ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award for Music Writing

Given by American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP)

352 Works 38,232 Books 571 Reviews ½ 3.9
The ASCAP Deems Taylor Awards program recognizes books, articles, broadcasts and websites on the subject of music selected for their excellence. The Awards were established in 1967 to honor the show more memory of composer/critic/commentator Deems Taylor who died in 1966 after a distinguished career that included six years as President of ASCAP.

Renamed the ASCAP Deems Taylor/Virgil Thompson Awards in 2014.
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WorkCategoryYear
Changing Lives: Gustavo Dudamel, El Sistema, and the Transformative Power of Music by Tricia Tunstall
Béla Bartók Award for Outstanding Ethnomusicology Book2013
Marc Blitzstein: His Life, His Work, His World by Howard Pollack
Nicolas Slonimsky Award for Outstanding Musical Biography2013
The Music of James Bond by Jon Burlingame
Special Recognition2013
Conducting Business: Unveiling the Mystery Behind the Maestro by Leonard Slatkin
Special Recognition2013
When I Left Home: My Story by Buddy Guy
Timothy White Award for Outstanding Musical Biography2013
Kill City Revisited: Confessions Of A Fool For The Stooges - A Single Notes Book by Ben Edmonds
2013
The Fan Who Knew Too Much: Aretha Franklin, the Rise of the Soap Opera, Children of the Gospel Church, and Other Meditations by Anthony Heilbut
2013
Josquin's Rome hearing and composing in the Sistine Chapel by Jesse Rodin
2013
The Beautiful Music All around Us: Field Recordings and the American Experience by Stephen Wade
2013
360 Sound: The Columbia Records Story by Sean Wilentz
2013
Mozart at the Gateway to His Fortune: Serving the Emperor, 1788-1791 by Christoph Wolff
2013
Orpheus in Manhattan: William Schuman and the Shaping of America's Musical Life by Steve Swayne
Béla Bartók Award for Outstanding Ethnomusicology Book2012
Harmony and Discord: Music and the Transformation of Russian Cultural Life (The New Cultural History of Music) by Lynn M. Sargeant
Nicolas Slonimsky Award for Outstanding Musical Biography2012
Nica's Dream: The Life and Legend of the Jazz Baroness by David Kastin
Timothy White Award for Outstanding Musical Biography2012
Listening and Longing: Music Lovers in the Age of Barnum (Music/Culture) by Daniel Cavicchi
2012
Free Ride: How Digital Parasites are Destroying the Culture Business, and How the Culture Business Can Fight Back by Robert Levine
2012
In the Process of Becoming: Analytic and Philosophical Perspectives on Form in Early Nineteenth-Century Music (Oxford Studies in Music Theory) by Janet Schmalfeldt
2012
Clark: The Autobiography of Clark Terry by Clark Terry
2012
Out of the Vinyl Deeps: Ellen Willis on Rock Music by Ellen Willis
2012
The Most Musical Nation: Jews and Culture in the Late Russian Empire by James Loeffler
Béla Bartók Award for Outstanding Ethnomusicology Book2011
Fanny Hensel: The Other Mendelssohn by R. Larry Todd
Nicolas Slonimsky Award for Outstanding Musical Biography2011
A Biographical Guide to the Great Jazz and Pop Singers by Will Friedwald
Timothy White Award for Outstanding Musical Biography2011
Voice Lessons: French Mélodie in the Belle Epoque (New Cultural History of Music) by Katherine Bergeron
2011
Pick Yourself Up: Dorothy Fields and the American Musical (Broadway Legacies) by Charlotte Greenspan
2011
At the Jazz Band Ball: Sixty Years on the Jazz Scene by Nat Hentoff
2011
Cold Pizza for Breakfast: A Mem-wha? by Christine Lavin
2011
This Life of Sounds: Evenings for New Music in Buffalo by Renee Levine Packer
2011
Listen to This by Alex Ross
2011
The Jazz Loft Project: Photographs and Tapes of W. Eugene Smith from 821 Sixth Avenue, 1957-1965 by Sam Stephenson
Multimedia Award2010
A Windfall of Musicians: Hitler's Emigres and Exiles in Southern California by Dorothy Lamb Crawford
Nicolas Slonimsky Award for Outstanding Musical Biography2010
Sibelius: A Composer's Life and the Awakening of Finland by Glenda Dawn Goss
2010
Heroes and Villains: Essays on Music, Movies, Comics, and Culture by David Hajdu
2010
Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original by Robin D. G. Kelley
2010
A Fine Romance: Jewish Songwriters, American Songs by David Lehman
2010
The Songs of Jimmie Rodgers: A Legacy in Country Music (Profiles in Popular Music) by Jocelyn R. Neal
2010
Composing the Citizen: Music as Public Utility in Third Republic France by Jann Pasler
2010
Such Freedom, If Only Musical: Unofficial Soviet Music During the Thaw by Peter J Schmelz
2010
Balkan Fascination: Creating an Alternative Music Culture in America Includes CD/DVD (American Musicspheres) by Mirjana Lausevic
Béla Bartók Award for Outstanding Ethnomusicology Book2008
The End of Early Music: A Period Performer's History of Music for the Twenty-First Century by Bruce Haynes
Media Award2008
Lost Genius: The Curious and Tragic Story of an Extraordinary Musical Prodigy by Kevin Bazzana
Nicolas Slonimsky Award for Outstanding Musical Biography2008
Chasing the Rising Sun: The Journey of an American Song by Ted Anthony
2008
The Letters of Noël Coward by Noël Coward
2008
To Live's to Fly: The Ballad of the Late, Great Townes Van Zandt by John Kruth
2008
Lady in the Dark: Biography of a Musical by bruce d. mcclung
2008
Music, Language, and the Brain by Aniruddh D. Patel
2008
George Gershwin: His Life and Work by Howard Pollack
2008
The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century by Alex Ross
2008
Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain by Oliver Sacks
2008
The House That George Built: With a Little Help from Irving, Cole, and a Crew of About Fifty by Wilfrid Sheed
2008
Where Rivers and Mountains Sing: Sound, Music, and Nomadism in Tuva and Beyond by Theodore Levin
Béla Bartók Award for Outstanding Ethnomusicology Book2007
Desperate Measures: The Life and Music of Antonia Padoani Bembo by Claire Fontijn
Nicolas Slonimsky Award for Outstanding Musical Biography2007
Healing Songs by Ted Gioia
Special Recognition2007
Work Songs by Ted Gioia
Special Recognition2007
Music and Ideas in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries by Claude V. Palisca
Special Recognition2007
Blue Monday: Fats Domino and the Lost Dawn of Rock 'n' Roll by Rick Coleman
Timothy White Award for Outstanding Musical Biography2007
White Bicycles: Making Music in the 1960s by Joe Boyd
2007
The Language of the Blues: From Alcorub to Zuzu by Debra DeSalvo
2007
Blowin' Hot and Cool: Jazz and Its Critics by John Gennari
2007
Alive at the Village Vanguard: My Life In and Out of Jazz Time by Lorraine Gordon
2007
Divas and Scholars: Performing Italian Opera by Philip Gossett
2007
Maximum Clarity and Other Writings on Music by Ben Johnston
2007
The Singing Neanderthals: The Origins of Music, Language, Mind, and Body by Steven Mithen
2007
Hitchcock's Music by Jack Sullivan
2007
Unplayed Melodies: Javanese Gamelan and the Genesis of Music Theory by Marc Perlman
Béla Bartók Award for Outstanding Ethnomusicology Book2006
Irving Fine: An American Composer in His Time (Lives in Music) by Phillip Ramey
Nicolas Slonimsky Award for Outstanding Musical Biography2006
Machers and Rockers: Chess Records and the Business of Rock & Roll (Enterprise) by Rich Cohen
Special Recognition2006
Chronicles: Volume One by Bob Dylan
Special Recognition2006
Classic American Popular Song: The Second Half-Century, 1950-2000 by David Jenness
Special Recognition2006
The Beatles: The Biography by Bob Spitz
Special Recognition2006
The Mayor of MacDougal Street: A Memoir by Dave Van Ronk
Timothy White Award for Outstanding Musical Biography2006
Medieval Music and the Art of Memory by Anna Maria Busse Berger
2006
With Billie by Julia Blackburn
2006
Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation by Jeff Chang
2006
Five Operas and a Symphony: Word and Music in Russian Culture by Boris Gasparov
2006
Peking Opera and Politics in Taiwan by Nancy Guy
2006
Fritz Reiner, Maestro and Martinet by Kenneth Morgan
2006
Understanding Jazz: Ways to Listen by Tom Piazza
2006
Imagining Native America in Music by Michael V Pisani
2006
Take Five: The Public and Private Lives of Paul Desmond by Doug Ramsey
2006
The Aesthetics of Survival: A Composer's View of Twentieth-Century Music by George Rochberg
2006
Wondrous Strange: The Life and Art of Glenn Gould by Kevin Bazzana
Nicolas Slonimsky Award for Outstanding Musical Biography2005
Portrait of Johnny: The Life of John Herndon Mercer by Gene Lees
Timothy White Award for Outstanding Musical Biography2005
Lost Sounds: Blacks and the Birth of the Recording Industry, 1890-1919 by Tim Brooks
2005
Ramblin' Man: The Life and Times of Woody Guthrie by Ed Cray
2005
The Rise and Fall of the Broadway Musical by Mark N. Grant
2005
Living with Jazz: A reader edited by Sheldon Meyer by Dan Morgenstern
2005
How Sweet the Sound: Music in the Spiritual Lives of Americans by David W. Stowe
2005
Cuba and Its Music: From the First Drums to the Mambo by Ned Sublette
2005
Setting the Record Straight: A Material History of Classical Recording (Music/Culture) by Colin Symes
2005
The Oxford History of Western Music by Richard Taruskin
2005
Deems Taylor: A Biography by James A. Pegolotti
Nicolas Slonimsky Award for Outstanding Musical Biography2004
Sondheim on Music: Minor Details and Major Decisions by Mark Eden Horowitz
Special Recognition2004
Friends Along the Way: A Journey Through Jazz by Gene Lees
Special Recognition2004
In Black and White: the Life of Sammy Davis, Jr. by Wil Haygood
Timothy White Award for Outstanding Musical Biography2004
New Worlds of Dvorak: Searching in America for the Composer's Inner Life by Michael Beckerman, B.
2004
Everything Was Possible: The Birth of the Musical Follies by Ted Chapin
2004
Good Vibes: A Life in Jazz (Studies in Jazz Series) by Terry Gibbs
2004
Colored Lights: Forty Years of Words and Music, Show Biz, Collaboration, and All That Jazz by John Kander
2004
The Complete Lyrics of Frank Loesser by Frank Loesser
2004
Lying up a Nation: Race and Black Music by Ronald M. Radano
2004
Gyorgy Ligeti: Music and Imagination by Richard Steinitz
2004
The Sounds of Place: Music and the American Cultural Landscape by Denise von Glahn
2004
The Voice of the Blues : Classic Interviews from Living Blues Magazine by Jim O'Neal
Special Recognition2003
Writings on Music, 1965-2000 by Steve Reich
Special Recognition2003
Stardust Melody: The Life and Music of Hoagy Carmichael by Richard M. Sudhalter
Timothy White Award for Outstanding Musical Biography2003
Reflections of an American Composer by Arthur Berger
2003
Henry Cowell, Bohemian (Music in American Life) by Michael Dustin Hicks
2003
Castles Made of Sound: The Story of Gil Evans by Larry Hicock
2003
Stravinsky and Balanchine: A Journey of Invention by Charles M. Joseph
2003
Jazz Modernism: From Ellington and Armstrong to Matisse and Joyce by Alfred Appel Jr.
2003
Arnold Schoenberg's Journey by Allen Shawn
2003
The City of Musical Memory: Salsa, Record Grooves and Popular Culture in Cali, Colombia (Music Culture) by Lise A. Waxer
2003
Like Young: Jazz, Pop, Youth, and Middle Age by Francis Davis
Special Recognition2002
Tonal Pitch Space by Fred Lerdahl
Special Recognition2002
A Ned Rorem Reader by Ned Rorem
Special Recognition2002
Harlem in Montmartre: A Paris Jazz Story Between the Great Wars by William A. Shack
Special Recognition2002
Heavier Than Heaven by Charles R. Cross
Timothy White Award for Outstanding Musical Biography2002
America's Musical Life: A History by Richard Crawford
2002
Pied Piper : the many lives of Noah Greenberg by James Gollin
2002
Positively 4th Street: The Lives and Times of Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Mimi Baez Farina and Richard Farina by David Hajdu
2002
Sacred Passions: The Life and Music of Manuel de Falla by Carol A. Hess
2002
Fargo Rock City: A Heavy Metal Odyssey in Rural North Dakota by Chuck Klosterman
2002
Bruno Walter: A World Elsewhere by Erik Ryding
2002
Gil Evans: Out of the Cool: His Life and Music by Stephanie Stein Crease
2002
Reading Lyrics: More Than 1,000 of the Century's Finest Lyrics--a Celebration of Our Greatest Songwriters, a Rediscovery of Forgotten Masters, and an Appreciation of an by Robert Gottlieb
Special Recognition2001
A Whore Just Like the Rest: The Music Writings of Richard Meltzer by Richard Meltzer
Special Recognition2001
Making Music Modern: New York in the 1920s by Carol J. Oja
Special Recognition2001
Fiddler on the move : exploring the klezmer world by Mark Slobin
Special Recognition2001
Stage Performance by Livingston Taylor
Special Recognition2001
Collected Works: A Journal of Jazz 1954-2001 by Whitney Balliett
2001
Berlioz: Volume One: The Making of an Artist, 1803-1832 by David Cairns
2001
Analyzing Bach Cantatas by Eric Chafe
2001
Romancing the Folk: Public Memory and American Roots Music by Benjamin Filene
2001
Theremin: Ether Music and Espionage by Albert Glinsky
2001
Brotherhood In Rhythm: The Jazz Tap Dancing of the Nicholas Brothers by Constance Valis Hill
2001
Gamelan Gong Kebyar: The Art of Twentieth-Century Balinese Music by Michael Tenzer
2001
Dark Midnight When I Rise: The Story of the Jubilee Singers Who Introduced the World to the Music of Black America by Andrew Ward
2001
America's Instrument: The Banjo in the Ninteenth Century by Philip F. Gura
Special Recognition2000
A Descriptive Catalogue of the Music of Charles Ives by James B. Sinclair
Special Recognition2000
Lost Chords: White Musicians and their Contribution to Jazz, 1915-1945 by Richard M. Sudhalter
Special Recognition2000
Bach's Works for Solo Violin: Style, Structure, Performance by Joel Lester
2000
Apollo's Lyre: Greek Music and Music Theory in Antiquity and the Middle Ages (Publications of the Center for the History of Music Theory and Literature) by Thomas J. Mathiesen
2000
Flowers in the Dustbin: The Rise of Rock and Roll, 1947-1977 by Jim Miller
2000
Aaron Copland: The Life and Work of an Uncommon Man by Howard Pollack
2000
Klezmer! Jewish Music From Old World To Our World by Henry Sapoznik
2000
Backbeat: Earl Palmer's Story by Tony Scherman
2000
A Good-Natured Riot: The Birth of the Grand Ole Opry by Charles K. Wolfe
2000
Decadent enchantments: The revival of Gregorian chant at Solesmes by Katherine Bergeron
1999
Amy Beach, Passionate Victorian: The Life and Work of an American Composer, 1867-1944 by Adrienne Fried Block
1999
Harry Partch: A Biography by Bob Gilmore
1999
Making People's Music: Moe Asch and Folkways Records by Peter D. Goldsmith
1999
Maestros Of The Pen: A History of Classical Music Criticism in America by Mark N. Grant
1999
Spreadin' Rhythm Around: Black Popular Songwriters, 1880-1930 by David A. Jasen
1999
Bill Evans; How My Heart Sings by Peter Pettinger
1999
The Kingdom of Zydeco by Michael Tisserand
1999
Soulsville, U.S.A.: The Story of Stax Records by Rob Bowman
1998
Memory Slips: A Memoir of Music and Healing by Linda Katherine Cutting
1998
The Birth of Bebop: A Social and Musical History (Roth Family Foundation Music in America Book) by Scott DeVeaux
1998
Musical!: A Grand Tour by Denny Martin Flinn
1998
Banjo Eyes: Eddie Cantor and the Birth of Modern Stardom by Herbert G. Goldman
1998
Composers at Work: The Craft of Musical Composition 1450-1600 by Jessie Ann Owens
1998
Ruth Crawford Seeger: A Composer's Search for American Music by Judith Tick
1998
Virgil Thomson: Composer on the Aisle by Anthony Tommasini
1998
Letters to Beethoven and other correspondence by Theodore Albrecht
1997
Letters to Beethoven and other correspondence by Theodore Albrecht
1997
Letters to Beethoven and other correspondence by Theodore Albrecht
1997
American Musicians II: Seventy-one Portraits in Jazz by Whitney Balliett
1997
Lush Life: A Biography of Billy Strayhorn by David Hajdu
1997
A View of Berg's Lulu: Through the Autograph Sources by Patricia Hall
1997
The Music of Alban Berg by Douglas Jarman
1997
Béla Bartók : composition, concepts, and autograph sources by László Somfai
1997
Stravinsky and the Russian Traditions: A Biography of the Works through Mavra, Two-volume set by Richard Taruskin
1997
Funk: The Music, The People, and The Rhythm of The One by Rickey Vincent
1997
Speak Low [When You Speak Love]: The Letters of Kurt Weill and Lotte Lenya by Kurt Weill
1997
'Twas Only an Irishman's Dream: The Image of Ireland and the Irish in American Popular Song Lyrics, 1800-1920 by William H. Williams
1997
A Life in Ragtime: A Biography of James Reese Europe by Reid Badger
1996
Knowing Music, Making Music: Javanese Gamelan and the Theory of Musical Competence and Interaction by Benjamin Brinner
1996
Shaping Time: Music, the Brain, and Performance by David Epstein
1996
Sinatra! The Song is You: A Singer’s Art by Will Friedwald
1996
Haydn, Mozart and the Viennese School: 1740-1780 by Daniel Heartz
1996
Testaments Betrayed: An Essay in Nine Parts by Milan Kundera
1996
The Guide to Classic Recorded Jazz by Tom Piazza
1996
The Romantic Generation by Charles Rosen
1996
Mozart: A Life by Maynard Solomon
1996
Irving Berlin: A Daughter's Memoir by Mary Ellin Barrett
1995
Theo: The Autobiography of Theodore Bikel by Theodore Bikel
1995
Leonard Bernstein by Humphrey Burton
1995
The Golden Age of Movie Musicals and Me by Saul Chaplin
1995
Write All These Down: Essays on Music by Joseph Kerman
1995
Distant Cycles: Schubert and the Conceiving of Song by Richard Kramer
1995
A Reader's Guide to the Chopin Preludes by Jeffrey Kresky
1995
Just Before Jazz: Black Musical Theater in New York, 1890-1915 by Thomas L. Riis
1995
Finding Her Voice: The Saga of Women in Country Music by Mary A. Bufwack
1994
Nothing But the Blues : The Music and the Musicians by Lawrence Cohn
1994
Pres: The Story of Lester Young by Luc Delannoy
1994
The Early Works of Arnold Schoenberg, 1893-1908 by Walter Frisch
1994
Musical Form and Transformation: Four Analytic Essays by David Lewin
1994
I Say Me for a Parable: The Oral Autobiography of Mance Lipscomb, Texas Bluesman by Mance Lipscomb
1994
Performance Practices of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries by Frederick Neumann
1994
Verdi: A Biography by Mary Jane Phillips-Matz
1994
Monteverdi's Tonal Language by Eric Thomas Chafe
1993
Faces in the Crowd: Musicians, Writers, Actors, and Filmmakers by Gary Giddins
1993
Bill Graham Presents: My Life Inside Rock And Out by Bill Graham
1993
Samuel Barber: The Composer and His Music by Barbara B. Heyman
1993
Beethoven: Studies in the Creative Processes by Lewis Lockwood
1993
Early Recordings and Musical Style: Changing Tastes in Instrumental Performance, 1900-1950 by Robert Philip
1993
Got to Tell it: Mahalia Jackson, Queen of Gospel by Jules Schwerin
1993
The Life and Legend of Leadbelly by Charles K. Wolfe
1993
African Polyphony and Polyrhythm: Musical Structure and Methodology by Simha Arom
1992
Intimate Nights: The Golden Age of New York Cabaret by James Gavin
1992
Waiting for Dizzy by Gene Lees
1992
Bitter Music: Collected Journals, Essays, Introductions, and Librettos (Music in American Life) by Harry Partch
1992
Opera in Seventeenth-Century Venice: The Creation of a Genre by Ellen Rosand
1992
A Call to Assembly: An American Success Story by Willie Ruff
1992
A Heart at Fire's Center: The Life and Music of Bernard Herrmann by Steven C. Smith
1992
Bach: Essays on His Life and Music by Christoph Wolff
1992
As Thousands Cheer by Laurence Bergreen
1991
Hit Men: Power Brokers and Fast Money Inside the Music Business by Fredric Dannen
1991
Mozart's Operas (A Centennial Book) by Daniel Heartz
1991
Colin McPhee: Composer in Two Worlds by Carol J. Oja
1991
Music Publishing: A Songwriter's Guide by Randy Poe
1991
The Broadway Musical: A Critical and Musical Survey by Joseph P. Swain
1991
Rock Lives: Profiles and Interviews by Timothy White
1991
Music: A View from Delft. Selected Essays by Edward T. Cone
1990
Inside the music business : music in contemporary life by Michael Fink
1990
My song is my weapon : People's Songs, American communism, and the politics of culture, 1930-1950 by Robbie Lieberman
1990
The Music of Johann Sebastian Bach: The Sources, the Style, the Significance by Robert L. Marshall
1990
The Jazz Revolution: Twenties America and the Meaning of Jazz by Kathy J. Ogren
1990
Phrase Rhythm in Tonal Music by William Nathan Rothstein
1990
The Pied Pipers of Rock 'N' Roll: Radio Deejays of the 50s and 60s by Wes Smith
1990
Music Reference and Research Materials: An Annotated Bibliography by Vincent H. Duckles
1989
The Death of Rhythm and Blues by Nelson George
1989
The Imperfect Art: Reflections on Jazz and Modern Culture (Portable Stanford Book Series) by Ted Gioia
1989
Meet Me at Jim & Andy's: Jazz Musicians and Their World by Gene Lees
1989
Popular Musics of the Non-Western World: An Introductory Survey by Peter Manuel
1989
American popular music and its business : the first four hundred years volume I : the beginning to 1970 by Russell Sanjek
1989
American Popular Music and Its Business: The First Four Hundred Years Vol.III: From 1900 to 1984 by Russell Sanjek
1989
American Popular Music and Its Business: The First Four Hundred Years Volume II: From 1790 to 1909 (American Popular Music & Its Business) by Russell Sanjek
1989
Songprints: The Musical Experience of Five Shoshone Women by Judith Vander
1989
The Berg-Schoenberg Correspondence: Selected Letters by Alban Berg
1988
Paris: The Musical Kaleidoscope, 1870-1925 by Elaine Brody
1988
Celebrating Bird: The Triumph of Charlie Parker by Gary Giddins
1988
The music men : an illustrated history of brass bands in America, 1800-1920 by Margaret Hindle Hazen
1988
Gershwin by Edward Jablonski
1988
The music of Henry Cowell : a descriptive catalog by William Lichtenwanger
1988
Red River Blues: The Blues Tradition in the Southeast by Bruce Bastin
1987
John Philip Sousa: American Phenomenon by Paul E. Bierley
1987
Women Making Music: The Western Art Tradition, 1150-1950 by Jane Bowers
1987
The New Grove Dictionary of American Music: 4 volumes by H. Wiley Hitchcock
1987
Music At The White House: A History of the American Spirit by Elise K. Kirk
1987
The New Orpheus: Essays on Kurt Weill by Kim H. Kowalke
1987
Music, Ritual, and Falasha History (Ethiopian Series, Monograph No 17) by Kay Kaufman Shelemay
1987
American Fool: The Roots and Improbable Rise of John Cougar Mellencamp by Martin Torgoff
1987
Milestones: The Music and Times of Miles Davis by Jack Chambers
1986
Buildings for Music: The Architect, the Musician, and the Listener from the 17th Century to the Present Day by Michael Forsyth
1986
Where Did Our Love Go?: The Rise and Fall of the Motown Sound (Music in American Life) by Nelson George
1986
Anna Bolena and the Artistic Maturity of Gaetano Donizetti by Philip Gossett
1986
Ragtime: Its History, Composers, and Music by John Edward Hasse
1986
Schumann: The Inner Voices of a Musical Genius by Peter Ostwald
1986
Clara Schumann : the artist and the woman by Nancy B. Reich
1986
Jazz Heritage by Martin T. Williams
1986
Dance With the Devil: The Rolling Stones and Their Times by Stanley Booth
1985
Bluegrass breakdown : the making of the old southern sound by Robert Cantwell
1985
Copland : 1900 through 1942 by Aaron Copland
1985
Copland: Since 1943 by Aaron Copland
1985
Brahms and the Principle of Developing Variation (California Studies in 19th Century Music) by Walter Frisch
1985
Romantic Music: A History of Musical Style in Nineteenth-Century Europ by Leon Plantinga
1985
The life and death of a small magazine (Modern music, 1924-1946) by Minna Lederman
1984
Broadway Babies: The People Who Made the American Musical by Ethan Mordden
1984
The Music of Elliott Carter (Photos Not Included) by David Schiff
1984
Red and hot: the fate of jazz in the Soviet Union, 1917-91 by S. Frederick Starr
1984
Operetta: A Theatrical History by Richard Traubner
1984
The Study of Orchestration by Samuel Adler
1983
The roots of the blues : an African search by Samuel Barclay Charters
1983
Images of American Society in Popular Music: A Guide to Reflective Teaching by B. Lee Cooper
1983
Conversations with Arrau by Joseph Horowitz
1983
American Women in Jazz: 1900 to the Present : Their Words, Lives, and Music by Sally Placksin
1983
Tenement Songs: The Popular Music of the Jewish Immigrants by Mark Slobin
1983
Leonardo Da Vinci As a Musician by Emanuel Winternitz
1983
Long Steel Rail by Norm Cohen
1982
Recorded classical music : a critical guide to compositions and performances by Arthur Cohn
1982
How Can I Keep from Singing?: The Ballad of Pete Seeger by David King Dunaway
1982
The masses and motets of William Byrd by Joseph Kerman
1982
Deep Blues: A Musical and Cultural History of the Mississippi Delta by Robert Palmer
1982
The Encyclopedia of the Music Business by Harvey Rachlin
1982
Virgil Thomson Reader by Virgil Thomson
1982
The Mighty Music Box: The Golden Age of Musical Radio by Thomas A. DeLong
1981
The Corded Shell: Reflections on Musical Expression by Peter Kivy
1981
Stan Kenton; Artistry in Rhythm by William F. Lee
1981
The Operas of Alban Berg, Volume I: Wozzeck by George Perle
1981
Sonata Forms by Charles Rosen
1981
Music Business Handbook and Career Guide by David Baskerville
1980
Successful Artist Management: Strategies for Career Development in the Music Business by Xavier M. Frascogna
1980
The Golden Age of Jazz by William P. Gottlieb
1980
Music after modernism by Samuel Lipman
1980
Anton Von Webern by Hans Moldenhauer
1980
The Shaker Spiritual by Daniel W. Patterson
1980
Jimmie Rodgers: The Life and Times of America's Blue Yodeler by Nolan Porterfield
1980
Roger Sessions on Music: Collected Essays by Roger Sessions
1980
Testimony: The Memoirs of Dmitri Shostakovich by Dmitri Shostakovich
1980
Baby, Let Me Follow You Down: The Illustrated Story of the Cambridge Folk Years by Eric Von Schmidt
1980
The Soul of Mbira: Music and Traditions of the Shona People of Zimbabwe by Paul F. Berliner
1979
Duke Ellington in Person: An Intimate Memoir by Mercer Ellington
1979
Scott Joplin: The Man Who Made Ragtime by James Haskins
1979
Haydn in England 1791-1795 (Haydn : Chronicle and Works) by H. C. Robbins Landon
1979
Hucbald, Guido, and John on Music: Three Medieval Treatises (Music Theory Translation Series ; 3) by Claude V. Palisca
1979
Honkers and Shouters: The Golden Years of Rhythm and Blues by Arnold Shaw
1979
John Hammond: From Bessie Smith to Bruce Springsteen [1990 videorecording] by Hart Perry
1978
A history of the oratorio by Howard E. Smither
1978
Beethoven by Maynard Solomon
1978
Early Downhome Blues: A Musical and Cultural Analysis by Jeff Todd Titon
1978
Jazz People by Ole Brask
1977
Gradus, Book 1 by Leo Kraft
1977
Stomping the Blues by Albert Murray
1977
The Folk Music Sourcebook (Da Capo Paperback) by Larry Sandberg
1977
Star-Making Machinery: Inside the Business of Rock and Roll by Geoffrey Stokes
1977
American Labor Songs of the Nineteenth Century (Music in American Life) by Philip S. Foner
1976
Music for patriots, politicians, and presidents: Harmonies and discords of the first hundred years by Vera Brodsky Lawrence
1976
Schoenberg by Charles Rosen
1976
Charles Ives and his America by Frank R. Rossiter
1976
Style and Idea: Selected Writings by Arnold Schoenberg
1976
The Composer's Voice (Ernest Bloch Lectures in Music) by Edward T. Cone
1975
Dancing in the dark by Howard Dietz
1975
Raise Up Off Me: A Portrait of Hampton Hawes by Hampton Hawes
1975
The Music of Africa by J. H. Kwabena Nketia
1975
The Later Diaries 1961-1972 by Ned Rorem
1975
Music Is My Mistress by Duke Ellington
1974
Buried Alive: The Biography of Janis Joplin by Myra Friedman
1974
Gustav Mahler, vol 1 by Henry-Louis de La Grange
1974
Orpheus in the New World;: The symphony orchestra as an American cultural institution by Philip Hart
1974
They're Playing Our Song: Conversations With America's Classic Songwriters by Max Wilk
1974
The sounds of social change; studies in popular culture by R. Serge Denisoff
1973
Words with Music: Creating the Broadway Musical Libretto by Lehman Engel
1973
And music at the close: Stravinsky's last years,: A personal memoir by Lillian Libman
1973
Music and musical life in Soviet Russia, 1917-1970 by Boris Schwarz
1973
American Popular Song: The Great Innovators, 1900-1950 by Alec Wilder
1973
The Classical Style: Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven by Charles Rosen
1972
The Music of Black Americans: A History by Eileen Southern
1972
The Autobiography of Pops Foster: New Orleans Jazzman by Tom Stoddard
1972
The Jazz Tradition by Martin Williams
1972
The Singer and His Art by Aksel Schiotz
1971
Legal protection for the creative musician: Supplement. 1973- by Lee Eliot Berk
1971
Critical Affairs: A Composers Journal by Ned Rorem
1971
The music merchants by Milton Goldin
1970
The continuity of music; a history of influence by Irving Kolodin
1970
Music, Mirror of the Arts by Alan Rich
1970
Exploring Twentieth Century Music by Otto Deri
1969
Early Jazz: Its Roots and Musical Development by Gunther Schuller
1969
My Music, My Life by Ravi Shankar
1969
The life that late he led; a biography of Cole Porter by George Eells
1968
More About This Business of Music by M. William Krasilovsky
1968
The Big Bands by George Thomas Simon
1968

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