New Music Books




			Edited by Peter Bloom New studies of the great French composer by Jacques Barzun, David Cairns, Joël-Marie Fauquet, Hugh Macdonald, Julian Rushton, and other prominent experts. More information

			Lorenzo Candelaria The Rosary Cantoral is a rare and beautifully decorated manuscript of Latin plainchant for the Catholic Mass compiled in Toledo, Spain, around the year 1500. In an engaging and richly interdisciplinary essay, Lorenzo Candelaria approaches it as a cultural artifact, unlocking the secrets behind its images and music to reveal the social history and rituals of an elite brotherhood. More information

			Jack Douthett et al (eds) Essays in diatonic set theory, transformation theory, and neo-Riemannian theory -- the newest and most exciting fields in music theory today. More information

			David Gramit (ed) The first English-language book on Czerny, and the broadest survey of his activity in any language. More information



			Leo Black Leo Black, a pupil of Rubbra at Oxford in the 1950s, here presents a sympathetic full-scale study of his symphonic works (the first for some fifteen years). A succinct biographical sketch throws light on legends about the BBC and Rubbra, as well as the vexed question of Rubbra’s mysticism. There are full programme notes on each symphony, with shorter accounts of important non-symphonic works, in particular a 'triptych' of concertos from the 1950s and major liturgical pieces. More information

			Christina Bashford This monograph investigates the promotion and consumption of high musical culture among leisured society in Victorian London, by focusing on the activities of the concert manager John Ella and his Musical Union (1845-81), an eminent, long-lived institution for chamber music, much fêted across Europe in its day. More information

			Now available from Boydell & Brewer Edited by Rolf Jordan The Clock of the Years is an anthology compiled to celebrate 25 years of the Finzi Friends Newsletter. It includes freshly edited and revised pieces that have been long out of print or only available to society members, with many new pieces appearing in print for the first time. The collection is enhanced by fascinating archive material from private collections, including many previously unseen photographs of Finzi and his circle. More information

			Bernarr Rainbow with Gordon Cox Now available in paperback. "Indispensable... The profession of music education has at last been provided with a detailed and documented history... the volume should be on the shelves of every library and musician." INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MUSIC EDUCATION More information

			with illustrations by William Scott Hugh Wood Edited by Christopher Wintle with an Introduction by Bayan Northcott Ever since his early days, Hugh Wood has pursued a triple career as composer, teacher and writer. This selection of writings is in three parts and shows three aspects to his work. The first addresses his own experience; the second maps out the historical and cultural context for a number of orchestral and chamber works in a set of concert essays; and the third draws together several composer-vignettes from his recent reviews for the Times Literary Supplement. (Plumbago Books) Available simultaneously in hardcover and paperback

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