Music 785: Twentieth-Century Music II
Bibliography
Most of these books are available in the Queens College Music Library.
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- Elliott Schwartz and Daniel Godfrey, Music Since 1945. New York, Schirmer Books, 1993.
(ML197.S35)
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(ML200.5 T5)
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(ML423.A2 R4)
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(ML410.C756 B9)
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(ML410.C3293 S34)
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(ML410.M595 H495)
- Paul Griffiths, Olivier Messiaen and the Music of Time. Ithaca, Cornell University Press, 1985.
(ML410.M56 G7)
- Carla Huston Bell, Olivier Messiaen. Boston, Twayne Publishers, 1984. (ML410.B56 B4)
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(ML410.M56 J6)
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(ML410.B76 G7)
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(ML410.B76 S6)
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(ML410.L645 S19)
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- James Pritchett, The Music of John Cage. Cambridge & New York, Cambridge University Press, 1993. (ML410.C24 P7)
- Richard Kostelanetz, Conversing with Cage. New York, Limelight Editions, 1988.
(ML410.C24 K68)
- Andrew Mead, An Introduction to the Music of Milton Babbitt. Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey, 1994. (ML410.B066 M4)
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- Howard Pollack, Harvard Composers: Walter Piston and his Students, from Elliott Carter to Frederic Rzewski. The Scarecrow Press, Metuchen, NJ, 1992. (ML410.P745)
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