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

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…

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