February 23, 2021
Joel E. Rubin’s new book New York Klezmer Music in the Early Twentieth Century takes a look at the iconic recordings of clarinetists Naftule Brandwein and Dave Tarras and presents… READ MORE
February 9, 2021
Greek and Latin Music Theory: Principles and Challenges by Edward Nowacki is a long-needed overview of, and guide to, the principles behind the treatises on music theory written in ancient… READ MORE
January 25, 2021
A composer, a pianist, a writer, an editor and a painter walk into a bar. “Good evening, Professor Dickinson,” says the barman, “Your usual?” Yes, Peter Dickinson, who has produced… READ MORE
December 9, 2020
Christina Guillaumier’s new book The Operas of Sergei Prokofiev is the first book in the English language to engage with Prokofiev’s operatic output in its entirety. The book draws on… READ MORE
August 11, 2020
Our newest book on the music of Johannes Brahms is R. Allen Lott’s Brahms’s A German Requiem: Reconsidering Its Biblical, Historical, and Musical Contexts, a detailed examination of the contexts… READ MORE
August 5, 2020
Augusta Browne’s life speaks to me as an American, as a woman, and as a musician. An inspiration as I worked on the manuscript of Augusta Browne was imagining my… READ MORE
June 19, 2020
New this month from the University of Rochester Press is Robert Wason and Matthew Brown’s book Heinrich Schenker’s Conception of Harmony, the first detailed study of Schenker’s pathbreaking 1906 treatise,… READ MORE
June 17, 2020
Perhaps more so than many other medieval manuscripts, the Codex Buranus is an artefact which demands, and benefits from, an interdisciplinary approach. And that’s just what this book’s editors and… READ MORE
May 28, 2020
William Melton takes an episode from his Toccata Press ‘life and works’, Humperdinck: A Life of the Composer of Hänsel und Gretel, to illuminate the creation of the world’s best-loved… READ MORE
May 14, 2020
New this month from the University of Rochester Press is Scott Messing’s book Self-Quotation in Schubert: “Ave Maria,” the Second Piano Trio, and Other Works. The book offers an examination… READ MORE
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