20th century & contemporary classical music books

2362 books were found.

Peter Sculthorpe: The Making of an Australian Composer

Peter Sculthorpe: The Making of an Australian Composer...

Author: Graeme Skinner
ISBN: 9781742234618
Format: Paperback
$158.37

A biography of Peter Sculthorpe that tells the story of his rise to prominence. It provides an insight into Sculthorpe's...  Read More >>

The Performance Style of Jascha Heifetz

The Performance Style of Jascha Heifetz

Author: Dario Sarlo
ISBN: 9781472444233
Format: Hardback
$336.00

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Shared Meanings in the Film Music of Philip Glass: Music, Multimedia and Postminimalism

Shared Meanings in the Film Music of Philip Glass: Music,...

Author: Tristian Evans
ISBN: 9781409433293
Format: Hardback
$305.00

The book offers one of the first in-depth studies of Philip Glass's music for film, considering The Hours and Dracula,...  Read More >>

Ravel: Sheet Music for Piano: From Intermediate to Advanced; Piano masterpieces

Ravel: Sheet Music for Piano: From Intermediate to Advanced;...

Author: Alan Brown ,  Sarah Gabriel
ISBN: 9781783616008
Format: Spiral bound
$27.99

Designed for easy reading, with fingerings clearly marked, and helpfully grouped by level of difficulty, each book...  Read More >>

Satie: Sheet Music for Piano: From Beginner to Intermediate; Over 25 masterpieces

Satie: Sheet Music for Piano: From Beginner to Intermediate;...

Author: Alan Brown ,  Sarah Gabriel
ISBN: 9781783616015
Format: Spiral bound
$27.99

Designed for easy reading, with fingerings clearly marked, and helpfully grouped by level of difficulty, each book...  Read More >>

Ravel: A Listener's Guide

Ravel: A Listener's Guide

Author: Victor Lederer
ISBN: 9781574674774
Format: Mixed media product
$34.99

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The Music of Frank Bridge

The Music of Frank Bridge

Author: Fabian Huss (Royalty Account)
ISBN: 9781783270590
Format: Hardback
$290.40

A detailed and long-overdue study of Frank Bridge's music and its socio-cultural and aesthetic contexts  Read More >>

Igor Stravinsky

Igor Stravinsky

Author: Jonathan Cross
ISBN: 9781780234946
Format: Paperback
$29.99

Jonathan Cross’s cogent, absorbing biography shows how Stravinsky’s music can be understood against the background...  Read More >>

Afternoon of a Faun: How Debussy Created a New Music for the Modern World

Afternoon of a Faun: How Debussy Created a New Music...

Author: Harvey Lee Snyder ,  Harvey Lee Snyder
ISBN: 9781574674491
Format: Hardback
$79.17

AFTERNOON OF A FAUN: HOW DEBUSSY CREATED A NEW MUSIC FOR THE MODERN WORLD  Read More >>

Iannis Xenakis: Kraanerg

Iannis Xenakis: Kraanerg

Author: James Harley ,  Dr. Wyndham Thomas
ISBN: 9781409423317
Format: Hardback
$162.00

Kraanerg by Iannis Xenakis is one of the most important works of the post-1950 era. James Harley, a leading Xenakis...  Read More >>

The Szymanowski Companion

The Szymanowski Companion

Author: Stephen Downes ,  Paul Cadrin
ISBN: 9780754661511
Format: Hardback
$305.00

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Representation in Western Music

Representation in Western Music

Author: Joshua S. Walden (The Johns Hopkins University)
ISBN: 9781316601082
Format: Paperback
$82.80

This volume assembles an international group of leading scholars to provide a comprehensive range of perspectives...  Read More >>

Carlos Chávez and His World

Carlos Chávez and His World

Author: Leonora Saavedra
ISBN: 9780691169484
Format: Paperback
$62.99

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Carlos Chávez and His World

Carlos Chávez and His World

Author: Leonora Saavedra
ISBN: 9780691169477
Format: Hardback
$135.00

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Noise Uprising: The Audiopolitics of a World Musical Revolution

Noise Uprising: The Audiopolitics of a World Musical...

Author: Michael Denning
ISBN: 9781781688564
Format: Paperback
$36.99

A radically new reading of the origins of recorded music  Read More >>

Meaning and Interpretation of Music in Cinema

Meaning and Interpretation of Music in Cinema

Author: David P. Neumeyer ,  James Buhler
ISBN: 9780253016492
Format: Paperback
$95.04

Complemented by music examples, illustrations, and contributions by James Buhler, Meaning and Interpretation of...  Read More >>

Meaning and Interpretation of Music in Cinema

Meaning and Interpretation of Music in Cinema

Author: David P. Neumeyer ,  James Buhler
ISBN: 9780253016423
Format: Hardback
$237.60

Complemented by music examples, illustrations, and contributions by James Buhler, Meaning and Interpretation of...  Read More >>

Stravinsky and the Russian Period: Sound and Legacy of a Musical Idiom

Stravinsky and the Russian Period: Sound and Legacy...

Author: Pieter C. van den Toorn (University of California, Santa Barbara) ,  John McGinness
ISBN: 9781107543621
Format: Paperback
$93.15

Van den Toorn and McGinness present a fresh assessment of the dynamics of Stravinsky's music from a variety of analytical...  Read More >>

Die Stimme der Mutter. Thomas Mann und die Musik: The 2013 Bithell Memorial Lecture

Die Stimme der Mutter. Thomas Mann und die Musik: The...

Author: Volker Mertens
ISBN: 9780854572458
Format: Paperback
$19.80

The 2013 Bithell Memorial Lecture  Read More >>

Seeing Through Music: Gender and Modernism in Classic Hollywood Film Scores

Seeing Through Music: Gender and Modernism in Classic...

Author: Peter Franklin (Professor of Music, Professor of Music, Oxford University, Oxford)
ISBN: 9780190246549
Format: Paperback
$67.95

This book levels the critical playing field between film music and ""serious music,"" reflecting upon gender-related...  Read More >>

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