English keyboard art from Robertsbridge Codex (c. 1325) to John Field. Illuminating coverage of organ, harpsichord, pianoforte, other instruments; works of Tall

First published in 1998, this volume by Derek Hyde remedies the lack of information concerning the contribution made by women to musical life in Britain during

Nineteenth-century music in its cultural, social, and intellectual contexts. Music in the Nineteenth Century examines the period from the Congress of Vienna in

This book traces the role played by music within asylums, the participation of staff and patients in musical activity, and the links drawn between music, health

How was music depicted in and mediated through Romantic and Victorian poetry? This is the central question that this specially commissioned volume of essays set