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Music appreciation

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Essays in musical analysis

Donald Francis Tovey

1946

Music since the First World War

Arnold Whittall

1977

The listening book

W. A. Mathieu

1991

Literary works

Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky

1995

Ultimate Guide to Music

Joe Fullman

2014

Impressions that remained

Ethel Smyth

1919

What to Listen for in Music

Aaron Copland

1939 ★ 4.3

The great composers

George Bernard Shaw

1978

Music

Ferris, Jean Ferris

1988

The interpretation of the music of the XVII and XVIII centuries

Arnold Dolmetsch

1915

The Mozart effect for children

Campbell, Don G.

2002

The home book of musical knowledge

David Ewen

1954

A short guide to writing about music

Jonathan Bellman

1999

A history of musical thought

Donald Nivison Ferguson

1975

Norton Anthology of Western Music

Claude V. Palisca

1980

Music of the twentieth century

Bryan R. Simms

1995

Virgil Thomson

Virgil Thomson

2014

Music!

Fowler, Charles B., Charles B. Fowler, Vincent P. Lawrence et al.

1994

Music in East Africa

Gregory Barz

2004

Peti︠a︡ i volk

Sergey Prokofiev, Nazih Girgis, Serge Prokofieff et al.

1986

Music of the Peoples of the World

William Alves

2010

American popular music

David Lee Joyner

1993

Classical music

Richard Carlin

1992

Orchestra!

Jan Younghusband

1991

Musical Composition in the Twentieth Century

Arnold Whittall

1999

Music as social life

Thomas Turino

2008

Musical interpretation, its laws and principles

Tobias Matthay

1913

Music explained to the world

Bernarr Rainbow, François-Joseph Fétis

1800

Teaching music appreciation

Velma Irene Kitchell

1940

Music

Nicholas Cook

1998

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