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SRL 1944 Guide to Books on Music
Books on Music in 1943
A Selected and Annotated Compilation
by Richard S. Angell
The Saturday Review, January 22, 1944, pp. 38-40
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Reviewed Books and Films
  1. The Challenge of Listening (1944)
    Howard D. McKinney and W.R. Anderson
    1 Review, 1 Readable
  2. Discovering Music (1935)
    Howard D. McKinney and W.R. Anderson
    A Course in Music Appreciation
    2 Reviews, 2 Readable
  3. The Music Lover's Handbook (1943)
    Elie Siegmeister
    161 Chapters, 831pp - 3 Reviews, 2 Readable
  4. A Guide to Great Orchestral Music (1943)
    Sigmund Gottfried Spaeth
    1 Review, 1 Readable
  5. Music for All of Us (1943)
    Leopold Stokowski
    3 Reviews, 2 Readable
  6. Our Marching Civilization (1944)
    Warren D. Allen
    An Introduction to the Study of Music and Society
    1 Review, 1 Readable
  7. The History of Music in Performance (1943)
    Frederick Dorian
    The Art of Musical Interpretation from the Renaissance to Our Day
    3 Reviews, 2 Readable
  8. A Short History of Music (1944)
    Donald N. Ferguson
    2 Reviews, 2 Readable
  9. A New History of Music (1943)
    Henry Prunieres
    The Middle Ages to Mozart
    5 Reviews, 3 Readable
  10. The Rise of Music in the Ancient World (1943)
    Curt Sachs
    East and West
    3 Reviews, 3 Readable
  11. The Philharmonic-Symphony Society of New York (1943)
    John Erskine
    Its First Hundred Years
    2 Reviews, 2 Readable
  12. Musical Interludes in Boston, 1795-1830 (1944)
    H. Earle Johnson
    1 Review, 1 Readable
  13. The Music of Czechoslovakia (1944)
    Rosa Newmarch
    1 Review, 1 Readable
  14. Dictators of the Baton (1943)
    David Ewen
    3 Reviews, 3 Readable
  15. The Stream of Music (1944)
    Richard Anthony Leonard
    3 Reviews, 2 Readable
  16. A Mingled Chime (1943)
    Sir Thomas Beecham
    An Autobiography
    3 Reviews, 2 Readable
  17. The Life and Works of Beethoven (1943)
    John N. Burk
    5 Reviews, 2 Readable
  18. Beethoven: The Life of a Conqueror (1943)
    Emil Ludwig
    4 Reviews, 2 Readable
  19. Duet with Nicky (1943)
    Alice Berezowsky
    1 Review, 1 Readable
  20. The Life of Ole Bull (1943)
    Mortimer B. Smith
    4 Reviews, 3 Readable
  21. Charles T. Griffes (1943)
    Edward M. Maisel
    The Life of an American Composer
    3 Reviews, 2 Readable
  22. Dmitri Shostakovich (1943)
    Victor I. Seroff and Nadejda Galli-Shohat
    The Life Background of a Soviet Composer
    3 Reviews, 2 Readable
  23. Rise to Follow (1943)
    Albert Spalding
    An Autobiography
    5 Reviews, 3 Readable
  24. Tchaikovsky (1943)
    Herbert Weinstock
    6 Reviews, 3 Readable
  25. Arturo Toscanini (1943)
    Susanne W. Hoeller
    A Photobiography
    1 Review, 1 Readable
  26. Stories from the Great Metropolitan Operas (1943)
    Helen Dike
    1 Review, 1 Readable
  27. Annals of Opera, 1597-1940 (1944)
    Alfred Loewenberg
    1 Review, 1 Readable
  28. More Stories of Famous Operas (1943)
    Ernest Newman
    3 Reviews, 2 Readable
  29. Spotlights on the Stars (1943)
    Mary Ellis Peltz
    Intimate Sketches of Metropolitan Opera Personalities
    1 Review, 1 Readable
  30. Songs of Many Wars (1943)
    Kurt Adler
    From the Sixteenth to the Twentieth Century
    2 Reviews, 2 Readable
  31. Songs of the Rivers of America (1942)
    Carl Carmer
    2 Reviews, 2 Readable
  32. The Flower Drum and Other Chinese Songs (1944)
    Chin-Hsin Yao Chen and Shih-Hsiang Chen
    2 Reviews, 2 Readable
  33. A Treasury of American Song (1940)
    Olin Downes and Elie Siegmeister
    5 Reviews, 3 Readable
  34. Down-East Spirituals and Others (1944)
    George Pullen Jackson
    Three-Hundred Songs
    1 Review, 1 Readable
  35. Humor in American Song (1943)
    Arthur Loesser
    2 Reviews, 2 Readable
  36. Sing for Christmas (1943)
    Opal Wheeler
    A Round of Christmas Carols and Stories of the Carols
    1 Review, 1 Readable
  37. Contemporary Harmony (1944)
    Mosco Carner
    1 Review, 1 Readable
  38. Steps to Parnassus (1944)
    Johann Joseph Fux
    The Study of Counterpoint
    2 Reviews, 2 Readable
  39. A Concentrated Course in Traditional Harmony (1944)
    Paul Hindemith
    1 Review, 1 Readable
  40. The Craft of Musical Composition (1944)
    Paul Hindemith
    1 Review, 1 Readable
  41. Models for Beginners in Composition (1943)
    Arnold Schoenberg
    1 Review, 1 Readable
  42. Acoustics of Music (1942)
    Wilmer T. Bartholomew
    1 Review, 1 Readable
  43. The Real Jazz (1942)
    Hugues Panassie
    1 Review, 1 Readable
  44. Music on My Beat (1944)
    H. Howard Taubman
    An Intimate Volume of Shop Talk
    2 Reviews, 2 Readable
  45. Music on Records (1938)
    B.H. Haggin
    A New Guide to the Music, the Performances, the Recordings
    5 Reviews, 3 Readable
  46. The Record Book (1940)
    David Hall
    A Guide to the World of the Phonograph
    5 Reviews, 3 Readable
  47. The Music Lovers' Almanac (1943)
    William H. Hendelson and Paul Zucker
    2 Reviews, 1 Readable
  48. The International Cyclopedia of Music and Musicians (1938)
    Oscar Thompson
    3 Reviews, 3 Readable
  49. The Oxford Companion to Music (1938)
    Percy A. Scholes
    3 Reviews, 3 Readable
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