20th century & contemporary classical music books

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The Aesthetics of Imperfection in Music and the Arts: Spontaneity, Flaws and the Unfinished

The Aesthetics of Imperfection in Music and the Arts:...
Author: Andy Hamilton (Durham University, UK) , Dr Lara Pearson (Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, Germany) ISBN: 9781350331037 Format: Paperback	$84.99
The aesthetics of imperfection emphasises spontaneity, disruption, process and energy over formal perfection and... Read More >>

The Heroic in Music

The Heroic in Music
Author: Beate Kutschke , Katherine Butler, BSc MBBCh ISBN: 9781783276899 Format: Hardback	$245.81
Reconstructs the socio-political history of the heroic in music through case studies spanning the middle ages to... Read More >>

Benjamin Britten in Context

Benjamin Britten in Context
Author: Vicki P Stroeher (Marshall University, West Virginia) , Justin Vickers (Illinois State University) ISBN: 9781108496698 Format: Hardback	$230.26
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Karl Straube (1873–1950): Germany’s Master Organist in Turbulent Times

Karl Straube (1873–1950): Germany’s Master Organist...
Author: Professor Christopher Anderson , Emeritus Professor Ralph P. Locke (Series Editor) ISBN: 9781648250385 Format: Hardback	$488.40
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Rock and Roll, Desegregation Movements, and Racism in the Post-Civil Rights Era: "An ""Integrated Effort"""

Rock and Roll, Desegregation Movements, and Racism in...
Author: Beth Fowler ISBN: 9781793613851 Format: Hardback	$235.00
This book uses archival research and analyses of musical performances and original oral histories to explore the... Read More >>

Claiming Wagner for France: Music and Politics in the Parisian Press, 1933-1944

Claiming Wagner for France: Music and Politics in the...
Author: Rachel Orzech , Emeritus Professor Ralph P. Locke (Series Editor) ISBN: 9781580469708 Format: Hardback	$290.40
A pathbreaking study of the Parisian press's attempts to claim Richard Wagner's place in French history and imagination... Read More >>

Music behind the Iron Curtain: Weinberg and his Polish Contemporaries

Music behind the Iron Curtain: Weinberg and his Polish...
Author: Daniel Elphick (Royal Holloway, University of London) ISBN: 9781108737760 Format: Paperback	$64.66
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John Cage and Peter Yates: Correspondence on Music Criticism and Aesthetics

John Cage and Peter Yates: Correspondence on Music Criticism...
Author: Martin Iddon (University of Leeds) ISBN: 9781108703178 Format: Paperback	$80.19
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Lateness and Modernism: Untimely Ideas about Music, Literature and Politics in Interwar Britain

Lateness and Modernism: Untimely Ideas about Music,...
Author: Sarah Collins (University of Western Australia, Perth) ISBN: 9781108722667 Format: Paperback	$80.19
Explores the political aesthetics of 'lateness' in the cultural sphere after World War I, mapping intersections... Read More >>

Talking Guitar: Conversations with Musicians Who Shaped Twentieth-Century American Music

Talking Guitar: Conversations with Musicians Who Shaped...
Author: Jas Obrecht ISBN: 9781469669373 Format: Paperback	$67.10
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Emma and Claude Debussy: The Biography of a Relationship

Emma and Claude Debussy: The Biography of a Relationship...
Author: Gillian Opstad ISBN: 9781783276585 Format: Hardback	$129.38
Emma Bardac and her relationship with Claude Debussy take centre stage in this insightful exploration of their lives... Read More >>

The Music of Pavel Haas: Analytical and Hermeneutical Studies

The Music of Pavel Haas: Analytical and Hermeneutical...
Author: Martin Čurda ISBN: 9781032235622 Format: Paperback	$83.99
This book is the first attempt to provide a comprehensive (albeit necessarily selective) discussion of Pavel Haas’s... Read More >>

Investigating Musical Performance: Theoretical Models and Intersections

Investigating Musical Performance: Theoretical Models...
Author: Gianmario Borio , Giovanni Giuriati (University of Rome, Italy) ISBN: 9781032235776 Format: Paperback	$83.99
Investigating Musical Performance considers the wide range of perspectives on musical performance made tangible... Read More >>

Music: A Social Experience

Music: A Social Experience
Author: Steven Cornelius , Mary Natvig ISBN: 9780367740337 Format: Paperback	$194.00
By taking a thematic approach to the study of music appreciation, Music: A Social Experience, Third Edition demonstrates... Read More >>

The Routledge Handbook to the Music of Alfred Schnittke

The Routledge Handbook to the Music of Alfred Schnittke...
Author: Gavin Dixon , . Pauline Fairclough ISBN: 9780367222468 Format: Hardback	$452.00
This book is a comprehensive study of the work of one of the most important Russian composers of the late 20th century.... Read More >>

Music: A Social Experience

Music: A Social Experience
Author: Steven Cornelius , Mary Natvig ISBN: 9780367740351 Format: Hardback	$284.00
By taking a thematic approach to the study of music appreciation, Music: A Social Experience, Third Edition demonstrates... Read More >>

The Creative Labor of Music Patronage in Interwar France

The Creative Labor of Music Patronage in Interwar France...
Author: Louis K. Epstein (Customer) ISBN: 9781783276691 Format: Hardback	$207.00
Challenges the longstanding perception that modernist composers made art, not money, and that those who made money... Read More >>

Elliott Carter's Late Music

Elliott Carter's Late Music
Author: John Link ISBN: 9780521769761 Format: Hardback	$310.50
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Demystifying Scriabin

Demystifying Scriabin
Author: Vasilis Kallis , Professor Kenneth Smith ISBN: 9781783276561 Format: Hardback	$245.81
An innovative contribution to Scriabin studies, covering aspects of Scriabin's life, personality, beliefs, training,... Read More >>

Janelle Monáe’s ""Dirty Computer""

Janelle Monáe’s ""Dirty Computer""
Author: Dan Hassler-Forest ISBN: 9783030906528 Format: Hardback	$171.57
This book offers an in-depth analysis of Janelle Monáe’s Dirty Computer, an Afrofuturist project that appeared simultaneously... Read More >>

Women in Jazz: Musicality, Femininity, Marginalization

Women in Jazz: Musicality, Femininity, Marginalization...
Author: Marie Buscatto (University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France) ISBN: 9781032011783 Format: Paperback	$88.99
Women in Jazz: Musicality, Femininity, Marginalization examines the invisible discrimination against female musicians... Read More >>

Women in Jazz: Musicality, Femininity, Marginalization

Women in Jazz: Musicality, Femininity, Marginalization...
Author: Marie Buscatto (University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France) ISBN: 9781032011813 Format: Hardback	$284.00
Women in Jazz: Musicality, Femininity, Marginalization examines the invisible discrimination against female musicians... Read More >>

Australian Music and Modernism, 1960-1975

Australian Music and Modernism, 1960-1975
Author: Dr. Michael Hooper (University of New South Wales, Australia) ISBN: 9781501381461 Format: Paperback	$61.99
"Drawing on newly available archival material, key works, and correspondence of the era, Australian Music and Modernism... Read More >>

Musics with and after Tonality: Mining the Gap

Musics with and after Tonality: Mining the Gap
Author: Paul Fleet ISBN: 9781138316362 Format: Hardback	$305.00
This volume is a journey through musics that emerged at the turn of the 20th Century and were neither exclusively... Read More >>

Modes of Communication in Stravinsky’s Works: Sign and Expression

Modes of Communication in Stravinsky’s Works: Sign and...
Author: Per Dahl ISBN: 9781032111087 Format: Hardback	$284.00
Igor Stravinsky left behind a complex heritage of music and ideas. Per Dahl presents a model of communication that... Read More >>

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