Music
Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician
Paperback
Finalist for the 2001 Pulitzer Prize in Biography, this landmark book was revised in 2013 to include new knowledge discovered after its initial publication.
Rock and Roll Is Here To Stay: An Anthology
Hardback
"If you like rock and roll, you'll love this raunchy, rollicking anthology—great writers, great music, and astounding musicians dead and alive." —Carl Hiaasen
Lexicon of Musical Invective: Critical Assaults on Composers Since Beethoven's Time
Paperback
"A supermarket tabloid of classical music criticism." —from the foreword by Peter Schickele
The Puccini Companion
Paperback
This informative volume offers 27 photographs and drawings, select bibliographies, a chronology of Puccini’s life and works, a dramatis personae of the countless individuals who played a role in Puccini’s career, a list of first performances, and plot summaries of all the operas.
The New Bach Reader
Revised and Expanded
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