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One might ask if this book, closely following Whitalls Musical Composition in the Twentieth Century (1999), is sufficiently different to merit consideration. The answer is an emphatic yes....... — Choice More…

In Women and Music in Sixteenth-Century Ferrara, Laurie Stras has produced a highly accessible and important volume - thoroughly researched and elegantly written - that throws open the clouded... — Music and Letters More…

The result of over a decade's research into the operatic culture of Louis XV's reign and a lifetime of careful scholarship — The Times More…

It is an intelligently written ... study which assembles a great deal of contemporary thinking on the issue of modernism in the early 1950s ... Carroll's own reflections are well-considered... — Musical Times More…

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