20th century & contemporary classical music books

Providing a colourful introduction for non-majors with regard to the scope of musical styles and venues from colonial...  Read More >>

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This collection of eight ""lectures"" by pianist, Graham Johnson, is based on a series of concert talks given at...  Read More >>

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A biography of Winnaretta Singer-Polignac, heiress to the Singer Sewing Machine fortune, who befriended and subsidized...  Read More >>

During the 1930s and early 1940s, hundreds of thousands of ""Okies,"" ""Arkies,"" and other rural folks from around...  Read More >>

During the 1930s and early 1940s, hundreds of thousands of ""Okies,"" ""Arkies,"" and other rural folks from around...  Read More >>

Containing over 8000 entries, this text is a valuable and practical source of biographical information on classical...  Read More >>

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Fully revised edition of Peter Dickinson's study of one of the British composers of the twentieth century.  Read More >>

This volume contains the work of 11 North American scholars who have been recipients of the Ralph Vaughan Williams...  Read More >>

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This English work deals with the life and musical influences of the Italian composer Luigi Dallapiccola (1904-1975)....  Read More >>

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Publisher and editors change over the course of the series.  Read More >>

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This book is the first biography of 20th century pianist Rudolf Serkin, providing a narrative of Serkin's life with...  Read More >>

Jerry Zolten tells the Dixie Hummingbirds' story and with it the story of a changing music industry and a changing...  Read More >>

"Sergey Prokofiev lived a life caught between East and West, old and new. He will always be remembered for his opera...  Read More >>

This addition to the series contains miniature biographies taken from the archives of the Dictionary of National...  Read More >>

A biography of Benjamin Britten which presents a panorama of British musical life since the 1920s.  Read More >>

The music of the Greek-born composer, Iannis Xenakis, has been called brutal and violent. He first studied as an...  Read More >>

The works of Edgard Varèse (1883-1965) represent the most radical expression of 20th-century Modernism in music....  Read More >>

Presenting a view of the 20th-century music avant-garde without resorting to highly specialized jargon, this work...  Read More >>

Focusing on music as a cultural marker during the First World War of necessity, this book exposes its relationship...  Read More >>