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Lennon Legend: An Illustrated Life of John Lennon

By Henke, James

Lives of the Great Composers

By Schonberg, Harold C.

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

By Musgrave, Michael

A Celebration for Magnus

By GEORGE MACKAY BROWN, Simon Fraser, Gunnie Moberg, Giles Conacher

J.S.Bach (Oxford Composer Companions)

By Boyd, Malcolm

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

By Ian Penman

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

By David Hurwitz

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

By Downs, Philip G

On Late Style: Music and Literature Against the Grain

By Said, Edward

Mozart

By Gay, Peter

Vaughan Williams

By Heffer, Simon

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

By Levitin, Professor Daniel J

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

By Goodman, Lizzy

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

By Boyd, Joe, Kureishi, Hanif

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

By Kessler, Ted

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

By Spotts, Frederic

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

By Barry Millington

Correspondence, 1888-1911

By Mahler, Gustav, Strauss, Richard, Blaukopf, Herta

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

By Seay, Albert

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

By Doggett, Peter

Yeah Yeah Yeah: The Story of Modern Pop

By Stanley, Bob

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

By Myers, Marc

The History of Rock ′N′ Roll in Ten Songs

By Marcus, Greil

Stephen Fry's Incomplete and Utter History of Classical Music

By Tim Lihoreau, Stephen Fry

Cowboys and Indies: The Epic History of the Record Industry

By Murphy, Gareth

Remembering Bix: Biography of Bix Beiderbecke

By Berton, Ralph

Portrait of Elgar

By Kennedy, Michael

Why Dylan Matters

By Thomas, Richard F.

Million Dollar Bash: Bob Dylan, the Band, and the Basement Tapes

By Sid Griffin

Popular Music in Theory: An Introduction

By Negus, Keith