Oxford Monographs on Music

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…

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…

Professor Peter Walls's Music in the English Courtly Masque constitutes a major contribution to the subject, with a scope far wider than its title suggests ... Until the appearance of Walls's... — The Times More…