Modernist art often seems to give more frustration than pleasure to its audience. Daniel Albright shows that this perception arises partly because we usually co

If in earlier eras music may have seemed slow to respond to advances in other artistic media, during the modernist age it asserted itself in the vanguard. Moder

Beckett and Aesthetics, first published in 2003, examines Samuel Beckett's struggle with the recalcitrance of artistic media, their refusal to yield to his arti

“This book, the first scholarly consideration of Weill’s complete output of stage works, is without doubt the most important critical study of the composer�

Explores the meaning(s) of music, the most intricate and significant language invented by our culture.