20th century & contemporary classical music books

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Visions of Amen: Early Life and Music of Olivier Messian

Visions of Amen: Early Life and Music of Olivier Messian...
Author: Stephen Schloesser ISBN: 9780802807625 Format: Hardback	$132.00
French composer Olivier Messiaen (1908 - 1992) is probably best known for his Quartet for the End of Time, premiered... Read More >>

Resonances of the Raj: India in the English Musical Imagination,1897-1947

Resonances of the Raj: India in the English Musical...
Author: Nalini Ghuman (Associate Professor of Music, Associate Professor of Music, Mills College, Oakland, CA) ISBN: 9780199314898 Format: Hardback	$190.95
During the century of British rule of the Indian subcontinent known as the British Raj, the rulers felt the significant... Read More >>

Musicality in Theatre: Music as Model, Method and Metaphor in Theatre-Making

Musicality in Theatre: Music as Model, Method and Metaphor...
Author: David Roesner , Professor Roberta Montemorra Marvin ISBN: 9781409461012 Format: Hardback	$305.00
Music continues to be immensely influential in key developments of theatrical practices. In this study of musicality... Read More >>

This Awareness of Beauty: The Orchestral and Wind Band Music of Healey Willan

This Awareness of Beauty: The Orchestral and Wind Band...
Author: Keith W. Kinder ISBN: 9781554589609 Format: Hardback	$71.50
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A History of the American Musical Theatre: No Business Like It

A History of the American Musical Theatre: No Business...
Author: Nathan Hurwitz (Rider University, USA) ISBN: 9780415715072 Format: Hardback	$305.00
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Schoenberg and Redemption

Schoenberg and Redemption
Author: Julie Brown (Royal Holloway, University of London) ISBN: 9780521550352 Format: Hardback	$335.28
Julie Brown presents a new way of understanding Schoenberg's step into atonality in 1908. Reconsidering his early... Read More >>

Absolute Music: The History of an Idea

Absolute Music: The History of an Idea
Author: Mark Evan Bonds (Cary C. Boshamer Distinguished Professor, Cary C. Boshamer Distinguished Professor, Department of Music, University of North Carolina) ISBN: 9780199343638 Format: Hardback	$73.95
What is music, and why does it move us? From Pythagoras to the present, writers have struggled to isolate the essence... Read More >>

Funeral Games in Honor of Arthur Vincent Lourié

Funeral Games in Honor of Arthur Vincent Lourié
Author: Klára Móricz (Joseph E. and Grace W. Valentine Visiting Assistant Professor of Music, Joseph E. and Grace W. Valentine Visiting Assistant Professor of Music, Amherst College, US) , Simon Morrison (Professor of Music, Professor of Music, Princeton University, US) ISBN: 9780199829446 Format: Hardback	$179.95
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Norfolk Rhapsody No. 2

Norfolk Rhapsody No. 2
Author: Ralph Vaughan Williams , Stephen Hogger ISBN: 9780193403413 Format: Book	$23.16
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Richard Strauss: An Owner's Manual

Richard Strauss: An Owner's Manual
Author: David Hurwitz ISBN: 9781574674422 Format: Mixed media product	$44.99
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A History of the American Musical Theatre: No Business Like It

A History of the American Musical Theatre: No Business...
Author: Nathan Hurwitz (Rider University, USA) ISBN: 9780415715089 Format: Paperback	$116.00
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Verdi and the Germans: From Unification to the Third Reich

Verdi and the Germans: From Unification to the Third...
Author: Gundula Kreuzer (Yale University, Connecticut) ISBN: 9781107638402 Format: Paperback	$98.32
Drawing on an exceptionally broad range of sources, in this book Kreuzer explores how Italian opera, epitomised... Read More >>

The Musical Language of Pierre Boulez: Writings and Compositions

The Musical Language of Pierre Boulez: Writings and...
Author: Jonathan Goldman (University of Victoria, British Columbia) ISBN: 9781107673205 Format: Paperback	$62.10
Focusing on Pierre Boulez's most recent works and writings, this study places the influential composer in a new... Read More >>

The String Quartets of Béla Bartók: Tradition and Legacy in Analytical Perspective

The String Quartets of Béla Bartók: Tradition and Legacy...
Author: Dániel Péter Biró (Associate Professor of Music, Associate Professor of Music, University of Victoria) , Harald Krebs (Professor of Music, Professor of Music, University of Victoria) ISBN: 9780199936182 Format: Hardback	$170.95
At the center of Bartók's oeuvre are his string quartets, which are generally acknowledged as some of the most significant... Read More >>

Forbidden Music: The Jewish Composers Banned by the Nazis

Forbidden Music: The Jewish Composers Banned by the...
Author: Michael Haas ISBN: 9780300205350 Format: Paperback	$41.95
Looks at the actual contribution of Jewish composers in Germany and Austria before 1933, at their increasingly precarious... Read More >>

Breaking Time's Arrow: Experiment and Expression in the Music of Charles Ives

Breaking Time's Arrow: Experiment and Expression in...
Author: Matthew McDonald ISBN: 9780253012739 Format: Hardback	$118.80
Argues that the influence of Emerson and Thoreau on Charles Ives' compositional style freed the composer from ordinary... Read More >>

Claude Vivier: A Composer's Life

Claude Vivier: A Composer's Life
Author: Bob Gilmore ISBN: 9781580464857 Format: Hardback	$145.20
In 1983, French-Canadian composer Claude Vivier was murdered in Paris at the age of thirty-four. Based on unrestricted... Read More >>

Narratives of Identity in Alban Berg's ""Lulu""

Narratives of Identity in Alban Berg's ""Lulu""
Author: Silvio dos Santos (Royalty Account) ISBN: 9781580464833 Format: Hardback	$290.40
This book explores the crossroads between autobiographical narratives and musical composition in Alban Berg's Lulu,... Read More >>

Vaughan Williams

Vaughan Williams
Author: Simon Heffer ISBN: 9780571315390 Format: Paperback	$31.05
Re-issued to coincide with this anniversary, Simon Heffer's perceptive book lends weight to the increasingly compelling... Read More >>

Schoenberg and Redemption

Schoenberg and Redemption
Author: Julie Brown (Royal Holloway, University of London) ISBN: 9781139048934 Format: Undefined	$435.60
Julie Brown presents a new way of understanding Schoenberg's step into atonality in 1908. Reconsidering his early... 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: 9781139108102 Format: Undefined	$435.60
Van den Toorn and McGinness present a fresh assessment of the dynamics of Stravinsky's music from a variety of analytical... Read More >>

Orpheus in Manhattan: William Schuman and the Shaping of America's Musical Life

Orpheus in Manhattan: William Schuman and the Shaping...
Author: Steve Swayne (Professor of Music, Professor of Music, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, United States) ISBN: 9780199367849 Format: Paperback	$58.95
Orpheus in Manhattan is the first comprehensive biography of Schuman that draws heavily upon his writings and on... Read More >>

Harrison Birtwistle: Wild Tracks - A Conversation Diary with Fiona Maddocks

Harrison Birtwistle: Wild Tracks - A Conversation Diary...
Author: Fiona Maddocks (Classical Music Critic - Observer) , Sir Harrison Birtwistle ISBN: 9780571308118 Format: Hardback	$55.00
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Sir George Dyson: His Life and Music

Sir George Dyson: His Life and Music
Author: Paul Spicer ISBN: 9781843839033 Format: Hardback	$284.63
The story of a fascinating, controversial man who influenced almost every sphere of musical life in Britain and... Read More >>

Nikolay Myaskovsky: The Conscience of Russian Music

Nikolay Myaskovsky: The Conscience of Russian Music...
Author: Gregor Tassie ISBN: 9781442231320 Format: Hardback	$298.00
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