Bookshelf

New and recent publications of interest.

Ben Ratliff, Every Song Ever: Twenty Ways to Listen in an Age of Musical Plenty (FSG)

A. O. Scott, Better Living Through Criticism (Penguin)

Matthew Bribitzer-Stull, Understanding the Leitmotif: From Wagner to Hollywood Film Music (Cambridge UP)

Walter Moskalew, Anna Moskalewa-Richter, and Dagmar von Reincke, Svetik: A Family Memoir of Sviatoslav Richter (Toccata)

Edward Dusinberre, Beethoven for a Later Age: The Journey of a String Quartet (Faber & Faber, University of Chicago Press May 2016)

Renée Levine Packer and Mary Jane Leach, eds., Gay Guerrilla: Julius Eastman and His Music (University of Rochester Press)