Musical Composition in the Twentieth Century builds on the foundations of Music since the First World War (first published 1977, revised edition 1988). It updat
Identifying music as a vital site of cultural debate, this book captures the dynamic, contested nature of musical life in the United States. It examines an arra
The universally acclaimed and award-winning Oxford History of Western Music is the eminent musicologist Richard Taruskin's provocative, erudite telling of the s
This volume explores twentieth-century organ music through in-depth studies of the principal centers of composition, the most significant composers and their wo