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Alun HODDINOTT - A Source Book compiled by Stewart R. Craggs Review Isolde Ahlgrim, Vienna and the Early Music Revival by Peter Watchorn 264pp., hardback. Includes 32 b&w illustrations and 23 music examples. £55 post paid. Review Bruce Montgomery/Edmund Crispin: A Life In Music And Books by David Whittle £60.00 post paid Perspectives on Korean Music Vol. 1: Intangible Cultural Properties as Icons of Identity Vol. 2: Creating Korean Music: Tradition, Innovation and the Discourse of Identity -Keith Howard 2006 176 and 230 pp, 2 CDs. £100 postage paid Alan Bush - A Source Book by Stewart R. Craggs ASHGATE 2007 £55 post-free Review THE CORRESPONDENCE OF ALAN BUSH AND JOHN IRELAND (1927-1961) compiled and edited by Rachel O’Higgins ASHGATE 2006 GBP65 post-free Review Roz SOUTHEY (b.1952) Music-Making in North-East England during the Eighteenth Century Published 2006 Ashgate Publishing ISBN-13: 978-0-7546-5097-3 259 pages GBP55.00 post-free world-wide Review Treacherous Bonds and Laughing Fire: Politics and Religion in Wagner’s Ring by Mark Berry 2006 274 pp ISBN 0 7546 5356 0 (hardcover) £55 post-free world-wide review While Spring and Summer Sang: Thomas Beecham and the Music of Frederick Delius by Lyndon Jenkins 0 7546 0721 6 £45 post-free World-Wide Details Catherine Parsonage - The Evolution of Jazz in Britain, 1880-1935 Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series. 2005. 301 pages. ISBN: 0 7546 5076 6 £55 post-free World-Wide Review Changing Tunes: The use of Pre-existing Music in Film Edited by Phil Powrie and Robynn Stilwell price £45 post-free world-wide [review] The Correspondence of Camille -Saëns and Gabriel Fauré. Sixty Years of Friendship. Edited by Jean-Michel Nectoux [JW]price £55 post-free world-wide [review] Dorottya Fabian BACH Performance Practice, 1945 - 1975 42 illustrations and 17 music examples. Hardback, 328 pages, 234 x 156 mm. MUSICWEB price £60 [review] Christopher Fifield - Ibbs and Tillett: The Rise and Fall of a Musical Empire. Just published by Ashgate. 692 pages, 78 b/w illustrations. Hardback for only £29.95 post-free world wide[review] Louis ANDRIESSEN: De Staat Robert Adlington 2004 159 pp. CD recording included MUSICWEB price £35.00 reduced to £32.50 post free World-wide David Fanning Shostakovich: String Quartet No. 8 Ashgate, ISBN 0 7546 0699 6 CD recording included MUSICWEB price £35.00 reduced to £32.50 post free World-wide György KURTÁG: The Sayings of Péter Bornemisza Op. 7 A "concerto" for soprano and piano Rachel Beckles Willson 2004 188 pp. CD recording included MusicWeb price £35.00 reduced to £32.50 post free World-wide Sing, Ariel: Essays and Thoughts for Alexander Goehr's Seventieth Birthday edited by Alison Latham MusicWeb price post free o £60.00 Britten, Voice and Piano Lectures on the Vocal Music of Benjamin Britten Graham Johnson Series: Guildhall Research Studies Publisher price £35 MusicWeb price post free £32.50 Elgar's Oratorios: The creations of an Epic Narrative by Charles McGuire £60 post free World-wide Hans Keller and the BBC The Musical Conscience of British Broadcasting by A.M.Garnham £60.00 post free World-wide Michael Tippett Music and Literature Edited by Suzanne Robinson £60 post free World-wide Review The Music of Lord Berners 'The versatile Peer' by Bryony Jones £55.00 post free World-wide Peter Maxwell Davies A source Book Edited by Stewart R Craggs £65.00 post free World-wide Aspects of British Music of the 1990s Edited by Peter O'Hagan £55 post free World-wide Prokofiev's ballets for Diaghilev by Stephen D Pres £55 reduced to £52.50 post free World-wide Rythmic and Contrapuntal structures in the music of Arthur Honegger by Keith Waters £60.00 post free World-wide The Life and Music of Sir Malcolm Arnold by Paul Jackson Review £60.00 post free World-wide Tradition and Style in the works of Darius Milhaud by Barbara L Kelly £55.00 reduced to £52.50 post free World-wide Vaughan Williams Essays edited by Byron Adams £55 reduced to £52.50 post free World-wide Henri Dutilleux: Music — Mystery and Memory Conversations with Claude Givyman Translated by Roger Nichols £45.o0 reduced to £42.50 post free World-wide Carl Dolmetsch and the Recorder Repertoire of the 20th Century Andrew Mayes £60.00 reduced to £57.50 post free World-wide Alexander Kastalsky His Life and Music Svetlana Zvereva, The State Institute for the Study of the Arts, Russia £52.50 reduced to £50 post free World-wide Other publications Luca Marenzio The Career of a Musician Between the Renaissance and the Counter-Reformation Marco Bizzarini Translated by James Chater £55.00 reduced to £52.50 post free World-wide David Milsom Theory and Practice in Late Nineteenth Century Violin Performance; an examination of style in performance 1850-1900 Ashgate 2003, vi, 287pp, 82 mus exx, 18 graphs and CD [25 tracks] ISBN 0 7546 0756 9 GBP45 reduced to £52.50 post free World-wide A scholar-performer’s eye and ear applied to matters of treatise and application of precept. An informed awareness not dependent on gestural portamenti but also embracing complex issues of rhythm, vibrato and phrasing … see Full Review     Previous publications August Jaeger: Portrait of Nimrod A life in letters and other writings Review Kevin Allen £67.50 reduced to £65.00 post free World-wide The Bel Canto Violin The life and times of Alfredo Camploi 1906-1991 David Tunley, Universtiy of Western Australia £37.50 reduced to £35.00 post free World-wide Mozart's Piano Concertos John Irvine University of Bristol UK £47.50 reduced to £44.00 post free World-wide review Francis Poulenc Music, Art and Literature Edited by Sidney Buckland and Myriam Chimènes, CNRS, Paris £67.50 reduced to £65.00 post free World-wide Frederick Delius: Music, Art and Literature edited by Lionel Carley £65reduced to £62.50 post free World-wide Gerhard on Music Selected Writings Edited by Meirion Bowen £60.00reduced to £57.50 post free World-wide HB: Aspects of Havergal Brian Edited by Jürgen Schaarwächter Max Reger Institute £62.50 reduced to £60.00 post free World-wide Henri Dutilleux His life and works Caroline Potter Kingston University, UK £55.00 reduced to £52.50 post free World-wide Shostakovich: Irony, Satire, Parody and the Grotesque in the Music of Shostakovich A Theory of Musical Incongruities Esti Sheinberg £62.50 reduced to £60.00 post free World-wide Karol Szymanowski His Life and Work Alistair Wightman, Newcastle-Under-Lyme College, UK £55.00 reduced to £53.00 post free World-wide Karol Szymanowski Szymanowski, Eroticism and the Voices of Mythology by Stephen Downes £67.50 reduced to £40.00 post free World-wide Louis Laloy (1874-1 944) on Debussy, Ravel and Stravinsky tr by Deborah Priest, University of Sydney, Australia £57.50 reduced to £55.00 post free World-wide The Music of John Ireland Fiona Richards, The Open University UK Review Review £60.00 reduced to £57.50 post free World-wide The Music of Maurice Ohana Caroline Rae, Cardiff University, UK Includes 9 b&m illustrations and 75 music examples £60.00reduced to £57.50 post free Perspectives on Peter Maxwell Davies Edited by Richard McGregor, St. Martin's College, Lancaster, UK Includes 75 music examples 2000 194 pages £55 reduced to £52.50 post free Uncommon Ground The Music of Michael Finnissy Edited by Christopher Fox, Ian Pace and Henrietta Brougham Includes 240 music ecamples 1997 449 pages £60.00reduced to £57.50 post free World-wide William Walton Music and Literature Edited by Stewart R. Craggs 1998 284 pages £65.00 reduced to £62.50 post free World-wide The World of Villa-Lobos In Pictures and Documents Usa H. Peppercorn Includes 629 b&w illustrations 1998 336 pages £55 reduced to £52.50 post free World-wide MICHAEL WILLIAM BALFE (1808-1870) His Life and his Operas by William Tyldsley Ashgate: ISBN 0-7546-0558-2 GBP55 reduced to £52.50 post free all prices checked May 2006

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