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Leon Botstein, AB'67, editor, The Compleat Brahms (W. W. Norton & Company). An English-language catalog of Brahms's music, this collection discusses nearly all of his works, addressing musical form, history, structure, and biography.

Murray C. Bradshaw, PhD'69, translator, Breve et facile maniera d'essercitarsi a far passagi (American Institute of Musicology/Haenssler-Verlag). The English translation of Giovanni Luca Conforti's 1593 treatise, examines the importance of embellishment in the late 16th and early 17th centuries and how the musicians of the day mastered this technique.

Marilyn Demarest Button, AM'72, and Toni Reed, editors, The Foreign Woman in British Literature: Exotics, Aliens, and Outsiders (Greenwood Publishing Group). This book explores the attempt by English writers from the early- 19th to the mid-20th century to portray their responses to the "double other:" the foreign woman. Examined authors include Charlotte Brontë, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, George Eliot, Joseph Conrad, and D. H. Lawrence.