20th century & contemporary classical music books

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The Pre-History of ‘The Midsummer Marriage’ examines the early collaborative phase (1943 to 1946) in the making...  Read More >>

This first book-length study of music history and cosmopolitanism is informed by arguments that culture and identity...  Read More >>

This book, first published in 1934, contains the recollections of the varied and coloured life of a great pianist...  Read More >>

Identity and Diversity in New Music: The New Complexities aims to enrich the discussion of how musicians and educators...  Read More >>

This anthology of over 40 scores and excerpts represents a wide range of music from across the twentieth century...  Read More >>

This anthology of over 40 scores and excerpts represents a wide range of music from across the twentieth century...  Read More >>

"This is the sequel to ""A Sparrow Alone"" but can be read as a standalone book."  Read More >>

Jon English was the original multitasker. He was the pop star with the raccoon eyes who sang such hits as ‘Hollywood...  Read More >>

This Element gives a wide perspective of pre-existing music in narrative cinema, placing baroque music in the context...  Read More >>

The story behind the scandalous first performance of one of the most influential works in the history of music....  Read More >>

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Understanding Post-Tonal Music is a student-centered textbook that explores the compositional and musical processes...  Read More >>

Understanding Post-Tonal Music is a student-centered textbook that explores the compositional and musical processes...  Read More >>

Ranging over various aesthetic forms (literature, film, music) in the period since 1960, this volume brings an antipodean...  Read More >>

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A timely attempt to re-map a critical appreciation of early twentieth-century modernism through a Nordic lens.  Read More >>

Over the last millennium, musical notation has become a powerful system of symbolic, non-verbal communication among...  Read More >>

This study considers how curatorial forces are at work within an opera house dentifying the functionaries and processes...  Read More >>

Fin de siecle Vienna witnessed the emergence of chamber music from the private, domestic sphere into the public...  Read More >>

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"This anthology to accompany Gateways to Understanding Music is comprised of musical ""texts."" These broadly-defined...  Read More >>

Taking Australia as a case study, this two-volume collection of extended essays demonstrates that emotional experiences,...  Read More >>

Spanning two millennia, The Origins and Ascendancy of the Concert Mass outlines the origins and meanings of the...  Read More >>

"This anthology to accompany Gateways to Understanding Music is comprised of musical ""texts."" These broadly-defined...  Read More >>