20th century & contemporary classical music books

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Musical Composition in the Twentieth Century

Musical Composition in the Twentieth Century
Author: Arnold Whittall (Professor (Emeritus), Music Theory & Analysis, Professor (Emeritus), Music Theory & Analysis, King's College London) ISBN: 9780198166832 Format: Paperback	$102.95
""Musical Composition in the Twentieth Century"" builds on the foundations of ""Music since the First World War""... Read More >>

Musical Composition in the Twentieth Century

Musical Composition in the Twentieth Century
Author: Arnold Whittall (Professor (Emeritus), Music Theory & Analysis, Professor (Emeritus), Music Theory & Analysis, King's College London) ISBN: 9780198166849 Format: Hardback	$226.95
This book updates and reshapes the original text and places it in the wider context of twentieth-century serious... Read More >>

Gustav Mahler: Volume 3. Vienna: Triumph and Disillusion (1904-1907)

Gustav Mahler: Volume 3. Vienna: Triumph and Disillusion...
Author: Henry-Louis de La Grange (President, President, Bibliothèque Musicale Gustav Mahler, Paris) ISBN: 9780193151604 Format: Hardback	$248.95
This is the third volume of de La Grange's study of the life and music of Gustav Mahler, one of the composers of... Read More >>

Amy Beach, Passionate Victorian: The Life and Work of an American Composer, 1867-1944

Amy Beach, Passionate Victorian: The Life and Work of...
Author: Adrienne Fried Block (Co-Director, Project for the Study of Women in Music, Co-Director, Project for the Study of Women in Music, City University of New York Graduate Center) , William R. Shea (Galileo chair of the History of Science, University of Padua, Italy) ISBN: 9780195137842 Format: Paperback	$77.95
This is a comprehensive biography of perhaps the first important American woman composer, Amy Marcy Beach. She enjoyed... Read More >>

Writings through John Cage's Music, Poetry, and Art

Writings through John Cage's Music, Poetry, and Art...
Author: David W. Bernstein , Christopher Hatch ISBN: 9780226044088 Format: Paperback	$65.95
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Perspectives on American Music, 1900-1950

Perspectives on American Music, 1900-1950
Author: Michael Saffle ISBN: 9780815321453 Format: Hardback	$305.00
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Mordechai Gebirtig: His Poetic and Musical Legacy

Mordechai Gebirtig: His Poetic and Musical Legacy
Author: Gertrude Schneider ISBN: 9780275966577 Format: Hardback	$190.00
Introduces an English-speaking audience to the songs of Mordechai Gebertig, a Yiddish poet and composer who died... Read More >>

George Gershwin: A Bio-Bibliography

George Gershwin: A Bio-Bibliography
Author: Norbert Carnovale ISBN: 9780313260032 Format: Hardback	$120.00
American composer George Gershwin, an icon of the American Jazz Age, indelibly marked 20th-century music, with many... Read More >>

Puro Conjunto!: An Album in Words and Pictures

Puro Conjunto!: An Album in Words and Pictures
Author: Juan Tejeda , Avelardo Valdez ISBN: 9780292781726 Format: Paperback	$65.87
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Musical Ekphrasis in Rilke's Marien-Leben

Musical Ekphrasis in Rilke's Marien-Leben
Author: Siglind Bruhn ISBN: 9789042008007 Format: Paperback	$219.12
In 1923, the twenty-seven-year-old Paul Hindemith published a composition for voice and piano, entitled Das Marienleben,... Read More >>

The Muse That Sings: Composers Speak about the Creative Process

The Muse That Sings: Composers Speak about the Creative...
Author: Ann McCutchan (Lecturer, School of Music, Lecturer, School of Music, University of Texas) ISBN: 9780195127072 Format: Hardback	$384.00
A collection of interviews with 25 various American composers, born between 1930 and 1960, who explain how they... Read More >>

Classical and Romantic Performing Practice 1750-1900

Classical and Romantic Performing Practice 1750-1900...
Author: Clive Brown (Professor of Applied Musicology, Professor of Applied Musicology, University of Leeds) , Sir Roger Norrington ISBN: 9780198161653 Format: Hardback	$323.95
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It's Easy to Play Tchaikovsky

It's Easy to Play Tchaikovsky
Author: Barry Todd ISBN: 9780711924949 Format: Book	$28.44
A superb selection of Tchaikovsky classics in easy to read, simplified arrangements, including 1812 Overture and... Read More >>

The Music of Silence

The Music of Silence
Author: Sir John Tavener , Brian Keeble ISBN: 9780571200887 Format: Paperback	$38.79
A study of the philosophy and spiritual world behind the music of one of the leading present-day composers. Read More >>

Gian Francesco Malipiero (1882-1973): The Life, Times and Music of a Wayward Genius

Gian Francesco Malipiero (1882-1973): The Life, Times...
Author: John C. G. Waterhouse ISBN: 9789057022104 Format: Hardback	$305.00
Recognized increasingly widely as one of the most original Italian composers of the early 20th century, Malipiero... Read More >>

Inside Bluebeard's Castle: Music and Drama in Béla Bartók's Opera

Inside Bluebeard's Castle: Music and Drama in Béla Bartók's...
Author: Carl S. Leafstedt (Assistant Professor of Music History, Assistant Professor of Music History, Trinity University) ISBN: 9780195109993 Format: Hardback	$413.00
This is a study of Bartok's opera ""Bluebeard's Castle"". It adopts a broad approach to the study of opera by introducing,... Read More >>

Hanns Eisler: A Rebel in Music: Selected Writings

Hanns Eisler: A Rebel in Music: Selected Writings
Author: Hanns Eisler , M. Grabs ISBN: 9781871082715 Format: Paperback	$47.39
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Francis Poulenc: Music, Art and Literature

Francis Poulenc: Music, Art and Literature
Author: Sidney Buckland , Sidney Buckland ISBN: 9781859284070 Format: Hardback	$305.00
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Grainger on Music

Grainger on Music
Author: Percy Grainger , Malcolm Gillies (Professor of Music, Professor of Music, University of Queensland, Australia) ISBN: 9780198166658 Format: Hardback	$181.95
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György Ligeti

György Ligeti
Author: Richard Toop ISBN: 9780714837956 Format: Paperback	$39.47
A comprehensive, illustrated biography of the Hungarian composer Gyorgy Ligeti for the general reader, placing his... Read More >>

Alan Rawsthorne: Portrait of a Composer

Alan Rawsthorne: Portrait of a Composer
Author: John McCabe ISBN: 9780198166931 Format: Hardback	$226.95
Alan Rawsthorne is one of the leading British composers of the twentieth century. His music ranges from popular... Read More >>

Political and Religious Ideas in the Works of Arnold Schoenberg

Political and Religious Ideas in the Works of Arnold...
Author: Charlotte M. Cross , Russell A. Berman ISBN: 9780815328315 Format: Hardback	$305.00
The essays in this collection chronicle the transformation of Arnold Schoenberg's works from music as pure art to... Read More >>

Anthems from Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin: A CD of Anthems in Performance

Anthems from Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin: A CD of...
Author: Barra Boydell ISBN: 9781851824946 Format: Audio	$65.87
Musicians associated with Christ Church cathedral from the late Renaissance to the twentieth century composed anthems... Read More >>

A Descriptive Catalogue of the Music of Charles Ives

A Descriptive Catalogue of the Music of Charles Ives...
Author: James B. Sinclair ISBN: 9780300076011 Format: Hardback	$290.40
This information-packed catalogue of the music of Charles Ives contains 728 entries covering all of the prolific... Read More >>

Joachim Andersen: A Bio-Bibliography

Joachim Andersen: A Bio-Bibliography
Author: Kyle J. Dzapo ISBN: 9780313308895 Format: Hardback	$229.55
A reference guide to the compositions of flutist Joachim Andersen, which includes a brief biography, discography,... Read More >>

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