Music from the Earliest Notations to the Sixteenth Century: The Oxford History of Western Music Quotes

It is tempting to look upon England as a sort of musical Australia, an island culture inhabited by, and sustaining, its own insular fauna – musical kangaroos, koalas, and platypuses. That, however, would be very much to exaggerate England's musica...

Music from the Earliest Notations to the Sixteenth Century: The Oxford History of Western Music