Browse: Boydell & Brewer (publisher), Western Classical Music History

Scott Messing is a good digger. He successfully unearths the cultural politics out of which nouveau classicisme (in German, Klassizitat) began to emerge - not as nostalgia, and long before the... — Nineteenth-Century Music Review More…

Charming, revealing and compelling ... an essential addition to the literature on 20th-Century music, one that should be on the reading list of all string players who aspire to a professional... — Classical Music More…

The book is beautifully produced, with lots of good illustrations and musical examples [...] In a sense it is a monument, not just to one scholar, but to a whole generation in which some of the... — Music and Letters More…

[T]he first full-length examination of the composer to be published. . . . Will be of hugely significant interest to a wide range of musical historians and listeners. Primarily as, this is the... — MusicWeb International More…

A fascinating account of British music seen through the prism of compositions written specifically to celebrate the feast of the patroness of music St Cecilia...exemplary scholarship... that... — British Music Society More…

[A] rewarding glimpse of formative times, one that leaves you wanting more. Four stars out of five — BBC Music Magazine More…

A data-rich study dealing in uncertainties and ambiguities. . . . Instructive and often revelatory — Musical Times More…

One of the most important eleventh-century music treatises written north of the Alps. A substantial introduction [by Snyder] gives a solid overview of the contents of the treatise and of its... — Revue de musicologie More…