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Here is a list of essential books that deal with general music history. Some of these books are used as textbooks in college courses. Some books deal with a specific period in music history. Please contact me if you have written a review on any of these books and would like to share it as a guest blog post.
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Music in the Renaissance by Howard M. Brown.
Baroque Music: Music in Western Europe 1580-1750 by John Walter Hill.
Music in the Classical Period by Reinhard Pauly.
The Classical Style: Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven by Charles Rosen.
Nineteenth-Century Romanticism in Music by Rey M. Longyear.
Romantic Music: A History of Musical Style in Nineteenth-Century Europe by Leon Plantinga.
Soundings: Music in the Twentieth Century by Glenn Watkins.
