Subject: Music › History and criticism

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• A History of Art by H. W. Janson (2,387 copies)
• The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century by Alex Ross (2,201 copies)
• A History of Western Music by Donald Jay Grout (1,491 copies)
• Silence: Lectures and Writings by John Cage (637 copies)
• The Classical Style: Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven by Charles Rosen (523 copies)
• Peter and the Wolf by Sergei Prokofiev (510 copies)
• The Joy of Music by Leonard Bernstein (405 copies)
• The Arts by Hendrik Willem Van Loon (364 copies)
• Stephen Fry's Incomplete and Utter History of Classical… by Stephen Fry (340 copies)
• Poetics of Music in the Form of Six Lessons by Igor Stravinsky (304 copies)
• The Vintage Guide to Classical Music by Jan Swafford (291 copies)
• The Larousse Encyclopedia of Music by Geoffrey Hindley (284 copies)
• Ocean of Sound by David Toop (247 copies)
• The Romantic Generation (The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures) by Charles Rosen (223 copies)
• Philosophy Of New Music by Theodor W. Adorno (221 copies)
• Sebastian Bach, The Boy from Thuringia by Opal Wheeler (211 copies)
• Ah, Music! by Aliki (210 copies)
• Happy Alchemy: On the Pleasures of Music and the Theatre by Robertson Davies (209 copies)
• Audio Culture: Readings in Modern Music by Christoph Cox (201 copies)
• Music in the Western World: A History in Documents by Piero Weiss (199 copies)
• The Glenn Gould Reader by Glenn Gould (169 copies)
• Lexicon of Musical Invective: Critical Assaults on… by Nicolas Slonimsky (163 copies)
• Music in the Baroque Era, from Monteverdi to Bach. by Manfred F. Bukofzer (160 copies)
• Ludwig Beethoven and the Chiming Tower Bells by Opal Wheeler (159 copies)
• A Short History of Music by Alfred Einstein (154 copies)
• Music and Imagination by Aaron Copland (153 copies)
• Baroque music by Claude V. Palisca (145 copies)
• Joseph Haydn: The Merry Little Peasant by Opal Wheeler (143 copies)
• Modern music : a concise history by Paul Griffiths (142 copies)
• Experimental Music: Cage and beyond by Michael Nyman (142 copies)
• The Unanswered Question: Six Talks at Harvard by Leonard Bernstein (141 copies)
• The Concise Oxford History of Music by Gerald Abraham (140 copies)
• Twentieth Century Music: An Introduction (4th Edition) by Eric Salzman (140 copies)
• Style and Idea: Selected Writings by Arnold Schoenberg (131 copies)
• Concise History of Western Music by Barbara Russano Hanning (130 copies)
• Handel at the Court of Kings by Opal Wheeler (128 copies)
• Who's Afraid of Classical Music?: A Highly Arbitrary and… by Michael Walsh (127 copies)
• The Development of Western Music: A History by K Marie Stolba (126 copies)
• Medieval Music by Richard H. Hoppin (125 copies)
• Music in the Medieval World by Albert Seay (123 copies)
• Twentieth-Century Music: a History of Musical Style in… by Robert P. Morgan (119 copies)
• Big Bangs: Five Musical Revolutions by Howard Goodall (118 copies)
• Music in Western Civilization by Paul Henry Lang (117 copies)
• Young Person's Guide to Music by Neil Ardley (114 copies)
• Music in the Renaissance by Howard Mayer Brown (110 copies)
• Music in the classic period by Reinhard G. Pauly (108 copies)
• Music Reference and Research Materials: An Annotated… by Vincent H. Duckles (106 copies)
• The Pelican History of Music: Vol. 2, Renaissance and… by Alec Robertson (102 copies)
• The Music of Man by Yehudi Menuhin (101 copies)
• Music in the Romantic Era : A History of Musical Thought in… by Alfred Einstein (100 copies)

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