Contemplating Music
Joseph Kerman
Contemplating Music is a book for all serious music lovers. Here is the first full-scale of ideas and ideologies in music over the past forty years; a period during which virtually every aspect of music was transformed.
Hardcover 1985 / Paperback 1986
The Harvard Dictionary of Music
Edited by Don Michael Randel
This classic reference work, the best one-volume music dictionary available, has been brought completely up to date in this new edition. Combining authoritative scholarship and lucid, lively prose, the Fourth Edition of The Harvard Dictionary of Music is the essential guide for musicians, students, and everyone who appreciates music.
Hardcover 2003
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John Cage
Mixed 1990 / Mixed
The Unanswered Question
Leonard Bernstein
Leonard Bernstein's Norton Lectures on the future course of music drew cheers from his Harvard audiences and television viewers. In the re-creation of his talks, the author considers music ranging from Hindu ragas through Mozart and Ravel to Copland, Shoenberg, and Stravinsky.
Paperback 1981
Wordless Rhetoric
Mark Evan Bonds
Hardcover 1991