On books to read if you want to learn more about music

One topic we talk about a lot on this blog is music and books that you can use to connect with music, learn more about it, and become a music expert. Here are a few books that you can use to expand your knowledge of music - the history, the science, and the theory of music.

• Roots of the Classical: The Popular Origins of Western Music by Peter Van Der Merwe 
• This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession by Daniel J. Levitin 

• The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century by Alex Ross
• Introduction to Musicology: A Survey of the Fields, Systematic and Historical, of Musical Knowledge and Research by Glen Haydon 
• Hugo Riemann and the Birth of Modern Musical Thought by Alexander Rehding 

• Noise: The Political Economy of Music by Jacques Attali
• Rethinking Music by Nicholas Cook 
• America's Musical Life: A History by Richard Crawford

In this blog post, I referenced this article, this article, and this article.

You can also check out this Goodreads list


Which books have taught you about music? Which books would you add to this list?