20th century & contemporary classical music books

The book discusses the unprecedented influence of Richard Wagner’s operas on a number of prominent avant-garde artists...  Read More >>

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 is the first definitive study of the use of digital scenography...  Read More >>

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

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