Browse: Cambridge Companions to Music (series)

There's an entertaining look at a clutch of Stones country songs ... a decent reassessment of their psychedelic period ... and a welcome upgrade for Brian Jones as founder, world music maverick... — The Observer More…

The format is inviting ... the book puts professionals in touch with some up to date scholarship, while introducing amateur listeners to the musical and cultural worlds Haydn inhabited ... It... — Musical Times More…

[This book] deserves to take its place ... on the short (but growing) bookshelf of every operetta lover — Gramophone Magazine More…

there are ... two core chapters, both by Richard Kurth, which fruitfully align (with no attempt at spurious integration) the central aesthetic theme of modernism with fundamental technical topics — Musical Times More…

Going beyond new historical research on early film music, genre studies, and film music analysis, this diverse collection of current essays is ambitious. ... Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division... — Choice More…