20th century & contemporary classical music books

Works by the polymathic French author Victor Segalen, including a previously untranslated essay, a novel, and a...  Read More >>

"A detailed description of the percussion writing, score discrepancies, and performance techniques in Stravinsky's,...  Read More >>

This book is the first study to offer a wide-ranging investigation of ways in which democracy may thus be found...  Read More >>

Tells the story of an individual life, an excavation of African American musical resistance and dominant white historiography,...  Read More >>

In Gesprächen und Essays formulieren weltberühmte Mozart-InterpretInnen und bekannte Mozart-ExpertInnen ihre Erfahrungen...  Read More >>

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Concepts of Time in Post-War European Music gives a historical and philosophical account of the discussions of the...  Read More >>

A collection of specifically commissioned essays on a range of topics that contextualize the life and works of Richard...  Read More >>

Revealing much about the workings of the musical world, these conversations will not only be essential reading for...  Read More >>

"From the end of the Second World War through the U.S. Bicentennial, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Rockefeller...  Read More >>

The compelling story of Mahler's titanic Eighth Symphony.  Read More >>

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T. S. Eliot's first major full-length verse drama reissued for the 850th anniversary of Thomas Becket's death.  Read More >>

This title was first published in 2001. This work provides detailed information taken from the ’Programmes-as-Broadcast’...  Read More >>

This fascinating and well-constructed volume of essays builds understanding of the role and importance of music...  Read More >>

Die beiden thematischen Schwerpunkte des Jahrgangs präsentieren unterschiedlichste Aspekte zum Kosmos Lied sowie...  Read More >>

This fascinating and well-constructed volume of essays builds understanding of the role and importance of music...  Read More >>

Cathy Berberian (1925-1983) was a vocal performance artist, singer and composer who pioneered a way of composing...  Read More >>

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The aesthetics of imperfection emphasises spontaneity, disruption, process and energy over formal perfection and...  Read More >>

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Louise Talma (1906-1996) was the first female winner of two back-to-back Guggenheim Awards, the first American woman...  Read More >>

Musical analyses of works by thirteen Russian composers show how approaches to tonality, modernism, and serialism...  Read More >>