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Thanks to Dr Tatlow's researches, we now have a solid basis of fact for speculations as to the role of numerology, and in particular the number alphabet, in the music of Bach and his contemporaries — The Times More…

Popular music experts will certianly be stimulated by the scholarship contained in this volume — Notes: Journal of the Music Library Association More…

In elucidating its wider compositional basis, Straus has made a valuable and timely contribution to the understanding of a body of music which may in time impress itself on the wider consciousness... — International Record Review More…

a pioneering study of this neglected musician and patron ... A warm and attractive portrait of the empress emerges from this study ... Rice's is a model study of an enchanting subject — Musical Times More…

comprehensive in its coverage of the technological history of the piano, with a wealth of detail — Early Music Today More…