Books on music for musicians

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The Musical Mind: The Cognitive Psychology of Music (Oxford Psychology Series)
The Musical Mind: The Cognitive Psychology of Music (Oxford Psychology Series) 3.87 avg rating — 70 ratings
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Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain
Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain 3.95 avg rating — 72,837 ratings
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Silence: Lectures and Writings
Silence: Lectures and Writings
by: John Cage
4.22 avg rating — 3,569 ratings
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Tunesmith: Inside the Art of Songwriting
Tunesmith: Inside the Art of Songwriting 4.03 avg rating — 542 ratings
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Songwriters On Songwriting
Songwriters On Songwriting 4.32 avg rating — 764 ratings
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Musikalisk modernism
Musikalisk modernism liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Music of the Twentieth Century: A Study of Its Elements and Structure
Music of the Twentieth Century: A Study of Its Elements and Structure 3.87 avg rating — 15 ratings
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The Pelican History of Music: Renaissance and Baroque v. 2
The Pelican History of Music: Renaissance and Baroque v. 2 3.60 avg rating — 10 ratings
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The Music of Brazil
The Music of Brazil 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Playing the Piano for Pleasure
Playing the Piano for Pleasure 4.20 avg rating — 355 ratings
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This Is Your Brain on Music
This Is Your Brain on Music 3.89 avg rating — 66,735 ratings
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The World in Six Songs: How the Musical Brain Created Human Nature
The World in Six Songs: How the Musical Brain Created Human Nature 3.70 avg rating — 2,971 ratings
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Really the Blues
Really the Blues 4.14 avg rating — 572 ratings
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Miles: The Autobiography
Miles: The Autobiography 4.21 avg rating — 16,140 ratings
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Noise: The Political Economy of Music
Noise: The Political Economy of Music 4.06 avg rating — 948 ratings
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Spotify Teardown: Inside the Black Box of Streaming Music
Spotify Teardown: Inside the Black Box of Streaming Music 3.30 avg rating — 298 ratings
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The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century
The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century
by: Alex Ross
4.10 avg rating — 15,700 ratings
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How Music Got Free: The End of an Industry, the Turn of the Century, and the Patient Zero of Piracy
How Music Got Free: The End of an Industry, the Turn of the Century, and the Patient Zero of Piracy 4.24 avg rating — 6,893 ratings
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The Music Instinct: How Music Works and Why We Can't Do Without It
The Music Instinct: How Music Works and Why We Can't Do Without It 3.95 avg rating — 872 ratings
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The Sufi Message: Volume 2: Mysticism of Music, Sound and Word
The Sufi Message: Volume 2: Mysticism of Music, Sound and Word 4.39 avg rating — 545 ratings
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Harmonograph: A Visual Guide to the Mathematics of Music (Wooden Books)
Harmonograph: A Visual Guide to the Mathematics of Music (Wooden Books) 3.91 avg rating — 266 ratings
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Formalized Music: Thought and Mathematics in Composition (Harmonologia Series, #6)
Formalized Music: Thought and Mathematics in Composition (Harmonologia Series, #6) 4.08 avg rating — 119 ratings
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A Theory of Harmony (SUNY Series in Cultural Perspectives)
A Theory of Harmony (SUNY Series in Cultural Perspectives) 4.29 avg rating — 58 ratings
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Lydian Chromatic Concept of Tonal Organization for Improvisation
Lydian Chromatic Concept of Tonal Organization for Improvisation 4.36 avg rating — 53 ratings
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How Music Works
How Music Works 4.01 avg rating — 27,472 ratings
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A Year With Swollen Appendices
A Year With Swollen Appendices
by: Brian Eno
4.12 avg rating — 992 ratings
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How to Listen to Jazz
How to Listen to Jazz
by: Ted Gioia
4.07 avg rating — 2,319 ratings
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What Is This Thing Called Jazz?: African American Musicians as Artists, Critics and Activists
What Is This Thing Called Jazz?: African American Musicians as Artists, Critics and Activists 4.02 avg rating — 41 ratings
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The Study of Ethnomusicology: Thirty-One Issues and Concepts
The Study of Ethnomusicology: Thirty-One Issues and Concepts 4.10 avg rating — 154 ratings
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The Recording Angel: Music, Records and Culture from Aristotle to Zappa
The Recording Angel: Music, Records and Culture from Aristotle to Zappa 3.97 avg rating — 154 ratings
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Perfecting Sound Forever: An Aural History of Recorded Music
Perfecting Sound Forever: An Aural History of Recorded Music 4.17 avg rating — 1,379 ratings
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Into the Maelstrom: Music, Improvisation and the Dream of Freedom: Before 1970
Into the Maelstrom: Music, Improvisation and the Dream of Freedom: Before 1970 3.94 avg rating — 79 ratings
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Making Music: The Guide to Writing, Performing & Recording
Making Music: The Guide to Writing, Performing & Recording 4.04 avg rating — 28 ratings
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The Song Machine: Inside the Hit Factory
The Song Machine: Inside the Hit Factory 3.93 avg rating — 4,824 ratings
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Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! The Story of Pop Music from Bill Haley to Beyoncé
Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! The Story of Pop Music from Bill Haley to Beyoncé 4.17 avg rating — 1,748 ratings
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Alan Lomax
Alan Lomax 3.79 avg rating — 34 ratings
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Les Six: The French Composers and Their Mentors Jean Cocteau and Erik Satie
Les Six: The French Composers and Their Mentors Jean Cocteau and Erik Satie it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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After Adorno: Rethinking Music Sociology
After Adorno: Rethinking Music Sociology 3.52 avg rating — 33 ratings
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But Beautiful: A Book About Jazz
But Beautiful: A Book About Jazz 4.24 avg rating — 3,184 ratings
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Experimental Music: Cage and Beyond
Experimental Music: Cage and Beyond 4.14 avg rating — 370 ratings
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Music 109: Notes on Experimental Music
Music 109: Notes on Experimental Music 4.29 avg rating — 129 ratings
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Improvisation
Improvisation 4.18 avg rating — 778 ratings
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Defining Music Therapy
Defining Music Therapy 4.29 avg rating — 77 ratings
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Moondog, The Viking of 6th Avenue: The Authorized Biography
Moondog, The Viking of 6th Avenue: The Authorized Biography 3.59 avg rating — 156 ratings
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Songs in the Key of Z: The Curious Universe of Outsider Music
Songs in the Key of Z: The Curious Universe of Outsider Music really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 565 ratings
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The Music Lesson: A Spiritual Search for Growth Through Music
The Music Lesson: A Spiritual Search for Growth Through Music 4.18 avg rating — 5,619 ratings
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Traveling Spirit Masters: Moroccan Gnawa Trance and Music in the Global Marketplace
Traveling Spirit Masters: Moroccan Gnawa Trance and Music in the Global Marketplace 3.85 avg rating — 26 ratings
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Let's Talk About Love: A Journey to the End of Taste
Let's Talk About Love: A Journey to the End of Taste 3.97 avg rating — 3,617 ratings
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Country: The Twisted Roots Of Rock 'n' Roll
Country: The Twisted Roots Of Rock 'n' Roll 4.04 avg rating — 820 ratings
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Slonimsky's Book of Musical Anecdotes
Slonimsky's Book of Musical Anecdotes 3.86 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Perfect Pitch
Perfect Pitch 4.47 avg rating — 45 ratings
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Marsalis on Music
Marsalis on Music 4.14 avg rating — 36 ratings
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Music and Trance: A Theory of the Relations Between Music and Possession
Music and Trance: A Theory of the Relations Between Music and Possession 3.91 avg rating — 56 ratings
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Thinking in Jazz : The Infinite Art of Improvisation (Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology Series)
Thinking in Jazz : The Infinite Art of Improvisation (Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology Series) 4.27 avg rating — 241 ratings
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Musicking: The Meanings of Performing and Listening
Musicking: The Meanings of Performing and Listening 4.18 avg rating — 320 ratings
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The Audible Past: Cultural Origins of Sound Reproduction
The Audible Past: Cultural Origins of Sound Reproduction 4.18 avg rating — 189 ratings
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Sound Art: Beyond Music, Between Categories
Sound Art: Beyond Music, Between Categories 3.70 avg rating — 113 ratings
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Noise, Water, Meat: A History of Sound in the Arts
Noise, Water, Meat: A History of Sound in the Arts 3.84 avg rating — 209 ratings
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Handbook of Music and Emotion: Theory, Research, Application
Handbook of Music and Emotion: Theory, Research, Application 4.40 avg rating — 30 ratings
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Zubin Mehta: The Score of My Life
Zubin Mehta: The Score of My Life 3.43 avg rating — 44 ratings
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Uproot: Travels in 21st-Century Music and Digital Culture
Uproot: Travels in 21st-Century Music and Digital Culture 4.21 avg rating — 375 ratings