20th century & contemporary classical music books

2370 books were found.

Gateways to Understanding Music

Gateways to Understanding Music

Author: Timothy Rice ,  Dave Wilson
ISBN: 9781032216300
Format: Hardback
$263.00

Gateways to Understanding Music, Second Edition, explores music in all the categories that constitute contemporary...  Read More >>

James MacMillan Studies

James MacMillan Studies

Author: George Parsons ,  Robert Sholl (Royal Academy of Music, London)
ISBN: 9781108716871
Format: Paperback
$64.66

This volume opens up the music and conceptual world of Sir James MacMillan. In it an international team of scholars...  Read More >>

Richard Strauss in Context

Richard Strauss in Context

Author: Morten Kristiansen ,  Joseph E. Jones
ISBN: 9781108434461
Format: Paperback
$64.66

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Stravinsky in Context

Stravinsky in Context

Author: Graham Griffiths (City, University of London)
ISBN: 9781108434720
Format: Paperback
$64.66

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Mahler in Context

Mahler in Context

Author: Charles Youmans (Pennsylvania State University)
ISBN: 9781108438353
Format: Paperback
$62.07

A collection of specially commissioned essays exploring the institutions, artists, thinkers, cultural and socio-political...  Read More >>

The Cambridge Companion to Krautrock

The Cambridge Companion to Krautrock

Author: Uwe Schütte (Georg-August-Universität, Göttingen, Germany)
ISBN: 9781009005272
Format: Paperback
$64.66

This first academic introduction to the 1960s/70s 'Krautrock' movement of German experimental music discusses key...  Read More >>

The Cambridge Companion to Krautrock

The Cambridge Companion to Krautrock

Author: Uwe Schütte (Georg-August-Universität, Göttingen, Germany)
ISBN: 9781316511077
Format: Hardback
$194.04

This first academic introduction to the 1960s/70s 'Krautrock' movement of German experimental music discusses key...  Read More >>

Legacies of Power in American Music: Essays in Honor of Michael J. Budds

Legacies of Power in American Music: Essays in Honor...

Author: Judith A. Mabary
ISBN: 9781032231020
Format: Hardback
$263.00

This volume honors and extends the contributions of educator and scholar Dr. Michael J. Budds to the field of musicology,...  Read More >>

Gustav Holst: The Man and His Music

Gustav Holst: The Man and His Music

Author: Short Michael
ISBN: 9781910841587
Format: Paperback
$68.57

Biography of Gustav Holst and study of his works  Read More >>

Women in Rock, Women in Romanticism

Women in Rock, Women in Romanticism

Author: James Rovira
ISBN: 9781032069845
Format: Hardback
$263.00

This work explores the interrelationships between contemporary female musicians and eighteenth- and nineteenth-century...  Read More >>

Twentieth-Century Music in the West: An Introduction

Twentieth-Century Music in the West: An Introduction...

Author: Tom Perchard (Goldsmiths, University of London) ,  Stephen Graham (Goldsmiths, University of London)
ISBN: 9781108481984
Format: Hardback
$206.97

This is the first introductory survey of western twentieth-century music to address popular music, art music and...  Read More >>

Ralph Vaughan Williams and Adrian Boult

Ralph Vaughan Williams and Adrian Boult

Author: Nigel Simeone
ISBN: 9781783277292
Format: Hardback
$129.38

The first detailed study of the working relationship and productive friendship between Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)...  Read More >>

Vaughan Williams

Vaughan Williams

Author: Eric Saylor (Professor of Music History, Professor of Music History, Drake University)
ISBN: 9780190918569
Format: Hardback
$80.95

In Vaughan Williams, author Eric Saylor revisits the life and work of famed British musician Ralph Vaughan Williams,...  Read More >>

The Female Voice in the Twentieth Century: Material, Symbolic and Aesthetic Dimensions

The Female Voice in the Twentieth Century: Material,...

Author: Serena Facci ,  Michela Garda
ISBN: 9780367715496
Format: Paperback
$83.99

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The Modern Brass Ensemble in Twentieth-Century Britain

The Modern Brass Ensemble in Twentieth-Century Britain...

Author: John Miller
ISBN: 9781783277346
Format: Hardback
$207.00

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Music and the Making of Modern Science

Music and the Making of Modern Science

Author: Peter Pesic
ISBN: 9780262543903
Format: Paperback
$110.00

""A wide-ranging exploration of how music has influenced science through the ages, from fifteenth-century cosmology...  Read More >>

Noise as a Constructive Element in Music: Theoretical and Music-Analytical Perspectives

Noise as a Constructive Element in Music: Theoretical...

Author: Mark Delaere
ISBN: 9781032200392
Format: Hardback
$284.00

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War and Death in the Music of George Crumb: A Crisis of Collective Memory

War and Death in the Music of George Crumb: A Crisis...

Author: Abigail Shupe
ISBN: 9780367762100
Format: Hardback
$284.00

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Curating Opera: Reinventing the Past Through Museums of Opera and Art

Curating Opera: Reinventing the Past Through Museums...

Author: Stephen Mould
ISBN: 9780367698096
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This study considers how curatorial forces are at work within an opera house dentifying the functionaries and processes...  Read More >>

The Symphony in Australia, 1960-2020

The Symphony in Australia, 1960-2020

Author: Rhoderick McNeill
ISBN: 9780367622923
Format: Hardback
$284.00

The Symphony remained a major orchestral form in Australia between 1960 and 2020, with a body of diverse and interesting...  Read More >>

Musik in Baden-Württemberg. Jahrbuch 2021/22: Band 26

Musik in Baden-Württemberg. Jahrbuch 2021/22: Band 26...

Author: Ges. für Musikgeschichte in BW e.V.
ISBN: 9783662660980
Format: Paperback
$105.57

Band des Jahrbuches zur Musik in Baden-Württemberg enthält aktuelle Forschungsbeiträge und populärwissenschaftliche...  Read More >>

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