Subject: Music › History and criticism

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• A History of Art by H. W. Janson (1,218 copies)
• The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century by Alex Ross (826 copies)
• A History of Western Music by Donald Jay Grout (608 copies)
• Silence: Lectures and Writings by John Cage (290 copies)
• Peter and the Wolf by Sergei Prokofiev (254 copies)
• The Classical Style: Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven by Charles Rosen (230 copies)
• The Joy of Music by Leonard Bernstein (161 copies)
• Stephen Fry's Incomplete and Utter History of Classical… by Stephen Fry (156 copies)
• The Arts by Hendrik Willem Van Loon (140 copies)
• Poetics of Music in the Form of Six Lessons by Igor Stravinsky (134 copies)
• Ocean of Sound by David Toop (123 copies)
• The Vintage Guide to Classical Music by Jan Swafford (115 copies)
• The Larousse Encyclopedia of Music by Geoffrey Hindley (110 copies)
• Happy Alchemy: On the Pleasures of Music and the Theatre by Robertson Davies (106 copies)
• The Romantic Generation (The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures) by Charles Rosen (102 copies)
• Audio Culture: Readings in Modern Music by Christopher Cox (95 copies)
• Music in the Western World: A History in Documents by Piero Weiss (89 copies)
• Glenn Gould Reader by Tim Page (79 copies)
• Lexicon of Musical Invective: Critical Assaults on… by Nicolas Slonimsky (79 copies)
• Baroque Music by Claude V. Palisca (79 copies)
• Experimental Music: Cage and Beyond (Music in the Twentieth… by Michael Nyman (75 copies)
• Music and Imagination (The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures) by Aaron Copland (74 copies)
• A Short History of Music by Alfred Einstein (71 copies)
• WHO'S AFRAID OF CLASSICAL MUSIC? : A highly arbitrary and… by Michael Walsh (70 copies)
• The Concise Oxford History of Music (Oxford Paperback… by Gerald Abraham (69 copies)
• The Unanswered Question: Six Talks at Harvard (The Charles… by Leonard Bernstein (65 copies)
• Music in the Baroque Era, from Monteverdi to Bach. by Manfred F. Bukofzer (65 copies)
• Twentieth-Century Music by Eric Salzman (61 copies)
• The Development of Western Music: A History by K Marie Stolba (59 copies)
• Big Bangs: Five Musical Revolutions by Howard Goodall (57 copies)
• The Pelican History of Music: Renaissance and Baroque v. 2… by Alec Robertson (57 copies)
• Music in the Medieval World by Albert Seay (56 copies)
• Music in the Classic Period by Reinhard G. Pauly (54 copies)
• Philosophy Of New Music by Theodor W. Adorno (52 copies)
• Music in the Renaissance by Howard Mayer Brown (52 copies)
• Twentieth-Century Music: A History of Musical Style in… by Robert P. Morgan (51 copies)
• Medieval Music by Richard H. Hoppin (51 copies)
• Style and Idea: Selected Writings by Arnold Schoenberg (51 copies)
• Music in the Romantic Era : A History of Musical Thought in… by Alfred Einstein (50 copies)
• The Music of Man by Yehudi Menuhin (50 copies)
• The Ambient Century: From Mahler to Trance: The Evolution… by Mark Prendergast (50 copies)
• Music Reference and Research Materials: An Annotated… by Vincent H. Duckles (47 copies)
• Music in the Renaissance by Gustave Reese (46 copies)
• Modern Music: A Concise History (World of Art) by Paul Griffiths (46 copies)
• Ah, Music! by Aliki (45 copies)
• Nineteenth-Century Romanticism in Music by Rey M. Longyear (44 copies)
• Introduction to Contemporary Music by Joseph Machlis (43 copies)
• Masterpieces of Music Before 1750: An Anthology of Musical… by Carl Parrish (43 copies)
• The Ancient Forms to Polyphony (Hist of Music) by Alec Robertson (43 copies)
• Music in the Middle Ages: With an Introduction on the Music… by Gustave Reese (42 copies)

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