Russian Opera and the Symbolist Movement

Simon Morrison

• Hardcover | Engels | California Studies in 20th-Century Music | nr. 2
• An aesthetic, historical, and theoretical study of four scores, Russian Opera and the Symbolist Movement is a groundbreaking and imaginative treatment... Lees meer

Beautiful Monsters

Michael Long

• Paperback | Engels | California Studies in 20th-Century Music | nr. 10
• Beautiful Monsters explores the ways in which "classical" music made its way into late twentieth-century American mainstream culture-in pop songs, mov... Lees meer

Experimentalism Otherwise

Benjamin Piekut

• Hardcover | Engels | California Studies in 20th-Century Music | nr. 11
• In Experimental Otherwise , Benjamin Piekut takes the reader into the heart of what we mean by "experimental" in avant-garde music. Focusing on one pl... Lees meer

Frontier Figures

Beth E Levy

• Paperback | Engels | California Studies in 20th-Century Music | nr. 14
• Frontier Figures is a tour-de-force exploration of how the American West, both as physical space and inspiration, animated American music. Examining t... Lees meer

New Music, New Allies

Amy C Beal

• Hardcover | Engels | California Studies in 20th-Century Music | nr. 4
• New Music, New Allies documents how American experimental music and its practitioners came to prominence in the West German cultural landscape between... Lees meer

In Search of a Concrete Music

Pierre Schaeffer

• Hardcover | Engels | California Studies in 20th-Century Music | nr. 15
• Pierre Schaeffer's In Search of a Concrete Music (À la recherche d'une musique concrète) has long been considered a classic text in electroacoustic mu... Lees meer

Music and the Elusive Revolution

Eric Drott

• Paperback | Engels | California Studies in 20th-Century Music | nr. 12
• In May 1968, France teetered on the brink of revolution as a series of student protests spiraled into the largest general strike the country has ever ... Lees meer

Classic Chic

Mary E Davis

• Paperback | Engels | California Studies in 20th-Century Music | nr. 6
• Music and fashion: the deep connection between these two expressive worlds is firmly entrenched. Yet little attention has been paid to the association... Lees meer

Treatise on Musical Objects

Pierre Schaeffer

• Paperback | Engels | California Studies in 20th-Century Music | nr. 20
• The Treatise on Musical Objects is regarded as Pierre Schaeffer's most important work on music and its relationship with technology. Schaeffer expands... Lees meer

Arnold Schoenberg's a Survivor from Warsaw in Postwar Europe

Joy H Calico

• Hardcover | Engels | California Studies in 20th-Century Music | nr. 17
• Joy H. Calico examines the cultural history of postwar Europe through the lens of the performance and reception of Arnold Schoenberg's A Survivor from... Lees meer

In Stravinsky's Orbit

Klara Moricz

• Hardcover | Engels | California Studies in 20th-Century Music | nr. 26
• The Bolsheviks' 1917 political coup caused a seismic disruption in Russian culture. Carried by the first wave of emigrants, Russian culture migrated W... Lees meer

Music in America's Cold War Diplomacy

Danielle Fosler-Lussier

• Hardcover | Engels | California Studies in 20th-Century Music | nr. 18
• During the Cold War, thousands of musicians from the United States traveled the world, sponsored by the U.S. State Department's Cultural Presentations... Lees meer

A Wayfaring Stranger

Veronika Kusz

• Hardcover | Engels | California Studies in 20th-Century Music | nr. 25
• On March 10, 1948, world-renowned composer and pianist Ernst von Dohnányi (1877-1960) embarked for the United States, leaving Europe for good. Only a ... Lees meer

In Search of a Concrete Music

Pierre Schaeffer

• Paperback | Engels | California Studies in 20th-Century Music | nr. 15
• Pierre Schaeffer's In Search of a Concrete Music (À la recherche d'une musique concrète) has long been considered a classic text in electroacoustic mu... Lees meer

Making New Music in Cold War Poland

Lisa Jakelski

• Hardcover | Engels | California Studies in 20th-Century Music | nr. 19
• Making New Music in Cold War Poland presents a social analysis of new music dissemination at the Warsaw Autumn International Festival of Contemporary ... Lees meer

The Doctor Faustus Dossier

• Hardcover | Engels | California Studies in 20th-Century Music | nr. 22
• Arnold Schoenberg and Thomas Mann, two towering figures of twentieth-century music and literature, both found refuge in the German-exile community in ... Lees meer

German Modernism

Walter Frisch

• Paperback | Engels | California Studies in 20th-Century Music | nr. 3
• In this pioneering, erudite study of a pivotal era in the arts, Walter Frisch examines music and its relationship to early modernism in the Austro-Ger... Lees meer

Nostalgia for the Future

Luigi Nono

• Hardcover | Engels | California Studies in 20th-Century Music | nr. 21
• Nostalgia for the Future is the first collection in English of the writings and interviews of Luigi Nono (1924-1990). One of the most prominent figure... Lees meer

Revealing Masks

W Anthony Sheppard

• Hardcover | Engels | California Studies in 20th-Century Music | nr. 1
• W. Anthony Sheppard considers a wide-ranging constellation of important musical works in this fascinating exploration of ritualized performance in twe... Lees meer

Zoltan Kodaly's World of Music

Anna Dalos

• Hardcover | Engels | California Studies in 20th-Century Music | nr. 27
• Hungarian composer and musician Zoltán Kodály (1882-1967) is best known for his pedagogical system, the Kodály Method, which has been influential in t... Lees meer

Brecht at the Opera

Joy H Calico

• Hardcover | Engels | California Studies in 20th-Century Music | nr. 9
• From an award-winning author, the first thorough examination of the important influence of opera on Brecht's writings. Brecht at the Opera looks at th... Lees meer

The Doctor Faustus Dossier

Adrian Daub, E. Randol Schoenberg

• Paperback | Engels | California Studies in 20th-Century Music | nr. 22
• Arnold Schoenberg and Thomas Mann, two towering figures of twentieth-century music and literature, both found refuge in the German-exile community in ... Lees meer

The Art of Appreciation

Kate Guthrie

• Hardcover | Engels | California Studies in 20th-Century Music
• From the BBC Proms to Bernstein's Young People's Concerts, initiatives to promote classical music have been a pervasive feature of twentieth-century m... Lees meer

Terrible Freedom

Amy C Beal

• Hardcover | Engels | California Studies in 20th-Century Music
• From her childhood in Detroit to her professional career in New York City, American composer Lucia Dlugoszewski (1925-2000) lived a life of relentless... Lees meer