📚 Music Appreciation

30 works · ordered by editions in print

Books with music appreciation on their catalogue record, first published between 1881 and 2019, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject music appreciation in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 2,517 works the catalogue holds under that subject. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Title	Author	First published	Editions
Music	Roger Kamien	1976	75
The Perfect Wagnerite	George Bernard Shaw	1896	56
The enjoyment of music	Joseph Machlis	1955	44
J. S. Bach	Albert Schweitzer	1905	34
Understanding Music	Jeremy Yudkin	1995	26
Music	Jean Ferris	1988	24
Listen	Joseph Kerman	1972	23
What to Listen for in Music	Aaron Copland	1939	21
How to listen to music	Henry Edward Krehbiel	1896	19
Music	Steven Cornelius	2012	16
How to Understand Music	W. S. B. Mathews	1881	15
Listen	Joseph Kerman	1972	15
Anthology for Musical Analysis	Charles Burkhart	1964	14
This is music	David Randolph	1964	14
The Enjoyment of Music	Kristine Forney	1996	14
Enjoyment of Music	Joseph Machlis	2000	14
The well tempered listener	Deems Taylor	1940	12
Listeners guide to musical understanding	Leon Dallin	1959	12
The understanding of music	Charles R. Hoffer	1967	12
Norton anthology of western music	Claude V. Palisca	1980	12
Music	Roger Kamien	2005	12
Gateways to Understanding Music	Timothy Rice	2019	12
Gradus	Leo Kraft	1976	11
The world of music	David Willoughby	1990	11
The Enjoyment of Music	Kristine Forney	2011	11
The joy of music	Leonard Bernstein	1959	10
Music listening today	Charles R. Hoffer	1998	10
The book of musical knowledge	Arthur Elson	1915	9
The Complete Book of Great Musicians	Scholes, Percy Alfred	1920	9
The sense of music	Victor Zuckerkandl	1959	9

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 24 Oct 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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