Browse: Cambridge University Press (publisher), Instruments & Ensembles

This encyclopaedic volume is long overdue, providing some long-range retrospection now that the technical development of brass instruments is over ... this is essential reading for any serious... — BBC Music Magazine More…

never less than readable, and sometimes positively compelling ... an extremely valuable book that should be on every musician's bookshelf — Musical Times More…

it is, in fact, an excellent introduction ... I wish there had been a book like it when I was a school — Early Music Review More…

This book catapults the scholarship on the middle-period quartets into the twenty-first century. It is a must-read for Beethoven scholars and should be of significant interest to students of... — Notes: Journal of the Music Library Association More…

A certain novelty of perspective makes for an enlightening read, leaving the reader at the centre of historical and sociological threads that run across the essays as opposed to hopping from... — The Journal of Popular Music More…

The book is especially valuable because the author examines both the social and musical history of the guitar. Studies that focus just on one instrument can be sincere but dull, their pages filled... — Early Music America More…