20th century & contemporary classical music books

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George Gershwin: An Intimate Portrait

George Gershwin: An Intimate Portrait
Author: Walter Rimler ISBN: 9780252081293 Format: Paperback	$43.99
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Henry Cowell: A Man Made of Music

Henry Cowell: A Man Made of Music
Author: Joel Sachs (Professor of Music, Professor of Music, The Juilliard School, New York, NY) ISBN: 9780190227920 Format: Paperback	$114.95
Henry Cowell: A Man Made of Music is the first complete biography of one of the most innovative figures in twentieth-century... 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: 9780521844482 Format: Hardback	$201.83
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Believe Your Ears: Life of a Lyric Composer

Believe Your Ears: Life of a Lyric Composer
Author: Kirke Mechem ISBN: 9781442250765 Format: Hardback	$199.00
Believe Your Ears is the memoir of composer Kirke Mechem, whose unorthodox path to music provides a fascinating... Read More >>

Musical Witness and Holocaust Representation

Musical Witness and Holocaust Representation
Author: Amy Lynn Wlodarski (Dickinson College, Pennsylvania) ISBN: 9781107116474 Format: Hardback	$243.23
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Reconceiving Structure in Contemporary Music: New Tools in Music Theory and Analysis

Reconceiving Structure in Contemporary Music: New Tools...
Author: Judy Lochhead ISBN: 9781138824331 Format: Hardback	$336.00
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Music and the Crises of the Modern Subject

Music and the Crises of the Modern Subject
Author: Michael L. Klein ISBN: 9780253017208 Format: Hardback	$105.60
By creatively navigating from critical theory to music, film, fiction, and back to music, Klein distills the kinds... Read More >>

Singing the Body Electric: The Human Voice and Sound Technology

Singing the Body Electric: The Human Voice and Sound...
Author: Miriama Young ISBN: 9780754669869 Format: Hardback	$305.00
Miriama Young explores the relationship between the human voice and recording technology, offering startling insights... Read More >>

Leonard Bernstein: A Research and Information Guide

Leonard Bernstein: A Research and Information Guide...
Author: Paul Laird ISBN: 9781138913332 Format: Hardback	$368.00
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Postopera: Reinventing the Voice-Body

Postopera: Reinventing the Voice-Body
Author: Jelena Novak , Professor Roberta Montemorra Marvin ISBN: 9781472441034 Format: Hardback	$305.00
Both in opera studies and in most operatic works, the singing body is often taken for granted. In Postopera: Reinventing... Read More >>

Leonard Bernstein: A Guide to Research

Leonard Bernstein: A Guide to Research
Author: Paul Laird ISBN: 9781317430445 Format: Electronic book text	$396.00
Beginning with an introductory essay on his achievements, it continues with annotations on Bernstein's voluminous... Read More >>

Music Theory, Analysis, and Society: Selected Essays

Music Theory, Analysis, and Society: Selected Essays...
Author: Robert P. Morgan ISBN: 9781472462541 Format: Hardback	$410.00
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Understanding the Leitmotif: From Wagner to Hollywood Film Music

Understanding the Leitmotif: From Wagner to Hollywood...
Author: Matthew Bribitzer-Stull (University of Minnesota) ISBN: 9781107098398 Format: Hardback	$282.04
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Nicolas Nabokov: A Life in Freedom and Music

Nicolas Nabokov: A Life in Freedom and Music
Author: Vincent Giroud (Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Professor of English and Comparative Literature, The University of Franche-Comti, New York, NY) ISBN: 9780199399895 Format: Hardback	$77.95
This first biography of Nicolas Nabokov (1903-78) reevaluates the role of the Russian-born American composer as... Read More >>

The Life and Works of Andrzej Panufnik (1914–1991)

The Life and Works of Andrzej Panufnik (1914–1991)
Author: Beata Boles?awska , translated by Richard J. Reisner ISBN: 9781409463290 Format: Hardback	$305.00
Beata BolesÅ‚awska presents the first book on the life and artistic output of one Poland's leading composers. The... Read More >>

The Life and Music of James Wilson

The Life and Music of James Wilson
Author: Mark Fitzgerald ISBN: 9781782051367 Format: Hardback	$118.80
This book is the first study of the Irish composer James Wilson (1922 - 2005). A founding member of Aosdana, in... Read More >>

New Musical Resources

New Musical Resources
Author: Henry Cowell , David Nicholls ISBN: 9780511597329 Format: Undefined	$435.60
For this 1996 edition David Nicholls provides an explanatory essay and annotations to Henry Cowell's classic text.... Read More >>

The Oxford Handbook of New Audiovisual Aesthetics

The Oxford Handbook of New Audiovisual Aesthetics
Author: John Richardson (Professor of Musicology, Professor of Musicology, University of Turku, Turku, Finland) , Claudia Gorbman (Professor of Film Studies, Professor of Film Studies, University of Washington, Tacoma, Tacoma, WI, USA) ISBN: 9780190244590 Format: Paperback	$80.95
This handbook provides powerful ways to understand changes in the current media landscape. Media forms and genres... Read More >>

Harrison Birtwistle Studies

Harrison Birtwistle Studies
Author: David Beard (Cardiff University) , Kenneth Gloag (Cardiff University) ISBN: 9781107093744 Format: Hardback	$335.28
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Gustav Mahler's Symphonic Landscapes

Gustav Mahler's Symphonic Landscapes
Author: Thomas Peattie (Boston University) ISBN: 9781107027084 Format: Hardback	$335.28
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The Politics of Musical Identity: Selected Essays

The Politics of Musical Identity: Selected Essays
Author: Annegret Fauser ISBN: 9781472425782 Format: Hardback	$462.00
The essays selected for this volume - three of which are presented for the first time in English translation - reflect... Read More >>

Composition in the Digital World: Conversations with 21st Century American Composers

Composition in the Digital World: Conversations with...
Author: Robert Raines (Program Director (Dean), Music Production, Program Director (Dean), Music Production, Full Sail University, Bluemont, VA) ISBN: 9780199357031 Format: Hardback	$93.95
In a series of intimate conversations with some of the most influential composers of concert music currently working... Read More >>

Applying Karnatic Rhythmical Techniques to Western Music

Applying Karnatic Rhythmical Techniques to Western Music...
Author: Rafael Reina ISBN: 9781472451507 Format: Paperback	$105.00
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Applying Karnatic Rhythmical Techniques to Western Music

Applying Karnatic Rhythmical Techniques to Western Music...
Author: Rafael Reina ISBN: 9781472451491 Format: Hardback	$326.00
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Rachmaninov: Sheet Music for Piano: From Intermediate to Advanced; Over 25 masterpieces

Rachmaninov: Sheet Music for Piano: From Intermediate...
Author: Alan Brown , Sarah Gabriel ISBN: 9781783614257 Format: Spiral bound	$26.99
Designed for easy reading, with fingerings clearly marked, and helpfully grouped by level of difficulty, each book... Read More >>

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