In this classic study of Benjamin Britten and Michael Tippett, Arnold Whittall builds up a unique...

Examines Britten's fusion of verbal and musical sound in opera and song.

This book gives a comprehensive view of Harrison Birtwistle's music, considering its wider cultur...

This survey of the most significant modern composers and their techniques has become a standard w...

This book examines the BBC's attempts to manipulate critical and public responses to contemporary...

Figures majeures de la scène musicale anglaise, Jonathan Harvey, encouragé par Benjamin Britten, ...

This study of the music of a group of important composers of the twentieth century includes Debus...

This book is the first complete study of Toru Takemitsu's work to appear in English.

Composer Michael Nyman's classic 1974 account of the postwar experimental tradition in music.

The music of Igor Stravinsky has had a profound impact on the development of twentieth-century mu...

This new book builds on Whittall's Music since the First World War. It updates and reshapes the o...

This book is the first full-length analytical study of the music of Ruth Crawford Seeger. Crawfor...

The expatriate American experimentalist composer Conlon Nancarrow is increasingly recognised as h...

This important new study reassesses the position of Anton Webern in twentieth-century music. The ...

From the earliest years of the 20th century composers sought ways in which to break from earlier ...

A wide-ranging study of Faur and his contemporaries.

Places the radicalization of art music in early post-war France in its broader socio-cultural and...

A clear, non-technical introduction to serialism a key topic in music studies for both undergradu...

Serial music was one of the most important aesthetic movements to emerge in post-war Europe, but ...

This book gives a comprehensive view of Harrison Birtwistle's music, considering its wider cultur...

This multi-faceted study looks in detail at the music and thought of Michael Tippett. David Clark...

A groundbreaking group of writings by French composer Pierre Boulez, his yearly lectures prepared...

This collection of revised reprints of essays, reviews and analyses first published between 1995 ...

A selection of Arnold Whittall's masterly writings on Wagner dealing with all major works in the ...

First publication in English of an extraordinary and prestigious series of Lectures given by Pier...

A concise history of Romantic music and composers from Schubert to Sibelius

This new book builds on Whittall's Music since the First World War. It updates and reshapes the o...

'Synthesising and refocusing the wealth of recent research into two of Schoenberg's major composi...

'Synthesising and refocusing the wealth of recent research into two of Schoenberg's major composi...