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MOZART IN MOTION His work and his world in pieces PATRICK MACKIE 361pp. Granta. 20 [pounds sterling]. Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus. It was easier to imagine him in the bad old [...]

Mark Wigglesworth THE SILENT MUSICIAN Why conducting matters 272pp. Faber. 14.99 [pounds sterling]. 978 0 571 33790 2 Robert Philip THE CLASSICAL MUSIC LOVER'S COMPANION TO ORCHESTRAL MUSIC 968pp. Yale [...]

FOR THE LOVE OF MUSIC A conductor's guide to the art of listening JOHN MAUCERI 210pp. Orion. 16.99 [pounds sterling]. A LIFETIME AGO, when I was taking a first-year course [...]

Michael Haas FORBIDDEN MUSIC The Jewish composers banned by the Nazis 336pp. Yale University Press. 25 [pounds sterling] (US $38). 978 0 300 15430 6 Barbara L. Kelly MUSIC AND [...]

ROUGH IDEAS Reflections on music and more STEPHEN HOUGH 443pp. Faber. 18.99 [pounds sterling]. How lonely, really, is the long-distance runner? Out there training, it's just you and the slap [...]

Paul Robertson SOUNDSCAPES A musician's journey through life and death 272pp. Faber. 15.99 [pounds sterling]. 978 0 571 33188 8 Haruki Murakami ABSOLUTELY ON MUSIC Conversations with Seiji Ozawa Translated [...]

Sir,--A couple of exceptions to Rachel Hadas's rule (Letters, June 1) about 'over''s need for an accompanying preposition in American usage: the first lines of the Ray Charles song 'I [...]

The essay emphasizes primitivism as the key component of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's music, using the Romantic movement as a critical framework.

The author look at how translation into English took away the depth of the Latin American jazz music known as the bossa nova. He compares the bossa nova as performed by Joao Gilberto with the musical nuances found in the works of Chopin.

Sir,--May I offer a correction to Carol J. Oja's contention ('Beyonce: Many things all at once', July 1) that black women singers did not break into the mainstream music market [...]

Beth E. Levy FRONTIER FIGURES American music and the mythology of the American West 450pp. University of California Press. Paperback, $34.95; distributed in the UK by Wiley. 24.95 [pounds sterling]. [...]

David Schiff THE ELLINGTON CENTURY 336pp. University of California Press. 24.95 (US $34.95). 978 0 520 24587 7 It wasn't easy being Duke Ellington: every night, along with your tuxedo [...]

Sir,--It must be forty years since I read the essay Milton Babbitt wanted to call 'The Composer as Specialist' (Letters, May 23); looking at it again I find my memory [...]

T. Austin Graham THE GREAT AMERICAN SONGBOOKS Musical texts, Modernism, and the value of popular culture 320pp. Oxford University Press. 40 [pounds sterling] (US $65). 978 0 19 986211 5 [...]

The songs of composer Cole Porter are analyzed. Article uses the song Let's Do It to identify and discuss musical, social, and vernacular influences in Porter's music.

The essay examines African music rhythmic polyphony and how the emphasis in this style of music falls differently from that of Western music. Discussion includes how African music was readily dispersed and gained popularity in the US via records, radio and film during their emergence in the early 20th century.