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Related Books That I Recommend

Many times students ask me "what books should I read to understand music at a deeper level" Here is a list of books I have found to be very insightful and which have helped me to spur my creativity or teach me the nuts and bolts of music and art in general. This list of books is in no special order.

To quick-jump to a topic, select from these:
Theoretical
Counterpoint
Orchestration
History
Notation
Technique
The Mind
Painters
Writers
Theoretical

AUTHOR :Hanson, Howard, 1896-
TITLE :Harmonic materials of modern music; resources of the tempered scale.
PUBLISHER :New York, Appleton-Century-Crofts [1960]
DESCRIPTION :381 p. illus. 24 cm

AUTHOR Kepes, Gyorgy, 1906- ed.
TITLE Module, proportion, symmetry, rhythm.
IMPRINT New York, G. Braziller [1966]

AUTHOR: Piston, Walter, 1894-1976.
TITLE: Harmony / Walter Piston.
PUBLICATION: New York : Norton, c1987.

AUTHOR :Messiaen, Olivier, 1908-
UNIFORM TITLE :Technique de mon langage musical. English
TITLE :The technique of my musical language / by Olivier Messiaen ;
translated by John Satterfield.
PUBLISHER :Paris : Alphonse Leduc, [1957], c1966.

AUTHOR :Schillinger, Joseph, 1895-1943.
TITLE :The Schillinger system of musical composition / by Joseph Schillinger.
PUBLISHER :New York : Da Capo Press, 1978.

AUTHOR: Kramer, Jonathan D., 1942-
TITLE: The time of music: new meanings, new temporalities, new listening
strategies
PUBLISHER: New York, London, Schirmer Books; Collier Macmillan, 1988.

AUTHOR :Slonimsky, Nicolas, 1894-
TITLE :Thesaurus of scales and melodic patterns / Nicolas Slonimsky.
PUBLISHER :New York : London : Macmillan ; Collier Macmillan, [1986].

AUTHOR :Schoenberg, Arnold, 1874-1951.
TITLE :Theory of harmony. Translated by Roy E. Carter.
PUBLISHER :Berkeley: University of California Press, 1978.

TITLE Anton Webern. [Translated by Leo Black and Eric Smith. * Die Reihe, 2
EDITION 2d rev. ed.]
IMPRINT Bryn Mawr, Pa., T. Presser Co. with Universal Edition, London c1959]

AUTHOR Schonberg, Arnold, 1874-
TITLE Style and idea.
IMPRINT New York, Philosophical Library [1950]

AUTHOR :Goldstein, Gil
TITLE :Jazz composer's companion / by Gil Goldstein.
EDITION :[2nd ed.]
PUBLISHER :Rottenburg N., Germany : Advance Music, c1993. London [c1965]

AUTHOR Jonas, Oswald.
UNIFORM TITLE: Einfuhrung in die Lehre Heinrich Schenkers. English
TITLE: Introduction to the theory of Heinrich Schenker : the nature
of the musical work of art / Oswald Jonas ; translated and
edited by John Rothgeb.
PUBLICATION: New York, N.Y. : Longman, c1982.

AUTHOR Babbitt, Milton, 1916-
TITLE A life of learning / Milton Babitt.
IMPRINT New York, N.Y. : American Council of Learned Societies, [1991]

AUTHOR Babbitt, Milton, 1916-
TITLE Milton Babbitt : words about music / edited by Stephen Dembski and Joseph
IMPRINT Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, 1987

AUTHOR :Hanson, Howard, 1896-
TITLE :Harmonic materials of modern music; resources of the tempered scale.
PUBLISHER :New York, Appleton-Century-Crofts [1960]
DESCRIPTION :381 p. illus. 24 cm

AUTHOR Kepes, Gyorgy, 1906- ed.
TITLE Module, proportion, symmetry, rhythm.
IMPRINT New York, G. Braziller [1966]

AUTHOR: Piston, Walter, 1894-1976.
TITLE: Harmony / Walter Piston.
PUBLICATION: New York : Norton, c1987.

AUTHOR :Messiaen, Olivier, 1908-
UNIFORM TITLE :Technique de mon langage musical. English
TITLE :The technique of my musical language / by Olivier Messiaen ;
translated by John Satterfield.
PUBLISHER :Paris : Alphonse Leduc, [1957], c1966.

AUTHOR :Schillinger, Joseph, 1895-1943.
TITLE :The Schillinger system of musical composition / by Joseph Schillinger.
PUBLISHER :New York : Da Capo Press, 1978.

AUTHOR: Kramer, Jonathan D., 1942-
TITLE: The time of music: new meanings, new temporalities, new listening
strategies
PUBLISHER: New York, London, Schirmer Books; Collier Macmillan, 1988.

AUTHOR :Slonimsky, Nicolas, 1894-
TITLE :Thesaurus of scales and melodic patterns / Nicolas Slonimsky.
PUBLISHER :New York : London : Macmillan ; Collier Macmillan, [1986].

AUTHOR :Schoenberg, Arnold, 1874-1951.
TITLE :Theory of harmony. Translated by Roy E. Carter.
PUBLISHER :Berkeley: University of California Press, 1978.

TITLE Anton Webern. [Translated by Leo Black and Eric Smith. * Die Reihe, 2
EDITION 2d rev. ed.]
IMPRINT Bryn Mawr, Pa., T. Presser Co. with Universal Edition, London c1959]

AUTHOR Schonberg, Arnold, 1874-
TITLE Style and idea.
IMPRINT New York, Philosophical Library [1950]

AUTHOR :Goldstein, Gil
TITLE :Jazz composer's companion / by Gil Goldstein.
EDITION :[2nd ed.]
PUBLISHER :Rottenburg N., Germany : Advance Music, c1993. London [c1965]

AUTHOR Jonas, Oswald.
UNIFORM TITLE: Einfuhrung in die Lehre Heinrich Schenkers. English
TITLE: Introduction to the theory of Heinrich Schenker : the nature
of the musical work of art / Oswald Jonas ; translated and
edited by John Rothgeb.
PUBLICATION: New York, N.Y. : Longman, c1982.

AUTHOR Babbitt, Milton, 1916-
TITLE A life of learning / Milton Babitt.
IMPRINT New York, N.Y. : American Council of Learned Societies, [1991]

AUTHOR Babbitt, Milton, 1916-
TITLE Milton Babbitt : words about music / edited by Stephen Dembski and Joseph
IMPRINT Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, 1987
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12 Tone Theory

AUTHOR :Straus, Joseph Nathan.
TITLE :Introduction to post-tonal theory / Joseph N. Straus.
PUBLISHER :Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice Hall, c1990.

AUTHOR :Forte, Allen.
TITLE :The structure of atonal music.
PUBLISHER :New Haven, Yale University Press, 1973.

AUTHOR :Lester, Joel.
TITLE :Analytic approaches to twentieth-century music / Joel Lester.
EDITION :1st ed.
PUBLISHER :New York : W.W. Norton, c1989.

AUTHOR :Perle, George, 1915-
TITLE :Serial composition and atonality : an introduction to the
EDITION :6th ed., rev.
PUBLISHER :Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, 1991.
 
 
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Counterpoint

AUTHOR Jeppesen, Knud, 1892-
TITLE Counterpoint : the polyphonic vocal style of the sixteenth century / Knu>
EDITION Dover ed.
IMPRINT New York : Dover Publications, 1992.

AUTHOR: Schenker, Heinrich, 1868-1935.
UNIFORM TITLE: Kontrapunkt. English
TITLE: Counterpoint : a translation of Kontrapunkt / by Heinrich
Schenker ; translated by John Rothgeb and Jurgen Thym ;
edit John Rothgeb.
PUBLISHER: New York : Schirmer Books, c1987-
AUTHOR: Fux, Johann Joseph, 1660-1741.
TITLE: The study of counterpoint from Johann Joseph Fux's Gradus ad
parnassum. Translated and edited by Alfred Mann, with the
collaboration of John Edmunds.
EDITION: Rev. ed.
PUBLISHER: New York, W.W. Norton [1965]
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Orchestration

AUTHOR Adler, Samuel, 1928-
TITLE The study of orchestration / Samuel Adler.
EDITION 2nd ed.
IMPRINT New York : W.W. Norton, c1989
AUTHOR Adler, Samuel, 1928-
TITLE The study of orchestration [sound recording] / Samuel Adler.
IMPRINT New York : W.W. Norton p1989.
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History
AUTHOR :Cope, David.
TITLE :New directions in music / David Cope.
EDITION :6th ed.
PUBLISHER :Madison, Wis. : Brown & Benchmark, c1993.

AUTHOR: Grout, Donald Jay.
TITLE: A history of western music / Donald Jay Grout & Claude V.
Palisca.
EDITION: 4th ed.
PUBLISHER: New York : Norton, c1988.
AUTHOR: Boorstin, Daniel J. (Daniel Joseph), 1914-
TITLE: The creators / Daniel J. Boorstin.
EDITION: 1st ed.
IMPRINT: New York : Random House, c1992
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Time

AUTHOR Kramer, Jonathan D., 1942-
TITLE THE TIME OF MUSIC :
PUBLISHER (New York : Schirmer Books; c1988.)
AUTHOR: Hartenberger, John Russell, 1944-
TITLE: Mrdangam manual : a guidebook to South Indian rhythm for western
musicians / by John Russell Hartenberger. -- 1974. 5 v. : music
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Notation

AUTHOR: Stone, Kurt
TITLE: Music notation in the twentieth century : a practical
guidebook / by Kurt Stone.
PUBLICATION: New York : W. W. Norton, c1980. 1st ed.
AUTHOR Heussenstamm, George.
TITLE The Norton manual of music notation / by George Heussenstamm.
EDITION 1st ed.
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Technique

AUTHOR :Whiteside, Abby.
TITLE :Indispensables of piano playing.
EDITION :[2d ed.]
PUBLISHER :New York, Coleman-Ross Co. [1961]
AUTHOR :Whiteside, Abby
TITLE :Mastering the Chopin Etudes and other essays. Edited by Joseph
Prostakoff and Sophia Rosoff.
PUBLISHER :New York, C. Scribner's Sons [1969]
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The Mind

AUTHOR Yates, Frances Amelia.
TITLE The art of memory.
IMPRINT [Chicago] University of Chicago Press [1966]

AUTHOR Zukav, Gary.
TITLE The dancing wu li masters : an overview of the new physics / Gary Zukav.
EDITION 1st ed.
IMPRINT New York : Morrow, 1979.

AUTHOR Koestler, Arthur, 1905-
TITLE The ghost in the machine.
EDITION [1st American ed.]
IMPRINT New York, Macmillan [1968, c1967]
AUTHOR Stravinskii, Igor' Fedorovich, 1882-
TITLE Poetics of music in the form of six lessons;
IMPRINT Cambridge, Harvard Univ. Press, 1947.AUTHOR Ives, Charles, 1874-1954.
TITLE Essays before a sonata, and other writings. Edited by Howard Boatwright.
EDITION [1st ed.]
IMPRINT New York, Norton [1962]
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Other

AUTHOR Feldman, Morton, 1926-
TITLE Essays / Morton Feldman ; [herausgegeben von Walter Zimmermann].
IMPRINT Kerpen : Beginner Press, c1985.

AUTHOR Webern, Anton von, 1883-1945.
TITLE THE PATH TO THE NEW MUSIC.
PUBLISHER (Bryn Mawr, Pa., T. Presser Co. [c1975])

AUTHOR Hofstadter, Douglas R., 1945-
TITLE Godel, Escher, Bach : an eternal golden braid / Douglas R. Hofstadter.
IMPRINT New York : Basic Books, c1979.

AUTHOR :Gould, Glenn.
TITLE :Conversations with Glenn Gould / by Jonathan Cott.
EDITION :1st ed.
PUBLISHER :Boston : Little, Brown, c1984.

AUTHOR :Duckworth, William.
TITLE :Talking music : conversations with John Cage, Philip Glass,
Laurie Anderson, and five generations of American experimental
composers / William Duckworth.
PUBLISHER :New York : London : Schirmer ; Prentice-Hall International, c1995.

AUTHOR :Watkins, Glenn, 1927-
TITLE :Soundings : music in the twentieth century / Glenn Watkins.
PUBLISHER :New York : London : Schirmer Books ; Collier Macmillan, c1988

AUTHOR: Stockhausen, Karlheinz, 1928-
TITLE: Stockhausen on music : lectures and interviews /
compiled by Robin Maconie.
PUBLISHER: London ; New York : Marion Boyars, 1989.

AUTHOR: Boulez, Pierre, 1925-
TITLE: Orientations / collected writings by Pierre Boulez ; edited by
Jean-Jacques Nattiez ; translated by Martin Cooper. * Points de
repere. English
IMPRINT: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1986.

AUTHOR: Cage, John, 1912-
TITLE: Silence; lectures and writings / by John Cage.
EDITION: [1st ed.]
IMPRINT: Middletown, Conn., Wesleyan University Press [1961]

AUTHOR Ammer, Christine.
TITLE Musician's handbook of foreign terms; containing the English equivalents
IMPRINT New York, G. Schirmer [c1971]

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Painters

AUTHOR Matisse, Henri, 1869-1954
TITLE: Matisse on art / [edited and with an introduction by] Jack D.Flam.
EDITION: 2nd ed.
PUBLISHED: Oxford [England] : Phaidon, 1978.

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Writers

AUTHOR :Rilke, Rainer Maria, 1875-1926.
TITLE :Letters to a young poet. Translation by M. D. Herter Norton.
EDITION :Rev. ed.
PUBLISHER :New York, Norton [1954]
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