Browse: Oxford Monographs on Music (series)

This volume represents a milestone in the history of Pfitzner scholarship, being the first complete study of the composer's music in English and appearing at an ideal time for an objective re-evaluation... — Musical Times More…

The richest aspect of this book is the detailed chronicle it provides of five generations of nuns ... coming to terms with the new insistence on monastic enclosure and the threat that it posed... — The Times More…

Spink tells us with breathtaking candour: "The fact that most of his songs are short and restricted in their musical range makes writing interestingly about them rather a challenge." Given this... — The Times More…

This is a handbook for scholars who may, in future years, embark on research that will make manifest its secrets. It does, however contain chapters of value to today's music-listeners (and lovers)... — Choir & Organ More…

Haimo's study reflects the almost incredible changes that have occurred in the general attitude towards Haydn — Early Music Today More…

The subject presents an enormous challenge, and Widdess has met it impressively ... It is often difficult to make even conjectural sense of the data, and Widdess does a remarkably sane job under... — British Journal of Ethnomusicology More…

It would be hard to overstate the value of this excellent book. In having the courage to go right back to the unfashionable sources, David Ross Hurley has blown away a number of Handelian cobwebs,... — Music and Letters More…

Katalin Komlos's scholarship is genuine, substantial and illuminating about some of the best music ever written. Her language, which is generally direct and free from jargon or pretence, merely... — The Times More…