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Music Appreciation ● General Education ● Music History ● Music Theory and Aural Skills ● Trade
Music Appreciation
General Education ● Music History
Music Theory and Aural Skills
Trade
The Curious Listener
First Edition
by Hamberlin
The Enjoyment of Music
Essential Listening Edition
Fifth Edition
By Forney, Dell’Antonio, and Machlis
Fourteenth Edition
Listen
Tenth Edition
By Kerman and Tomlinson
General Education
What’s That Sound?
An Introduction to Rock
and Its History
Sixth Edition
By Covach and Flory
Jazz
Second Edition
By DeVeaux and Giddins
An Introduction to America’s Music
Third Edition
By Crawford and Hamberlin
Soundscapes
Exploring Music in a
Changing World
By Shelemay
Reel Music
Exploring 100 Years of
Film Music
By Hickman
Music History
A History of Western Music
By Burkholder, Grout, and Palisca
Concise History of Western Music
Fifth Edition Anthology Update
By Hanning
The Norton Guide to Teaching Music History
Edited by Balensuela
The Musician’s Guide to Theory and Analysis
By Clendinning and Marvin
Concise Introduction to Tonal Harmony
By Burstein and Straus
The Musician’s Guide to Fundamentals
Third Edition Media Update
By Clendinning, Marvin, and Phillips
The Musician’s Guide to Aural Skills
Ear-Training
By Phillips, Murphy, Marvin, and Clendinning
Sight-Singing
A New Approach to Sight Singing
Seventh Edition
By Berkowitz, Fontrier, Kraft, Goldstein, and Smaldone
Manual for Ear Training and Sight Singing
By Karpinski
Anthology for Sight Singing
By Karpinski and Kram
The Norton Guide to Teaching Music Theory
Edited by Lumsden and Swinkin
Johann Sebastian Bach
The Learned Musician
by Christoph Wolff
On the Record
Music that Changed America
by Anna Harwell Celenza
After the Flood
Inside Bob Dylan's Memory Palace
by Robert Polito
Wings
The Story of a Band on the Run
by Paul McCartney, Ted Widmer
Making Mary Poppins
The Sherman Brothers, Walt Disney, and the Creation of a Classic Film
by Todd James Pierce
The Secret Public
How Music Moved Queer Culture From the Margins to the Mainstream
by Jon Savage
I Heard There Was a Secret Chord
Music as Medicine
by Daniel J Levitin
A New Philosophy
of Opera
by Yuval Sharon
Ira Gershwin
A Life in Words
by Michael Owen
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