Customer Review: In a word, this book is a mess. Methodologically suspect and theoretically uninformed, it relies on antiquated Orientalist assumptions of essential cultural identity and unchanging social forms to make the multifarious sources it cites all sound the same, which is too bad, because it is the only... more info
Customer Review: I'm surprised that there are professors who use this. The workbook seems like it has been translated from German into Korean, Korean into Pig Latin, Pig Latin into Spanish, Spanish into Dutch, Dutch into Cantonese, and finally, Cantonese into English. Good luck making sense of its instructions. My... more info
Customer Review: I received this book within 3 days on standard shipping and it was in great quality. The textbook is also very clear and easy to understand. I recommend it to anyone in music history as a supplemental textbook.
Customer Review: I'm surprised that there are professors who use this. The workbook seems like it has been translated from German into Korean, Korean into Pig Latin, Pig Latin into Spanish, Spanish into Dutch, Dutch into Cantonese, and finally, Cantonese into English. Good luck making sense of its instructions. My... more info
Customer Review: This is an authoritative study of "early music" in the Western World. It is the textbook for a course I will be taking in the fall which studies this period. I have also purchased the CDs which are imperative to the understanding of the text.
