Product Description: For over three decades Michael Nyman's music has succeeded in reaching beyond the small community of contemporary music aficionados to a much wider range of listeners. An important element in unlocking the key to Nyman's success lies in his writings about music, which preoccupied him for over a decade from the late 1960s to the early 1980s...read more

Product Description: One of the foremost composers of the twentieth century, Olivier Messiaen wrote widely on his music and on his beliefs. This is the first edition of his early journalism and provides both the original French text and an English translation...read more

The most important writing of Francis Davis, whose essays on American music and American culture have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, and Village Voice for more than twenty years, are collected in a definitive anthology. Original.