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October 1, 2008
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Cold comfort balm Staking Out the Territory and other writings on music Hugh Wood Plumbago Books (London, 2007); xiv, 210pp; £40 / £15.99 PBK-ISBN 978 0955608704 / 97809556087 1 4.
OF THE THREE COMPOSER-TEACHERS active at Cambridge University during the later decades of the 20th century, Hugh Wood is the last to have a selection of his writings collected into a single volume. Avoiding all discussion of the author's own compositions, the result is closer to Robin Holloway's On music: essays and diversions (Claridge Press, 2003) and On music II (Continuum, 2007) than to Alexander Goehr's Finding the key (Faber & Faber, 1998). As with both his colleagues, however, Wood's love-hate ...
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