Book Review Index
By Author
- Baker, James; David Beach; Jonathan Bernard - Music Theory in Concept and Practice - University of Rochester (MS)
- Banfield, Stephen - Jerome Kern - Yale University (SS)
- Banfield, Stephen - Gerald Finzi: An English Composer - Faber & Faber (SS)
- Barlow, Michael - Whom The Gods Love: The Life & Music of George Butterworth - Toccata Press (JT)
- Barnett, Andrew - Sibelius - Yale University (SS)
- Bazzana, Kevin - Lost Genius - The Curious & Tragic Story of an Extraordinary Musical Prodigy - Da Capo Press (JT)
- Beeching, Angela Myles - Beyond Talent: Creating a Successful Career in Music - Oxford University Press (MS)
- Benham, Hugh - John Taverner, His Life & Music - Aldershot: Ashgate (MS)
- Berger, Karol - Bach's Cycle, Mozart's Arrow - University of California (MS)
- Berger, William - Puccini Without Excuses: A Refreshing Reassessment of the World's Most Popular Composer - Vintage Books (SS)
- Berkowitz, Aaron - The Improvising Mind: Cognition & Creativity in the Musical Moment - Oxford University Press (MS)
- Bernstein, Burton & Barbara B. Haws (ed.) - Leonard Bernstein, American Original - Collins (SS)
- Bicknell, Jeanette - Why Music Moves Us - Palgrave Macmillan (SS)
- Bird, John - Percy Grainger - Oxford University (SS)
- Boswell, Simon - The Elgar Enigmas: A Musical Mystery - Booklocker.com (RH)
- Boswell, Simon - The Seven Symphonies - A Finnish Murder Mystery - Booklocker.com (RH)
- Boult, Adrian - Boult on Music - Toccata Press (RC)
- Bowman, David - Rhinegold Dictionary of Music & Sound - Rhinegold Publishing (MS)
- Brewer, Charles E. - Instrumental Music of Schmeltzer, Biber, Muffat & Contemporaries - Ashgate (MS)
- Brian, Havergal - On Music, Vol. I: British Music - Toccata Press (SS)
- Brown, David - Musorgsky: His Life & Works - Oxford University (SS)
- Brown, David - Tchaikovsky: The Man & His Music - Pegasus Books (SS)
- Burton, William Westbrook - Conversations about Bernstein - Oxford University (SS)
- Butler, Gregory; George Stauffer & Mary Dalton Greer (eds.) - About Bach - University of Illinois (MS)
- Butterworth, Neil - The Music of Aaron Copland - Toccata Press (SS)
- Butterworth, Neil - The Music of Aaron Copland - Toccata Press (KM)
- Cairns, David - Berlioz, Vol. 1: The Making of an Artist - University of California (SS)
- Cairns, David - Berlioz, Vol. 2: Servitude & Greatness - University of California (SS)
- Campbell, Donald Murray; Clive Alan Greated & Arnold Myers - Musical Instruments - History, Technology & Performance of Instruments of Western Music - Oxford University (MS)
- Campbell, Edward - Boulez, Music and Philosophy - Cambridge University Press (MS)
- Carter, Tim - Oklahoma! - The Making of an American Musical - Yale University (SS)
- Christensen, Thomas (ed.) - The Cambridge History of Western Music Theory - Cambridge University (MS)
- Clarke, Donald - The Rise & Fall of Popular Music - St. Martin's Press (SS)
- Clarke, Donald - All or Nothing at All: A Life of Sinatra - Fromm International (SS)
- Collier, James Lincoln - Duke Ellington - Oxford University (SS)
- Cooper, Barry - Child Composers & Their Works: A Historical Survey - Scarecrow Press (SS)
- Cunningham, John - Consort Music of William Lawes, 1602-1645 (Music in Britain, 1600-1900) - Boydell Press (MS)
- Dallapiccola, Luigi - Dallapiccola on Opera - Toccata Press (SS)
- Dante Alighieri - The Inferno - Read by Heathcote Williams - Naxos Audiobooks (GF)
- Dante Alighieri - Purgatory - Read by Heathcote Williams - Naxos Audiobooks (GF)
- Dante Alighieri - Paradise - Read by Heathcote Williams - Naxos Audiobooks (GF)
- Dean, Winton & John Merrill Knapp - Handel's Operas, 1704-1726 - Boydell Press (MS)
- Dean, Winton - Handel's Operas, 1726-1741 - Boydell & Brewer (MS)
- Dickinson, Peter - Samuel Barber Remembered: A Centenary Tribute - University of Rochester (JT)
- DiGaetani, John Louis - Wagner and Suicide - McFarland & Company (JT)
- DiGaetani, John Louis (ed.) - Inside The Ring - Essays on Wagner's Opera Cycle - McFarland & Company (JT)
- DiGaetani, John Louis (ed.) - Wagner Outside The Ring - Essays on the Operas, Their Performances and Their Connections with Other Arts - McFarland & Company (JT)
- Dolan, Brian - Inventing Entertainment: The Player Piano and the Origins of an American Musical Industry - Rowman & Littlefield (SS)
- Doyle, Arthur Conan - A Study in Scarlet - Read by David Timson - Naxos Audiobooks (GF)
- Doyle, Arthur Conan - The Classic Sherlock Holmes I-IV - John Gielgud, Ralph Richardson, Orson Welles - Heritage Media (GF)
- Dunkley, Sally & Francis Steele - Musica Dei Donum: John Shepherd - Missa Cantate - Oxford University (MS)
- Gaines, James R. - Evening in the Palace of Reason: Bach Meets Frederick the Great in the Age of Enlightenment - Harper Perennial (SS)
- Galloway, Steven - The Cellist of Sarajevo - Riverhead Books (JT)
- Gann, Kyle - American Music in the Twentieth Century - Schirmer Books (JT)
- Geck, Martin - Johann Sebastian Bach: Life & Work - Harcourt (JT)
- Glanville, Brian - The History of the World Cup - Read by Bob Wilson - Naxos Audiobooks (GF)
- Goodman, Peter W. - Morton Gould: American Salute - Amadeus Press (JT)
- Gordon, Eric A. - Mark the Music: The Life & Work of Marc Blitzstein - iUniverse (SS)
- Gould, Elaine - Behind Bars: The Definitive Guide to Music Notation - Faber Music (MS)
- Griffiths, Paul - Modern Music & After (3rd Edition) - Oxford University Press (MS)
- Grimaud, Hélène - Wild Harmonies - A Life Of Music & Wolves - Riverhead Books (JT)
- Guide To Period Instruments - Ricercar RIC100 (MS)
- Haar, James - European Music 1520-1640 - Boydell (MS)
- Hallam, Susan; Ian Cross & Michael Thaut (eds.) - The Oxford Handbook of Music Psychology - Oxford University Press (MS)
- Hardy, Thomas - Winter Words - Poetry & Personal Writings read by Bruce Alexander & Janet Maw - Naxos Audiobooks (GF)
- Hartzell, K. D. - Catalogue of Manuscripts Written or Owned in England up to 1200 Containing Music - Boydell (MS)
- Haynes, Bruce - The End of Early Music - Oxford University (MS)
- Heffer, Simon - Vaughan Williams - Northeastern University (SS)
- Hirsch, Foster - Kurt Weill on Stage: From Berlin to Broadway - Oxford University (SS)
- Holmboe, Vagn - Experiencing Music: A Composer's Notes - Toccata Press (SS)
- Holoman, D. Kern - Charles Munch - Oxford University Press (JT)
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- Horowitz, Joseph - Artists in Exile: How Refugees from Twentieth-Century War & Revolution Transformed the American Performing Arts - HarperCollins (SS)
- Horowitz, Joseph - Classical Music in America: A History of Its Rise and Fall - Norton (JT)
- Hunt, John - Stokowski: Discography & Concert Register - Leopold Stokowski Society (RS)
- Jamini, Deborah - Harmony & Composition: Basics to Intermediate - Trafford Publishing (MS)
- Jarret, Scott & Holly Day - Music Composition for Dummies - Wiley Publishing (SS)
- Jason, Neville - The Life & Works of Marcel Proust - Naxos Audiobooks (GF)
- Jenkins, Elizabeth - The Life & Times of Queen Elizabeth I - Naxos Audiobooks (GF)
- Johnson, Julian - Who Needs Classical Music? - Oxford University Press (JT)>
- Jones, David Wyn (ed.) - Haydn (Oxford Composer Companions) - Oxford University (MS)
- Jones, Evan (ed.) - Intimate Voices - The Twentieth Century String Quartet, Vol. 1: Debussy to Villa-Lobos - University of Rochester Press (MS)>
- Jones, Evan (ed.) - Intimate Voices - The Twentieth Century String Quartet, Vol. 2: Shostakovich to the Avant-Garde - University of Rochester Press (MS)>
- Kart, Larry - Jazz in Search of Itself - Yale University (SS)
- Kashner, Sam & Nancy Schoenberger - A Talent for Genius: The Life and Times of Oscar Levant - Villard Books (SS)
- Kater, Michael H. - The Twisted Muse: Musicians & Their Music in the Third Reich - Oxford University (SS)
- Keenlyside, Perry - The History Of English Literature - Read by Philip Madoc - Naxos Audiobooks (GF)
- Keller, Hans & Milein Cosman - Stravinsky the Music-Maker: Writings, Prints & Drawings - Toccata Press (MS)
- Keller, Hans & Milein Cosman - Stravinsky the Music-Maker: Writings, Prints & Drawings - Toccata Press (SS)
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- Keller, James - Chamber Music: A Listener's Guide - Oxford University Press (MS)
- Kennan, Kent & Donald Grantham - The Technique of Orchestration - Pearson/Prentice-Hall (MS)>
- Kennedy, Michael - Richard Strauss: Man, Musician, Enigma - Cambridge University (SS)
- Kostka, Stefan & Dorothy Payne - Tonal Harmony with an Introduction to Twentieth Century Music - McGraw-Hill Higher Education (MS)
- Kramer, Lawrence - Why Classical Music Still Matters - University of California (SS)
- Laitz, Steven G. - The Complete Musician - An Integrated Approach to Tonal Theory, Analysis, and Listening - Oxford University Press (MS)
- Larner, Gerald - Maurice Ravel - Phaidon Press (SS)
- Larson, Thomas - The Saddest Music Ever Written: The Story of Samuel Barber's Adagio for Strings - Pegasus Books (SS)
- Lawson, Jack - Carl Nielsen - Phaidon Press (SS)
- Leach, Elizabeth Eva - Machaut's Music: New Interpretations - Boydell & Brewer (MS)
- Lebrecht, Norman - Life & Death of Classical Music - Anchor Books (RH)
- Leech-Wilkinson, Daniel - The Modern Invention of Medieval Music - Cambridge University (MS)
- Levitin, Daniel J. - This Is Your Brain On Music: The Science Of A Human Obsession - Penguin (JT)
- Lipman, Samuel - Music After Modernism - Basic Books (SS)
- Lockwood, Lewis - Beethoven: The Music and the Life - W.W. Norton (JT)
- Lockwood, Lewis - Music in Renaissance Ferrara 1400-1505: The Creation of a Musical Center in the Fifteenth Century - Oxford University (MS)
- Loy, Gareth - Musimathics, Vol. 1 - MIT Press (MS)
- Loy, Gareth - Musimathics, Vol. 2 - MIT Press (MS)
- Maisel, Edward - Charles T. Griffes: The Life of an American Composer - Alfred A. Knopf. (SS)
- Mallach, Alan - Pietro Mascagni & His Operas - Northeastern University (RH)
- McLeish, Kenneth & Valerie - The Listener's Guide to Classical Music - G.K. Hall (TG)
- McVeagh, Diana - Elgar the Musicmaker - Boydell & Brewer (RH)
- Mellers, Wilfrid - Francis Poulenc - Oxford University (SS)
- Mellers, Wilfrid - Vaughan Williams & the Vision of Albion - Barrie & Jenkins (SS)
- Metzer, David - Musical Modernism and the Turn of the Twenty-First Century - Cambridge University Press (MS)
- Meyer, Felix & Heidy Zimmermann (eds.) - Edgard Varèse: Composer, Sound Sculptor, Visionary - Boydell & Brewer (MS)
- Meyerson, Harold & Ernie Harburg with Arther Perlman - Who Put the Rainbow in the Wizard of Oz?: Yip Harburg, Lyricist - University of Michigan Press (SS)
- Mitchell, Donald - Cradles of the New: Writings on Music 1951-1991 - Faber & Faber (SS)
- Monsaingeon, Bruno - Mademoiselle: Conversations with Nadia Boulanger - Carcanet Press (SS)
- Morin, Alexander J. (ed.) - Classical Music: The Listener's Companion - Backbeat Books (SS)
- Morris, Jan - Venice, Read by Sebastian Gomberti - Naxos Audiobooks 435312 (GF)
- Palisca, Claude V. - Music and Ideas in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries - University of Illinois (MS)
- Parrish, Carl - The Notation of Medieval Music - Pendragon Press (MS)
- Pearson, Hesketh - A Life of Shakespeare - Read by Simon Russell Beale - Naxos Audiobooks (GF)
- Pearson, Hesketh - The Life of Oscar Wilde - Read by Simon Russell Beale - Naxos Audiobooks (GF)
- Pegolotti, James A. - Deems Taylor: A Biography - Northeastern University (SS)
- Peraino, Judith A. - Giving Voice to Love - Oxford University Press (MS)
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- Perlis, Vivian & Libby Van Cleve - Composers' Voices From Ives To Ellington - Yale University (JT)
- Pirie, Peter J. - The English Musical Renaissance: Twentieth Century British Composers & Their Works - St Martin's Press (SS)
- Plato - The Trial & The Death of Socrates - Read by Alexander/Glover/Jason/Griffin/Timson - Naxos Audiobooks (GF)
- Poe, Edgar Allan - The Murders in the Rue Morgue - Read by Kerry Shale - Naxos Audiobooks (GF)
- Poe, Edgar Allan - The Mystery of Marie Roget - Read by Kerry Shale - Naxos Audiobooks (GF)
- Poe, Edgar Allan - The Purloined Letter - Read by Kerry Shale - Naxos Audiobooks (GF)
- Polisi, Joseph W. - American Muse: The Life and Times of William Schuman - Amadeus Press (SS)
- Polisi, Joseph W. - American Muse: The Life and Times of William Schuman - Amadeus Press (JT)
- Pollack, Howard - Gershwin: His Life & Work - University of California (SS)
- Pollack, Howard - Aaron Copland: The Life & Work Of An Uncommon Man - Holt (JT)
- Potter, Tully - Adolf Busch: The Life of an Honest Musician (Two Volume Set) - Toccata Press (MS)
- Roberts, Paul - Claude Debussy - Phaidon Press (SS)
- Rosen, Charles - Music and Sentiment - Yale University Press (MS)
- Rosen, Charles - Music and Sentiment - Yale University Press (JT)
- Sachs, Curt - The History of Musical Instruments - Dover Publications (MS)
- Sacks, Oliver - Musicophilia: Tales of Music & the Brain - Alfred A. Knopf (SS)
- Saler, Thomas D. - Serving Genius - Carlo Maria Giulini - University of Illinois Press (JT)
- Scherer, Barrymore Laurence - A History of American Classical Music Sourcebooks, Inc/Naxos (JT)
- Schneider, Wayne (ed.) - The Gershwin Style: New Looks at the Music of George Gershwin - Oxford University (SS)
- Schoenberg, Arnold - Theory of Harmony - University of California Press (MS)
- Schuijer, Michiel - Analyzing Atonal Music - Pitch-Class Set Theory and Its Contexts - University of Rochester Press (MS)
- Schweizer, Steven L. - Timpani Tone and the Interpretation of Baroque and Classical Music - Oxford University (MS)
- Scruton, Roger - Understanding Music: Philosophy and Interpretation - Continuum (SS)
- Self, Geoffrey - The Music of E.J. Moeran - Toccata Press (KM)
- Sessions, Roger & Andrea Olmstead - Conversations with Roger Sessions - Northeastern University (SS)
- Sessions, Roger - The Correspondence of Roger Sessions - Northeastern University (SS)
- Shaw, Jennifer & Joseph Auner - The Cambridge Companion to Schoenberg - Cambridge University Press (MS)
- Sheed, Wilfrid - The House That George Built: With a Little Help from Irving, Cole & a Crew of About Fifty - Random House (SS)
- Sherman, Bernard D. (ed.) - Inside Early Music: Conversations with Performers - Oxford University (MS)
- Straus, Joseph N. - Introduction to Post-Tonal Theory - Pearson/Prentice-Hall (MS)
- Siepmann, Jeremy - The Life & Works of Chopin - Read by Jeremy Siepmann - Naxos Audiobooks (GF)
- Simmons, Walter - Voices in the Wilderness: Six American Neo-Romantic Composers - Scarecrow Press (SS)
- Simmons, Walter - Voices of Stone and Steel - The Music of William Schuman, Vincent Persichetti, and Peter Mennin - The Scarecrow Press (JT)
- Simmons, Walter - Voices of Stone and Steel - The Music of William Schuman, Vincent Persichetti, and Peter Mennin - Scarecrow Press. (SS) (SS)
- Simon, John - John Simon on Music: Criticism, 1979-2005 - Applause Theatre & Cinema Books (SS)
- Smith, Anne - The Performance of 16th-Century Music: Learning from the Theorists - Oxford University Press (MS)
- Smith, Rollin - Stokowski & the Organ - Pendragon (RS)
- Snyder, Kerala J. - Dieterich Buxtehude: Organist in Lübeck - University of Rochester (MS)
- Sondheim, Stephen - Finishing the Hat: Collected Lyrics (1954-1981) - Alfred A. Knopf (SS)
- Steinhardt, Arnold - Violin Dreams - Houghton Mifflin Co (SS)
- Strouse, Charles - Put on a Happy Face: a Broadway Memoir - Sterling Publishing (SS)
- Struble, John Warthen - The History Of American Classical Music: MacDowell Through Minimalism - Facts on File (JT)
- Strunk, W. Oliver & Leo Treitler (ed.) - Source Readings in Music History - W.W. Norton (MS)
- Sullivan, Jack - Hitchcock's Music - Yale University (SS)
- Swafford, Jan - Johannes Brahms, A Biography - Knopf (JT)
- Swafford, Jan - Johannes Brahms, A Biography - Knopf (RH)
- Swayne, Steve - Orpheus in Manhattan - William Schuman and the Shaping of America's Musical Life - Oxford University Press (JT)
- Swayne, Steve - Orpheus in Manhattan: William Schuman and the Shaping of America's Musical Life Scarecrow Press. (SS)
- Walker, Alan - Liszt - The Virtuoso Years, 1811-1847 - Cornell University Press (MS)>
- Walker, Alan - Liszt - The Weimar Years, 1848-1861 - Cornell University Press (MS)>
- Walker, Alan - Liszt - The Final Years, 1861-1886 - Cornell University Press (MS)>
- Walker, George - Reminiscences of an American Composer and Pianist - Scarecrow Press (SS)
- Walsh, Stephen - Stravinsky: A Creative Spring – Russia & France, 1882-1934 - University of California (SS)
- Walsh, Stephen - Stravinsky, The Second Exile: France and America, 1934-1971 - University of California (SS)
- Watson, Angus - Beethoven's Chamber Music in Context - Boydell Press (MS)
- Weber, Bozena Zofia - Chopin: The Women in His Life - Opus111 (GF)
- Wegman, Rob C. - The Crisis of Music in Early Modern Europe 1470-1530 - Routledge (MS)
- Wiley, Roland John - Tchaikovsky (The Master Musicians Series) - Oxford University (JT)
- Wilson, Alexandra - The Puccini Problem: Opera, Nationalism & Modernity - Cambridge University (SS)
- Wilson, Elizabeth - Rostropovich: The Musical Life of the Great Cellist, Teacher & Legend - Ivan R. Dee (SS)
- Wittry, Diane - Beyond The Baton: What Every Conductor Needs to Know - Oxford University (DS)
- Wolff, Christoph - Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician - W.W. Norton (JT)
- Worthen, John - Robert Schumann - Life & Death of a Musician - Yale University (SS)
- Worthen, John - Robert Schumann - Life & Death of a Musician - Yale University (JT)
- Wyatt, Robert & John Andrew Johnson (ed.) - The George Gershwin Reader - Oxford University (SS)