20th century & contemporary classical music books

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The Apollonian Clockwork: On Stravinsky

The Apollonian Clockwork: On Stravinsky
Author: Louis Andriessen , Elmer Schönberger ISBN: 9789053568569 Format: Paperback	$158.14
“The one book about Stravinsky Stravinsky would have liked.” Richard Taruskin Read More >>

For the End of Time: The Story of the Messiaen Quartet

For the End of Time: The Story of the Messiaen Quartet...
Author: Rebecca Rischin ISBN: 9780801472978 Format: Paperback	$60.59
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A Most Ingenious Paradox: The Art of Gilbert and Sullivan

A Most Ingenious Paradox: The Art of Gilbert and Sullivan...
Author: Gayden Wren ISBN: 9780195301724 Format: Paperback	$74.95
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For the End of Time: The Story of the Messiaen Quartet

For the End of Time: The Story of the Messiaen Quartet...
Author: Rebecca Rischin ISBN: 9781501745379 Format: Hardback	$139.92
The clarinetist Rebecca Rischin has written a captivating book.... Her research dispels several long-cherished myths... Read More >>

A Soviet Credo: Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony

A Soviet Credo: Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony
Author: Pauline Fairclough ISBN: 9780754650164 Format: Hardback	$315.00
Composed in 1935-36 and intended to be his artistic 'credo', Shostakovich's ""Fourth Symphony"" was not performed... Read More >>

Rip it Up and Start Again: Postpunk 1978-1984

Rip it Up and Start Again: Postpunk 1978-1984
Author: Simon Reynolds ISBN: 9780571215706 Format: Paperback	$24.99
The essential book on post-punk music, a must for any serious pop music fan. Read More >>

The Mahler Family Letters

The Mahler Family Letters
Author: Stephen McClatchie (Vice-President, Vice-President, Mt. Allison University, Canada) ISBN: 9780195140651 Format: Hardback	$231.00
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Growing Up with Jazz: Twenty-Four Musicians Talk about Their Lives and Careers

Growing Up with Jazz: Twenty-Four Musicians Talk about...
Author: W. Royal Stokes ISBN: 9780195159271 Format: Hardback	$75.95
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Benjamin Britten: The Spiritual Dimension

Benjamin Britten: The Spiritual Dimension
Author: Graham Elliott (Director of Music, St Paul's Episcopal Church, Washington, DC) ISBN: 9780198162582 Format: Hardback	$363.00
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Bela Bartok: An Analysis of His Music

Bela Bartok: An Analysis of His Music
Author: Erno Lendvai , Alan Bush ISBN: 9781871082753 Format: Paperback	$55.31
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Janáček - Leaves from His Life

Janáček - Leaves from His Life
Author: Leoš Janáček , Vilém and Margaret Tauský ISBN: 9781871082081 Format: Paperback	$65.87
The thirty-odd articles written by Janáček for the Brno daily paper are translated and collected in together this... Read More >>

American Minimal Music

American Minimal Music
Author: Wim Mertens , J. Hautekiet ISBN: 9781871082005 Format: Paperback	$41.27
The music of Terry Riley, La Monte Young, Steve Reich and Philip Glass are dealt with in this book, and an ideological... Read More >>

Enrique Granados: Poet of the Piano

Enrique Granados: Poet of the Piano
Author: Walter Aaron Clark (Professor, Professor, University of California Riverside) ISBN: 9780195140668 Format: Hardback	$170.95
Enrique Granados (1867-1916) is best known for his music inspired by the art of Francisco Goya, especially the monumental... Read More >>

The Choral Music of Twentieth-Century Women Composers: Elisabeth Lutyens, Elizabeth Maconchy and Thea Musgrave

The Choral Music of Twentieth-Century Women Composers:...
Author: Catherine Roma ISBN: 9780810850293 Format: Paperback	$75.95
The book presents an in depth analysis of the choral compositions of Elisabeth Lutyens, Elizabeth Maconchy, and... Read More >>

While Spring and Summer Sang: Thomas Beecham and the Music of Frederick Delius

While Spring and Summer Sang: Thomas Beecham and the...
Author: Lyndon Jenkins ISBN: 9780754607212 Format: Hardback	$305.00
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Joel-Francois Durand in the Mirror Land

Joel-Francois Durand in the Mirror Land
Author: Jonathan W. Bernard , Jonathan W. Bernard ISBN: 9780295985756 Format: Paperback	$92.27
Features a self-interview in which Joel-Francois Durand speaks about how and why he became a composer and about... Read More >>

Joel-Francois Durand in the Mirror Land

Joel-Francois Durand in the Mirror Land
Author: Jonathan W. Bernard , Jonathan W. Bernard ISBN: 9780295985749 Format: Hardback	$171.60
Presents an essay by and about French composer Joel-Francois Durand, in which Durand speaks about how and why he... Read More >>

Music for the Common Man: Aaron Copland during the Depression and War

Music for the Common Man: Aaron Copland during the Depression...
Author: Elizabeth B. Crist (Assistant Professor of Musicology, Assistant Professor of Musicology, University of Texas at Austin) ISBN: 9780195151572 Format: Hardback	$154.95
Music for the Common Man examines Copland's most celebrated music in the context of progressive politics during... Read More >>

Wiener Schriften zur Stilkunde und AuffÃ""hrungspraxis: Herausgegeben von: Hartmut Krones

Wiener Schriften zur Stilkunde und AuffÃ""hrungspraxis:...
Author: Hartmut Krones ISBN: 9783205772071 Format: Hardback	$98.30
Papers presented at a symposium held June 14-16, 2000, as part of the Wiener Festwochen 2000. Read More >>

The American Songbook: The Singers, the Songwriters, the Songs

The American Songbook: The Singers, the Songwriters,...
Author: Ken Bloom , Tony Bennett ISBN: 9781579124489 Format: Hardback	$92.27
Presented in the striking format of Ken Bloom's successful Broadway Musicals, this rich visual history of popular... Read More >>

Leibu Levin: Word and Melody - Yiddish Poetry Set to Music

Leibu Levin: Word and Melody - Yiddish Poetry Set to...
Author: Ruth Levin ISBN: 9789657012598 Format: Hardback	$122.91
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Jazz Anecdotes: Second Time around

Jazz Anecdotes: Second Time around
Author: Bill Crow ISBN: 9780195187953 Format: Paperback	$32.95
This revised edition of Jazz Anecdotes comes with 150 new anecdotes about jazz musicians both classic and contemporary.... Read More >>

Haunted Weather: Music, Silence, and Memory

Haunted Weather: Music, Silence, and Memory
Author: David Toop ISBN: 9781852427894 Format: Paperback	$39.60
Part personal memoir and part travel journal, this title presents a survey of the developments in digital technology,... Read More >>

Five Operas and a Symphony: Word and Music in Russian Culture

Five Operas and a Symphony: Word and Music in Russian...
Author: Boris Gasparov ISBN: 9780300106503 Format: Hardback	$95.95
In this eagerly anticipated book, Boris Gasparov gazes through the lens of music to find an unusual perspective... Read More >>

Messiaen

Messiaen
Author: Peter Hill , Nigel Simeone ISBN: 9780300109078 Format: Hardback	$72.95
The French composer Olivier Messiaen (1908–92) is a musician about whom most remains to be discovered. More than... Read More >>

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