20th century & contemporary classical music books

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Ocean of Sound: Ambient sound and radical listening in the age of communication

Ocean of Sound: Ambient sound and radical listening...
Author: David Toop , Michel Faber ISBN: 9781788160308 Format: Paperback	$24.99
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The Sound of a Superpower: Musical Americanism and the Cold War

The Sound of a Superpower: Musical Americanism and the...
Author: Emily Abrams Ansari (Assistant Professor of Musicology, Assistant Professor of Musicology, Western University) ISBN: 9780190649692 Format: Hardback	$92.95
After two decades of remarkable success, the quest to create a uniquely American classical music faltered in the... Read More >>

Latin Preludes Collection

Latin Preludes Collection
Author: Christopher Norton ISBN: 9781784544645 Format: Undefined	$33.61
Embark on a voyage of discovery with this stunning collection of 14 original Latin Preludes from the creator of... Read More >>

Music on Stage Volume III

Music on Stage Volume III
Author: Fiona Jane Schopf ISBN: 9781527511613 Format: Hardback	$263.87
The Music on Stage conferences are a unique engine for interdisciplinary interaction, which is reflected in this... Read More >>

Twentieth-Century Classical Music: A Ladybird Expert Book

Twentieth-Century Classical Music: A Ladybird Expert...
Author: Fiona Maddocks ISBN: 9780718187866 Format: Hardback	$19.99
An accessible, authoritative and entertaining introduction to 20th Century Classical Music for adult readers Part... Read More >>

Singing in the Age of Anxiety: Lieder Performances in New York and London between the World Wars

Singing in the Age of Anxiety: Lieder Performances in...
Author: Laura Tunbridge ISBN: 9780226563572 Format: Hardback	$97.95
In New York and London during World War I, the performance of lieder—German art songs—was roundly prohibited, representing... Read More >>

Hanns Eisler's Art Songs: Arguing with Beauty

Hanns Eisler's Art Songs: Arguing with Beauty
Author: Heidi Hart (Author) ISBN: 9781640140004 Format: Hardback	$290.40
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Night Piece

Night Piece
Author: Richard Causton ISBN: 9780193405097 Format: Book	$13.95
Richard Causton's Night Piece for solo piano is a short encore work based on the clarinet line from the slow movement... Read More >>

Fat Knight

Fat Knight
Author: Ralph Vaughan Williams , Martin Yates ISBN: 9780193519718 Format: Book	$50.95
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Job, a Masque for Dancing

Job, a Masque for Dancing
Author: Ralph Vaughan Williams ISBN: 9780193514324 Format: Book	$40.95
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Music Criticism in France, 1918-1939: Authority, Advocacy, Legacy

Music Criticism in France, 1918-1939: Authority, Advocacy,...
Author: Barbara L. Kelly , Christopher Moore (Royalty Account) ISBN: 9781783272518 Format: Hardback	$343.20
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British Musical Criticism and Intellectual Thought, 1850-1950

British Musical Criticism and Intellectual Thought,...
Author: Jeremy Dibble , Julian Horton (Royalty Account) ISBN: 9781783272877 Format: Hardback	$284.63
This collection provides an in-depth look at musical criticism between the mid-nineteenth and the mid-twentieth... Read More >>

Symphony No. 4

Symphony No. 4
Author: Ralph Vaughan Williams ISBN: 9780193519671 Format: Hardback	$204.00
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DC Jazz: Stories of Jazz Music in Washington, DC

DC Jazz: Stories of Jazz Music in Washington, DC
Author: Maurice Jackson , Blair A. Ruble ISBN: 9781626165892 Format: Hardback	$57.99
This book presents a collection of fascinating stories about the DC jazz scene throughout its history, including... Read More >>

Female Composers, Conductors, Performers: Musiciennes of Interwar France, 1919-1939

Female Composers, Conductors, Performers: Musiciennes...
Author: Laura Hamer ISBN: 9781138212039 Format: Hardback	$305.00
Drawing upon extensive archival research, interview material and musical analysis, Laura Hamer presents an innovative... Read More >>

The Routledge Research Companion to Electronic Music: Reaching out with Technology

The Routledge Research Companion to Electronic Music:...
Author: Simon Emmerson ISBN: 9781472472915 Format: Hardback	$431.00
The theme of this Research Companion is ’connectivity and the global reach of electroacoustic music and sonic arts... Read More >>

Lutoslawski's Worlds

Lutoslawski's Worlds
Author: Lisa Jakelski (Royalty Account) , Nicholas Reyland (Royalty Account) ISBN: 9781783271986 Format: Hardback	$207.00
Witold Lutoslawski was one of the most important composers of the twentieth century, whose significance extends... Read More >>

Performing Propaganda: Musical Life and Culture in Paris during the First World War

Performing Propaganda: Musical Life and Culture in Paris...
Author: Rachel Moore (Author) ISBN: 9781783271887 Format: Hardback	$290.40
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Literary Britten: Words and Music in Benjamin Britten's Vocal Works

Literary Britten: Words and Music in Benjamin Britten's...
Author: Kate Kennedy , Adrian Poole ISBN: 9781783272853 Format: Hardback	$284.63
Britten is the most literary British composer of the twentieth century. His relationship to the many and varied... Read More >>

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: 9781107082458 Format: Hardback	$316.80
Statistically the most performed and listened to contemporary composer in the world, Pärt is a cultural and musical... Read More >>

Strutt Sonata

Strutt Sonata
Author: Carl Vine ISBN: 9780571540631 Format: Book	$38.79
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Gustav Mahler's Symphonic Landscapes

Gustav Mahler's Symphonic Landscapes
Author: Thomas Peattie (Boston University) ISBN: 9781108456548 Format: Paperback	$82.80
Thomas Peattie provides a richly interdisciplinary account of Gustav Mahler's music, considering the theatrical... Read More >>

Schoenberg and Hollywood Modernism

Schoenberg and Hollywood Modernism
Author: Kenneth H. Marcus (University of la Verne, California) ISBN: 9781107652491 Format: Paperback	$98.32
Schoenberg is often viewed as an isolated composer who was ill-at-ease in exile. Kenneth H. Marcus shows that, contrary... Read More >>

Rival Sisters, Art and Music at the Birth of Modernism, 1815–1915

Rival Sisters, Art and Music at the Birth of Modernism,...
Author: James H. Rubin , Olivia Mattis ISBN: 9781138548091 Format: Paperback	$98.99
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Béla Bartók

Béla Bartók
Author: David Cooper ISBN: 9780300234374 Format: Paperback	$41.95
The definitive account of the life and music of Hungary’s greatest twentieth-century composer Read More >>

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