p., € 39.90, Waxmann, Münster 2024, ISBN 978-3-8309-4884-1
• Wolfgang W. Müller: Music of the angels. A cultural history, 264 p., ca. Fr. 28.00, Schwabe, Basel 2024, ISBN 978-3-7965-5128-4
• Joseph Joachim. Identities / Identities(= Studien und Materialien zur Musikwissenschaft, vol. 128), ed. by Katharina Uhde and Michael Uhde, 477 p., € 58.00, Georg Olms, Baden-Baden, ISBN 978-3-487-16425-0
• Michel Roth: At stake. Eine spielheoretische Untersuchung indeterminierter Musik, 524 p., Wolke, Hofheim 2024, ISBN 978-3-95593-152-0, open access
• Julius Otto Grimm - a composer and conductor of the Brahms circleedited by Anna Maria Plischka and Peter Schmitz, 704 p., € 69.90, Waxmann, Münster 2024, ISBN 978-3-8309-4759-2
• Tania Salvador, aka La Rata: Give it to me! Essay illustrated in graphic novel style, counter-history of popular music that puts female artists at the center, translation Petra Sparrer, 256 p., € 36.00, Laurence-King-Verlag, Berlin 2024, ISBN 978-3-96244-435-8
• Daniel Martin Feige: Philosophy of music. Musikästhetik im Ausgang von Adorno, 216 p., € 24.00, Edition Text+Kritik, Munich 2024, ISBN 978-3-689-30028-9
• Music, Performance, Architecture. Sacred Spaces as Sound Spaces in the Early Modern Perioded. by Tobias C. Weissmann and Klaus Pietschmann, 312 p., € 69.00, Georg Olms, Baden-Baden 2024, ISBN 978-3-487-16724-4
• Meinolf Brüser: "It's all a breeze", Bach and the secret of the "Art of Fugue", 177 p., € 39.99, Bärenreiter/J.B Metzler, Kassel/Stuttgart 2024, ISBN 978-3-7618-2654-6
• Radio Cologne Sound. The WDR studio for electronic musicedited by Harry Vogt and Martina Seeber, 287 p., German/English, ill., with 5 CDs, € 39.00, Wolke, Hofheim 2024, ISBN 978-3-95593-259-6
  >>> Review by Thomas Meyer
• Luiz Alves da Silva: Between Zurich and Rio de Janeiro, Hausmusik in der ersten Hälfte des 19. Jahrhunderts, translated from the Portuguese by Daniel Schnurrenberger,(=Schweizer Beiträge zur Musikforschung, Vol. 28), 326 p., € 49.95, Bärenreiter, Kassel 2024, ISBN 978-3-7618-2616-4
• A new start together. Prospects for music clubs after the pandemic! edited by Verena Bons, Johanna Borchert, Thade Buchborn, Wolfgang Lessing, (Schriften der Hochschule für Musik Freiburg), 160 p., € 44.00, Georg Olms, Baden-Baden, ISBN 978-3-487-17048-0
• Nicole Johänntgen and Raffaella Ligi: Schmusebär's sonorous journey with the flying chair, 28 S., nicolejohaenntgen.com/

Music books received January-June 2024

• Jannis Mallouchos: Adolf Reichel (1816-1896). Political, cultural-historical, music-theoretical and compositional aspects of a musician's life, (=Wiener Veröffentlichungen zur Musikwissenschaft, Vol. 56), 650 p., Hollitzer, Vienna 2023, ISBN 978-3-99094-084-6
  >>> Review by Max Sommerhalder
• Studies in the Arts II, Arts, Design and Science in Exchange, ed. by Thomas Gartmann, Cristina Urchueguia, Hannah Ambühl-Baur, 313 p., Transcript, Bielefeld 2024, ISBN 978-3-8376-6954-1, Open Access: transcript-verlag.de/media/pdf
• Revue musicale de Suisse romande, Numéro spécial 75 ans, La musique à Genève au XV^e siècle, Décembre 2023, avec CD: La contenance angloise. La chapelle des Ducs de Savoie, dir. Vincent Arlettaz, Revue musicale de Suisse romande RMSR 20232
• Robert Craft et Igor Stravvinsy: Conversations avec Igor Stravinsky, 192 p., € 16.00, Editions Allia, Paris 2024, ISBN 979-10-304-1836-1
• Mathias Gredig: Grand hotels, risotto and bombs, History of Futurist Noise Art, Fröhliche Wissenschaft 232, 173 p., € 15.00, Matthes & Seitz, Berlin 2024, ISBN 978-3-7518-3012-6
  >>> Review by Thomas Meyer
• Rien de Reede: The School of Blavet, Flutist in Paris in the Second Half of the Eighteenth Century, 144 p., Linos Edition, Amsterdam 2022, ISBN 978-90-9036371-4
• Walter Fähndrich: Why do we improvise? 80 p., € 18.00, Wolke, Hofheim 2024, ISBN 978-3-95593-270-1
• Text as Source and Material in Contemporary Music Theatre, ed. by Christa Brüstle, (=Studien zur Wertungsforschung 65), 304 p., € 33.50, Universal Edition, Vienna 2023, ISBN 978-37024-7793-6
• Peter Petersen: Arnold Schönberg's String Quartet op. 7, Three ways to understand the work, 211 p., numerous musical examples, Georg Olms, Baden-Baden 2024 ISBN 978-3-487-16700-8
• Creative misunderstandings or universal musical principles? Hugo Riemann and the international transfer of knowledge, ed. by Stefan Keym in conjunction with Christoph Hust, (Studien und Materialien zur Musikwissenschaft, vol. 131), 377 p., hardcover, € 99.00, Georg Olms, Baden-Baden 2024, ISBN 978-3-487-16680-3
• Salon orchestra in the Alpsed. by Mathias Gredig, Matthias Schmidt, Cordula Seger, 232 p., Fr. 38.00, Chronos, Zurich 2024, ISBN 978-3-0340-1733-6
  >>> Review by Lukas Nussbaumer
• Stefan Braese: Cool. Jazz as a counterculture in post-war western Germany. 442 p., € 42.00, Edition Text + Kritik, Munich 2024, ISBN 978-3-96707-915-9
• Lothar Freiburg: Wonders of music. The music of Europe over 2000 years, 354 p., € 44.80, Wissner, Augsburg 2024, ISBN 978-3-95786-3287-7
• Ingo Bredenbach: Johann Sebastian Bach's piano lessons. Bach as learner and teacher, 519 p., € 59.00, Bärenreiter, Kassel 2024, ISBN 978- 3-7618- 2617-1
• Handbook of Opera. 16th updated and expanded edition, edited by Rudolf Kloiber, Wulf Konold and Robert Maschka 1021 p., € 49.99, Bärenreiter/J.B. Metzler, Kassel/Heidelberg 2024, ISBN 978-3-7618-2644-7
• Wolfgang Jansen: Musical - the musical theater of the present, (= Gesammelte Schriften zum Populären Musiktheater, Vol. 3), 286 p., € 39.90, Waxmann, Münster 2024, ISBN 978-3-8309-4757-8
• Jutta Toelle: Mission through music, Stimmen zu Musik und Klängen in der europäischen Missionierung Hispanoamerikas, Musik und Migration, Vol. 4, 172 pages, € 34.90, Waxmann, Münster 204, ISBN 978-3-8309-4728-8
• Composers in the Stalinist gulag, edited by Inna Klause, Andreas Waczkat, Stefan Weiss, 468 p., € 89.00, Georg Olms, Baden-Baden 2024, ISBN 978-3-487-16694-0
• Lied und populäre Kultur / Song and Popular Culture, Weltmusik und ihre Kritik: Postkoloniale Zugänge zu globaler Musik, (= Jahrbuch des Zentrums für Populäre Kultur und Musik, 68. Jahrgang - 2023), ed. by Maria Fuchs, Johannes Müske, Knut Holtsträter, 258 p., € 39.90, Waxmann, Münster 2024, ISBN 978-3-8309-4889-6
• Music in the monotheistic religions, Reflections on the aesthetic function of sacred music, ed. by Wolfgang Müller, Franc Wagner (=TeNOR. Text und Normativität 11), 240 p., Fr. 48.00, Schwabe, Basel 2024, ISBN 978-3-7965-5045-4

Music books received July-December 2023

• Sigfried Schibli: The Organ Experience. The most beautiful instruments in and around Basel, 160 p., Fr. 44.80, Reinhardt, Basel 2023, ISBN 978-3-7245-2660-5
• Early music today, History and Perspectives of Historical Performance Practice, edited by Richard Lorber, 414 p., € 39.99, Bärenreiter/Metzler, Kassel/Stuttgart 2023, ISBN 978-3-7618-2520-4
• Le plus beau pays du monde ? Othmar Schoeck's environment in Central Switzerland, book accompanying the Othmar Schoeck Festival 202, edited by Alvaro Schoeck and Chris Walton, 180 p., Fr. 20.00, Müsigricht, Steinen 2023, ISBN 978-3-9525658-2-7
  >>> Review by Daniel Willi
• Corina Nastoll: Practicing is a must! Efficient and enjoyable practicing, (= übern & musizieren spezial), 44 p., € 18.50, Schott, Mainz, ISBN 978-3-7957-3094-9
  >>> Review by Torsten Möller
• "You are art to me". The correspondence between Alma Mahler and Walter Gropius from 1910 to 1914edited by Annemarie Jaeggi and Jörg Rothkamm, 784 p., € 49.00, Residenz, Vienna 2023, ISBN 9783701735945
• Ethel Smyth: Drumbeats from paradise. Memories, translated from the English by Heddi Feilhauer, 256 p., € 24.00, ebersbach & simon, Cologne 2023, ISBN 978-3-86915-286-8
• Rainer Schmusch: Sense of hearing and "sound". Ästhetische Anthropologie der Musik, nach Herder und Händel, (= Myosotis Bd. 8), 452 p., € 62.00, Universitätsverlag Winter, Heidelberg 2023, ISBN 978-3-8253-4867-0
• Music and migration. Ein Theorie- und Methodenhandbuch, ed. by Wolfgang Gratzer, Nils Grosch, Ulrike Präger, Susanne Scheiblhofer, (= Musik und Migration, Vol. 3), 746 p., br., € 69.90, Waxmann, Münster 2023, ISBN 978-3-8309-4630-4, Open Access, doi.org/10.31244/9783830996309
• Silke Kruse-Weber: Reflect! An observation and reflection tool for instrumental and vocal teachers, (= Grazer Schriften zur Instrumental- und Gesangspädagogik, Vol. 4), 88 pages, br., with card game, €34.90, Waxmann, Münster 2023, ISBN 978-3-8309-4658-8
• Silja Reidemeister: Between contemporary design and historical interest - the composer Rudolf Moser. A search for clues in original documents, 227 p., Fr. 38.00, Schwabe, Basel 2023, ISBN 978-3-7965-4849-9
• Markus Cslovjecsek: School music for all? On the legitimization of music as a subject, 313 p., € 48.00, Transcript, Bielefeld 2023, ISBN 978-3-8376-6884-1, Open Access: transcript-verlag.de/shopMedia/openaccess/pdf/oa9783839468845.pdf
• Eike Fess: Arnold Schönberg and the composition with twelve notes, 224 p., € 27.00, Edition Text+Kritik, Munich 2023, ISBN 978-3-96707-862-6
• Milena Amann-Rauter: "Avec mon arme, la musique". Political engagement of exiled musicians in the context of the Front Populaire, 504 p., € 48.00, Edition Text + Kritik, Munich 2023, ISBN 978-3-96707-887-9
• Julia Wilke: Music and movement in individual pedagogical work. Video-based analyses of music- and movement-related coordination processes, 2023, (= Internationale Hochschulschriften, Vol. 707), 228 p. € 39.90, Waxmann, Münster 2023, ISBN 978-3-8309-4720-2
• Robert Gervasi: A borderland fate, Life and work of the Alsatian composer Leo Justinus Kauffmann (1901-1944), 588 p., € 119.00, Tectum, Baden-Baden 2023, ISBN 978-3-8288-4916-7
• Nicole Jost-Rösch: Alban Berg - narrating composer, composing narrator, 540 p., € 49.00, Edition Text + Kritik, Munich 2023, ISBN 978-3-96707-834-3
• Werner Reinhart, patron of modernism, Music Concepts, Special Volume XI/2023, edited by Ulrich Tadday, 228 p., € 42.00, Edition Text+Kritik, Munich 2023, ISBN 978-3-96707-843-5
• Dominik Susteck: Bone pipes and noiselatte. Hand-Joachim Hespos und die Orgelmusik ab 1962, Schriften zur Neuen Musik vol. 3, 230 p., Are, Cologne 2023, ISBN 978-3-3924522-90-2
• Tobias Heyl: 75 years of G. Henle Verlag, 208 p.,€ 28.00, Hanser, Munich, ISBN 978-3-446-7847-9
• Ute Elena Hamm: "Music to read", Musical-literary hybrids, works by Erik Satie, John Cage, Dieter Schnebel and Ingeborg Bachmann, 649 p., hardcover, € 129.00, Rombach, Baden-Baden 2023, ISBN 978-3-96821-993-6

Music books received January-June 2023

• Klaus Steffes-Holländer: Not just on keys. New playing techniques for piano, 136 p., € 49.90, Breitkopf & Härtel, Wiesbaden 2022, ISBN 978-3-7651-0486-2
• Ulrich Menke: The method navigator. Route planner to successful instrumental and ensemble teaching, üben & musizieren, 192 p., € 22.95 Schott, Mainz, ISBN 978-3-7957-3092-5
  >>> Review by Walter Amadeus Ammann
• Tobias Bleek: In the frenzy of the twenties. 1923: Music in a year of extremes, 316 p., € 29.99, Bärenreiter/Metzler, Kassel/Berlin 2023, ISBN 978-3-7618-7245-1
• Gaël Liardon (1973-2018): Anthologie d'un passionné, Organ works, basso continuo, chansons, Bibliothèque cantonale et universitaire, Lausanne 2023, ISBN 978-2-88888.152-0
• Goldberg! Variations on Bach, edited by Violeta Dinescu and Michael Heinemann, (= Bach nach Bach, Vol. 4), 384 p., € 69.80, Dohr, Cologne 2022, ISBN 978-3-86846-171-8
• Roberto Reale: Elements of lamentation in George Enescu's opera Œdipe, Archive for Eastern European Music, 7, BIS-Verlag, Oldenburg 2022, ISBN 978-3-8142-2404-6
• Myriam Marbe, edited by Violeta Dinescu, Michael Heinemann, Roberto Reale, Archiv für osteuropäische Musik, 6, BIS-Verlag, Oldenburg 2022, ISBN 978-3-8142-2393-3
• Reto Weber: Drummin'. In the beginning was the drum - memories, 280 p., Fr. 49.00, editione clandestin, Biel/Bienne 2023, ISBN 978-3-907262-41-2
• Politics of Curatorship - Collective and Affective Interventions, edited by Monia Acciari & Philipp Rhensius, 288 p., € 34.00, Norient Books, Bern 2023, ISBN 978-3-9525444-4-0
• Music and movement with older people. Insight into rhythmic pedagogyedited by Monika Mayr, 220 p., € 24.95, Reichert, Wiesbaden, ISBN 9783752007145