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BOYDELL & BREWER LTD is pleased to welcome Toccata Press to our select list of client
presses specializing in classical music.

 

 
 

RONALD STEVENSON: THE MAN AND HIS MUSIC
Colin Scott-Sutherland (ed.)


This symposium of essays by some of the leading contemporary writers on music forms the first systematic consideration of Stevenson's music.

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WHOM THE GODS LOVE: THE LIFE AND MUSIC OF GEORGE BUTTERWORTH
Michael Barlow


This is the first full-length study of the life and music of the composer George Butterworth (1885–1916), whose career was cut short by a sniper's bullet at the Somme.

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THE HARMONIOUS MUSICK OF JOHN JENKINS Vol. 1: The Fantasias for Viols
Andrew Ashbee


John Jenkins (1592–1678) was both the most prolific and the most highly esteemed of English composers in the fifty or so years between the death of William Byrd and the rise of Henry Purcell.

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GEORGE ENESCU: HIS LIFE AND MUSIC
Noel Malcolm

This, the first full-length study of Enescu and his music to be written in the West, tells the story of his life and development as a composer. All of Enescu’s published compositions, and many unpublished works, are discussed.

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THE MUSIC OF AARON COPLAND
Neil Butterworth


Neil Butterworth’s chronological survey of Copland’s entire output – the first book to appear on his music in 30 years – discusses every one of his compositions and examines his influential writings on music.

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THE MUSIC OF FRANZ SCHMIDT Vol. 1: The Orchestral Music
Harold Truscott


“This is the way to do it. [...] this superb book will hopefully do all that is necessary to spread the understanding of this unjustly neglected figure. [...] Harold Truscott’s achievement deserves the widest circulation, influence and success.”
Robert Matthew-Walker, Music and Musicians

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BEETHOVEN: THE SONATAS FOR PIANO AND VIOLIN
Max Rostal


This book is the first in over half a century to be devoted to a detailed analysis of the complete Beethoven sonatas for violin and piano, with more than 200 music examples.
Symphonic Studies

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