Early Music
"This is a stimulating book, full of lively issues and ideas, that grasps many controversial nettles with vigour."Speculum
"A new book or a new compact disc from Christopher Page is always a welcome event. His exceptional talents as scholar and performer lend a particular persuasiveness to the views about early music that he advocates....The originality of Page's work resides in his wide-ranging command of sources linked to the experience of translating such knowledge into elegant music making....'Discarding Images' is a rich and insightful book....A book that deserves to be read and discussed. It will both please and provoke; but even at its most provocative, it will surely increase our understanding of music and culture in medieval France." French History
"The strengths of this book stem from the author's contact with music performance, his knowledge of the technical medieval literature and his lively awareness of the organic untidiness of cultural life." |
