Ashgate Publishing

Mary Cyr's wide experience shines through the succinctness of this very manageable guide to baroque performance practice. Essential materials are excellently chosen, and skillfully cogent bibliographies... — Musical Times More…

imaginative, rich, and thoughtful — Renaissance Quarterly More…

this book is definitely recommended...the catholic range of this volume will present much material. And if you are curious about what composers and performers say they do, then buy this book — Musical Times More…

many revealing observations... Given Ligeti's position as one of the great musical innovators of the last half-century, it is particularly important to be reminded that his sixty-year career,... — Notes: Journal of the Music Library Association More…

There is much that Spelman does well, not the least of which is to undertake the study in the first place, the serious engagement of madness mythology in popular music being a surprisingly underexamined... — Popular Music & Society More…

Though primarily an ethnography of contemporary shengguan practice, the book traces this music back to its legendary origins in the Tang dynasty (618-907 CE) and follows it through more recent... — Journal of Folklore Research More…

Washabaugh has an uncanny ability to locate, synthesize, and explicate a wide array of critical issues related to flamenco. He meticulously surveys both historical and contemporary readings,... — Ethnomusicology Review More…

In short, this volume offers a fitting tribute to the work of Nicholas Temperley and a testimony to what this work served to generate... It is rewarding to see that a clearer picture of history... — Fontes Artis Musicae More…