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Introducing Wagner: A Graphic Guide
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Talks With Great Composers
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Schubert's Theater of Song: A Listener's Guide
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Sticking It Out: From Juilliard to the Orchestra Pit, a Percussionist's Memoir
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Mahler: A Musical Physiognomy
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Bach's Choral Music: A Listener's Guide
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The Mandolin in America: The Full Story from Orchestras to Bluegrass to the Modern Revival
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Richard Strauss: An Owner's Manual
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From Kitchen to Carnegie Hall: Ethel Stark and the Montreal Women's Symphony Orchestra
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Musical Elaborations
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Beethoven's Chamber Music: A Listener's Guide
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Brahms
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Schubert's Instrumental Music: A Listener's Guide
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Beethoven: Letters, Journals and Conversations
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Bach's Keyboard Music: A Listener's Guide (Unlocking The Masters Series #21)
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The Robert Shaw Reader
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Verdi: The Operas and Choral Works
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The Mahler Symphonies: An Owner's Manual (includes 1 CD)
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The Great Instrumental Works
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Puccini: A Listener's Guide
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Richard Strauss and His World
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Arthur Rubinstein: My Young Years
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Music in the Nineteenth Century
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The Musician's Way: A Guide to Practice, Performance, and Wellness
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The Music in George's Head: George Gershwin Creates Rhapsody in Blue
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Horowitz: His Life and Music
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Violin Lessons for Beginners: Teach Yourself How to Play Violin (Free Audio Available)
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Music in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
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Romantic Music
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The History of Violin Playing from Its Origins to 1761: and Its Relationship to the Violin and Violin Music
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The Composer's Advocate: A Radical Orthodoxy for Musicians
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American Luthier: Carleen Hutchins, the Art and Science of the Violin
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Quincy Whitney (Goodreads Author)
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Text and Act: Essays on Music and Performance
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Violin Owner's Manual
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Conversations with Klemperer
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Otto Klemperer (Editor)
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The Violin Maker: Finding a Centuries-Old Tradition in a Brooklyn Workshop
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The Rough Guide to Violin & Viola: The Essential Tipbook
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Opera and Drama in Russia As Preached and Practiced in the 1860s
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The Life and Death of Classical Music
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The Violin: A Social History of the World's Most Versatile Instrument
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Introducing Modern Music
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Violin for Dummies
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Problems of Modern Music
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Get Started in Playing Piano
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A Ned Rorem Reader
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Giuseppe Verdi: His Life and Works
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Becoming a Great Sight-Reader -- or Not!: Learn from my Quest for Piano Sight-Reading Nirvana
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Al Macy (Goodreads Author)
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Opera in Crisis: Tradition, Present, Future
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Play Piano in a Flash!: Play Your Favorite Songs Like a Pro -- Whether You've Had Lessons or Not!
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The Life of Mozart Including His Correspondence
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Cecil Sharp
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The Boulez-Cage Correspondence
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Stravinsky: Chronicle of a Friendship
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Setting the Tone: Essays and a Diary
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Herbert von Karajan: A Biographical Portrait
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Introduction to Upright Bass
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Arnold Schoenberg
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Stravinsky: The Composer and His Works
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The History of Orchestration
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My Music, My Life
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Brahms: His Life and Work
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Great Pianists Speak for Themselves Volume 1
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Stravinsky: The Second Exile: France and America, 1934-1971
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The Virtuoso Conductors: The Central European Tradition from Wagner to Karajan
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Practicing: A Musician's Return to Music
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The Maestro Myth: Great Conductors in Pursuit of Power
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Baroque Music Today: Music as Speech; Ways to a New Understanding of Music
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Music of the Baroque
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Ornamentation in Baroque and Post-Baroque Music: With Special Emphasis on J.S. Bach
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German Modernism: Music and the Arts (Volume 3)
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Beethoven Essays
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The Ultimate Art: Essays Around and About Opera
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Franz Liszt: The Weimar Years, 1848-1861
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Franz Liszt: The Final Years, 1861-1886
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Hanslick's Music Criticisms
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Mozart and the Nazis: How the Third Reich Abused a Cultural Icon
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Russian Opera and the Symbolist Movement
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The Music of Francis Poulenc (1899-1963): A Catalogue
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American Composers: Dialogues on Contemporary Music
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Alexander Tcherepnin: The Saga of a Russian Emigré Composer
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Bartók for Piano: A Survey of His Solo Literature
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The Beethoven Sonatas and the Creative Experience
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Beyond Boundaries: Rethinking Music Circulation in Early Modern England
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Breaking Time's Arrow: Experiment and Expression in the Music of Charles Ives
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Carl Maria von Weber and the Search for a German Opera
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Death in Winterreise: Musico-Poetic Associations in Schubert's Song Cycle
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Debussy's Late Style
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The Eighteenth-Century Fortepiano Grand and Its Patrons: From Scarlatti to Beethoven
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Schubert Studies: Problems of Style and Chronology
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Interpreting Mozart
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Expressive Forms in Brahms's Instrumental Music: Structure and Meaning in His Werther Quartet
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Famous Pianists and Their Technique, New Edition
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Ferruccio Busoni and His Legacy
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A History of Baroque Music
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History of Music in Russia from Antiquity to 1800, Vol. 1
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History of Music in Russia from Antiquity to 1800, Vol. 2
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Interpreting Musical Gestures, Topics, and Tropes: Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert
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The Italian Traditions and Puccini: Compositional Theory and Practice in Nineteenth-Century Opera
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Mahler and Strauss: In Dialogue
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Meter in Music, 1600–1800: Performance, Perception, and Notation
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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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