20th century & contemporary classical music books

2344 books were found.

The Art Songs of Louise Talma

The Art Songs of Louise Talma

Author: Kendra Preston Leonard ,  Michael J. Budds
ISBN: 9781032242224
Format: Paperback
$83.99

The Art Songs of Louise Talma presents some of Talma’s finest compositions and those most frequently performed during...  Read More >>

Singing Soviet Stagnation: Vocal Cycles from the USSR, 1964–1985

Singing Soviet Stagnation: Vocal Cycles from the USSR,...

Author: Richard Louis Gillies ,  . Pauline Fairclough
ISBN: 9780367222505
Format: Hardback
$284.00

Singing Soviet Stagnation: Vocal Cycles from the USSR, 1964–1985 explores the ways in which the aftershock of an...  Read More >>

Dylan, Lennon, Marx and God

Dylan, Lennon, Marx and God

Author: Jon Stewart
ISBN: 9781108489812
Format: Hardback
$64.66

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Joaquín Rodrigo: Writings on Music

Joaquín Rodrigo: Writings on Music

Author: Raymond Calcraft ,  Elizabeth Matthews
ISBN: 9781032030036
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This volume makes available Joaquín Rodrigo's writings to English-speaking readers throughout the world. The selection...  Read More >>

The Popular and the Sacred in Music

The Popular and the Sacred in Music

Author: Antti-Ville Kärjä
ISBN: 9781032025032
Format: Hardback
$284.00

In the book, music is approached as a sphere of activity where sacred and popular qualities intersect and amalgamate....  Read More >>

Thomas Ades Studies

Thomas Ades Studies

Author: Edward Venn (University of Leeds) ,  Philip Stoecker (Hofstra University, New York)
ISBN: 9781108486651
Format: Hardback
$194.06

This benchmark collection of essays contain authoritative accounts of Thomas Ades's major compositions from a variety...  Read More >>

Xenakis Creates in Architecture and Music: The Reynolds Desert House

Xenakis Creates in Architecture and Music: The Reynolds...

Author: Roger Reynolds (Univeristy of California, USA) ,  Karen Reynolds
ISBN: 9780367698461
Format: Paperback
$83.99

Xenakis Creates in Architecture and Music describes the collaborative interaction of internationally acclaimed composer...  Read More >>

Xenakis Creates in Architecture and Music: The Reynolds Desert House

Xenakis Creates in Architecture and Music: The Reynolds...

Author: Roger Reynolds (Univeristy of California, USA) ,  Karen Reynolds
ISBN: 9780367714772
Format: Hardback
$284.00

Xenakis Creates in Architecture and Music describes the collaborative interaction of internationally acclaimed composer...  Read More >>

Musics Lost and Found: Song Collectors and the Life and Death of Folk Tradition

Musics Lost and Found: Song Collectors and the Life...

Author: Michael Church ,  Michael Middeke
ISBN: 9781783276073
Format: Hardback
$77.63

This ground-breaking book is the first in-depth global study of the role played in musical history by song collectors....  Read More >>

DIY House Shows and Music Venues in the US: Ethnographic Explorations of Place and Community

DIY House Shows and Music Venues in the US: Ethnographic...

Author: David Verbuč
ISBN: 9781032049175
Format: Hardback
$284.00

DIY House Shows and Music Venues in the US is an interdisciplinary study of house concerts and other DIY (‘do-it-yourself’)...  Read More >>

Crisis Music: The Life-and-Times of Six Twentieth-Century Composers

Crisis Music: The Life-and-Times of Six Twentieth-Century...

Author: John Caps
ISBN: 9781789761467
Format: Paperback
$90.43

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Heitor Villa-Lobos’s Bachianas Brasileiras: Intertextuality and Stylization

Heitor Villa-Lobos’s Bachianas Brasileiras: Intertextuality...

Author: Norton Dudeque ,  Judith Lochhead
ISBN: 9780367340919
Format: Hardback
$284.00

In this book, the corpus of Bachianas Brasileiras is contextualised and critically examined according to its structure...  Read More >>

Julian Bream: A Life on the Road

Julian Bream: A Life on the Road

Author: Tony Palmer
ISBN: 9781839014499
Format: Paperback
$28.44

The re-publishing of Tony Palmer's acclaimed biography of Julian Bream - for so long out-of-print and thus a much...  Read More >>

Digital Scenography in Opera in the Twenty-First Century

Digital Scenography in Opera in the Twenty-First Century...

Author: Caitlin Vincent
ISBN: 9780367553920
Format: Hardback
$284.00

Digital Scenography in Opera in the Twenty-First Century is the first definitive study of the use of digital scenography...  Read More >>

A New Perspective for the Use of Dialect in African American Spirituals: History, Context, and Linguistics

A New Perspective for the Use of Dialect in African...

Author: Felicia Raphael Marie Barber ,  Andre J. Thomas
ISBN: 9781793635341
Format: Hardback
$139.95

Perfect for conductors and performers alike, this book traces the history of African American English (AAE), its...  Read More >>

Sound in the Ecstatic-Materialist Perspective on Experimental Music

Sound in the Ecstatic-Materialist Perspective on Experimental...

Author: Riccardo D. Wanke
ISBN: 9780367676933
Format: Hardback
$284.00

What does a one-hour contemporary orchestral piece by Georg Friedrich Haas share with a series of glitch-noise electronic...  Read More >>

Saint-Saëns and the Stage: Operas, Plays, Pageants, a Ballet and a Film

Saint-Saëns and the Stage: Operas, Plays, Pageants,...

Author: Hugh Macdonald (Washington University, St Louis)
ISBN: 9781108445092
Format: Paperback
$69.84

Designed as a resource for opera lovers, opera professionals, and music students, this book provides a guide to...  Read More >>

Collected Piano Works: Volume 1

Collected Piano Works: Volume 1

Author: Gary Lloyd Noland
ISBN: 9781732302389
Format: Paperback
$64.66

This compilation of music by Gary Lloyd Noland (1957-) represents a sampling of his works for piano spanning the...  Read More >>

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