study-music

Listening guides

• The Visual Listening Guide - An approach to visualize the structure of a symphony using small piano rolls and pictograms of instruments.

• Kristine Forney, Andrew Dell’Antonio. Enjoyment of Music: Essential Listening - also has other (longer) editions

• Jeremy Yudkin. Understanding Music

• Listener’s Companion series by Rowman & Littlefield

• Music Matters is a lovely and deep book series for kids. One book at Internet Archive

• Neil Boumpani, Justin Carteret. Music and the Human Experience

• Mark Evan Bonds. Listen to This

• Aaron Copland. What to Listen for in Music - a guide from one of the most famous US composers of the 20th century

• Ляля Кандаурова. Полчаса музыки. Как понять и полюбить классику

• The Oxford Handbook of Public Music Theory

• 🎥 Craig Wright. Listening to Music (Yale Course)

• orsaymusic, guides d’écoute

• Henry Martin, Keith Waters. Essential Jazz: The First 100 Years