Essays and writings

Many a great composer is also a great writer. Here are collections of essays on music written by musicians and composers.

On sale essays and writings books

Audio Culture: Readings in Modern Music NEW!

Christoph Cox,Daniel Warner

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Exploring the Musical Mind: Cognition, Emotion, Ability, Function NEW!

John Sloboda

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Stravinsky's Late Music (Cambridge Studies in Music Theory and Analysis) NEW!

Joseph N. Straus In the early 1950s, Stravinsky’s compositional style began to change and evolve with astonishing rapidity. He abandoned the musical neoclassicism to which... [read more]

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Cosmic Music: Musical Keys to the Interpretation of Reality

The idea that the universe is created out of sound or music (and therefore is music) is a very, ancient one. In... [read more]

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Essays Before a Sonata, The Majority, and Other Writings

Charles Ives

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History of Performing Pitch: The Story of "A"

Bruce Haynes

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Improvisation: Its Nature And Practice In Music

Derek Bailey

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Marsalis on Music

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Music and Memory: An Introduction

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Music, The Brain, And Ecstasy: How Music Captures Our Imagination

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Noise: The Political Economy of Music (Theory and History of Literature)

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Philosophy, Music and Emotion

Geoffrey Madell

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Poetics of Music in the Form of Six Lessons (Harvard paperbacks)

Igor Stravinsky Stravinsky delivered these six "lessons" at Harvard from 1939-1940. Stravinsky discusses composition, the function of the critic, modern Russian music (as of... [read more]

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Sondheim on Music: Minor Details and Major Decisions

Mark Eden Horowitz,Stephen Sondheim

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Structural Hearing: Tonal Coherence in Music (Two Volumes Bound As One)

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Style and Idea: Selected Writings

Arnold Schoenberg

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Teaching Music Globally: Experiencing Music, Expressing CultureIand Thinking Musically: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture: Package: Includes 2 books, 1 CD (Global Music Series)

Patricia Shehan Campbell,Bonnie C. Wade

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Beyond Structural Listening?: Postmodern Modes of Hearing NEW!

Andrew DellªAntonio,Andrew Dell''Antonio

$27.95

Debussy's Letters to Inghelbrecht: The Story of a Musical Friendship (Eastman Studies in Music) NEW!

Margaret G. Cobb

$65.00

Essays on Music NEW!

Hans Keller,Christopher Wintle

$55.00

Hearing in Time: Psychological Aspects of Musical Meter NEW!

Justin London

$45.00

In Other Words: Artists Talk About Life and Work (Book) NEW!

Anthony DeCurtis

$24.95

John Simon on Music : Criticism 1979-2005 (John Simon On--) (Applause Books) NEW!

John Simon

$27.95

Sounds of Freedom NEW!

John Malkin

$18.00

The Political Art of Bob Dylan NEW!

David Boucher, Gary K. Browning The authors deal with various aspects and periods of Dylan's career, including the early protest ballads, the artistic high-point of his mid-sixties... [read more]

$90.00

Why White Kids Love Hip Hop: Wangstas, Wiggers, Wannabes, and the New Reality of Race in America NEW!

Bakari Kitwana

$23.00

Aaron Copland: A Reader: Selected Writings, 1923-1972

Aaron Copland, Richard Kostelanetz, Steve Silverman One of America's best-known composers and writers of twentieth century music, Aaron Copland was an American individual. This volume brings together the... [read more]

$39.95

Analytical Strategies and Musical Interpretation: Essays on Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Music

Craig Ayrey,Mark Everist

$58.00

Conceptualizing Music: Cognitive Structure, Theory, and Analysis (Ams Studies in Music)

Lawrence M. Zbikowski

$95.00

How We Hear Music: The Relationship between Music and the Hearing Mechanism

$29.95

Music as Medicine: The Art & Science of Healing With Sound

$59.95

Rebel Musics: Human Rights, Resistant Sounds, and the Politics of Music Making

Daniel Fischlin,Ajay Heble

$24.99

The Cosmic Octave: Origin of Harmony, Planets, Tones, Colors, the Power of Inherent Vibrations

$18.00

The Music of the Primes: Searching to Solve the Greatest Mystery in Mathematics

$24.95

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The Battle of Chronos and Orpheus: Essays in Applied Musical Semiology
$175.00

Beyond Structural Listening?: Postmodern Modes of Hearing
$27.95

Audio Culture: Readings in Modern Music
~~$29.95~~
Sale! $25.60

	Theories of Fugue from the Age of Josquin to the Age of Bach (Eastman Studies in Music) $35.00
This is a fine and valuable book, encyclopaedic in its coverage of the subject, and... [read more]

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