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Intimate Conversations: Face to Face with Matchless Musicians
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Latte Dreams: My one shot at coffee shop ownership
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Mozart: A Life in Letters
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Vaughan Williams
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Classic and Romantic music: A comprehensive survey;
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W.A. Mozart
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The Symphonic Repertoire: Volume 4. The Second Golden Age of the Viennese Symphony: Brahms, Bruckner, Dvork, Mahler, and Selected Contemporaries
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Stephen Fry's Incomplete & Utter History of Classical Music
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Mozart and Constanze
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The Berg-Schoenberg Correspondence: Selected Letters
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The Classical Music Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained
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Wagnerism: Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music
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Beethoven`s Piano Sonatas: A Short Companion
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The Works of Ralph Vaughan Williams
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The Symphonic Repertoire, Volume III, Part B: The European Symphony from ca. 1800 to ca. 1930: Great Britain, Russia, and France
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Correspondence of Wagner and Liszt
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Know It All Classical Music: The 50 Most Significant Genres, Composers & Forms, Each Explained in Under a Minute (Volume 2) (Know It All, 2)
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Conversations with Howard Hanson
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A Romance on Three Legs: Glenn Gould's Obsessive Quest for the Perfect Piano
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The Symphonic Repertoire, Volume III Part A: The European Symphony from ca. 1800 to ca. 1930: Germany and the Nordic Countries
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A History of Opera: The Last 400 Years
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Herbert Von Karajan: A Life in Music
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Beethoven's Skull: Dark, Strange, and Fascinating Tales from the World of Classical Music and Beyond
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ABC da Música
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Horn
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Music and Sentiment
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Vaughan Williams on Music
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The Symphonic Repertoire, Vol. 2: The First Golden Age of the Viennese Symphony: Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, and Schubert
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The Rough Guide to Classical Music
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Introduction to a Philosophy of Music
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| 131 |
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The Cambridge Companion to Vaughan Williams
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The History of Classical Music For Beginners
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Authenticities: Philosophical Reflections on Musical Performance
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Letters of Ralph Vaughan Williams 1895-1958
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Beyond Frontiers
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Vaughan Williams Studies
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Mahler
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Opera: Passion, Power, Politics
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| 135 |
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Get Started In Classical Music
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| 135 |
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A History of Musical Style (Dover Books On Music: History)
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Vaughan Williams and the Vision of Albion
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| 142 |
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My Life with the Great Pianists
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| 142 |
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Gustav Holst: The Man and his Music
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Sibelius
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Otello
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Essays on the Viennese classical style: Gluck, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven,
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Heirs and Rebels: Letters Written to Each Other and Occasional Writings on Music
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Schubert
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Così fan tutte
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| 148 |
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Classical Music for Dummies
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The History of Keyboard Music to 1700
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Dear Müller-Hartmann: Letters from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Robert Müller-Hartmann
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Flere musikalske fortællinger
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Music in the Renaissance
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Musikalske fortællinger
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Ruth Crawford Seeger: A Composer's Search for American Music
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Music, History, And Ideas
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Music in the Western World
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The Cambridge Companion to Mozart
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Twentieth Century Music: An Introduction
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On Criticizing Music: Five Philosophical Perspectives
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Kingsley Price (Editor)
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The Cambridge Companion to the Symphony
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Julian Horton (Editor)
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| 161 |
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Blind Tom, the Black Pianist-Composer (1849-1908): Continually Enslaved
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Music in the Classic Period
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Opera and the Morbidity of Music (New York Review Books Collections)
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The Cambridge Companion to the Concerto
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Twentieth-Century Harmony: Creative Aspects and Practice
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Pianists on Playing: Interviews with Twelve Concert Pianists
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Modern Music: A Concise History
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| 168 |
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The Cambridge Companion to Shostakovich
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Pauline Fairclough (Editor)
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Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
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Contrapuntal Harmonic Technique of the Eighteenth Century
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| 173 |
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The Ivory Trade: Music and the Business of Music at the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition
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The Cambridge Companion to the String Quartet
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Robin Stowell (Editor)
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| 173 |
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A Natural History of the Piano: The Instrument, the Music, the Musicians--from Mozart to Modern Jazz and Everything in Between
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Modulation (Dover Books On Music: Analysis)
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Piano Pieces
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The Cambridge Companion to Beethoven
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Mozart
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Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Music (Norton Library (Paperback))
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Theory of Harmony
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Towards Tonality: Aspects of Baroque Music Theory
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The Cambridge Companion to Bach
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Florence Foster Jenkins: The Life of the World's Worst Opera Singer
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Concerto Conversations: With a 68-Minute CD
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The Cambridge Companion to Sibelius
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Daniel M. Grimley (Editor)
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The P. Craig Russell Library of Opera Adaptations, Vol. 2: Parsifal / Ariane and Bluebeard / I Pagliacci / Songs by Mahler
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Form in Music
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French Baroque Music: from Beaujoyeulx to Rameau
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The Cambridge Companion to the Organ
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Opera for Beginners (Writers and Readers Documentary Comic Book.)
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The Van Cliburn Legend
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Baroque Music: Music in Western Europe, 1580–1750 (The Norton Introduction to Music History)
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Sibelius: The Orchestral Works
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P. Craig Russell's Opera Adaptations Set
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Schumann: A Listener's Guide
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The P. Craig Russell Library of Opera Adaptations, Vol. 1: The Magic Flute
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My Life and Music
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Gustav Mahler
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Ravel: A Listener's Guide
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Removed works on jazz and gospel, and one novel. Please only vote classical music nonfiction onto the list.
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