Now, the curator of Letters of Note, Shaun Usher, gives us wonderful new volumes featuring letters organized around a universal theme. In this volume, Shaun Usher turns to music in all its forms.

Now, the curator of Letters of Note, Shaun Usher, gives us wonderful new volumes featuring letters organized around a universal theme. In this volume, Shaun Usher turns to music in all its forms.

Bernstein was also an enthusiastic letter writer, and this book is the first to present a wide-ranging selection of his correspondence.

Peter Dayan contends that the reasons for this difficulty were worked out with extraordinary rigour and consistency in a French literary tradition, echoed by composers such as Berlioz and Debussy, which stretches from Sand to Derrida.

Extensive commentaries introduce each letter. The fullest edition of Monteverdi's letters yet to appear in any language, makes every known letter available for the first time in English translation.

In this, the first critical biography of Cras, Paul-Andre Bempechat situates the composer as a missing link between the French post-romantic generation of composers and the impressionists.

A synchronic study that highlights the importance of printed packaging, rather than notes on the page, to the complex relationship between composers, publishers, and consumers of music.

"Margaret G. Cobb, the "doyenne of Debussy scholars," brings to life these two talented men.