20th century & contemporary classical music books

This is an interdisciplinary study examining the evolution and compositional process in Elliott Carter’s five string...  Read More >>

From Music to Sound is an examination of the six musical histories whose convergence produces the emergence of sound,...  Read More >>

Andrei Tarkovsky's Sounding Cinema adds a new dimension to our understanding and appreciation of the work of Russian...  Read More >>

This book examines Delius's individual approaches to genre, form, harmony, orchestration and literary texts which...  Read More >>

At this book's core is a critical edition of letters exchanged over 50 years between Anglo-Irish composer Elizabeth...  Read More >>

This long-awaited study of the life and music of Anglo-Irish composer Ernest John Moeran (1894-1950) finally provides...  Read More >>

2022 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Winner. Drawing on a wealth of unexplored sources, this biography offers...  Read More >>

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

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The book challenges hierarchies of artistic value and the associated denigration of sentimental feeling in gendered...  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 >>

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English translations of Tagore's songs now available, aiming to convey their artistic value globally. Divided into...  Read More >>

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

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