Scarecrow Press
Pages: 278
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Trim: 6 3/8 x 9 1/2
978-0-8108-7737-5 • Hardback • November 2010 • $76.00 • (£49.95)
Thomas Donahue is a musician and instrument builder. He is the author of Gerhard Brunzema: His Work and His Influence (1998), Anthony Newman: Music, Energy, Healing Spirit (2000), A Guide to Musical Temperament (2005), and A Style and Usage Guide to Writing About Music (2010), all published by Scarecrow Press.
Some of the contributors are acknowledged scholars, there is one essay from a young PhD student, and two from seasoned performers whose profiles and abilities match those of Hogwood himself. The book is nicely produced in hard covers and is fully illustrated... This book will be of primary interest to keyboard players and to keyboard organologists in particular; indeed for serious scholars of that subject it is a 'must buy.'
— Early Music Review
This book joins many another Festschrift in gathering together a potpourri of essays on highly specialized, if largely unrelated, topics....Illustrations are generous and, as befits the diversity of subjects and approaches, they include many musical examples and photographs as well as drawings, charts, and tables. A useful index and biographies of the contributors round out a volume that is likely to include something of interest for almost anyone devoted to early music.
— The American Organist