Time Will Tell (Hardcover)

from JanAyres

What a disappointment! Having read a good review by a respected singer and broadcaster and, being interested in early music I was eager to read this book. Sadly, I did not enjoy it. The concept was an interesting one, the outcome inevitable, but the characters (with the exception of Ockeghem hims...

from Myckyee

There is a blurb on the back cover of this book that says one does not need to be an expert in musical knowledge to understand the descriptions of music. Right. Whoever wrote that blurb was either outright lying or is so removed from the musical layman as to be totally out of sync with your every...

from LizzieD

I think I was probably the perfect reader of Time Will Tell. I know just enough to follow the early music content but not enough to be bored by explanations or to poke holes if there are holes to poke. That said, I can't work up a lot of enthusiasm for it. It's solid and maybe a bit stolid - a tr...

from nordie

Andrew Eiger, an ambitious American musicologist, is stuck in a small college in the Midwest when fate delivers him an original fifteenth-century manuscript. It's his calling card to the finest academic institutions, but first he has to crack the notational code and convince Emma Mitchell - the d...

from drsyko

Time Will Tell is a story about music: it's composers, singers, conductors, theorists and other involved in making it. Andrew Eiger has found what could be a very historically significant manuscript that may be the last composition of a famous 15th century composer. Emma Mitchell is the director ...