The Dorset Rotulus
September 6, 2021
Surviving examples of medieval motets are few and English ones are rarer still. So the discovery of a new find – two leaves of a musical scroll that originated in… READ MORE
Category: Music
Bizet in Italy
July 12, 2021
Hugh Macdonald’s new book Bizet in Italy is the first English translation of Bizet’s letters and journals from the composer’s nearly three-year stay in Italy (1857-1860). Bizet never wrote any… READ MORE
J. S. Bach’s Material and Spiritual Treasures
April 14, 2021
In the process of writing a book about Johann Sebastian Bach, occasionally someone would ask me if anything remains to be written about the famous German composer. Yet despite the… READ MORE
The Books of…Adrian Wright
March 24, 2021
Writer, novelist, playwright, biographer, actor and singer, Adrian Wright is a busy man! Thankfully he has managed to find the time to publish five titles with Boydell, each of which… READ MORE
New York Klezmer in the Early Twentieth Century
February 23, 2021
Joel E. Rubin’s new book New York Klezmer Music in the Early Twentieth Century takes a look at the iconic recordings of clarinetists Naftule Brandwein and Dave Tarras and presents… READ MORE
Greek and Latin Music Theory
February 9, 2021
Greek and Latin Music Theory: Principles and Challenges by Edward Nowacki is a long-needed overview of, and guide to, the principles behind the treatises on music theory written in ancient… READ MORE
The Books of… Peter Dickinson
January 25, 2021
A composer, a pianist, a writer, an editor and a painter walk into a bar. “Good evening, Professor Dickinson,” says the barman, “Your usual?” Yes, Peter Dickinson, who has produced… READ MORE
The Operas of Sergei Prokofiev
December 9, 2020
Christina Guillaumier’s new book The Operas of Sergei Prokofiev is the first book in the English language to engage with Prokofiev’s operatic output in its entirety. The book draws on… READ MORE
Brahms’s A German Requiem
August 11, 2020
Our newest book on the music of Johannes Brahms is R. Allen Lott’s Brahms’s A German Requiem: Reconsidering Its Biblical, Historical, and Musical Contexts, a detailed examination of the contexts… READ MORE
Writing and Reading Augusta Browne: Composer and Woman of Letters in Nineteenth-Century America
August 5, 2020
Augusta Browne’s life speaks to me as an American, as a woman, and as a musician. An inspiration as I worked on the manuscript of Augusta Browne was imagining my… READ MORE
Reading Non-Fiction Across South Africa’s Unfinished Transition