Book Recommendations

 

Musicology Must-Reads

Contemplating Music, by Joseph Kerman (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, reprint 2004).

Musicology: The Key Concepts

 

Other Books of Interest

Bad Music: The Music We Love to Hate, edited by Christopher J. Washburne and Maiken Derno (New York: Routledge, 2004).

This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession, by Daniel J. Levitin (New York: Dutton, 2006).

The Singing Neanderthals: The Origins of Music, Language, Mind, and Body, by Steven Mithen (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2006).

 

 

 

 

 

 

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