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From the Spring 2008 Musical Times, available now

Articles

David Beard: ‘Beauty and the beast: a conversation with Sir Harrison Birtwistle’

Ian Bartlett: ‘Thomas Philips, Lord Chesterfield and the enigma of a popular 18th-century ballad by William Boyce’

Fabian Gregor Huss: ‘On the beautiful in music, or the emotional fly in the musical ointment’

Rodney Stenning Edgecombe: ‘Internationalism, regionalism and Glazunov’s Raymonda’

Emily Kilpatrick: ‘Into the woods: retelling the wartime fairytales of Ravel’

Peter James: ‘John Hilton the younger’s Service “in Gamut” ’

Eric L. Altschuler & William Jansen: ‘ “R.H.”, Bembo and Croce’s Musica sacra’

Joseph W. Pegg: ‘Avison observed’

Reviews

by Leo Black, Robin Holloway, Patricia Howard, Andrew Thomson, Chris Walton, Arnold Whittall, and Peter Williams of:

Christopher Dingle: The life of Messiaen
Peter Hill & Nigel Simeone: Olivier Messiaen: Oiseaux exotiques
Christopher Dingle & Nigel Simeone, edd.: Olivier Messiaen: music, art and literature
Beate Perry, ed.: The Cambridge companion to Schumann
John Worthen: Robert Schumann: life and death of a musician
Edwin Prévost, ed.: Cornelius Cardew (1936–1981): a reader
Luca Lombardi: Construction of Freedom and other writings
Andrew Barnett: Sibelius
Philip Gossett: Divas and scholars: performing Italian opera
Howard Pollack: George Gershwin: his life and work
James Grier: The musical world of a medieval monk: Adémar de Chabannes in eleventh-century Aquitaine
Ulrich Drüner: Mozarts grosse Reise: sein Durchbruch zum Genie: 1777–1779
Franz Niemetschek: Mozart: the first biography
Piero Melograni: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: a biography
Toby Thacker: Music after Hitler, 1945–1955

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