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Catalogue De L'Oeuvre D' Albert Roussel

By: N/A

Price: £12.00

Publisher: Paris, 1947

Seller ID: 11640

Condition: Good

138pp, frontis. Ex library, rebound in green cloth, front endpaper removed, usual stamps, slight dust staining..
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August Jaeger - Portrait of Nimrod: a Life in Letters and Other Writings

By: Allen, Kevin

Price: £80.00

Publisher: Ashgate Publishing Limited: 2000

Seller ID: 12722

ISBN: 1859283667

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

xvii, 318pp, plates. Jaeger was one of Elgar's most devoted supporters and was the subject of one of Elgar's most inspired movements, the Nimrod variation. This study explores the correspondence between Jaeger and the famous English composer.
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After Wagner - Histories of Modernist Music Drama from Parsifal to Nono

By: Berry, Mark

Price: £40.00

Publisher: Boydell Press: 2014

Seller ID: 12911

ISBN: 1843839687

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New in Fine dust jacket

326pp. Beginning with the composer’s final stage work, Mark Berry traces the impact of Wagner on 20th-century opera. In particular he identifies how music drama, staging and political engagement intersect in the work of five composers with very different conceptions of a Wagnerian tradition.
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The Modern Age 1890-1960. Vol 10

By: Cooper, Martin

Price: £12.00

Publisher: Oxford University Press: 1974

Seller ID: 12295

ISBN: 0193163101

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket

xix, 764pp, plates, music examples. Very heavy book, 2kg+, extra postage will be requested. ; The New Oxford History of Music
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The New Music 1900-1960

By: Copland, Aaron

Price: £7.00

Publisher: Macdonald: 1968

Seller ID: 10386

ISBN: 0356024970

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket

194pp. A very small area of loss of surface to dust jacket.
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Paths to Modern Music - Aspects of Music from Wagner to the Present Day

By: Davies, Laurence

Price: £12.00

Publisher: Barrie & Jenkins: 1973

Seller ID: 8669

ISBN: 0214652491

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket

xvii, 330pp.
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The World of Twentieth Century Music

By: Ewen, David

Price: £20.00

Publisher: Hale Publishing: 1991

Seller ID: 9704

ISBN: 0709043988

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Fine

990pp. HEAVY BOOK, extra postage will be requested for delivery outside UK. New edition of this standard work fully revised by Stephen J. Pettitt. Entries on each composer give a brief biography and list works in order of composition with programmatic and analytical notes.
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Words Without Music - A Memoir

By: Glass, Philip

Price: £15.00

Publisher: New York, Liveright: 2015

Seller ID: 12868

ISBN: 0871404389

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

432pp, b/w photographs.
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Leaving Home: a Conducted Tour of Twentieth Century Music with Simon Rattle

By: Hall, Michael

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Faber & Faber: 1996

Seller ID: 5902

ISBN: 0571178774

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket

288pp, illustrations, colour & b/w. Heavy book, extra postage will be requested for delivery outside UK. Small graze to back of dust jacket.
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Modern American Music from Charles Ives to the Minimalists

By: Karolyi, Otto

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Cygnus Arts: 1996

Seller ID: 6034

ISBN: 1900541009

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New in Fine dust jacket

143pp.
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Tape Music Composition

By: Keane, David

Price: £40.00

Publisher: Oxford University Press: 1980

Seller ID: 13294

ISBN: 0193119196

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

x, 149pp, diagrams.
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Musical Lives

By: Kenyon Nicholas

Price: £9.00

Publisher: Oxford University Press: 2002

Seller ID: 7352

ISBN: 0198605285

Binding: Paperback

Condition: New

313pp. Contains miniature biographies taken from the archives of the Dictionary of National Biography.
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Pierre Boulez. A World of Harmony

By: Koblyakov, Lev

Price: £75.00

Publisher: Harwood Academic Publishers: 1990

Seller ID: 13161

ISBN: 3718604221

Condition: Near Fine with no dust jacket

viii, 232pp. ; Contemporary Music Studies
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The Companion to Twentieth Century Music

By: Lebrecht, Norman

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Simon & Schuster: 1992

Seller ID: 11916

ISBN: 0671710192

Binding: Hardcover

418pp, 8 plates, text illustrations, chronology, discography. Ex library, withdrawn stamp on endpaper, else very good.
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Analytic Approaches to Twentieth-Century Music

By: Lester, J

Price: £40.00

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company: 1989

Seller ID: 13145

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket

0393957624 320pp, music examples. Slight edge wear to top of dust jacket and fading, there have been pencil notes that have been erased.
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Something about the Music: Guide to Contemporary Repertory. Vol 2 Anthology of Critical Opinions

By: Lewis, Thomas P.

Price: £20.00

Publisher: Pro/Am Music: 1990

Seller ID: 9031

ISBN: 0912483660

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New in Fine dust jacket

xxviii, 628pp, illustrations. HEAVY BOOK, extra postage will be requested for delivery outside UK. The second volume in a series of reference books on contemporary music with profiles of 330 works by 78 composers with statements by the composers addressing matters of personal conviction and concern.
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Introduction to Contemporary Music

By: MacHlis, Joseph

Price: £5.00

Publisher: New York, Norton: 1961

Seller ID: 4676

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

714pp, illustrations, music examples. Ex lib front free endpaper removed
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Harrison Birtwistle - Wild Tracks A Conversation Diary with Fiona Maddocks

By: Maddocks, Fiona & Sir Harrison Birtwistle

Price: £16.00

Publisher: Faber & Faber: 2014

Seller ID: 12743

ISBN: 0571308112

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New in Fine dust jacket

334pp. Sir Harrison Birtwistle is one of Britain’s greatest contemporary composers, but has usually been reluctant to discuss his music. In 2013, as he approached the age of 80, he agreed to take part in this series of conversations, which happened mostly at his kitchen table, over a period of six months. They offer insights into his career and compositional process, his thoughts on the composers whom he most admires and his non-musical interests, such as cricket, nature and his family.
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The Language of Modern Music

By: Mitchell, Donald

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Faber & Faber: 1968

Seller ID: 8681

ISBN: 571065708

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

168pp. A discussion of two major figures in 20th century music, Schoenberg & Stravinsky, as well as shorter references to other composers. Parallels are drawn with the other arts, notably architecture.
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Cockaigne - Essays on Elgar 'in London Town'

By: Mitchell, Kevin

Price: £14.00

Publisher: Elgar Editions: 2004

Seller ID: 12723

ISBN: 0954855302

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket

256pp, 32pp illustrations. Lectures given to the Elgar Society, London Branch.
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