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The Romantic Generation (The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures)
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The Classical Style: Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven
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Johannes Brahms: A Biography
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Piano Notes: The World of the Pianist
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The Joy of Music
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Beethoven: Anguish and Triumph
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Musical Thoughts and Afterthoughts
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On Russian Music
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Defining Russia Musically
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Poetics of Music in the Form of Six Lessons (The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures)
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4.10 avg rating — 1,280 ratings
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On the Musically Beautiful: a Contribution Towards the Revision of the Aesthetics of Music
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3.65 avg rating — 139 ratings
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Nineteenth-Century Romanticism in Music
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Sonata Forms
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Stockhausen on Music
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Contemplating Music: Challenges to Musicology
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Boulez on Music Today
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The Danger of Music and Other Anti-Utopian Essays
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Richard Strauss: Man, Musician, Enigma
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Music in the Late Twentieth Century
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Stravinsky and the Russian Traditions: A Biography of the Works through Mavra, Two-volume set
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Structural Functions of Harmony
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Other Planets: The Music of Karlheinz Stockhausen
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Music in the Baroque Era, from Monteverdi to Bach.
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Gustav Mahler
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Music in the Early Twentieth Century
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Musorgsky
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Franz Liszt: The Virtuoso Years, 1811-1847
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Stravinsky: A Creative Spring: Russia and France, 1882-1934
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Reflections on Liszt
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Vienna's Golden Years of Music, 1850-1900
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Chopin, the Reluctant Romantic
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Charles Ives: A Life with Music
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Corresponding with Carlos: A Biography of Carlos Kleiber
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My Nine Lives: A Memoir of Many Careers in Music
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4.10 avg rating — 141 ratings
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Chopin: The Piano Concertos (Cambridge Music Handbooks)
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Evenings With Horowitz: A Personal Portrait
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The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians: Complete Set
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George Bizet: His Life & Works
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Silence: Lectures and Writings
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The Twisted Muse: Musicians and Their Music in the Third Reich
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Music at the Limits
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Wagner and the Novel: Wagner's Operas and the European Realist Novel: An Exploration of Genre
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To Boulez and Beyond
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Schoenberg's New World: The American Years
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Liszt: Sonata in B Minor (Cambridge Music Handbooks)
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The Cambridge Companion to Liszt
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Liszt: A Listener's Guide
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Write All These Down: Essays on Music
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The Forms of Music
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Settling Scores: German Music, Denazification, and the Americans, 1945-1953
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The Boulez-Cage Correspondence
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Modern Music: A Concise History
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Arnold Schoenberg
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Theory of Harmony
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Style and Idea: Selected Writings of Arnold Schoenberg
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Gustav Mahler
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Mahler: A Musical Physiognomy
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Brahms
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Music of the Baroque
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Ornamentation in Baroque and Post-Baroque Music: With Special Emphasis on J.S. Bach
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Richard Strauss and His World
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Music in the Nineteenth Century
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Music in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
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Opera and Drama in Russia As Preached and Practiced in the 1860s
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A Ned Rorem Reader
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Stravinsky: Chronicle of a Friendship
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Stravinsky: The Composer and His Works
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Stravinsky: The Second Exile: France and America, 1934-1971
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Beethoven
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Beethoven Essays
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Beethoven: Letters, Journals and Conversations
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Late Beethoven: Music, Thought, Imagination
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Franz Liszt: The Weimar Years, 1848-1861
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Franz Liszt: The Final Years, 1861-1886
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Hanslick's Music Criticisms
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Mozart and the Nazis: How the Third Reich Abused a Cultural Icon
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Russian Opera and the Symbolist Movement
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The Music of Francis Poulenc (1899-1963): A Catalogue
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American Composers: Dialogues on Contemporary Music
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Alexander Tcherepnin: The Saga of a Russian Emigré Composer
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Bartók for Piano: A Survey of His Solo Literature
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The Beethoven Sonatas and the Creative Experience
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Beyond Boundaries: Rethinking Music Circulation in Early Modern England
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Breaking Time's Arrow: Experiment and Expression in the Music of Charles Ives
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Carl Maria von Weber and the Search for a German Opera
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Death in Winterreise: Musico-Poetic Associations in Schubert's Song Cycle
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Debussy's Late Style
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The Eighteenth-Century Fortepiano Grand and Its Patrons: From Scarlatti to Beethoven
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Schubert Studies: Problems of Style and Chronology
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Interpreting Mozart
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Expressive Forms in Brahms's Instrumental Music: Structure and Meaning in His Werther Quartet
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Famous Pianists and Their Technique, New Edition
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Ferruccio Busoni and His Legacy
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A History of Baroque Music
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History of Music in Russia from Antiquity to 1800, Vol. 1
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History of Music in Russia from Antiquity to 1800, Vol. 2
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Interpreting Musical Gestures, Topics, and Tropes: Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert
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The Italian Traditions and Puccini: Compositional Theory and Practice in Nineteenth-Century Opera
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Mahler and Strauss: In Dialogue
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Meter in Music, 1600–1800: Performance, Perception, and Notation
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