Music 785: Twentieth-Century Music II
Bibliography

Most of these books are available in the Queens College Music Library.

• Robert P. Morgan, Twentieth-Century Music. New York, W. W. Norton & Co., 1991.
• Elliott Schwartz and Daniel Godfrey, Music Since 1945. New York, Schirmer Books, 1993.
• Joan Peyser, To Boulez and beyond: music in Europe since The Rite of Spring. New York, Billboard Books, 1999.
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• Henry Cowell, American Composers on American Music. Stanford, Stanford University Press, 1933.
• Elliott Schwartz and Barney Childs, eds., Contemporary Composers on Contemporary Music, Expanded Edition. New York, Da Capo Press, 1998.
• Claire Raphael Reis, Composers, Conductors and Critics. Detroit Reprints in Music, 1974.
• Howard Pollack, Aaron Copland: the Life and Work of an Uncommon Man. New York, Henry Holt, 1999.
• Articles on Sessions, Copland, Carter, Barber and Cage in The New Grove Twentieth Century American Masters. London, Macmillan, 1988.
• Articles on Messiaen and Boulez in The New Grove Twentieth Century French Masters. New York, W.W. Norton and Co., Inc., 1986.
• Article on Webern in The New Grove Second Viennese School. New York, W.W. Norton and Co., Inc., 1983.
• Neil Butterworth, The Music of Aaron Copland. New York, Universe Books, 1986.
• David Schiff, The Music of Elliott Carter, 2nd edition. Ithaca, Cornell Universitry Press, 1998.
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• Howard Pollack, Walter Piston. Ann Arbor, MI, UMI Research Press, 1981.
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• Richard Kostalanetz, Conversing with Cage. New York, Limelight Editions, 1988.
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• Jonathan Harvey, The Music of Stockhausen: an Introduction. University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1975.
• David Osmond-Smith, Berio. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1991.
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• Iannis Xenakis, Formalized Music: Thought and Mathematics in Composition. Indiana University Press, Bloomington and London, 1971.
• Iannis Xenakis, Musique formelles: Nouveau principes formels de composition musicale. Editions Richard-Masse, 1963.
• Friedemann Sallis, An Introduction to the early works of György Ligeti. Studio, Köln, 1996.
• Joseph Straus, Introduction to Post-Tonal Theory. Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1990.
• Howard Pollack, Harvard Composers: Walter Piston and his Students, from Elliott Carter to Frederic Rzewski. The Scarecrow Press, Metuchen, NJ, 1992.