 | The Harvard Dictionary of Music (Harvard University Press Reference Library)
Buy new: $31.50 / Used from: $20.00 |
 | The Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music (Harvard University Press Reference Library)
Buy new: $29.22 / Used from: $14.50 |
 | The Development of Western Music: A History.Third Edition by K Stolba
Buy used from: $14.00 |
 | Tonal Harmony by Stefan Kostka
Buy new: $84.75 / Used from: $60.72 From my experience, this is a great book for laying the foundations of music theory.
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 | Workbook for Tonal Harmony: With an Introduction to Twentieth-Century Music, Sixth Edition by Stefan Kostka
Buy new: $49.32 / Used from: $39.00 The accompanying workbook.
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 | Musical Structure and Design by Cedric T. Davie
Buy new: $8.54 / Used from: $1.64 |
 | Music for Ear Training (Workbook & CD-ROM) by Michael Horvit
Buy new: $98.95 / Used from: $3.45 Like Tonal Harmony, this book is fairly good for a foundation in ear training.
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 | Music for Sight Singing
Buy used from: $58.00 Useful in conjunction with Music for Ear Training.
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 | Analysis of Tonal Music: A Schenkerian Approach by Allen Cadwallader
Buy new: $52.61 / Used from: $42.14 |
 | Student Workbook to accompany Analysis of Tonal Music: A Schenkerian Approach, Second Edition by Allen Cadwallader
Buy new: $17.16 / Used from: $11.41 |
 | Introduction to Schenkerian Analysis: Form and Content in Tonal Music by Allen Forte
Buy new: $45.70 / Used from: $15.73 |
 | Anthology of Musical Forms by Leon Stein
Buy new: $18.95 / Used from: $7.58 |
 | Analyzing Atonal Music: Pitch-Class Set Theory and Its Contexts (Eastman Studies in Music) by Michiel Schuijer
Buy new: $90.00 / Used from: $103.84 |
 | Anthology for Musical Analysis by Charles/ Rothstein, William Burkhart
Buy used from: $75.00 |
 | Counterpoint (4th Edition) by Kent Kennan
Buy new: $107.40 / Used from: $59.39 One of the better books on the subject that I've found.
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 | Workbook by Kent Kennan
Buy new: $41.68 / Used from: $35.00 To be used in conjunction with the above.
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 | A Practical Approach to Eighteenth-Century Counterpoint by Robert Gauldin
Buy new: $42.85 / Used from: $26.10 Also not a bad book on the subject, though some knowledge of linear/Schenkerian analysis is assumed.
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 | The Study of Fugue by Alfred Mann
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $6.83 |
 | The Art of Fugue: Bach Fugues for Keyboard, 1715-1750 by Joseph Kerman
Buy new: $14.49 / Used from: $9.95 |
 | Bach and the Patterns of Invention by Laurence Dreyfus
Buy new: $23.40 / Used from: $25.78 |
 | Study of Orchestration, Third Edition by Samuel Adler
Buy new: $75.21 / Used from: $58.65 |
 | Treatise on Instrumentation by Hector Berlioz
Buy new: $19.77 / Used from: $10.12 |
 | Anatomy of the Orchestra by Norman Del Mar
Buy new: $22.20 / Used from: $20.64 |
 | The Grammar of Conducting: A Comprehensive Guide to Baton Technique and Interpretation by Max Rudolf
Buy new: $88.67 / Used from: $73.26 Some of the patterns seem questionable, but I have found the book to be useful anyway.
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 | Preparatory Exercises in Score Reading (Vorbereitende Ubungen im Partiturlesen) by R.O. Morris
Buy new: $28.75 / Used from: $21.09 Geared more towards pianists and conductors.
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 | Accompanying Skills for Pianists by Deon Nielsen Price
Buy used from: $87.88 Worth reading, and using, if you plan on accompanying. I don't agree with everything here, but I still recommend it.
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 | Abby Whiteside on Piano Playing : Indispensables of Piano Playing - Mastering the Chopin Etudes and Other Essays by Abby Whiteside
Buy used from: $108.90 Directed strongly towards pianists; however, this is one of the best books on this list, in my opinion.
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 | A History of Keyboard Literature: Music for the Piano and Its Forerunners by Stewart Gordon
Buy new: $88.67 / Used from: $71.00 |
 | The Great Pianists: From Mozart to the Present by Harold C. Schonberg
Buy new: $12.92 / Used from: $4.00 |
 | The Lives of the Great Composers by Harold C. Schonberg
Buy new: $23.10 / Used from: $10.98 |
 | The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century by Alex Ross
Buy new: $12.24 / Used from: $5.20 |
 | 100 Great Operas And Their Stories: Act-By-Act Synopses by Henry W. Simon
Buy new: $11.53 / Used from: $1.83 |
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