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  • Messiaen Perspectives 1: Sources and Influences by Fallon, Robert
    Robert Fallon

    Messiaen Perspectives 1: Sources and Influences

    Focusing on Messiaen's relation to history - both his own and the history he engendered - the Messiaen Perspectives volumes convey the growing understanding of his deep and varied interconnections with his cultural milieux. Messiaen Perspectives 1: Sources and Influences examines the genesis, sources...
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  • Post-War French Popular Music: Cultural Identity and the Brel-Brassens-Ferré Myth by Cordier, Adeline
    Adeline Cordier

    Post-War French Popular Music: Cultural Identity and the Brel-Brassens-Ferré Myth

    Jacques Brel, Georges Brassens and Léo Ferré are three emblematic figures of post-war French popular music who have been constantly associated with each other by the public and the media. They have been described as the epitome of chanson, and of 'Frenchness'. But there...
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  • The New Bruckner: Compositional Development and the Dynamics of Revision by Gault, Dermot
    Dermot Gault

    The New Bruckner: Compositional Development and the Dynamics of Revision

    The New Bruckner provides a valuable study of Bruckner's music, focusing on the interaction of biography, textual scholarship, reception history and analysis. Dr Dermot Gault conveys a broad chronological narrative of Bruckner's compositional development, interpolating analytical commentaries on the works and critical accounts of...
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  • The American Symphony Orchestra: A Social History of Musical Taste by Mueller, John Henry
    John Henry Mueller

    The American Symphony Orchestra: A Social History of Musical Taste

    The American Symphony Orchestra: A Social History Of Musical Taste is a comprehensive book written by John Henry Mueller. The book is a detailed exploration of the social history of the symphony orchestra in America, from its origins in the late 19th century to...
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  • Arturo Toscanini by Nicotra, Tobia
    Tobia Nicotra

    Arturo Toscanini

    Arturo Toscanini by Nicotra, Tobia is a biography of one of the most renowned conductors of the 20th century. The book delves into the life and career of Arturo Toscanini, from his early years in Parma, Italy, to his rise to fame as a...
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  • Life of Liszt by Nohl, Ludwig
    Ludwig Nohl

    Life of Liszt

    Delve into the captivating "Life of Liszt," a biography exploring the life and career of the renowned composer and musician, Franz Liszt. Penned by Louis Nohl, this volume offers a glimpse into the world of one of history's most celebrated musical figures. A key...
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  • The Love Affairs of Great Musicians, Volume 2 by Hughes, Rupert
    Rupert Hughes

    The Love Affairs of Great Musicians, Volume 2

    Delve into the passionate lives of renowned composers and musicians in "The Love Affairs of Great Musicians, Vol. 2," by Rupert Hughes. This biographical work explores the romantic relationships that shaped the lives and art of some of history's most influential musical figures. Discover...
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  • Great Singers, First Series by Ferris, George T. (George Titus)
    George T. (George Titus) Ferris

    Great Singers, First Series

    Dive into the captivating world of opera and classical music with "Great Singers, First Series: Faustina Bordoni to Henrietta Sontag." Authored by George T. Ferris, this meticulously prepared reprint unveils the lives and legacies of renowned vocalists who shaped music history. Explore the biographies...
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  • Handel by Dent, Edward J.
    Edward J. Dent

    Handel

    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...
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  • Hold on to Your Dreams: Arthur Russell and the Downtown Music Scene, 1973-1992 by Lawrence, Tim
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    Tim Lawrence

    Hold on to Your Dreams: Arthur Russell and the Downtown Music Scene, 1973-1992

    Hold On to Your Dreams is the first biography of the musician and composer Arthur Russell, one of the most important but least known contributors to New York's downtown music scene during the 1970s and 1980s. With the exception of a few dance recordings,...
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  • Apparitions: Essays on Adorno and Twentieth-Century Music by Hoeckner, Berthold
    Berthold Hoeckner

    Apparitions: Essays on Adorno and Twentieth-Century Music

    Apparitions takes a new look at the critical legacy of one of the 20th century's most important and influential thinkers about music, Theodor W. Adorno. Bringing together an international group of scholars, the book offers new historical and critical insights into Adorno's theories of...
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  • Messiaen's Language of Mystical Love by Bruhn, Siglind
    Siglind Bruhn

    Messiaen's Language of Mystical Love

    These new essays written specifically for this volume explore the various aspects of Olivier Messiaen's spiritually committed musical language, drawing on his own remarks in subheadings and prefaces, his biblical and theological citations, his allusions to works of visual art, and on the language...
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  • Jean Sibelius: A Guide to Research by Goss, Glenda Dawn
    Glenda Dawn Goss

    Jean Sibelius: A Guide to Research

    First Published in 1998. This book is a comprehensive annotated bibliography of writings about the life, times, and music of Jean Sibelius (1865-1957). Over 1,000 sources in 11 different languages are represented, from the earliest writings, which appeared in the 1890s, to studies published...
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  • America's Songs II: Songs from the 1890s to the Post-War Years by Lasser, Michael
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    Michael Lasser

    America's Songs II: Songs from the 1890s to the Post-War Years

    America's Songs II: Songs from the 1890's to the Post-War Years continues to tell the stories behind popular songs in our country's history, serving as a sequel to the bestselling America's Songs: Stories Behind the Songs of Broadway, Hollywood, and Tin Pan Alley. Beginning...
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  • Adorno on Music by Witkin, Robert W.
    Robert W. Witkin

    Adorno on Music

    Adorno is one of the leading cultural thinkers of the twentieth century. This is the first detailed account of Adorno's texts on music from a sociological perspective. In clear, non-technical language, Robert Witkin guides the reader through the complexities of Adorno's argument about the...
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  • Christian Wolff by Hicks, Michael
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    Michael Hicks

    Christian Wolff

    In this first interpretive narrative of the life and work of Christian Wolff, Michael Hicks and Christian Asplund trace the influences and sensibilities of a contemporary composer's atypical career path and restless imagination. Written in full cooperation with Wolff, including access to his papers,...
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  • Always the Queen: The Denise Lasalle Story by Lasalle, Denise
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    Denise Lasalle

    Always the Queen: The Denise Lasalle Story

    Denise LaSalle's journey took her from rural Mississippi to an unquestioned reign as the queen of soul-blues. From her early R&B classics to bold and bawdy demands for satisfaction, LaSalle updated the classic blueswoman's stance of powerful independence while her earthy lyrics about relationships...
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  • Unsettled Scores: Politics, Hollywood, and the Film Music of Aaron Copland and Hanns Eisler by Bick, Sally
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    Sally Bick

    Unsettled Scores: Politics, Hollywood, and the Film Music of Aaron Copland and Hanns Eisler

    The Hollywood careers of Aaron Copland and Hanns Eisler brought the composers and their high art sensibility into direct conflict with the premier producer of America's potent mass culture. Drawn by Hollywood's potential to reach--and edify--the public, Copland and Eisler expertly wove sophisticated musical...
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  • Leonard Bernstein and the Language of Jazz by Baber, Katherine
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    Katherine Baber

    Leonard Bernstein and the Language of Jazz

    Leonard Bernstein's gifts for drama and connecting with popular audiences made him a central figure in twentieth century American music. Though a Bernstein work might reference anything from modernism to cartoon ditties, jazz permeated every part of his musical identity as a performer, educator,...
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  • Bluegrass Generation: A Memoir by Rosenberg, Neil V.
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    Neil V. Rosenberg

    Bluegrass Generation: A Memoir

    Neil V. Rosenberg met the legendary Bill Monroe at the Brown County Jamboree. Rosenberg's subsequent experiences in Bean Blossom put his feet on the intertwined musical and scholarly paths that made him a preeminent scholar of bluegrass music. Rosenberg's memoir shines a light on...
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  • Cybersonic Arts: Adventures in American New Music by Mumma, Gordon
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    Gordon Mumma

    Cybersonic Arts: Adventures in American New Music

    Composer, performer, instrument builder, teacher, and writer Gordon Mumma has left an indelible mark on the American contemporary music scene. A prolific composer and innovative French horn player, Mumma is recognized for integrating advanced electronic processes into musical structures, an approach he has termed...
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  • Johanna Beyer by Beal, Amy C.
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    Amy C. Beal

    Johanna Beyer

    Composer Johanna Beyer's fascinating body of music and enigmatic life story constitute an important chapter in American music history. As a hard-working German émigré piano teacher and accompanist living in and around New York City during the New Deal era, she composed plentiful music...
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  • From Scratch: Writings in Music Theory by Tenney, James
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    James Tenney

    From Scratch: Writings in Music Theory

    One of the twentieth century's most important musical thinkers, James Tenney did pioneering work in multiple fields, including computer music, tuning theory, and algorithmic and computer-assisted composition. From Scratch arranges, edits, and revises Tenney's hard-to-find writings into one indispensable collection. Selections focus on his...
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  • Blues All Day Long: The Jimmy Rogers Story by Goins, Wayne Everett
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    Wayne Everett Goins

    Blues All Day Long: The Jimmy Rogers Story

    A member of Muddy Waters' legendary late 1940s-1950s band, Jimmy Rogers pioneered a blues guitar style that made him one of the most revered sidemen of all time. Rogers also had a significant if star-crossed career as a singer and solo artist for Chess...
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  • Yellow Power, Yellow Soul: The Radical Art of Fred Ho by Buckley, Roger N.
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    Roger N. Buckley

    Yellow Power, Yellow Soul: The Radical Art of Fred Ho

    This dynamic collection explores the life, work, and persona of saxophonist Fred Ho, an unabashedly revolutionary artist whose illuminating and daring work redefines the relationship between art and politics. Scholars, artists, and friends give their unique takes on Ho's career, articulating his artistic contributions,...
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  • Charles Ives in the Mirror: American Histories of an Iconic Composer by Paul, David C.
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    David C. Paul

    Charles Ives in the Mirror: American Histories of an Iconic Composer

    American composer Charles Ives (1874-1954) has gone from being a virtual unknown to become one of the most respected and lauded composers in American music. In this sweeping survey of intellectual and musical history, David C. Paul tells the new story of how Ives's...
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  • Women Singers in Global Contexts: Music, Biography, Identity by Hellier, Ruth
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    Ruth Hellier

    Women Singers in Global Contexts: Music, Biography, Identity

    Exploring and celebrating individual lives in diverse situations, Women Singers in Global Contexts is a new departure in the study of women's worldwide music-making. Ten unique women constitute the heart of this volume: each one has engaged her singing voice as a central element...
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  • Bach Perspectives, Volume 5: Bach in America by Crist, Stephen A.
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    Stephen A. Crist

    Bach Perspectives, Volume 5: Bach in America

    More than a century passed after Johann Sebastian Bach's death in 1750 before his music found an audience in the United States. Volume Five in the Bach Perspectives series tracks the composer's reputation in America from obscure artist to a cultural mainstay whose music...
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  • Tristan's Shadow: Sexuality and the Total Work of Art After Wagner by Daub, Adrian
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    Adrian Daub

    Tristan's Shadow: Sexuality and the Total Work of Art After Wagner

    Das Rheingold, Die Walküre, and Siegfried. Parsifal. Tristan und Isolde. Both revered and reviled, Richard Wagner conceived some of the nineteenth century's most influential operas--and created some of the most indelible characters ever to grace the stage. But over the course of his polarizing...
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  • Prince: The Making of a Pop Music Phenomenon by Hawkins, Stan
    Stan Hawkins

    Prince: The Making of a Pop Music Phenomenon

    The career of the prolific pop artist Prince has become inextricably intertwined with the history of popular music since the late 1970s. This multi-instrumental icon, who remains one of the highest-grossing live performers in America, has been called a genius for his musicianship, composition...
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  • Solo Yo: The Little Guide to Bad Bunny by Oh
    Oh

    Solo Yo: The Little Guide to Bad Bunny

    Rapper. Singer. Actor. Wrestler. Fashion icon. All-round good guy. It's official: the biggest Latin trap star in the world in 2025 is... Bad Bunny! Since gliding stylishly out of Puerto Rico in 2018, he's redefined Latin music globally, credited with pushing Spanish-language rap into...
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  • The Story of the Blues in 50 Songs by Evans, Mike
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    Mike Evans

    The Story of the Blues in 50 Songs

    The Story of the Blues in 50 Songs traces the evolution of the blues and its influence on modern music. Highlighting 50 key recordings, the book explores the genre's roots in Black American culture and its impact on rock, soul, jazz, and hip-hop. Entries...
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  • Erik Satie: A Parisian Composer and His World by Potter, Caroline
    Caroline Potter

    Erik Satie: A Parisian Composer and His World

    Satie's music and ideas are inextricably linked with the City of Light. This book situates Satie's work within the context and sonic environment of contemporary Paris. Sunday Times Classical Music Book of the Year Erik Satie's (1866-1925) music appeals to wide audiences and has...
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  • Working with My Heroes: A Life in Music by Demain, John L.
    John L. Demain

    Working with My Heroes: A Life in Music

    A Grammy and Tony Award-winning conductor, John DeMain has been a fixture of Madison, Wisconsin, for more than three decades, serving as music director of the Madison Symphony Orchestra and artistic director of the Madison Opera. Before and since then, he has been an...
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  • Cccp - Fedeli Alla Linea's 1964-1985 Affinità-Divergenze Fra Il Compagno Togliatti E Noi del Conseguimento Della Maggiore Età by Bottà, Giacomo
    Giacomo Bottà

    Cccp - Fedeli Alla Linea's 1964-1985 Affinità-Divergenze Fra Il Compagno Togliatti E Noi del Conseguimento Della Maggiore Età

    A squat in West Berlin, a farmhouse in Fellegara, a garret in Reggio Emilia, a cellar in Bologna - where is Affinità - Divergenze Fra Il Compagno Togliatti e Noi really from? This book traces the tangled geographies behind one of Italy's most enigmatic...
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  • Tyler the Creator's Remaking of Hip Hop: Transmedia Journeys Beyond Gangsta by Marques, Gustavo Souza
    Gustavo Souza Marques

    Tyler the Creator's Remaking of Hip Hop: Transmedia Journeys Beyond Gangsta

    An in-depth exploration of Tyler, The Creator's evolution as an artist and cultural force, positioning his audiovisual productions as a watershed in American hip hop. Through close analysis of his music videos, lyrics, and performances-as rapper, producer and director-it examines how Tyler redefines race,...
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  • Cornell '77 Lib/E: The Music, the Myth, and the Magnificence of the Grateful Dead's Concert at Barton Hall by Heller, Johnny
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    Johnny Heller

    Cornell '77 Lib/E: The Music, the Myth, and the Magnificence of the Grateful Dead's Concert at Barton Hall

    On May 8, 1977, at Barton Hall, on the Cornell University campus, in front of 8,500 eager fans, the Grateful Dead played a show so significant that the Library of Congress inducted it into the National Recording Registry. The band had just released Terrapin...
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  • The Brickeaters by Residents, The
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    The Residents

    The Brickeaters

    The Brickeaters is an absurdist buddy movie of a story featuring a very tall and young internet content screener teamed up with an aging career criminal whose primary companions are an oxygen bottle and .44 Magnum. After a short crime spree cementing their unhinged...
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  • Rare Birds: Conversations with Legends of Jazz and Classical Music by Crowe, Thomas Rain
    Thomas Rain Crowe

    Rare Birds: Conversations with Legends of Jazz and Classical Music

    Rare Birds is a collection of conversations with world-class jazz musicians and classical composers, featuring luminaries Philip Glass, Charles Lloyd, Abdullah Ibrahim, Steve Reich, Eugene Friesen, and Sathima Bea Benjamin. These in-depth, candid interviews focus not only on the music but also on the...
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  • Lies and Epiphanies: Composers and Their Inspiration from Wagner to Berg by Walton, Chris
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    Chris Walton

    Lies and Epiphanies: Composers and Their Inspiration from Wagner to Berg

    Presents case studies of "inspiration" in five composers -- Wagner, Mahler, Furtwängler, R. Strauss, and Berg -- examining how the supposedly extrarational world of creative inspiration intersects with the highly rational world ofmoney and politics. Lies and Epiphanies offers case studies of "inspiration" in...
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  • The Musical Lives of Charles Manson: The Beatles, the Beach Boys, and the Invention of the Sixties -or, No Sense Makes Sense by Tochka, Nicholas
    Nicholas Tochka

    The Musical Lives of Charles Manson: The Beatles, the Beach Boys, and the Invention of the Sixties -or, No Sense Makes Sense

    Nicholas Tochka analyzes the role of rock music in the life of Charles Manson, the Family, and the August 1969 Tate-LaBianca killings, which also gives larger insight into Sixties counterculture. Failed singer-songwriter. Devious cult leader. A rock Pied Piper. The product of a sick...
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  • Franz Liszt, His Circle, and His Elusive Oratorio by Puslowski, Xavier Jon
    Xavier Jon Puslowski

    Franz Liszt, His Circle, and His Elusive Oratorio

    In this book, Xavier Puslowski presents a detailed study of the links between Liszt, his contemporaries, and his milieu. Using Saint Stanislas Oratorio as a focal point, Puslowski draws together the history of the Romantic period in classical music, and key figures and historical...
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  • Nikolay Myaskovsky: The Conscience of Russian Music by Tassie, Gregor
    Gregor Tassie

    Nikolay Myaskovsky: The Conscience of Russian Music

    Gregor Tassie describes Nikolay Myaskovsky as "one of the great enigmas of 20th-century Russian music." Between the two world wars, the symphonies of Myaskovsky enjoyed great popularity and were performed by all major American and European orchestras; they were some of the most inspiring...
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  • From Bach's Goldberg to Beethoven's Diabelli: Influence and Independence by Kanwischer, Alfred
    Alfred Kanwischer

    From Bach's Goldberg to Beethoven's Diabelli: Influence and Independence

    In From Bach's Goldberg to Beethoven's Diabelli: Influence and Independence, music scholar and noted pianist Alfred Kanwischer takes readers on an extended exploration in which each of the thirty-three pieces making up Beethoven's Diabelli Variations (Op. 120) is caringly examined and assessed for its...
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  • Composing Ambiguity: The Early Music of Morton Feldman by Noble, Alistair
    Alistair Noble

    Composing Ambiguity: The Early Music of Morton Feldman

    American composer Morton Feldman is increasingly seen to have been one of the key figures in late-twentieth-century music, with his work exerting a powerful influence into the twenty-first century. At the same time, much about his music remains enigmatic, largely due to long-standing myths...
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  • Messiaen's Musical Techniques: The Composer's View and Beyond by Healey, Gareth
    Gareth Healey

    Messiaen's Musical Techniques: The Composer's View and Beyond

    Despite Messiaen's position as one of the greatest technical innovators of the twentieth century, his musical language has not been comprehensively defined and investigated. The composer's 1944 theoretical study, The Technique of My Musical Language, expounds only its initial stages, and while his posthumously...
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  • The Music of David Lumsdaine: Kelly Ground to Cambewarra by Hooper, Michael
    Michael Hooper

    The Music of David Lumsdaine: Kelly Ground to Cambewarra

    Australian by birth but a longtime resident of Great Britain, David Lumsdaine (b.1931) is central to both Australian and British modernism. During the early 1970s Australian musical modernism was at its height. Lumsdaine and his Australian contemporaries were engaged with practices from multiple places,...
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  • Messiaen Perspectives 2: Techniques, Influence and Reception by Fallon, Robert
    Robert Fallon

    Messiaen Perspectives 2: Techniques, Influence and Reception

    Focusing on Messiaen's relation to history - both his own and the history he engendered - the Messiaen Perspectives volumes convey the growing understanding of his deep and varied interconnections with his cultural milieux. Messiaen Perspectives 1: Sources and Influences examines the genesis, sources...
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  • Roger Smalley: A Case Study of Late Twentieth-Century Composition by Mark, Christopher
    Christopher Mark

    Roger Smalley: A Case Study of Late Twentieth-Century Composition

    How does one go about writing the history of musical composition in the late twentieth century when, on the one hand, so much of it seems impossibly fractured and disassociated, and, on the other, there has been so little certainty about what the notion...
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  • There's a Place for Us: The Musical Theatre Works of Leonard Bernstein by Smith, Helen
    Helen Smith

    There's a Place for Us: The Musical Theatre Works of Leonard Bernstein

    Leonard Bernstein was the quintessential American musician. Through his careers as conductor, pianist, teacher and television personality he became known across the US and the world, his flamboyance and theatricality making him a favourite with audiences, if not with critics. However, he is perhaps...
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