Providing an interesting approach to developments in modernist music - from 1980 onwards - this study also presents an intriguing perspective on the larger hist

Most of the essays in this book were solicited for the tenth anniversary of the journal 19th Century Music, which has sought to encourage innovative writing abo

This collection brings fresh perspectives to bear upon key questions surrounding the composition, performance and reception of musical modernism.

An argument that Modernism is a cognitive phenomenon rather than a cultural one. At the beginning of the twentieth century, poetry, music, and painting all unde

The Scottish composer Sir James MacMillan is one of the major figures of contemporary music, with a world-wide reputation for his modernist engagement with reli