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Corrective and authoritative: adjectives which apply to the book as a whole — Musical Times More…

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…