Emma and Claude Debussy
April 12, 2022
Treading in Emma Debussy’s footsteps was a deeply satisfying experience. Having first mined the resources in the Centre de Documentation Claude Debussy in Paris, I was thrilled to trace the… READ MORE
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Nikolay Myaskovsky
March 9, 2022
Patrick Zuk’s new biography draws on a wealth of unexplored sources and offers the first comprehensive critical reappraisal of the life and works of composer Nikolay Myaskovsky (1881-1950). In today’s… READ MORE
Béla Bartók in Italy
February 21, 2022
One of our recent additions to our Music list is Nicolò Palazzetti’s Béla Bartók in Italy: The Politics of Myth-Making, which examines the reputation of Hungarian composer Béla Bartók (1881-1945)… READ MORE
Musics Lost and Found
November 11, 2021
Michael Church, author of The Other Classical Musics: Fifteen Great Traditions (Boydell Press, 2015) discusses his new book Musics Lost and Found: Song Collectors and the Life and Death of Folk Tradition, which has just been… READ MORE
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
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
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