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Sondheim on Music: Minor Details and Major Decisions

Mark Eden Horowitz,Stephen Sondheim

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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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Sounds of Freedom NEW!

John Malkin

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

Craig Ayrey,Mark Everist

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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, Vol 16)

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Philosophy, Music and Emotion

Geoffrey Madell

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Poetics of Music in the Form of Six Lessons (The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures)

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

Daniel Fischlin,Ajay Heble

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

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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]

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

Lawrence M. Zbikowski

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Music as Medicine

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

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