Roy Newsome, The Modern Brass Band: From the 1930s to the New Millennium, su books.google.ca, Ashgate Publishing, 2006, p. 125. URL consultato il 16 agosto 2015.
«During the 1970s there was a spate of transcriptions of Tudor music, mainly by Elgar Howarth. However, Howarth's masterly rendition of Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition (1979) dwarfed all previous transcriptions.»