Stephen Rose challenges contemporary critical views that de-emphasize the role of the composer by showing that performers and composers were understood as occupying two separate spheres, blurring the line of authorial primacy.
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We learn not only about Alfred Deller’s remarkable career in Christine Headley’s wonderful book, ‘Sound the Trumpet,’ but also about the Stour Music Festival, with which he was so closely associated.
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Robert L. Marshall’s collection draws together essays written over some 30 years, presenting a carefully curated mélange of the best of the author’s old and new work.
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David Yearsley’s ‘Sex, Death, and Minuets: Anna Magdalena Bach and Her Musical Notebooks’ is a comprehensive study of the two famous Clavier-Büchlein that belonged to J. S. Bach’s second wife and eventual widow.
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Berta Joncus’ brilliant new book compels us to imagine London’s rich musical scene through the eyes and voice of one of the 18th century’s most extraordinary performers: Kitty Clive.
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