Classical Music: Nonfiction

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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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The Classical Style: Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven
The Classical Style: Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven 4.23 avg rating — 1,494 ratings
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The Romantic Generation (The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures)
The Romantic Generation (The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures) 4.34 avg rating — 211 ratings
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What to Listen for in Music
What to Listen for in Music 3.94 avg rating — 9,188 ratings
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Johannes Brahms: A Biography
Johannes Brahms: A Biography 4.43 avg rating — 866 ratings
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Beethoven: Anguish and Triumph
Beethoven: Anguish and Triumph 4.25 avg rating — 1,829 ratings
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Sonata Forms
Sonata Forms 4.37 avg rating — 167 ratings
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Piano Notes: The World of the Pianist
Piano Notes: The World of the Pianist 4.01 avg rating — 617 ratings
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On Russian Music
On Russian Music 4.17 avg rating — 35 ratings
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On the Musically Beautiful: a Contribution Towards the Revision of the Aesthetics of Music
On the Musically Beautiful: a Contribution Towards the Revision of the Aesthetics of Music 3.62 avg rating — 135 ratings
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Franz Liszt: The Virtuoso Years, 1811-1847
Franz Liszt: The Virtuoso Years, 1811-1847 4.52 avg rating — 324 ratings
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The Joy of Music
The Joy of Music 4.18 avg rating — 2,068 ratings
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Musical Thoughts and Afterthoughts
Musical Thoughts and Afterthoughts 4.23 avg rating — 30 ratings
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Schubert's Winter Journey: Anatomy of an Obsession
Schubert's Winter Journey: Anatomy of an Obsession 4.26 avg rating — 591 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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Defining Russia Musically
Defining Russia Musically 4.22 avg rating — 37 ratings
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Year of Wonder: Classical Music for Every Day
Year of Wonder: Classical Music for Every Day 4.41 avg rating — 1,334 ratings
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Poetics of Music in the Form of Six Lessons (The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures)
Poetics of Music in the Form of Six Lessons (The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures) 4.11 avg rating — 1,265 ratings
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Words Without Music: A Memoir
Words Without Music: A Memoir 4.13 avg rating — 2,033 ratings
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Language of the Spirit: An Introduction to Classical Music
Language of the Spirit: An Introduction to Classical Music 4.10 avg rating — 431 ratings
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Bach and the Dance of God
Bach and the Dance of God 3.67 avg rating — 6 ratings
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A Life in Music
A Life in Music 3.74 avg rating — 155 ratings
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Nineteenth-Century Romanticism in Music
Nineteenth-Century Romanticism in Music 3.31 avg rating — 26 ratings
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Structural Functions of Harmony
Structural Functions of Harmony 4.14 avg rating — 167 ratings
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Music in the Early Twentieth Century
Music in the Early Twentieth Century 4.33 avg rating — 49 ratings
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Gustav Mahler--Richard Strauss: Correspondence 1888-1911
Gustav Mahler--Richard Strauss: Correspondence 1888-1911 4.41 avg rating — 17 ratings
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On Late Style: Music and Literature Against the Grain
On Late Style: Music and Literature Against the Grain 3.94 avg rating — 426 ratings
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Stockhausen on Music
Stockhausen on Music 4.27 avg rating — 109 ratings
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Reflections on Liszt
Reflections on Liszt 4.34 avg rating — 38 ratings
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Evenings With Horowitz: A Personal Portrait
Evenings With Horowitz: A Personal Portrait 4.09 avg rating — 99 ratings
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Contemplating Music: Challenges to Musicology
Contemplating Music: Challenges to Musicology 3.76 avg rating — 59 ratings
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Schubert and His Vienna
Schubert and His Vienna 3.88 avg rating — 24 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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Music at the Limits
Music at the Limits 4.06 avg rating — 132 ratings
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The Danger of Music and Other Anti-Utopian Essays
The Danger of Music and Other Anti-Utopian Essays 4.41 avg rating — 51 ratings
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Boulez on Music Today
Boulez on Music Today 3.94 avg rating — 32 ratings
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Richard Strauss: Man, Musician, Enigma
Richard Strauss: Man, Musician, Enigma 4.03 avg rating — 31 ratings
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Music in the Late Twentieth Century
Music in the Late Twentieth Century 4.28 avg rating — 64 ratings
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Corresponding with Carlos: A Biography of Carlos Kleiber
Corresponding with Carlos: A Biography of Carlos Kleiber 4.67 avg rating — 54 ratings
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The Tristan Chord: Wagner and Philosophy
The Tristan Chord: Wagner and Philosophy 4.34 avg rating — 554 ratings
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Stravinsky and the Russian Traditions: A Biography of the Works through Mavra, Two-volume set
Stravinsky and the Russian Traditions: A Biography of the Works through Mavra, Two-volume set 4.42 avg rating — 19 ratings
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Renaissance and Baroque Music: A Comprehensive Survey
Renaissance and Baroque Music: A Comprehensive Survey 3.60 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Understanding Music: Philosophy and Interpretation
Understanding Music: Philosophy and Interpretation 3.53 avg rating — 90 ratings
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Absolutely on Music: Conversations with Seiji Ozawa
Absolutely on Music: Conversations with Seiji Ozawa 3.90 avg rating — 6,804 ratings
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Gustav Mahler
Gustav Mahler 4.32 avg rating — 173 ratings
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The Ring of Truth: The Wisdom of Wagner's Ring of the Nibelung [Oct 25, 2016] Scruton, Roger
The Ring of Truth: The Wisdom of Wagner's Ring of the Nibelung [Oct 25, 2016] Scruton, Roger 4.13 avg rating — 240 ratings
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Ring Resounding: The Recording of Der Ring Des Nibelungen
Ring Resounding: The Recording of Der Ring Des Nibelungen 4.48 avg rating — 87 ratings
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Schubert: The Music and the Man
Schubert: The Music and the Man 3.63 avg rating — 41 ratings
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R.V.W.: A Biography of Ralph Vaughan Williams
R.V.W.: A Biography of Ralph Vaughan Williams 3.62 avg rating — 24 ratings
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Mozart
Mozart 4.11 avg rating — 1,229 ratings
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Me of All People: Alfred Brendel in Conversation With Martin Meyer
Me of All People: Alfred Brendel in Conversation With Martin Meyer 4.24 avg rating — 33 ratings
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Bach: Music in the Castle of Heaven
Bach: Music in the Castle of Heaven 4.08 avg rating — 1,681 ratings
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The Symphonic Repertoire, Volume I: The Eighteenth-Century Symphony
The Symphonic Repertoire, Volume I: The Eighteenth-Century Symphony 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Sergei Rachmaninoff: A Lifetime in Music
Sergei Rachmaninoff: A Lifetime in Music 4.26 avg rating — 142 ratings
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Shostakovich: A Life
Shostakovich: A Life 4.15 avg rating — 173 ratings
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Virtuosi: A Defense and a (Sometimes Erotic) Celebration of Great Pianists
Virtuosi: A Defense and a (Sometimes Erotic) Celebration of Great Pianists liked it 3.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Musorgsky
Musorgsky 4.60 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Gustav Mahler
Gustav Mahler 3.80 avg rating — 25 ratings
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Style and Idea: Selected Writings of Arnold Schoenberg
Style and Idea: Selected Writings of Arnold Schoenberg 4.25 avg rating — 228 ratings
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Stravinsky: A Creative Spring: Russia and France, 1882-1934
Stravinsky: A Creative Spring: Russia and France, 1882-1934 really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 66 ratings
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Feeling and Form
Feeling and Form 4.29 avg rating — 113 ratings
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Chopin, the Reluctant Romantic
Chopin, the Reluctant Romantic really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 27 ratings
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Vienna's Golden Years of Music, 1850-1900
Vienna's Golden Years of Music, 1850-1900 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Charles Ives: A Life with Music
Charles Ives: A Life with Music 4.39 avg rating — 145 ratings
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My Nine Lives: A Memoir of Many Careers in Music
My Nine Lives: A Memoir of Many Careers in Music 4.10 avg rating — 141 ratings
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Other Planets: The Music of Karlheinz Stockhausen
Other Planets: The Music of Karlheinz Stockhausen 4.17 avg rating — 18 ratings
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Chopin: The Piano Concertos (Cambridge Music Handbooks)
Chopin: The Piano Concertos (Cambridge Music Handbooks)
by: John Rink
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Music in the Baroque Era
Music in the Baroque Era 4.21 avg rating — 42 ratings
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The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians: 29-Volume Set
The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians: 29-Volume Set 4.76 avg rating — 29 ratings
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George Bizet: His Life & Works
George Bizet: His Life & Works it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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The Twisted Muse: Musicians and Their Music in the Third Reich
The Twisted Muse: Musicians and Their Music in the Third Reich 3.95 avg rating — 41 ratings
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Imperfect Harmony: Finding Happiness Singing with Others
Imperfect Harmony: Finding Happiness Singing with Others 3.93 avg rating — 553 ratings
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Wagner and the Novel: Wagner's Operas and the European Realist Novel: An Exploration of Genre
Wagner and the Novel: Wagner's Operas and the European Realist Novel: An Exploration of Genre really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Beethoven
Beethoven 4.19 avg rating — 1,757 ratings
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Late Beethoven: Music, Thought, Imagination
Late Beethoven: Music, Thought, Imagination 4.09 avg rating — 85 ratings
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To Boulez and Beyond
To Boulez and Beyond 3.47 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Schoenberg's New World: The American Years
Schoenberg's New World: The American Years 3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Liszt: Sonata in B Minor (Cambridge Music Handbooks)
Liszt: Sonata in B Minor (Cambridge Music Handbooks) 3.91 avg rating — 11 ratings
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The Cambridge Companion to Liszt
The Cambridge Companion to Liszt 3.25 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Liszt: A Listener's Guide
Liszt: A Listener's Guide liked it 3.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Write All These Down: Essays on Music
Write All These Down: Essays on Music really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 10 ratings
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The Forms of Music
The Forms of Music 4.06 avg rating — 16 ratings
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Settling Scores: German Music, Denazification, and the Americans, 1945-1953
Settling Scores: German Music, Denazification, and the Americans, 1945-1953 really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
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The Glenn Gould Reader
The Glenn Gould Reader 4.40 avg rating — 236 ratings
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Analyzing Wagner's Operas: Alfred Lorenz and German Nationalist Ideology (Eastman Studies in Music, 10)
Analyzing Wagner's Operas: Alfred Lorenz and German Nationalist Ideology (Eastman Studies in Music, 10) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Rachmaninoffs Recollections Told to Oskar Von Rieseman
Rachmaninoffs Recollections Told to Oskar Von Rieseman 4.10 avg rating — 10 ratings
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A History of Keyboard Literature: Music for the Piano and Its Forerunners
A History of Keyboard Literature: Music for the Piano and Its Forerunners 4.30 avg rating — 33 ratings
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Life of Giuseppe Verdi: A Book for Young People
Life of Giuseppe Verdi: A Book for Young People 4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Dean Dixon: Negro at Home, Maestro Abroad
Dean Dixon: Negro at Home, Maestro Abroad 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Nicolas Nabokov: A Life in Freedom and Music
Nicolas Nabokov: A Life in Freedom and Music 3.25 avg rating — 4 ratings
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All You Have to Do is Listen: Music from the Inside Out
All You Have to Do is Listen: Music from the Inside Out 3.84 avg rating — 44 ratings
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The Memoirs
The Memoirs 4.32 avg rating — 349 ratings
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Whom the Gods Love: The Life and Music of George Butterworth
Whom the Gods Love: The Life and Music of George Butterworth it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Moscow Nights: The Van Cliburn Story-How One Man and His Piano Transformed the Cold War
Moscow Nights: The Van Cliburn Story-How One Man and His Piano Transformed the Cold War 4.14 avg rating — 571 ratings
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Maria Malibran: A Biography of the Singer
Maria Malibran: A Biography of the Singer 4.57 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Franz Schubert: The Complete Songs
Franz Schubert: The Complete Songs 4.90 avg rating — 10 ratings
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My Life
My Life 4.25 avg rating — 109 ratings
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Classical Guitar Book in Open D Tuning: Arrangements in Open D Tuning with Tablature and Notation
Classical Guitar Book in Open D Tuning: Arrangements in Open D Tuning with Tablature and Notation it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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True Artist and True Friend: A Biography of Hans Richter
True Artist and True Friend: A Biography of Hans Richter really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Richard Wagner: Sein Leben. Sein Werk. Sein Jahrhundert
Richard Wagner: Sein Leben. Sein Werk. Sein Jahrhundert 4.02 avg rating — 45 ratings
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