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1. Harmonic Practice in Tonal Music

   Robert Gauldin

   Second Edition

   Conceptually sophisticated and exceptionally musical, Harmonic Practice in Tonal Music provides a thorough treatment of harmony and voice-leading principles in tonal music.More

2. Music in European Capitals: The Galant Style, 1720–1780

   Daniel Heartz

   A glittering cultural tour of Europe's major capitals during a period of intense musical change.More

3. New Worlds of Dvoŕák: Searching in America for the Composer's Inner Life

   Michael Beckerman

   CD-ROM included

   A forceful reinterpretation of the composer's personality and work.More

4. Blackbird Singing: Poems and Lyrics, 1965–1999

   Paul McCartney

   "McCartney writes as freely—and often as beautifully—as a blackbird sings....[He] is a genius with the common touch."—Stephen Logan, The Sunday Times [London]More

5. The Study of Orchestration

   Samuel Adler

   Third Edition

   Through two highly successful editions, The Study of Orchestration has set the standard for orchestration texts, providing the most comprehensive treatment of both orchestration and instrumentation.More

6. To Stretch Our Ears: A Documentary History of America's Music

   J. Heywood Alexander

   Following the same chapter organization as An Introduction to America’s Music, To Stretch Our Ears is the first gathering of significant and far-reaching readings that illuminate many aspects of American music.More

7. Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician

   Christoph Wolff

   Finalist for the 2001 Pulitzer Prize in Biography. A landmark biography of Bach on the 250th anniversary of the composer's death, written by the leading Bach scholar of our age.More

8. The Music Kit

   Tom Manoff

   Fourth Edition

   Introduced in 1976, The Music Kit was the first to offer students an integrated learning environment for the fundamentals course.More

9. An Introduction to America's Music

   Richard Crawford

   An Introduction to America’s Music tells the fascinating story of music in the United States, from the sacred music of its earliest days to the jazz and rock that enliven the turn of the millennium.More

10. Choral Conducting

    Abraham Kaplan

11. Lexicon of Musical Invective: Critical Assaults on Composers Since Beethoven's Time

    Nicolas Slonimsky

    "A supermarket tabloid of classical music criticism."—From the new foreword by Peter Schickele.More

12. Symphony No. 4 in E Minor, Op. 98

    Johannes Brahms, Kenneth Hull

    The Norton Critical Score of Brahm's Fourth Symphony is the latest volume in this highly-regarded series, in which an authoritative score--here the first edition as corrected by the composer--is combined with illuminating essays and documents for an in-depth study of the work.More

13. The New Bach Reader

    Hans T. David, Arthur Mendel, Christoph Wolff

    Revised and enlarged

    "Just reading these documents brings this great composer to life in a most exciting and vivid way. I love this book!" —Yo-Yo MaMore

14. Scales, Intervals, Keys, Triads, Rhythm, and Meter

    Claire Boge, John Clough, Joyce Conley

    Third Edition

    As in previous editions, the Third Edition of Scales, Intervals, Keys, Triads, Rhythm, and Meter introduces the basics of music theory and part writing accessibly and engagingly.More

15. A New Approach to Ear Training

    Leo Kraft

    Second Edition

    A New Approach to Ear Training provides students with the means to master ear-training skills on their own and at their own pace.More