Oxford Monographs on Music

Brilliantly argued, deeply researched study showing how the Montmartre cabaret music influenced Satie's mature work — BBC Music MagazineMore…

will be a stimulating companion for readers with a love of the late Baroque and of those composers whose music speaks with a distinctive and original voice ... Stockigt's lively discussion of... — BBC Music MagazineMore…

Katalin Komlos's scholarship is genuine, substantial and illuminating about some of the best music ever written. Her language, which is generally direct and free from jargon or pretence, merely... — The TimesMore…

Dr Berdes ... presents a broad sweep from the early evidence of music in the Ospedali to their decline after the Napoleonic invasion and into the mid-nineteenth century. Clearly there are more... — The TimesMore…

The richest aspect of this book is the detailed chronicle it provides of five generations of nuns ... coming to terms with the new insistence on monastic enclosure and the threat that it posed... — The TimesMore…

Louise Stein's book is the first substantial English-language study of the music used in the seventeenth-century Spanish theatre...Her basic approach offers in-depth analysis and interpretation... — Music and LettersMore…

insightful book...This detailed study investigates the influence of handel's leading singers on his composition process...LaRue's study is scholarship at its mystery-solving best — ChoiceMore…

Haimo's study reflects the almost incredible changes that have occurred in the general attitude towards Haydn — Early Music TodayMore…

It would be hard to overstate the value of this excellent book. In having the courage to go right back to the unfashionable sources, David Ross Hurley has blown away a number of Handelian cobwebs,... — Music and LettersMore…

This book goes far beyond the demands of an undergraduate textbook...admirably accessible — Music and LettersMore…