Douglas R HofstadterDouglas Hofstadter's book is concerned directly with the nature of “maps” or links between formal systems. However, according to Hofstadter, the formal system that underlies all mental activity...

Jerome HinesGreat Singers on Great Singing: A Famous Opera Star Interviews 40 Famous Opera Singers on the Technique of SingingJerome Hines has interviewed 40 singers, a speech therapist, and a...

Jens Malte Fischer The definitive biography of the celebrated composer, published in English to coincide with the centenary of his deathA best seller when first published in Germany in 2003,...

Esi EdugyanThe aftermath of the fall of Paris, 1940. Hieronymus Falk, a rising star on the cabaret scene, is arrested in a cafe and never heard from again. He is...

David Damschroder This innovative book continues David Damschroder's radical reformulation of harmonic theory, presenting a dynamic exploration of harmony in the compositions of Mendelssohn and Schumann, two key figures of...

Nick HornbyDo you know your desert-island, all-time, top five most memorable split-ups? Rob does. He keeps a list, in fact. But Laura isn't on it - even though she's just...

Stephen Johnson Music broadcaster and composer Stephen Johnson explores how Shostakovich's music took shape under Stalin's reign of terror, and how it gave form to the hopes of an oppressed...

William Melton Engelbert Humperdinck's opera Hänsel und Gretel is one of the best-known in the repertoire, its melodies as familiar as folk-tunes - and yet no full-length biography of Humperdinck...

Derrick Cooke Long considered a masterpiece, Wagner's Ring has baffled and confused critics because of the highly complex meaning of its text and music. The diverse range of commentaries written...

Gayle Forman   The critically acclaimed, bestselling novel from Gayle Forman, author of Where She Went, Just One Day, and Just One Year.In the blink of an eye everything changes....

Marybeth HamiltonEveryone knows the story of the Delta blues, with its fierce, raw voices and tormented drifters and deals with the devil at the crossroads at midnight. In this compelling...

James Kaplan From the prizewinning Jewish Lives series, a fast-moving, musically astute portrait of arguably the greatest composer of American popular musicIrving Berlin (1888–1989) has been called—by George Gershwin, among...