Robert Stumpf wrote:

>Books and Articles You Consult
>
>I was working on a review and started going through the things I consult
>when doing so.  I began to wonder what kinds of materials others read or
>consult when listening to music or writing about itS

DF Tovey Essays on Musical Analysis - a classic and very readable despite
its forbidding title.
Faber and Faber do a Companion series on composers ie the Mozart Companion,
Beethoven Companion same for Nielsen, Purcell, and Bartok. Very detailed and
up to date. Also a series a composer Remembered such as Ravel Remembered,
same for Purcell, Bartok.
There is the New Grove series Wagner,  etc.
A Guide to the Symphony by Robert Layton.
Lots of English National Opera guides.
lOTS of biographies. Vivaldi - Robbins Landon, Prokofiev - H Robinson,
Wagner Gutman, etc
The BBC Music Guides are quite good, a lot packed into a few pages.
There are books on specific works like the Cambridge University Press do
a series including Parsifal, Haydn The Creation etc.  Also I get BBC Music
Magazine and Tempo (quarterly mag on Modern Music though it can get a bit
technical).  There are others as well but that's enough to going on with.

Tim Horwood