A level Further Reading & Listening

Introductory Reading

Nicholas Cook, Music: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford: OUP, 2000).

Burkholder, Grout, Palisca, A History of Western Music (Norton)

Analysis

Nicholas Cook: A Guide to Musical Analysis (Oxford, 1994).

William E. Caplin, Classical Form: A Theory of Formal Functions for the Instrumental Music of Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven (Oxford: OUP, 1998)

Edward Aldwell and Carl Schachter, Harmony and Voice Leading, 3rd edition (Wadsworth Publishing Co., 2002)

Harmony and Counterpoint

The chorale harmonisations of J. S. Bach Recommended edition: Breitkopf and Härtel, ed. B. F. Richter; less good but adequate: Chappell, ed. Albert Riemenschneider

Fugal expositions by J. S. Bach in the Well-tempered Clavier (the ‘48’) Recommended edition: Associated Board, ed. Richard Jones

Schubert Lieder Recommended edition: Dover (either Schubert’s Songs to Texts by Goethe or Complete Song Cycles).

The Lieder of Beethoven, Mendelssohn, and Schumann are also recommended for your attention

History

Richard Taruskin, A History of Western Music (Oxford: OUP, 2004)

Roger Parker, ed., The Oxford Illustrated History of Opera (Oxford, 1994).

Philip Bohlman, World Music: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford: OUP, 2002)

Alan Atlas, Renaissance Music, and The Anthology of Renaissance Music (New York, 1998)

Carl Dahlhaus, Nineteenth-Century Music (Berkeley, 1989)

John Walter Hill, Baroque Music, and The Anthology of Baroque Music (New York, 2005)

Arnold Whittall, Musical Composition in the Twentieth Century (Oxford, 1999)

W. Oliver Strunk: Source Readings in Music History

The Cultural Study of Music: A Critical Introduction, ed. Martin Clayton, Trevor Herbert, and Richard Middleton (London: Routledge, 2003).

The New Harvard Dictionary of Music (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1986)

The Grove Concise Dictionary of Music (London: Macmillan, 1988)

The Oxford Companion to Music (Oxford: OUP, 2002)

Grove’s Dictionary

Contemporary

Robert P. Morgan, ed., Anthology of Twentieth-Century Music (New York, 1992)

Elliott Schwartz and Daniel Godfrey, Music Since 1945: Issues, Materials, and Literature (New York,1993)

Derek B. Scott, Music, Culture, and Society: A Reader (Oxford, 2000)

World Music

P. Bohlman, World Music: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford, 2002)

B. Nettl, The Study of Ethnomusicology: Twenty-nine Issues and Concepts (Champaign-Urbana,1983)

J. Titon, ed., Worlds of Music: An Introduction to the Music of the World’s Peoples, 3rd edition (NewYork, 1996)

Keyboard Skills

Continuo playing according to Handel, ed. David Ledbetter (Clarendon Press, 1990)

R. O. Morris and Howard Ferguson: Preparatory Exercises in Score Reading (Oxford: OUP, 1931)

Musicology, Aesthetics and Related Topics

Cook, Nicholas, Music: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998)

Herbert, Trevor, Music in Words (London: Associated Board of the Royal School of Music, 2001)

David Beard and Kenneth Gloag, Musicology: The Key Concepts (London, 2005)