20th century & contemporary classical music books

This long-awaited study explores the creation of NBC-TV's landmark 1952-53 WWII documentary series, with particular...  Read More >>

Modernism is key to Western art music yet remains poorly understood. This book offers new perspectives on transformations...  Read More >>

A revealing insight into Rachmaninoff's intense and often melodramatic life  Read More >>

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In 1855 talented astronomer and scientist Charles Todd had a dream to build a telegraph line across Australia to...  Read More >>

Presents a first analytical study that looks at the overarching designs of Benjamin Britten's John Donne, Thomas...  Read More >>

The first book length study of musical education and culture in twentieth century Oxford.  Read More >>

The essays in this volume, spanning more than forty, address the dynamics of Stravinsky’s music from a variety of...  Read More >>

Die vorliegende Dokumentation fasst die Ergebnisse der Konferenz „Auf die Ohren, fertig los!“ der Jungen Opern Rhein-Ruhr...  Read More >>

First volume of a gripping collection of the writings of one of the twentieth century's finest composers, the Anglo-Polish...  Read More >>

Offers expansive and intersecting understandings of erotic subjectivity, intimacy, and trauma in performance, in...  Read More >>

Brings new insights to the music of well-known European composers by telling a fascinating, little-known story about...  Read More >>

Unique in showcasing both the front stage and back stage realities of the K-pop world, this book presents the K-pop...  Read More >>

Unique in showcasing both the front stage and back stage realities of the K-pop world, this book presents the K-pop...  Read More >>

A must-have for any conductor, conducting student and orchestral librarian.  Read More >>

This book responds to recent debates on cultural participation and the relevancy of music composed today with the...  Read More >>

The lives, loves, adventures and trailblazing careers offour extraordinary women from a stunning debut biographer....  Read More >>

Between 1941 and 1963, Aaron Copland made four government-sponsored tours of Latin America that drew extensive attention...  Read More >>

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As the central trend in twentieth-century art music, serialism is unparalleled in multi-perspectival range and depth....  Read More >>

Emphasizing the conflicted transcultural encounter portrayed in Madama Butterfly, this book examines nineteenth-century...  Read More >>

As the central trend in twentieth-century art music, serialism is unparalleled in multi-perspectival range and depth....  Read More >>

Sergey Prokofiev Diaries 1924-1933: Prodigal Son is thefinal volume in the critically-acclaimed Prokofiev Diaries....  Read More >>

A memoir that is also an immersive exploration of classical music – its power, its meaning, and what it can teach...  Read More >>

This first full biography of Edward J. Dent (1876-1957), Cambridge Professor of Music and foremost musicologist,...  Read More >>