A History of Western Music
Paperback Edition

A brand new edition of this classic text for students. We also offer the score and CD support resources.

Glenn Gould: The Ectasy and the Tragedy
Paperback

In this acclaimed biography, the late psychiatrist Peter Ostwald — himself an accomplished violinist and longtime personal friend of Gould's — raises many questions about Gould and his music.

Music in European Capitals, The Galant Style
Hardback Cover
This long-awaited book offers a view of eighteenth-century music that is broad and innovative while remaining sensitive to the values of those times and places. One comes away from it with an understanding of the European context behind the triumphs of Haydn and Mozart.

The New Bach Reader
Paperback

Just reading these documents brings this great composer to life in a most exciting and vivid way. I love this book! - Yo-Yo Ma

Music Publishing and Patronage
Hardback Book
This meticulously researched book charts the complex and at time harrowing history of Edition Peters.

Beethoven: The Music and the Life
Paperback

An authoritative work offering a fresh look at Beethoven’s life, career, and milieu. “Magisterial” — New York Review of Books

Twentieth Century Music:
A History of Musical Style in Modern Europe and America
Hardback

Morgan divides his text into three chronological sections. The isms such as serialism, minimalism, indeterminism, the new romanticism and pluralism, are clearly delineated and the electronic boom of the last decades is defined.

Slonimsky: Lexicon of Musical Invective:
Critical Assaults of Composers Since Beethoven's Time

A supermarket tabloid of classical music criticism.—From the new foreword by Peter Schickele.