Peter Hiscock trained at Sparsholt College in Hampshire, one of the U.K.'s leading schools for aquatic studies. He has published widely on fish behavior and aquarium keeping. Among his other books published in North America by B.E.S. are A Practical Guide to Choosing Aquarium Plants and A Practical Guide to Creating and Maintaining Water Quality.
... Stocken has used forensic musicological skills, backed up by his own experience and instincts as a composer, to clear painstakingly through many layers of misunderstanding in the secondary sources and to reveal the main issues afresh with great clarity. - Prof. Crawford Howie University of Manchester ... must be regarded as a major event in Bruckner scholarship, and is required reading for those interested in his compositional method, harmonic theory, choral music and symphonies. In addition, its reappraisal of Sechter will surely command the interest of a wide range of music theorists as well as musicologists. - Prof. James Garratt University of Manchester