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The Musical Mind: The Cognitive Psychology of Music (Oxford Psychology Series)
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Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain
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3.95 avg rating — 74,896 ratings
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Silence: Lectures and Writings
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4.22 avg rating — 3,616 ratings
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Tunesmith: Inside the Art of Songwriting
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4.02 avg rating — 549 ratings
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Songwriters On Songwriting
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Musikalisk modernism
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Music of the Twentieth Century: A Study of Its Elements and Structure
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3.94 avg rating — 16 ratings
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The Pelican History of Music: Renaissance and Baroque v. 2
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3.64 avg rating — 11 ratings
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The Music of Brazil
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Playing the Piano for Pleasure
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4.19 avg rating — 361 ratings
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This Is Your Brain on Music
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3.89 avg rating — 68,134 ratings
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The World in Six Songs: How the Musical Brain Created Human Nature
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3.70 avg rating — 3,013 ratings
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Really the Blues
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4.14 avg rating — 587 ratings
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Miles: The Autobiography
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4.20 avg rating — 16,810 ratings
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Noise: The Political Economy of Music
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4.06 avg rating — 974 ratings
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Spotify Teardown: Inside the Black Box of Streaming Music
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3.29 avg rating — 307 ratings
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The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century
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4.10 avg rating — 15,927 ratings
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How Music Got Free: The End of an Industry, the Turn of the Century, and the Patient Zero of Piracy
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4.24 avg rating — 7,119 ratings
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The Music Instinct: How Music Works and Why We Can't Do Without It
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3.95 avg rating — 881 ratings
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The Sufi Message: Volume 2: Mysticism of Music, Sound and Word
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4.40 avg rating — 575 ratings
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Harmonograph: A Visual Guide to the Mathematics of Music (Wooden Books, 20)
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3.93 avg rating — 271 ratings
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Formalized Music: Thought and Mathematics in Composition (Harmonologia Series, #6)
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4.08 avg rating — 119 ratings
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A Theory of Harmony (SUNY Series in Cultural Perspectives)
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4.28 avg rating — 57 ratings
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Lydian Chromatic Concept of Tonal Organization for Improvisation
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4.29 avg rating — 56 ratings
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How Music Works
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 28,829 ratings
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A Year With Swollen Appendices
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4.11 avg rating — 1,015 ratings
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How to Listen to Jazz
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4.07 avg rating — 2,494 ratings
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What Is This Thing Called Jazz?: African American Musicians as Artists, Critics and Activists
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4.02 avg rating — 41 ratings
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The Study of Ethnomusicology: Thirty-One Issues and Concepts
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4.10 avg rating — 153 ratings
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The Recording Angel: Music, Records and Culture from Aristotle to Zappa
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3.99 avg rating — 157 ratings
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Perfecting Sound Forever: An Aural History of Recorded Music
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4.17 avg rating — 1,400 ratings
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Into the Maelstrom: Music, Improvisation and the Dream of Freedom: Before 1970
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3.95 avg rating — 81 ratings
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Making Music: The Guide to Writing, Performing & Recording
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4.04 avg rating — 28 ratings
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The Song Machine: Inside the Hit Factory
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3.93 avg rating — 4,923 ratings
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Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! The Story of Pop Music from Bill Haley to Beyoncé
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4.17 avg rating — 1,799 ratings
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Alan Lomax
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3.77 avg rating — 35 ratings
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Les Six: The French Composers and Their Mentors Jean Cocteau and Erik Satie
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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After Adorno: Rethinking Music Sociology
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3.47 avg rating — 34 ratings
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But Beautiful: A Book About Jazz
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4.23 avg rating — 3,313 ratings
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Experimental Music: Cage and Beyond
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4.15 avg rating — 375 ratings
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Music 109: Notes on Experimental Music
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4.28 avg rating — 130 ratings
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Improvisation: Its Nature And Practice In Music
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4.18 avg rating — 805 ratings
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Defining Music Therapy
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4.26 avg rating — 78 ratings
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Moondog, The Viking of 6th Avenue: The Authorized Biography
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3.59 avg rating — 156 ratings
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Songs in the Key of Z: The Curious Universe of Outsider Music
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3.99 avg rating — 575 ratings
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The Music Lesson: A Spiritual Search for Growth Through Music
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4.17 avg rating — 5,839 ratings
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Traveling Spirit Masters: Moroccan Gnawa Trance and Music in the Global Marketplace
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3.81 avg rating — 27 ratings
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Let's Talk About Love: A Journey to the End of Taste
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3.96 avg rating — 3,720 ratings
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Country: The Twisted Roots Of Rock 'n' Roll
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4.03 avg rating — 833 ratings
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Slonimsky's Book of Musical Anecdotes
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3.86 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Perfect Pitch
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4.47 avg rating — 45 ratings
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Marsalis on Music
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4.14 avg rating — 36 ratings
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Music and Trance: A Theory of the Relations Between Music and Possession
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3.97 avg rating — 59 ratings
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Thinking in Jazz : The Infinite Art of Improvisation (Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology Series)
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4.26 avg rating — 244 ratings
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Musicking: The Meanings of Performing and Listening
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4.19 avg rating — 325 ratings
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The Audible Past: Cultural Origins of Sound Reproduction
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4.18 avg rating — 190 ratings
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Sound Art: Beyond Music, Between Categories
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3.70 avg rating — 115 ratings
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Noise, Water, Meat: A History of Sound in the Arts
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3.84 avg rating — 211 ratings
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Handbook of Music and Emotion: Theory, Research, Application
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4.50 avg rating — 28 ratings
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Zubin Mehta: The Score of My Life
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3.62 avg rating — 55 ratings
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Uproot: Travels in 21st-Century Music and Digital Culture
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4.21 avg rating — 378 ratings
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