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The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century
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The Classical Style: Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven
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The Romantic Generation (The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures)
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What to Listen for in Music
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Johannes Brahms: A Biography
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Beethoven: Anguish and Triumph
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Sonata Forms
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Piano Notes: The World of the Pianist
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On Russian Music
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On the Musically Beautiful: a Contribution Towards the Revision of the Aesthetics of Music
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Franz Liszt: The Virtuoso Years, 1811-1847
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The Joy of Music
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Musical Thoughts and Afterthoughts
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Schubert's Winter Journey: Anatomy of an Obsession
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Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain
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Defining Russia Musically
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Year of Wonder: Classical Music for Every Day
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Poetics of Music in the Form of Six Lessons (The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures)
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Words Without Music: A Memoir
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Language of the Spirit: An Introduction to Classical Music
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Bach and the Dance of God
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A Life in Music
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Nineteenth-Century Romanticism in Music
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Structural Functions of Harmony
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Music in the Early Twentieth Century
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Gustav Mahler--Richard Strauss: Correspondence 1888-1911
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On Late Style: Music and Literature Against the Grain
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Stockhausen on Music
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Reflections on Liszt
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Evenings With Horowitz: A Personal Portrait
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Contemplating Music: Challenges to Musicology
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Schubert and His Vienna
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Silence: Lectures and Writings
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Music at the Limits
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The Danger of Music and Other Anti-Utopian Essays
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Boulez on Music Today
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Richard Strauss: Man, Musician, Enigma
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Music in the Late Twentieth Century
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Corresponding with Carlos: A Biography of Carlos Kleiber
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The Tristan Chord: Wagner and Philosophy
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Stravinsky and the Russian Traditions: A Biography of the Works through Mavra, Two-volume set
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Renaissance and Baroque Music: A Comprehensive Survey
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Understanding Music: Philosophy and Interpretation
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Absolutely on Music: Conversations with Seiji Ozawa
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Gustav Mahler
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The Ring of Truth: The Wisdom of Wagner's Ring of the Nibelung [Oct 25, 2016] Scruton, Roger
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Ring Resounding: The Recording of Der Ring Des Nibelungen
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Schubert: The Music and the Man
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R.V.W.: A Biography of Ralph Vaughan Williams
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Mozart
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Me of All People: Alfred Brendel in Conversation With Martin Meyer
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Bach: Music in the Castle of Heaven
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The Symphonic Repertoire, Volume I: The Eighteenth-Century Symphony
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Mary Sue Morrow (Editor)
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Sergei Rachmaninoff: A Lifetime in Music
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Shostakovich: A Life
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Virtuosi: A Defense and a (Sometimes Erotic) Celebration of Great Pianists
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Musorgsky
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Gustav Mahler
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Style and Idea: Selected Writings of Arnold Schoenberg
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Stravinsky: A Creative Spring: Russia and France, 1882-1934
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Feeling and Form
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Chopin, the Reluctant Romantic
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Vienna's Golden Years of Music, 1850-1900
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Charles Ives: A Life with Music
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My Nine Lives: A Memoir of Many Careers in Music
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Other Planets: The Music of Karlheinz Stockhausen
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Chopin: The Piano Concertos (Cambridge Music Handbooks)
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Music in the Baroque Era
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The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians: 29-Volume Set
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Stanley Sadie (Editor)
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George Bizet: His Life & Works
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The Twisted Muse: Musicians and Their Music in the Third Reich
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Imperfect Harmony: Finding Happiness Singing with Others
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Stacy Horn (Goodreads Author)
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Wagner and the Novel: Wagner's Operas and the European Realist Novel: An Exploration of Genre
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Beethoven
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Late Beethoven: Music, Thought, Imagination
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To Boulez and Beyond
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Schoenberg's New World: The American Years
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Liszt: Sonata in B Minor (Cambridge Music Handbooks)
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The Cambridge Companion to Liszt
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Kenneth Hamilton (Editor)
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Liszt: A Listener's Guide
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Write All These Down: Essays on Music
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The Forms of Music
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Settling Scores: German Music, Denazification, and the Americans, 1945-1953
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The Glenn Gould Reader
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Analyzing Wagner's Operas: Alfred Lorenz and German Nationalist Ideology (Eastman Studies in Music, 10)
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Rachmaninoffs Recollections Told to Oskar Von Rieseman
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A History of Keyboard Literature: Music for the Piano and Its Forerunners
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Life of Giuseppe Verdi: A Book for Young People
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Dean Dixon: Negro at Home, Maestro Abroad
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Nicolas Nabokov: A Life in Freedom and Music
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All You Have to Do is Listen: Music from the Inside Out
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The Memoirs
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Whom the Gods Love: The Life and Music of George Butterworth
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Moscow Nights: The Van Cliburn Story-How One Man and His Piano Transformed the Cold War
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Maria Malibran: A Biography of the Singer
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Franz Schubert: The Complete Songs
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My Life
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Classical Guitar Book in Open D Tuning: Arrangements in Open D Tuning with Tablature and Notation
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True Artist and True Friend: A Biography of Hans Richter
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Richard Wagner: Sein Leben. Sein Werk. Sein Jahrhundert
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