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AUTHOR
LOCI
PRICE
American Muse - The Life & Times of William Schuman
Joseph W. Polisi
18
$ 42.95
Athletic Musician:  a guide to playing without pain
Paull/Harrison
120
$ 48.95
Art of Wind Playing
Sections include: Resonance, Attacks & Releases, Double Tonguing, Vibrato, Technique, Breathing, Musical Style, Interpretation
Arthur Weisberg
18
$ 25.95
Artist as Citizen - Speeches & articles from the President of Juilliard School 
Includes humorous anecdotes of former alumni  ie. Pavarotti,  Robin Williams
Joseph W. Polisi 18 $ 31.95
Bach's Choral Music : A Listener's Guide - includes Full-Length BIS CD
Gordon Jones
18
$ 29.95
Bach's Keyboard Music - includes full-length Naxos CD
Victor Lederer
18
$ 29.95
Basic Principles in Pianoforte Playing
Josef Lhevinne
1D
$  5.95
Beethoven's Symphonies  
John Bell Young
18
$ 27.95
Bill Evans - "Everything Happens to Me" Keith Shadwick 18 $ 31.95
Boosey & Hawkes: The Publishing Story - a Behind the Scenes Look of a Publishing Company as it Works with
Composers to Shape Musical History

Helen Wallace
1B
$ 32.50
Brahms:  A Listener's Guide   - includes a full-length audio CD
John Bell Young
18
$ 28.00
Brass Player's Cookbook - Creative Recipes for a Successful Performance  Various 18 $ 32.50
Calvin Hamption:  a Musician without Borders
Jonathan B. Hall
100
$ 52.00
Classical Guitar Book   -226 pages Full Colour History 16 Contributors 18 $ 47.95
Classical Guitar Making - a modern approach to traditional design John S. Bogdanovich 25 $ 38.95
Classical Music   -1200 pages of Classical Recordings 
Rated with 55 contributing Reviewers on Thousands of Entries
Alexander Morin 18 $ 47.95
Classical Musician's Recording Handbook - How to Capture Classical Music Live & in the Studio, How to get the Best out of Your Equipment, How to Produce & Mix Your own Release-Quality Recordings
Andrew Hallifax
25
$ 25.95
A Companion to Beethoven's Pianoforte Sonatas
A bar-by-bar analysis of Beethoven's 32 Pianoforte Sonatas
Donald F. Tovey
84
$ 40.95
A Composer's Insight Vol. 3 - Thoughts, Analysis and Commentary on Contemporary Masterpieces for Wind Band, Featuring Music of: Bennett, Benson, Cichy, Corigliano, Holsinger, Nixon, Rands, Sparke, Ticheli, Weinstein, Zdechlik Timothy Salzman 18 $ 51.95
A Composer's Insight Vol. 4    Thoughts, Analysis and Commentary on Contemporary Masterpieces for Wind Band Timothy Salzman
18
$ 52.50
Composers' Notes  - Financial Triumphs and Disasters of the Great Composers
Tim Lihoreau
30
$ 27.95
Conductor's Interpretive Analysis of Masterworks for Band  
Frederick Fennell
18
$ 24.50
Counterpoint - 4th ed.
Kent Kennan
31
$159.95
Counterpoint: The Polyphonic Vocal Style of the Sixteenth Century
Knud Jeppesen
1D
$ 21.95
Cowboy Guitars   - 230 pages of Painted Guitar Designs Evans /Middlebrook 18 $ 55.95
Creative Director : Conductor, Teacher, Leader 
Listening skills, harmonic & melodic content, ensemble sonority and expressive conducting
Edward S. Lisk 18 $ 32.50
Debussy:  The Quiet Revolutionary
Victor Lederer
18
$ 29.95
Diamond in the Sky  -Personal Memories of Suzuki Jerlene Cannon 38 $  8.95
"88" The Giants of Jazz Piano with 11 Track CD (Hardcover) Robert Doerschuk 18 $ 47.95
Elgar - An Extraordinary Life    
J.P.E. Harper-Scott
84
$ 27.95
Encyclopedia of the Violin
Alberto Bachmann
01D
$ 24.50
Expanding Horizons - The Suzuki -Trained Violinist Grows Up
Mark Bjork
38
$ 24.50
50 Years of Les Paul's "Gibson"   -Excellent Photos Tony Bacon 18 $ 36.95
Gramophone Classical Music Guide 2009 - Best classical music guide for CDs, DVDs and downloads
James Jolly
25
$ 44.95
Great Composers in Historic Photographs (244 Portraits) James Camner 01D $ 23.95
Guide to the Top 100 Works for Wind Band
Chad Nicholson
18
$ 25.95
Healthy String Playing
Physical Wellness Tips from the Page of Strings Magazine
various
18
$ 19.50
Heifetz : As I Knew Him
The last fifteen years of the great violinist's life as told through his accompanist, assistant, and confidante
Ayke Agus 18 $ 23.95
Here, There and Everywhere:  My Life Recording the Music of The Beatles 
Geoff Emerick
01
$ 19.50
I Believe in Music - Life Experiences & Thoughts of Future
"Hard Cover ed." 
Ikutaro Kakehashi
Founder of Roland Corp.
18 $ 44.95
Idiot's Guide to Buying a Piano Marty C. Flinn
Jennifer B. Flinn
25
$ 21.95
Independent Piano Teacher's Studio Handbook - Everything You Need to Know for a Successful Teaching Studio
Beth Giganthe Klingenstein
18
$ 38.95
Instrumental Jazz Arranging a comphrensive and practical guide with 2 CDs including 170 tracks
Mike Tomaro &
 John Wilson
18
$ 65.00
Instrumental Teaching
Janet Mills
29
$ 29.95
Interpretive Wind Band Conductor  
John Knight
18
$ 32.50
It's Not ALL Song and Dance - Behind the scenes in performing arts
* Hardcover edition
Maxim Gershunoff
Leon Va Dyke
18 $ 34.95
John Denver -the Complete Lyrics  John Denver with Milt Okum 18 $ 27.50
John Philip Sousa - American Phenomenon  -Revised Paul Bierley 38 $ 44.95
Kind of Blue - Miles Davis   -History & Transcriptions Bill Kirchner 18 $ 47.95
Life in Music:  Conversations with Sir David Wilcocks and Friends 
William Owen
29
$ 42.95
Life in Opera:  Truth, Tempo and Soul 
Maria-Cristiana Necula
18
$ 32.50
Listener's Companion -  Great Composers & Their Works Nicolas Slonimsky 25 $ 31.95
Liszt:  A Listener's Guide   - includes a full-length Music & Arts CD John Bell Young
18
$ 29.95
Love You Make:  Insider's Story of The Beatles 
Brown & Gaines
01
$ 20.95
Lullabies (Wiegen Lieder    with CD and full colour illustrations
C. Hauptmann
106
$ 39.95
Majoring in Music:  All the stuff you need to know
Rich Holly
18
$ 19.95
Making a Musical Life  :The Practice, the Profession, the Joy
Advice from a Seasoned & Successful Orchestral Musician on Crafting a Career in Classical Music
Tom Heimberg 18 $ 19.50
Makin' Stuff Up - Secrets of Song-Craft & Survival in the Music-Biz
Rand Bishop
01
$ 19.50
Marching Bands and Drumlines - secrets of success
Paul Buyer
18
$ 25.95
Maria Callas - A Musical Biography - Includes 2 CDs with nearly 3 hours of her performances
Robert Levine
18
$ 32.50
Mastering Conducting Techniques -20 Practice Chapters John Haberlen 35F $ 28.95
Materials and Techniques of 20th Century Music - 3rd ed.
Stefan  Kostka
31
$140.95
Memory of All That: The Life of Geroge Gershwin Joan Peyser 18 $ 23.50
Mettalica - Complete Lyrics Book
18 $ 31.95
Michael Colgrass:  Adventures of an American Composer 
Miachel Colgrass
18
$ 25.95
Modern Rhyming Dictionary:  Practical Guide to Lyric Writing
Gene Lees
18
$ 19.50
Modulation An unabridged republication of the work originally published on On the Theory of Modulation
Translated by John Bernhoff
Max Reger
1D
$   8.95
Muscle Management for Musicians  
Elizabeth Andrews
120
$ 48.50
Music for Children and Young People with Complex Needs 
Adam Ockelford
29
$ 32.50
Music for Homeschoolers - A Guide to Music Instructin for the Homeschooled Child
Joanne May
18
$ 19.50
Music Lover's Guide to Record Collecting  Dave Thompson 18 $ 36.95
Music Makes Your Child Smarter  - How Music Helps Every Child's Development  with CD
Philip Sheppard
25
$ 25.95
Music Money and Success  6th edition 
Insider's Guide to Making Money in the Music Business
Jeffrey & Todd Brabec 25 $ 29.95
New World Music - Reference Guide - 3 Disk CD Included
In-depth Study of the history of music form Latin America, The US and its influences, "The History of Rock & Roll" and much more
Jose Rosa
18
$ 32.50
Nineteenth-Century German Lied Lorraine Gorrell 18 $ 34.95
NotePad Primer   - "Finale" Notation for Windows & MacIntosh
includes CD for "NotePad" Program
Bill Purse 18 $ 27.95
Nutured by Love by Shinichi Suzuki  Classic approach to talent education
Shinichi Suzuki
38
$ 18.50
O Clap Your Hands - A Musical Tour of Sacred Choral Works
Includes full-length CD featuring Gloriae Dei Cantores
Gordon Giles
63
$ 32.95
On Musical Interpretation in Percussion Performance - A Study of Notation and Musicianship
Excerpts from 14 major works for band and orchestra, dynamics, phrasing & articulations, translation of foreign musical terms, etc.
Anthony J. Cirone
18
$ 19.50
Organs of Toronto - a survey of Toronto organs, their specifications and history, full colour photos
Jackson & Bailey

$ 45.00
100 Tips for Acoustic Guitar  with CD You Should Have Been Told 50 Guitar Contributors 25 $ 32.95
The Opera Companion
George Martin
18
$ 25.95
The Orchestra    - 23 essays on the origins and transformations of the orchestra ed. Joan Peyser 18 $ 25.95
Parent's Guide to String Instrument Study Lorraine Fink 17 $  5.50
Pavarotti Up Close 
Leone Magiera
18
$ 25.95
Perfect Rehearsal - Everything you Wanted to Know About Rehearsals  Timothy Seelig 25 $ 32.50
Playing from the Heart -40 Greats talk about their craft Robert Doerschuk 18 $ 31.95
Playing (Less) Hurt - An injury prevention guide for musicians
Janet Horvath
18
$ 38.95
Playing the Beethoven Piano Sonatas 
Robert Taub
18
$ 25.95
Practical Piano Pedagogy:  The Definitive Text   (includes CD ROM)
Martha Baker-Jordan
01
$ 58.50
PrintMusic! Primer
Mastering the Art of Music Notation with Finale PrintMusic!
Bill Purse 18 $ 29.95
Producing Hit Records : Secrets From the Studio  David John Farinella 25 $ 23.50
Puccini : A Listener's Guide - Includes Full-Length Audio CD
John Bell Young
18
$ 29.95
Purcell:  An Extraordinary Life 
Bruce Wood
84
$ 31.50
Read the Beatles  Classic and New writings on The Beatles, Their Legacy, and Why They Still Matter
June Skinner Sawyers
01
$ 20.95
Redeemer Reborn - Parsifal as the Fifth Opera of Wagner's Ring
Paul Schofield
18
$ 37.95
Rise of Music in the Ancient World:  East and West 
Curt Sachs
1D
$ 24.95
Rough Guide to The Blues
Nigel Williamson
01
$ 33.95
Rough Guide to Classical Music  - The A-Z of Composers, Key Works and Top Recordings Joe Staines /
Duncan Clark
01 $ 33.95
Rough Guide to Film Musicals
David Parkinson
01
$ 19.50
Rough Guide to Heavy Metal  Essi Berelian 01 $ 32.50
Rough Guide to iPods  & iTunes     6th Edition
Peter Buckley
01
$ 15.50
Rough Guide to Jazz -   A Jazz Encyclopedia Carr /Fairweather /Priestley 01 $ 34.95
Rough Guide to Jimi Hendrix
Richie Unterberger
01
$ 24.95
Rough Guide to Nirvana  Gillian G. Gaar
01
$ 24.95
Rough Guide to Opera  - Descriptions of the Composers and the Operas, Act by Act Matthew Boyden 01 $ 33.95
Rough Guide to Punk  - the Filth, the Fury, the Fashion
Al Spicer
01
$ 32.50
Rough Guide to Soul and R&B
Peter Shapiro
01
$ 32.50
Rough Guide to The Velvet Underground
Peter Hogan
01
$ 19.50
Schubert:  A Survey of His Symphonic, Piano and Chamber Music    with CD
John Bell Young
18
$ 29.95
Schubert's Theater of Song:  a listener's guide
Mark Ringer
18
$ 29.95
Schumann:  A Chorus of Voices      with supplmental CD material
John C. Tibbetts
18
$ 45.50
Scoring for Percussion - CD-ROM with Photos & Recorded Sounds Included
Characteristics, Ranges and Distinctive Features of 85+ Percussion Instruments, Special Characteristics of Percussion Notation, Abbreviations, Symbols, Instrument Ranges, etc.
Reed/Leach/
Hudgins
01
$ 32.50
Sharpen Your String Technique 
Megan Westberg
18
$ 20.75
Silver Fox:  The Life and Legacy of Russell Saunders 
Martha Sobaje
100
$ 65.00
So When Does the Fat Lady Sing? - Questions and Answers about Life, Sex, Love, and -- Oh, Yes -- Opera
Michael Walsh
18
$ 14.50
Song -   A guide to Art Song Style and Literature Carol Kimball 18 $ 38.95
Sound of Light -   History of Gospel & Christian Music Don Cusic 18 $ 31.95
Stan Getz  - Nobody Else But Me  Dave Gelly 18 $ 36.95
Sticks 'n' Skins:  a photography book about the world of drumming
Jules Follett
01
$ 75.00
Story of Handel's "Messiah"  -an Historical Companion Watkins Shaw 35N $ 25.50
Student's Guide to College Music Programs
How to Obtain Financial Aid, Preparing for the Freshman Year, Guidelines for a College Audition
1300 American Colleges & Universities
ed. Leonard
18
$ 25.95
Succeed as a String Player!
Tips from the Readers and Experts at Teen Strings Magazine inform, inspire and entertain
Making better use of practice time, overcoming stage fright, music-school auditions, summer camps, etc.
Megan Westberg
18
$ 21.95
Tanglewood - A Group Memoir  
Peggy Daniel
18
$ 36.50
Tchaikovsky A Listener's Guide - incl. 2 Full-Length Naxos CDs Daniel Felsenfeld 18 $ 36.50
Teaching Choral Sight Reading -a Teacher's Sourcebook Jack Boyd 35F $ 27.50
Teaching Genius : Dorothy DeLay and the Making of a Musician
Examining the life of Violinist DeLay and her students, incl. Sarah Chang
Barbara Lourie Sand 18 $ 23.95
Teach Yourself Computer Audio -   ultimate home studio setup Todd Souvignier 01 $ 29.95
Technique of Violin Playing 
The Joachim Method
Karl Courvoisier 1D $  8.95
Technology Strategies for Music Education -
Produced by Teachers for Teachers with guidelines on 
Implimenting Computors into Music Study & Step by Step Lessons
National Advisory Board
TI:ME Certification
18 $ 31.95
Thank you - That's all we Need for Today
A Practical Guide to Musical Theatre Auditions - with CD of vocal warm-ups
Mary Hammond
30
$ 27.50
Thesaurs of Scales & Melodic Patterns (250 pages) Nicolas Slonimsky 25 $ 47.95
Thinking and Making:  writings of John Paynter on music in education
Janet Mills
29
$ 32.50
This Idea Will Work!  136 Ways to Revitalize Your Music Ministry
Bob Burroughts
21
$ 19.50
Ticket to Ride:  Inside the Beatles' 1964 & 1965 Tours That Changed the World 
Larry Kane
01
$ 18.50
Tipbook : Cello
Complete Guide to Understanding Cellos, Strings, & Bows.  Includes Tips on Practicing & Maintenance
Hugo Pinksterboer
18
$ 19.50
Tipbook : Flute
Complete Guide for players of all levels, includes Fingering Charts
Hugo Pinksterboer
18
$ 19.50
Tipbook : Saxophone
Includes : Fingering Chart, Illustrations, play-testing, bird's-eye view of the instrument, lessons/teachers/practicing, maintenance & tuning, background info
Hugo Pinksterboer 18 $ 19.50
Tipbook : Trumpet & Trombone - incl. Flugelhorn and Cornet
Complete Guide, includes Fingering Charts
Hugo Pinksterboer
18
$ 19.50
Tipbook : Violin and Viola
Complete Guide to Understanding Violins, Violas, Strings, & Bows.  Includes Tips on Practicing & Maintenance
Hugo Pinksterboer 18
$ 19.50
Tipbook : Vocals - The Singing Voice
Includes Basics of Reading Music.  For all kinds of singers, teachers, therapists and doctors
Hugo Pinksterboer 18
$ 19.50
Total Piano  Terry Burrows

The Ultimate Guide to
Learning & Mastering
The Piano

25 $ 31.95
The Touring Musician:  Small business approach survival manual
Hal Galper
01
$ 21.95
Trumpet Kings   -Players Who Shaped Jazz Trumpet Scott Yanow 18 $ 36.95
Twentieth-Century Music:  An Introduction   4th ed.
Eric Salzman
31
$ 77.95
"UNDYING FLAME"
110 Ballads & Songs of
the Holocaust in 16 Languages
with English Translations
& Historical Notes
Includes CD
Jerry Silverman 25 $ 55.95
The Ukulele  - A Visual History-   Beautiful FULL Colours Jim Beloff 18 $ 39.95
Vehicle of Music  - Reflections on Suzuki Dr.Masaaki Honda 38 $ 18.95
Violin and Viola -  History, Structure, Techniques Sheila M.Nelson 01D $ 24.95
Violin-Making 
A Historical and Practical Guide
Edward Heron-Allen 1D $ 56.50
Violin Mastery
Interviews with Heifetz, Auer, Kreisler and Others
ed. Frederick H. Martens 1D $ 11.95
Violin Playing As I Teach It
Leopold Auer
1D
$ 9.75
Wagner Moments:  A Celebration of Favorite Wagner Experiences  
C.S. Lewis, W.H. Auden, T.S. Eliot, G.B. Shaw, James Joyce, Friedrich Nietzche, Marcel Proust, Virginia Woolf, Placido Domingo
ed. Holman
18
$16.95
TheWind Band in and Around New York ca. 1830-1950
Essays presented at the 26th biennial conference of the College Band Directors National Association New York, NY, Februray, 2005
ed. Frank J. Cipolla & 
Donald Hunsberger
01 $ 38.95
Wind Works Ralph Vaughan Williams
18
$ 35.50
Winds and Hymns - Resource Guide to Hymns, Chorales, and Spirituals in Selected Wind Band Literature
Timothy & Phyllis Paul
18
$ 45.50
With Your Own Two Hands - Self-Discovery Through Music Seymour Bernstein 18S $ 20.95
Working Musician's Dictionary of Terms   - Slang to Country Karl Aranjo 18 $ 14.50
Working with Bernstein 
Jack Gottlieb
18
$ 32.50
World of Jazz Trumpet - Comprehensive History & Practical Philosophy Scotty Barnhart 18 $ 34.95
Worlds of Johann Sebastian Bach
Raymond Erickson
18
$ 45.50
Young People's Guide to Classical Music Helen Bauer
18
$ 24.95
Your Dream Instrument - An Insdier's Guide to Buying Violins, Violas, Cellos, Basses & Bows
ed. Megan Westberg
18
$ 21.95

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