Classical music - books


20th Century Composers. a series edited by Norman Lebrecht. Phaidon 
Press. 

Antokoletz, Elliott. Twentieth-Century Music. Englewood Cliffs, NJ:
Prentice-Hall, 1992.

Austin, William F. Music in the Twentieth Century, from Debussy through
Stravinsky. New York: W.W. Norton, 1966.

Bauer, Marion. Twentieth Century Music. 3rd ed. NY:  G. P. Putnam's Sons,
l947.

Becker, Jurgen and Wolf Vostell, eds. Happenings. Hamburg: Rowohlt, 
1965.

Beckwith, John and Udo Kasemets, eds. The Modern Composer and His
World. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1961.

Boretz, Benjamin and Edward T. Cone. Perspectives on American 
Composers. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1971.

Born, Georgina. Rationalizing Culture. Berkeley: UCal Press.
an anthropological study of IRCAM 

Borroff, Edith. Three American Composers. (Irwin Fischer, Ross Lee 
Finney, George Crumb). Latham, MD: University Press of America, 1986.

Boulez, Pierre. Boulez on Music Today. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard
University Press, 1971.

Boulez, Pierre. Orientations. London: Faber and Faber, 1986.

Brindle, Reginald Smith. The New Music: The Avant-garde since
1945. New York and London: Oxford University Press, 1975.

Burbank, Richard. Twentieth-Century Music. NY: Facts on File, l984.

Cardew, Cornelius. Scratch Music. Cambridge, MA: The M.I.T.
Press, paperback ed., 1974.

Cardew, Cornelius. Stockhausen Serves Imperialism. London:
Latimer New Dimensions Limited, 1974.

Chase, Gilbert. The American Composer Speaks. Baton Rouge:
Louisiana State University Press, 1966.

Chavez, Carlos. Towards a New Music: Music and Electricity. New
York: W.W. Norton, 1937.

Clough, Rosa Trillo. Futurism. New York: Philosophical Library,
1961.

Cohn, Arthur. 20th-century Music in the Western Hemisphere. Phil. 
& NY: Lippincott, 1961.

Collaer, Paul. A History of Modern Music. New York: Grosset and Dunlap,
1961.

Cooper, Martin, ed. The Modern Age, 1890-1980. X. The New Oxford 
History of Music. London: Oxford University Press, 1974.

Cope, David H. New Directions in Music.  5th ed, Dubuque: W.C. Brown, 
1989. (4th ed, 1981.)

Copland, Aaron. The new music, 1900-1960. Rev. and enl. ed. New York: 
W.W. Norton, 1968.

Copland, Aaron. What to listen for in music. New York, London,
Whittlesey: McGraw-Hill, 1939. [Rev. ed.] New York: McGraw-Hill, 1957.

Copland, Aaron. Our new music; leading composers in Europe and America. 
New York, London: Whittlesey house, McGraw-Hill book company, inc., 1941.

Copland, Aaron. Copland on Music. [1st ed.] Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday,
1960.

Copland, Aaron. Music and imagination. Cambridge: Harvard University
Press, 1952.

Cowell, Henry. American Composers on American Music: A Symposium. 
Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1933. reprint- New York: Frederick 
Unger, 1962.

Davies, Laurence. Paths to Modern Music. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons,
1971.

Demuth, Norman. Musical Trends in the Twentieth-Century. London: Rockliff,
1952.

Deri, Otto. Exploring Twentieth-Century Music. New York: Holt, Rinehart and
Winston, 1968.

Dizikes, John. Opera in America - A Cultural History. New Haven CT: Yale
University Press, 1993.

Downes, Olin, and Downes, Irene. Olin Downes on Music. New York: Simon and
Schuster, 1957.

Eling, Robert Michael (ed.). A Basic Music Library: Essential Scores and
Books. 2nd ed. Chicago: American Library Association, 1983.

Ewen, David. Twentieth Century Composers. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Co.,
1937.

Ewen, David. Composers of Tomorrow's Music. New York: Dodd, Mead and Co.,
1971.

Ewen, David. The Complete Book of 20th Century Music. New York:
Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1952; 2nd ed., 1959.

Ewen, David, ed. The New Book of American Composers. 3rd ed. New York:
Alfred A. Knopf, 1961.

Ewen, David. The New Book of Modern Composers. 3rd ed. New York: Alfred A.
Knopf, Inc., 1961.

Fling, Robert Michael. A Basic Music Library: Essential Scores and Books.
2nd ed. Chicago: American Library, 1983.

Gagne, Cole and Tracy Caras. Soundpieces: Interviews with American
Composers. Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1982.

Garland, Peter.  Americas: Essays on American Music and Culture,
1973-1980. Santa Fe: Soundings Press, 1982.

Gleason, Harold and Warren Becker.  20th-century American Composers, Music
Literature Outlines. ser. iv., 2nd ed. Bloomington, IN: Frangipani Press,
1980.

Gordon, Eric. MARC THE MUSIC - biography of Marc Blitzstein.

Griffiths, Paul. Modern Music: A Brief History of 20th Century Music.

Griffiths, Paul. Modern Music: The avant garde since 1945. London, NYC: 
George Braziller, 1981. recently revised as: Modern Music and After: 
Directions since1945. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 1995.

Griffiths, Paul. New Sounds, New Personalities, British Composers
of the 1980s in Conversation. London: Faber Music Ltd., 1985.

Griffiths, Paul. A Concise History of Avant-Garde Music. New
York: Oxford University Press, 1978.

Gross, Madeleine. Modern Music Makers. New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc.,
1952.

Hall, Charles, ed. A Twentieth Century Music Chronicle: Events 1900-1988.
NY: Greenwood Press, 1989.

Hansen, Peter. An Introduction to Twentieth Century Music. New York: Allyn
and Bacon, 1961, 2nd ed., 1967, 4th ed., 1978.

Hartog, Howard, ed. European Music in the Twentieth Century. New 
York: Praeger, 1957.

Hart, Philip. Orpheus in the New World: The Symphony Orchestra as an 
American Cultural Institution. NY: 1973.

Hodeir, Andre. Since Debussy: A View of Contemporary Music. trans. 
Noel Burch. New York: Grove Press, 1961.

Holmes, John L. Composers on Composers. New York: Greenwood Press, 1990.

Howard, John Tasker. Our Contemporary Composers: American Music in the
Twentieth Century. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1942.

Hughes, Rupert. American Composers: A Study of the Music... Boston:  Page
Co., 1914.

Johnson, Roger. Scores: An Anthology of New Music. New York:
Schirmer Books, 1980.

Johnson, Tom. Imaginary Music. New York: Tow-Eighteen Press,
1974.

Johnson, Tom. The Voice of New Music. 

Khatchadourian, Haig. Music, Film and Art. New York: Gordon and Breach, 
1985.

Kostelanetz, Richard. Master Minds. New York: Macmillan, 1969.

Kostelanetz, Richard. Music of Today. New York: Time-Life Books,
1967.

Lang, Paul Henry, and Nathan Broder, eds. Contemporary Music in Europe: 
A Comprehensive Survey. New York: W.W. Norton, 1967.

Lang, Paul Henry, ed. Problems of Modern Music: The Princeton Seminar in
Advanced Musical Studies. New York: W.W. Norton, 1962.

Leuning, Otto. The Odyssey of an American Composer: The
Autobiography of Otto Leuning. New York: C.F. Peters, 1981.

Machlis, Joseph. Introduction to Contemporary Music. 2nd ed. New York: 
W.W. Norton, 1961, 2nd. ed., 1979.

Martin, William R. and Julius Drossin. Music of the Twentieth Century.
Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1980.

McClary, Susan. De-tonations: narrative and significance in "Absolute"
music. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, spring 1995.

McLuhan, Marshall. Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man.
New York: New American Library, 1964.

Mead, Andrew. An Introduction to the Music of Milton Babbitt. Princeton, 
NJ: Princeton Univ. Press, 1994.

Mead, Rita. Henry Cowell's New Music 1925-1936: the Society, the Music
Editions, and the Recordings. (revision of 1978 thesis, CUNY) Ann Arbor:
UMI Press, 1981.

Mellers, Wilfred. Romanticism and the Twentieth Century. Fairlawn, NJ:
Essential Books, 1957.

Mertens, Wim. (trans. J. Hautekiet). American Minimal Music: La Monte
Young, Terry Riley, Steve Reich, Philip Glass. New York: Alexander Broude,
1983.

Meyer, Leonard B. Music, the Arts, and Ideas: Patterns and Predictions in
Twentieth-Century Culture. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1969.

Meyers, Rollo W. Modern French Music from Faure to Boulez. New
York: Praeger Books, 1971.

Mitchell, Donald. The Language of Modern Music. New York: St. Martin'sYork:
Press, 1970.Oxford University Press, 1978.

Moore, Douglas. A Guide to Musical Styles. N: WW Norton and Co., 1985.

Mordden, Ethan. Opera in the Twentieth Century: Sacred, Profane, Godot. 
New York: Oxford University Press, 1978.

Morgan, Robert. Twentieth Century Music. New York: W.W. Norton, 1990.

Morgenstern, Sam, ed. Composers on Music: An Anthology of Composers'
Writings from Palestrina to Copland. New York: Pantheon, 1956.

Myers, Rollo. Music in the Modern World. London: Arnold, 1948.

Nettl, Bruno, 1930-. Heartland excursions: ethnomusicological reflections 
on schools of music.

New Oxford History of Music: The Modern Age 1890-1960. ed. Martin Cooper.
London: Oxford University Press, 1974.

Nicholls, David. American Experimental Music 1890-1940. New York: 
Cambridge University Press, 1990.

Nyman, Michael.  Experimental Music: Cage and Beyond.  New York: 
Schirmer Books, 1974.

Oliveros, Pauline. Software for People. New York: Printed Editions, 1982.

Partch, Harry. Genesis of a Music. 2nd ed. New York: Da Capo Press, 1973.

Pauly, Reinhard. Music and the Theatre. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-
Hall, 1970.

Pellegrino, Ronald. The Electronic Arts of Sound and Light. New
York: Van Nostrand Reinhold Co., 1983.

Peyser, Joan. The New Music. New York: Dell, 1971.

Pleasants, Henry. The Agony of Modern Music. New York: Simon and Schuster,
Inc., 1955.

Pollack, Howard. Harvard Composers - Walter Piston and His Students from
Elliott Carter to Frederic Rzewski. Metuchen NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1992.

Reck, David. Music of the Whole Earth. New York: Charles
Scribner's Sons, 1977.

Reich, Steve. Writings About Music. New York: NYU Press, 1974.

Reis, Claire R. Composers Conductors and Critics. New York: Alfred A.
Knopf, 1968.

Reis, Claire. Composers in America: Biographical Sketches of Living
Composers, with a Record of Their Works 1912-1937. New York: The 
Macmillan Company, 1938, 1947.

Reynolds, Roger. Mind Models. New York: Praeger Books, 1976.

Rockwell, John. All American Music. New York: Vintage Books, 1983.

Rosenberg, D. and B. Rosenberg. The Music Makers.  New York, 1979.

Rosenfeld, Paul. Discoveries of a Music Critic. New York: Harcourt, Brace
and Co., 1936.

Rosenfeld, Paul. An Hour with American Music. Philadelphia: J. B.
Lippincott & Co., 1929.

Rosenfeld, Paul. Musical Impressions. ed. Herbert A. Leibowitz. New York:
Hill & Wang, 1969.

Rossi, Nick and Robert Choate, eds. Music in Our Time. Boston: Crescendo
Publishing Company, 1969.

Salazar, Adolfo. Music in Our Time. New York: W.W. Norton, 1946.

Salzman, Eric. Twentieth Century Music: An Introduction. 3rd ed. 
Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, Inc., 1988.

Schaefer, John. New Sounds: A Listener's Guide to New Music.

Schafer, R. Murray. Ear Cleaning. Vancouver: B.M.I. Canada Ltd.,
1967, 1974.

Schafer, R. Murray. The Composer in the Classroom.

Schafer, R. Murray. The Tuning of the World. New York: Alfred A.
Knopf, 1977; Philidelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1980.

Schauffler, Robert Haven and Sigmund Spaeth. Music as a Social Force in
America and the Science of Practice. New York: The Caxton Institute, 1972.

Scholes, Percy Alfred. The Oxford Companion to Music. 10th ed. by John
Owen Ward. New York: Oxford University Press, 1970.

Schonberg, Arnold. Style and Idea: Selected Writings of Arnold Schonberg.
ed by Leonard Stein. New York: St. Martins Press, 1975.

Schwartz, Elliott and Barney Childs, eds. Contemporary Composers on
Contemporary Music. New York: Holt, Rinehart, Winston, 1967.

Schwartz, Elliott and Daniel Godfrey. Music Since 1945. New York: 
Schirmer Books, 1993.

Sessions, Roger. Reflections on the Music Life in the United States. New
York: Merlin Press, 1956.

Siegmeister, Elie, ed. The New Music Lover's Handbook. Irvington-on-
Hudson, NY: Harvey House, Inc., 1973.

Simms, Bryan. Music of the 20th Century. New York: Schirmer Books, 
1986. 2nd ed. 1996.

Slonimsky, Nicholas.  Music Since 1900.  4th ed. NY: Charles Scribner's 
Sons, 1971.

Sternfeld, F.W., ed. Music in the Modern Age. Praeger History of
Music, Vol. V. New York: Praeger Books, 1973.

Stone, Kurt. Music Notation in the Twentieth-Century. NY: WW Norton and
Co., 1983.

Straus, Joseph Nathan. Remaking the past: musical modernism and the 
influence of the tonal tradition. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University 
Press, 1990.

Strickland, Edward. American Composers: Dialogues on Contemporary 
Music. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1991.

Strickland, Edward. Minimalism: Origins_ Bloomington, IN: Indiana 
University Press,1993.

Stuckenschmidt, H. Twentieth Century Music. New York: McGraw-Hill, 
1976. Schoepfer der Neuen Musik. Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, 1962. 

Tawa, Nicholas E. Mainstream Music of Early Twentieth Century America.
Westport CT: Greenwood Press, 1992.

Tawa, Nicholas E. A most wondrous babble: American art composers, their
music, and the American scene, 1950-1985. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood 
Press, 1987.

The Music Masters Vol. 4: The Twentieth Century.  ed. A. L. Bacharach. 
Baltimore: Pelican Books, 1957.

Thompson, Randall. College Music. New York: MacMillan Company, 1935.

Thomson, Virgil. Music Right and Left. New York, 1951.

Thomson, Virgil. Music with Words - A Composer's View. New Haven CT: 
Yale University Press, 1989.

Thomson, Virgil. American Music Since 1910. New York: Holt, Rinehart, 
and Winston, 1971.

Thomson, Virgil. The Art of Judging Music. New York, 1948.

Thomson, Virgil. Music Reviewed: 1940-1954. New York: Vintage Books, 
1967.

Thomson, Virgil. Virgil Thomson. New York, 1966.

Thomson, Virgil. A Virgil Thomson Reader. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co.,
1981.

Thomson, Virgil. The Musical Scene. New York, 1945.

Ulrich, Homer, and Paul A. Pisk. A History of Music and Musical Style. New
York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc., 1963.

Watkins, Glenn. Pyramids at the Louvre.

Watkins, Glenn. Soundings. New York: Schirmer Books, 1986.

Webern, Anton. The Path to the New Music. trans. Leo Black. Bryn Mawr:
Theodore Presser, 1963.

Whittall, Arnold. Music Since the First World War. London: J.M. Dent &
Sons, Ltd., 1977.

Wilder, Robert D. Twentieth-Century Music. Dubuque: W.C. Brown. 1969.

Wîrner, Karl. Stockhausen, Life and Work. Tr. Bill Hopkins.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1973.

Yates, Peter. Twentieth Century Music: Its Evolution from the End of the
Harmonic Era into the Present Era of Sound. New York: Pantheon Books, 1967.

Zalkind, Ronald. Contemporary Music Almanac 1980/81. New York: Schirmer
Books, 1980.

Zimmerman, Walter. Desert Plants: Conversations with 23 American 
Musicians. Vancouver: A.R.C. Pubs., 1976.

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