Music: eBooks

Interpreting Music is a comprehensive essay on understanding musical meaning and performing music meaningfully.

Designed recording projects, ethnographic studies of contemporary music practice, and critical analysis about the creation and reception of music.

This is a good resource for information about careers in music.

One of the twentieth century's most important musical thinkers, James Tenney did pioneering work in multiple fields, including computer music, tuning theory, and algorithmic and computer-assisted composition.

A stunning musical biography of Stevie Nicks that paints a portrait of an artist, not a caricature of a superstar. This biography from distinguished music historian Simon Morrison examines Nicks as a singer and songwriter before and beyond her career with Fleetwood Mac, from the Arizona landscape of her childhood to the strobe-lit Night of a Thousand Stevies celebrations. Mirror in the Sky analyzes Nicks's craft--the grain of her voice, the poetry of her lyrics, the melodic and harmonic syntax of her songs--and identifies the American folk and country influences on her musical imagination that place her within a distinctly American tradition of women songwriters.

This Historical Dictionary of Music of the Classical Period includes eminent conductors and performers, patrons, and publishers.