20th century & contemporary classical music books

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The Music of Vivian Fine

The Music of Vivian Fine
Author: Heidi Von Gunden ISBN: 9780810836174 Format: Hardback	$139.95
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Edward Elgar: A Creative Life

Edward Elgar: A Creative Life
Author: Jerrold Northrop Moore ISBN: 9780198163664 Format: Paperback	$191.95
Edward Elgar is among the greatest of all English composers. Drawing on the vast amount of source material, Jerrold... Read More >>

William Walton: Music and Literature

William Walton: Music and Literature
Author: Stewart R. Craggs ISBN: 9781859281901 Format: Hardback	$189.00
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Camille Saint-Saens: The Carnival Of The Animals (Full Score)

Camille Saint-Saens: The Carnival Of The Animals (Full...
Author: Camille Saint-Saens ISBN: 9780486404127 Format: Paperback	$23.95
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Perspectives on American Music since 1950

Perspectives on American Music since 1950
Author: James R. Heintze ISBN: 9780815321446 Format: Hardback	$189.00
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Otto Laske: Navigating New Musical Horizons

Otto Laske: Navigating New Musical Horizons
Author: Jerry N. Tabor ISBN: 9780313306327 Format: Hardback	$140.00
The essays offer an examination of issues of the musical experience, research in perception and brain functions,... Read More >>

The Twisted Muse: Musicians and Their Music in the Third Reich

The Twisted Muse: Musicians and Their Music in the Third...
Author: Michael H. Kater (Distinguished Research Professor, Department of History, Distinguished Research Professor, Department of History, York University) ISBN: 9780195132427 Format: Paperback	$70.95
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The Gershwin Style: New Looks at the Music of George Gershwin

The Gershwin Style: New Looks at the Music of George...
Author: Wayne Schneider (Associate Professor of Music, Associate Professor of Music, University of Vermont) ISBN: 9780195090208 Format: Hardback	$226.00
George Gershwin is at once one of America's most popular and least appreciated composers. Some of America's leading... Read More >>

Talking Music: Conversations With John Cage, Philip Glass, Laurie Anderson, And 5 Generations Of American Experimental Composers

Talking Music: Conversations With John Cage, Philip...
Author: William Duckworth ISBN: 9780306808937 Format: Paperback	$58.08
""Talking Music is comprised of substantial original conversations with seventeen American experimental composers... Read More >>

Schoenberg, Berg, and Webern: A Companion to the Second Viennese School

Schoenberg, Berg, and Webern: A Companion to the Second...
Author: Bryan R. Simms , Bryan R. Simms ISBN: 9780313296048 Format: Hardback	$144.00
Schoenberg, Berg, and Webern, modern composers living in Vienna near the turn of the 20th century, are examined... Read More >>

Percy Grainger

Percy Grainger
Author: John Bird ISBN: 9780198166528 Format: Hardback	$395.00
This biography of Percy Grainger gives e circumstantial account of one of the strangest figures in twentieth-century... Read More >>

Richard Strauss

Richard Strauss
Author: Tim Ashley ISBN: 9780714837949 Format: Paperback	$39.47
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Opera: Desire, Disease, Death

Opera: Desire, Disease, Death
Author: Michael Hutcheon , Linda Hutcheon ISBN: 9780803273184 Format: Paperback	$52.80
Opera is quin-tessentially an art of love and desire, of loss and suffering, of disease and death. This title offers... Read More >>

Satie the Bohemian: From Cabaret to Concert Hall

Satie the Bohemian: From Cabaret to Concert Hall
Author: Steven Moore Whiting (Assistant Professor of Music History/MusicologyUniversity of Michigan, Assistant Professor of Music History/MusicologyUniversity of Michigan) ISBN: 9780198164586 Format: Hardback	$312.95
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French Cultural Politics and Music: From the Dreyfus Affair to the First World War

French Cultural Politics and Music: From the Dreyfus...
Author: Jane F. Fulcher (Professor of Music, Professor of Music, Indiana University) ISBN: 9780195120219 Format: Hardback	$190.95
Argues that French musical meanings and values in the years from 1898 to 1914 are best explained not in terms of... Read More >>

20/20: 20 New Sounds of the 20th Century

20/20: 20 New Sounds of the 20th Century
Author: William Duckworth ISBN: 9780028648644 Format: Book	$353.63
Duckworth (music, Bucknell U.) introduces students and music lovers to the changing styles of classical music of... Read More >>

The Atonal Music of Anton Webern

The Atonal Music of Anton Webern
Author: Allen Forte ISBN: 9780300073522 Format: Hardback	$171.60
The Austrian composer Anton Webern (1883?1945) is one of the figures of musical modernism. In this book a music... Read More >>

The Organ Works of Marcel Dupré

The Organ Works of Marcel Dupré
Author: Graham Steed ISBN: 9781576470077 Format: Hardback	$184.80
Marcel Dupré's career as an organist spanned the first seven decades of the 20th century, and took him all over... Read More >>

Encyclopedia of Music in the 20th Century

Encyclopedia of Music in the 20th Century
Author: Lol Henderson , Lee Stacey ISBN: 9781579580797 Format: Hardback	$945.00
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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: 9780195074086 Format: Hardback	$424.00
This is a comprehensive biography of perhaps the first important American woman composer, Amy Marcy Beach. She... Read More >>

Giuseppe Ferrata: Emigre Pianist and Composer

Giuseppe Ferrata: Emigre Pianist and Composer
Author: Edward Eanes ISBN: 9780810835009 Format: Hardback	$172.79
The book presents an historical account of Ferrata's life from his childhood in Italy through the difficult years... Read More >>

Virgil Thomson: Composer on the Aisle

Virgil Thomson: Composer on the Aisle
Author: Anthony Tommasini ISBN: 9780393318586 Format: Paperback	$65.87
This biography of American 20th century music and criticism chronicles Virgil Thomson's life as a composer, critic... Read More >>

The Music of Lutoslawski: Expanded Third Edition

The Music of Lutoslawski: Expanded Third Edition
Author: Charles Bodman Rae ISBN: 9780711969100 Format: Book	$79.07
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HARRISON BIRTWHISTLE RECENT YEARS

HARRISON BIRTWHISTLE RECENT YEARS
Author: Michael J. W. Hall ISBN: 9781861051790 Format: Paperback	$56.76
Birtwistle is one of the most compelling and controversial of contemporary composers. In his study, Hall has been... Read More >>

The Music of Elliott Carter

The Music of Elliott Carter
Author: David Schiff , Elliott Carter ISBN: 9780801436123 Format: Hardback	$160.91
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