Contrapuntal Forms:

Robert Gauldin, A Practical Approach to 18th Century Counterpoint (Waveland Press, 2013)
http://vufind.carli.illinois.edu/vf-uiu/Record/uiu_3356352
NOT AVAILABLE
Kent Kennan, Counterpoint (Pearson, 1998)
http://vufind.carli.illinois.edu/vf-uiu/Record/uiu_581782
AVAILABLE
18th-century:
William Caplin, Classical Form: A Theory of Formal Functions for the Instrumental Music of
Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven (2000)
http://vufind.carli.illinois.edu/vf-uiu/Record/uiu_7570640
EBOOK AVAILABLE
Charles Rosen, The Classical Style (1998) - for Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven
http://vufind.carli.illinois.edu/vf-uiu/Record/uiu_1555425
AVAILABLE
Philip G. Downs, Classical Music: The Era of Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven (The Norton
Introduction to Music History, 1992)
http://vufind.carli.illinois.edu/vf-uiu/Record/uiu_3816282
AVAILABLE
19th-century:
Charles Rosen, The Romantic Generation (1998)
http://vufind.carli.illinois.edu/vf-uiu/Record/uiu_6698223
EBOOK AVAILABLE
Leon Plantinga, Romantic Music (Norton Introduction to Music History, 1985)
http://vufind.carli.illinois.edu/vf-uiu/Record/uiu_725641
AVAILABLE
Richard Taruskin, Music in the Nineteenth Century (Oxford, 2010)
http://vufind.carli.illinois.edu/vf-uiu/Record/uiu_6794045
EBOOK AVAILABLE
Richard Cohn, Maximally Smooth Cycles, Hexatonic Systems, and the Analysis of LateRomantic Triadic Progressions. Music Analysis, Vol. 15 No. 1 (March 1996), pp. 9-40. (you can
skip the math, but the music examplesanalyzing Brahms, Wagner, Mahler, etc.are excellent)
http://www.jstor.org.proxy2.library.illinois.edu/stable/854168?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
PDF AVAILABLE
20th-century:
Glenn Watkins, Soundings (1988)
http://vufind.carli.illinois.edu/vf-uiu/Record/uiu_1051101

AVAILABLE
Robert Morgan, Twentieth Century Music (Norton Introduction to Music History, 1991)
http://vufind.carli.illinois.edu/vf-uiu/Record/uiu_1718530
AVAILABLE
Miguel Roig-Francli, Understanding Twentieth Century Music (McGraw Hill, 2007)
http://vufind.carli.illinois.edu/vf-uiu/Record/uiu_7106646
AVAILABLE
Richard Taruskin, Music in the Early Twentieth Century and Music in the Late Twentieth Century
(Oxford, 2010)
http://vufind.carli.illinois.edu/vf-uiu/Record/uiu_6794045/TOC
EBOOK AVAILABLE

Also, in the ML 410 section of the library are many excellent books on both composers and
individual pieces; here are just a few, as an example:
Gretchen Horlacher, Building Blocks: Repetition and Continuity in the Music of Stravinsky
(2011)
http://vufind.carli.illinois.edu/vf-uiu/Record/uiu_6532222
AVAILABLE
Anthony Pople, Messiaen: Quatuor pour la fin du temps (Cambridge Music Handbooks, 1998)
http://vufind.carli.illinois.edu/vf-uiu/Record/uiu_6819586
EBOOK AVAILABLE
Finally, there is the Norton Critical Score series, which includes many great pieces with
important articles and analyses. Again, just a few of these:
Robert Bailey, Wagner: Prelude and Transfiguration from Tristan and Isolde (1985)
http://vufind.carli.illinois.edu/vf-uiu/Record/uiu_1096965
AVAILABLE
Kenneth Hull, Brahms: Symphony No. 4 in E minor (2000)
http://www.kellydeanhansen.com/opus98.html