Reference Books


Come on Everybody, Let's Sing!Come on Everybody, Let's Sing!
Best Price: $22.34
Written by the author of Music for Fun, Music for Learning, the book incorporates a...
Rhythmic Tests for Sight ReadingRhythmic Tests for Sight Reading
Best Price: $5.50
A collection of exercises for students of advanced grades in sight reading. Focuses on training...
Pentatonic Scales for Jazz Improvisation (The Ramon Ricker Jazz Improvisation)Pentatonic Scales for Jazz Improvisation (The Ramon Ricker Jazz Improvisation)
Best Price: $10.61
This book is a great buy for rock and jazz musicians trying to expand their palates. It...
The Old King and His Fiddlers Four (Know the Orchestra)The Old King and His Fiddlers Four (Know the Orchestra)
Each story in this series develops understanding of a section of the orchestra. Children are...
The Greatest Pop Hits of 1997-1998The Greatest Pop Hits of 1997-1998
Best Price: $49.95
The songs in this 45-song folio include: Butterfly Kisses * Foolish Games * How Do I Live * I...


Bibliography of Early Secular American Music (18th Century)Bibliography of Early Secular American Music (18th Century)American Political Music: A State-By-State Catalog of Printed and Recorded Music Related to Local, State and National Politics, 1756-2004American Political Music: A State-By-State Catalog of Printed and Recorded Music Related to Local, State and National Politics, 1756-2004
Best Price: $35.00
Since the years before the Revolutionary War, American composers have expressed their political...
Rock Band Name Origins: The Stories of 240 Groups and PerformersRock Band Name Origins: The Stories of 240 Groups and Performers
Best Price: $45.00
The book is organized in a series of short chapters which allows the reader to either quickly...
Presidential Sheet Music: An Illustrated Catalogue of Published Music Associated with the American Presidency and Those Who Sought the OfficePresidential Sheet Music: An Illustrated Catalogue of Published Music Associated with the American Presidency and Those Who Sought the Office
Best Price: $75.00
Political historians have traditionally interpreted the people and events of each presidential...
Fender Amps: The First Fifty YearsFender Amps: The First Fifty Years
Best Price: $20.35
Teagle and Sprung have done a public service to those of us on the lunatic fringe; we are the...


Elvis Presley Anthology - Boxed Set (Piano/Vocal/Guitar Artist Songbook)Elvis Presley Anthology - Boxed Set (Piano/Vocal/Guitar Artist Songbook)
Best Price: $45.98
This two-volume set in a protective hardcover case is an essential addition to any Elvis...
Legends of Rock GuitarLegends of Rock Guitar
Best Price: $16.04
This book to a guitar player is essential to an understanding of just where all that virtuosity...
The Rock and Roll Collection: Easy Guitar (Paperback Songs)The Rock and Roll Collection: Easy Guitar (Paperback Songs)
Best Price: $4.57
All that needs adding to the review posted by Donna J. Dean is that this book is one in a...
Beethoven's Compositional Process (North American Beethoven Studies)Beethoven's Compositional Process (North American Beethoven Studies)
Best Price: $45.00
Fresh perspectives on the symphonies and piano concertos of Ludwig van Beethoven are offered in...
Beethoven Forum, Volume 1Beethoven Forum, Volume 1
Best Price: $84.55
This inaugural volume of Beethoven Forum presents the work of ten leading scholars who focus...

Beethoven Forum, Volume 3Beethoven Forum, Volume 3
Best Price: $6.98
The opening essay by James Webster, "Beethoven in Vienna, 1792-1802:...
New Mozart Documents: A Supplement to O. E. Deutsch's Documentary BiographyNew Mozart Documents: A Supplement to O. E. Deutsch's Documentary Biography
Best Price: $6.69
O.Deutsch's documentary biography of Mozart, first published in German in 1961 and...
Five Wheels to Successful Sight-SingingFive Wheels to Successful Sight-Singing
Best Price: $8.66
This short book was highly recommended to me, and as a choir director, I enjoyed reading it. ...
A Guide to Musical AnalysisA Guide to Musical Analysis
Best Price: $357.24
This extremely practical introduction to musical analysis explores the factors that give unity...
The Harpsichord Owner's Guide: A Manual for Buyers and OwnersThe Harpsichord Owner's Guide: A Manual for Buyers and Owners
Best Price: $25.62
Let's assume you have just spent X dollars on a harpsichord. Make it X + 25 and get this...

Elvis Presley Anthology - Boxed Set (Piano/Vocal/Guitar Artist Songbook)Elvis Presley Anthology - Boxed Set (Piano/Vocal/Guitar Artist Songbook)
Best Price: $45.98
This two-volume set in a protective hardcover case is an essential addition to any Elvis...
Legends of Rock GuitarLegends of Rock Guitar
Best Price: $16.04
This book to a guitar player is essential to an understanding of just where all that virtuosity...
The Rock and Roll Collection: Easy Guitar (Paperback Songs)The Rock and Roll Collection: Easy Guitar (Paperback Songs)
Best Price: $4.57
All that needs adding to the review posted by Donna J. Dean is that this book is one in a...
Beethoven's Compositional Process (North American Beethoven Studies)Beethoven's Compositional Process (North American Beethoven Studies)
Best Price: $45.00
Fresh perspectives on the symphonies and piano concertos of Ludwig van Beethoven are offered in...
Beethoven Forum, Volume 1Beethoven Forum, Volume 1
Best Price: $84.55
This inaugural volume of Beethoven Forum presents the work of ten leading scholars who focus...

Beethoven Forum, Volume 3Beethoven Forum, Volume 3
Best Price: $6.98
The opening essay by James Webster, "Beethoven in Vienna, 1792-1802:...
New Mozart Documents: A Supplement to O. E. Deutsch's Documentary BiographyNew Mozart Documents: A Supplement to O. E. Deutsch's Documentary Biography
Best Price: $6.69
O.Deutsch's documentary biography of Mozart, first published in German in 1961 and...
Five Wheels to Successful Sight-SingingFive Wheels to Successful Sight-Singing
Best Price: $8.66
This short book was highly recommended to me, and as a choir director, I enjoyed reading it. ...
A Guide to Musical AnalysisA Guide to Musical Analysis
Best Price: $357.24
This extremely practical introduction to musical analysis explores the factors that give unity...
The Harpsichord Owner's Guide: A Manual for Buyers and OwnersThe Harpsichord Owner's Guide: A Manual for Buyers and Owners
Best Price: $25.62
Let's assume you have just spent X dollars on a harpsichord. Make it X + 25 and get this...

Evenings On and Off the Roof: Pioneering Concerts in Los Angeles, 1939-1971Evenings On and Off the Roof: Pioneering Concerts in Los Angeles, 1939-1971
In April of 1939 an unusual event occurred on a Los Angeles rooftop: nineteen people gathered to...
Choral Music on RecordChoral Music on Record
Best Price: $42.94
Following the successful volumes of Song on Record, this book surveys all the recordings of...
The Cambridge Companion to Recorded Music (Cambridge Companions to Music)The Cambridge Companion to Recorded Music (Cambridge Companions to Music)
Best Price: $29.26
From the cylinder to the download, the practice of music has been radically transformed by the...
The Cambridge Companion to the Musical (Cambridge Companions to Music)The Cambridge Companion to the Musical (Cambridge Companions to Music)
Best Price: $16.52
Although my shelves are loaded with histories of the Broadway musical, there is always room for...
2 CD Set for Aldwell/Schachter's Harmony and Voice Leading, 3rd2 CD Set for Aldwell/Schachter's Harmony and Voice Leading, 3rd
Best Price: $45.54
These cd's made it possible to study the examples with out my Piano with me. Summer classes...

Music Survey: New Series 1949-1952Music Survey: New Series 1949-1952
Best Price: $43.76
Improve Your Aural! Grade 5: A Workbook for Examinations (Book & CD) (Faber Edition: Improve Your Aural!)Improve Your Aural! Grade 5: A Workbook for Examinations (Book & CD) (Faber Edition: Improve Your Aural!)
Best Price: $5.21
Having a good ear is vital to becoming a successful musician, and Improve Your Aural! is here...
Beatles-Discography.com: Day-By-Day Song-By-Song Record-By-RecordBeatles-Discography.com: Day-By-Day Song-By-Song Record-By-Record
Had I discovered this book on the racks of a bookstore, I would have placed it near the top of...
Varieties of Things: Foundations of Contemporary Metaphysics (Contemporary Philosophy)Varieties of Things: Foundations of Contemporary Metaphysics (Contemporary Philosophy)
Best Price: $30.04
Varieties of Things: Foundations of Contemporary Metaphysics is about some of the most...
Cecilia Reclaimed: Feminist Perspectives on Gender and MusicCecilia Reclaimed: Feminist Perspectives on Gender and Music
Best Price: $25.25
Just as music theory, divorced from musicology and composition, has become an academic dumping...

The Well-Tempered Announcer: A Pronunciation Guide to Classical MusicThe Well-Tempered Announcer: A Pronunciation Guide to Classical Music
Best Price: $32.99
The Well-Tempered Announcer gives experienced announcers a refresher course in pronunciation and...
Good Afternoon, Ladies and Gentlemen!: Intermission Scripts from the Met BroadcastsGood Afternoon, Ladies and Gentlemen!: Intermission Scripts from the Met Broadcasts
Best Price: $20.00
For listeners to the Saturday afternoon broadcasts of the Metropolitan Opera, Boris...
A New Treatise on Accompaniment: With the Harpsichord, the Organ, and with Other Instruments (Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy)A New Treatise on Accompaniment: With the Harpsichord, the Organ, and with Other Instruments (Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy)
Best Price: $14.95
Saint Lambert's Nouveau traité de l'accompagnement de clavecin, de l'orgue, et...
The Songs of Hugo WolfThe Songs of Hugo Wolf
This book concentrates on the 242 published songs that Wolfe wrote for voice and piano, though...
New York Rocker: My Life in the Blank Generation with Blondie, Iggy Pop and Others 1974-1981New York Rocker: My Life in the Blank Generation with Blondie, Iggy Pop and Others 1974-1981
Best Price: $2.81
Complete FUN from start to finish. Valentine kicks off his rock and roll autobiography by...

The Austin Chronicle Music Anthology (Jack and Doris Smothers Series in Texas History, Life, and Culture)The Austin Chronicle Music Anthology (Jack and Doris Smothers Series in Texas History, Life, and Culture)
Best Price: $18.71
"Music saturates the city of Austin, always has, and likely always will," observes...
Calling on the Composer: A Guide to European Composer Houses and MuseumsCalling on the Composer: A Guide to European Composer Houses and Museums
Best Price: $14.29
Since I obtained this book I have traveled to Europe several times and each time I used this...
Swing Out: Great Negro Dance BandsSwing Out: Great Negro Dance Bands
Best Price: $8.95
From the earliest "riverboat jazz" to Dizzy Gillespie's "Hep-Sations of...
Ethnomusicology: A Research and Information Guide (Routledge Music Bibliographies)Ethnomusicology: A Research and Information Guide (Routledge Music Bibliographies)
Best Price: $107.82
Ethnomusicology: A Research and Information Guide is an annotated bibliography of books,...
Chronology of American Popular Music, 1900-2000Chronology of American Popular Music, 1900-2000
Best Price: $100.00
The field of Popular Music Studies is growing, but still lacks some basic reference materials. ...

Guitarmaking: Tradition and Technology : A Complete Reference for the Design and Construction of the Steel-String Folk Guitar and the Classical GuitaGuitarmaking: Tradition and Technology : A Complete Reference for the Design and Construction of the Steel-String Folk Guitar and the Classical Guita
I live in Ukraine, a country not known for its prosperity. When I ordered this book back in 1999...
The Playboy Guide to JazzThe Playboy Guide to Jazz
Best Price: $13.93
The author has done a wonderful job of writing a very user-friendly guide to the history of...
Mozart's Piano Concertos: Text, Context, InterpretationMozart's Piano Concertos: Text, Context, Interpretation
Best Price: $79.31
Like the symphonies of Beethoven, Mozart's piano concertos constitute an extraordinary body...
Complete Keyboard Transcriptions of Concertos by Baroque Composers (Dover Music for Piano)Complete Keyboard Transcriptions of Concertos by Baroque Composers (Dover Music for Piano)
Best Price: $7.35
J.S. Bach is a genius man. He arranged into such a beautiful and practical masterpiece. As a...
Cengage Advantage Books: The Piano Advantage: Concise Introduction for Beginners (with CD-ROM)Cengage Advantage Books: The Piano Advantage: Concise Introduction for Beginners (with CD-ROM)
Best Price: $20.41
I bought this book for my beginning piano class. It is easy to follow and easy to understand. ...

The Wagner Compendium: A Guide to Wagner's Life and MusicThe Wagner Compendium: A Guide to Wagner's Life and Music
Best Price: $6.74
Wagner is perhaps as renowned for controversy he inspires as for his music. The Wagner...
How to Read Music: Fundamentals of Music Notation Made EasyHow to Read Music: Fundamentals of Music Notation Made Easy
Best Price: $5.57
...not so great for trying to learn from scratch! I had been playing the keyboard/piano for...
Pierre Attaingnant, Royal Printer of Music: A Historical Study and Bibliographical CataloguePierre Attaingnant, Royal Printer of Music: A Historical Study and Bibliographical Catalogue
Best Price: $624.95
When Heartz' book is grouped with Howard Mayer Brown's bibliography of renaissance...
Musica Para Ocasiones Especiales (Spanish Edition)Musica Para Ocasiones Especiales (Spanish Edition)Hoot!: A Twenty-Five Year History of the Greenwich Village Music SceneHoot!: A Twenty-Five Year History of the Greenwich Village Music Scene
Best Price: $13.97
This well thought out and skillfully written assessment/history of the Village during the folk...

Rhythm on RecordRhythm on Record
Best Price: $39.99
One of the pioneering works in discography.
Jazz Performers: An Annotated Bibliography of Biographical Materials (Music Reference Collection)Jazz Performers: An Annotated Bibliography of Biographical Materials (Music Reference Collection)
Best Price: $106.95
A MUST READ FOR ALL JAZZ LOVERS
Toru Takemitsu: A Bio-Bibliography (Bio-Bibliographies in Music)Toru Takemitsu: A Bio-Bibliography (Bio-Bibliographies in Music)
Best Price: $125.00
Though often misunderstood in the West, the works of Toru Takemitsu (1930-1996) deserve...
The Classical Reproducing Piano Roll (Volume II: Pianists)The Classical Reproducing Piano Roll (Volume II: Pianists)
Best Price: $255.00
The Recorded Performances of Gerard Souzay: A Discography (Discographies)The Recorded Performances of Gerard Souzay: A Discography (Discographies)
Best Price: $62.95
In a distinguished 43-year recording career that began with the recording of two duets by...

Alec Wilder: A Bio-Bibliography (Bio-Bibliographies in Music)Alec Wilder: A Bio-Bibliography (Bio-Bibliographies in Music)
Best Price: $93.95
One of the few American composers to earn an international reputation in both...
The Choral Music of Latin America: A Guide to Compositions and Research (Music Reference Collection)The Choral Music of Latin America: A Guide to Compositions and Research (Music Reference Collection)
Best Price: $110.95
This book gave me valuable information for research of my Master's Choral Recital. My theme...
Stage It with Music: An Encyclopedic Guide to the American Musical TheatreStage It with Music: An Encyclopedic Guide to the American Musical Theatre
Best Price: $83.95
A one-stop, up-to-date source for information on the history of the American musical theatre, ...
Best of StyxBest of Styx
Best Price: $10.91
I bought this because my old Styx song books had been stolen many years back. Those old editions...
Puccini (Illustrated Lives of the Great Composers)Puccini (Illustrated Lives of the Great Composers)
Best Price: $12.99
This series of biographies presents the great composers against the background of their times. ...

The Original Guitar Styles of Jerry DonahueThe Original Guitar Styles of Jerry Donahue
Best Price: $69.95
Complete Guide to the Music of Bob MarleyComplete Guide to the Music of Bob Marley
Best Price: $4.06
Updated and redesigned editions of the classic guides to the music of the world?s best known...
Whatever Happened To--?: The Ultimate Pop and Rock "Where Are They Now?"Whatever Happened To--?: The Ultimate Pop and Rock "Where Are They Now?"
Best Price: $8.15
All I can say about this book is: buyer beware! Don't take Mr. Harry's word for it, make...
Essential Dictionary of OrchestrationEssential Dictionary of Orchestration
A good little dictionary giving you comprehensive information about Weston, often orchestral...
Alfred's Essentials of Music Theory: Note Naming Flash CardsAlfred's Essentials of Music Theory: Note Naming Flash Cards
Best Price: $6.57
I bought this for a piano course I was taking, we would be learning 8 scales and reading music...

Sequencing And Music Production Book 1 (Book & CD) (Alfred's Music Tech Series)Sequencing And Music Production Book 1 (Book & CD) (Alfred's Music Tech Series)
Best Price: $10.47
This book is an excellent introduction to MIDI, sequencing, song arrangement, sampling, use of...
Music Expressions Grade 2 (Expressions Music Curriculum)Music Expressions Grade 2 (Expressions Music Curriculum)
Best Price: $696.58
SERIES: Expressions Music Curriculum[TM] CATEGORY: Textbook - Classroom FORMAT: Resource...
Alfred's Essentials of Jazz Theory, Teacher's Answer Key (Book & 3 CD's)Alfred's Essentials of Jazz Theory, Teacher's Answer Key (Book & 3 CD's)
Best Price: $23.06
Alfred's Essentials Of Jazz Theory is designed for jazz enthusiasts and musicians who want...
The American Musical Theatre Song EncyclopediaThe American Musical Theatre Song Encyclopedia
Best Price: $115.00
Most books with alphabetical lists and brief descriptions of American popular songs are useful...
Library Resources for Singers, Coaches, and Accompanists: An Annotated Bibliography, 1970-1997 (Music Reference Collection)Library Resources for Singers, Coaches, and Accompanists: An Annotated Bibliography, 1970-1997 (Music Reference Collection)
Best Price: $98.95
This book is a wonderful one-volume resource for any singer, accompanist or vocal coach. I...

Irwin Bazelon: A Bio-Bibliography (Bio-Bibliographies in Music)Irwin Bazelon: A Bio-Bibliography (Bio-Bibliographies in Music)
Best Price: $25.00
Irwin Bazelon, one of the most original figures in American music in the second half of the 20th...
The Music of Billy May: A Discography (Discographies)The Music of Billy May: A Discography (Discographies)
Best Price: $131.95
While I have a moderate interest in Billy May's work, the real value of this book for me was...
The Printed Elvis: The Complete Guide to Books about the King (Music Reference Collection)The Printed Elvis: The Complete Guide to Books about the King (Music Reference Collection)
Best Price: $49.95
When was the last time that you could say that you had fun reading a reference book?Well,i had...
100 Albums That Changed Popular Music: A Reference Guide100 Albums That Changed Popular Music: A Reference Guide
Best Price: $27.80
In "100 Albums That Changed Popular Music: A Reference Guide" Chris Smith aims to...
Story behind the Protest Song: A Reference Guide to the 50 Songs That Changed the 20th CenturyStory behind the Protest Song: A Reference Guide to the 50 Songs That Changed the 20th Century
Best Price: $65.00
Protest songs are united by the fact they all have something to say, something to dispute, or...

Best Loved Songs of the American PeopleBest Loved Songs of the American People
Best Price: $45.60
This book manages to touch on many levels. Whether you are a beginner looking for some...
Guide to Chamber MusicGuide to Chamber Music
Best Price: $5.88
The primary audience of this guide is the classical music fan who has limited musical knowledge...
Twentieth-Century American Masters: Ives, Thomson, Sessions, Cowell, Gershwin, Copland, Carter, Barber, Cage, Bernstein (New Grove Composer Biographies)Twentieth-Century American Masters: Ives, Thomson, Sessions, Cowell, Gershwin, Copland, Carter, Barber, Cage, Bernstein (New Grove Composer Biographies)
Best Price: $19.99
West Coast Jazz: Modern Jazz in California, 1945-1960West Coast Jazz: Modern Jazz in California, 1945-1960
Best Price: $60.00
I recently read West Coast Jazz for a history of jazz class I was teaching. Excellent, it is...
Conversations About BernsteinConversations About Bernstein
Best Price: $3.95
With the death of Leonard Bernstein in 1990, the music world lost one of its most vital forces....

Sound Choices: Guiding Your Child's Musical ExperiencesSound Choices: Guiding Your Child's Musical Experiences
Best Price: $19.98
What should you do when your three-year-old Sesame-Street aficionado suddenly announces that he...
Music and Merchants: The Laudesi Companies of Republican FlorenceMusic and Merchants: The Laudesi Companies of Republican Florence
Best Price: $124.78
This is an indispensible book for performers and students of the Lauda repertory of Renaissance...
The Oxford Dictionary of Musical Terms (Oxford Paperback Reference)The Oxford Dictionary of Musical Terms (Oxford Paperback Reference)
Best Price: $8.29
The Oxford Dictionary of Musical Terms have assited so much while studying a new work of...
The Oxford Dictionary of Musical Works (Oxford Paperback Reference)The Oxford Dictionary of Musical Works (Oxford Paperback Reference)
Best Price: $3.94
It's difficult to know for whom this book is designed. Those with a more than passing...
A Catalogue of Durham Cathedral Music ManuscriptsA Catalogue of Durham Cathedral Music Manuscripts
The organ books and part-books used in Durham Cathedral over the centuries form the greatest...

Handbook for Sound Engineers, Fourth EditionHandbook for Sound Engineers, Fourth Edition
Best Price: $98.77
very good book, a must have for all the people involved in the audio scene.
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