books by subject
Music History & Criticism

Lives of the Great Composers

The History of Rock ′N′ Roll in Ten Songs

Anatomy of a Song: The Oral History of 45 Iconic Hits That Changed Rock, R&B and Pop

Yeah Yeah Yeah: The Story of Modern Pop

Electric Shock: From the Gramophone to the iPhone – 125 Years of Pop Music

Music in the Mediaeval World (History of Music S.)

Correspondence, 1888-1911

The Wagner Compendium: A Guide to Wagner's Life and Music

Bayreuth – History of the Wagner Festival: A History of the Wagner Festival

Paper Cuts: How I Destroyed the British Music Press and Other Misadventures

White Bicycles: Making Music in the 1960s (Serpent's Tail Classics)

Meet Me in the Bathroom: Rebirth and Rock and Roll in New York City 2001–2011

The World in Six Songs: How the Musical Brain Created Human Nature

Vaughan Williams

Mozart

On Late Style: Music and Literature Against the Grain

Classical Music – The Era of Hadyn, Mozart, & Beethoven: The Era of Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven: 0000 (Norton Introduction to Music History)

Shostakovich Symphonies and Concertos: An Owner's Manual (Unlocking the Masters)

It Gets Me Home, This Curving Track: Objects & Essays 2012-2018

J.S.Bach (Oxford Composer Companions)

A Celebration for Magnus

The Music of Brahms (Companion to the Great Composers S.)

Classical Music: A Concise History - From Gluck to Beethoven (World of Art S.)

Sonic Interventions. (Thamyris/Intersecting: Place, Sex and Race): 18

The British Piano Sonata, 1870-1945 (0)

Renaissance Music – Music in Western Europe 1400– 1600 (The Norton Introduction to Music History)

Glenn Gould: A Life and Variations

Romantic Music: A Concise History from Schubert to Sibelius (World of Art)

The Last Post: Music After Modernism (Music and Society)
