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From the Autumn 2007 Musical Times, available now

Articles

Malcolm Gillies: ‘Great expectations: Grieg and Grainger’

David Trendell: ‘Aspects of William Byrd’s musical recusancy’

Kerry McCarthy: ‘ “Brought to speake English with the rest”: Byrd’s motet contrafacta’

Julian Grimshaw: ‘Sixteenth-century English fuga: sequential and peak-note subjects’

Albert Chatterley: ‘Thomas Watson: poet – and musican?’

Patricia Howard: ‘Happy birthday, Cosimo Gaetano Guadagni!’

Reviews

by Christopher Fox, Andrew Thomson, Arnold Whittall and Peter Williams of:

Richard DP Jones: The creative development of Johann Sebastian Bach, volume 1: 1695–1717: music to delight the spirit
Mary E. Frandsen: Crossing confessional boundaries: the patronage of Italian sacred music in seventeenth-century Dresden
Claire Fontijn: Desperate measures: the life and music of Antonia Padoani Bembo
Björn Heile: The music of Mauricio Kagel
Lawrence Kramer: Critical musicology and the responsibility of response
Lawrence Kramer: Why classical music still matters
Michael Spitzer: Music as philosophy: Adorno and Beethoven’s late style
Helen Wallace: Boosey & Hawkes: the publishing story
Jennifer Doctor & David Wright, edd.: The Proms: a new history

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