Music Since 1900

These histories of music since 1900 may be helpful in terms of general background.

• Nicholas Cook and Anthony Pople, eds. Cambridge History of Twentieth-Century Music. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004.
• Robert P. Morgan. Twentieth-Century Music: A History of Musical Style in Modern Europe and America. New York: Norton, 1991.
• Eric Salzman. Twentieth-Century Music: An Introduction. 4th ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ : Prentice Hall, 2002.
• Robert Morgan, ed. Modern Times: From World War I to the Present. Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice Hall, 1993.
• Paul Griffiths. Modern Music and After. 3rd ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010.
• Daniel Albright, ed. Modernism and Music: An Anthology of Sources. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2004.