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  • Making Light: Haydn, Musical Camp, and the Long Shadow of German Idealism by Knapp, Raymond
    Raymond Knapp

    Making Light: Haydn, Musical Camp, and the Long Shadow of German Idealism

    In Making Light Raymond Knapp traces the musical legacy of German Idealism as it led to the declining prestige of composers such as Haydn while influencing the development of American popular music in the nineteenth century. Knapp identifies in Haydn and in early popular...
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  • Positively Main Street: Bob Dylan's Minnesota by Thompson, Toby
    Toby Thompson

    Positively Main Street: Bob Dylan's Minnesota

    "That boy . . . this fellow, Toby . . . has got some lessons to learn." --Bob Dylan, Rolling Stone, November 29, 1969 "Toby Thompson was there first." --Greil Marcus "A first-rate novelistic account of Thompson's own psyche as he uncovers the Dylan...
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  • Patti Smith: America's Punk Rock Rhapsodist by Wendell, Eric
    Eric Wendell

    Patti Smith: America's Punk Rock Rhapsodist

    Nicknamed the "Godmother of Punk," Patti Smith rose to fame during the 1970s New York counterculture movement where she welcomed a new breed of rock and roll. Smith sanctioned the presence of a strong-willed woman in the mainstream rock community by breaking not only...
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  • Leonard Bernstein's On the Waterfront: A Film Score Guide by Bushard, Anthony
    Anthony Bushard

    Leonard Bernstein's On the Waterfront: A Film Score Guide

    Released in 1954, On the Waterfront is considered one of the greatest films of all time, winning eight Academy Awards--including Best Picture--and placing in the top 20 on the American Film Institute's 100 Films survey. The film's Oscar-nominated score represented a rare venture into...
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  • Franco Alfano: Transcending Turandot by Dryden, Konrad
    Konrad Dryden

    Franco Alfano: Transcending Turandot

    Franco Alfano: Transcending Turandot is the first fully documented biography in any language of Italy's last verismo composer, Franco Alfano (1875-1954), the composer chosen to complete Giacomo Puccini's swansong, Turandot, in 1924. Alfano remains one of the most undervalued composers, despite arguably representing the...
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  • Messiah: The Gospel According to Handel's Oratorio by Bullard, Roger a.
    Roger a. Bullard

    Messiah: The Gospel According to Handel's Oratorio

    Bullard provides an informed, readable commentary specifically on the libretto, or text, of Handel's Messiah, explaining each part in terms of: how the language differs from the King James Version of the Bible; what the passage of Scripture meant in its original context; and...
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  • Quintet: Five Journeys Toward Musical Fulfillment by Blum, David
    David Blum

    Quintet: Five Journeys Toward Musical Fulfillment

    Quintet presents compelling portraits of five artists known and loved by aficionados of classical music: the cellist Yo-Yo Ma, the conductor Jeffrey Tate, the violinist Josef Gingold, the pianist Richard Goode, and the opera singer Birgit Nilsson. This gracefully written book offers a deeply...
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  • Partners in Suspense: Critical Essays on Bernard Herrmann and Alfred Hitchcock by Rawle, Steven
    Steven Rawle

    Partners in Suspense: Critical Essays on Bernard Herrmann and Alfred Hitchcock

    This volume of new, spellbinding essays explores the tense relationship between Alfred Hitchcock and Bernard Herrmann, featuring new perspectives on their collaboration. Featuring essays by leading scholars of Hitchcock's work, including Richard Allen, Charles Barr, Murray Pomerance, Sidney Gottlieb and Jack Sullivan, the collection...
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  • Journeyman: An Autobiography by MacColl, Ewan
    Ewan MacColl

    Journeyman: An Autobiography

    This new edition of 'Journeyman', Ewan MacColl's vivid and entertaining autobiography, has been re-edited from the original manuscript, and includes a new introduction by Peggy Seeger, for whom he wrote the unforgettable 'The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face'. MacColl, a singer, songwriter,...
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  • Sound Origins: Developing Your Musical Identity by Robitaille, Jim
    Jim Robitaille

    Sound Origins: Developing Your Musical Identity

    Sound Origins is a comprehensive guide for cultivating a personal sound and style in music. Includes original music scores, examples, exercises, improvisation concepts, and other recommended areas of study. For jazz guitarists, musicians, composers, and teachers interested in further developing their musical identity and...
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  • Tough Blows: A Lifelong Journey of Defying the Odds by Magee, Wayne D.
    Wayne D. Magee

    Tough Blows: A Lifelong Journey of Defying the Odds

    For every tough blow, shift your focus and Get T.O.U.G.H Be Tenacious; Seek Opportunities; Embrace Unity; Engage Groups; and Ask for Help. Wayne Magee is on a mission to empower those who have been repeatedly told, "You can't " He has spent his life...
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  • Jean Sibelius and His World by Grimley, Daniel M.
    Daniel M. Grimley

    Jean Sibelius and His World

    New perspectives on the greatest Finnish composer of all time Perhaps no twentieth-century composer has provoked a more varied reaction among the music-loving public than Jean Sibelius (1865-1957). Originally hailed as a new Beethoven by much of the Anglo-Saxon world, he was also widely...
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  • Musorgsky: Eight Essays and an Epilogue by Taruskin, Richard
    Richard Taruskin

    Musorgsky: Eight Essays and an Epilogue

    "It is [a] fully illuminated story that Richard Taruskin, in the path-breaking essays collected here, unfolds around Modest Musorgsky, Russia's greatest national composer. . . . [Taruskin's] tour de force comes with a frontal attack on all the Soviet-bred truisms that for a century...
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  • The Social and Religious Designs of J.S. Bach's Brandenburg Concertos by Marissen, Michael
    Michael Marissen

    The Social and Religious Designs of J.S. Bach's Brandenburg Concertos

    This new investigation of the Brandenburg Concertos explores musical, social, and religious implications of Bach's treatment of eighteenth-century musical hierarchies. By reference to contemporary music theory, to alternate notions of the meaning of "concerto," and to various eighteenth-century conventions of form and instrumentation, the...
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  • Franz Schubert: A Biography by Frost, Henry
    Henry Frost

    Franz Schubert: A Biography

    Clarity of outline, conciseness, and formal beauty are excellent things in musical works, but an exquisite fancy, a noble imagination, and a lofty poetic spirit are of infinitely greater account; and no one ever possessed these inestimable gifts in greater measure than Franz Schubert.This...
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  • The Church's Starfish by Gibson, Chris
    Chris Gibson

    The Church's Starfish

    After a string of commercial disappointments, in 1986 Australian rock band The Church were simultaneously dropped by Warner Brothers in the US and EMI in Australasia. The future looked bleak. Seemingly from nowhere, their next record, Starfish, became an unlikely global hit. Its alluring...
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  • The Annotated Ring Cycle: Siegfried by Walter, Frederick Paul
    Frederick Paul Walter

    The Annotated Ring Cycle: Siegfried

    Richard Wagner's magnum opus meets the celebrated translator of Jules Verne novels in this colorful and original work.Frederick Paul Walter makes Siegfried accessible not only to scholars and opera buffs but also to fans of Tolkien, Star Wars, and Hogwarts through a dazzling new...
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  • The Annotated Ring Cycle: Twilight for the Gods (Götterdämmerung) by Walter, Frederick Paul
    Frederick Paul Walter

    The Annotated Ring Cycle: Twilight for the Gods (Gterd舂merung)

    Richard Wagner's magnum opus meets the celebrated translator of Jules Verne novels in this colorful and original work.Frederick Paul Walter makes Twilight for the Gods accessible not only to scholars and opera buffs but also to fans of Tolkien, Star Wars, and Hogwarts through...
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  • Harmonica for Beginners: A Beginners Guide To Playing The Harmonica, Reading Music, Scales, And Playing Various Chords Like A Pro by Wheeler, Tom
    Tom Wheeler

    Harmonica for Beginners: A Beginners Guide To Playing The Harmonica, Reading Music, Scales, And Playing Various Chords Like A Pro

    Play The Harmonica Like A Pro Are you new to the harmonica? Or Would you like to learn how to play the harmonica like a pro? Learning how to play the harmonica is much easier than you could imagine. This book "Harmonica For Beginners"...
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  • The Music of James Tenney: Volume 1: Contexts and Paradigms Volume 1 by Wannamaker, Robert
    Robert Wannamaker

    The Music of James Tenney: Volume 1: Contexts and Paradigms Volume 1

    Parsing the works of the experimental music pioneer Robert Wannamaker's monumental two-volume study explores the influential music and ideas of American composer, theorist, writer, performer, and educator James Tenney. Delving into the whole of Tenney's far-ranging oeuvre, Wannamaker provides in-depth, aurally grounded analyses of...
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  • Steinberger: A Story of Creativity and Design by Reilly, Jim
    Jim Reilly

    Steinberger: A Story of Creativity and Design

    Steinberger: A Story of Creativity and Design tells the story of musical instrument designer Ned Steinberger. Ned's instruments have been pushing the boundaries both sonically and aesthetically for over 40 years and been played by the very best of the best musicians around the...
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  • Big Day Coming: Yo La Tengo and the Rise of Indie Rock by Jarnow, Jesse
    Jesse Jarnow

    Big Day Coming: Yo La Tengo and the Rise of Indie Rock

    The first biography of Yo La Tengo, the massively influential band who all but defined indie music. Yo La Tengo has lit up the indie scene for three decades, part of an underground revolution that defied corporate music conglomerates, eschewed pop radio, and found...
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  • Wagner's Meistersinger: Performance, History, Representation by Vazsonyi, Nicholas
    Nicholas Vazsonyi

    Wagner's Meistersinger: Performance, History, Representation

    A volume of collected essays which engage Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg from the perspective of both active performers and academics in a wide range of disciplines. Richard Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg has been one of the most performed operas ever since its...
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  • Iannis Xenakis's Persepolis by Yardumian, Aram
    Aram Yardumian

    Iannis Xenakis's Persepolis

    Iannis Xenakis' Persepolis stood as witness to one of the most important events in modern human history, the Iranian Revolution in 1979. Its existence is owed to an invitation to participate in the 1971 Shiraz Arts Festival, which was overseen by Empress Farah Pahlavi....
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  • Music for the Soul: Experiencing Classical Music through Informed Listening by Kneier, Lorraine
    Lorraine Kneier

    Music for the Soul: Experiencing Classical Music through Informed Listening

    "Informed listening demands knowledge, context, and meditative practice. Even in ideal circumstances, imparting the musical knowledge required for engaged listening is a challenge not easily met. It is refreshing to encounter a well-reasoned and clearly written guide for all those who seek to experience,...
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  • King of the Blues: The Rise and Reign of B.B. King by de Vise, Daniel
    Daniel de Vise

    King of the Blues: The Rise and Reign of B.B. King

    The first full and authoritative biography of an American--indeed a world-wide--musical and cultural legend. "No one worked harder than B.B. No one inspired more up-and-coming artists. No one did more to spread the gospel of the blues."--President Barack Obama "He is without a doubt...
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  • Fela Anikulapo-Kuti: Afrobeat, Rebellion, and Philosophy by Afolayan, Adeshina
    Adeshina Afolayan

    Fela Anikulapo-Kuti: Afrobeat, Rebellion, and Philosophy

    Fela Anikulapo Kuti was the Afrobeat music maestro whose life and time provide the lens through which we can outline the postcolonial trajectory of the Nigerian state as well as the dynamics of most other African states. Through the Afrobeat music, Fela did not...
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  • Morton Feldman: Friendship and Mourning in the New York Avant-Garde by Dohoney, Ryan
    Ryan Dohoney

    Morton Feldman: Friendship and Mourning in the New York Avant-Garde

    Morton Feldman: Friendship and Mourning in the New York Avant-Garde documents the collaborations and conflicts essential to the history of the post-war avant-garde. It offers a study of composer Morton Feldman's associations and friendships with artists like John Cage, Jackson Pollock, Philip Guston, Frank...
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  • Compositional Choices and Meaning in the Vocal Music of J. S. Bach by Peters, Mark A.
    Mark A. Peters

    Compositional Choices and Meaning in the Vocal Music of J. S. Bach

    Compositional Choices and Meaning in the Vocal Music of J. S. Bach collects seventeen essays by leading Bach scholars. The authors each address in some way such questions of meaning in J. S. Bach's vocal compositions--including his Passions, Masses, Magnificat, and cantatas--with particular attention...
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  • Ballade by Claude Debussy for Solo Piano (1890) Cd78/L.70 by Debussy, Claude
    Claude Debussy

    Ballade by Claude Debussy for Solo Piano (1890) Cd78/L.70

    Claude-Achille Debussy (1862 - 1918) was a seminal French composer. He is considered to be one of the most important pioneers of Impressionist music and was among the most popular composers during the 19th and early 20th centuries. Debussy's work is famous for its...
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  • The Little Guide to Elton John by Hippo! Orange
    Hippo! Orange

    The Little Guide to Elton John: Wit, Wisdom and Wise Words from the Rocket Man

    Sir Elton Hercules John has enjoyed a phenomenal career filled with success, excess and achievement. His farewell tour was announced as more than 300 dates across all corners of the glode for years. Illness, Covid-19 and other extenuating circumstances conspired to prolong it, but...
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  • Beethoven - Biographies and Appreciations by Various
    Various

    Beethoven - Biographies and Appreciations

    This volume contains a collection of biographical sketches of Beethoven written by various authors. Contents include: "Beethoven, by Maurice Baring", "Ludwig Van Beethoven, by Elbert Hubbard", "Ludwig Van Beethoven, by Harriette Brower", "Beethoven, by George T. Ferris", "On Hearing A Symphony Of Beethoven, by...
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  • Pavane pour une Infante défunte, M.20: Study score by Ravel, Maurice
    Maurice Ravel

    Pavane pour une Infante d馭unte: Study score

    Ravel composed the original piano version of this piece in 1899 after resuming his studies at the Paris Conservatory. It was published the next year and became an overnight success. Despite some self-criticism of his youthful work for being "poor in form", Ravel thought...
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  • Ludwig Van Beethoven - Piano Trio in B-flat Major - Op. 97 - A Score for Piano, Cello and Violin;With a Biography by Joseph Otten by Beethoven, Ludwig Van
    Ludwig Van Beethoven

    Ludwig Van Beethoven - Piano Trio in B-flat Major - Op. 97 - A Score for Piano, Cello and Violin;With a Biography by Joseph Otten

    Piano Trio in B-flat major, Op. 97, by Ludwig van Beethoven is a piano trio completed in 1811. It is commonly referred to as the Archduke Trio. Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827) was a seminal German composer. He had a significant influence on...
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  • The Words and Music of Dolly Parton: Getting to Know Country's Iron Butterfly by Cardwell, Nancy
    Nancy Cardwell

    The Words and Music of Dolly Parton: Getting to Know Country's Iron Butterfly

    This insightful biography provides a closer look at one of the entertainment world's biggest stars, with a focus on what got her to the top--and what has kept her there. Dolly Parton has an enviable record of accomplishment as a performer, songwriter, recording artist,...
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  • The Words and Music of George Harrison by Inglis, Ian
    Ian Inglis

    The Words and Music of George Harrison

    This book offers a comprehensive assessment of the music of George Harrison, revealing him as one of the most gifted and authentic singer-songwriters of his generation. The Words and Music of George Harrison is an in-depth appreciation of this often underappreciated musician, following Harrison's...
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  • Fab: An Intimate Life of Paul McCartney by Sounes, Howard
    Howard Sounes

    Fab: An Intimate Life of Paul McCartney

    An in-depth, investigative, balanced, and definitive biography of Paul McCartney by the acclaimed author of Down the HighwayAuthor: Howard SounesISBN-10: 0306820471ISBN-13: 9780306820472Publisher: Da Capo PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/01/2011Pages: 624Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.59lbsSize: 9.01h x 6.02w x 1.64d
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  • Shostakovich's Preludes and Fugues: Contexts, Style, Performance by Mazullo, Mark
    Mark Mazullo

    Shostakovich's Preludes and Fugues: Contexts, Style, Performance

    This is the first book-length study of Shostakovich's Twenty-Four Preludes and Fugues for piano, Opus 87. Mark Mazullo explains the cultural context in which Shostakovich composed, relates the cycle to piano works (by Bach, Hindemith, and others), and offers individual commentaries on each of...
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  • Beethoven in German Politics, 1870-1989 by Dennis, David B.
    David B. Dennis

    Beethoven in German Politics, 1870-1989

    This absorbing book chronicles the exploitation of Beethoven's life and work by German political parties from the founding of the modern nation in 1870 to the peaceful East German Revolution of 1989. David Dennis taps a wealth of new archival resources to examine for...
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  • The Music of Gershwin by Gilbert, Steven E.
    Steven E. Gilbert

    The Music of Gershwin

    This book is the first in-depth analysis of George Gershwin's entire compositional oeuvre, including his concert music. Written in a fluid, conversational style and illustrated with numerous musical examples, some of which have never before been published, it weaves biographical material with musical analysis...
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  • Rethinking Bach by Varwig, Bettina
    Bettina Varwig

    Rethinking Bach

    Johann Sebastian Bach has loomed large in the imagination of scholars, performers, and audiences since the late nineteenth century.This new book, edited by veteran Bach scholar Bettina Varwig, gathers a diverse group of leading and emerging Bach researchers as well as a number of...
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  • David Bowie and the Moving Image: A Standing Cinema by Reed, Katherine
    Katherine Reed

    David Bowie and the Moving Image: A Standing Cinema

    The central image of David Bowie's "Life on Mars?" could have been ripped from his own experience: a child sits "hooked to the silver screen," reliving fantastical scenes played out on film. Throughout his life, Bowie was similarly transfixed by the power of film....
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  • I'm Not a Film Star: David Bowie as Actor by Dixon, Ian
    Ian Dixon

    I'm Not a Film Star: David Bowie as Actor

    The first collection dedicated to David Bowie's acting career shows that his film characterisations and performance styles shift and reform as decoratively as his musical personas. Though he was described as the most influential pop artis of the 20th century, whose work became synonymous...
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  • How to Write a Song That Matters by Williams, Dar
    Dar Williams

    How to Write a Song That Matters

    An effective and inspiring guide to songwriting by prolific, iconic singer-songwriter Dar Williams.How to Write a Song That Matters is an invaluable guide to writing music by a woman who knows how to do it and do it well: iconic singer-songwriter, Dar Williams. For...
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  • Staying Alive: The Disco Inferno of the Bee Gees by Spence, Simon
    Simon Spence

    Staying Alive: The Disco Inferno of the Bee Gees

    'We didn't know what the film was about. We didn't know there was a conflict of image that could perhaps hurt us later on. It sort of grew, blew out of proportion.' - Barry GibbIn the late 70s, the Bee Gees spectacularly revived their...
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  • Legends of Rock & Roll - Paul McCartney (Before, During & After the Beatles) by Hoag, James
    James Hoag

    Legends of Rock & Roll - Paul McCartney (Before, During & After the Beatles)

    "It's All About the Music "Welcome to another in the Legends of Rock & Roll series.This is, like the others, a mini-biography of one the greatest performers in the music world. This is the second of a series within a series covering the four...
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  • The Modern Lovers' the Modern Lovers by Maloney, Sean L.
    Sean L. Maloney

    The Modern Lovers' the Modern Lovers

    From the "War on Hippies" to the Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle, the story of Modern Lovers is a high octane tale of Brutalist architecture, rock 'n' roll ambition and the struggle for identity in a changing world. One of punk rock's foundational documents,...
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  • The Art of Trumpet Teaching: The Legacy of Keith Johnsonvolume 16 by Hunsaker, Leigh Anne
    Leigh Anne Hunsaker

    The Art of Trumpet Teaching: The Legacy of Keith Johnsonvolume 16

    Keith Johnson retired in 2014 from the University of North Texas, where he was Regents Professor of Trumpet and was honored with the Distinguished Teaching Professor award. Johnson wrote more than thirty articles, two pedagogical texts, and two method books. During his career, he...
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  • Shostakovich by Morton, Brian
    Brian Morton

    Shostakovich

    A biography of popular twentieth-century Soviet composer Dmitri Shostakovich. Internationally esteemed, Soviet composer Dmitri Shostakovich is widely considered to have been the last great classical symphonist, and his reputation has continued to increase since his death in 1975. Shostakovich wrote his First Symphony at...
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  • The Routledge Handbook to the Music of Alfred Schnittke by Dixon, Gavin
    Gavin Dixon

    The Routledge Handbook to the Music of Alfred Schnittke

    The Routledge Handbook to the Music of Alfred Schnittke is a comprehensive study of the work of one of the most important Russian composers of the late 20th century. Each piece is discussed in detail, with particular attention to the composer's groundbreaking polystylism, as...
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