20th century & contemporary classical music books

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""Taken by the Devil"": The Censorship of Frank Wedekind and Alban Berg's Lulu

""Taken by the Devil"": The Censorship of Frank Wedekind...

Author: Margaret Notley (Professor and Coordinator of Music History, Professor and Coordinator of Music History, University of North Texas College of Music)
ISBN: 9780190069865
Format: Hardback
$169.95

Through the telling of Alban Berg's Lulu, ""Taken by the Devil"" illuminates the forces of politically-driven censorship...  Read More >>

A History of the Symphony: The Grand Genre

A History of the Symphony: The Grand Genre

Author: Jeffrey Langford (Manhattan School of Music, USA)
ISBN: 9780815357056
Format: Paperback
$105.00

A History of the Symphony identifies the underlying cultural factors that have shaped the symphony over the past...  Read More >>

John Cage and Peter Yates: Correspondence on Music Criticism and Aesthetics

John Cage and Peter Yates: Correspondence on Music Criticism...

Author: Martin Iddon (University of Leeds)
ISBN: 9781108480062
Format: Hardback
$243.23

The correspondence between John Cage and Peter Yates represents the final part of Cage's three most significant...  Read More >>

A History of the Symphony: The Grand Genre

A History of the Symphony: The Grand Genre

Author: Jeffrey Langford (Manhattan School of Music, USA)
ISBN: 9780815357049
Format: Hardback
$305.00

A History of the Symphony identifies the underlying cultural factors that have shaped the symphony over the past...  Read More >>

Australian Music and Modernism, 1960-1975

Australian Music and Modernism, 1960-1975

Author: Dr. Michael Hooper (University of New South Wales, Australia)
ISBN: 9781501348181
Format: Hardback
$260.00

Drawing on newly available archival material, key works, and correspondence of the era, Australian Music and Modernism...  Read More >>

From Music to Sound: The Emergence of Sound in 20th- and 21st-Century Music

From Music to Sound: The Emergence of Sound in 20th-...

Author: Makis Solomos
ISBN: 9780367192136
Format: Hardback
$326.00

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The Music of John Ireland

The Music of John Ireland

Author: Fiona Richards
ISBN: 9781138727670
Format: Paperback
$71.99

This text explores the expressive and extra-musical qualities of Ireland's compositions and their complex system...  Read More >>

Music, Life and Changing Times: Selected Correspondence Between British Composers Elizabeth Maconchy and Grace Williams, 1927–77: Volume 1

Music, Life and Changing Times: Selected Correspondence...

Author: Sophie Fuller ,  Jenny Doctor
ISBN: 9781409424123
Format: Hardback
$263.00

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

Music, Life and Changing Times: Selected Correspondence Between British Composers Elizabeth Maconchy and Grace Williams, 1927–77: Volume 2

Music, Life and Changing Times: Selected Correspondence...

Author: Sophie Fuller ,  Jenny Doctor
ISBN: 9780367244644
Format: Hardback
$263.00

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

Radiohead and the Journey Beyond Genre: Analysing Stylistic Debates and Transgressions

Radiohead and the Journey Beyond Genre: Analysing Stylistic...

Author: Julia Ehmann
ISBN: 9781138334748
Format: Hardback
$305.00

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Das musikalische Auffuehrungsrecht in Deutschland im 19. Jahrhundert

Das musikalische Auffuehrungsrecht in Deutschland im...

Author: Felix Rasch
ISBN: 9783631792025
Format: Hardback
$131.45

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Music in Their Time: The Memoirs and Letters of Dora and Hubert Foss

Music in Their Time: The Memoirs and Letters of Dora...

Author: Stephen Lloyd ,  Diana Sparkes (Royalty Account)
ISBN: 9781783274130
Format: Hardback
$116.44

An intimate and readable account, filled with interesting and amusing anecdotes, of a highly creative period in...  Read More >>

Giacinto Scelsi: Music Across the Borders

Giacinto Scelsi: Music Across the Borders

Author: Brepols Publishers
ISBN: 9782503586441
Format: Hardback
$396.00

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Ethnomusicology Matters: Influencing Social and Political Realities

Ethnomusicology Matters: Influencing Social and Political...

Author: ao. Univ.-Prof. Dr. Ursula Hemetek ,  Marko Kölbl
ISBN: 9783205232865
Format: Hardback
$186.27

Ethnomusikologie - ethnomusicology  Read More >>

Music, Life, and Changing Times: Selected Correspondence Between British Composers Elizabeth Maconchy and Grace Williams, 1927-77

Music, Life, and Changing Times: Selected Correspondence...

Author: Sophie Fuller ,  Jenny Doctor
ISBN: 9780367244712
Format: Mixed media product
$431.00

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Freak Like Me: Confessions of a 90s pop groupie

Freak Like Me: Confessions of a 90s pop groupie

Author: Malcolm McLean
ISBN: 9781910453698
Format: Paperback
$24.99

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The Nature of Nordic Music

The Nature of Nordic Music

Author: Tim Howell
ISBN: 9781138207189
Format: Hardback
$305.00

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