New Perspectives in Music History and Criticism

In Women and Music in Sixteenth-Century Ferrara, Laurie Stras has produced a highly accessible and important volume - thoroughly researched and elegantly written - that throws open the clouded... — Music and Letters More…

a responsible piece of historical and interpretative writing, a valuable contribution to our understanding of Liszt and the forces that made his remarkable career possible — The Times More…

Fresh perspective ... an interpretative study that reaps rich rewards ... this book will inspire many other interrogative and revisionist accounts to come of the Russian Ballet, and of twentieth-century... — Notes: Journal of the Music Library Association More…

a stimulating book which keeps its focus true despite the almost perverse range of subject matter ... [a] dizzying intellectual switchback — Musical Times More…