Book Review Index
By Author
- Adams, John - Hallelujah Junction: Composing an American Life - Farrar, Strauss & Giroux. (JT)
- Attali, Jacques - Noise: The Political Economy of Music - University of Minnesota Press (JJ)
- Banfield, Stephen - Jerome Kern - Yale University Press (SS)
- Banfield, Stephen - Gerald Finzi: An English Composer - Faber & Faber (SS)
- Barnett, Andrew - Sibelius - Yale University Press. (SS)
- Bazzana, Kevin - Lost Genius - The Curious & Tragic Story of an Extraordinary Musical Prodigy - Da Capo Press (JT)
- Benham, Hugh - John Taverner, His Life & Music - Aldershot: Ashgate (MS)
- Berger, Karol - Bach's Cycle, Mozart's Arrow - University of California Press (MS)
- Berger, William - Puccini Without Excuses: A Refreshing Reassessment of the World's Most Popular Composer - Vintage Books (SS)
- Bernstein, Burton & Barbara B. Haws (ed.) - Leonard Bernstein, American Original - Collins (SS)
- Bird, John - Percy Grainger - Oxford University Press (SS)
- 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 Ltd. (MS)
- Brian, Havergal - On Music, Vol. I: British Music - Toccata Press (SS)
- Brown, David - Musorgsky: His Life & Works - Oxford University Press. (SS)
- Brown, David - Tchaikovsky: The Man & His Music - Pegasus Books. (SS)
- Burton, William Westbrook - Conversations about Bernstein - Oxford University Press (SS)
- Butterworth, Neil - The Music of Aaron Copland - Toccata Press (SS)
- Butterworth, Neil - The Music of Aaron Copland - Toccata Press (KM)
- Cairns, David - Berlioz, Volume One: The Making of an Artist - University of California Press (SS)
- Cairns, David - Berlioz, Volume Two: Servitude & Greatness - University of California Press (SS)
- Campbell, Donald Murray; Clive Alan Greated, Arnold Myers - Musical Instruments - History, Technology & Performance of Instruments of Western Music - Oxford University Press (MS)
- Carter, Tim - Oklahoma! - The Making of an American Musical - Yale University Press. (SS)
- Christensen, Thomas (Ed.) - The Cambridge History of Western Music Theory - Cambridge University Press (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 Press (SS)
- 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 - Handel's Operas 1726 – 1741 - Boydell & Brewer Ltd (MS)
- Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan - A Study in Scarlet - Naxos Audiobooks (GF)
- Dunkley, Sally & Francis Steele - Musica Dei Donum: John Shepherd - Missa Cantate - Oxford University Press (MS)
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- Flynn, Benedict - A Life of Dante - Read by John Shrapnel - Naxos Audiobooks (GF)
- Gaines, James R. - Evening in the Palace of Reason: Bach Meets Frederick the Great in the Age of Enlightenment - Harper Perennial (SS)
- Gann, Kyle - American Music in the Twentieth Century - Schirmer Books (JT)
- Geck, Martin - Johann Sebastian Bach: Life & Work - Harcourt (JT)
- Goodman, Peter W. - Morton Gould: American Salute - Amadeus Press (JT)
- Gordon, Eric A. - Mark the Music: The Life & Work of Marc Blitzstein - iUniverse (SS)
- Grimaud, Hélène - Wild Harmonies - A Life Of Music & Wolves - Riverhead Books (JT)
- Haar, James - European Music 1520-1640 - Boydell (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 Press (MS)
- Holmboe, Vagn - Experiencing Music: A Composer's Notes - Toccata Press (SS)
- Horowitz, Joseph - Artists in Exile: How Refugees from Twentieth-Century War & Revolution Transformed the American Performing Arts - HarperCollins (SS)
- Hunt, John - Stokowski: Discography & Concert Register - Leopold Stokowski Society (RS)
- Ivry, Benjamin - Maurice Ravel: A Life - Welcome Rain Publishers. (SS)
- Jarret, Scott & Holly Day - Music Composition for Dummies - Wiley Publishing, Inc. (SS)
- Jason, Neville - The Life & Works of Marcel Proust - Naxos Audiobooks (GF)
- Jenkins, Elizabeth - The Life & Times of Queen Elizabeth I - Naxos Audiobooks (GF)
- Kart, Larry - Jazz in Search of Itself - Yale University Press (SS)
- Keenlyside, Perry - The History Of English Literature - Read by Philip Madoc - Naxos Audiobooks (GF)
- Kennedy, Michael - Richard Strauss: Man, Musician, Enigma - Cambridge University Press. (SS)
- Kostka, Stefan & Dorothy Payne - Tonal Harmony with an Introduction to Twentieth Century Music - McGraw-Hill Higher Education (MS)
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- Kramer, Lawrence - Why Classical Music Still Matters - University of California Press. (SS)
- Larner, Gerald - Maurice Ravel - Phaidon Press (SS)
- Lawson, Jack - Carl Nielsen - Phaidon Press. (SS)
- Leach, Elizabeth Eva - Machaut's Music: New Interpretations - Boydell & Brewer Ltd (MS)
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- Lebrecht, Norman - Life & Death of Classical Music - Anchor Books (RH)
- Leech-Wilkinson, Daniel - The Modern Invention of Medieval Music - Cambridge University Press (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)
- Mallach, Alan - Pietro Mascagni & His Operas - Northeastern University Press (RH)
- McLeish, Kenneth & Valerie - The Listener's Guide to Classical Music - G.K. Hall & Co. (TG)
- McVeagh, Diana - Elgar the Musicmaker - Boydell & Brewer (RH)
- Mellers, Wilfrid - Francis Poulenc - Oxford University Press (SS)
- Mellers, Wilfrid - Vaughan Williams & the Vision of Albion - Barrie & Jenkins Ltd. (SS)
- Mitchell, Donald - Cradles of the New: Writings on Music 1951-1991 - Faber & Faber (SS)
- Morin, Alexander J. (ed.) - Classical Music: The Listener's Companion - Backbeat Books (SS)
- Nice, David - Prokofiev: From Russia To The West 1891-1935 - Yale University Press (JT)
- Oliver, Michael - Igor Stravinsky - Phaidon (RH)
- Olmstead, Andrea - Conversations with Roger Sessions - Northeastern University Press (SS)
- Olmstead, Andrea - Roger Sessions: A Biography - Routledge. (SS)
- Ostwald, Peter F. - Glenn Gould: The Ecstasy & Tragedy of Genius - W.W. Norton (SS)
- Palisca, Claude V. - Music and Ideas in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries - University of Illinois Press (MS)
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- 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 Press (SS)
- Perlis, Vivian & Libby Van Cleve - Composers' Voices From Ives To Ellington - Yale University Press
(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)
- Pollack, Howard - Gershwin: His Life & Work - University of California Press. (SS)
- Pollack, Howard - Aaron Copland: The Life & Work Of An Uncommon Man - Holt (JT)
- Roberts, Paul - Claude Debussy - Phaidon Press (SS)
- Ross, Alex - The Rest is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century - Farrar, Straus & Giroux (RS)
- Ross, Alex - The Rest is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century - Farrar, Straus & Giroux (JT)
- Sachs, Curt - The History of Musical Instruments - Dover Publications.
(MS)
- Sacks, Oliver - Musicophilia: Tales of Music & the Brain - Alfred A. Knopf. (SS)
- 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 Press (SS)
- Self, Geoffrey - The Music of E.J. Moeran - Toccata Press (KM)
- Sessions, Roger & Andrea Olmstead - Conversations with Roger Sessions - Northeastern University Press (SS)
- Sessions, Roger - The Correspondence of Roger Sessions - Northeastern University Press (SS)
- 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 Press.
(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)
- Simon, John - John Simon on Music: Criticism, 1979-2005 - Applause Theatre & Cinema Books (SS)
- Smith, Rollin - Stokowski & the Organ - Pendragon (RS)
- Snyder, Kerala J. - Dieterich Buxtehude: Organist in Lübeck - University of Rochester Press (MS)
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- 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 Press. (SS)
- Swafford, Jan - Johannes Brahms, A Biography - Knopf (JT)
- Swafford, Jan - Johannes Brahms, A Biography - Knopf (RH)
- Taruskin, Richard - Musorgsky: Eight Essays & an Epilogue - Princeton University Press (SS)
- Van der Merwe, Peter - Roots of the Classical - Oxford University Press (MS)
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- Walsh, Stephen - Stravinsky, The Second Exile: France and America, 1934-1971 - University of California Press (SS)
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- 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)
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- Wilson, Alexandra - The Puccini Problem: Opera, Nationalism & Modernity - Cambridge University Press. (SS)
- Wilson, Bob - The History of the World Cup - Read by Bob Wilson & Written by Brian Glanville - Naxos Audiobooks (GF)
- Wilson, Elizabeth - Rostropovich: The Musical Life of the Great Cellist, Teacher & Legend - Ivan R. Dee (SS)
- Wolff, Christoph - Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician - W.W. Norton (JT)
- Worthen, John - Robert Schumann - Life & Death of a Musician - Yale University Press (SS)
- Worthen, John - Robert Schumann - Life & Death of a Musician - Yale University Press (JT)
- Wyatt, Robert & John Andrew Johnson (ed.) -
The George Gershwin Reader - Oxford University Press (SS)