Ashgate Publishing

(an) excellent book ...With marvellous subtlety, careful argumentation and incisive literary critique, Morra explicates the unique interplays, synergies and tensions between literary source,... — The Times More…

This is an important and useful book... We venture into the territory of musical melodrama at some peril which is precisely why we should do so, if with as much caution as enthusiasm of the... — Music and Letters More…

With Jonathan Cross, author of numerous important texts on Birtwistle, [The Mask of Orpheus] has found a most persuasive advocate — Music and Letters More…