20th century & contemporary classical music books

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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: 9780197566329
Format: Hardback
$157.95

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

Von geschriebenen Noten zu klingenden Tönen

Von geschriebenen Noten zu klingenden Tönen

Author: Peter Gülke
ISBN: 9783662685136
Format: Hardback
$105.57

Das neue Buch von Peter Gülke kreist um die Grundsatzfrage nach der Verwandlung komponierter, geschriebener Musik...  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: 9781793613875
Format: Paperback
$72.99

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

Return to Riemann: Tonal Function and Chromatic Music

Return to Riemann: Tonal Function and Chromatic Music...

Author: J. P. E. Harper-Scott ,  Oliver Chandler
ISBN: 9781032025056
Format: Hardback
$103.00

This book is a music-theoretical and critical-theoretical study of late tonal music, and, in particular, of the...  Read More >>

Elliott Carter's Late Music

Elliott Carter's Late Music

Author: John Link
ISBN: 9781009490269
Format: Paperback
$72.42

The first comprehensive study of the late music of one of the most influential composers of the last half century,...  Read More >>

Mr Todd's Marvel: How One Man Telegraphed Australia to the Modern World

Mr Todd's Marvel: How One Man Telegraphed Australia...

Author: Adam Courtenay
ISBN: 9781922800534
Format: Paperback
$34.99

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Supreme Sirens: Iconic Black Women Who Revolutionized Music

Supreme Sirens: Iconic Black Women Who Revolutionized...

Author: Marcellas Reynolds ,  Monica
ISBN: 9781419769016
Format: Hardback
$90.00

A stunning photography book that explores the power, rebellion, and resilience held within the voices of trailblazing...  Read More >>

The Player Piano and Musical Labor: The Ghost in the Machine

The Player Piano and Musical Labor: The Ghost in the...

Author: Allison Rebecca Wente
ISBN: 9780367553883
Format: Paperback
$83.99

By the early twentieth century the machine aesthetic was a well-established and dominant interest that fundamentally...  Read More >>

The Politicized Concert Mass (1967-2007): From Secularism to Pluralism

The Politicized Concert Mass (1967-2007): From Secularism...

Author: Stephanie Rocke
ISBN: 9781032271514
Format: Paperback
$83.99

Since the transformative 1960s, concert masses have incorporated a range of political and religious views that mirror...  Read More >>

Revisiting the Historiography of Postwar Avant-Garde Music

Revisiting the Historiography of Postwar Avant-Garde...

Author: Anne-Sylvie Barthel-Calvet ,  Christopher Brent Murray
ISBN: 9781032310046
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This collection of essays delves into the historiographical traditions that have dominated how the stories of European...  Read More >>

Fantasies of Music in Nostalgic Medievalism

Fantasies of Music in Nostalgic Medievalism

Author: Helen Dell
ISBN: 9781526173959
Format: Hardback
$195.00

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The Callas Imprint: A Centennial Biography

The Callas Imprint: A Centennial Biography

Author: Sophia Lambton
ISBN: 9781739286323
Format: Hardback
$64.66

An exhaustive biography of the world's greatest soprano - Maria Callas - on the centenary of her birth.  Read More >>

Experiencing Organised Sounds: The Listening Experience Across Diverse Sound-Based Works

Experiencing Organised Sounds: The Listening Experience...

Author: Leigh Landy
ISBN: 9781032533278
Format: Paperback
$77.99

Experiencing Organised Sounds investigates a wide horizon of sound-based works using a template consistently across...  Read More >>

Experiencing Organised Sounds: The Listening Experience Across Diverse Sound-Based Works

Experiencing Organised Sounds: The Listening Experience...

Author: Leigh Landy
ISBN: 9781032547435
Format: Hardback
$284.00

Experiencing Organised Sounds investigates a wide horizon of sound-based works using a template consistently across...  Read More >>

The Stage Works of Philip Glass

The Stage Works of Philip Glass

Author: Robert F. Waters (New Jersey Institute of Technology)
ISBN: 9781107628069
Format: Paperback
$62.07

The Stage Works of Philip Glass is a rich exploration of Glass and his widely acclaimed music for the theatre within...  Read More >>

Genre Beyond Borders: Reassessing Operetta

Genre Beyond Borders: Reassessing Operetta

Author: Bruno Bower ,  Elisabeth Honn Hoegberg
ISBN: 9781032184258
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This book offers an innovative approach to understanding operetta, drawing attention to its malleability and resistance...  Read More >>

Gérard Grisey and Spectral Music: Composition in the Information Age

Gérard Grisey and Spectral Music: Composition in the...

Author: Liam Cagney (BIMM University)
ISBN: 9781009399524
Format: Hardback
$219.94

The first in-depth historical study of the origins of spectral music, which is widely regarded, alongside minimalism,...  Read More >>

Aaron Copland in Latin America: Music and Cultural Politics

Aaron Copland in Latin America: Music and Cultural Politics...

Author: Carol A. Hess
ISBN: 9780252044854
Format: Hardback
$271.00

Between 1941 and 1963, Aaron Copland made four government-sponsored tours of Latin America that drew extensive attention...  Read More >>

The Songs of Jean Sibelius: Poetry, Music, Performance

The Songs of Jean Sibelius: Poetry, Music, Performance...

Author: Gustav Djupsjöbacka
ISBN: 9781783277810
Format: Hardback
$219.94

A landmark in Sibelius scholarship, this is the first book that presents all of Sibelius's solo art songs in their...  Read More >>

Schoenberg: ‘Night Music' – Verklärte Nacht and Erwartung

Schoenberg: ‘Night Music' – Verklärte Nacht and Erwartung...

Author: Arnold Whittall (Emeritus, King's College London)
ISBN: 9781009077361
Format: Paperback
$46.55

Synthesising and refocusing the wealth of recent research into two of Schoenberg's major compositions and highlighting...  Read More >>

Margaret Bonds: The Montgomery Variations and Du Bois Credo

Margaret Bonds: The Montgomery Variations and Du Bois...

Author: John Michael Cooper (Southwestern University, Texas)
ISBN: 9781009054577
Format: Paperback
$46.55

An incisive exploration of two works whose revival is a milestone in modern musical life: Margaret Bonds's Montgomery...  Read More >>

The Composer, Herself: Contemporary Snapshots of the Creative Process

The Composer, Herself: Contemporary Snapshots of the...

Author: Linda Kouvaras ,  Natalie Williams
ISBN: 9783031239212
Format: Hardback
$369.57

This edited volume presents 27 original essays by living composers from all around the globe, reflecting on the...  Read More >>

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