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British Music and Modernism, 1895-1960, edited by Matthew Riley. Farnham, UK, and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2010. xvi, 329 pp. What, exactly, is 'Modernism'? By 1970, most musicologists and music theorists [...]

Philip Brett. 2006. Music and Sexuality in Britten: Selected Essays, edited by George E. Haggerty. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. Like the septet of Proust's fictional composer [...]

By Humphrey Burton. New York: Doubleday, 1994. ISBN 0-385-42345-4 (cloth). Pp. vi, 597. $25.00. Yes, it's true. Leonard Bernstein was a 'horrid' man. As chronicled in Humphrey Burton's thorough biography, [...]

Karel Husa. Sinfonietta pro maly orchestr = for chamber orchestra. Praha: Cesky Rozhlas, c2007. [Pref. in Czech, Eng., by Radim Kolek on front-cover verso and title-page verso; composer's notes in [...]

Edmund Rubbra: Symphonist. By Leo Black. Rochester, NY: Boydell Press, 2008. [xiii, 242 p. ISBN-13: 9781843833550. $60.] Illustrations, bibliographic references, index, discography. 'Like yards and yards of brown linoleum.' This [...]

Lennox Berkeley: A Source Book. By Stewart R. Craggs. Aldershot, Hants, England: Ashgate, 2000. [xii, 383 p. ISBN 0-85967-933-0. $99.95.] In one of the more ironic turns of the whirligig [...]

William Walton. Shorter Choral Works without Orchestra. Edited by Timothy Brown. (William Walton Edition, 6.) Oxford; New York: Music Department, Oxford University Press, c1999. [Pref., p. v-x; sources, p. xi-xiii; [...]

Tippett Studies. Edited by David Clarke. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. [xv, 232 p. ISBN 0-521-59205-4. $69.95.] The life and music of Sir Michael Tippett (1905-1998) presents formidable challenges to [...]

Valerie Langfield. Roger Quilter: His Life and Music. Rochester, N. Y.: The Boydell Press. 2002. Pp. Xviii, 375. $70.00. ISBN 0-85115-871-4. With the triumph of high Modernism after the Second [...]

The Selected Letters of William Walton. Edited by Malcolm Hayes. London: Faber and Faber, 2002. [xviii, 526 p. ISBN 0-571-20105-9. €30.] Music examples, illustrations, list of works, bibliography, index. William [...]

Letters of Gerald Finzi and Howard Ferguson. Edited by Howard Ferguson and Michael Hurd. Rochester, N.Y.: Boydell Press, 2001. [xiii, 310 p. ISBN 0-85115-823-4. $75.] Illustrations, indexes. No two composers [...]

By William Westbrook Burton. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. ISBN 0-19-507947-7 (cloth). Pp. vi, 198. $25.00. Yes, it's true. Leonard Bernstein was a 'horrid' man. As chronicled in Humphrey [...]