What the Maths Mean
Peter Phillips: Chants and Motets, 7 May 2026
Composers in the Middle Ages
edited by Anne-Zoé Rillon-Marne and Gaël Saint-Cricq.
Boydell & Brewer, 316 pp., £95, November 2024,978 1 83765 035 4 Show More
edited by Anne-Zoé Rillon-Marne and Gaël Saint-Cricq.
Boydell & Brewer, 316 pp., £95, November 2024,
“... In the 1938 edition of the Oxford Companion to Music, Percy Scholes defined composition as ‘the culmination of the mental and psychological process of a remarkable and inspired personality’. Even today, the notion of the Great Composer – the individual genius, whose inimitable music is an expression of a singular mind – still holds sway: the composers guaranteed to draw a crowd are the select few, a Debussy, a Wagner, a Beethoven ... ”
