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This latest book, demonstrates Rosen's astonishing range of cultural reference--but also the essential coherence of his project, a coherence rooted in the aesthetic ideas of such German Romantics... — The Observer More…

Rosen is a fluent writer, having at his command both informality and rhetorical force. He is a musicologist and theoretician whose authority extends from Bach to Boulez. The rigor of his technical... — The New Yorker More…

[Three Songs, Three Singers, Three Nations is] wonderful: emblematic of Marcus's interest in how words and melodies find truths that survive the centuries, or appear likely to...He just makes... — MOJO More…