BOOKS ON MUSIC
Ashbrook, William. The Operas of Puccini. Cornell University Press. 1968.
Bessette, Roland L. Mario Lanza: Tenor in Exile. Amadeus. 1999.
Biancolli, Louis and Robert Bagar. The Victor Book of Operas. Simon and Schuster. 1953
Björling, Anna-Lisa and Andrew Farkas. Jussi. Amadeus. 1996.
Botstein, Leon. The Compleat Brahms. Norton. 1999.
Budden, Julian. The Operas of Verdi: from Oberto to Rigoletto, Vol. 1. Cassell. 1973.
_____________. The Operas of Verdi: from Il Trovatore to Un Ballo in maschera, Vol. 2. Cassell. 1978.
_____________. The Operas of Verdi: from Don Carlos to Falstaff, Vol. 3. Cassell. 1981.
Capell, Richard. Schubert’s Songs. Basic Books. 1957.
Charters, Samuel B. and Leonard Kunstadt. Jazz: A History of the New York Scene. Doubleday. 1962.
Copland, Aaron et al. What to Listen for In Music. Signet. 2002
Day, Timothy. A Century of Recorded Music: Listening to Musical History. Yale University Press. 2000.
Del Mar, Norman. Richard Strauss, Vol. 1. Chilton. 1962.
______________. Richard Strauss, Vol. 2. Chilton. 1969.
______________. Richard Strauss, Vol. 3. Chilton. 1972.
Desmond, Astra. Schumann Songs. University of Washington Press. 1972.
Dickreiter, Michael. Score Reading: A Key to the Musical Experience. Amadeus. 1997.
Drake, James A. and Kristin Beall Ludecke, eds. Lily Pons: A Centennial Portrait. Amadeus. 1999.
Fellner, Rudolph. Opera Themes and Plots. Simon and Schuster. 1958.
Gilbert and Sullivan. Authentic Libretti of the Gilbert and Sullivan Operas. Crown. 1939
Grey, Thomas. Richard Wagner: Der fliegende Hollander. Cambridge Opera Handbooks. 2000.
Harrison, Max. The Lieder of Brahms. Praeger. 1972.
Henrysson, Harald. A Jussi Björling Phonography, 2nd Edition. Svenskt Musikhisotiski Arkiv. 1993
Hurwitz, David. The Mahler Symphonies: An Owner's Manual. Amadeus Press. 2004
Hutchings, Arthur. Schubert. Dent. 1964.
Lee, M. Owen. Wagner’s Ring: Turning the Sky Around. Limelight Editions. 1998
Machlis, Joseph. The Enjoyment of Music. Norton. 1963.
March, Ivan et al. The Penguin Guide to Compact Discs and Cassettes New Edition. Penguin. 1992
May, Thomas. Decoding Wagner: An Invitation to His World and Music Drama. Amadeus Press. 2004
Moberly, R. B. Three Mozart Operas. Dodd, Mead and Company. 1968.
Nichols, Roger and Richard Smith. Claude Debusy: Pelleas et Melisande. Cambridge Opera Handbooks. 1994.
Osborne, Charles. The Bel Canto Operas of Rossini, Donizetti, Bellini. Amadeus. 1994
_______________. The Complete Operas of Wagner. Grange. 1992
Phillips-Matz, Mary Jane. Leonard Warren: American Baritone. Amadeus. 2000
____________________. Puccini: A Biography. Northeastern University Press. 2002
Porter, Andrew. The Ring of the Nibelung: English Translation. Norton. 1976.
Robinson, Paul. Opera & Ideas: from Mozart to Strauss. Cornell University Press. 1995.
Rosen, David. Verdi: Requiem. Cambridge Music Handbooks. 1995.
Ross, Alex. The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century. Farrar Straus Giroux. 2007
Schuller, Gunther. Early Jazz: Its Roots and Musical Development. Oxford University Press. 1986.
Simon, Henry W. 100 Great Operas and Their Stories. Doubleday. 1960.
Steane, J. B. Seventy Years of Singing on Record 1900 to 1970. Amadeus. 1993.
__________. Singers of the Century Vol. 1. Amadeus. 1996.
__________. Singers of the Century Vol. 2. Amadeus. 1998.
__________. Singers of the Century Vol. 3. Amadeus. 2000.
Tirro, Frank. Jazz: A History. Norton. 1977.
Walker, Frank. Hugo Wolf. Knopf. 1968.
Williams, Peter. Bach: The Goldberg Variations. Cambridge Music Handbooks. 2001.
Youens, Susan. Schubert: Die Schöne Müllerin. Cambridge Music Handbooks. 1992.