20th century & contemporary classical music books

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Women's Music for the Screen: Diverse Narratives in Sound

Women's Music for the Screen: Diverse Narratives in...
Author: Felicity Wilcox (University of Technology Sydney, Australia) ISBN: 9780367210250 Format: Hardback	$284.00
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The Cambridge Companion to Music and Romanticism

The Cambridge Companion to Music and Romanticism
Author: Benedict Taylor (University of Edinburgh) ISBN: 9781108466875 Format: Paperback	$64.66
This accessible Companion showcases the importance of music within Romantic culture and thought in the 'long' nineteenth... Read More >>

The Cambridge Companion to Music and Romanticism

The Cambridge Companion to Music and Romanticism
Author: Benedict Taylor (University of Edinburgh) ISBN: 9781108475433 Format: Hardback	$204.39
This accessible Companion showcases the importance of music within Romantic culture and thought in the 'long' nineteenth... Read More >>

Reimagine to Revitalise: New Approaches to Performance Practices Across Cultures

Reimagine to Revitalise: New Approaches to Performance...
Author: Charulatha Mani ISBN: 9781108829731 Format: Paperback	$43.99
Focusing on vocal ornamentation found in the classical music of South India and Monteverdi's operas, the author... Read More >>

Phonographic Encounters: Mapping Transnational Cultures of Sound, 1890-1945

Phonographic Encounters: Mapping Transnational Cultures...
Author: Elodie A. Roy (University of Newcastle, UK) , Eva Moreda Rodriguez (University of Glasgow, UK) ISBN: 9780367439217 Format: Hardback	$284.00
With case studies from China, Australia, the United States, Latin America, Russia, Sweden, Germany, Spain, Portugal,... Read More >>

Béla Bartók in Italy: The Politics of Myth-Making

Béla Bartók in Italy: The Politics of Myth-Making
Author: Nicolò Palazzetti , Michael Middeke ISBN: 9781783276202 Format: Hardback	$245.81
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Teaching Electronic Music: Cultural, Creative, and Analytical Perspectives

Teaching Electronic Music: Cultural, Creative, and Analytical...
Author: Blake Stevens ISBN: 9780367415785 Format: Paperback	$77.99
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Teaching Electronic Music: Cultural, Creative, and Analytical Perspectives

Teaching Electronic Music: Cultural, Creative, and Analytical...
Author: Blake Stevens ISBN: 9780367415808 Format: Hardback	$284.00
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Schoenberg's Atonal Music: Musical Idea, Basic Image, and Specters of Tonal Function

Schoenberg's Atonal Music: Musical Idea, Basic Image,...
Author: Jack Boss (University of Oregon) ISBN: 9781108409933 Format: Paperback	$95.71
The 'prequel' to Schoenberg's Twelve-Tone Music (Cambridge, 2014), this book demonstrates that the term 'atonal'... Read More >>

The Cambridge Stravinsky Encyclopedia

The Cambridge Stravinsky Encyclopedia
Author: Edward Campbell (University of Aberdeen) , Peter O'Hagan (Roehampton University, London) ISBN: 9781107140875 Format: Hardback	$326.03
Details the life, works, writings and aesthetic relationships of Igor Stravinsky, whose music epitomises the stylistic... Read More >>

Einstein on the Beach: Opera beyond Drama

Einstein on the Beach: Opera beyond Drama
Author: Jelena Novak , John Richardson ISBN: 9781032082608 Format: Paperback	$83.99
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Beggars Banquet and the Rolling Stones' Rock and Roll Revolution: ‘They Call My Name Disturbance'

Beggars Banquet and the Rolling Stones' Rock and Roll...
Author: Russell Reising ISBN: 9781032082431 Format: Paperback	$83.99
The Rolling Stones’ Beggars Banquet is one of the seminal albums in rock history. Arguably it not only marks the... Read More >>

The Routledge Handbook to Music under German Occupation, 1938-1945: Propaganda, Myth and Reality

The Routledge Handbook to Music under German Occupation,...
Author: David Fanning , Erik Levi ISBN: 9781032082653 Format: Paperback	$92.99
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Prokofiev's Soviet Operas

Prokofiev's Soviet Operas
Author: Nathan Seinen (The Chinese University of Hong Kong) ISBN: 9781107460799 Format: Paperback	$80.19
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Scala Radio's A Soundtrack for Life: Classical Music to Take You Through the Day

Scala Radio's A Soundtrack for Life: Classical Music...
Author: Scala Radio ISBN: 9780857839671 Format: Hardback	$55.00
A listener's guide to classical music to take you through the day, from getting up and getting dressed, to running,... Read More >>

New Music and the Crises of Materiality: Sounding Bodies and Objects in Late Modernity

New Music and the Crises of Materiality: Sounding Bodies...
Author: Samuel Wilson ISBN: 9780367481858 Format: Hardback	$284.00
Arguing that new music in this era reflects a historical moment when the idea of materiality itself is in flux,... Read More >>

From Music to Sound: The Emergence of Sound in 20th- and 21st-Century Music

From Music to Sound: The Emergence of Sound in 20th-...
Author: Makis Solomos (University of Paris, France) ISBN: 9781032087160 Format: Paperback	$83.99
From Music to Sound is an examination of the six musical histories whose convergence produces the emergence of sound,... Read More >>

Radiohead and the Journey Beyond Genre: Analysing Stylistic Debates and Transgressions

Radiohead and the Journey Beyond Genre: Analysing Stylistic...
Author: Julia Ehmann ISBN: 9781032087580 Format: Paperback	$83.99
Radiohead and the Journey Beyond Genre traces uses and transgressions of genre in the music of Radiohead and studies... Read More >>

Andrei Tarkovsky's Sounding Cinema: Music and Meaning from Solaris to The Sacrifice

Andrei Tarkovsky's Sounding Cinema: Music and Meaning...
Author: Tobias Pontara (Gothenburg University, Sweden) ISBN: 9781032083773 Format: Paperback	$83.99
Andrei Tarkovsky's Sounding Cinema adds a new dimension to our understanding and appreciation of the work of Russian... Read More >>

Compositional Process in Elliott Carter’s String Quartets: A Study in Sketches

Compositional Process in Elliott Carter’s String Quartets:...
Author: Laura Emmery , Judy Lochhead ISBN: 9781032084848 Format: Paperback	$83.99
This is an interdisciplinary study examining the evolution and compositional process in Elliott Carter’s five string... Read More >>

The Music of Frederick Delius: Style, Form and Ethos

The Music of Frederick Delius: Style, Form and Ethos...
Author: Jeremy Dibble ISBN: 9781783275779 Format: Hardback	$116.44
This book examines Delius's individual approaches to genre, form, harmony, orchestration and literary texts which... Read More >>

Music, Life, and Changing Times: Selected Correspondence Between British Composers Elizabeth Maconchy and Grace Williams, 1927-77

Music, Life, and Changing Times: Selected Correspondence...
Author: Sophie Fuller , Jenny Doctor ISBN: 9781032087825 Format: Mixed media product	$90.99
At this book's core is a critical edition of letters exchanged over 50 years between Anglo-Irish composer Elizabeth... Read More >>

The Cambridge Companion to the Drum Kit

The Cambridge Companion to the Drum Kit
Author: Matt Brennan (University of Glasgow) , Joseph Michael Pignato ISBN: 9781108747653 Format: Paperback	$64.66
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Ernest John Moeran: His Life and Music

Ernest John Moeran: His Life and Music
Author: Ian Maxwell (Honorary Research Fellow, Music Department, University of Sheffield) ISBN: 9781783276011 Format: Hardback	$116.44
This long-awaited study of the life and music of Anglo-Irish composer Ernest John Moeran (1894-1950) finally provides... Read More >>

Nikolay Myaskovsky: A Composer and His Times

Nikolay Myaskovsky: A Composer and His Times
Author: Patrick Zuk (Royalty Account) ISBN: 9781783275755 Format: Hardback	$181.13
2022 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Winner. Drawing on a wealth of unexplored sources, this biography offers... Read More >>

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