History & Criticism Books


One Hundred Years of Music: After Beethoven and Wagner Best Price: $36.91 One Hundred Years of Music provides a full account of the history of music from the death of...	Jazz Styles (11th Edition) Best Price: $79.95 America?s most popular introduction to jazz?now with MyMusicLab. For undergraduate...	Contributions to the History of Musical Scales Best Price: $12.71 This book was produced from a much older one (1900; actually a portion of an annual report of...	Music and Culture in Eighteenth-Century Europe: A Source Book Best Price: $69.60 This book collects key writings about eighteenth century music . It brings together for the...	Music Grooves: Essays and Dialogues This is a very interesting book, fascinating in the places it takes you. Still I think the...



Strong on Music: The New York Music Scene in the Days of George Templeton Strong, Volume 1: Resonances, 1836-1849 Best Price: $27.26 In Strong on Music Vera Brodsky Lawrence uses the diaries of lawyer and music lover George...	The Life of Music in North India: The Organization of an Artistic Tradition Best Price: $30.15 This book is a must for all those interested in the tradition of Hindustani music (the...	New Musical Figurations: Anthony Braxton's Cultural Critique Best Price: $23.00 This book represents the best of jazz journalism. Radano writes extensivly about Braxton, but...	Bianca e Falliero, o sia Il Consiglio dei Tre: Melodramma in Two Acts by Felice Romani (The Critical Edition of the Works of Gioachino Rossini, Section I: Operas) Best Price: $375.00 In 1819, a watershed year in the Milanese debates between "classicism" and...	Only the Strong Survive: Memoirs of a Soul Survivor (Black Music and Expressive Culture) Best Price: $12.72 Excellent autobiography from one of the giants of Chicago soul and a giant in the world of pop...



Expressionism in Twentieth-Century Music Best Price: $92.48	Carl Maria von Weber and the Search for a German Opera Best Price: $33.78 Stephen C. Meyer details the intricate relationships between the operas Der Freischütz and...	Women and Music: A History Best Price: $11.76 I have used this book in research for my thesis on women classical composers. This resource...	The Musician as Entrepreneur, 1700-1914: Managers, Charlatans, and Idealists Best Price: $33.67 I bought this book hoping to learn something about the everyday life of such Victorian orchestra...	Intertextuality in Western Art Music (Musical Meaning and Interpretation) Best Price: $35.78 "The outstanding originality of this book lies in the detail and perspicuity with which...

Harps and Harpists Best Price: $30.00 Beautifully illustrated with more than 130 photographs and drawings, this book surveys the...	Music Education in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance (Publications of the Early Music Institute) Best Price: $28.00 What were the methods and educational philosophies of music teachers in the Middle Ages and the...	Music and the Language of Love: Seventeenth-Century French Airs (Music and the Early Modern Imagination) Best Price: $25.00 Simple songs or airs, in which a male poetic voice either seduces or excoriates a female object,...	Words to Be Looked At: Language in 1960s Art Best Price: $11.45 "Book-ended by Cage's 4'33'' and Warhol's a: a novel, by...	SOUND OF DOVE:CASSETTE (Music in American Life) Best Price: $11.97 In "The Sound of the Dove", Beverly Bush Patterson explores one of the oldest...

Artaria 195: Beethoven's Sketchbook for the Missa solemnis and the Piano Sonata in E Major, Opus 109 (3 vols.) (Beethoven Sketchbook Series) Best Price: $34.45 Prof. Kinderman has done Beethoven scholarship a terrific service with this beautiful set of...	Together Let Us Sweetly Live: The Singing and Praying Bands (Music in American Life) Best Price: $79.97 A forgotten and beautiful African American folk tradition reexamined Together Let Us Sweetly...	Blues Empress in Black Chattanooga: Bessie Smith and the Emerging Urban South Best Price: $59.97 As one of the first African American vocalists to be recorded, Bessie Smith is a prominent...	The Black Cow's Footprint: Time, Space and Music in the Lives of the Kotas of South India Best Price: $13.50 A black cow leads the members of a South Indian hill tribe, the Kotas, to the Nilgiri Hills and,...	Sixties Rock: Garage, Psychedelic, and Other Satisfactions (Music in American Life) Best Price: $21.81 I don't normally write reviews for amazon, but I felt I had to say something about this book...

Marian McPartland's Jazz World: ALL IN GOOD TIME (Music in American Life) Best Price: $4.99 If you're a fan of Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz show on NPR, you'll adore reading...	Champagne Charlie and Pretty Jemima: Variety Theater in the Nineteenth Century (Music in American Life) Best Price: $22.56 In this rich, imaginative survey of variety musical theatre, Gillian M. Rodger masterfully...	Minimalism:Origins Best Price: $15.14 Strickland has situated Minimal Music within a vigorous and complex context here finding useful...	Polkabilly: How the Goose Island Ramblers Redefined American Folk Music Includes CD (American Musicspheres) Best Price: $13.41 This is a fascinating account of the little known regional music of the upper-Midwest. The...	Great God A'Mighty! The Dixie Hummingbirds: Celebrating the Rise of Soul Gospel Music Best Price: $7.45 Jerry Zolten, co-author of 'Speaking to an Audience' and writer for Living Blues...

The Lord's Song in a Strange Land: Music and Identity in Contemporary Jewish Worship (American Musicspheres) Best Price: $7.00 Across the United States, Jews come together every week to sing and pray in a wide variety of...	Two Men and Music: Nationalism in the Making of an Indian Classical Tradition Best Price: $22.63 A provocative account of the development of modern national culture in India using classical...	Mendelssohn: A Life in Music Best Price: $21.34 Felix Mendelssohn lived only thirty-eight years (Feb 1809- Nov 1847) and yet he had a profound...	Vaughan Williams on Music Best Price: $20.00 Concert audiences have an enduring affection for the music of Ralph Vaughan Williams; a composer...	Operetta: A Theatrical History (Oxford paperbacks) Best Price: $12.95 This entertaining and thorough examination of operetta remains the only complete,...

The Music of Joni Mitchell Best Price: $13.55 It's about time someone did a book like this on Joni Mitchell (there have been several...	Thinking Musically: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture (Global Music) Best Price: $18.10 Timing was great and book was in Excellent condition, including the CD. Great way to do bussiness.	Interpreting the Musical Past: Early Music in Nineteenth Century France Best Price: $3.46 In an era of heightened patriotic fervor following France's defeat in the Franco-Prussian...	American Musicians II: Seventy-one Portraits in Jazz Best Price: $127.66 If Whitnet Balliett were a musician, he'd probably be someone like Teddy Wilson, whose...	Composers at Work: The Craft of Musical Composition 1450-1600 How did Renaissance composers write their music? In this revolutionary look at a subject that...

Dvorï¿1/2k to Duke Ellington: A Conductor Explores America's Music and Its African American Roots Best Price: $14.98 Peress's 'Dvorak to Duke Ellington' is necessary reading for any serious Duke...	Wrong's What I Do Best: Hard Country Music and Contemporary Culture Best Price: $44.44 Arrived at my house very quickly. Great book - everything I expected it to be.	Rudolf Serkin: A Life Best Price: $49.99 He is my favourite piano player of all. To mark the centenary of his birth here is what I would...	Stardust Melody: The Life and Music of Hoagy Carmichael Best Price: $26.62 We owe Richard Sudhalter for preserving the often-forgotten history of America's early jazz...	All Shook Up: How Rock 'n' Roll Changed America (Pivotal Moments in American History) Best Price: $23.85 A fine and compelling read, even if the author fails to nail down the premise in the subtitle....

Ruth Crawford Seeger: A Composer's Search for American Music Best Price: $3.98 Ruth Crawford Seeger (1901-1953) is frequently considered the most significant American female...	Music in Bali: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture Includes CD (Global Music) Best Price: $20.26 Music in Bali is one of several case-study volumes that can be used along with Thinking...	Music in Bali: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture Includes CD (Global Music) Best Price: $42.18 Music in Bali is one of several case-study volumes that can be used along with Thinking...	Singing Out: An Oral History of America's Folk Music Revivals (Oxford Oral History) Best Price: $14.97 David King Dunaway has immersed himself in "Folk Music" for more than 30 years He has...	Music and Monumentality: Commemoration and Wonderment in Nineteenth Century Germany Best Price: $28.75 A few weeks after the reunification of Germany, Leonard Bernstein raised his baton above the...

The Letters of C. P. E. Bach Best Price: $136.00 This thoroughly-annotated volume is a necessary corollary to any biographical study done on...	A Catalogue of Polyphonic Songs 1415-1480 Best Price: $350.00 This invaluable resource provides a detailed inventory of polyphonic songs from 1415-1480 in any...	Schoenberg's Serial Odyssey: The Evolution of his Twelve-Tone Method, 1914-1928 (Clarendon Paperbacks) An easy to read, easy to understand source on the music of Schoenberg. Plenty of musical...	Gï¿1/2recki (Oxford Studies of Composers) Best Price: $35.98 This book is an excellent guide to the complete oeuvre of Henryk Gorecki. It covers...	Franz Schubert: A Biography In his short, tumultuous life, Franz Schubert (1797-1828) produced an astonishing amount of...

Britten (Master Musicians) Best Price: $101.24 Celebrating its 100th anniversary, this extraordinary series continues to amaze and captivate...	Schubert and His World: A Biographical Dictionary Best Price: $97.28 This lively, fascinating book is the first of its kind on Schubert. It appears at a time when...	Richard Strauss's Elektra (Studies in Musical Genesis & Structure) Best Price: $51.29 Elektra was the fourth of fifteen operas by Strauss and opened his successful partnership with...	Only the Strong Survive: Memoirs of a Soul Survivor (Black Music and Expressive Culture) Best Price: $12.72 Excellent autobiography from one of the giants of Chicago soul and a giant in the world of pop...	Expressionism in Twentieth-Century Music Best Price: $92.48

Carl Maria von Weber and the Search for a German Opera Best Price: $33.78 Stephen C. Meyer details the intricate relationships between the operas Der Freischütz and...	Women and Music: A History Best Price: $11.76 I have used this book in research for my thesis on women classical composers. This resource...	The Musician as Entrepreneur, 1700-1914: Managers, Charlatans, and Idealists Best Price: $33.67 I bought this book hoping to learn something about the everyday life of such Victorian orchestra...	Intertextuality in Western Art Music (Musical Meaning and Interpretation) Best Price: $35.78 "The outstanding originality of this book lies in the detail and perspicuity with which...	Harps and Harpists Best Price: $30.00 Beautifully illustrated with more than 130 photographs and drawings, this book surveys the...

Music Education in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance (Publications of the Early Music Institute) Best Price: $28.00 What were the methods and educational philosophies of music teachers in the Middle Ages and the...	Music and the Language of Love: Seventeenth-Century French Airs (Music and the Early Modern Imagination) Best Price: $25.00 Simple songs or airs, in which a male poetic voice either seduces or excoriates a female object,...	Words to Be Looked At: Language in 1960s Art Best Price: $11.45 "Book-ended by Cage's 4'33'' and Warhol's a: a novel, by...	Evening in the Palace of Reason Best Price: $51.52 This book begins and ends with the challenge issued by Frederick the Great of Prussia to Johann...	The Miles Davis Companion: Four Decades of Commentary Best Price: $16.36 the title says it all.four deacdes of commentary.how many artists of today will get 4 years let...

They Fought the Law : Rock Music Goes to Court Best Price: $4.99 I bought this book for a course I'm taking about the music business and after reading it,...	Bach (Master Musicians Series) Best Price: $18.34 Bach scholarship was turned upside down in the 1950s by the acceptance of new scholarship by...	Wynton Marsalis: Skain's Domain: A Biography Best Price: $52.95 "Skains Domain" Leslie Gourse This book is just superb. Gourse gives us a...	Bakers Dictionary of Opera (1 Vol) Best Price: $75.45 Actually, when it comes to "primary" references, there are only two "musts"...	Inside the Music Industry: Creativity, Process, and Business Best Price: $15.00 This is one of the bets guides about music you'll ever read, it surely fits into the top 10...

Short History of Keyboard Music Best Price: $98.34 For years I have considered this to be the pianist's bible. It covers every keyboard...	Music in Medieval Europe Best Price: $120.00 Historical survey of music in medieval Europe, from the end of Antiquity to the beginning of the...	Music in Medieval Europe (Prentice Hall history of music series) This book makes an excellent resource tool for research. Yudkin's information is well...	Editing Early Music (Oxford Early Music) Best Price: $35.00 Since its publication in 1985, Editing Early Music has been the guide to editorial...	Women Musicians of Venice: Musical Foundations, 1525-1855 (Oxford Monographs on Music) Best Price: $70.32 I ordered this book from Amazon because I was interested in Vivaldi's all-girl orchestra. ...

The Music of Benjamin Britten (Clarendon Paperbacks) Best Price: $40.85 This is a great price for the best analytical look at Britten's music around. Almost every...	The Piano Quartet and Quintet: Style, Structure, and Scoring (Clarendon Paperbacks) Best Price: $64.43 Basil Smallman's guide, which deals principally with chamber music scored for piano and...	Britten on Music Best Price: $98.97 Benjamin Britten was a most reluctant public speaker. Yet his contributions were without doubt a...	Correlations, Transformations, and Interactions in Organic Crystal Chemistry (International Union of Crystallography Crystallographic Symp) Best Price: $76.05 Structural crystallographic analysis can reveal the stereochemistry and detailed molecular...	The Mahler Companion Best Price: $79.93 The Mahler Companion consists of a collection of original essays on Mahler written especially...

Deeper than Reason: Emotion and Its Role in Literature, Music, and Art Best Price: $44.95 Philosopher Jenefer Robinson argues quite convincingly that emotional engagement is necessary...	Antithetical Arts: On the Ancient Quarrel Between Literature and Music Best Price: $35.00 Antithetical Arts constitutes a defence of musical formalism against those who would put...	Samuel Sebastian Wesley: A Life (Oxford Studies in British Church Music) Best Price: $42.72 Born into one of England's best-known families, Samuel Sebastian Wesley (1810-76) was not...	She Bop: The Definitive History of Women in Rock, Pop & Soul Best Price: $36.40 though written almost five years ago, lucy o'brien's _she bop_ is still one of the...	Read the Beatles: Classic and New Writings on the Beatles, Their Legacy, and Why They Still Matter Best Price: $6.80 I loved it. This is a collection of some of the finest writers of our time, writing about the...

Winifred Wagner: A Life at the Heart of Hitler's Bayreuth Best Price: $8.64 This biography is for those with a deep interest in classical music history, Hitler and the...	Notes from a Battered Grand: A Memoir/Fifty Years of Music, from Honky-Tonk to High Society Best Price: $25.95 I read this book in two days. It is an outstanding slice of life. Don Asher has spent his whole...	Henry Purcell's Dido and Aeneas Best Price: $35.00 Ellen Harris' guidebook on Purcell's work, arguably the greatest English opera before...	Villa-Lobos (Oxford Studies of Composers) The music of the prolific Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887-1959) typifies Brazil, in its diversity,...	Early Jazz: Its Roots and Musical Development (History of Jazz) Best Price: $69.99 Early Jazz is one of the seminal books on American jazz, ranging from the beginnings of jazz as...

Heritage of Music: Volume IV: Music in the Twentieth Century Best Price: $66.99 This volume, the fourth and final one on the history of western music, concentrates on the...	Groovin' High: The Life of Dizzy Gillespie Best Price: $3.63 It was quite interesting to read about the life Gillespie had outside of what most people knew...

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