Boydell & Brewer

a major reconsideration of the sound of 17th-century Italian music — Choice More…

Jonathan Bernard's collection. . . includes several highly characteristic pieces. . . he emphasizes the more substantial and elaborate materials of the essays and lectures. Bernard's selection... — Music and Letters More…

The history of the intellectual and institutional adventure that set theory led to [in the musical domain] is of undeniable interest, and the author is the first to treat it in this fashion.... — Revue de musicologie More…

No one writes better on Handel. No one has so sure a hotline to the whole range of his characters, in their strengths and weaknesses (and for Dean, the heart of the operas is character)...We... — Musical Times More…

Worthy of its subject, perhaps, as few other books can really claim to be. -- Stephen Daw — Musical Times More…

Gray & Davidson played a significant part in the development of the English organ... It is difficult to imagine better coverage of the topic than Dr Thistlethwaite's exposition — British Music Society More…

There are welcome insights into...how and why [the cantatas] were written, and by whom and for whom they were performed...a work-by-work description of each cantata provides reference material... — Musical Times More…

[An] excellent new survey — Musical Times More…

This excellent book offers something for everyone, with exemplary studies using a wide range of analytical and hermeneutic techniques. It provides a welcome summary of the major trends in the... — Notes: Journal of the Music Library Association More…