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Serialism by Arnold Whittall
RRP: $33.54Booksplease Price: $30.86From the earliest years of the 20th century composers sought ways in which to break from earlier musical traditions. Serialism is one of the most prominent innovations resulting from this. From... -
Serialism by Arnold Whittall 9780521863414
RRP: $100.62Booksplease Price: $92.09From the earliest years of the 20th century composers sought ways in which to break from earlier musical traditions. Serialism is one of the most prominent innovations resulting from this. From... -
British Music after Britten by Arnold Whittall 9781783274970
RRP: $122.55Booksplease Price: $118.25By common consent the leading British composer of the twentieth-century's middle decades, Britten continues to create significant contexts for the work of those who survived and succeeded him. ... -
Musical Composition in the Twentieth Century by Arnold Whittall 9780198166832
RRP: $94.17Booksplease Price: $85.81Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Music Since the First World War by Arnold Whittall 9780198165330
Booksplease Price: $69.21This survey of the most significant modern composers and their techniques has become a standard work on the constantly shifting musical developments during the greater part of the twentieth century... -
Schoenberg: ‘Night Music' – Verklärte Nacht and Erwartung by Arnold Whittall 9781009077361
RRP: $19.35Booksplease Price: $16.96Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951) is often portrayed as a composer who began as a heart-on-sleeve late Romantic only to evolve during the First World War into an austere, mathematically-obsessed deviser... -
Exploring Twentieth-Century Music: Tradition and Innovation by Arnold Whittall 9780521016681
RRP: $33.54Booksplease Price: $31.73In this wide-ranging book, Arnold Whittall considers a group of important composers of the twentieth century, including Debussy, Webern, Schoenberg, Stravinsky, Bartok, Janacek, Britten, Carter,... -
The Music of Britten and Tippett: Studies in Themes and Techniques by Arnold Whittall 9780521386685
RRP: $51.60Booksplease Price: $50.58In this classic study of Benjamin Britten and Michael Tippett, Arnold Whittall builds up a unique double portrait of the two leading composers of their generation. For this second, revised edition... -
Schoenberg: ‘Night Music' – Verklärte Nacht and Erwartung by Arnold Whittall 9781316514092
RRP: $83.85Booksplease Price: $80.28Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951) is often portrayed as a composer who began as a heart-on-sleeve late Romantic only to evolve during the First World War into an austere, mathematically-obsessed deviser... -
Heinrich Schenker: Selected Correspondence by Ian Bent 9781843839644
RRP: $45.15Booksplease Price: $32.17Brings together in one volume the full text of some 450 letters in first-time English translation, organized into sections each prefaced by an introduction. All the letters are fully annotated and... -
Perspectives on Peter Maxwell Davies by Richard McGregor
RRP: $72.23Booksplease Price: $64.36"As a composer one forgets, in time, the fine detail of composition processes which produced past work... it must be left to scholars to recreate, slowly and painstakingly, earlier creative processes... -
Opera after 1900 Margaret Notley 9781032918914
RRP: $43.85Booksplease Price: $40.24The articles reprinted in this volume treat operas as opera and from some sort of critical angle; none of the articles uses methodology appropriate for another kind of musical work. Additional... -
Richard Wagner: Parsifal by Lucy Beckett 9780521296625
RRP: $27.09Booksplease Price: $26.33In this book Lucy Beckett gives a comprehensive account of Wagner's last and strangest opera. The literary sources of this work, its many links with Wagner's life and thought, its libretto, music and... -
Howard Skempton: Conversations and Reflections on Music Esther Cavett (Royalty Account) 9781783273218
RRP: $64.50Booksplease Price: $63.83Offers an intimate view of a contemporary composer's creative world and how others may interpret it. Howard Skempton has contributed to British musical life for more than half a century, as... -
Aspects of British Music of the 1990s by Peter O'Hagan 9781138258419
RRP: $72.23Booksplease Price: $64.36The 1990s work of six British composers forms the focus of this collection of essays, arising from a conference that took place at University of Surrey Roehampton in February 1999. The composers... -
Richard Strauss: Elektra by Derrick Puffett 9780521359719
Booksplease Price: $27.74The contributions to this handbook bring together a full-length study of Elektra in English. The volume examines the many facets of one of Richard Strauss's most complex operas. First, P. E... -
Music and the Elusive Revolution: Cultural Politics and Political Culture in France, 1968 1981 by Eric Drott 9780520268975
RRP: $38.70Booksplease Price: $37.86In May 1968, France teetered on the brink of revolution as a series of student protests spiraled into the largest general strike the country has ever known. In the forty years since, May '68 has come... -
Sibelius Studies by Timothy L. Jackson 9780521624169
RRP: $140.61Booksplease Price: $135.57This book, first published in 2001, presents a portrait of Jean Sibelius as composer and man, a figure of national and international significance, patriot, husband and father. Three introductory... -
Sibelius Studies by Timothy L. Jackson 9780521033572
RRP: $36.12Booksplease Price: $36.11This book, first published in 2001, presents a portrait of Jean Sibelius as composer and man, a figure of national and international significance, patriot, husband and father. Three introductory... -
Janacek Studies by Paul Wingfield 9780521027724
RRP: $68.37Booksplease Price: $66.58This book is the first major publication devoted to the music of Janacek, now widely regarded as one of the most important composers of the early twentieth century. The essays, all by leading... -
Janacek Studies by Paul Wingfield 9780521573573
RRP: $132.87Booksplease Price: $125.98This book is the first major publication devoted to the music of Janacek, now widely regarded as one of the most important composers of the early twentieth century. The essays, all by leading... -
The Dawn of Music Semiology: Essays in Honor of Jean-Jacques Nattiez Jonathan Dunsby (Customer) 9781580465625
RRP: $109.65Booksplease Price: $105.77Showcases the energy and diversity of the young field of music semiology, appealing to readers who want to explore the meaning of music in our lives. The Dawn of Music Semiology showcases the work... -
Pierre Boulez: A World of Harmony Lev Koblyakov 9783718605538
RRP: $98.03Booksplease Price: $86.66In this significant study of the music of Pierre Boulez, Dr. Koblyakov provides a complete analysis of Le Marteau sand Maitre and deals with the development of serial music in the twentieth century... -
Music for the Superman: Nietzsche and the Great Composers David Huckvale 9781476663401
RRP: $37.40Booksplease Price: $32.50Friedrich Nietzsche regarded himself as the most musical philosopher--he played the piano, wrote his own compositions and espoused a philosophy encouraging all to dance for joy. Central to his... -
Making Words Sing: Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Song by Jonathan Dunsby 9780521120463
RRP: $51.60Booksplease Price: $50.58What makes a classical song a song? In a wide-ranging 2004 discussion, covering such contrasting composers as Brahms and Berberian, Schubert and Kurtag, Jonathan Dunsby considers the nature of... -
Making Words Sing: Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Song by Jonathan Dunsby 9780521836616
RRP: $121.26Booksplease Price: $115.70What makes a classical song a song? In a wide-ranging 2004 discussion, covering such contrasting composers as Brahms and Berberian, Schubert and Kurtag, Jonathan Dunsby considers the nature of... -
Webern and the Lyric Impulse: Songs and Fragments on Poems of Georg Trakl by Anne C. Shreffler 9780198162247
Booksplease Price: $120.80This study provides a new view of a composer long considered to be one of the century's most rigorously intellectual creators, Anton Webern. By examining a central pre-twelve-tone work, the Trakl... -
John Cage and Peter Yates: Correspondence on Music Criticism and Aesthetics Martin Iddon (University of Leeds) 9781108480062
RRP: $121.26Booksplease Price: $110.37The correspondence between composer John Cage and Peter Yates represents the third and final part of Cage's most significant exchanges of letters, following those with Pierre Boulez and with David... -
John Cage and Peter Yates: Correspondence on Music Criticism and Aesthetics by Martin Iddon
Booksplease Price: $41.43The correspondence between composer John Cage and Peter Yates represents the third and final part of Cage's most significant exchanges of letters, following those with Pierre Boulez and with David... -
Elliott Carter by James Wierzbicki
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $19.23This compact introduction to the life and works of composer Elliott Carter provides a fresh perspective on one of the most significant American composers of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries... -
Schoenberg by Malcolm MacDonald 9780190469566
RRP: $49.65Booksplease Price: $33.44In this fully updated edition of his long-indispensable study, Malcolm MacDonald takes advantage of 30 years of recent scholarship, new biographical information, and deeper understanding of... -
Stravinsky and His World by Tamara Levitz
RRP: $51.60Booksplease Price: $42.61Stravinsky and His World brings together an international roster of scholars to explore fresh perspectives on the life and music of Igor Stravinsky. Situating Stravinsky in new intellectual and... -
Gyoergy Ligeti's Le Grand Macabre: Postmodernism, Musico-Dramatic Form and the Grotesque by Peter Edwards
RRP: $59.33Booksplease Price: $53.92Gyoergy Ligeti's Le Grand Macabre (1974-77, revised 1996) has consolidated its position as one of the major operatic works of the twentieth century. Few operas composed since the 1970s have received... -
Routledge Handbook to Luigi Nono and Musical Thought by Jonathan Impett 9780367733063
RRP: $64.49Booksplease Price: $58.35Of the post-war, post-serialist generation of European composers, it was Luigi Nono who succeeded not only in identifying and addressing aesthetic and technical questions of his time, but in showing... -
The String Quartets of Bela Bartok: Tradition and Legacy in Analytical Perspective by Daniel Peter Biro 9780199936182
RRP: $125.13Booksplease Price: $90.09Bela Bartok (1881-1945) was one of the most important composers and musical thinkers of the 20th century. His contributions as a composer, as a performer and as the father of ethnomusicology changed... -
Studies in Music with Text by David Lewin 9780195182088
RRP: $121.26Booksplease Price: $91.53Hailed by the New Grove Dictionary of Music (2nd edition) as "the most original and far-ranging theorist of his generation," David Lewin (1933-2003) explored for over four decades how composers in... -
Classical and Popular Music in Israel: Transcultural Dialogues and Contrasts Dr Malcolm Miller 9781648251115
RRP: $116.10Booksplease Price: $98.18Original historical and analytical research into the Israeli music scene, treating important composers as well as broader issues such as Jewish-Arab encounters, Holocaust memorialization and... -
Writing through Music: Essays on Music, Culture, and Politics by Jann Pasler 9780195324891
Booksplease Price: $82.95Drawing on a passion for music, a remarkably diverse interdisciplinary toolbox, and a gift for accessible language that speaks equally to scholars and the general public, Jann Pasler invites us to... -
From 1989, or European Music and the Modernist Unconscious by Seth Brodsky 9780520279360
RRP: $81.27Booksplease Price: $72.96What happened to musical modernism? When did it end? Did it end? In this unorthodox Lacanian account of European New Music, Seth Brodsky focuses on the unlikely year 1989, when New Music hardly takes... -
Music Theory in Concept and Practice by James M. Baker
RRP: $56.75Booksplease Price: $56.55Historical, theoretical and analytical studies of principally 19-20c topics, reflecting current musical research. This collection of nineteen essays, all by leaders in the field of music theory,...