Composers and Musicians Books

New and Published Books

1. William Alwyn

   A Research and Information Guide

   By John C. Dressler

   Series: Routledge Music Bibliographies

   William Alwyn: A Research and Information Guide is a catalogue, discography and annotated bibliography of the nearly 500 works of this twentieth-century British composer. It will be invaluable to twentieth-century British composer researchers and aficionados, music history courses, and...

   Published August 24th 2011 by Routledge
2. Musical Visitors to Britain

   By Peter Gordon

   Series: Woburn Education Series

   Britain has attracted many musical visitors to its shores. A varied and often eccentric collection of individuals, some were invited by royalty with musical tastes, some were refugees from religious or political oppression, some were spies, and others came to escape debt or even charges of murder....

   Published September 11th 2005 by Routledge
3. Dictionary of American Classical Composers

   2nd Edition

   By Neil Butterworth

   Published December 3rd 2004 by Routledge
4. Conversing with Cage

   2nd Edition

   By Richard Kostelanetz

   Published November 26th 2002 by Routledge
5. Virgil Thomson

   A Reader: Selected Writings, 1924-1984

   Edited by Richard Kostelanetz

   This essential reader includes Thomson's essays on making a living as a musician; his articles on classic composers; his relation to his contemporaries; his articles on newcomers in the music world, including John Cage and Pierre Boulez; his autobiographical writings and commentary on his own works....

   Published August 8th 2002 by Routledge
6. Music of Louis Andriessen

   Edited by Maja Trochimczyk

   Series: Studies in Contemporary Music and Culture

   This book presents the musician in dialog with a Polish-Canadian musicologist and three of his Dutch friends and collaborators, Reinbert de Leeuw, Elmer Schönberger and Frits van der Waa. Topics include his artistic evolution, his relationship to minimalism, his prevalent interest in mysticism...

   Published May 9th 2002 by Routledge
7. Music of Morton Feldman

   By Delio

   Published October 18th 2001 by Routledge
8. Music of Stuart S Smith

   By Welsh

   Published October 18th 2001 by Routledge
9. Music of Anthony Braxton

   By Heffley

   Published September 26th 2001 by Routledge
10. Aaron Copland

    A Guide to Research

    By Marta Robertson, Robin Armstrong

    Series: Routledge Music Bibliographies

    Aaron Copland (1900-1990) is generally considered the most popular and well-known composer of American art music, and yet little scholarly attention has been paid to Copland since the 1950s. This volume begins with a portrait of the composer and an evaluation of significant research trends which is...

    Published January 9th 2001 by Routledge