20th century & contemporary classical music books

This is a first-of-its-kind text: a collaborative volume dedicated solely to scholarly consideration of the drum...  Read More >>

This study examines the mid-twentieth-century evolution of popular music into a cultural movement in the United...  Read More >>

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Joaquín Rodrigo: A Research and Information Guide catalogues and summarizes the musical works and related literature...  Read More >>

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This book documents easy listening’s connections with film music, an aspect overlooked in academic and popular literature.The...  Read More >>

WINNER of the 2022 C.B. Oldman prize (IAML) More than 1600 fully annotated letters from and to Gerald Finzi, spanning...  Read More >>

"English summary: In 1920 Bruno Taut's ""Weltbaumeister"", an architectural spectacle for symphonic music, is published....  Read More >>

This Companion surveys women's work as composers, performers, educators and music technologists and how it has evolved...  Read More >>

The World of Bob Dylan aims at a wide audience looking to gain a deeper familiarity with the art and legacy of one...  Read More >>

This Companion surveys women's work as composers, performers, educators and music technologists and how it has evolved...  Read More >>

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This Element considers intersections of ambiguity, authority, and identity in works with open notations, where performers...  Read More >>

This Element addresses community in Chinese street music as a quality rather than as an entity to which people belong,...  Read More >>

Video game music has been permeating popular culture for over forty years. Now, reaching billions of listeners,...  Read More >>

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This collection addresses different issues involving performance and musical creation in contemporary piano music....  Read More >>

From Hitler’s notorious fondness for Wagner’s operas to classical music’s role in fuelling German chauvinism in...  Read More >>

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This work contributes to an understanding of immigration, identity and resilience and is particularly important...  Read More >>

This book provides a historically informed understanding of the reception of Puccini’s opera, La fanciulla del West...  Read More >>

The Nature of Nordic Music explores two distinctive yet complementary understandings of the term ‘nature’: the inherent...  Read More >>

The definitive, investigative biography of jazz legend Dave Brubeck  Read More >>

Trevor Jones is one of the most successful contemporary British-based composers of film and television music and...  Read More >>