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Classical Music: Nonfiction
(29 Books)
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Bach and the Dance of God
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Wilfrid Mellers
3.67 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Nineteenth-Century Romanticism in Music
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Rey M. Longyear
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A Life in Music
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Daniel Barenboim
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Vienna's Golden Years of Music, 1850-1900
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Eduard Hanslick
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On the Musically Beautiful: a Contribution Towards the Revision of the Aesthetics of Music
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Eduard Hanslick
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The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians: Complete Set
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Stanley Sadie
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Reflections on Liszt
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Alan Walker
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George Bizet: His Life & Works
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Douglas Charles Parker
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Rachmaninoffs Recollections Told to Oskar Von Rieseman
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Sergei Rachmaninoff
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Poetics of Music in the Form of Six Lessons (The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures)
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Igor Stravinsky
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Music in the Early Twentieth Century
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Richard Taruskin
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Music in the Western World
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Piero Weiss
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Musorgsky
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Richard Taruskin
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The Danger of Music and Other Anti-Utopian Essays
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Richard Taruskin
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Gustav Mahler--Richard Strauss: Correspondence 1888-1911
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Gustav Mahler
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Other Planets: The Music of Karlheinz Stockhausen
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Robin Maconie
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Stockhausen on Music
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Karlheinz Stockhausen
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Towards Tonality: Aspects of Baroque Music Theory
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Thomas Street Christensen
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Music in the Baroque Era, from Monteverdi to Bach.
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Manfred F. Bukofzer
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French Baroque Music: from Beaujoyeulx to Rameau
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James R. Anthony
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Baroque Music: Music in Western Europe, 1580-1750 (Norton Introduction to Music History)
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John Walter Hill
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Wagner and the Novel: Wagner's Operas and the European Realist Novel: An Exploration of Genre
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Hugh Ridley
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Analyzing Wagner's Operas: Alfred Lorenz and German Nationalist Ideology (Eastman Studies in Music, 10)
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Stephen McClatchie
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Talks With Great Composers
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Arthur Abell
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Johannes Brahms: A Biography
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Jan Swafford
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Gustav Mahler
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Arnold Schoenberg
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Structural Functions of Harmony
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Arnold Schoenberg
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On Russian Music
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Richard Taruskin
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Feeling and Form
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Susanne K. Langer
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