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Yugoslav Avant-Garde Music, 1945â€“1991

by Laura (Emory University, Atlanta) Emmery

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 Drawing on interviews, photographs, and previously unexamined archival materials, this book reveals the compelling story of the Yugoslav avant-garde and experimental music scene and its connections to other modernist movements from 1945 until 1991. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
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Yugoslav Avant-Garde Music, 1945â€“1991

by Laura (Emory University, Atlanta) Emmery

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 Drawing on interviews, photographs, and previously unexamined archival materials, this book reveals the compelling story of the Yugoslav avant-garde and experimental music scene and its connections to other modernist movements from 1945 until 1991. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
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Elliott Carter'S Late Music

by John Link

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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 includes detailed essays on all of Carter's major works after 1995, with special emphasis on his settings of contemporary modernist poetry from Ashbery to Zukofsky.
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Gerard Grisey And Spectral Music - Composition In The Information Age

by Liam Cagney

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 The first in-depth historical study of the origins of spectral music, which is widely regarded, alongside minimalism, as one of the two most influential compositional movements of the last fifty years. The book will appeal to anyone interested in how classical music developed in the late twentieth century.
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Avant-Garde On Record - Musical Responses To Stereos

by Jonathan Goldman

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 Largely focusing on avant-garde composers active in the 1950s and 60s, this book highlights their engagement with records and recording. Combining approaches from music history, cultural studies and sound studies, it shows how contemporary listeners experienced this music through consumer-oriented technology also embraced by popular music creators.
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Gerard Grisey And Spectral Music - Composition In The Information Age

by Liam (Bimm University) Cagney

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 The first in-depth historical study of the origins of spectral music, which is widely regarded, alongside minimalism, as one of the two most influential compositional movements of the last fifty years. The book will appeal to anyone interested in how classical music developed in the late twentieth century.
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Avant-Garde On Record - Musical Responses To Stereos

by Jonathan (Universite De Montreal) Goldman

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 Largely focusing on avant-garde composers active in the 1950s and 60s, this book highlights their engagement with records and recording. Combining approaches from music history, cultural studies and sound studies, it shows how contemporary listeners experienced this music through consumer-oriented technology also embraced by popular music creators.
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Transformations Of Musical Modernism

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 Modernism is key to Western art music yet remains poorly understood. This book offers new perspectives on transformations in recent composition, performance and musical thought. It recasts modernism as a whole, revealing both its connections to tradition and its contemporary vitality.
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Alan Bush, Modern Music, And The Cold War - The Cultural Left In Britain And The Communist Bloc

by Joanna (University Of Oxford) Bullivant

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 The first major study of Alan Bush, this book provides new perspectives on music and communism in twentieth-century Britain and the Communist Bloc. Drawing on untapped archival sources and incorporating readings of Bush's major works, this book will appeal to scholars of modern British music, communism, and the Cold War.
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Elliott Carter'S Late Music

by John Link

38,43€ + 10% CARD

 The first comprehensive study of the late music of one of the most influential composers of the last half century, this book includes detailed essays on all of Carter's major works after 1995, with special emphasis on his settings of contemporary modernist poetry from Ashbery to Zukofsky.
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Elliott Carter'S Late Music

by John Link

38,43€ + 10% CARD

 The first comprehensive study of the late music of one of the most influential composers of the last half century, this book includes detailed essays on all of Carter's major works after 1995, with special emphasis on his settings of contemporary modernist poetry from Ashbery to Zukofsky.
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The Royal College Of Music And Its Contexts - An Artistic And Social History

by David C. H. (Royal College Of Music, London) Wright

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 An insightful account of a fascinating musical environment by an historian with experience of music colleges and universities. Investigates the standpoints of British conservatoire music education, its musical culture (and its conflicts) and the funding that paid (very poorly) for it. For readers interested in society, culture and music.
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Lateness And Modernism - Untimely Ideas About Music, Literature And Politics In Interwar Britain

by Sarah (University Of Western Australia, Perth) Collins

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 Explores the political aesthetics of 'lateness' in the cultural sphere after World War I, mapping intersections between the activities, attitudes and ideas of musical and literary figures in Britain. The book will appeal to readers interested in musical modernism, literary modernism and the politics of interwar Britain.
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Luigi Dallapiccola And Musical Modernism In Fascist Italy

by Ben (University Of Birmingham) Earle

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 Tracing the history of musical modernism in Italy from the fin de siÃ¨cle to the Cold War, this book follows the work of Luigi Dallapiccola, the leading Italian composer of the mid-twentieth century, as he moved from support for the fascist regime to a committed resistance to totalitarianism.
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John Cage And Peter Yates - Correspondence On Music Criticism And Aesthetics

by Martin (University Of Leeds) Iddon

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 The correspondence between John Cage and Peter Yates represents the final part of Cage's three most significant exchanges of letters. Cage argued 'composing's one thing, performing's another, listening's a third': in this exchange he engages directly with the last part of that triad of musical elements.
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Schoenberg'S Atonal Music - Musical Idea, Basic Image, And Specters Of Tonal Function

by Jack (University Of Oregon) Boss

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 The 'prequel' to Schoenberg's Twelve-Tone Music (Cambridge, 2014), this book demonstrates that the term 'atonal' is effective in describing Schoenberg's music from 1908â€"21. Written for music scholars, performers and conductors, it features detailed analyses that will help them understand the core logic of some of the most difficult pieces of music.
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The Graph Music Of Morton Feldman

by David Cline

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 David Cline provides a detailed analysis of Morton Feldman's groundbreaking graph music and its considerable impact upon the development of post-war classical music. This book highlights the influence of contemporary art on Feldman's works and explores his relationships with Earle Brown, John Cage, Christian Wolff and David Tudor.
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Prokofiev'S Soviet Operas

by Nathan (The Chinese University Of Hong Kong) Seinen

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 Prokofiev's last four operas are major works of his career in the Soviet Union, yet the original versions remain unfamiliar since they exist only in manuscript form. This book offers bold new interpretations, draws on a wide range of primary and secondary sources, and includes comparisons with works of literature, film, and theatre.
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Elliott Carter'S Late Music

by John Link

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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 includes detailed essays on all of Carter's major works after 1995, with special emphasis on his settings of contemporary modernist poetry from Ashbery to Zukofsky.
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John Cage And Peter Yates - Correspondence On Music Criticism And Aesthetics

by Martin Iddon

45,05€ + 10% CARD

 The correspondence between John Cage and Peter Yates represents the final part of Cage's three most significant exchanges of letters. Cage argued 'composing's one thing, performing's another, listening's a third': in this exchange he engages directly with the last part of that triad of musical elements.
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Ideology In Britten'S Operas

by J. P. E. (Royal Holloway, University Of London) Harper-Scott

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 This thematic examination of Britten's operas focuses on the way that ideology is presented on stage. As well as being a record of the ideological world of mid-twentieth-century Britain, these operas continue to diagnose problems in our own time. This book argues that it is timely - if uncomfortable - for current audiences to re-address his music.
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Prokofiev'S Soviet Operas

by Nathan Seinen

45,05€ + 10% CARD

 Prokofiev's last four operas are major works of his career in the Soviet Union, yet the original versions remain unfamiliar since they exist only in manuscript form. This book offers bold new interpretations, draws on a wide range of primary and secondary sources, and includes comparisons with works of literature, film, and theatre.
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Peter Maxwell Davies, Selected Writings

by Peter Maxwell Davies

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 Including articles, essays, letters, broadcasts and interviews, some previously unpublished, this volume brings together more than seventy written and spoken-word sources to illuminate the life and work of the composer Peter Maxwell Davies. This book will appeal to music specialists and others interested in British post-war culture.
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Prokofiev'S Soviet Operas

by Nathan Seinen

45,05€ + 10% CARD

 Prokofiev's last four operas are major works of his career in the Soviet Union, yet the original versions remain unfamiliar since they exist only in manuscript form. This book offers bold new interpretations, draws on a wide range of primary and secondary sources, and includes comparisons with works of literature, film, and theatre.
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