Compiled by José Jiménez Mesa.

© GlassPages, 1997-2001
Last update: June 23, 2001.

This bibliography tries to contain all the books about Philip Glass including a selection of other related books, summarizing them in chronological order by publishing year. Books are described with their table of contents and cover pictures.

All your comments (additions, corrections or moved links) are welcome!

The BiblioGlassy:

Books on Philip Glass:

• "Music by Philip Glass" by Philip Glass  (1987, Harper & Row, USA, ISBN: 0060158239).


• "Opera on the Beach: Philip Glass On His New World of Music Theatre", UK Edition  (1988, Faber & Faber Limited, UK, ISBN: 057114800X).



• "Philip Glass: La Mia Musica", Italian translation by Leda Spiller  (1993, Edizioni Socrates, Italy, ISBN: 8872020034).



• "Music by Philip Glass", USA reprinting  (1995, Da Capo Press, USA, ISBN: 0306806363).



• "Musik: Philip Glass", German translation by Dhanya Helmi Komarek & Raffael Boriés  (1998, Sargos Verlag, Germany, ISBN: 3928390058).

• "Writings on Glass" by Richard Kostelanetz  (1997, Schirmer, USA, ISBN: 0028646576).

Other Selected Books:

• "Experimental Music: Cage and Beyond" by Michael Nyman  (1974, Studio Vista, UK, ISBN: 0289701821).

• "American Minimal Music" by Wim Mertens  (1983, Kahn & Averill, UK, ISBN: 1871082005).

• "Satyagraha: M. K. Gandhi in South Africa 1983-1914" by Constance DeJong and Philip Glass  (1983, Tanam, USA, ISBN: 0934378444).

• "All American Music: Composition in the Late 20th Century" by John Rockwell  (1983, Knopf, USA, ISBN: 0306807505).

• "New Sounds: A Listener's Guide to New Music" by John Schaefer  (1987, Harper & Row, USA, ISBN: 0060970812).

• "1000 Airplanes on the Roof: A Science-Fiction Music-drama" by Philip Glass, David Henry Hwang and Jerome Sirlin  (1989, Peregrine Smith Book, USA, ISBN: 0879053437).

• "The Voice of New Music" by Tom Johnson  (1989, Het Apollohuis, The Netherlands, ISBN: 907163809X).

• "Minimalism: Origins" by Edward Strickland  (1993, Indiana University Press, USA, ISBN: 0289701821).

• "Philip Glass Orphée: The Making of an Opera" by Karen Kopp, Petra Wenzel, Hans Schürmann and Werner Lippert  (1993, n. n. Edition, Germany, ISBN: 3930058014).

• "Sakrales Musiktheater im 20. Jahrhundert: Eine Studie zur Oper "Satyagraha" von Philip Glass" by Michael Altmann  (1993, S. Roderer Verlag, Germany, ISBN: 3890736432).

• "American Originals" by Geoff Smith and Nicola Walker Smith  (1994, Faber and Faber, UK, ISBN: 0571170889).


• "New Voices: American Composers Talk About Their Music", USA Edition  (1995, Amadeus Press, USA, ISBN: 0931340853).

• "Talking Music" by William Duckworth  (1995, Schirmer, USA, ISBN: 0028708237).

• "The History of American Classical Music: MacDowell Through Minimalism" by John Warthen Struble  (1995, Facts on File, USA, ISBN: 0816034931).

• "Minimal Music" by Fabian R. Lovisa  (1996, Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Germany, ISBN: 3534124308).

• "Minimalists" by K. Robert Schwarz  (1996, Phaidon, UK, ISBN: 0714833819).

• "Where music comes from" by Nubar Alexanian  (1996, Dewi Lewis, USA, ISBN: 189923506X).

• "Nouvelle Musique" by Stéphane Lelong  (1996, Balland, France, ISBN: 2715811179).

• "Inside the Music: Conversations with Contemporary Musicians about Spirituality, Creativity and Consciousness" by Dimitri Ehrlich  (1997, Shambhala, USA, ISBN: 1570622736).

• "American music in the twentieth century" by Kyle Gann  (1997, Schirmer, USA, ISBN: 00284655X).

• "Bodies at Risk: Unsafe Limits in Romanticism and Postmodernism" by Robert Burns Neveldine   (1998, SUNY Press, USA, ISBN: 0791436500).

• "Singing Archaeology: Philip Glass's Akhnaten" by John Richardson   (1999, Wesleyan University Press, USA, ISBN: 0819563420).

• "Musica Coelestis: Conversazioni con undici grandi della musica d' oggi" by Carlo Boccadoro  (1999, Giulio Einaudi Editore, Italy, ISBN: 8806150863).

• "Music with Roots in the Aether: Interviews with and Essays about Seven American Composers" by Robert Ashley  (2000, MusikTexte, Germany, ISBN: 39803315169).

• "Four Musical Minimalists: La Monte Young, Terry Riley, Steve Reich, Philip Glass" by Keith Potter  (2000, Cambridge University Press, UK, ISBN: 052148250X).

• "Film Music" by Mark Russell and James Young  (2000, Roto Vision, UK, ISBN: 2880464412).