Cecilia This Week
Bill Munger, Director
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Cecilia This Week
Recommended Reading
Essays
Current Convictions; Robert Craft; Knopf 1977
Essays On Music; Alfred Einstein; Norton/New York 1962
Present Perspectives; Robert Craft; Knopf 1984
Generic
BBCmusic- Greame Kay, editor; BBC/London
The Concerto- edited by Ralph Hill; Penguin/Baltimore 1961
Gramophone- James Jolly, editor; Gramophone/Middlesex,
Great
Britain
A General History of Music- Charles Burney; Dover 1957
Music Guide an introduction- Stanley Sadie
w/ Alison Latham;
Prentice-Hall/Englewood Cliffs, NJ 1986
Music and the Imagination- Aaron Copland; Mentor 1952
Music, an Appreciation- Roger Kamien; McGraw-Hill 1996
The New Grove Dictionary of Music & Musicians-
Stanley Sadie,
editor; Macmillan/London 1980. (20 volumes)
The Great Pianists from Mozat to the Present-
Harold C. Schonberg
Simon & Schuster/New York 1963
Schwann/Schwann Opus Woodland, CA Monthly 1949 to 2001
The New Harvard Dictionary of Music- edited
by Don Michael Randel
Harvard 1986
The Da Capo Catalog of Classical Music Compositions-
Jerzy
Chwialkowski; Da Capo/New York 1996
A Short History of Music- Alfred Einstein; Vintage/New York 1962
A History of Western Music- Donald Jay Grout;
Norton/New York-
London 1980
The Unanswered Question, Six Talks at Harvard- Leonard Bernstein;
Harvard 1993 (1976)
What to Listen for in Music- Aaron Copland; McGraw-Hill 1957
Period
15th Century-
Dictionary of Musical Terms (Terminorum Musicae
Diffinitorium)-
Johannes Tinctoris; Edited/Translated/Annotated by Carl Parrish.
Glencoe 1963 (15th Century)
16th Century-
The Music Masters: 16th Century to Beethoven
edited by
A.L. Bacharach; Whitefriars Press/London 1957
Orchesography- Thoinot Arbeau; Mary Stewart Evans, trans;
Dover/New York 1967 (16th Century)
18th Century-
The Classical Style- Charles Rosen. Harvard 1995
Baroque Music from Monteverdi to Handel- Nicholas Anderson; Thames
& Hudson 1994
Memoirs of Dr. Charles Burney 1726 - 1769-
Slava Klima, Garry
Bowers & Kerry S. Grant; University of Nebraska-London 1988
(18th Century)
Dr. Charles Burney's Continental Travels 1770 - 1772; Cedric Howard
Glover, ed;
Blackie & Son Ltd 1927
19th Century-
The Romantic Generation by Charles Rosen. Harvard 1998
Masters of Italian Opera (Rossini, Donizetti, Bellini, Verdi,
Puccini)- Various; Norton 1983
20th Century-
Early Jazz- Gunther Schuller; Oxford 1968
20th Century English Masters (Elgar, Delius, Vaughan Williams,
Holst, Walton, Tippett, Britten)- Various; Norton 1986
20th Century French Masters (Faure, Debussy, Satie, Ravel, Poulenc,
Massiaen, Boulez)- Various; Norton 1986
The Maestro Myth- Norman Lebrecht; Citadel 1991
Modern Music- John Tasker Howard & James Lyons; Mentor/New
York 1957
Victor Norman, A Life In Music, A Lifetime of Learning (autobiography)
Bayberry 1999
A Knight At The Opera- Sir Rudolf Bing; Putnam 1981
Joys & Sorrows- Pablo Casals (told to Albert E. Kahn); Touchstone
1974
Modern Masters (Stravinsky, Bartok, Hindemith)- Various; Norton
1984
Painting The Musical City: Jazz and Cultural Identity in American
Art 1910 -1940-
Donna M. Cassidy; Smithsonian 1997
Problems of Modern Music- Fromm, Sessions, Carter, Babbit,
Krenek, Lang et al; Norton/New York 1960
The Music of Spain- Gilbert Chase; Dover 1959 (1941)
Handbook of Jazz- Barry Ulanov; Viking Press/New York (Macmillan/Canada)
1955
Horowitz, A Biography- Glenn Plaskin; Morrow 1983
Leopold Stokowski- Preben Opperly; Hippocrene 1982
Russian Masters II (Rimsky-Korsakov, Rachmaninoff, Scriabin, Prokofiev,
Shostakovich)- Varoius; Norton 1986
Stormy Applause: Making Music In A Worker's State- Rostitslav
Dubinsky
(Founder of the Borodin Quartet) Hill & Wang 1989
The Swing Era- Gunther Schuller; Oxford 1989
Toward Jazz- Andre Hodeir; Grove 1962
Three Classics in the Aesthetic of Music (Essays by Debussy, Ives
& Busoni)
Dover 1962
Twentieth Century Music- Richard Burbank; Fact
On File/New York 1984
Twentieth-Century Music- Robert P. Morgen; Norton/New York 1991
Twentieth-Century Music- Eric Salzman; Prentice Hall 1974
Woody Hermann, Chonicles of the Herds- Wm. D. Clancy & Audree Coke Kenton; Schirmer/New York 1995
Composers
Aaron Copland- Howard Pollack; Henry Holt 1999
The American Songbag (Anonymous)- Carl Sandburg
Harcourt Brace 1927
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach- Hans Guenter Ottenberg; Clarendon 1991
J.S. Bach- Edited by Malcolm Boyd; (An Oxford composer companion);
Oxford 1999
Bach- Eva Mary Grew and Sydney Grew; Collier 1962
The Collector's Bach- Nathan Broder; Lippincott 1978
The Definitive Biography Of P.D.Q. Bach- Peter Schickele; Random
House 1976
Treat It Gentle- Sidney Bechet; Hill & Wang 1960
Beethoven's Letters- A.C. Kalischer, notes; Dover 1972
The Joy of Music; Leonard Bernstein- Simon & Schuster 1959
Leonard Bernstein- Humphrey Burton- DoubleDay 1994
Leonard Bernstein A Life- Meryle Secrest; Knof
1994
Mademoiselle: Conversations with Nadia Boulanger- Bruno
Monsaingeon; Carcanet 1985
Nadia Boulanger, a life in music- Leonie Rosenstiel; Norton 1982
Master Teacher Nadia Boulanger- Don G. Campbell; Pastoral 1984
Nadia Boulanger- Jerome Spycket; Pendragon
1992
Emmanuel Chabrier & His Circle- Rollo Myers; Fairleigh Dickinson
1970
Chopin the Reluctant Romantic- Jeremy Siepmann; Northeastern 1995
Chopin, His Life and Times- Ates Orga; Midas 1978
Corelli- Marc Pincherle; Norton 1956 (Le Bon Plsisir 1954)
Miles, The Autobiography- Miles Davis w/ Quincy Troupe; Touchstone
1990
Debussy & his World- Jane F. Fulcher- Princeton 2001
Debussy, His Life & Mind Vols I & II-
Edward Lockspeiser; Cambridge 1978
Beyond Category: The Life and Genius of Duke Ellington- John Edward
Hasse; Simon &
Schuster 1993
The Duke Ellington Reader- Mark Tucker, editor; Oxford 1993
Music Is My Mistress- Duke Ellington; Da Capo (Double Day) 1973
Duke Ellington- Barry Ulanov; Da Capo (Lowe & Brydone 1946)
1975
Gluck- Alfred Einstein; Dent & Sons/London 1936
Woody Herman: Chronicles of the Herds- William D. Clancy w/ Audree
Coke Kenton;
Schrimer 1995
Mahler His Life & World- Blaukopf & Blaukopf; Thames &
Hudson 1991
Gustav Mahler Volume I The Road to Vienna (1860-1897)
Gustav Mahler Volume II Vienna: The Years of Challenge (1897-1904)
Gustav Mahler Volume III Vienna: Triumph and Disillusion (1904-1907)
Gustav Mahler Volume IV Genius Struck Down (1907-1911)
Volume II Oxford University Press 1995
Volume III Oxford University Press 1999
(Volumes I & IV have yet to be translated into English or
brought up-to-date.)
Mr. Jellyroll- Alan Lomax; Grove 1950
Mozart, A Life- Maynard Soloman; HarperPerennial 1996
Mozart and the Enlightenment Truth, Virture and Beauty in Mozart's
Operas
Nicholas Till; Norton 1993
Mozart's Letters- Hans Mersmann, editor; Dover 1972
Francis Poulenc- Benjamin Lvry; Phaidon 1996
Sergey Prokofiev- Daniel Jaffe; Phaidon 1998
Ravel, a Life- Benjamin Lvry; Welcome Rain/New
York 2000
Erik Satie- Rollo H. Myers; Dover July 1995
Erik Satie- Pierre Daniel
Templier; MIT 1969
Erik Satie- Alan M. Gillmor; Macmillian May 1988.
Erik Satie, Art and the Everyday;
Popular Entertainment and the Circle of- Nancy Perloff; Oxford
1991
A Mammal's Notebook- Erik Satie (Omella Volta, ed); Atlas November
1996
Dried Embryos- Erik Satie;
VG Paperback
Testimony, The Memoirs of Dmitri Shostakovich- Solomon Volkov;
Limelight 1995
Shostakovich, A Life Remembered- Elizabeth Wilson; Princeton 1994
Sibelius- Robert Layton (The Master Musicians Series) Schirmer
1992
Johan Strauss: The End of an Era- Egon Gartenberg; DaCapo 1979
(Penn State 1974)
Igor Stravinsky An Autobiography; Norton 1962; Simon & Schuster
1936
In One Lifetime (William Grant Still)- Verna Arvey; University
of Arkansas 1984
The Collector's Tchaikovsky and the Five- John Briggs; Keystone
1959
Virgil Thomson- Anthony Tommasini; Norton 1997
Virgil Thomson- Virgil Thomson; Knopf 1966
Verdi His Music, Life and Times; George Martin; Limelight 1992
Vivaldi- Marc Pincherle; Norton 1962
Wagner Race and Revolution- Paul Lawrence Rose; Yale 1992
To Be Continued
Cecilia This Week
Bill Munger, Director
Established May 1, 2000
http://cecilia-this-week.com
gene_debs2000@yahoo.com