(Part 3) Best music appreciation books according to redditors
We found 117 Reddit comments discussing the best music appreciation books. We ranked the 44 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the products ranked 41-60. You can also go back to the previous section.
You might want to start with a broad overview, such as this:
https://www.amazon.com/Music-Appreciation-Roger-Kamien/dp/0078025206
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The standard history text is this:
https://www.amazon.com/History-Western-Music-Tenth/dp/0393668177/ref=sr_1_3?keywords=grout+music+history&qid=1556390719&s=gateway&sr=8-3
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You can surely find an older used edition of the Grout cheaply. Your contemporary music degree, is it a B.A. or Associates?
looking for this book 3$ https://www.amazon.com/World-Music-David-Willoughby/dp/0073401412
It's called Music: An Appreciation by Roger Kamien. When I was still in school some student was throwing it away, and I rescued it from the dumpster. It's supposed to be music history/theory for nonmajors, so people like me that have always had an interest in music but don't play instruments, study something else most of the time, etc.
I've always had a big, big interest in music, always focusing on experimental music. I tried taking music theory in high school but it kept getting canceled because not enough people signed up (boo). I always wanted to learn "the rules" and always believed "you have to know the rules before you break them," or rather, you have to know the rules before you can appreciate everyone else who's breaking them.
I need this book for my Intro to Music class next semester.