20th century & contemporary classical music books

2344 books were found.

Puccini in Context

Puccini in Context

Author: Alexandra Wilson (Oxford Brookes University)
ISBN: 9781108835589
Format: Hardback
$232.88

Exploring the many dimensions of Giacomo Puccini's historical legacy and significance, this book situates the much-loved...  Read More >>

The Cambridge Companion to Metal Music

The Cambridge Companion to Metal Music

Author: Jan-Peter Herbst (University of Huddersfield)
ISBN: 9781108845861
Format: Hardback
$181.13

Since its beginnings over fifty years ago, metal music has grown in popularity worldwide, not only as a musical...  Read More >>

Creating Der Rosenkavalier: From Chevalier to Cavalier

Creating Der Rosenkavalier: From Chevalier to Cavalier...

Author: Michael Reynolds
ISBN: 9781837651146
Format: Paperback
$69.84

A full account of the making, during 1909-10, of Der Rosenkavalier, with emphasis on its derivation from a French...  Read More >>

A Night of Rhythm and Mews: A Musical Extravaganza

A Night of Rhythm and Mews: A Musical Extravaganza

Author: R Marshall ,  A Fox
ISBN: 9781916116610
Format: Hardback
$25.85

The composer Percy Nightingale is bereft of ideas, until he gives a home to Bruno, a poor abandoned little cat....  Read More >>

Time's Echo: The Second World War, the Holocaust, and the Music of Remembrance

Time's Echo: The Second World War, the Holocaust, and...

Author: Jeremy Eichler
ISBN: 9780571370535
Format: Hardback
$49.99

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Jóhann Jóhannsson: Piano Works

Jóhann Jóhannsson: Piano Works

Author: Jóhann Jóhannsson
ISBN: 9780571542505
Format: Hardback
$124.20

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An Introduction to Georgian Art Music: Sense-Making through Music

An Introduction to Georgian Art Music: Sense-Making...

Author: Nana Sharikadze
ISBN: 9781527528741
Format: Hardback
$155.22

This book takes a journey through 20th-century Georgian art music, which reflects the turbulence of the country’s...  Read More >>

Sound Bites: The bendy path of classical music from Ancient Greece to today from your favourite ABC Classic presenter of Weekend Breakfast and bestselling author of Whole Notes & Cadence

Sound Bites: The bendy path of classical music from...

Author: Ed Le Brocq
ISBN: 9780733343087
Format: Paperback
$34.99

Ed Le Brocq invites you to come on a journey with him through a living tradition that spans a millennium - the tradition...  Read More >>

Picture a day like this (Limited Edition Full Score)

Picture a day like this (Limited Edition Full Score)...

Author: George Benjamin ,  Martin Crimp
ISBN: 9780571543090
Format: Hardback
$375.19

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The Life and Music of Gérard Grisey: Delirium and Form

The Life and Music of Gérard Grisey: Delirium and Form...

Author: Jeffrey Arlo Brown
ISBN: 9781648250682
Format: Hardback
$303.60

The first biography of the composer Gérard Grisey shows how the artist's sensuality and rigor came together to form...  Read More >>

Alte Musik heute: Geschichte und Perspektiven der Historischen Aufführungspraxis. Ein Handbuch

Alte Musik heute: Geschichte und Perspektiven der Historischen...

Author: Richard Lorber
ISBN: 9783662665992
Format: Hardback
$105.57

Das Handbuch zeichnet die Tendenzen des Umgangs mit „Alter Musik“ heute und in der Vergangenheit nach und informiert...  Read More >>

Time's Echo: The Second World War, the Holocaust, and the Music of Remembrance

Time's Echo: The Second World War, the Holocaust, and...

Author: Jeremy Eichler
ISBN: 9780525521716
Format: Hardback
$79.20

A stirring account of how music acts as a witness to history and a medium of cultural memory in the post-Holocaust...  Read More >>

Explorations in Music and Esotericism

Explorations in Music and Esotericism

Author: Professor Emeritus Leonard George ,  Professor Marjorie Roth (Person)
ISBN: 9781648250651
Format: Hardback
$330.00

Scholars explore from many fresh angles the interweavings of two of the richest strands of human culture - music...  Read More >>

The Life and Music of Elizabeth Maconchy

The Life and Music of Elizabeth Maconchy

Author: Erica Siegel (Customer)
ISBN: 9781837650514
Format: Hardback
$194.06

The first full-length biographical study of Elizabeth Maconchy (1907-1994).  Read More >>

The Poetic Music of Wallace Stevens

The Poetic Music of Wallace Stevens

Author: Bart Eeckhout ,  Lisa Goldfarb
ISBN: 9783031070341
Format: Paperback
$343.17

Wallace Stevens’s musicality is so profound that scholars have only begun to grasp his ties to the art of music...  Read More >>

The Strauss Dynasty and Habsburg Vienna

The Strauss Dynasty and Habsburg Vienna

Author: David Wyn Jones (Cardiff University)
ISBN: 9781009276474
Format: Hardback
$77.63

Placing the Strauss dynasty firmly within the shifting context of social, political and cultural life in Habsburg...  Read More >>

Utopia, Innovation, Tradition: Bruno Maderna's Cosmos

Utopia, Innovation, Tradition: Bruno Maderna's Cosmos...

Author: Angela Ida De Benedictis ,  Benedetta Zucconi
ISBN: 9781837650309
Format: Hardback
$64.69

This book, first collection of essays in English on Bruno Maderna, brings the reader closer to one of the greatest...  Read More >>

Sound Within Sound: A History of Radical Twentieth Century Composers

Sound Within Sound: A History of Radical Twentieth Century...

Author: Kate Molleson
ISBN: 9780571363230
Format: Paperback
$24.99

A groundbreaking music history book from BBC Radio 3 broadcaster...  Read More >>

Sound in the Ecstatic-Materialist Perspective on Experimental Music

Sound in the Ecstatic-Materialist Perspective on Experimental...

Author: Riccardo D. Wanke
ISBN: 9780367677008
Format: Paperback
$83.99

What does a one-hour contemporary orchestral piece by Georg Friedrich Haas share with a series of glitch-noise electronic...  Read More >>

Heitor Villa-Lobos’s Bachianas Brasileiras: Intertextuality and Stylization

Heitor Villa-Lobos’s Bachianas Brasileiras: Intertextuality...

Author: Norton Dudeque ,  Judith Lochhead
ISBN: 9781032100630
Format: Paperback
$83.99

In this book, the corpus of Bachianas Brasileiras is contextualised and critically examined according to its structure...  Read More >>

Digital Scenography in Opera in the Twenty-First Century

Digital Scenography in Opera in the Twenty-First Century...

Author: Caitlin Vincent
ISBN: 9780367553937
Format: Paperback
$83.99

Digital Scenography in Opera in the Twenty-First Century is the first definitive study of the use of digital scenography...  Read More >>

Joaquín Rodrigo: Writings on Music

Joaquín Rodrigo: Writings on Music

Author: Raymond Calcraft ,  Elizabeth Matthews
ISBN: 9781032030050
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This volume makes available Joaquín Rodrigo's writings to English-speaking readers throughout the world. The selection...  Read More >>

Goodbye Russia: Rachmaninoff in Exile

Goodbye Russia: Rachmaninoff in Exile

Author: Fiona Maddocks (Classical Music Critic - Observer)
ISBN: 9780571371136
Format: Hardback
$49.99

The moving story of Rachmaninoff's years in exile and the composition of his last great work, against a cataclysmic...  Read More >>

Prokofiev's Piano Sonatas: A Guide for the Listener and the Performer

Prokofiev's Piano Sonatas: A Guide for the Listener...

Author: Boris Berman
ISBN: 9780300275360
Format: Paperback
$66.95

An authoritative guide to Prokofiev’s nine piano sonatas by the pianist and teacher Boris Berman  Read More >>

Woody Guthrie: A Life: 'A really great book.' Bruce Springsteen

Woody Guthrie: A Life: 'A really great book.' Bruce...

Author: Joe Klein
ISBN: 9780571384297
Format: Paperback
$34.99

The classic biography of the hugely influential American folk singer who inspired a generation of songwriters, including...  Read More >>

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