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The Beethoven Obsession

Themes: Appreciation • Classical • Instruction & Study

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Bernstein’s Orchestral Music An Owner’s Manual

Themes: Appreciation • Classical • Instruction & Study

Why Mahler? How One Man and Ten Symphonies Changed Our World — Norman Lebrecht

Why Mahler? How One Man and Ten Symphonies Changed Our World

Norman Lebrecht

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Edward MacDowell A Great American Tone Poet, His Life And Music (1922) — John F. Porte

Edward MacDowell A Great American Tone Poet, His Life And Music (1922)

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Meet the Great Composers, Bk 1 (Book & CD) — Maurice Hinson

Meet the Great Composers, Bk 1 (Book & CD)

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The Cello Suites J.S. Bach, Pablo Casals, and the Search for a Baroque Masterpiece — Eric Siblin

The Cello Suites J.S. Bach, Pablo Casals, and the Search for a Baroque Masterpiece

Themes: Appreciation • Classical • Instruction & Study

The Secret Life of Musical Notation Defying Interpretive Traditions — Roberto Poli

The Secret Life of Musical Notation Defying Interpretive Traditions

Themes: Appreciation • Classical • Instruction & Study

A Survey of Solo Works for the Violoncello A Guide to 200 Selected Pieces from the Literature from 1689-2023 — Brian Hodges

A Survey of Solo Works for the Violoncello A Guide to 200 Selected Pieces from the Literature from 1689-2023

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Beethoven’s Orchestral Music An Owner’s Manual — David Hurwitz

Beethoven’s Orchestral Music An Owner’s Manual

Themes: Appreciation • Classical • Instruction & Study

Schubert’s Theater of Song — Mark Ringer

Schubert’s Theater of Song

Themes: Appreciation • Classical • Instruction & Study

For the Love of Music A Conductor’s Guide to the Art of Listening — John Mauceri

For the Love of Music A Conductor’s Guide to the Art of Listening

Themes: Appreciation • Classical • Instruction & Study

Franz Schubert Sexuality, Subjectivity, Song — Lawrence Kramer

Franz Schubert Sexuality, Subjectivity, Song

Lawrence Kramer

Themes: Appreciation • Classical • Instruction & Study

Inclusive Music Histories Leading Change Through Research and Pedagogy — Ayana O. Smith

Inclusive Music Histories Leading Change Through Research and Pedagogy

Themes: Appreciation • Classical • Instruction & Study

The Composer’s Landscape The Pianist as Explorer, Interpreting the Scores of Eight Masters — Carol Montparker

The Composer’s Landscape The Pianist as Explorer, Interpreting the Scores of Eight Masters

Carol Montparker

Themes: Appreciation • Classical • Instruction & Study

Classical Music — John Burrows

Classical Music

Themes: Appreciation • Classical • Instruction & Study

The joy of waltzes, tangos and polkas — Denes Agay

The joy of waltzes, tangos and polkas

Themes: Appreciation • Classical • Instruction & Study

New Worlds Of Dvorak With Cd Unabridged Compact Disc Searching In America For The Composers Inner Life — Michael B Beckerman

New Worlds Of Dvorak With Cd Unabridged Compact Disc Searching In America For The Composers Inner Life

Michael B Beckerman

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Performing Brahms Early Evidence of Performance Style — Michael Musgrave

Performing Brahms Early Evidence of Performance Style

Michael Musgrave

Themes: Appreciation • Classical • Instruction & Study

A Child’s Introduction to the Orchestra (Revised and Updated) Listen to 37 Selections While You Learn About the Instruments, the Music, and the Composers Who Wrote the Music! — Robert Levine

A Child’s Introduction to the Orchestra (Revised and Updated) Listen to 37 Selections While You Learn About the Instruments, the Music, and the Composers Who Wrote the Music!

Themes: Appreciation • Classical • Instruction & Study

The Cambridge Music Guide — Stanley Sadie

The Cambridge Music Guide

Themes: Appreciation • Classical • Instruction & Study

Shelley and the Musico-Poetics of Romanticism — Jessica K. Quillin

Shelley and the Musico-Poetics of Romanticism

Jessica K. Quillin

Themes: Appreciation • Classical • Instruction & Study

The Song that I Am On the Mystery of Music — Élisabeth-Paule Labat

The Song that I Am On the Mystery of Music

Élisabeth-Paule Labat

Themes: Appreciation • Classical • Instruction & Study

The Compleat Conductor — Gunther Schuller

The Compleat Conductor

Gunther Schuller

Themes: Appreciation • Classical • Instruction & Study

WHO’S AFRAID OF CLASSICAL MUSIC? A Highly Arbitrary, Thoroughly Opinionated Guide to Listening to and Enjoying Symphony, Opera and Chamber Music — Michael Walsh

WHO’S AFRAID OF CLASSICAL MUSIC? A Highly Arbitrary, Thoroughly Opinionated Guide to Listening to and Enjoying Symphony, Opera and Chamber Music

Themes: Appreciation • Classical • Instruction & Study

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