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#2
Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain
Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain
  • Oliver Sacks
3.8140 reads
#3
How equal temperament ruined harmony (and why you should care)
How equal temperament ruined harmony (and why you should care)
  • Ross W. Duffin
31 read
#4
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Beyond Talent

Beyond Talent: Creating a Successful Career in Music
  • Angela Beeching
41 read
#5
Music
Music
  • Ted Gioia
32 reads
#6
Composing Capital: Classical Music in the Neoliberal Era
Composing Capital: Classical Music in the Neoliberal Era
  • Marianna Ritchey
41 read
#7
The Music Lesson
The Music Lesson
  • Victor L. Wooten
2.53 reads
#8
Groove: A Phenomenology of Rhythmic Nuance
Groove: A Phenomenology of Rhythmic Nuance
  • Tiger C. Roholt
41 read
#9
Playing Changes: Jazz for the New Century
Playing Changes: Jazz for the New Century
  • Nate Chinen
3.52 reads
#10
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The Mind behind the Musical Ear

The Mind behind the Musical Ear: How Children Develop Musical Intelligence
  • Jeanne Bamberger
41 read
#11
How Music Got Free
How Music Got Free
  • Stephen Witt
411 reads
#12
Making Master Guitars
Making Master Guitars
  • Roy Courtnall
00 reads
#13
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Thinking Musically

Thinking Musically: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture
  • Bonnie Wade
00 reads
#14
Inventing the American Guitar: The Pre-Civil War Innovations of C.F. Martin and His Contemporaries
Inventing the American Guitar: The Pre-Civil War Innovations of C.F. Martin and His Contemporaries
  • James Westbrook
00 reads
#15
Guitar: An American Life
Guitar: An American Life
  • Tim Brookes
31 read
#16
Absolutely on Music: Conversations with Seiji Ozawa
Absolutely on Music: Conversations with Seiji Ozawa
  • Haruki Murakami
  • Seiji Ozawa
3.56 reads
#17
Thinking in Jazz
Thinking in Jazz
  • Paul F. Berliner
00 reads
#18
A Work In Progress ...On Being a Musician
A Work In Progress ...On Being a Musician
  • Chick Corea
00 reads
#19
The Music Teaching Artist's Bible: Becoming a Virtuoso Educator
The Music Teaching Artist's Bible: Becoming a Virtuoso Educator
  • Eric Booth
00 reads
#20
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The Spirit of Music

The Spirit of Music: The Lesson Continues
  • Victor L. Wooten
00 reads
#21
Ideas and Styles in the Western Musical Tradition
Ideas and Styles in the Western Musical Tradition
  • Douglass Seaton
00 reads
#22
The Story of Music: From Babylon to the Beatles: How Music Has Shaped Civilization
The Story of Music: From Babylon to the Beatles: How Music Has Shaped Civilization
  • Howard Goodall
00 reads
#23
The Letters of Cole Porter
The Letters of Cole Porter
  • Cole Porter
00 reads
#24
Summertime: George Gershwin's Life in Music
Summertime: George Gershwin's Life in Music
  • Richard Crawford
00 reads
#25
The Rest Is Noise
The Rest Is Noise
  • Alex Ross
48 reads
#26
The jazz standards
The jazz standards
  • Ted Gioia
31 read
#27
How to Listen to Jazz
How to Listen to Jazz
  • Ted Gioia
4.148 reads
#28
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The Twisted Muse

The Twisted Muse: Musicians and Their Music in the Third Reich
  • Michael H. Kater
00 reads
#29
This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession
This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession
  • Daniel J. Levitin
3.532 reads
#30
The Jazz of Physics
The Jazz of Physics
  • Stephon Alexander
00 reads
#31
Cover 6

Cuba and Its Music

Cuba and Its Music: From the First Drums to the Mambo
  • Ned Sublette
51 read
#32
The Musical Human: A History of Life on Earth
The Musical Human: A History of Life on Earth
  • Michael Spitzer
2.52 reads
#33
Cole Porter: A Biography
Cole Porter: A Biography
  • Charles Schwartz
41 read
#34
The Birth of Loud
The Birth of Loud
  • Ian S. Port
42 reads
#35
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Temperament

Temperament: The Idea That Solved Music's Greatest Riddle
  • Stuart Isacoff
31 read
#36
Play It Loud: An Epic History of the Style, Sound, & Revolution of the Electric Guitar
Play It Loud: An Epic History of the Style, Sound, & Revolution of the Electric Guitar
  • Brad Tolinski
  • Alan di Perna
51 read
#37
The Segovia-Ponce Letters
The Segovia-Ponce Letters
  • Andrés Segovia
  • Peter Segal (Translator)
41 read
#38
Cover 8

Frank

Frank: The Voice
  • James Kaplan
41 read
#39
Sinatra: The Chairman
Sinatra: The Chairman
  • James Kaplan
00 reads
#40
Perfecting Sound Forever: An Aural History of Recorded Music
Perfecting Sound Forever: An Aural History of Recorded Music
  • Greg Milner
00 reads
#41
Sing for Your Life: A Story of Race, Music, and Family
Sing for Your Life: A Story of Race, Music, and Family
  • Daniel Bergner
00 reads
#42
Decoding Despacito: An Oral History of Latin Music
Decoding Despacito: An Oral History of Latin Music
  • Leila Cobo
00 reads
#43
Music, the brain, and ecstasy
Music, the brain, and ecstasy
  • Robert Jourdain
00 reads
#44
What to Listen for in Music
What to Listen for in Music
  • Aaron Copland
46 reads
#45
Wagnerism
Wagnerism
  • Alex Ross
21 read
#46
Listening for America: Inside the Great American Songbook from Gershwin to Sondheim
Listening for America: Inside the Great American Songbook from Gershwin to Sondheim
  • Rob Kapilow
00 reads
#47
Audio Culture
Audio Culture
    00 reads
    #48
    How Music Works: The Science and Psychology of Beautiful Sounds, from Beethoven to the Beatles and Beyond
    How Music Works: The Science and Psychology of Beautiful Sounds, from Beethoven to the Beatles and Beyond
    • John Powell
    51 read
    #49
    Cover 1

    Musimathics

    Musimathics: The Mathematical Foundations of Music
    • Gareth Loy
    00 reads
    #50
    Listening to salsa
    Listening to salsa
    • Frances R. Aparicio
    00 reads
    #51
    The Great Woman Singer: Gender and Voice in Puerto Rican Music
    The Great Woman Singer: Gender and Voice in Puerto Rican Music
    • Licia Fiol-Matta
    00 reads
    #52
    The Singing Neanderthals: The Origins of Music, Language, Mind, and Body
    The Singing Neanderthals: The Origins of Music, Language, Mind, and Body
    • Steven Mithen
    41 read
    #53
    Sonic Technologies: Popular music, Digital culture and the Creative Process
    Sonic Technologies: Popular music, Digital culture and the Creative Process
    • Robert Strachan
    00 reads
    #54
    Kika Kila: How the Hawaiian Steel Guitar Changed the Sound of Modern Music
    Kika Kila: How the Hawaiian Steel Guitar Changed the Sound of Modern Music
    • John W. Troutman
    00 reads
    #55
    Cover 0

    The Guitar And Its Music

    The Guitar And Its Music: From The Renaissance to The Classical Era
    • James Tyler
    • Paul Sparks
    00 reads
    #56
    Recording the Classical Guitar
    Recording the Classical Guitar
    • Mark Marrington
    00 reads
    #57
    Manuel M. Ponce and the Guitar
    Manuel M. Ponce and the Guitar
    • Corazón Otero
    • J.D. Roberts (Translator)
    00 reads
    #58
    The Guitar in America: Victorian Era to Jazz Age
    The Guitar in America: Victorian Era to Jazz Age
    • Jeffrey J. Noonan
    00 reads
    #59
    The Beatles:  The Biography
    The Beatles: The Biography
    • Bob Spitz
    4.754 reads
    #60
    Singing Like Germans: Black Musicians in the Land of Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms
    Singing Like Germans: Black Musicians in the Land of Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms
    • Kira Thurman
    00 reads
    #61
    Visions of jazz
    Visions of jazz
    • Gary Giddins
    00 reads
    #62
    Why You Like It: The Science and Culture of Musical Taste
    Why You Like It: The Science and Culture of Musical Taste
    • Nolan Gasser
    00 reads
    #63
    Cover 3

    This Is Ragtime

    This Is Ragtime
    • Terry Waldo
    00 reads
    #64
    Cover 7

    How the Beatles Destroyed Rock 'n' Roll

    How the Beatles Destroyed Rock 'n' Roll: An Alternative History of American Popular Music
    • Elijah Wald
    2.52 reads
    #65
    Song Machine Inside the Hit Factory
    Song Machine Inside the Hit Factory
    • John Seabrook
    3.7811 reads
    #66
    Latin Jazz: The Other Jazz
    Latin Jazz: The Other Jazz
    • Christopher Washburne
    00 reads
    #67
    The Latin Tinge: The Impact of Latin American Music on the United States
    The Latin Tinge: The Impact of Latin American Music on the United States
    • John Storm Roberts
    31 read
    #68
    Cover 0

    Different Drummers

    Different Drummers: Jazz in the Culture of Nazi Germany
    • Michael H. Kater
    00 reads
    #69
    Cover 2

    Music Stories from the Cosmic Barrio

    Music Stories from the Cosmic Barrio
    • Betto Arcos
    00 reads
    #70
    Cover 4

    Recordando a Tito Puente

    Recordando a Tito Puente: El Rey del Timbal
    • Steven Loza
    41 read
    #71
    The History of Jazz
    The History of Jazz
    • Ted Gioia
    4.256 reads
    #72
    In the Heights: Finding Home
    In the Heights: Finding Home
    • Lin-Manuel Miranda
    • Quiara Alegría Hudes
    • Jeremy McCarter
    4.253 reads
    #73
    Queen of Bebop: The Musical Lives of Sarah Vaughan
    Queen of Bebop: The Musical Lives of Sarah Vaughan
    • Elaine M. Hayes
    41 read
    #74
    Cover 1

    The Clave Matrix

    The Clave Matrix: Afro-Cuban Rhythm: its Principles and African Origins
    • David Peñalosa
    00 reads
    #75
    Cover 7

    From Afro-Cuban Rhythms to Latin Jazz

    From Afro-Cuban Rhythms to Latin Jazz
    • Raul A. Fernandez
    00 reads
    #76
    New York and the International Sound of Latin Music, 1940-1990
    New York and the International Sound of Latin Music, 1940-1990
    • Benjamin Lapidus
    00 reads
    #77
    On Music Theory, and Making Music More Welcoming for Everyone
    On Music Theory, and Making Music More Welcoming for Everyone
    • Philip Ewell
    00 reads
    #78
    The Art and Times of the Guitar: An Illustrated History of Guitars and Guitarists
    The Art and Times of the Guitar: An Illustrated History of Guitars and Guitarists
    • Frederic V. Grunfeld
    00 reads
    #79
    Cover 2

    Instruments of Desire

    Instruments of Desire: The Electric Guitar and the Shaping of Musical Experience
    • Steve Waksman
    00 reads
    #80
    Cover 1

    The Guitar from the Renaissance to the Present Day

    The Guitar from the Renaissance to the Present Day
    • Harvey Turnbull
    00 reads
    #81
    Cover 1

    Zen Guitar

    Zen Guitar
    • Philip Toshio Sudo
    51 read
    #82
    Cover 0

    The Jazz Musician's Guide to Creative Practicing

    The Jazz Musician's Guide to Creative Practicing
    • David Berkman
    00 reads
    #83
    Django
    Django
    • Michael Dregni
    00 reads
    #84
    Autobiografía
    Autobiografía
    • Luis Enrique
    41 read