20th century & contemporary classical music books

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Bob Dylan on Film: The Intersection of Music and Visuals

Bob Dylan on Film: The Intersection of Music and Visuals...

Author: Jonathan Hodgers
ISBN: 9781138586321
Format: Hardback
$273.00

Delving into Bob Dylan's distinctive cinematic journey, this book explores his experimental, boundary-pushing artistry...  Read More >>

Art Music Activism: Aesthetics and Politics in 1930s New York City

Art Music Activism: Aesthetics and Politics in 1930s...

Author: Maria Cristina Fava
ISBN: 9780252045714
Format: Hardback
$201.00

Surrounded by the widespread misery of the Depression, left-leaning classical music composers sought a musical language...  Read More >>

Charles Villiers Stanford: Man and Musician: Revised and Expanded Edition

Charles Villiers Stanford: Man and Musician: Revised...

Author: Jeremy Dibble
ISBN: 9781783277957
Format: Hardback
$181.13

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Vaughan Williams in Context

Vaughan Williams in Context

Author: Julian Onderdonk (West Chester University, Pennsylvania) ,  Ceri Owen (University of Birmingham)
ISBN: 9781108493321
Format: Hardback
$232.88

Taking a revisionist perspective, this book places and explores Vaughan Williams's life and music in their broad...  Read More >>

Handbuch der Oper

Handbuch der Oper

Author: Rudolf Kloiber ,  Wulf Konold
ISBN: 9783662685259
Format: Hardback
$131.97

Ergänzend zu den über 330 Operntexten des Standardwerks stellt Robert Maschka auf ca.  Read More >>

Film Music Analysis: Studying the Score

Film Music Analysis: Studying the Score

Author: Frank Lehman
ISBN: 9780367430771
Format: Hardback
$231.00

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Musical Modernism in Global Perspective: Entangled Histories on a Shared Planet

Musical Modernism in Global Perspective: Entangled Histories...

Author: Björn Heile (University of Glasgow)
ISBN: 9781009491709
Format: Hardback
$232.88

In a series of historical and analytical case studies from different parts of the world, this first study of the...  Read More >>

The Mediations of Music: Critical Approaches after Adorno

The Mediations of Music: Critical Approaches after Adorno...

Author: Gianmario Borio
ISBN: 9780367762551
Format: Paperback
$77.99

Should we now say that this model with its clear Hegelian influence is outdated? Or does it need some theoretical...  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: 9781032308562
Format: Paperback
$77.99

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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: 9780367762414
Format: Paperback
$77.99

This book studies Crumb’s Winds of Destiny and Black Angels as artefacts of collective memory and cultural trauma....  Read More >>

The Symphony in Australia, 1960-2020

The Symphony in Australia, 1960-2020

Author: Rhoderick McNeill
ISBN: 9780367622947
Format: Paperback
$77.99

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

Leonard Bernstein in Context

Leonard Bernstein in Context

Author: Elizabeth A. Wells (Mount Allison University, Canada)
ISBN: 9781108835701
Format: Hardback
$232.88

From his early education, through his conducting and composing careers, to his fame as musical and cultural ambassador...  Read More >>

BBC Proms 2024

BBC Proms 2024

Author: BBC Proms Publications
ISBN: 9781912114177
Format: Paperback
$25.85

The BBC Proms is the world’s biggest and longest-running classical music festival and one of the jewels in the crown...  Read More >>

The Musical Relationship between Claude Debussy and Igor Stravinsky

The Musical Relationship between Claude Debussy and...

Author: Professor Mark McFarland
ISBN: 9781648250903
Format: Hardback
$277.20

Stravinsky's influence on Debussy in 1910-13 is demonstrated here in the many modernistic features of such works...  Read More >>

Britten Experienced: Modernism, Musicology and Sentiment

Britten Experienced: Modernism, Musicology and Sentiment...

Author: Peter Franklin
ISBN: 9781032666600
Format: Hardback
$103.00

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Britten's Gods: Purcell, Bach, Mozart, Schubert, Verdi, Mahler

Britten's Gods: Purcell, Bach, Mozart, Schubert, Verdi,...

Author: Sterling Lambert
ISBN: 9781638040682
Format: Hardback
$396.00

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Bands in American Musical History: Inflection Points and Reappraisals

Bands in American Musical History: Inflection Points...

Author: Bryan Proksch (Royalty Account) ,  Professor George Foreman
ISBN: 9781648250828
Format: Hardback
$330.00

Essays on the history of bands in America from ca. 1820 to 1930, offering new insights on a major sphere of music...  Read More >>

From St. Petersburg to Vienna: The New Jewish School in Music (1908-1938) as Part of the Jewish Cultural Renaissance

From St. Petersburg to Vienna: The New Jewish School...

Author: Jascha Nemtsov
ISBN: 9783447111058
Format: Paperback
$171.60

"The history of the so-called ""New Jewish School of Music"" began with the founding of the Society for Jewish Folk...  Read More >>

John Zorn’s File Card Works: Hypertextual Intermediality in Composition and Analysis

John Zorn’s File Card Works: Hypertextual Intermediality...

Author: Maurice Windleburn
ISBN: 9781032341224
Format: Hardback
$273.00

This book is the first study of John Zorn’s ‘file card’ works, with special focus made on the pieces Godard (1985),...  Read More >>

Pierre Boulez: Organised Delirium

Pierre Boulez: Organised Delirium

Author: Caroline Potter
ISBN: 9781837650859
Format: Hardback
$77.63

Exploring the emotional and cultural influences on Pierre Boulez's early works as well as the role surrealism and...  Read More >>

Shostakovich's Symphony No. 5

Shostakovich's Symphony No. 5

Author: Marina Frolova-Walker (Professor of Music History, Professor of Music History, University of Cambridge) ,  Jonathan Walker (Freelance Writer and Private Teacher, Freelance Writer and Private Teacher)
ISBN: 9780197566336
Format: Paperback
$35.95

"The book is devoted to Shostakovich's most controversial symphony, composed at the height of Stalin's Purges. It...  Read More >>

Quartet: How Four Women Challenged the Musical World

Quartet: How Four Women Challenged the Musical World...

Author: Leah Broad
ISBN: 9780571366118
Format: Paperback
$24.99

The lives, loves, adventures and trailblazing musical careers of four extraordinary women from a stunning debut...  Read More >>

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