Boydell & Brewer
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This is an extremely useful addition to music historiography that will both aid students and provide many insights to the more general reader who feels in need of an over-arching survey of the... — More…
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The Courage of Composers and the Tyranny of Taste: Reflections on New Music
- Author: Varga, Balint Andras
Capturing a wealth of ideas about contemporary music, [Varga's latest book] features a wide breadth of composers, including such grandees as George Crumb and Wolfgang Rihm. Varga's encounter... — More…
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Wright provides a direct, detailed chronicle of Alwyn's life...[which] fills in many gaps...the book is an engaging read and should encourage people to explore Alwyn's music — More…
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Claude Debussy As I Knew Him and Other Writings of Arthur Hartmann
- Editor: Grolnic, Sidney
- Editor: Hsu, Samuel
- Editor: Peters, Mark A.
The account rings true. Intriguing and meticulously produced — More…
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Rethinking Hanslick: Music, Formalism, and Expression
- Editor: Donovan, Siobhan
- Editor: Grimes, Nicole
- Editor: Marx, Wolfgang
Manages to traverse a good deal of the work of this long-lived and prolific writer on music, and to highlight-productively-the contrasts and even the ambiguities, with respect to matters of identity,... — More…
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Performing Propaganda: Musical Life and Culture in Paris during the First World War
- Author: Moore, Rachel
[A] fascinating, often surprising, and rigorously researched account of a critical moment in French history. It will be a welcome addition to the shelves of music scholars, cultural historians,... — More…
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Essays on the History of English Music in Honour of John Caldwell: Sources, Style, Performance, Historiography
- Editor: Hornby, Emma
- Editor: Maw, David
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... — More…
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Not Russian Enough?: Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism in Nineteenth-Century Russian Opera
- Author: Helmers, Rutger
Revealing and convincing. The book is most valuable for the individual insights Helmers brings to the four case studies. The main revelation of the book is that in terms of the concept of Russianness,... — More…
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Turn to any one of these entries and your understanding of why and how Brahms set a particular text will be deepened many times over...the book's value to interpreters as well to the much wider... — More…
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