20th century & contemporary classical music books

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Oh Joy! Oh Rapture!: The Enduring Phenomenon of Gilbert and Sullivan

Oh Joy! Oh Rapture!: The Enduring Phenomenon of Gilbert...
Author: Ian Bradley (Reader in Practical Theology and Church History, School of Divinity, Reader in Practical Theology and Church History, School of Divinity, University of St Andrews) ISBN: 9780195328943 Format: Paperback	$103.95
"Why is it that the work of Gilbert and Sullivan has not just survived but thrived into the twenty-first century?In... Read More >>

Brown Sugar: Over One Hundred Years of America's Black Female Superstars--New Expanded and Updated Edition

Brown Sugar: Over One Hundred Years of America's Black...
Author: Donald Bogle (Lecturer and Author, USA) ISBN: 9780826416759 Format: Paperback	$86.99
This newly designed as well as completely reset and updated edition of Donald Bogle's classic study and celebration... Read More >>

Juan Bautista Plaza and Musical Nationalism in Venezuela

Juan Bautista Plaza and Musical Nationalism in Venezuela...
Author: Marie Elizabeth Labonville ISBN: 9780253348760 Format: Hardback	$92.27
The first English-language study of a critical figure in the development of Venezuelan music Read More >>

Olivier Messiaen: Oiseaux exotiques

Olivier Messiaen: Oiseaux exotiques
Author: Peter Hill , Nigel Simeone ISBN: 9780754656302 Format: Hardback	$263.00
What makes ""Oiseaux exotiques"" so important is that it is arguably the first of Messiaen's major works to create... Read More >>

Hans Werner Henze: Sebastian Im Traum - Dream of Sebastian

Hans Werner Henze: Sebastian Im Traum - Dream of Sebastian...
Author: ISBN: 9781846091223 Format: Paperback	$77.50
A study score based on the Salzburg Night Music. Read More >>

Selected Correspondence of Charles Ives

Selected Correspondence of Charles Ives
Author: Charles Ives , Tom Owens ISBN: 9780520246065 Format: Hardback	$140.95
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The George Gershwin Reader

The George Gershwin Reader
Author: Robert Wyatt (Executive Director, Executive Director, Cape Cod Conservatory of Music) , John Andrew Johnson (Assistant Professor of Music, Assistant Professor of Music, Syracuse University) ISBN: 9780195327113 Format: Paperback	$80.95
George Gershwin is one of the giants of American music, unique in that he was both a brilliant writer of popular... Read More >>

Britten's Children

Britten's Children
Author: John Bridcut ISBN: 9780571228409 Format: Paperback	$27.99
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This Is Our Music: Free Jazz, the Sixties, and American Culture

This Is Our Music: Free Jazz, the Sixties, and American...
Author: Iain Anderson ISBN: 9780812220032 Format: Paperback	$65.87
""Takes us back to that moment between the fifties and the sixties when a new music called free jazz took root in... Read More >>

Paris Africain: Rhythms of the African Diaspora

Paris Africain: Rhythms of the African Diaspora
Author: J. Winders ISBN: 9781403960047 Format: Hardback	$120.00
The growth of African immigration to France at the end of the Twentieth Century wrought cultural change in this... Read More >>

Joan Tower: The Comprehensive Bio-Bibliography

Joan Tower: The Comprehensive Bio-Bibliography
Author: Ellen K. Grolman ISBN: 9780810856530 Format: Hardback	$125.95
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Music Divided: Bartók’s Legacy in Cold War Culture

Music Divided: Bartók’s Legacy in Cold War Culture
Author: Danielle Fosler-Lussier ISBN: 9780520249653 Format: Hardback	$140.95
Explores how political pressures affected musical life on both sides of the iron curtain during the early years... Read More >>

Albumblatt Mit Randbemerkungen: Fur Gitarre Solo

Albumblatt Mit Randbemerkungen: Fur Gitarre Solo
Author: Tilo Medek ISBN: 9781846099809 Format: Paperback	$33.51
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Musical Form and Transformation: Four Analytic Essays

Musical Form and Transformation: Four Analytic Essays...
Author: David Lewin ISBN: 9780195317121 Format: Hardback	$58.29
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Erik Satie

Erik Satie
Author: Mary E. Davis ISBN: 9781861893215 Format: Paperback	$32.95
A musical composer who dabbled in the Dada movement, a Bohemian ‘gymnopédiste’ of fin-de-siècle Montmartre, and... Read More >>

The Soundscapes of Australia: Music, Place and Spirituality

The Soundscapes of Australia: Music, Place and Spirituality...
Author: Fiona Richards ISBN: 9780754640721 Format: Hardback	$315.00
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Debussy: The Quiet Revolutionary

Debussy: The Quiet Revolutionary
Author: Victor Lederer ISBN: 9781574671537 Format: Mixed media product	$60.59
Debussy's music, some of the greatest composed in the twentieth century, also ranks among the most challenging.... Read More >>

Cole Porter Platinum Collection

Cole Porter Platinum Collection
Author: Cole Porter ISBN: 9780571527991 Format: Paperback	$49.14
A songbook which contains 50 of the author's best songs for piano and voice with guitar chords. Read More >>

Le Jardin Retrouve, The Music of Frederick Mompou 1893-1987

Le Jardin Retrouve, The Music of Frederick Mompou 1893-1987...
Author: Wilfrid Mellers ISBN: 9781904331254 Format: Paperback	$105.47
""Le Jardin Retrouve. The Music of Frederick Mompou 1893-1987"" was first published in 1987. Read More >>

Analyses of Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Music, 1940-2000

Analyses of Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Music,...
Author: D. J. Hoek ISBN: 9780810858879 Format: Paperback	$148.95
This new volume incorporates all entries from the previous editions by Arthur Wenk, expanding to cover writings... Read More >>

Ruth Crawford Seeger's Worlds: Innovation and Tradition in Twentieth-Century American Music

Ruth Crawford Seeger's Worlds: Innovation and Tradition...
Author: Ray Allen (Royalty Account) , Ellie M. Hisama (Royalty Account) ISBN: 9781580462129 Format: Hardback	$211.20
Interdisciplinary perspectives on the life and work of the esteemed ""ultra-modern"" American composer and pioneering... Read More >>

Bax: A Composer and his Times

Bax: A Composer and his Times
Author: Lewis Foreman ISBN: 9781843832096 Format: Hardback	$116.44
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The Memory of All That: The Life of George Gershwin

The Memory of All That: The Life of George Gershwin...
Author: George Gershwin , Joan Peyser ISBN: 9781423410256 Format: Paperback	$47.39
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Sweet Thunder: Music and Libretti in 1960s Italy

Sweet Thunder: Music and Libretti in 1960s Italy
Author: Vivienne Suvini-Hand ISBN: 9781904350606 Format: Hardback	$189.00
This book offers a detailed examination of the literary influences behind the experimental music of five twentieth-century... Read More >>

Carl Nielsen: Symphonist

Carl Nielsen: Symphonist
Author: Robert Simpson ISBN: 9780900707964 Format: Paperback	$47.39
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