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Books About Music

2010s

  • How Music Works – John Powell 2010
  • Why Mahler? – Norman Lebrecht 2010
  • Idiots Music Dictionary – Dr. Stanford Felix 2010
  • My Nine Lives – Leon Fleischer And Anne Midgette 2010
  • The Great American Symphony Orchestra – Anthony J. Cirone 2011
  • Dennis Brain – A Life In Music – Stephen Gamble And William Lynch 2011
  • The Complete Classical Music Guide – General Editor John Burrows 2012
  • Reinventing Bach – Paul Elie 2012

2000s

  • Notes From The Pianist’s Bench – Boris Berman 2000
  • Notations: Quotations On Music – Edited By Sallye Leventhal 2003
  • The Artist As Citizen – Joseph W. Polisi 2005
  • The Art Of The Fugue – Joseph Kerman 2005
  • The Future Of Music – David Kusek & Gerd Leonhard 2005
  • All Music Guide To Classical Music – Editors Woodstra, Brennan & Schrott 2005
  • The Music Lesson – Victor L. Wooten 2006
  • This Is Your Brain On Music – Daniel J. Levitin 2006
  • The Npr Listener’s Encyclopedia Of Classical Music – Ted Libbey 2006
  • The Technique Of Violin Playing The Joachim Method – Karl Courvoisier 2006
  • Ricci On Glissando The Shortcut To Violin Technique – Ruggiero Ricci 2007
  • Why Classical Music Still Matters – Lawrence Kramer 2007
  • Practicing – A Musician’s Return To Music – Glenn Kurtz 2007
  • How Equal Temperament Ruined Harmony – Ross W. Duffin 2007
  • The Soloist – Steve Lopez 2008
  • Music Quickens Time – Daniel Barenboim 2008
  • All You Have To Do Is Listen – Rob Kapilow 2008

1990s

  • The Music Lover’s Quotation Book – Sound And Vision 1990
  • Music Physicial For Times To Come – Don Campbell 1991
  • Music And The Mind – Anthony Storr 1992
  • Learn To Read Music – Harry & Michael Baxter Mcmxciii (1993)
  • Chamber Music – Victor Rangel-Ribeiro And Robert Markel 1993
  • The Art Of Practicing – Madeline Bruser 1997
  • Opera For Dummies – Pogue & Speck 1997
  • Classical Music For Dummies – Pogue & Speck 1997

1980s

  • Cage – Paul Griffiths 1981
  • The Composer’s Advocate – Erich Leinsdorf 1981
  • Anatomy Of The Orchestra – Norman Del Mar 1981
  • Der Rosenkavalier – English National Opera Guide – Nicholas John 1981
  • Music: A Living Language – Tom Manhoff 1982
  • Orchestral Music A Handbook Second Edition – David Daniels 1982
  • Mozart – Wolfgang Hildesheimer 1983
  • Over Dirigeren – Kirill Kondrashin 1983
  • Benjamin Britten – Eric Walter White 1983
  • A Study Of Ethnomusicology – Bruno Nettl 1983
  • The World Is Sound – Joachim-Ernst Berendt 1983
  • Die Walkurie – English National Opera Guide – Nicholas John 1983
  • Basically Bach – Herbert Kupferberg 1985
  • Tone Deaf And All Thumbs – Frank R. Wilson 1986
  • On Performing – David Craig 1987
  • Sound Medicine – Laeh Maggie Garfield 1987
  • Music As Cognition – Mary Louise Serafine 1988
  • A History Of Western Music – Donald J. Grout And Claude V. Palisca 1988 (1960)
  • How To Do Well In Music Exams – Rudolph Sabor 1989

1970s

  • Hindemith – Ian Kemp 1970
  • Iannis Xenakis – The Man & His Music 1970
  • Shostakovich – Norman Kay 1971
  • Musician’s Handbook Of Foreign Terms – Christine Ammer 1971
  • Basic Principles In Pianoforte Playing – Joseph Lhevinne 1972
  • Debussy Orchestral Music – Bbc Music Guides – David Cox 1974
  • Bartok Orchestral Music – Bbc Music Guides – John Mccabe 1974
  • Rachmaninov Orchestral Music – Bbc Music Guides – Patrick Piggott 1974
  • Greig – The Master Musicians – Robert L. Jacobs 1974
  • Style And Idea – Arnold Schoenberg 1975
  • Bizet – The Master Musicians – Winton Dean 1975
  • Encyclopedia Of Quotations About Music – Nat Shapiro 1977
  • Orchestral Music In Print – Margaret Farish 1978
  • Wahrung Der Gestalt – Hans Swarowsky 1979
  • Schumann Orchestral Music – Bbc Music Guides – Hans Gal 1979

1960s

  • Playing The Piano For Pleasure – Charles Cooke 1960
  • Horn Technique – Gunther Schuller 1962
  • Three Classics In The Aesthetics Of Music – Debussy, Ives & Busoni 1962
  • Music In The Life Of Man – Julius Portnoy 1963
  • Felix Mendelssohn And His Times – Heinrich Eduard Jacob 1963
  • Principles Of Orchestration – Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov 1964
  • Concise Oxford Dictionary Of Opera – Harold Rosenthal And John Warrack 1964
  • The Meaning Of Music – Jean Seligman And Juliet Danziger 1966
  • The A.S.T.A. Dictionary Of Bowing Terms For String Instruments 1968

1950s

  • The Pianist’s Problems – William S. Newman 1950
  • The Perfect Conductor – Frederick Goldbeck 1951
  • The Amateur Orchestra – Leonard Duck Mcmliii (1953)
  • 100 Great Operas And Their Stories – Henry W. Simon 1957
  • Learning To Listen – Grosvenor Cooper 1957

1940s

  • On Music And Musicians – Robert Schumann 1946
  • There’s Music In Children – Emma Dickson Sheehy 1946
  • Elementary Training For Musicians – Paul Hindemith 1946
  • Frederic Chopin 1810-1849 – Stephen P. Mizwa, A.M.,Ll.D. 1949

1930s

  • Mozart – Marcia Davenport 1932
  • First Year Harmony – Thomas Tapper 1936 download here

1920s

  • Great Musicians As Children – Franciska Schwimmer 1929

1910s

1900s

1890s

  • Dictionary Of Musical Terms – Theo Baker, Ph.D 1895 (1923) download here