20th century & contemporary classical music books

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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: 9781316511763
Format: Hardback
$168.19

An incisive exploration of two works whose revival is a milestone in modern musical life: Margaret Bonds's Montgomery...  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: 9781316514092
Format: Hardback
$168.19

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

The Crossings: Defining Slave to the Rhythm

The Crossings: Defining Slave to the Rhythm

Author: Jeremy J. Wells (University of York)
ISBN: 9781009069083
Format: Paperback
$43.99

This Element focuses on the combination of digital, novel, and analogue technology that was used in the album Slave...  Read More >>

The Crossings: Defining Slave to the Rhythm

The Crossings: Defining Slave to the Rhythm

Author: Jeremy J. Wells (University of York)
ISBN: 9781009454438
Format: Hardback
$129.35

This Element focuses on the combination of digital, novel, and analogue technology that was used in the album Slave...  Read More >>

Classical Music and Opera During and After the COVID-19 Pandemic: Empirical Research on the Digital Transformation of Socio-cultural Institutions and Aesthetic Forms

Classical Music and Opera During and After the COVID-19...

Author: Steffen Lepa ,  Ruth Müller-Lindenberg
ISBN: 9783031429743
Format: Hardback
$422.37

The global COVID-19 pandemic, the resulting lockdown imposed in many countries, as well as related safety measures...  Read More >>

Avant-Garde on Record: Musical Responses to Stereos

Avant-Garde on Record: Musical Responses to Stereos...

Author: Jonathan Goldman (Université de Montréal)
ISBN: 9781009363396
Format: Hardback
$219.94

Largely focusing on avant-garde composers active in the 1950s and 60s, this book highlights their engagement with...  Read More >>

Rudolph Ganz, Patriotism, and Standardization of The Star-Spangled Banner, 1907-1958

Rudolph Ganz, Patriotism, and Standardization of The...

Author: Iain Quinn
ISBN: 9781032554181
Format: Hardback
$105.00

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The Callas Imprint: A Centennial Biography

The Callas Imprint: A Centennial Biography

Author: Sophia Lambton
ISBN: 9781739286347
Format: Paperback
$62.81

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

Elisabeth Lutyens and Edward Clark: The Orchestration of Progress in British Twentieth-Century Music

Elisabeth Lutyens and Edward Clark: The Orchestration...

Author: Annika Forkert (Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester)
ISBN: 9781009337359
Format: Hardback
$219.94

Combining analyses of modernist concert and stage music by Elisabeth Lutyens with those of her audio-visual scores,...  Read More >>

Cuban Music Counterpoints: Vanguardia Musical in Global Networks

Cuban Music Counterpoints: Vanguardia Musical in Global...

Author: Marysol Quevedo (Assistant Professor of Musicology, Assistant Professor of Musicology, University of Miami)
ISBN: 9780197552230
Format: Hardback
$233.00

Cuban Music Counterpoints traces the continuities and ruptures in the Cuban classical music scene between 1940 and...  Read More >>

Musics with and after Tonality: Mining the Gap

Musics with and after Tonality: Mining the Gap

Author: Paul Fleet
ISBN: 9781032182865
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This volume is a journey through musics that emerged at the turn of the 20th Century and were neither exclusively...  Read More >>

Joaquín Rodrigo: A Research and Information Guide

Joaquín Rodrigo: A Research and Information Guide

Author: Walter Aaron Clark (University of California, Riverside, USA)
ISBN: 9781032007823
Format: Paperback
$83.99

Joaquín Rodrigo: A Research and Information Guide catalogues and summarizes the musical works and related literature...  Read More >>

Singing Soviet Stagnation: Vocal Cycles from the USSR, 1964–1985

Singing Soviet Stagnation: Vocal Cycles from the USSR,...

Author: Richard Louis Gillies ,  . Pauline Fairclough
ISBN: 9781032137421
Format: Paperback
$83.99

Singing Soviet Stagnation: Vocal Cycles from the USSR, 1964–1985 explores the ways in which the aftershock of an...  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: 9781032111148
Format: Paperback
$83.99

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

Phonographic Encounters: Mapping Transnational Cultures of Sound, 1890-1945

Phonographic Encounters: Mapping Transnational Cultures...

Author: Elodie A. Roy (University of Newcastle, UK) ,  Eva Moreda Rodriguez (University of Glasgow, UK)
ISBN: 9781032057118
Format: Paperback
$83.99

With case studies from China, Australia, the United States, Latin America, Russia, Sweden, Germany, Spain, Portugal,...  Read More >>

DIY House Shows and Music Venues in the US: Ethnographic Explorations of Place and Community

DIY House Shows and Music Venues in the US: Ethnographic...

Author: David Verbuč
ISBN: 9781032061832
Format: Paperback
$83.99

DIY House Shows and Music Venues in the US is an interdisciplinary study of house concerts and other DIY (‘do-it-yourself’)...  Read More >>

The Routledge Handbook to the Music of Alfred Schnittke

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

Author: Gavin Dixon
ISBN: 9781032162782
Format: Paperback
$92.99

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

A New Perspective for the Use of Dialect in African American Spirituals: History, Context, and Linguistics

A New Perspective for the Use of Dialect in African...

Author: Felicia Raphael Marie Barber ,  Andre J. Thomas
ISBN: 9781793635365
Format: Paperback
$70.99

Perfect for conductors and performers alike, this book traces the history of African American English (AAE), its...  Read More >>

Richard Wagner and the Art of the Avant-Garde, 1860-1910

Richard Wagner and the Art of the Avant-Garde, 1860-1910...

Author: Donald A. Rosenthal
ISBN: 9781538179994
Format: Hardback
$169.00

The book discusses the unprecedented influence of Richard Wagner’s operas on a number of prominent avant-garde artists...  Read More >>

Puccini in Context

Puccini in Context

Author: Alexandra Wilson (Oxford Brookes University)
ISBN: 9781108835589
Format: Hardback
$232.88

Exploring the many dimensions of Giacomo Puccini's historical legacy and significance, this book situates the much-loved...  Read More >>

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