20th century & contemporary classical music books

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Britten Experienced is a response to two recent studies of the composer, and offers alternative critical readings...  Read More >>

In 1855 talented astronomer and scientist Charles Todd had a dream to build a telegraph line across Australia to...  Read More >>

Surrounded by the widespread misery of the Depression, left-leaning classical music composers sought a musical language...  Read More >>

"The history of the so-called ""New Jewish School of Music"" began with the founding of the Society for Jewish Folk...  Read More >>

This book uses archival research and analyses of musical performances and original oral histories to explore the...  Read More >>

This book is a music-theoretical and critical-theoretical study of late tonal music, and, in particular, of the...  Read More >>

The first comprehensive study of the late music of one of the most influential composers of the last half century,...  Read More >>

Das neue Buch von Peter Gülke kreist um die Grundsatzfrage nach der Verwandlung komponierter, geschriebener Musik...  Read More >>

A stunning photography book that explores the power, rebellion, and resilience held within the voices of trailblazing...  Read More >>

By the early twentieth century the machine aesthetic was a well-established and dominant interest that fundamentally...  Read More >>

Since the transformative 1960s, concert masses have incorporated a range of political and religious views that mirror...  Read More >>

This book studies the ways in which three fields of creative activity inspired by the medieval musical performance,...  Read More >>

This collection of essays delves into the historiographical traditions that have dominated how the stories of European...  Read More >>

Material Cultures of Music Notation brings together a collection of essays that explore an essential question in...  Read More >>

Experiencing Organised Sounds investigates a wide horizon of sound-based works using a template consistently across...  Read More >>

Experiencing Organised Sounds investigates a wide horizon of sound-based works using a template consistently across...  Read More >>

The Stage Works of Philip Glass is a rich exploration of Glass and his widely acclaimed music for the theatre within...  Read More >>

Virtuosos in the 21st century are exploring ways to expand standard playing techniques in a climate expecting ever-higher...  Read More >>

This book offers an innovative approach to understanding operetta, drawing attention to its malleability and resistance...  Read More >>

The first in-depth historical study of the origins of spectral music, which is widely regarded, alongside minimalism,...  Read More >>

An exhaustive biography of the world's greatest soprano - Maria Callas - on the centenary of her birth.  Read More >>

A landmark in Sibelius scholarship, this is the first book that presents all of Sibelius's solo art songs in their...  Read More >>

Central to the development of abstract art, in the early decades of the 20th century was the conception (most famously...  Read More >>

Synthesising and refocusing the wealth of recent research into two of Schoenberg's major compositions and highlighting...  Read More >>