20th century & contemporary classical music books

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The Ballets of Maurice Ravel: Creation and Interpretation

The Ballets of Maurice Ravel: Creation and Interpretation...

Author: Deborah Mawer
ISBN: 9781138264137
Format: Paperback
$90.99

Maurice Ravel, as composer and scenario writer, collaborated with some of the greatest ballet directors, choreographers,...  Read More >>

While Spring and Summer Sang: Thomas Beecham and the Music of Frederick Delius

While Spring and Summer Sang: Thomas Beecham and the...

Author: Lyndon Jenkins
ISBN: 9781138272989
Format: Paperback
$103.00

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Tampere Raw

Tampere Raw

Author: Anders Hillborg
ISBN: 9780571539727
Format: Undefined
$60.59

The music of Anders Hillborg's virtuosic Tampere Raw for clarinet and piano alternates between two vividly different...  Read More >>

The Peacock Moment

The Peacock Moment

Author: Anders Hillborg
ISBN: 9780571539901
Format: Undefined
$42.11

Despite its short duration, The Peacock Moment holds a central place in Anders Hillborg's worklist. Much of material...  Read More >>

British Musical Modernism: The Manchester Group and their Contemporaries

British Musical Modernism: The Manchester Group and...

Author: Philip Rupprecht (Duke University, North Carolina)
ISBN: 9781316649527
Format: Paperback
$113.85

This panoramic study of musical modernism synthesizes cultural, biographical, and analytic perspectives to provide...  Read More >>

Ravel Studies

Ravel Studies

Author: Deborah Mawer (Lancaster University)
ISBN: 9781316642979
Format: Paperback
$82.80

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Max Reger and Karl Straube: Perspectives on an Organ Performing Tradition

Max Reger and Karl Straube: Perspectives on an Organ...

Author: Christopher Anderson
ISBN: 9781138246362
Format: Paperback
$120.00

Evaluating the significance of the relationship between Karl Straube and Max Reger, this book uses primary source...  Read More >>

British Rock Modernism, 1967-1977: The Story of Music Hall in Rock

British Rock Modernism, 1967-1977: The Story of Music...

Author: Barry J. Faulk
ISBN: 9781138268449
Format: Paperback
$112.00

Explains how the definitive British rock performers of this epoch aimed, not at the youthful rebellion for which...  Read More >>

Angelo Badalamenti's Soundtrack from Twin Peaks

Angelo Badalamenti's Soundtrack from Twin Peaks

Author: Clare Nina Norelli (Independent Scholar, Australia)
ISBN: 9781501323010
Format: Paperback
$19.99

The first book to focus on the soundtrack of Twin Peaks, with publication timed alongside the series return.  Read More >>

Shostakovich Studies 2

Shostakovich Studies 2

Author: Pauline Fairclough (University of Bristol)
ISBN: 9781316638705
Format: Paperback
$82.80

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Elliott Carter Studies

Elliott Carter Studies

Author: Marguerite Boland (Australian National University) ,  John Link (William Paterson University, New Jersey)
ISBN: 9781316639962
Format: Paperback
$98.32

Elliott Carter's extraordinarily long musical career has engaged with many musical developments of the twentieth...  Read More >>

Stefan Wolpe and the Avant-Garde Diaspora

Stefan Wolpe and the Avant-Garde Diaspora

Author: Brigid Cohen (New York University)
ISBN: 9781316641163
Format: Paperback
$98.32

The German-Jewish émigré composer Stefan Wolpe was a vital figure in the history of modernism, with affiliations...  Read More >>

Music in Germany since 1968

Music in Germany since 1968

Author: Alastair Williams (Keele University)
ISBN: 9781316641941
Format: Paperback
$82.80

Alastair Williams provides the first English-language overview of Helmut Lachenmann and Wolfgang Rihm, and considers...  Read More >>

Close Ups (NaRbilder): Solo Flute

Close Ups (NaRbilder): Solo Flute

Author: Anders Hillborg
ISBN: 9780571539802
Format: Book
$39.47

Anders Hillborg's Close Ups unfolds as an exhilarating flurry of notes - in part ingeniously generated from a prime...  Read More >>

Believe Your Ears: Life of a Lyric Composer

Believe Your Ears: Life of a Lyric Composer

Author: Kirke Mechem
ISBN: 9781538104385
Format: Paperback
$103.00

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Carlos Chavez: A Guide to Research

Carlos Chavez: A Guide to Research

Author: Robert L. Parker
ISBN: 9781138969872
Format: Paperback
$103.00

First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.  Read More >>

The Oxford Handbook of the British Musical

The Oxford Handbook of the British Musical

Author: Robert Gordon (Professor of Drama, Professor of Drama, Goldsmiths University) ,  Olaf Jubin (Instructor in Media Studies and Musical Theatre, Instructor in Media Studies and Musical Theatre, Regents College)
ISBN: 9780199988747
Format: Hardback
$287.00

The first comprehensive academic survey of British musical theatre from its origins, The Oxford Handbook of the...  Read More >>

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