Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing the

Gillock supplies details about the organ at La Trinité in Paris, the instrument for which most of Messiaen's pieces were imagined.

Although women have been teaching and performing music for centuries, their stories are often missing from traditional accounts of the history of music educatio

The organ has unique characteristics that bind it more closely than any other instrument to its location, to social and economic changes, and to fluctuations in