20th century & contemporary classical music books

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Arvo Pärt's Resonant Texts: Choral and Organ Music 1956–2015

Arvo Pärt's Resonant Texts: Choral and Organ Music 1956–2015...
Author: Andrew Shenton (Boston University) ISBN: 9781107442894 Format: Paperback	$82.80
Statistically the most performed and listened to contemporary composer in the world, Pärt is a cultural and musical... Read More >>

Die unterschätzte Kunst: Musik seit der Ersten Aufklärung

Die unterschätzte Kunst: Musik seit der Ersten Aufklärung...
Author: Albrecht von Massow , Michael Haderer ISBN: 9783412515188 Format: Paperback	$186.27
Als grosse, integrale Kunstform wird Musik zunehmend unterschatzt. Die Anforderungen ihres Wissens und Konnens wollen... Read More >>

The Silent Musician: Why Conducting Matters

The Silent Musician: Why Conducting Matters
Author: Mark Wigglesworth ISBN: 9780571337910 Format: Paperback	$24.99
A unique insight into a conductor's world. Read More >>

Chanson Et Bagatelle

Chanson Et Bagatelle
Author: Francisco Coll ISBN: 9780571540785 Format: Book	$43.96
With this masterful 8-minute work Coll - a trombonist himself - has created a major addition to the instrument's... Read More >>

Prokofiev's Soviet Operas

Prokofiev's Soviet Operas
Author: Nathan Seinen (The Chinese University of Hong Kong) ISBN: 9781107088788 Format: Hardback	$243.23
Prokofiev's last four operas are major works of his career in the Soviet Union, yet the original versions remain... Read More >>

Puccini’s La fanciulla del West and American Musical Identity

Puccini’s La fanciulla del West and American Musical...
Author: Kathryn Fenton ISBN: 9781138102897 Format: Hardback	$305.00
This book provides a historically informed understanding of the reception of Puccini’s opera, La fanciulla del West... Read More >>

Swan Lake: Reimagining A Classic

Swan Lake: Reimagining A Classic
Author: Bill Cooper (Author) , Kevin O'Hare (Theatre) ISBN: 9781786825797 Format: Hardback	$90.00
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The Global Politics of Jazz in the Twentieth Century: Cultural Diplomacy and ""American Music""

The Global Politics of Jazz in the Twentieth Century:...
Author: Yoshiomi Saito (Kyoto University, Japan) ISBN: 9780367182984 Format: Hardback	$305.00
This comparative analysis on the range of jazz scenes and cultures offers a detailed evaluation as to why jazz diplomacy... Read More >>

Lou Koster: Komponieren in Luxemburg

Lou Koster: Komponieren in Luxemburg
Author: Danielle Roster ISBN: 9783412514068 Format: Hardback	$98.30
Lou Koster (1889-1973) gehorte zu den ersten Komponistinnen in der luxemburgischen Musikgeschichte und hatte hier... Read More >>

England Resounding: Elgar, Vaughan Williams, Britten and the English Musical Renaissance

England Resounding: Elgar, Vaughan Williams, Britten...
Author: Keith Alldritt ISBN: 9780719829758 Format: Hardback	$49.95
The spectacular revival of serious music in England is a chief feature of the history of British culture from the... Read More >>

The Cambridge Companion to Gershwin

The Cambridge Companion to Gershwin
Author: Anna Harwell Celenza (Georgetown University, Washington DC) ISBN: 9781108437646 Format: Paperback	$72.45
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The Cambridge Companion to Gershwin

The Cambridge Companion to Gershwin
Author: Anna Harwell Celenza (Georgetown University, Washington DC) ISBN: 9781108423533 Format: Hardback	$201.83
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The Pre-history of ‘The Midsummer Marriage’: Narratives and Speculations

The Pre-history of ‘The Midsummer Marriage’: Narratives...
Author: Roger Savage , Simon Keefe ISBN: 9780367243166 Format: Hardback	$110.00
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Harrison Birtwistle: The Mask of Orpheus

Harrison Birtwistle: The Mask of Orpheus
Author: Jonathan Cross ISBN: 9780367409203 Format: Paperback	$79.99
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Three Songs After Schubert

Three Songs After Schubert
Author: Cecilia McDowall ISBN: 9780193531857 Format: Book	$42.69
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Dmitry Shostakovich

Dmitry Shostakovich
Author: Pauline Fairclough ISBN: 9781789141276 Format: Paperback	$33.61
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Lateness and Modernism: Untimely Ideas about Music, Literature and Politics in Interwar Britain

Lateness and Modernism: Untimely Ideas about Music,...
Author: Sarah Collins (University of Western Australia, Perth) ISBN: 9781108481496 Format: Hardback	$243.23
Explores the political aesthetics of 'lateness' in the cultural sphere after World War I, mapping intersections... Read More >>

Rubble Music: Occupying the Ruins of Postwar Berlin, 1945–1950

Rubble Music: Occupying the Ruins of Postwar Berlin,...
Author: Abby Anderton ISBN: 9780253042422 Format: Paperback	$73.92
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Der Flimmernde Ton: Essay Uber Chopins Stil

Der Flimmernde Ton: Essay Uber Chopins Stil
Author: Piotr Wierzbicki , Steffen Moller ISBN: 9783447112666 Format: Paperback	$66.00
English Summary: Chopin of all people, who invented perhaps the most vocal melodies in the entire history of music... Read More >>

Rubble Music: Occupying the Ruins of Postwar Berlin, 1945–1950

Rubble Music: Occupying the Ruins of Postwar Berlin,...
Author: Abby Anderton ISBN: 9780253042415 Format: Hardback	$184.80
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Philosophy of New Music

Philosophy of New Music
Author: Theodor W. Adorno , Robert Hullot-Kentor ISBN: 9780816636679 Format: Paperback	$49.99
In 1947, Theodor Adorno, one of the seminal European philosophers of the postwar years, announced his return after... Read More >>

German Operetta on Broadway and in the West End, 1900–1940

German Operetta on Broadway and in the West End, 1900–1940...
Author: Derek B. Scott (University of Leeds) ISBN: 9781108484589 Format: Hardback	$284.63
A study of a neglected but crucial part of the history of the West End and Broadway. The stage works presented here... Read More >>

When Words Fail: A Life with Music, War and Peace

When Words Fail: A Life with Music, War and Peace
Author: Ed Vulliamy ISBN: 9781783783373 Format: Paperback	$27.99
Built around 16 life-changing gigs and concerts, a passionate investigation of the charged frontier between 20th... Read More >>

Schoenberg's Atonal Music: Musical Idea, Basic Image, and Specters of Tonal Function

Schoenberg's Atonal Music: Musical Idea, Basic Image,...
Author: Jack Boss (University of Oregon) ISBN: 9781108419130 Format: Hardback	$284.63
The 'prequel' to Schoenberg's Twelve-Tone Music (Cambridge, 2014), this book demonstrates that the term 'atonal'... Read More >>

Music History and Cosmopolitanism

Music History and Cosmopolitanism
Author: Anastasia Belina , Kaarina Kilpiö ISBN: 9781138481138 Format: Hardback	$305.00
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