Plumbago Books

2000-2025

publications

Note: Plumbago Books was formerly distributed by Boydell and Brewer

Hans Keller, Jerusalem Diary. Music, Society and Politics, 1977 and 1979, ed. Christopher Wintle and Fiona Williams, 2001/2002/2015, 268 pp.
ISBN 0954012305
(Royal Philharmonic Society Book of the Year, 2001)

Hans Keller, Music and Psychology. From Vienna to London, 1939-52, ed. Christopher Wintle with Alison Garnham, 2003, xx + 268 pp.
ISBN 09540123 1-3/-2-1
(National Lottery Millennium Award)

Julian Littlewood, The Variations of Johannes Brahms, ed. Christopher Wintle, intro. Alexander Goehr, 2004, xiv + 370 pp.
ISBN 09540123 3-x/-4-8
(In association with King’s College London for its 175th anniversary)

Hans Keller, Film Music and Beyond. Writings on Music and the Screen, 1946-59, ed. Christopher Wintle, 2006, xxxii + 256 pp.
ISBN 0954012 6-4/-7-2
(In association with The William Alwyn Foundation)

Christopher Wintle, All the Gods. Benjamin Britten’s ‘Night-piece’ in Context, ed. Julian Littlewood, 2006/2012, xi + 125 pp.
ISBN 978-0-9556087-9-7
(The Sue Thomson Foundation award, principally for design)

Hugh Wood, Staking Out the Territory and Other Writings on Music, with Rough Circles [illustrations] by William Scott, ed. Christopher Wintle, intro. Bayan Northcott, 2007, xviii + 206 pp.
ISBN 978-0-9556087 0-4/-1-1
(In association with The William Scott Estate)

Bayan Northcott, The Way We Listen Now (with drawings by Milein Cosman and Michael Daley), ed. Christopher Wintle, 2009, xvi + 224 pp.
ISBN 978-0-9556087 2-8/-3-5

Leo Black, BBC Music in the Glock Era and After (with drawings by Milein Cosman), ed. Christopher Wintle, 2010, xiv + 218 pp.
ISBN 978-0-9556087 4-2/-5-9

Christopher Wintle, Metapoetics. Aphorisms, Thoughts and Maxims on Life, Art and Music (with Beasts [illustrations] by Ana Maria Pacheco), 2010, xiv + 156 pp.
ISBN 978-0-9566007 0-7/-1-4

A. M. Garnham, Hans Keller and Internment. The Development of an Émigré Musician (1938-48), ed. Christopher Wintle, 2011, xii + 314 pp.
ISBN 978-0-9556087 7-3/-8-0

Christopher Dromey, The Pierrot Ensembles. Chronicle and Catalogue, 1919-2012, ed. Christopher Wintle, 2012, x + 302 pp.
ISBN 978-0-9566007 -2-1/-3-8

Hans Keller, Britten. Essays, Letters and Opera Guides, ed. Christopher Wintle and Alison Garnham (with drawings by Milein Cosman), London, 2013, xxvi + 382 pp.
ISBN 978-0-95666007 -4-5/-5-2

Hugh Wood, Summer in Tewfik and other poems, ed. Kate Hopkins, 2013, viii + 56 pp.
ISBN 978-0-9566007-8-3

David Matthews, Essays, Tributes and Criticism, ed. Thomas Hyde (gen. ed. Christopher Wintle), 2014, xii + 244 pp.
ISBN 978-0-9566007 -6-9/-7-6

Arnold Whittall, The Wagner Style. Close Readings and Critical Perspectives, ed. Christopher Wintle, 2015, xii + 250 pp.
ISBN 978-0-9931983 -0-4/-1-1

John Cordingly, Disordered Heroes in Opera. A Psychiatric Report, ed. Claire Seymour (gen. ed. Christopher Wintle), 2015, xii + 204 pp.
ISBN 978-0-9931983 -2-8/-3-5

Christopher Wintle, What Opera Means. Categories and Case Studies, ed. Kate Hopkins, 2018, xvi + 272 pp.
ISBN 978-0-9931983 -4-2/-5-9

Hans Keller, Beethoven’s String Quartet in B flat major, Op. 139. Four Lectures, eds. Alison Garnham, Julian Littlewood, Christopher Wintle and Susi Woodhouse, 2019. Two volumes in a hard case: vol. 1 (text) viii + 128 pp., vol. 2 (supplementary scores) vi + 82 pp.
ISBN 978-0-9931973-6-6
(a BBC Music Magazine Book of the Year 2019)

Bojan Bujić, Arnold Schoenberg and Egon Wellesz. A Fraught Relationship, ed. Christopher Wintle, 2020, xxii + 266 pp.
ISBN 978-0-9931983 -7-3/-8-0
(In association with Lincoln College, Oxford)

Christopher Wintle, A Paddle of Ducks. Memoirs and Tributes for a Vanishing Age, with The Misfortunes of a Sardine [illustrations] by Ana Maria Pacheco, 2025, x + 158 pp.
ISBN 978-1-7392945-3-3

Notes

All books by Hans Keller, together with those by Hugh Wood, Bayan Northcott, Leo Black, A.M. Garnham, Bojan Bujić  and Christopher Wintle (excluding A Paddle of Ducks), were published with financial support from The Cosman Keller Art and Music Trust

In the ISBN listing, alternatives for the final two digits indicate hardback / softback versions – e.g. ISBN 978 – 0-9931983 -7-3/-8-0 

Several (short) occasional writings published by Plumbago Books are not included in this list. Nor are (Schenkerian) music manuscript pads, a birthday canon for Milein Cosman by Hugh Wood, and a calendar for the year 2010 by Milein Cosman

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