20th century & contemporary classical music books

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Michael Tippett’s Fifth String Quartet: A Study in Vision and Revision

Michael Tippett’s Fifth String Quartet: A Study in Vision...
Author: Thomas Schuttenhelm ISBN: 9780367607395 Format: Paperback	$46.99
Schuttenhelm provides a detailed account of the events leading up to and through the quartet’s compositional process,... Read More >>

Shared Meanings in the Film Music of Philip Glass: Music, Multimedia and Postminimalism

Shared Meanings in the Film Music of Philip Glass: Music,...
Author: Tristian Evans ISBN: 9780367598044 Format: Paperback	$83.99
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Before and After Corroboree: The Music of John Antill

Before and After Corroboree: The Music of John Antill...
Author: David Symons (The University of Western Australia, Australia) ISBN: 9780367597368 Format: Paperback	$83.99
Although a prolific and much esteemed composer in Australia, John Antill's wider reputation is sustained chiefly... Read More >>

Reeled In: Pre-existing Music in Narrative Film

Reeled In: Pre-existing Music in Narrative Film
Author: Jonathan Godsall ISBN: 9780367586386 Format: Paperback	$83.99
How and why is pre-existing music used in films? What effects can its use have on films and audiences? And what... Read More >>

Re-Locating the Sounds of the Western

Re-Locating the Sounds of the Western
Author: Kendra Preston Leonard , Mariana Whitmer ISBN: 9780367586980 Format: Paperback	$83.99
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The Life and Works of Andrzej Panufnik (1914-1991)

The Life and Works of Andrzej Panufnik (1914-1991)
Author: Beata Boles?awska , translated by Richard J. Reisner ISBN: 9780367599249 Format: Paperback	$83.99
Beata BolesÅ‚awska presents the first book on the life and artistic output of one Poland's leading composers. The... Read More >>

Music and Exile in Francoist Spain

Music and Exile in Francoist Spain
Author: Eva Rodriguez ISBN: 9780367597214 Format: Paperback	$83.99
As the first English-language monograph to explore the connections of Spanish exiled composers with their homeland... Read More >>

The Music of Pavel Haas: Analytical and Hermeneutical Studies

The Music of Pavel Haas: Analytical and Hermeneutical...
Author: Martin Čurda ISBN: 9781138360013 Format: Hardback	$284.00
This book is the first attempt to provide a comprehensive (albeit necessarily selective) discussion of Pavel Haas’s... Read More >>

The Symphonic Poem in Britain, 1850-1950

The Symphonic Poem in Britain, 1850-1950
Author: Michael Allis , Paul Watt ISBN: 9781783275281 Format: Hardback	$284.63
The Symphonic Poem in Britain 1850-1950aims to raise the status of the genre generally, and in Britain specifically,... Read More >>

Passionate Spirit: The Life of Alma Mahler

Passionate Spirit: The Life of Alma Mahler
Author: Cate Haste ISBN: 9781408878361 Format: Paperback	$22.99
A new biography of Alma Mahler (1879-1964), reveals a woman determined to wield power in a world that denied her... Read More >>

Investigating Musical Performance: Theoretical Models and Intersections

Investigating Musical Performance: Theoretical Models...
Author: Gianmario Borio , Giovanni Giuriati (University of Rome, Italy) ISBN: 9780367134389 Format: Hardback	$284.00
Investigating Musical Performance considers the wide range of perspectives on musical performance made tangible... Read More >>

Sing New Zealand: The Story of Choral Music in Aotearoa

Sing New Zealand: The Story of Choral Music in Aotearoa...
Author: Guy Jansen , Negar Partow ISBN: 9780995113510 Format: Undefined	$90.54
How group singing evolved from its colonial origins to today's award-winning international choirs Read More >>

Peter Maxwell Davies, Selected Writings

Peter Maxwell Davies, Selected Writings
Author: Peter Maxwell Davies , Nicholas Jones (Cardiff University) ISBN: 9781316610534 Format: Paperback	$80.19
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German Song Onstage: Lieder Performance in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries

German Song Onstage: Lieder Performance in the Nineteenth...
Author: Natasha Loges , Laura Tunbridge ISBN: 9780253047014 Format: Paperback	$62.95
A singer in an evening dress, a grand piano. A modest-sized audience, mostly well-dressed and silver-haired, equipped... Read More >>

Granville Bantock (1868–1946): A Guide to Research

Granville Bantock (1868–1946): A Guide to Research
Author: John C. Dressler ISBN: 9781942954798 Format: Hardback	$396.00
Granville Bantock: A Guide to Research provides both researchers and British music aficionados an entry to documents,... Read More >>

German Song Onstage: Lieder Performance in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries

German Song Onstage: Lieder Performance in the Nineteenth...
Author: Natasha Loges , Laura Tunbridge ISBN: 9780253047007 Format: Hardback	$160.95
A singer in an evening dress, a grand piano. A modest-sized audience, mostly well-dressed and silver-haired, equipped... Read More >>

Brick City Vanguard: Amiri Baraka, Black Music, Black Modernity

Brick City Vanguard: Amiri Baraka, Black Music, Black...
Author: James Smethurst ISBN: 9781625345158 Format: Paperback	$71.15
Drawing on primary texts, paratexts, audio and visual recordings, and archival sources, James Smethurst looks at... Read More >>

John Adams: A Research and Information Guide

John Adams: A Research and Information Guide
Author: Alexander Sanchez-Behar ISBN: 9781138055803 Format: Hardback	$252.00
John Adams: A Research and Information Guide offers the first comprehensive guide to the musical works and literature... Read More >>

The Operatic Archive: American Opera as History

The Operatic Archive: American Opera as History
Author: Colleen Renihan (Queen’s University at Kingston, Canada) , Roberta Marvin (University of Massachusetts, USA) ISBN: 9780367134327 Format: Hardback	$242.00
The Operatic Archive: American Opera as History extends the growing interdisciplinary dialogue in opera studies... Read More >>

British Music after Britten

British Music after Britten
Author: Arnold Whittall ISBN: 9781783274970 Format: Hardback	$245.81
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Verfolgte Musiker im nationalsozialistischen Thüringen: Eine Spurensuche

Verfolgte Musiker im nationalsozialistischen Thüringen:...
Author: Prof. Dr. Helen Geyer , Dr. Maria Stolarzewicz ISBN: 9783412517533 Format: Paperback	$124.17
Schicksale verfolgter Musiker und Musikerinnen in Thüringen Read More >>

After Debussy: Music, Language, and the Margins of Philosophy

After Debussy: Music, Language, and the Margins of Philosophy...
Author: Julian Johnson (Regius Professor of Music, Regius Professor of Music, Royal Holloway, University of London) ISBN: 9780190066826 Format: Hardback	$122.95
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Rethinking Prokofiev

Rethinking Prokofiev
Author: Rita McAllister (Emeritus Professor, Emeritus Professor, Royal Conservatoire of Scotland) , Christina Guillaumier (Head of Undergraduate Programmes, Head of Undergraduate Programmes, Royal College of Music, London) ISBN: 9780190670771 Format: Paperback	$85.95
Rethinking Prokofiev looks at the background, context, and musical mechanics of Sergei Prokofiev's work, revealing... Read More >>

Rethinking Prokofiev

Rethinking Prokofiev
Author: Rita McAllister (Emeritus Professor, Emeritus Professor, Royal Conservatoire of Scotland) , Christina Guillaumier (Head of Undergraduate Programmes, Head of Undergraduate Programmes, Royal College of Music, London) ISBN: 9780190670764 Format: Hardback	$245.95
Rethinking Prokofiev looks at the background, context, and musical mechanics of Sergei Prokofiev's work, revealing... Read More >>

Brick City Vanguard: Amiri Baraka, Black Music, Black Modernity

Brick City Vanguard: Amiri Baraka, Black Music, Black...
Author: James Smethurst ISBN: 9781625345141 Format: Hardback	$237.60
Drawing on primary texts, paratexts, audio and visual recordings, and archival sources, James Smethurst looks at... Read More >>

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