Boydell & Brewer

The affection as well as the respect in which John Caldwell is held by other scholars exudes unmistakably from the pages of this volume in his honour. [...] This brilliantly researched, engagingly... — Music and Letters More…

[The authors] have produced a remarkably thorough and useful study, which rewards careful reading...a magisterial overview — Music and Letters More…

These wide-ranging essays [are drawn] from a lifetime of thinking and teaching about all music, [including] John Cage, Milton Babbitt, [and] 'the confluence between Western art music and ethnomusicology.'.... — Choice More…

A real page-turner. . . Illustrates how an interdisciplinary approach is essential if we are to take our understanding of the randomly preserved remnants of cultural history to a new and higher... — Music and Letters More…

The importance of this book is in drawing together and developing the stories of [the Loder family]...using their achievements as an analogue to explore Britain's musical culture during the... — Brio More…

My Beloved Man is, quite simply, a love story...it is fascinating to read — Gramophone Magazine More…

Generously filled with black and white photographs, reproductions of programmes and musical illustrations, this handsome volume is an invaluable - and essential - contribution towards a fuller... — International Piano More…

As a sourcebook on cultural background and on such figures as patrons, publishers and performers who flit through the background of the lives of the great Vienna-based composers, this study... — BBC Music Magazine More…

Rewarding ... Enlightening ... An exciting new addition to the musical and historical literature — British Music Society More…