20th century & contemporary classical music books

2359 books were found.

Sorabji: A Critical Celebration

Sorabji: A Critical Celebration

Author: Paul Rapoport ,  Alistair Hinton
ISBN: 9781138260504
Format: Paperback
$112.00

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Pat Metheny: The ECM Years, 1975-1984

Pat Metheny: The ECM Years, 1975-1984

Author: Mervyn Cooke (Professor of Music, Professor of Music, University of Nottingham)
ISBN: 9780199897667
Format: Paperback
$39.95

The guitarist and composer Pat Metheny ranks among the most popular and innovative jazz musicians of all time. In...  Read More >>

Nietzsche and the Fate of Art

Nietzsche and the Fate of Art

Author: Philip Pothen
ISBN: 9781138296305
Format: Hardback
$273.00

This title was first published in 2002. Challenging the accepted orthodoxy on Nietzsche's views on art, this book...  Read More >>

Postopera: Reinventing the Voice-Body

Postopera: Reinventing the Voice-Body

Author: Jelena Novak
ISBN: 9781138504967
Format: Paperback
$105.00

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Britten, Voice and Piano: Lectures on the Vocal Music of Benjamin Britten

Britten, Voice and Piano: Lectures on the Vocal Music...

Author: Graham Johnson
ISBN: 9781138400542
Format: Hardback
$389.00

This collection of eight ""lectures"" by pianist, Graham Johnson, is based on a series of concert talks given at...  Read More >>

What's the Matter with Today's Experimental Music?: Organized Sound Too Rarely Heard

What's the Matter with Today's Experimental Music?:...

Author: Leigh Landy
ISBN: 9781138453180
Format: Hardback
$399.00

A study of contemporary music based on the premise that it is suffering from a distinct lack of attention. It inspects...  Read More >>

Landscapes of the Mind: The Music of John McCabe

Landscapes of the Mind: The Music of John McCabe

Author: George Odam
ISBN: 9781138400535
Format: Hardback
$399.00

Liverpool-born composer and pianist, John McCabe, has established himself as one of Britain's most recorded contemporary...  Read More >>

Louis Andriessen: De Staat

Louis Andriessen: De Staat

Author: Robert Adlington
ISBN: 9781138400566
Format: Hardback
$399.00

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Peter Maxwell Davies: A Source Book

Peter Maxwell Davies: A Source Book

Author: Stewart R. Craggs
ISBN: 9781138718623
Format: Hardback
$242.00

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Benjamin Britten Studies: Essays on An Inexplicit Art

Benjamin Britten Studies: Essays on An Inexplicit Art...

Author: Vicki Stroeher (Customer) ,  Justin Vickers (Customer)
ISBN: 9781783271955
Format: Hardback
$323.44

Bringing together established authorities and new voices, this book takes off the 'protective arm' around Britten....  Read More >>

Leonard Bernstein: West Side Story

Leonard Bernstein: West Side Story

Author: Nigel Simeone
ISBN: 9781138093263
Format: Paperback
$103.00

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English Pastoral Music: From Arcadia to Utopia, 1900-1955

English Pastoral Music: From Arcadia to Utopia, 1900-1955...

Author: Eric Saylor
ISBN: 9780252041099
Format: Hardback
$97.99

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Pro Mundo - Pro Domo: The Writings of Alban Berg

Pro Mundo - Pro Domo: The Writings of Alban Berg

Author: Bryan R. Simms (Professor of Musicology, Professor of Musicology, University of Southern California)
ISBN: 9780190656744
Format: Paperback
$77.95

Pro Mundo - Pro Domo: The Writings of Alban Berg contains new English translations of the complete writings of the...  Read More >>

Robert Saxton: Caritas

Robert Saxton: Caritas

Author: Wyndham Thomas
ISBN: 9781138109100
Format: Paperback
$98.99

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Schoenberg's New World

Schoenberg's New World

Author: Sabine Feisst
ISBN: 9780190632175
Format: Paperback
$94.95

The first full-length study dedicated to Schoenberg's life and music in the United States, Schoenberg's New World...  Read More >>

The Artist-Operas of Pfitzner, Krenek and Hindemith: Politics and the Ideology of the Artist

The Artist-Operas of Pfitzner, Krenek and Hindemith:...

Author: Claire Taylor-Jay
ISBN: 9781138263574
Format: Paperback
$98.99

This is a study of the genre of ""artist-opera"", in which the work's central character is an artist who is uncomfortable...  Read More >>

A Musicology for Landscape

A Musicology for Landscape

Author: David Nicholas Buck ,  Murray Fraser
ISBN: 9781138694422
Format: Hardback
$305.00

A Musicology for Landscape makes available to a wider landscape architecture and urban design audience the works...  Read More >>

The Art Songs of Louise Talma

The Art Songs of Louise Talma

Author: Kendra Preston Leonard ,  Michael J. Budds
ISBN: 9781138707160
Format: Hardback
$305.00

The Art Songs of Louise Talma presents some of Talma’s finest compositions and those most frequently performed during...  Read More >>

A Musicology for Landscape

A Musicology for Landscape

Author: David Nicholas Buck ,  Murray Fraser
ISBN: 9781472479389
Format: Paperback
$118.00

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Lions of the North: Sounds of the New Nordic Radical Nationalism

Lions of the North: Sounds of the New Nordic Radical...

Author: Benjamin R. Teitelbaum (Instructor and Head - Nordic Studies, Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Colorado, Boulder)
ISBN: 9780190212599
Format: Hardback
$119.95

Often labeled neo-Nazis or right-wing extremists, radical nationalists in the Nordic countries have always relied...  Read More >>

Anton Webern: A Research and Information Guide

Anton Webern: A Research and Information Guide

Author: Darin Hoskisson
ISBN: 9781138780699
Format: Hardback
$305.00

Anton Webern: A Research and Information Guide offers carefully selected and annotated sources regarding Webern...  Read More >>

Jean Cras, Polymath of Music and Letters

Jean Cras, Polymath of Music and Letters

Author: Paul-André Bempéchat
ISBN: 9781138256545
Format: Paperback
$112.00

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