Music History 102

Selected Bibliography

sources consulted for facts and graphics
(also recommended for further reading!)

The Lives of the Great Composers, third edition
Harold C. Schonberg. W. W. Norton, New York 1997

The Vintage Guide to Classical Music
Jan Swafford. Vintage Books, New York 1992

The HarperCollins Dictionary of Music, 2nd Edition
Christine Ammer. HarperCollins Publishers, New York 1991

The Chronicle of Classical Music
Alan Kendall. Thames and Hudson Ltd., London 1994

The Heritage of Music, Vols. 1-3
Michael Raeburn & Alan Kendall. Oxford University Press, New York 1989

An Illustrated History of Music
Marc Pincherle. Reynal & Company, New York 1959

James Galway’s Music in Time
William S. Mann. Harry N. Abrams, Inc., New York 1982

Music of the Western World
Luciano Alberti. Crown Publishers, Inc., New York 1974


Music History 102: a Guide to Western Composers and their music
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Robert Sherrane