Subject: Music › History and criticism

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• A History of Art by H. W. Janson (2,678 copies)
• The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century by Alex Ross (2,502 copies)
• A History of Western Music by Donald Jay Grout (1,682 copies)
• Silence: Lectures and Writings by John Cage (723 copies)
• Peter and the Wolf by Sergei Prokofiev (628 copies)
• The Classical Style: Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven by Charles Rosen (596 copies)
• The Joy of Music by Leonard Bernstein (458 copies)
• The Arts by Hendrik Willem Van Loon (412 copies)
• Stephen Fry's Incomplete and Utter History of Classical… by Stephen Fry (371 copies)
• Poetics of Music in the Form of Six Lessons by Igor Stravinsky (352 copies)
• The Vintage Guide to Classical Music by Jan Swafford (344 copies)
• Sebastian Bach, The Boy from Thuringia by Opal Wheeler (337 copies)
• The Larousse Encyclopedia of Music by Geoffrey Hindley (315 copies)
• Ocean of Sound by David Toop (301 copies)
• Philosophy Of New Music by Theodor W. Adorno (271 copies)
• The Romantic Generation (The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures) by Charles Rosen (259 copies)
• Ludwig Beethoven and the Chiming Tower Bells by Opal Wheeler (259 copies)
• Ah, Music! by Aliki (249 copies)
• Joseph Haydn: The Merry Little Peasant by Opal Wheeler (229 copies)
• Music in the Western World: A History in Documents by Piero Weiss (228 copies)
• Audio Culture: Readings in Modern Music by Christoph Cox (223 copies)
• Happy Alchemy: On the Pleasures of Music and the Theatre by Robertson Davies (219 copies)
• Handel at the Court of Kings by Opal Wheeler (206 copies)
• The Glenn Gould Reader by Glenn Gould (197 copies)
• Music in the Baroque Era, from Monteverdi to Bach. by Manfred F. Bukofzer (186 copies)
• Lexicon of Musical Invective: Critical Assaults on… by Nicolas Slonimsky (181 copies)
• A Short History of Music by Alfred Einstein (178 copies)
• Music and Imagination by Aaron Copland (168 copies)
• Modern music : a concise history by Paul Griffiths (161 copies)
• Baroque music by Claude V. Palisca (159 copies)
• Experimental Music: Cage and beyond by Michael Nyman (159 copies)
• The Unanswered Question: Six Talks at Harvard by Leonard Bernstein (159 copies)
• Style and Idea: Selected Writings by Arnold Schoenberg (154 copies)
• The Concise Oxford History of Music by Gerald Abraham (151 copies)
• Twentieth Century Music: An Introduction by Eric Salzman (150 copies)
• Concise History of Western Music by Barbara Russano Hanning (149 copies)
• The Development of Western Music: A History by K Marie Stolba (146 copies)
• Twentieth-Century Music: a History of Musical Style in… by Robert P. Morgan (140 copies)
• A Young Person's Guide to Music by Neil Ardley (139 copies)
• Medieval Music by Richard H. Hoppin (139 copies)
• Music in Western Civilization by Paul Henry Lang (138 copies)
• Big Bangs: Five Musical Revolutions by Howard Goodall (137 copies)
• Who's Afraid of Classical Music?: A Highly Arbitrary and… by Michael Walsh (134 copies)
• Music in the Medieval World by Albert Seay (131 copies)
• The Young Brahms by Sybil Deucher (121 copies)
• Music in the Romantic Era : A History of Musical Thought in… by Alfred Einstein (121 copies)
• Robert Schumann and Mascot Ziff by Opal Wheeler (120 copies)
• Bach's Goldberg Variations by Anna Harwell Celenza (115 copies)
• Music in the Renaissance by Howard Mayer Brown (115 copies)
• The Pelican History of Music: Vol. 2, Renaissance and… by Alec Robertson (115 copies)

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