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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. Harmony

   Walter Piston, Mark DeVoto

   Fifth Edition

   This fifth edition of Harmony marks the forty-fifth year of its successful use.More

3. A History of Western Music

   J. Peter Burkholder, Donald Jay Grout, Claude V. Palisca

   Eighth Edition

   The Eighth Edition of A History of Western Music is a vivid, accessible, and richly contextual view of music in Western culture.More

4. The House That Trane Built: The Story of Impulse Records

   Ashley Kahn

   "A jazz-lover's delight."—Ray Olson, BooklistMore

5. An Index to the New World Recordings of American Music

   Elizabeth A. Davis

   This valuable tool provides the first comprehensive guide to the 100 records contained in the New World Recorded Anthology of American Music.More

6. The Interpretation of Early Music

   Robert Donington

   New Revised Edition

   Since it was first published in 1963, Robert Donington's classic text has become the standard of reference for all would-be performers , students, and amateurs of baroque music.More

7. The Interpretation of French Song

   Pierre Bernac

   "No voice teacher, no coach, no accompanist, no singer, and for that matter, no music-lover should be without this publication . . . from a man whose knowledge of this repertoire is so complete and profound as to make his treatment of it definitive and without equal." —NotesMore

8. 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

9. An Introduction to America's Music

   Richard Crawford, Larry Hamberlin

   Second Edition

   An ear-opening exploration of music’s New World, from Puritan psalmody to mash-ups.More

10. Introduction to Schenkerian Analysis: Form and Content in Tonal Music

    Allen Forte, Steven Gilbert

    This book is intended to serve as a basic textbook on Schenkerian analysis, the analytical approach developed over a period of many years by the Austrian music theorist Heinrich Schenker (1868-1935).More

11. Jazz

    Scott DeVeaux, Gary Giddins

    College Edition

    A vivid history of jazz in a classroom text by two exceptional authors—a leading scholar and a respected critic.More

12. Jazz: A History

    Frank Tirro

    Second Edition

    Jazz is a democratic music in the best sense of the word, for it is the collective achievement of a people.More

13. Jazz: Essential Listening

    Scott DeVeaux, Gary Giddins

    The #1 text in the market—now in an Essentials Edition.More

14. 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

15. 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