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A Random Sampling of Music History Books

Arts Entwined
Call Number: ML 3849 A78 2000
This collection of essays by musicologists and art historians explores the reciprocal influences between music and painting during the nineteenth century.
Birth of Bebop
Call Number: ML 3506 D48 1997
The Birth of Bebop is a study in American cultural history and a critical musical inquiry.
Cuba and Its Music
Call Number: ML 207 C8 S83 2004
This history of Cuba and its music begins with the collision of Spain and Africa and continues through the era of Miguelito Valdés, Arsenio Rodríguez, Benny Moré, and Pérez Prado.
History of Music in Western Culture
Call Number: ML 160 B75 2010
This text integrates the requisite names, dates, and concepts around specific compositions.
History of Western Music
Call Number: ML 160 G872 2001
Survey of Western music
Lift Every Voice
Call Number: ML 3556 P45 2009
Traces the roots of black music in Africa and slavery and its evolution in the United States from the end of slavery to the present day.
Music in China
Call Number: ML 336 L28 2008
Music in China explores the rich, dynamic, and multifaceted Chinese musical landscape. Tthis volume takes a look at a variety of traditional and modern genres, including those performed among local and regional folk musicians, in academia, in the media, and on concert stages both inside and outside of China.
Music in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries
Call Number: ML 197 A87 2013
The music of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries in its cultural, social, and intellectual contexts.
Sacred Song in America
Call Number: ML 2911 M37 2003
Sacred Song in America pursues a historical, musicological, and theoretical inquiry into the complex roles of ritual music in the public religious culture of contemporary America.
Verdi and/or Wagner
Call Number: ML 410 V4 C66 2011
This is the first book to compare these two composers and cultural heroes, both of whom were born in 1813 and achieved huge national and inter- national renown in their lifetimes
World Musics in Context
Call Number: ML 160 F64 2001
This book contains a wide-ranging survey of musics of the world, in historical and social contexts, from ancient times to the present day.

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