Classical music and opera
A Mad Love, Vivien Schweitzer
The Classical Style: An Opera (Of Sorts)
The Opera House
The Rest is Noise, Alex Ross
Wagnerism, Alex Ross
On Late Style, Edward Said
Gay Guerrilla: Julius Eastman and His Music, Renée L. Packer and Mary J. Leach
The Queen’s Throat, Wayne Koestenbaum
Mad Scenes and Exit Arias, Heidi Waleson
The Impossible Art, Matthew Aucoin
“Einstein on the Beach”: How One Opera Changed Everything, Mark Swed
Deviant Opera, Alex Englund
Still Songs: Music In and Around the Poetry of Paul Celan, Alex Englund
The Hidden Costs of Streaming Music, Alex Ross
The Rise of the New, Vivien Schweitzer and Fred Cohn (Opera America)
The 2010s: A Decade of Change, Heidi Waleson (Opera America)
The American Singer: 1970 to 2020, Fred Cohn (Opera America)
Every Good Boy Does Fine, Jeremy Denk
Haus of Shmizzay
Jazz
Epistrophies: Jazz and the Literary Imagination, Brent Hayes Edwards
Playing Changes: Jazz for the New Century, Nate Chinen
In the Break: The Aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition, Fred Moten
Musical theater
Broadway Musicals: A Jewish Legacy
Mainly On Directing, Arthur Laurents
The Collected Lyrics of Stephen Sondheim
Everything Was Possible: The Birth of the Musical Follies, Ted Chapin
Popular music
Hava Nagila: The Movie
A 24-Decade History of Popular Music, Taylor Mac
“It’s so dramatic, I love it” – @alexjarmy