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Twentieth Century Music

Twentieth Century Music: An Introduction | Eric Salzman

Twentieth-Century Music: A History of Musical Style in Modern Europe and America | Robert P. Morgan

Techniques of the Contemporary Composer | David Cope

The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century | Alex Ross

Electronic Music

Electronic and Computer Music | Peter Manning

The Cambridge Companion to Electronic Music | ed. Nick Collins

Electronic and Experimental Music: Pioneers in Technology and Composition | Thomas B. Holmes

The Computer Music Tutorial | Curtis Roads

Instrument & Extended Technique

The Contemporary Violin: ExtENDed Performance Techniques | Allen Strange

How to Write for PERCUSSION | Samuel Z. Solomon

New Directions for Clarinet | Phillip Rehfeldt

Oboe Unbound: Contemporary Techniques | Libby Van Cleve

Compendium of Modern Instrumental Techniques | Gardner Read

The 21st Century Voice: Contemporary and Traditional Extra-Normal Voice | Michael Edward Edgerton

Music Notation

Music Notation | Gardner Read

Music Notation in the Twentieth Century: A Practical Guidebook | Kurt Stone

New Music Vocabulary | Howard Risatti

Perspectives on Notation and Performance | Boretz Benjamin

Notations 21 | Theresa Sauer

Twentieth Century Music Theory

Introduction to Post-Tonal Theory | Joseph N. Straus

Materials and Techniques of 20th Century Music | Stefan Kostka

Twentieth-Century Harmony: Creative Aspects and Practice | Vincent Persichetti

The Structure of Atonal Music | Allen Forte

Simple Composition | Charles Wuorinen

Analytic Approaches to Twentieth-Century Music | Joel Lester

Schenkerian Analysis

Analysis of Tonal Music: A Schenkerian Approach | Allen Cadwallader and David Gagne

Introduction to Schenkerian Analysis: Form and Content in Tonal Music | Allen Forte and Steven E. Gilbert

Unfoldings: Essays in Schenkerian Theory and Analysis

Five Graphic Music Analyses | Heinrich Schenker

Harmony

Harmony in Context | Miguel Roig-Francoli

Tonal Harmony | Stefan Kostka and Dorothy Payne

The Complete Musician: An Integrated Approach to Tonal Theory, Analysis, and Listening | Steven G. Laitz

Harmony | Walter Piston

371 Harmonized Chorales and 69 Chorale Melodies with Figured Bass: Piano Solo

Counterpoint

A Practical Approach to Eighteenth-Century Counterpoint | Robert Gauldin

A Practical Approach to Sixteenth-Century Counterpoint | Robert Gauldin

Modal Counterpoint: Renaissance Style | Peter Schubert

Counterpoint | Kent Kennan

Study of Counterpoint: From Johann Joseph Fux’s Gradus Ad Parnassum | John J. Fux

Counterpoint in Composition | Felix Salzer and Carl Schachter

Counterpoint | Walter Piston

The Study of Fugue | Alfred Mann

Musical Form

Form in Music | Wallace Berry

Form in Tonal Music: An Introduction to Analysis | Douglass Green

Practical Approach to the Study of Form in Music | Peter Spencer and Peter M. Temko

Classical Form: A Theory of Formal Functions for the Instrumental Music of Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven | William E. Caplin

Sonata Forms | Charles Rosen

Orchestration

Study of Orchestration | Samuel Adler

Technique of Orchestration | Kent Kennan

Thesaurus of Orchestral Devices | Gardner Read

Orchestral Combinations: The Science and Art of Instrumental Tone-Color | Gardner Read

Principles of Orchestration | Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov

Ear Training & Sight-Singing

The Musician’s Guide to Aural Skills | Jane Piper Clendinning

Music for Ear Training | Michael Horvit, Timothy Koozin, and Robert Nelson

Music for Sight Singing | Thomas E. Benjamin, Michael Horvit, Robert S. Nelson

Music for Sightsinging | Robert W. Ottman

Hearing and Writing Music: Professional Training for Today’s Musician | Ron Gorow

Ear Training for Twentieth-Century Music | Michael L. Friedmann

Compact Discs

Image of The Ligeti Project II: Lontano / Atmosphères / Apparitions / San Francisco Polyphony / Concert Românesc - Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra / Jonathan Nott
Image of Drumming
Image of Terry Riley: In C
Image of Ambient 1: Music for Airports
Image of The Ligeti Project I: Melodien / Chamber Concerto / Piano Concerto / Mysteries of the Macabre - Schönberg Ensemble / ASKO Ensemble / Reinbert de Leeuw
Image of Olivier Messiaen: Quartet for the End of Time
Image of The Music of Elliott Carter Vol. 7; Boston Concerto, Cello Concerto, ASKO Concerto, Dialogues
Image of Elliott Carter: A Symphony of Three Orchestras; Varèse: Deserts; Ecuatorial; Hyperprism
Image of Music in Fifths/Two Pages
Image of Alina - Arvo Pärt
Image of Henryk Gorecki: Symphony 3
Image of Henryk Gorecki: String Quartet No. 3...songs are sung
Image of Arvo Pärt: Da Pacem
Image of Century Rolls
Image of Musik Fur Streichinstrumente
Image of Scelsi: Natura Renovatur
Image of Luigi Nono: Complete Works for Solo Tape
Image of Tristan Murail: Gondwana; Désintégrations; Time and Again
Image of Karlheinz Stockhausen: Gruppen / Punkte
Image of Penderecki: Anaklasis; Threnody; etc.
Image of Morton Feldman: Piano and String Quartet / Aki Takahashi, Kronos Quartet
Image of In an Autumn Garden (Dig)
Image of Takemitsu: Requiem; Twill by Twilight
Image of Stockhausen: Mantra
Image of Toru Takemitsu: Quotation of Dream (20/21 series) - London Sinfonietta / Oliver Knussen
Image of Osvaldo Golijov: Oceana
Image of Xenakis: Orchestral Works & Chamber Music
Image of Osvaldo Golijov: Ainadamar
Image of John Cage - The Seasons / Leng Tan, Russell Davies, et al
Image of Xenakis: Metastasis; Pithoprakta; Eonta
Image of Unsuk Chin: Akrostichon-Wortspiel
Image of Maderna: Quadrivium; Aura; Biogramma
Image of Schwankungen Am Rand
Image of Bruno Maderna: For Strings
Image of The Little Match Girl
Image of György Kurtág: Complete Choral Works
Image of Kafka-Fragmente Op. 24
Image of Music of Magnus Lindberg
Image of Portrait of Kaija Saariaho
Image of Zimmerman: Cello Concerto; Impromptu; Antiphonen; Photoptosis
Image of The Mauricio Kagel Edition [2CD's+DVD]
Image of Gubaidulina: Works for bassoon
Image of Jonathan Harvey: Body Mandala; Timepieces; Tranquil Abiding; White as Jasmine; Towards a Pure Land
Image of Pulse Shadows
Image of Henri Dutilleux: Ainsi la nuit; Pascal Dusapin: Time Zones; Quatuor III
Image of The Essential Lutoslawski
Image of Norgard: String Quartets 7, 8, 9 and 10
Image of Bartók: Concerto for Orchestra; Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta; Hungarian Sketches
Image of Kaija Saariaho: Complete Cello Works