20th century & contemporary classical music books

The Operatic Archive: American Opera as History extends the growing interdisciplinary dialogue in opera studies...  Read More >>

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

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

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

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

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 describes the collaborative interaction of internationally acclaimed composer...  Read More >>

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

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 is an interdisciplinary study of house concerts and other DIY (‘do-it-yourself’)...  Read More >>

"This history of the 1990s underground punk renaissance in the US traces punk participation in protest movements,...  Read More >>

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Crisis Music presents each brief biography almost like a detective story looking for motives, then spotlights one...  Read More >>

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

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 is the first definitive study of the use of digital scenography...  Read More >>

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

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

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

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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