This book interprets the music theory of Henrich Schenker as part of a comprehensive project encompassing not just musical reform but social and political critique.

Shaping Percy Grainger's own sketches, the editors have created a "self-portrait" along the lines that Grainger himself had intended.

An illuminating look at how the "Father of Country Music" inspired several generations of musical stars, from Woody Guthrie to Elvis Presley, Merle Haggard, and Bob Dylan

This selection of 750 of Ralph Vaughan Williams' letters, introduced and annotated, provides insights on his early development, his own music and his views on the music of others, his political attitudes, especially to the two world wars, his close personal friendships, and his marriages

The first sustained attempt to understand some of Copland's best-known music in the context of leftwing social, political, and cultural currents of the Great Depression and Second World War.