I was putting books away and got curious: what books have other musicians read that have helped you to be a better musician? What books have you learned from (to solve problems, to listen more accurately, to understand things about music, for example).

Two favorites of mine are Eloise Ristad's A Soprano on Her Head and W.A. Mathieu's The Listening Book. Ristad and Mathieu both taught me to pay attention to mistakes and what I could learn from them -- to really study mistakes and make them consciously so that I could learn to stop making them.

But I want to know what books you have learned from. C'mon bibliophiles.

Sharyn