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Music: Books by composers / artists

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Resources

Building bridges with music: stories from a composer's life by Samuel Adler [Ebook]

But he doesn't know the territory by Meredith Willson

A composer's world: horizons and limitations by Paul Hindemith

Copland: 1900 through 1942 by Aaron Copland and Vivian Perlis

Copland: since 1943 by Aaron Copland and Vivian Perlis

Ennio Morricone: in his own words by Ennio Morricone

Father of the blues: an autobiography by W. C. Handy

Finishing the hat: collected lyrics (1954-1981) with attendant comments, principles, heresies, grudges, whines and anecdotes by Stephen Sondheim

Music and color: conversations with Claude Samuel by Olivier Messiaen

Music and politics: collection writings, 1953-1981 by Hans Werner Henze

Music lessons: the College de France lectures by Pierre Boulez

Music with words: a composer's view by Virgil Thomson

The orchestral composer's point of view: essays on twentieth-century music by those who wrote it Edited by Robert Stephan Hines

Performing music history: musicians speak first-hand about music history and performance Edited by John C. Tibbetts, Michael Saffle, William A. Everett

Sondheim on music: minor details and major decisions by Mark Eden Horowitz

And there I stood with my piccolo by Meredith Willson

Composer/Artist correspondence

Beethoven: letters, journals and conversations Edited, translated, and introduced by Michael Hamburger

Hugo Wolf: letters to Melanie Kochert edited by Franz Grasberger

Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart selected and edited by Hans Mersmann

The Mahler family letters edited, translated, and annotated by Stephen McClatchie

Mahler's unknown letters edited by Herta Blaukopf

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