20th century & contemporary classical music books

A biography of the conductor Mitropoulos. He was an advocate of difficult modern music and an early champion of...  Read More >>

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In this fascinating memoir, Sheila Dhar gives an insider's view of the world of Indian musicians and the now all...  Read More >>

In this charming memoir, Harry Ellis Dickson, one of Boston's most beloved and energetic musicians, recollects his...  Read More >>

Nicholas Medtner (1880-1951) has always been a neglected figure in the history of Russian music, and yet his friend...  Read More >>

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Ben Johnston is an American composer internationally known for his work with extended just intonation. This is a...  Read More >>

The first full-length volume on the life work of one of the most well-known and prolific masters of our time, William...  Read More >>

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Like rap in the United States, bachata began as a music of the poor and dispossessed. This book traces the impact...  Read More >>

Lou Harrison is a well-known American composer whose many interests include world music, just intonation, gamelan...  Read More >>

Glenda Dawn Goss draws on nearly thirty years of correspondence as she examines the zealous promotion of composer...  Read More >>

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A collection of Sir Michael Tippett's essays and articles drawn from his two out of print collections, Moving into...  Read More >>

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Edward Elgar was for many years the most popular composer in Britain; his music was, and remains, inextricably linked...  Read More >>

A detailed examination of the Trakl cycle, Op. 14, which focuses on the compositional process of Webern's middle-period...  Read More >>

""Silence"" is a collection of some of the essays and lectures that have made John Cage's name synonymous with all...  Read More >>

Robert Erickson's music bristles with the quintessential virtues of modernist American composers: intelligence,...  Read More >>

Compiles all charts appearing in Cash Box magazine prior to 1989 which have not appeared in the earlier volumes...  Read More >>

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Selected from the 15,000 surviving Grainger letters, these 76 letters record Grainger's fascinating life as a musician...  Read More >>

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Soviet and Russian music of the first third of the 20th century--with the exception of the music of a few high-profile...  Read More >>

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