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

It is a delight to see an entire book devoted to this one item from myriad viewpoints — Journal of British Studies More…

A data-rich study dealing in uncertainties and ambiguities. . . . Instructive and often revelatory — Musical Times More…

[A] rewarding glimpse of formative times, one that leaves you wanting more. Four stars out of five — BBC Music Magazine More…

One of the most important eleventh-century music treatises written north of the Alps. A substantial introduction [by Snyder] gives a solid overview of the contents of the treatise and of its... — Revue de musicologie More…

Hugely entertaining...Flops provide rich subject matter - lovingly explored in Must Close Saturday - and it is easy with the benefit of hindsight to scoff at the bizarre notions that have been... — Spectator More…

The book is beautifully produced, with lots of good illustrations and musical examples [...] In a sense it is a monument, not just to one scholar, but to a whole generation in which some of the... — Music and Letters More…

A fascinating account of British music seen through the prism of compositions written specifically to celebrate the feast of the patroness of music St Cecilia...exemplary scholarship... that... — British Music Society More…