Browse: Boydell & Brewer (publisher), Western Classical Music History

The volume's interdisciplinary approach, contextualizing concepts of creativity across the cultural milieu of seventeenth-century England, is one of its strengths — Renaissance Quarterly More…

Imitating a musical composition, Ziolkowski organizes this book into three main sections- 'First Movement,' 'Second Movement,' and 'Finale'-bracketed by a prelude (introduction) and a coda (conclusion).... — Choice More…

Includes useful references to general reading for anyone new to the subject area, and the book answers many of the questions...Who bought music and how did those consumers know what music was... — Fontes Artis Musicae More…

This impressive volume features scholarly experts critically engaging with the evolution of the Medieval motet . . . [and tackles] questions of genre, origins, composition, chant, notation, function,... — Early Music America More…

[O]ffers a thorough and very interesting treatment of the musical genre of the funeral elegy during the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods. . . . In addition to examining the musical genre, the... — Choice More…

Kreitner's book with its characteristic lucidity and engaging style fills a very important space on our bookshelf. It is both scholarly and extremely readable — Choir & Organ More…

A broad collection of serious essays about music in a medium that is very much alive. . . . There is something here for everyone, not just specialists in musical analysis. . . . It is also good... — Fanfare More…

November's study of earlier nineteenth-century Vienna shows us above all a richly varied, often uncategorisable, musical and social culture founded to a significant degree on sheer pleasure,... — Brio More…

Deftly illustrate[s] the rise and fall of various canonic repertories in France from the eighteenth through the early twentieth century. Many of these historical canons turn out to be surprisingly... — Notes: Journal of the Music Library Association More…