What to Read After The Joy of Music
Readers who loved The Joy of Music by Leonard Bernstein keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where The Joy of Music is read alongside other books across reader co-reads and book lists. The more independent sources agree on a title, the higher it ranks.
Books to read after The Joy of Music
What to Listen for in Music
This Is Your Brain on Music
The Art of Practicing
How Music Works
Tonal Harmony
Musicophilia
A History of Western Music
Silence
lives of the great composers
The Soloist
The Classical Style
Music, Language, and the Brain
Piano Lessons
World in Six Songs
Music and the Mind
The Rest Is Noise
Beethoven
The History of Jazz
Johann Sebastian Bach
The Inner Game of Music
Tonal Harmony, With an Introduction to Twentieth-Century Music
Testimony
Music, the Brain, and Ecstasy
Zen Guitar