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  • Recording: Create Your Own Digital Music Studio
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    Music Tools & Learning:  A Book List

     
     
     
     
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  • 1,000 Recordings to Hear Before You Die (1,000 Before You Die) by Tom Moon
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  • John Lennon: The Life by Philip Norman
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  • This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession by Daniel J. Levitin
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  • The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century by Alex Ross
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  • Hitman: Forty Years Making Music, Topping the Charts, and Winning Grammys by David Foster
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  • Music Theory for Guitarists: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know But Were Afraid to Ask by Tom Kolb
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  • The Chord Wheel: The Ultimate Tool for All Musicians by Jim Fleser
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  • Guitar For Dummies
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  • The Beatles Complete Chord Songbook
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  • The Complete Idiot's Guide to Music Theory
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  • The Jazz Ear: Conversations over Music by Ben Ratliff
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  • Norton Anthology of Western Music: Volume 1: Ancient to Baroque
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  • Norton Anthology of Western Music: Volume 2: Classic to Twentieth Century
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  • The Complete Lyrics of Oscar Hammerstein II
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  • The Complete Quincy Jones: My Journey & Passions: Photos, Letters, Memories & More
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  • All You Need To Know About the Music Business: 6th Edition by Donald S. Passman
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  • Apple Pro Training Series: Logic Pro 8 and Logic Express 8 by David Nahmani
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  • Music: An Appreciation, 6th Brief Edition by Roger Kamien
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  • The Jazz Theory Book by Mark Levine
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  • George Winston Piano Solos by George Winston
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  • The Guitar Player Repair Guide
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  • Broadway Musicals: The 101 Greatest Shows of All Time by Ken Bloom
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  • Hallelujah Junction: Composing an American Life by John Adams
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  • The Jazz Piano Book by Mark Levine
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  • Getting Started On Drums-Setting Up - Start Playing DVD
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  • Moving to Higher Ground: How Jazz Can Change Your Life by Wynton Marsalis
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  • The Penguin Guide to Recorded Classical Music 2009
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  • With Strings Attached: The Art and Beauty of Vintage Guitars by Jonathan Kellerman
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  • Fretboard Logic SE: The Reasoning Behind the Guitar's Unique Tuning + Chords Scales and Arpeggios
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  • Piano for Dummies by Blake Neely
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  • The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings: Ninth Edition
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  • Blues by the Bar: Cool Riffs That Sound Great over Each Portion of the Blues Progression
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  • The Complete Idiot's Guide to Music Composition by Michael Miller
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  • The Mixing Engineer's Handbook, Second Edition by Bobby Owsinski
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  • Music Theory For Dummies
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  • The Songwriting Sourcebook: How to Turn Chords Into Great Songs by Rikky Rooksby
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  • The Real Book: Sixth Edition by Hal Leonard Corporation
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  • Broadway Musicals Show by Show: Sixth Edition
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  • The Ultimate Fake Book (for C Instruments)
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  • The World of Music with 3-CD set by David Willoughby
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  • Mixing Audio: Concepts, Practices and Tools by Roey Izhaki
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  • How to Play from a Fake Book by Michael Esterowitz
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  • Effortless Mastery: Liberating the Master Musician Within by Kenny Werner
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  • Deep Blues: A Musical and Cultural History of the Mississippi Delta by Robert Palmer
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  • The Piano Book: Buying & Owning a New or Used Piano by Larry Fine
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  • 2009 Songwriter's Market by Greg Hatfield
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  • Listen by Joseph Kerman
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  • Study of Orchestration, Third Edition by Samuel Adler
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  • Songwriters On Songwriting: Revised And Expanded by Paul Zollo
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  • Arranging Songs by Rikky Rooksby
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  • Lyricist's Notebook by Matthew Teacher
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  • Electronic Projects for Musicians by Craig Anderton
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  • Acoustic and MIDI Orchestration for the Contemporary Composer by Andrea Pejrolo
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  • Technique of Orchestration and CD Recording Package,Book & CD) by Kent Kennan
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  • The Art of Writing Great Lyrics by Pamela Phillips Oland
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  • On the Track: A Guide to Contemporary Film Scoring, Second Edition by Fred Karlin
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  • The Complete Idiot's Guide to Arranging and Orchestration by Michael Miller
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  • The Art of Conducting by Donald Hunsberger
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  • Songwriter's Guide to Music Publishing: Make the Best Publishing Deals for Your Songs by Randy Poe
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  • Sonata Forms by Charles Rosen
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  • From Score To Screen: Sequencers, Scores And Second Thoughts by Sonny Kompanek
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  • 101 Songwriting Wrongs and How to Right Them: How to Craft and Sell Your Songs by Pete Luboff
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  • Treatise on Instrumentation by Hector Berlioz
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  • Scales, Intervals, Keys, Triads, Rhythm, and Meter: A Programmed Course
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  • How to Write Songs on Guitar: 2nd Edition, Expanded and Updated by Rikky Rooksby
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  • Form in Tonal Music: An Introduction to Analysis by Douglass Green
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  • Score Reading: A Key to the Music Experience by Michael Dickreiter
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  • The Guide To MIDI Orchestration by Paul Gilreath
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  • Songwriting: A Complete Guide to the Craft by Citron
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  • Melody: How to Write Great Tunes by Rikky Rooksby
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  • Formalized Music: Thought and Mathematics in Composition by Iannis Xenakis
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  • Creative Music Composition: The Young Composer's Voice by Margaret Lucy Wilkins
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  • Free Composition: Vol. 3 of New Musical Theories and Fantiasies, Music Edition by Heinrich Schenker
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  • Song Man: A Melodic Adventure, or, My Single-Minded Approach to Songwriting by Will Hodgkinson
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  • Contemporary Arranger, Definitive Edition by Don Sebesky
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  • Secrets of Songwriting: Leading Songwriters Reveal How to Find Inspiration & Success - Susan Tucker
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  • And Then I Wrote: The Songwriter Speaks
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  • A Creative Approach to Music Fundamentals (with CD-ROM) by William Duckworth
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  • Sounds and Scores : A Practical Guide to Professional Orchestration by Henry Mancini
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  • The Songwriter's Journal: 52 Weeks of Songwriting Ideas and Inspiration by Stan Swanson
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  • Mastering Music Fundamentals: A Guided Step by Step Approach (with CD-ROM) by Michael Kinney
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  • Techniques of the Contemporary Composer by David Cope
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  • Music Publishing by Ron Sobel
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  • Stickings and Orchestrations for Drum Set by Casey Scheurell
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  • Arranging for the Concert Band (Workbook) by Frank Erikson
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  • Computer Orchestration Tips and Tricks by Stephen Bennett
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  • Off The Record: Songwriters on Songwriting
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  • Money Chords: A Songwriter's Sourcebook of Popular Chord Progressions by Richard Scott
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  • The Complete Lyrics Of Ira Gershwin by Robert Kimball
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  • How to Write a Hit Song Fifth Edition by Leikin
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  • The Song is Ended: Songwriters and American Music, 1900-1950 by William G. Hyland
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  • Singing with Your Whole Self: The Feldenkrais Method and Voice by Elizabeth Blades-Zeller
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  • Harmony And Composition: Basics to Intermediate by Deborah Jamini
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  • Get It in Writing: The Musician's Guide to the Music Business by Brian McPherson
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  • The Complete Lyrics Of Cole Porter by Robert Kimball
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  • Basic Harmonic Progressions: A Self-Instruction Program by John L. Clough
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  • Inspiration for Songwriters: Tips and Tricks to Unlocking the Muse by Stan Swanson
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  • Inside Songwriting: Getting to the Heart of Creativity by Jason Blume
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  • Promoting Your Music: The Lovin' of the Game by Tom May
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  • David Baker's Arranging and Composing for the Small Ensemble: Jazz, R & B, Jazz Rock by David Baker
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  • Coherence, Counterpoint, Instrumentation, Instruction in Form - by Arnold Schoenberg
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  • The Music of John Cage (Music in the Twentieth Century) by James Pritchett
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  • Theory Essentials: Integrated Approach to Harmony, Ear Training, and Keyboard Skills -  Mayfield
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  • The Blues Lyric Formula by Michael Taft
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  • What's MIDI?: Making Musical Instruments Work Together
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  • Orchestration: An Anthology of Writings
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  • Chops Builder for Guitar: Technique Intermediate to Advanced Guitarist by Chad Johnson
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  • Classical Composers: An Illustrated History by Peter Gammond
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  • Arranging Concepts Complete: The Ultimate Arranging Course for Today's Music (2718) by Dick Grove
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  • Composers on Composing for Band by Andrew, Jr. Boysen
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  • The Modern Rhyming Dictionary Edition by Gene Lees
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  • Orchestrating the Melody Within the String Section by Peter Lawrence Alexander
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  • Orchestral Technique: A Manual for Students by Gordon Jacob
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  • Writing Music for Television and Radio Commercials -A Manual for Composers & Students by M Zager
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  • The Physics and Psychophysics of Music: An Introduction by Juan G. Roederer
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  • The Art of Writing Love Songs by Pamela Oland
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  • Why and How to Teach Music Composition: A New Horizon for Music Education by Maud Hickey
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  • Schoenberg and the New Music: Essays by Carl Dahlhaus by Carl Dahlhaus
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  • The Composer-Pianists: Hamelin and The Eight by Robert Rimm
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  • Music and Society: The Politics of Composition, Performance and Reception
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  • You Can Write a Song (with Audio CD)
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  • How to Write a Hit Song: Writing & Marketing Chart-Topping Lyrics and Music by Molly-Ann Leikin
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  • Sight of Sound: Music, Representation, and the History of the Body by Richard Leppert
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  • Composers at Work: The Craft of Musical Composition 1450-1600 by Jessie Ann Owens
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  • CLASSICAL MUSIC'S LAST HOPE by Paul Breer
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  • Composing for Voice: A Guide for Composers, Singers, and Teachers by Paul Barker
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  • The Songwriter's Notebook: Manuscript Paper for Lyrics & Chords, for Composition & Inspiration
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  • All Area Access: Personal Management for Unsigned Musicians by Marc Davison
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  • Heart and Soul: Revealing the Craft of Songwriting by Chris Bradford
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  • Types Of Music Form And Composition: 50 Ready-to-Use by Audrey J. Adair
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  • The Piano Quartet and Quintet: Style, Structure, and Scoring (Clarendon Paperbacks) by Basil Smallman
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  • Songwriters: A Biographical Dictionary With Discographies by Nigel Harrison
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  • The Study of Fugue by Alfred Mann
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  • Preparing Traditional Music Manuscript: Handbook of Instrumentation, Theory, Terms by Michael Mohn
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  • Instrumentation and Orchestration by Alfred Blatter
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  • The Melody Lingers on: The Great Songwriters and Their Movie Musicals by Roy Hemming
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  • The Muse that Sings: Composers Speak about the Creative Process by Ann McCutchan
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  • Manual of Practical Instrumentation by Charles-Marie Widor
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  • Double Counterpoint and Canon by Ebenezer Prout
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  • On The Sensations Of Tone As A Physiological Basis For The Theory Of Music by Hermann Helmholtz
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  • The Pandora Guide to Women Composers: Britain and the United States 1629 to the Present
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  • A Conductor's Repertory of Chamber Music: Compositions for Nine to Fifteen Solo Instruments
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  • Ballads Without Words: Chopin and the Tradition of the Instrumental Ballade by James Parakilas
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  • Boulez on Conducting by Pierre Boulez
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  • The Theory And Practice of Musical Form:  by J. H. Cornell
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  • Compendium of Modern Instrumental Techniques by Gardner Read
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  • The Musical Dilettante: A Treatise on Composition by J. F. Daube
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  • Music in Transition: A Study of Tonal Expansion and Atonality, 1900-1920 by Jim Samson
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  • Music Theory for Little Einsteins & Big Dummies by Caroline Weage
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  • The Da Capo Catalog Of Classical Music Compositions by Jerzy Chwialkowski
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  • Electronic and Computer Music by Peter Manning
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  • Technique for Composers by Michael, G. Cunningham
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  • Composers and Composing by Judith Bailey
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  • Analyzing Fugue: A Schenkerian Approach (Harmonologia) by William Renwick
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