Classical Music: Nonfiction

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Introducing Wagner: A Graphic Guide
Introducing Wagner: A Graphic Guide 3.36 avg rating — 83 ratings
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Talks With Great Composers
Talks With Great Composers 4.13 avg rating — 38 ratings
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Schubert's Theater of Song: A Listener's Guide
Schubert's Theater of Song: A Listener's Guide really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Sticking It Out: From Juilliard to the Orchestra Pit, a Percussionist's Memoir
Sticking It Out: From Juilliard to the Orchestra Pit, a Percussionist's Memoir 4.41 avg rating — 164 ratings
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Mahler: A Musical Physiognomy
Mahler: A Musical Physiognomy 4.01 avg rating — 116 ratings
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Bach's Choral Music: A Listener's Guide
Bach's Choral Music: A Listener's Guide 3.50 avg rating — 4 ratings
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The Mandolin in America: The Full Story from Orchestras to Bluegrass to the Modern Revival
The Mandolin in America: The Full Story from Orchestras to Bluegrass to the Modern Revival 4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Richard Strauss: An Owner's Manual
Richard Strauss: An Owner's Manual 4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings
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From Kitchen to Carnegie Hall: Ethel Stark and the Montreal Women's Symphony Orchestra
From Kitchen to Carnegie Hall: Ethel Stark and the Montreal Women's Symphony Orchestra 4.03 avg rating — 37 ratings
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Musical Elaborations
Musical Elaborations 3.71 avg rating — 86 ratings
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Beethoven's Chamber Music: A Listener's Guide
Beethoven's Chamber Music: A Listener's Guide 4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Brahms
Brahms 4.25 avg rating — 59 ratings
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Schubert's Instrumental Music: A Listener's Guide
Schubert's Instrumental Music: A Listener's Guide really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Beethoven: Letters, Journals and Conversations
Beethoven: Letters, Journals and Conversations 4.41 avg rating — 82 ratings
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Bach's Keyboard Music: A Listener's Guide (Unlocking The Masters Series #21)
Bach's Keyboard Music: A Listener's Guide (Unlocking The Masters Series #21) 3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings
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The Robert Shaw Reader
The Robert Shaw Reader 4.47 avg rating — 34 ratings
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Verdi: The Operas and Choral Works
Verdi: The Operas and Choral Works really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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The Mahler Symphonies: An Owner's Manual (includes 1 CD)
The Mahler Symphonies: An Owner's Manual (includes 1 CD) 4.19 avg rating — 54 ratings
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The Great Instrumental Works
The Great Instrumental Works really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Puccini: A Listener's Guide
Puccini: A Listener's Guide 3.57 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Richard Strauss and His World
Richard Strauss and His World 3.71 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Arthur Rubinstein: My Young Years
Arthur Rubinstein: My Young Years 4.38 avg rating — 267 ratings
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Music in the Nineteenth Century
Music in the Nineteenth Century 4.58 avg rating — 72 ratings
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The Musician's Way: A Guide to Practice, Performance, and Wellness
The Musician's Way: A Guide to Practice, Performance, and Wellness 4.28 avg rating — 655 ratings
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The Music in George's Head: George Gershwin Creates Rhapsody in Blue
The Music in George's Head: George Gershwin Creates Rhapsody in Blue 4.14 avg rating — 298 ratings
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Horowitz: His Life and Music
Horowitz: His Life and Music 4.24 avg rating — 75 ratings
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Violin Lessons for Beginners: Teach Yourself How to Play Violin (Free Audio Available)
Violin Lessons for Beginners: Teach Yourself How to Play Violin (Free Audio Available) 3.71 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Music in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
Music in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries 4.56 avg rating — 68 ratings
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Romantic Music
Romantic Music 3.37 avg rating — 19 ratings
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The History of Violin Playing from Its Origins to 1761: and Its Relationship to the Violin and Violin Music
The History of Violin Playing from Its Origins to 1761: and Its Relationship to the Violin and Violin Music 4.12 avg rating — 17 ratings
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The Composer's Advocate: A Radical Orthodoxy for Musicians
The Composer's Advocate: A Radical Orthodoxy for Musicians 4.33 avg rating — 54 ratings
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American Luthier: Carleen Hutchins, the Art and Science of the Violin
American Luthier: Carleen Hutchins, the Art and Science of the Violin 4.05 avg rating — 19 ratings
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Text and Act: Essays on Music and Performance
Text and Act: Essays on Music and Performance 4.40 avg rating — 65 ratings
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Violin Owner's Manual
Violin Owner's Manual really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 24 ratings
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Conversations with Klemperer
Conversations with Klemperer 3.83 avg rating — 12 ratings
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The Violin Maker: Finding a Centuries-Old Tradition in a Brooklyn Workshop
The Violin Maker: Finding a Centuries-Old Tradition in a Brooklyn Workshop 4.11 avg rating — 458 ratings
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The Rough Guide to Violin & Viola: The Essential Tipbook
The Rough Guide to Violin & Viola: The Essential Tipbook liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Opera and Drama in Russia As Preached and Practiced in the 1860s
Opera and Drama in Russia As Preached and Practiced in the 1860s 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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The Life and Death of Classical Music
The Life and Death of Classical Music 3.59 avg rating — 161 ratings
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The Violin: A Social History of the World's Most Versatile Instrument
The Violin: A Social History of the World's Most Versatile Instrument 3.68 avg rating — 73 ratings
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Introducing Modern Music
Introducing Modern Music 4.30 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Violin for Dummies
Violin for Dummies 3.94 avg rating — 202 ratings
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Problems of Modern Music
Problems of Modern Music liked it 3.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Get Started in Playing Piano
Get Started in Playing Piano 3.57 avg rating — 7 ratings
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A Ned Rorem Reader
A Ned Rorem Reader
by: Ned Rorem
3.86 avg rating — 22 ratings
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Giuseppe Verdi: His Life and Works
Giuseppe Verdi: His Life and Works 3.80 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Becoming a Great Sight-Reader -- or Not!: Learn from my Quest for Piano Sight-Reading Nirvana
Becoming a Great Sight-Reader -- or Not!: Learn from my Quest for Piano Sight-Reading Nirvana
by: Al Macy
3.33 avg rating — 61 ratings
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Opera in Crisis: Tradition, Present, Future
Opera in Crisis: Tradition, Present, Future liked it 3.00 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Play Piano in a Flash!: Play Your Favorite Songs Like a Pro -- Whether You've Had Lessons or Not!
Play Piano in a Flash!: Play Your Favorite Songs Like a Pro -- Whether You've Had Lessons or Not! 3.64 avg rating — 124 ratings
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The Life of Mozart Including His Correspondence
The Life of Mozart Including His Correspondence 3.38 avg rating — 71 ratings
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Cecil Sharp
Cecil Sharp 3.50 avg rating — 6 ratings
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The Boulez-Cage Correspondence
The Boulez-Cage Correspondence 4.42 avg rating — 36 ratings
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Stravinsky: Chronicle of a Friendship
Stravinsky: Chronicle of a Friendship 4.12 avg rating — 25 ratings
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Setting the Tone: Essays and a Diary
Setting the Tone: Essays and a Diary
by: Ned Rorem
4.38 avg rating — 16 ratings
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Herbert von Karajan: A Biographical Portrait
Herbert von Karajan: A Biographical Portrait 3.62 avg rating — 42 ratings
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Introduction to Upright Bass
Introduction to Upright Bass 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Arnold Schoenberg
Arnold Schoenberg 4.01 avg rating — 100 ratings
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Stravinsky: The Composer and His Works
Stravinsky: The Composer and His Works 4.26 avg rating — 34 ratings
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The History of Orchestration
The History of Orchestration 4.05 avg rating — 19 ratings
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My Music, My Life
My Music, My Life 4.26 avg rating — 68 ratings
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Brahms: His Life and Work
Brahms: His Life and Work 3.76 avg rating — 49 ratings
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Great Pianists Speak for Themselves Volume 1
Great Pianists Speak for Themselves Volume 1 really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Stravinsky: The Second Exile: France and America, 1934-1971
Stravinsky: The Second Exile: France and America, 1934-1971 4.38 avg rating — 39 ratings
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The Virtuoso Conductors: The Central European Tradition from Wagner to Karajan
The Virtuoso Conductors: The Central European Tradition from Wagner to Karajan really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Practicing: A Musician's Return to Music
Practicing: A Musician's Return to Music 3.95 avg rating — 452 ratings
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The Maestro Myth: Great Conductors in Pursuit of Power
The Maestro Myth: Great Conductors in Pursuit of Power 3.74 avg rating — 148 ratings
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Baroque Music Today: Music as Speech; Ways to a New Understanding of Music
Baroque Music Today: Music as Speech; Ways to a New Understanding of Music 4.41 avg rating — 130 ratings
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Music of the Baroque
Music of the Baroque 3.93 avg rating — 28 ratings
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Ornamentation in Baroque and Post-Baroque Music: With Special Emphasis on J.S. Bach
Ornamentation in Baroque and Post-Baroque Music: With Special Emphasis on J.S. Bach 4.22 avg rating — 9 ratings
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German Modernism: Music and the Arts
German Modernism: Music and the Arts 3.77 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Beethoven Essays
Beethoven Essays 3.78 avg rating — 37 ratings
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The Ultimate Art: Essays Around and About Opera
The Ultimate Art: Essays Around and About Opera 3.22 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Franz Liszt: The Weimar Years, 1848-1861
Franz Liszt: The Weimar Years, 1848-1861 4.60 avg rating — 156 ratings
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Franz Liszt: The Final Years, 1861-1886
Franz Liszt: The Final Years, 1861-1886 4.63 avg rating — 150 ratings
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Hanslick's Music Criticisms
Hanslick's Music Criticisms 3.78 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Mozart and the Nazis: How the Third Reich Abused a Cultural Icon
Mozart and the Nazis: How the Third Reich Abused a Cultural Icon
by: Erik Levi
3.52 avg rating — 21 ratings
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Russian Opera and the Symbolist Movement
Russian Opera and the Symbolist Movement 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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The Music of Francis Poulenc (1899-1963): A Catalogue
The Music of Francis Poulenc (1899-1963): A Catalogue it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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American Composers: Dialogues on Contemporary Music
American Composers: Dialogues on Contemporary Music 3.86 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Alexander Tcherepnin: The Saga of a Russian Emigré Composer
Alexander Tcherepnin: The Saga of a Russian Emigré Composer really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Bartók for Piano: A Survey of His Solo Literature
Bartók for Piano: A Survey of His Solo Literature 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
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The Beethoven Sonatas and the Creative Experience
The Beethoven Sonatas and the Creative Experience 4.28 avg rating — 18 ratings
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Beyond Boundaries: Rethinking Music Circulation in Early Modern England
Beyond Boundaries: Rethinking Music Circulation in Early Modern England 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Breaking Time's Arrow: Experiment and Expression in the Music of Charles Ives
Breaking Time's Arrow: Experiment and Expression in the Music of Charles Ives 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Carl Maria von Weber and the Search for a German Opera
Carl Maria von Weber and the Search for a German Opera 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Death in Winterreise: Musico-Poetic Associations in Schubert's Song Cycle
Death in Winterreise: Musico-Poetic Associations in Schubert's Song Cycle 4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Debussy's Late Style
Debussy's Late Style 3.60 avg rating — 5 ratings
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The Eighteenth-Century Fortepiano Grand and Its Patrons: From Scarlatti to Beethoven
The Eighteenth-Century Fortepiano Grand and Its Patrons: From Scarlatti to Beethoven 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Schubert Studies: Problems of Style and Chronology
Schubert Studies: Problems of Style and Chronology liked it 3.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Interpreting Mozart: The Performance of His Piano Pieces and Other Compositions
Interpreting Mozart: The Performance of His Piano Pieces and Other Compositions 4.78 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Expressive Forms in Brahms's Instrumental Music: Structure and Meaning in His Werther Quartet
Expressive Forms in Brahms's Instrumental Music: Structure and Meaning in His Werther Quartet really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Famous Pianists and Their Technique, New Edition
Famous Pianists and Their Technique, New Edition 4.38 avg rating — 53 ratings
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Ferruccio Busoni and His Legacy
Ferruccio Busoni and His Legacy really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings
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A History of Baroque Music
A History of Baroque Music 4.22 avg rating — 9 ratings
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History of Music in Russia from Antiquity to 1800, Vol. 1
History of Music in Russia from Antiquity to 1800, Vol. 1 3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
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History of Music in Russia from Antiquity to 1800, Vol. 2
History of Music in Russia from Antiquity to 1800, Vol. 2 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Interpreting Musical Gestures, Topics, and Tropes: Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert
Interpreting Musical Gestures, Topics, and Tropes: Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert 4.56 avg rating — 9 ratings
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The Italian Traditions and Puccini: Compositional Theory and Practice in Nineteenth-Century Opera
The Italian Traditions and Puccini: Compositional Theory and Practice in Nineteenth-Century Opera 4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Mahler and Strauss: In Dialogue
Mahler and Strauss: In Dialogue really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Meter in Music, 1600–1800: Performance, Perception, and Notation
Meter in Music, 1600–1800: Performance, Perception, and Notation 3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
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