About Pendragon Press

PENDRAGON PRESS

The World of Music and the Music of the World

Since 1972 Pendragon Press has served the musicological community with the publication of reference works of the highest quality, research tools of lasting value, and seminal scholarship not otherwise available. Its innovative interdisciplinary series have helped set the standard for new approaches to a time-honored field of study. It is our privilege to continue to provide our readers with the very best in academic excellence.

Staff

Claire Brook, Executive Editor

For 23 years Claire Brook was vice president and music editor of W. W. Norton & Co. in New York, in a distinguished lineage that included Paul Henry Lang, Nathan Broder, and David Hamilton. She sponsored the publication of many dozens of Norton's "Books That Live in Music," including seminal works on the music of Africa, jazz, and contemporary music as well as fresh editions of Machlis and Grout that have kept them at the forefont of the industry ever since. She was the author of a spirited contribution on "Music Publishing Today" in Notes (1975) and subject of an equally spirited interview in MadAminA! by George Sturm. In 1999 she was awarded the degree of Doctor of Music, honoris causa, by the New England Conservatory.

Robert J.Kessler, Managing Editor

Janet Lincoln, Associate Editor

Ardal Powell, Director of Operations

Ardal Powell manages Pendragon's business operations and is repsonsible for the design and web implementation of the Pendragon Press database. An active researcher in music sociology, organology, and performance practice, he is General Editor of two of Pendragon's series: Sociology and Social History of Music and Organologia: Musical Instruments and Performance Practice. He recently retired from 20 years' service as Editor of Traverso, and 25 as President of Folkers & Powell, Makers of Historical Flutes. He holds an MA in English and a PhD in Music from the University of Cambridge, and a Certificaat in Baroque Flute Performance from the Royal Conservatory, The Hague, The Netherlands. As an author he has been published by the University presses of Cambridge, Oxford, and Yale, as well as by Pendragon Press.

Series Editors

To assist the scholars who use Pendragon Press books in their studies we make an effort to organize our publications into series in which all titles are strongly related by subject. We have selected some of the finest scholars in each field as General Editors, helping us to choose appropriate projects and shepherd them to publication.

Please visit the Series page for listings of our General Editors.

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