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Standard Texts in Music History

This is a guide to standard resources for introductory study or review of western art music, jazz, popular music, and world music.

Baroque

A History of Baroque Music. by Buelow, George J.
Call Number: ML 193 .B761 2004
The Late Baroque Era: From the 1680s to 1740. by Buelow, George J., ed.
Call Number: ML 193 .L29 1993
Music in the Baroque Era, from Monteverdi to Bach. by Bukofzer, Manfred.
Call Number: ML 194 .B93
Music in the Baroque. by Heller, Wendy.
Call Number: ML 193 .H45 2014
Baroque Music: Music in Western Europe, 1580-1750. by Hill, John Walter.
Call Number: ML 193 .H541 2004
Baroque Music. 3d ed. by Palisca, Claude V.
Call Number: ML 193 .P16 1991
The Early Baroque Era: From the Late 16th Century to the 1660s. by Price, Curtis, ed.
Call Number: ML 194 .E3711 1993
Music of the Baroque. 3d ed. by Schulenberg, David.
Call Number: ML 193 .S38 2014

Classical

Classical Music: The Era of Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven. by Downs, Philip G.
Call Number: ML 195 .D681 1992
The Age of Mozart and Beethoven. by Pestelli, Giorgio.
Call Number: ML 195 .P483
Classic Music: Expression, Form, and Style. by Ratner, Leonard G.
Call Number: ML 195 .R24
The Classical Style: Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven. by Rosen, Charles.
Call Number: ML 195 .R82 1997
The Classical Era: From the 1740s to the End of the 18th Century. by Zaslaw, Neal, ed.
Call Number: ML 195 .C5311 1989

Nineteenth Century

Nineteenth-Century Music. by Dahlhaus, Carl.
Call Number: ML 196 .D2513 1989
Nineteenth-Century Music: The Western Classical Tradition. by Finson, Jon.
Call Number: ML 196 .F561 2002
Romantic Music: A History of Musical Style in Nineteenth-Century Europe. by Plantinga, Leon.
Call Number: ML 196 .P72
Rosen, Charles. by The Romantic Generation.
Call Number: ML 196 .R671 1995

Twentieth Century

The Cambridge History of Twentieth-Century Music. by Cook, Nicholas, and Anthony Pople, eds.
Call Number: ML 197 .C261 2004
Modern Music and After. by Griffiths, Paul.
Call Number: ML 197 .G76 2010
Twentieth-Century Music: A History of Musical Style in Modern Europe and America. by Morgan, Robert P.
Call Number: ML 197 .M6751 1990
Twentieth-Century Music: An Introduction. 4th ed. by Salzman, Eric.
Call Number: ML 197 .S18 2002
Soundings: Music in the Twentieth Century. by Watkins, Glenn.
Call Number: ML 197 .W441 1988

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