20th century & contemporary classical music books

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The Ballets Russes and Beyond: Music and Dance in Belle-Époque Paris

The Ballets Russes and Beyond: Music and Dance in Belle-Époque...
Author: Davinia Caddy (University of Auckland) ISBN: 9781316623633 Format: Paperback	$82.80
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French Music and Jazz in Conversation: From Debussy to Brubeck

French Music and Jazz in Conversation: From Debussy...
Author: Deborah Mawer ISBN: 9781316633878 Format: Paperback	$82.80
This book explores the rich historical-cultural interactions between French concert music and American jazz in the... Read More >>

Berlioz and Debussy: Sources, Contexts and Legacies: Essays in Honour of Fran-s Lesure

Berlioz and Debussy: Sources, Contexts and Legacies:...
Author: Kerry Murphy , Barbara L. Kelly ISBN: 9781138262980 Format: Paperback	$112.00
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Lutyens, Maconchy, Williams and Twentieth-Century British Music: A Blest Trio of Sirens

Lutyens, Maconchy, Williams and Twentieth-Century British...
Author: Rhiannon Mathias ISBN: 9781138262768 Format: Paperback	$112.00
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There's a Place For Us: The Musical Theatre Works of Leonard Bernstein

There's a Place For Us: The Musical Theatre Works of...
Author: Helen Smith ISBN: 9781138274563 Format: Paperback	$120.00
Leonard Bernstein is perhaps best remembered as a composer, particularly of the musical ""West Side Story"", and... Read More >>

Towards a Twenty-First-Century Feminist Politics of Music

Towards a Twenty-First-Century Feminist Politics of...
Author: Sally Macarthur ISBN: 9781138274723 Format: Paperback	$120.00
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Making New Music in Cold War Poland: The Warsaw Autumn Festival, 1956-1968

Making New Music in Cold War Poland: The Warsaw Autumn...
Author: Lisa Jakelski ISBN: 9780520292543 Format: Hardback	$107.95
Presents a social analysis of new music dissemination at the Warsaw Autumn International Festival of Contemporary... Read More >>

Pierre Boulez Studies

Pierre Boulez Studies
Author: Edward Campbell (University of Aberdeen) , Peter O'Hagan ISBN: 9781107062658 Format: Hardback	$282.04
Pierre Boulez is acknowledged as one of the most important composers in contemporary musical life. This collection... Read More >>

Albion's Dance: British Ballet during the Second World War

Albion's Dance: British Ballet during the Second World...
Author: Karen Eliot (Professor of Dance, Professor of Dance, Ohio State University) ISBN: 9780199347629 Format: Hardback	$179.95
Exploring the ballet boom in Britain during WWII, this book asks how art and artists thrive during conflict. Author... Read More >>

Berio's Sequenzas: Essays on Performance, Composition and Analysis

Berio's Sequenzas: Essays on Performance, Composition...
Author: Janet K. Halfyard ISBN: 9781138247994 Format: Paperback	$120.00
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British Women Composers and Instrumental Chamber Music in the Early Twentieth Century

British Women Composers and Instrumental Chamber Music...
Author: Laura Seddon ISBN: 9781138249639 Format: Paperback	$120.00
This is the first full-length study of British women's instrumental chamber music in the early twentieth-century.... Read More >>

The Australian Symphony from Federation to 1960

The Australian Symphony from Federation to 1960
Author: Rhoderick McNeill ISBN: 9781138253254 Format: Paperback	$112.00
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Contemplating Shostakovich: Life, Music and Film

Contemplating Shostakovich: Life, Music and Film
Author: Andrew Kirkman , Alexander Ivashkin ISBN: 9781138250444 Format: Paperback	$120.00
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John Adams's Nixon in China: Musical Analysis, Historical and Political Perspectives

John Adams's Nixon in China: Musical Analysis, Historical...
Author: Timothy A. Johnson ISBN: 9781138250314 Format: Paperback	$112.00
John Adams' opera, ""Nixon in China"", is one of the most frequently performed operas in the contemporary literature.... Read More >>

Messiaen Perspectives 2: Techniques, Influence and Reception

Messiaen Perspectives 2: Techniques, Influence and Reception...
Author: Robert Fallon , Christopher Dingle ISBN: 9781138269651 Format: Paperback	$112.00
Messiaen Perspectives 2: Techniques, Influence and Reception analyses Messiaen's compositional approach and the... Read More >>

Performance Practice in the Music of Steve Reich

Performance Practice in the Music of Steve Reich
Author: Russell Hartenberger (University of Toronto) ISBN: 9781107151505 Format: Hardback	$316.80
Russell Hartenberger offers a performer's perspective on Steve Reich's compositions, from his iconic minimalist... Read More >>

Melodramatic Voices: Understanding Music Drama

Melodramatic Voices: Understanding Music Drama
Author: Sarah Hibberd ISBN: 9781138274013 Format: Paperback	$112.00
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Ligeti's Laments: Nostalgia, Exoticism, and the Absolute

Ligeti's Laments: Nostalgia, Exoticism, and the Absolute...
Author: Amy Bauer ISBN: 9781138270855 Format: Paperback	$105.00
When the Hungarian composer Gyorgy Ligeti passed away in June 2006, he was widely feted as being one of the greatest... Read More >>

Masculinity and Western Musical Practice

Masculinity and Western Musical Practice
Author: Kirsten Gibson , Ian Biddle ISBN: 9781138246614 Format: Paperback	$112.00
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Erik Satie: Music, Art and Literature

Erik Satie: Music, Art and Literature
Author: Caroline Potter ISBN: 9781138247697 Format: Paperback	$120.00
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Twentieth-Century Music and Politics: Essays in Memory of Neil Edmunds

Twentieth-Century Music and Politics: Essays in Memory...
Author: Pauline Fairclough ISBN: 9781138248366 Format: Paperback	$112.00
When considering the role music played in the major totalitarian regimes of the century it is music's usefulness... Read More >>

No Bartok Before Breakfast

No Bartok Before Breakfast
Author: John Manduell , Michael Berkeley ISBN: 9781910345580 Format: Paperback	$41.37
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This Life of Sounds

This Life of Sounds
Author: Levine Packer , Renee Levine Packer ISBN: 9780190632205 Format: Paperback	$89.95
This book is an invaluable chronicle of an exuberant time of artistic exploration and experimentation populated... Read More >>

Maurice Ravel: A Guide to Research

Maurice Ravel: A Guide to Research
Author: Stephen Zank ISBN: 9780415763677 Format: Paperback	$105.00
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Olivier Messiaen: Texts, Contexts, and Intertexts (1937–1948)

Olivier Messiaen: Texts, Contexts, and Intertexts (1937–1948)...
Author: Richard D E Burton (Professor of French and Francophone Studies, Professor of French and Francophone Studies, University of Sussex) , Roger Nichols ISBN: 9780190277949 Format: Hardback	$179.95
French Literature scholar Richard Burton takes a wider cultural view of Messiaen's life and work than any previously... Read More >>

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