20th century & contemporary classical music books

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Karl Straube (1873–1950): Germany’s Master Organist in Turbulent Times

Karl Straube (1873–1950): Germany’s Master Organist...

Author: Professor Christopher Anderson ,  Emeritus Professor Ralph P. Locke (Series Editor)
ISBN: 9781648250385
Format: Hardback
$422.40

The first thorough examination of the most renowned and influential organist in early twentieth-century Germany...  Read More >>

Claiming Wagner for France: Music and Politics in the Parisian Press, 1933-1944

Claiming Wagner for France: Music and Politics in the...

Author: Rachel Orzech ,  Emeritus Professor Ralph P. Locke (Series Editor)
ISBN: 9781580469708
Format: Hardback
$303.60

A pathbreaking study of the Parisian press's attempts to claim Richard Wagner's place in French history and imagination...  Read More >>

Rock and Roll, Desegregation Movements, and Racism in the Post-Civil Rights Era: "An ""Integrated Effort"""

Rock and Roll, Desegregation Movements, and Racism in...

Author: Beth Fowler
ISBN: 9781793613851
Format: Hardback
$235.00

This book uses archival research and analyses of musical performances and original oral histories to explore the...  Read More >>

Talking Guitar: Conversations with Musicians Who Shaped Twentieth-Century American Music

Talking Guitar: Conversations with Musicians Who Shaped...

Author: Jas Obrecht
ISBN: 9781469669373
Format: Paperback
$67.10

In this lively collection of interviews, storied music writer...  Read More >>

Emma and Claude Debussy: The Biography of a Relationship

Emma and Claude Debussy: The Biography of a Relationship...

Author: Gillian Opstad
ISBN: 9781783276585
Format: Hardback
$129.38

Emma Bardac and her relationship with Claude Debussy take centre stage in this insightful exploration of their lives...  Read More >>

Investigating Musical Performance: Theoretical Models and Intersections

Investigating Musical Performance: Theoretical Models...

Author: Gianmario Borio ,  Giovanni Giuriati (University of Rome, Italy)
ISBN: 9781032235776
Format: Paperback
$83.99

Investigating Musical Performance considers the wide range of perspectives on musical performance made tangible...  Read More >>

The Music of Pavel Haas: Analytical and Hermeneutical Studies

The Music of Pavel Haas: Analytical and Hermeneutical...

Author: Martin Čurda
ISBN: 9781032235622
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This book is the first attempt to provide a comprehensive (albeit necessarily selective) discussion of Pavel Haas’s...  Read More >>

Music: A Social Experience

Music: A Social Experience

Author: Steven Cornelius ,  Mary Natvig
ISBN: 9780367740337
Format: Paperback
$194.00

By taking a thematic approach to the study of music appreciation, Music: A Social Experience, Third Edition demonstrates...  Read More >>

The Routledge Handbook to the Music of Alfred Schnittke

The Routledge Handbook to the Music of Alfred Schnittke...

Author: Gavin Dixon ,  . Pauline Fairclough
ISBN: 9780367222468
Format: Hardback
$452.00

This book is a comprehensive study of the work of one of the most important Russian composers of the late 20th century....  Read More >>

Music: A Social Experience

Music: A Social Experience

Author: Steven Cornelius ,  Mary Natvig
ISBN: 9780367740351
Format: Hardback
$284.00

By taking a thematic approach to the study of music appreciation, Music: A Social Experience, Third Edition demonstrates...  Read More >>

The Creative Labor of Music Patronage in Interwar France

The Creative Labor of Music Patronage in Interwar France...

Author: Louis K. Epstein (Customer)
ISBN: 9781783276691
Format: Hardback
$194.06

Challenges the longstanding perception that modernist composers made art, not money, and that those who made money...  Read More >>

Elliott Carter's Late Music

Elliott Carter's Late Music

Author: John Link
ISBN: 9780521769761
Format: Hardback
$310.50

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Demystifying Scriabin

Demystifying Scriabin

Author: Vasilis Kallis ,  Professor Kenneth Smith
ISBN: 9781783276561
Format: Hardback
$194.06

An innovative contribution to Scriabin studies, covering aspects of Scriabin's life, personality, beliefs, training,...  Read More >>

"Janelle Monáe’s ""Dirty Computer"""

"Janelle Monáe’s ""Dirty Computer"""

Author: Dan Hassler-Forest
ISBN: 9783030906528
Format: Hardback
$129.35

This book offers an in-depth analysis of Janelle Monáe’s Dirty Computer, an Afrofuturist project that appeared simultaneously...  Read More >>

Women in Jazz: Musicality, Femininity, Marginalization

Women in Jazz: Musicality, Femininity, Marginalization...

Author: Marie Buscatto (University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France)
ISBN: 9781032011783
Format: Paperback
$83.99

Women in Jazz: Musicality, Femininity, Marginalization examines the invisible discrimination against female musicians...  Read More >>

Musics with and after Tonality: Mining the Gap

Musics with and after Tonality: Mining the Gap

Author: Paul Fleet
ISBN: 9781138316362
Format: Hardback
$305.00

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Women in Jazz: Musicality, Femininity, Marginalization

Women in Jazz: Musicality, Femininity, Marginalization...

Author: Marie Buscatto (University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France)
ISBN: 9781032011813
Format: Hardback
$284.00

Women in Jazz: Musicality, Femininity, Marginalization examines the invisible discrimination against female musicians...  Read More >>

Australian Music and Modernism, 1960-1975

Australian Music and Modernism, 1960-1975

Author: Dr. Michael Hooper (University of New South Wales, Australia)
ISBN: 9781501381461
Format: Paperback
$61.99

"Drawing on newly available archival material, key works, and correspondence of the era, Australian Music and Modernism...  Read More >>

Modes of Communication in Stravinsky’s Works: Sign and Expression

Modes of Communication in Stravinsky’s Works: Sign and...

Author: Per Dahl
ISBN: 9781032111087
Format: Hardback
$284.00

Igor Stravinsky left behind a complex heritage of music and ideas. Per Dahl presents a model of communication that...  Read More >>

The Operatic Archive: American Opera as History

The Operatic Archive: American Opera as History

Author: Colleen Renihan (Queen’s University at Kingston, Canada) ,  Roberta Marvin (University of Massachusetts, USA)
ISBN: 9781032236889
Format: Paperback
$83.99

The Operatic Archive: American Opera as History extends the growing interdisciplinary dialogue in opera studies...  Read More >>

Ralph Vaughan Williams: A Research and Information Guide

Ralph Vaughan Williams: A Research and Information Guide...

Author: Ryan Ross
ISBN: 9781032242521
Format: Paperback
$83.99

Ralph Vaughan Williams: A Research and Information Guide presents the most extensive annotated bibliography of its...  Read More >>

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