Hannemann’s Music Corner: A little light Summer Reading List

General Music (reading fun for everyone)

• The Understanding of Music 2nd ed, Charles R. Hoffer, Wadsworth Publishing Co, 1971
• *A History of Western Music 4th ed, Donald Grout & Claude Palisca, W.W. Norton & Co, 1988
• The Mozart Compendium, H.C. Robbins Landon editor, Borders Press, 1990
• Mozart, Wolfgang Hildesheimer, Vintage Books, 1983
• An Introduction to Music 2nd ed, Martin Bernstein, Prentice-Hall, 1951
• Temperament, Stuart Isacoff, Alfred A Knopf, 2001
• Listen to the Music, Jonathan D. Kramer, Schirmer Books, 1988
• Tchaikovsky: His Life and Times, Wilson Strutte, Midas Books, 1979

General Music Theory and Composition

• *Basic Principles of Music Theory, Joseph Brye, Ronald Press, 1965
• Handbook of Harmony – Diatonic Harmony, George Heussenstamm (self published)
• Handbook of Harmony – Chromatic Harmony, George Heussenstamm (self published)
• Handbook of Tonal Counterpoint, George Heussenstamm (self-published)
• *Counterpoint: The polyphonic vocal style of the 16th c., Knud Jeppesen, Dover Publications, 1992 ed.
• *Counterpoint 3rd ed, Kent Kennan, Prentice-Hall, 1987
• Counterpoint in Composition, Felix Salzer & Carl Schachter, Columbia University Press, 1969
• *The Study of Counterpoint: from Gradus ad Parnassum by Johann Joseph Fux, trans and ed by Alfred Mann, W.W. Norton Publishing, 1971
• *The Analysis of Music, John D White, Prentice Hall 1976
• Form in Music, Wallace Berry, Prentice-Hall, 1966
• Treatise on Harmony, Jean-Phillipe Rameau, Dover Publications 1971
• The Study of Fugue, Alfred Mann, Dover Publications, 1987
• Techniques of the Contemporary Composer, David Cope, Schirmer Books, 1997
• Songwriting, Stephen Citron, Limelight Editions, 6th printing 1998
• Music Notation 2nd ed, Gardner Read, Taplinger Publishing, 1979
• Essential Dictionary of Notation, Alfred Publishing, 1998
• Thesaurus of Scales and Melodic Patterns, Nicolaus Slonimsky, Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1947, 1975
• Pocket Manual of Musical Terms 5th ed, Theodore Baker ed., Schirmer Publishing, 1995
• Elson’s Pocket Music Dictionary, Theodore Presser Publishing, 1911
• Orchestration, Cecil Forsyth, Dover Publications, 1982
• *Principles of Orchestration, Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov, Dover Publications, 1964
• *Essential Dictionary of Orchestration, Alfred Publishing, 1998 (I use this a lot)
• Conducting Technique, Brock McElheran, Oxford University Press, 1989
• A Practical Approach to Various Techniques for Composing for Film, Jack Smalley, self published. (As far as I know, you can only get this if you take his film comp seminar offered through the Film Music Network)
• *On The Track: A Guide to Contemporary Film Scoring 2nd ed, Fred Karlin & Rayburn Wright, Routledge, 2004
• The Art of Film Music, George Burt, Northern University Press, 1994
• Complete Guide to Film Scoring, Richard Davis, Berklee Press, 1999

• The Jazz Book, Joachim Berendt, Lawrence Hill Books, 1981
• Cancionero Popular de la Provincia De Caceres, Instituto Espanol de Musicologia, Barcelona 1982 (you may need a Spanish/English dictionary for this)
• *Music of Acoma, Isleta, Cochiti, and Zuni Pueblos, Frances Densmore, Smithsonian Institution Bulletin 165, 1957 (this one is absolutely priceless)
• The Indian’s Book, Natalie Curtis, Dover Publications, 1968
• Traditional American Folk Songs, Anne Warner, Syracuse University Press, 1984
• Best Loved American Folk Songs, John and Alan Lomax, Grosset & Dunlap, 1947
• Jerry Silverman’s Ragtime Guitar, Chappell Music Co, 1976

• This Business of Music 9th ed., M. William Krasilovsky & Sydney Shemel, Watson-Guptil Publications, 2003
• Making Music Make Money, Eric Beall, Berklee Press, 2004

• Teaching Music in the Secondary Schools, Charles R Hoffer, Wadsworth Publishing, 1965 (this is the most recent acquisition from Friends of the Library Bookstore – thanks to who ever left it off)

• *The Complete Woodwind Repair Manual, Reg Thorp, National Assn of Professional Band Instrument Repair Technicians, 2005
• Allied Supply Catelogue (okay, you can only get this if you are a dealer or repair tech which is too bad since the articles and repair tips in it are invaluable.)
• Guide to Brass Musical Instrument Repair, Christopher Page Bluemel, Northeastern Music Publications, 2011
• Selmer Band Instrument Repairing Manual, Erick D Brand, H.A Selmer Inc, 1942 (this is still available from other distributer/publishers).
• The Practical Band Instrument Repair Manual, Clayton H. Tiede, Wm. C. Brown Publishers, 1970.