Music since 1900 – serie
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Stravinsky's Piano
Genesis of a Musical Language
Inbunden, 2013
1844 kr
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Stravinsky's reinvention in the early 1920s, as both neoclassical composer and concert-pianist, is here placed at the centre of a fundamental reconsideration of his whole output - viewed from the unprecedented perspective of his relationship with the piano. Graham Griffiths assesses Stravinsky's …
Britten's Unquiet Pasts
Sound and Memory in Postwar Reconstruction
Inbunden, 2012
1677 kr
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Examining the intersections between musical culture and a British project of reconstruction from the 1940s to the early 1960s, this study asks how gestures toward the past negotiated issues of recovery and renewal. In the wake of the Second World War, music became a privileged site for …
The Musical Language of Pierre Boulez
Writings and Compositions
Inbunden, 2011
1677 kr
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Pierre Boulez is arguably the most influential composer of the second half of the twentieth century. Here, Jonathan Goldman provides a fresh appraisal of the composer's music, demonstrating how understanding the evolution of Boulez's ideas on musical form is an important step towards evaluating his …
Elliott Carter's Late Music
Av John Link
Inbunden, 2022
2214 kr
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The first comprehensive study of the late music of one of the most influential composers of the last half century, this book places Elliott Carter's music from 1995 to 2012 in the broader context of post-war contemporary concert music, including his own earlier work. It addresses Carter's reception …
British Musical Modernism
The Manchester Group and their Contemporaries
Inbunden, 2015
1324 kr
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British Musical Modernism explores the works of eleven key composers to reveal the rapid shifts of expression and technique that transformed British art music in the post-war period. Responding to radical avant-garde developments in post-war Europe, the Manchester Group composers - Alexander Goehr, …
Luigi Nono
A Composer in Context
Inbunden, 2016
2314 kr
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The anti-fascist cantata Il canto sospeso, the string quartet Fragmente - Stille, an Diotima and the 'Tragedy of Listening' Prometeo cemented Luigi Nono's place in music history. In this study, Carola Nielinger-Vakil examines these major works in the context of Nono's amalgamation of avant-garde …
Music in Germany since 1968
Inbunden, 2013
938 kr
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Music in Germany since 1968 modifies the dominant historiography of music in post-war Germany by shifting its axis from the years of reconstruction after 1945 to the era following the events of 1968. Arguing that the social transformations of 1968 led to a new phase of music in Germany, Alastair …
Harrison Birtwistle's Operas and Music Theatre
Av David Beard
Inbunden, 2012
2130 kr
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David Beard presents the first definitive survey of Harrison Birtwistle's music for the opera house and theatre, from his smaller-scale works, such as Down by the Greenwood Side and Bow Down, to the full-length operas, such as Punch and Judy, The Mask of Orpheus and Gawain. Blending source study …
Schoenberg's Tonal Music
Depictive Text Painting and the Birth of the 'Musical Idea'
Av Jack Boss
Häftad, 2027
578 kr
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Jack Boss's third book on the most famous member of the 'second Viennese School', this work offers an intriguing revisionist history of Schoenberg's early music. It provides close readings of six pieces from Op. 1 to Op. 9, illustrated by detailed motivic analyses as well as Schenkerian graphs, to …
Alan Bush, Modern Music, and the Cold War
The Cultural Left in Britain and the Communist Bloc
Häftad, 2022
435 kr
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The first major study of Alan Bush, this book provides new perspectives on twentieth-century music and communism. British communist, composer of politicised works, and friend of Soviet musicians, Bush proved to be 'a lightning rod' in the national musical culture. His radical vision for British …
Avant-Garde on Record
Musical Responses to Stereos
Inbunden, 2023
1509 kr
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An innovative contribution to music history, cultural studies, and sound studies, Avant-garde on Record revisits post-war composers and their technologically oriented brand of musical modernism. It describes how a broad range of figures (including Pierre Boulez, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Henri …
Gérard Grisey and Spectral Music
Composition in the Information Age
Av Liam Cagney
Inbunden, 2023
1477 kr
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The first in-depth historical overview of spectral music, which is widely regarded, alongside minimalism, as one of the two most influential compositional movements of the last fifty years. Charting spectral music's development in France from 1972 to 1982, this ground-breaking study establishes how …
Elliott Carter's Late Music
Av John Link
Häftad, 2024
502 kr
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The first comprehensive study of the late music of one of the most influential composers of the last half century, this book places Elliott Carter's music from 1995 to 2012 in the broader context of post-war contemporary concert music, including his own earlier work. It addresses Carter's reception …
Yugoslav Avant-Garde Music, 1945-1991
Av Laura Emmery
Häftad, 2026
511 kr
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Informed by fascinating interviews, photographs, and previously unexamined archival materials, this book reveals a compelling story of Yugoslav avant-garde and experimental music from 1945 until 1991, ending with the year when all artistic activities came to a sudden halt with the start of the …
Yugoslav Avant-Garde Music, 1945-1991
Av Laura Emmery
Inbunden, 2026
1575 kr
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Informed by fascinating interviews, photographs, and previously unexamined archival materials, this book reveals a compelling story of Yugoslav avant-garde and experimental music from 1945 until 1991, ending with the year when all artistic activities came to a sudden halt with the start of the …
The Orchestral Music of Michael Tippett
Creative Development and the Compositional Process
Inbunden, 2014
1641 kr
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With extracts from the composer's letters, writings, interviews and broadcasts, and supported by evidence from his sketchbooks and manuscripts, The Orchestral Music of Michael Tippett explores Tippett's intentions and argues that the experiences that triggered his creative impulses are integral to …
Music and Protest in 1968
Av Beate Kutschke, Barley Norton
Inbunden, 2013
1677 kr
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Music was integral to the profound cultural, social and political changes that swept the globe in 1968. This collection of essays offers new perspectives on the role that music played in the events of that year, which included protests against the ongoing Vietnam War, the May riots in France and …
John Cage and David Tudor
Correspondence on Interpretation and Performance
Av Martin Iddon
Inbunden, 2013
1677 kr
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John Cage is best known for his indeterminate music, which leaves a significant level of creative decision-making in the hands of the performer. But how much licence did Cage allow? Martin Iddon's book is the first volume to collect the complete extant correspondence between the composer and …
The Spectral Piano
From Liszt, Scriabin, and Debussy to the Digital Age
Inbunden, 2014
921 kr
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The most influential compositional movement of the past fifty years, spectralism was informed by digital technology but also extended the aesthetics of pianist-composers such as Franz Liszt, Alexander Scriabin and Claude Debussy. Students of Olivier Messiaen such as Tristan Murail and Gérard Grisey …
Stravinsky and the Russian Period
Sound and Legacy of a Musical Idiom
Av Pieter C. van den Toorn, John McGinness
Inbunden, 2012
1082 kr
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Van den Toorn and McGinness take a fresh look at the dynamics of Stravinsky's musical style from a variety of analytical, critical and aesthetic angles. Starting with processes of juxtaposition and stratification, the book offers an in-depth analysis of works such as The Rite of Spring, Les Noces …
New Music at Darmstadt
Nono, Stockhausen, Cage, and Boulez
Av Martin Iddon
Inbunden, 2013
1887 kr
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New Music at Darmstadt explores the rise and fall of the so-called 'Darmstadt School', through a wealth of primary sources and analytical commentary. Martin Iddon's book examines the creation of the Darmstadt New Music Courses and the slow development and subsequent collapse of the idea of the …
French Music and Jazz in Conversation
From Debussy to Brubeck
Inbunden, 2014
1610 kr
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French concert music and jazz often enjoyed a special creative exchange across the period 1900-65. French modernist composers were particularly receptive to early African-American jazz during the interwar years, and American jazz musicians, especially those concerned with modal jazz in the 1950s …
Schoenberg's Twelve-Tone Music
Symmetry and the Musical Idea
Av Jack Boss
Inbunden, 2014
2166 kr
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Jack Boss takes a unique approach to analyzing Arnold Schoenberg's twelve-tone music, adapting the composer's notion of a 'musical idea' - problem, elaboration, solution - as a framework and focusing on the large-scale coherence of the whole piece. The book begins by defining 'musical idea' as a …
Prokofiev's Soviet Operas
Inbunden, 2019
1565 kr
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Prokofiev considered himself to be primarily a composer of opera, and his return to Russia in the mid-1930s was partially motivated by the goal to renew his activity in this genre. His Soviet career coincided with the height of the Stalin era, when official interest and involvement in opera …
The Graph Music of Morton Feldman
Av David Cline
Inbunden, 2016
1887 kr
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Morton Feldman is widely regarded as one of America's greatest composers. His music is famously idiosyncratic, but, in many cases, the way he presented it is also unusual because, in the 1950s and 1960s, he often composed in non-standard musical notations, including a groundbreaking variety on …
Musical Witness and Holocaust Representation
Inbunden, 2015
1420 kr
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This is the first musicological study entirely devoted to a comprehensive analysis of musical Holocaust representations in the Western art music tradition. Through a series of chronological case studies grounded in primary source analysis, Amy Lynn Wlodarski analyses the compositional processes and …
Transformations of Musical Modernism
Av Erling E. Guldbrandsen, Julian Johnson
Inbunden, 2015
1887 kr
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Profound transformations in the composition, performance and reception of modernist music have taken place in recent decades. This collection brings fresh perspectives to bear upon key questions surrounding the forms that musical modernism takes today, how modern music is performed and heard, and …
Performance Practice in the Music of Steve Reich
Inbunden, 2016
1610 kr
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Performance Practice in the Music of Steve Reich provides a performer's perspective on Steve Reich's compositions from his iconic minimalist work, Drumming, to his masterpiece, Music for 18 Musicians. It addresses performance issues encountered by the musicians in Reich's original ensemble and the …
Peter Maxwell Davies, Selected Writings
Av Peter Maxwell Davies, Nicholas Jones
Inbunden, 2017
1748 kr
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This book brings together an extensive and varied collection of Sir Peter Maxwell Davies's written and spoken-word items for the first time. Spanning the composer's entire career, this compendium offers a balanced selection of Davies's articles and essays, speeches and lectures, interviews, radio …
The Royal College of Music and its Contexts
An Artistic and Social History
Inbunden, 2019
1962 kr
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Located between the great Victorian museums of South Kensington and the Royal Albert Hall, the Royal College of Music, founded in 1883, has been a central influence on British musical life ever since. This wide-ranging account places the College within its musical and educational environments. It …
