The co-editor of this book of essays, Anna Maria Busse Berger and Henry Spelling, have collected a multitude of narratives addressing how outsiders transformed the fabric of Indonesian musical history. Notably, Busse Berger has spent most of her career working in early-music scholarship; she now exemplifies the trend toward expanding the definition of early music to a global scale.

Music, much of it performed by military bands, is inextricably linked to the mythology of the American Revolution. Yet one of early America’s most popular musical ensembles, the regimental band, has been obscured from the late 18th-c. soundscape.

A scholar of American musical history reflects on ‘Niagara,’ an obscure symphony that connects centuries of our nation’s cultural life, proving once again that the only thing fixed about American musical identity is that it remains in a constant state of flux.

A new recording of golden-age viola da gamba music, highlighted by Marin Marais and Antoine Fourqueray, makes for a rewarding debut album. Pairing the viol with just a single theorbo, intriguingly, allows for easy, conversational flow between the two musicians.