Subject: Composers › United States › Biography

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• Stephen Sondheim: A Life by Meryle Secrest (211 copies)
• Without Stopping: An Autobiography by Paul Bowles (197 copies)
• Lush Life: A Biography of Billy Strayhorn by David Hajdu (175 copies)
• George Gershwin (Getting to Know the World's Greatest… by Mike Venezia (165 copies)
• Cole Porter by William McBrien (160 copies)
• John Philip Sousa (Getting to Know the World's… by Mike Venezia (121 copies)
• Sondheim & Co. by Craig Zadan (115 copies)
• Stormie: A Story of Forgiveness and Healing by Stormie Omartian (115 copies)
• Aaron Copland (Getting to Know the World's Greatest… by Mike Venezia (102 copies)
• Knowing when to stop : a memoir by Ned Rorem (101 copies)
• An Invisible Spectator: A Biography of Paul Bowles by Christopher Sawyer-Laucanno (95 copies)
• What Charlie Heard by Mordicai Gerstein (93 copies)
• Music by Philip Glass by Philip Glass (92 copies)
• Musical Stages by Richard Rodgers (90 copies)
• Copland : 1900 through 1942 by Aaron Copland (87 copies)
• Gershwin by Edward Jablonski (80 copies)
• Aaron Copland: The Life and Work of an Uncommon Man by Howard Pollack (75 copies)
• King of Ragtime: Scott Joplin and His Era by Edward A. Berlin (73 copies)
• Forces In Motion: The Music And Thoughts Of Anthony Braxton by Graham Lock (66 copies)
• Charles Ives: A Life with Music by Jan Swafford (66 copies)
• Doo-dah!: Stephen Foster And The Rise Of American Popular… by Ken Emerson (65 copies)
• George Gershwin: His Life and Work by Howard Pollack (63 copies)
• Copland: Since 1943 by Aaron Copland (58 copies)
• The Nantucket Diary of Ned Rorem, 1973-1985 by Ned Rorem (53 copies)
• Noel and Cole: The Sophisticates by Stephen Citron (53 copies)
• The Memory of All That: The Life of George Gershwin by Joan Peyser (51 copies)
• Offbeat: Collaborating with Kerouac by David Amram (49 copies)
• Father of the Blues: An Autobiography by W. C. Handy (49 copies)
• Virgil Thomson by Virgil Thomson (47 copies)
• You Are Not I: A Portrait of Paul Bowles by Millicent Dillon (45 copies)
• Somewhere for Me - A Biography of Richard Rodgers by Meryle Secrest (44 copies)
• Fascinating Rhythm: The Collaboration of George and Ira… by Deena Rosenberg (44 copies)
• But He Doesn't Know the Territory: The Making of Meredith… by Meredith Willson (42 copies)
• Troubadour for the Lord: The Story of John Michael Talbot by Dan O'Neill (41 copies)
• Cole Porter: A Biography by Charles Schwartz (41 copies)
• Virgil Thomson: Composer on the Aisle by Anthony Tommasini (40 copies)
• A Heart at Fire's Center: The Life and Music of Bernard… by Steven C. Smith (40 copies)
• Irving Berlin: A Daughter's Memoir by Mary Ellin Barrett (38 copies)
• Encounters with Stravinsky: A Personal Record by Paul Horgan (37 copies)
• Walt's Time by Robert B. Sherman (37 copies)
• Bad Boy of Music by George Antheil (36 copies)
• Raggin': A Story about Scott Joplin (Creative Minds… by Barbara Mitchell (32 copies)
• Stephen Foster, America's troubadour by John Tasker Howard (31 copies)
• Changes: A Spiritual Journal (Changes a Spiritual Journal,… by John Michael Talbot (30 copies)
• Stardust Melody: The Life and Music of Hoagy Carmichael by Richard M. Sudhalter (30 copies)
• The Way I Was by Marvin Hamlisch (27 copies)
• John Philip Sousa: American Phenomenon by Paul E. Bierley (26 copies)
• American Minimal Music: LA Monte Young, Terry Riley, Steve… by Wim Mertens (26 copies)
• Travels With Cole Porter by Jean Howard (25 copies)
• American music since 1910 by Virgil Thomson (24 copies)

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