20th century & contemporary classical music books

2347 books were found.

Tragedy: the Ballad of the Bee Gees

Tragedy: the Ballad of the Bee Gees

Author: Jeff Apter
ISBN: 9781922800268
Format: Paperback
$34.99

A critical study of the three Bee Gees-Barry, Robin, and Maurice-and their younger brother Andy, exploring the many...  Read More >>

Reading Elgars The Music Makers: Reputation, Poetry and Expression

Reading Elgars The Music Makers: Reputation, Poetry...

Author: David Young
ISBN: 9781789761191
Format: Paperback
$64.56

Elgars The Music Makers, for contralto solo, choir and large orchestra, has experienced a chequered reputation....  Read More >>

"Janelle Monáe’s ""Dirty Computer"""

"Janelle Monáe’s ""Dirty Computer"""

Author: Dan Hassler-Forest
ISBN: 9783030906559
Format: Paperback
$142.29

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

Easy Listening and Film Scoring 1948-78

Easy Listening and Film Scoring 1948-78

Author: Jack Curtis Dubowsky
ISBN: 9780367760854
Format: Paperback
$79.99

This book documents easy listening’s connections with film music, an aspect overlooked in academic and popular literature.The...  Read More >>

Resilient Voices: Estonian Choirs and Song Festivals in World War II Displaced Person Camps

Resilient Voices: Estonian Choirs and Song Festivals...

Author: Ramona Holmes
ISBN: 9781032016108
Format: Paperback
$37.99

This work contributes to an understanding of immigration, identity and resilience and is particularly important...  Read More >>

New Music and the Crises of Materiality: Sounding Bodies and Objects in Late Modernity

New Music and the Crises of Materiality: Sounding Bodies...

Author: Samuel Wilson
ISBN: 9780367489113
Format: Paperback
$79.99

Arguing that new music in this era reflects a historical moment when the idea of materiality itself is in flux,...  Read More >>

Engaging Cultural Ideologies: Classical Composers and Musical Life in Poland 1918-1956

Engaging Cultural Ideologies: Classical Composers and...

Author: Cindy Bylander
ISBN: 9798887190211
Format: Hardback
$270.00

Engaging Cultural Ideologies offers a recontextualization of the effects of Poland's cultural practices on the genesis...  Read More >>

Singers, Scores and Sounds: Making New Connections and Transforming Voices

Singers, Scores and Sounds: Making New Connections and...

Author: Ellen Hooper (UNSW, Australia)
ISBN: 9781032267487
Format: Paperback
$75.99

This book develops ways of discussing musical practices to articulate a new approach to understanding connections...  Read More >>

Spiritual Dimensions in the Music of Edmund Rubbra

Spiritual Dimensions in the Music of Edmund Rubbra

Author: Lucinda Cradduck
ISBN: 9780367635374
Format: Hardback
$263.00

Edmund Rubbra’s music has given him a reputation as a ‘spiritual’ composer, who had an interest in Eastern thought,...  Read More >>

Singers, Scores and Sounds: Making New Connections and Transforming Voices

Singers, Scores and Sounds: Making New Connections and...

Author: Ellen Hooper (UNSW, Australia)
ISBN: 9781032267470
Format: Hardback
$263.00

This book develops ways of discussing musical practices to articulate a new approach to understanding connections...  Read More >>

Whole Notes

Whole Notes

Author: Ed Ayres
ISBN: 9780733342929
Format: Paperback
$24.99

Life Lessons Through Music Shortlisted for The Age Non-fiction Book of the Year; People's Choice, Queensland Books...  Read More >>

Music and Change in the Eastern Baltics Before and After 1989

Music and Change in the Eastern Baltics Before and After...

Author: Rta Staneviit ,  Magorzata Janicka-Sysz
ISBN: 9781644698945
Format: Hardback
$270.00

Thisvolume provides a transnational study of the impact of musical cultures inthe Eastern Baltics-Lithuania, Latvia,...  Read More >>

Whose Country Music?: Genre, Identity, and Belonging in Twenty-First-Century Country Music Culture

Whose Country Music?: Genre, Identity, and Belonging...

Author: Paula J. Bishop ,  Jada E. Watson (University of Ottawa)
ISBN: 9781108837125
Format: Hardback
$194.06

Participation in country music culture has long been dictated and restricted by entrenched systems of gatekeeping....  Read More >>

Teaching Music History with Cases: A Teacher's Guide

Teaching Music History with Cases: A Teacher's Guide...

Author: Sara Haefeli
ISBN: 9780367672539
Format: Hardback
$96.99

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Playing to Win: The Definitive Biography of John Farnham

Playing to Win: The Definitive Biography of John Farnham...

Author: Jeff Apter
ISBN: 9781922800206
Format: Paperback
$34.99

Teen idol. King of Pop. Voice of the common man. Australian of the Year. Friend. Icon. Superstar. John Farnham is...  Read More >>

Gateways to Understanding Music (TEXTBOOK + ANTHOLOGY PACK)

Gateways to Understanding Music (TEXTBOOK + ANTHOLOGY...

Author: Timothy Rice ,  Dave Wilson
ISBN: 9781032367880
Format: Mixed media product
$252.00

Gateways to Understanding Music, Second Edition, explores music in all the categories that constitute contemporary...  Read More >>

Delius As I Knew Him

Delius As I Knew Him

Author: Eric Fenby
ISBN: 9781916116627
Format: Paperback
$38.79

This is a paperback edition of Eric Fenby's famous book which has not been available in authorised form for some...  Read More >>

Gateways to Understanding Music

Gateways to Understanding Music

Author: Timothy Rice ,  Dave Wilson
ISBN: 9781032216294
Format: Paperback
$183.00

Gateways to Understanding Music, Second Edition, explores music in all the categories that constitute contemporary...  Read More >>

Gateways to Understanding Music

Gateways to Understanding Music

Author: Timothy Rice ,  Dave Wilson
ISBN: 9781032216300
Format: Hardback
$263.00

Gateways to Understanding Music, Second Edition, explores music in all the categories that constitute contemporary...  Read More >>

James MacMillan Studies

James MacMillan Studies

Author: George Parsons ,  Robert Sholl (Royal Academy of Music, London)
ISBN: 9781108716871
Format: Paperback
$64.66

This volume opens up the music and conceptual world of Sir James MacMillan. In it an international team of scholars...  Read More >>

Mahler in Context

Mahler in Context

Author: Charles Youmans (Pennsylvania State University)
ISBN: 9781108438353
Format: Paperback
$62.07

A collection of specially commissioned essays exploring the institutions, artists, thinkers, cultural and socio-political...  Read More >>

Richard Strauss in Context

Richard Strauss in Context

Author: Morten Kristiansen ,  Joseph E. Jones
ISBN: 9781108434461
Format: Paperback
$64.66

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Stravinsky in Context

Stravinsky in Context

Author: Graham Griffiths (City, University of London)
ISBN: 9781108434720
Format: Paperback
$64.66

Igor Stravinsky's strikingly original compositions continue to fascinate scholars and music-lovers across the globe....  Read More >>

Roberto Gerhard: Re-Appraising a Musical Visionary in Exile

Roberto Gerhard: Re-Appraising a Musical Visionary in...

Author: Monty Adkins (University of Huddersfield) ,  Rachel E. Mann (University of Texas Rio Grande Valley)
ISBN: 9780197267134
Format: Hardback
$201.00

Marking the 125th anniversary of the birth of Roberto Gerhard, this work views the composer's life and oeuvre through...  Read More >>

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