20th century & contemporary classical music books

2362 books were found.

Planet Beethoven

Planet Beethoven

Author: Mina Yang
ISBN: 9780819574862
Format: Paperback
$73.79

Exploring the complexities and significance of classical music today  Read More >>

John Cage Was

John Cage Was

Author: James Klosty
ISBN: 9780819575043
Format: Hardback
$145.20

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Experiencing Leonard Bernstein: A Listener's Companion

Experiencing Leonard Bernstein: A Listener's Companion...

Author: Kenneth LaFave
ISBN: 9781442235434
Format: Hardback
$128.00

In this book, Kenneth LaFave guides readers past Bernstein’s famously tortured personal problems and into the clarity...  Read More >>

Beckett and Musicality

Beckett and Musicality

Author: Sara Jane Bailes ,  Nicholas Till
ISBN: 9781472409638
Format: Hardback
$305.00

Discussion concerning the 'musicality' of Samuel Beckett's writing now constitutes a familiar critical trope in...  Read More >>

Louise Talma: A Life in Composition

Louise Talma: A Life in Composition

Author: Kendra Preston Leonard
ISBN: 9781472416438
Format: Hardback
$305.00

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Charles Ives in the Mirror: American Histories of an Iconic Composer

Charles Ives in the Mirror: American Histories of an...

Author: David C Paul
ISBN: 9780252080517
Format: Paperback
$64.99

Focuses on the critics, composers, performers, and scholars whose contributions were most influential in shaping...  Read More >>

Music and Protest in 1968

Music and Protest in 1968

Author: Beate Kutschke (Universität Leipzig) ,  Barley Norton (Goldsmiths, University of London)
ISBN: 9781107504318
Format: Paperback
$80.19

In fifteen case studies from Europe, the Americas, Africa and Asia, Music and Protest in 1968 presents new global...  Read More >>

Delius and his Music

Delius and his Music

Author: Martin Lee-Browne ,  Paul Guinery (Royalty Account)
ISBN: 9781843839590
Format: Hardback
$90.56

The first comprehensive study of the music of Frederick Delius (1862-1934), from his earliest pieces up to his final...  Read More >>

Conducting for a New Era

Conducting for a New Era

Author: Edwin Roxburgh
ISBN: 9781843838029
Format: Hardback
$103.50

A guide to the art of conducting in the twenty-first century, by the founder of the RCM's Twentieth Century Ensemble....  Read More >>

The Leonard Bernstein Letters

The Leonard Bernstein Letters

Author: Nigel Simeone ,  Leonard Bernstein
ISBN: 9780300205442
Format: Paperback
$51.95

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Leningrad: Siege and Symphony

Leningrad: Siege and Symphony

Author: Brian Moynahan
ISBN: 9780857383020
Format: Paperback
$27.99

Leningrad: Siege and Symphony sets the composition of Shostakovich's most famous work against the tragic canvas...  Read More >>

Cathy Berberian: Pioneer of Contemporary Vocality

Cathy Berberian: Pioneer of Contemporary Vocality

Author: Pamela Karantonis ,  Francesca Placanica
ISBN: 9781409469834
Format: Hardback
$305.00

Cathy Berberian (1925-1983) was a vocal performance artist, singer and composer who pioneered a way of composing...  Read More >>

Joseph Laska (1886-1964): Ein Osterreichischer Komponist Und Dirigent in Japan

Joseph Laska (1886-1964): Ein Osterreichischer Komponist...

Author: Kazumi Negishi
ISBN: 9783205796169
Format: Hardback
$76.56

Musik hat in den 145 Jahren seit Aufnahme der diplomatischen Beziehungen zwischen Japan und Osterreich stets eine...  Read More >>

Masques, Mayings and Music-Dramas: Vaughan Williams and the Early Twentieth-Century Stage

Masques, Mayings and Music-Dramas: Vaughan Williams...

Author: Roger Savage
ISBN: 9781843839194
Format: Hardback
$422.40

In-depth case-studies of significant aspects of early twentieth-century English music-theatre, which engage with...  Read More >>

The Musicology of Record Production

The Musicology of Record Production

Author: Simon Zagorski-Thomas
ISBN: 9781107075641
Format: Hardback
$316.80

Recorded music is as different to live music as film is to theatre. In this book, Simon Zagorski-Thomas sets out...  Read More >>

After the Rite: Stravinsky's Path to Neoclassicism (1914-1925)

After the Rite: Stravinsky's Path to Neoclassicism (1914-1925)...

Author: Maureen A. Carr (Professor of Music, Professor of Music, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA)
ISBN: 9780199742936
Format: Hardback
$175.95

After the Rite: Stravinsky's Path to Neoclassicism (1914-1925) traces the evolution of Stravinsky's compositional...  Read More >>

Agustin Lara: A Cultural Biography

Agustin Lara: A Cultural Biography

Author: Andrew Grant Wood (Stanley Rutland Associate Professor of American History, Stanley Rutland Associate Professor of American History, University of Tulsa, Tulsa, OK, USA)
ISBN: 9780199892457
Format: Hardback
$105.95

Few Mexican musicians in the twentieth century achieved as much notoriety or had such an international impact as...  Read More >>

Flos Campi

Flos Campi

Author: Ralph Vaughan Williams ,  Julian Rushton
ISBN: 9780193399426
Format: Book
$41.27

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Edmund Rubbra: Symphonist

Edmund Rubbra: Symphonist

Author: Leo Black
ISBN: 9781843839330
Format: Paperback
$97.55

Leo Black, a pupil of Rubbra in the 1950s, presents a full-scale study of his symphonies (the first for twenty years)....  Read More >>

Music and Twentieth-Century Tonality: Harmonic Progression Based on Modality and the Interval Cycles

Music and Twentieth-Century Tonality: Harmonic Progression...

Author: Paolo Susanni (Yasar University, Turkey) ,  Elliott Antokoletz (University of Texas, Austin, USA)
ISBN: 9781138793507
Format: Paperback
$105.00

This book explores the web of pitch relations that generates the musical language of non-serialized twelve-tone...  Read More >>

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