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  • Berghain Nights

    A Journey through Techno and Berlin Club Culture

    by Liam Cagney ...
    Liam Cagney is residing in a Berlin squat when one night he finds himself at Berghain. Fascinated by the strange techno and even stranger dance floor, he sets out to explore Berlin’s unique club culture in all its intensity. Berghain Nights is the result, the first major literary exploration of Berlin’s club scene.Blending essay and memoir, Berghain Nights features interviews with major electronic ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Gérard Grisey and Spectral Music

    Composition in the Information Age

    by Liam Cagney ...
    Series series Music since 1900
    The first in-depth historical overview of spectral music, which is widely regarded, alongside minimalism, as one of the two most influential compositional movements of the last fifty years. Charting spectral music's development in France from 1972 to 1982, this ground-breaking study establishes how spectral music's innovations combined existing techniques from post-war music with the use of ... Read more

    $106.99 CAD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Spectral Music

    Edited by Amy Bauer, Liam Cagney, William Mason ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    Spectral music as a school of compositional thought was originally associated with the ensemble l'Itineraire in Paris in the 1970s. Since that time, it has only grown in significance and recognition as it transitioned from concert halls to dance clubs and made other incursions into popular culture. The Oxford Handbook of Spectral Music offers a fully new and expansive understanding of current ... Read more

    $139.99 CAD

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  • Modern Music and After

    by Paul Griffiths ...
    Over three decades Paul Griffiths's survey has remained the definitive study of music since the Second World War; this fully revised and updated edition re-establishes Modern Music and After as the preeminent introduction to the music of our time. The disruptions of the war and the struggles of the ensuing peace were reflected in the music of the time: in Pierre Boulez's radical reformation of ... Read more

    $42.99 CAD

  • Xenakis

    His Life in Music

    by James Harley ...
    Xenakis: His Life in Music is a full-length study of the influential contemporary composer Iannis Xenakis. Following the trajectory of Xenakis’s compositional development, James Harley, who studied with Xenakis, presents the works together with clear explanations of the technical and conceptual innovations that shaped them.Harley examines the relationship between the composer and two early ... Read more

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  • Brian Ferneyhough

    by Lois Fitch, Martin Iddon ...
    One of contemporary music’s most significant and controversial figures, Brian Ferneyhough's complex and challenging music draws inspiration from painting, literature and philosophy, as well as music from the recent and distant past. His dense, multi-layered compositions intrigue musicians while pushing performer and instrument to the limits of their abilities. A wide-ranging survey of his life and ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • The Spectral Piano

    From Liszt, Scriabin, and Debussy to the Digital Age

    by Marilyn Nonken ...
    Series series Music since 1900
    The most influential compositional movement of the past fifty years, spectralism was informed by digital technology but also extended the aesthetics of pianist-composers such as Franz Liszt, Alexander Scriabin and Claude Debussy. Students of Olivier Messiaen such as Tristan Murail and Gérard Grisey sought to create a cooperative committed to exploring the evolution of timbre in time as a basis for ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Stravinsky and the Russian Period

    Sound and Legacy of a Musical Idiom

    by Pieter C. van den Toorn, John McGinness ...
    Series series Music since 1900
    Van den Toorn and McGinness take a fresh look at the dynamics of Stravinsky's musical style from a variety of analytical, critical and aesthetic angles. Starting with processes of juxtaposition and stratification, the book offers an in-depth analysis of works such as The Rite of Spring, Les Noces and Renard. Characteristic features of style, melody and harmony are traced to rhythmic forces, ... Read more

    $44.99 CAD

  • Unmasking Ravel

    New Perspectives on the Music

    by Peter Kaminsky, Sigrun Heinzelmann, Steven Huebner, Volker Helbing, Barbara L. Kelly, Daphne N. Leong, David Korevaar, Elliott Antokoletz, Gurminder K. Bhogal, Lauri Suurpää0, Michael J. Puri1 ...
    Unmasking Ravel: New Perspectives on the Music fills a unique place in Ravel studies by combining critical interpretation and analytical focus. From the premiere of his works up to the present, Ravel has been associated with masks and the related notions of artifice and imposture. This has led scholars to perceive a lack of depth in his music and, consequently, to discourage investigation of his ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Iannis Xenakis and the Ethics of Absolute Originality

    by Gérard Pape ...
    Iannis Xenakis is one of the major composers of the 20th century. His influence is immense, because of his radicalism, his aesthetic, and the intransigence of his musical compositions. As an eternal immigrant, as he defined himself, he always refused to settle in any artistic, philosophical or human comfort. Throughout his life, leaving for new horizons, new landscapes, new discoveries has been a ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Sonic Experience

    by Jean-François Augoyard ...
    While acknowledging the significant gains modernity and post-modernity offer Western civilization in the areas of liberty and knowledge Schmitz sees in their arguments a superficiality that does not "bite to the bone." In The Recovery of Wonder he proposes we approach the world as a gift in order to regain the sense of wonder Shakespeare so eloquently recognized. ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Debussy

    Edited by Simon Trezise ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Music
    Often considered the father of twentieth-century music, Debussy was a visionary whose influence is still felt. This book offers a wide-ranging series of essays on Debussy the man, the musician and composer. It contains insights into his character, his relationship to his Parisian environment and his musical works across all genres, with challenging views on the roles of nature and eroticism in his ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD