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Music & Letters, Vol. 86 No. 2, © Oxford University Press 2005; all rights reserved doi:10.1093/ml/gci065, available online at www.ml.oupjournals.org Inclusion in this list neither implies nor precludes subsequent review. The editors regret that material sent for review cannot be acknowledged or returned. Winter Music: Composing the North. By John Luther Adams. pp. xxiv + 204; CD. (Wesleyan University Press, Middletown, Conn., 2004, $24.95. ISBN 0-8195-6742-6.) Mozart 1485/86 bis 2003: Daten zu Leben, Werk und Rezeptionsgeschichte der Mozarts. 2 vols. By Rudolph Angermüller. pp. 990. (Schneider, Tutzing, 2004, â¬150. ISBN 37952-1159-X.) Brahms and the German Spirit. By Daniel Beller-McKenna. pp. xi + 243. (Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass. and London, 2004, £32.95. ISBN 0-674-01318-2.) Musical Instruments: History, Technology, and Performance of Instruments of Western Music. By Murray Campbell, Clive Greated, and Arnold Myers. pp. x + 510. (Oxford University Press, Oxford and New York, 2004, £100. ISBN 0-19-816504-8.) British Music: The Journal of the British Music Society, 25. Ed. by Roger Carpenter. pp. 95. (Arc and Throstle Press, Todmorden, Lancs., 2003, £5. ISBN 1-870536-25-8.) âOr vaghi or fieriâ: Cenni di poetica nei libretti veneziani (circa 1640â1740). By Alessandra Chiarelli and Angelo Pompilio. pp. 294. (CLUEB, Bologna, 2004, £25.