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Roots, Radicals and Rockers: How Skiffle Changed the World

By Bragg, Billy

The Great Rock Discography

By Strong, Martin C.

Modern Music and After: Directions Since 1945

By Paul Griffiths

Mozart

By Wendy Thompson

Memories of Beethoven: From the House of the Black-Robed Spaniards

By Gerhard von Breuning, Maynard Solomon, Henry Mins

The Record Men: Chess Records and the Birth of Rock & Roll

By Rich Cohen, Richard Cohen

Tchaikovsky

By Edward Garden

Romanticism and Melody: Essays for Music-Lovers

By George Austen Colerick, Jane East

English Keyboard Music Before the Nineteenth Century

By John Caldwell

Michael Tippett

By Meirion Bowen

The Lives and Times of the Great Composers

By Michael Steen

Concert Music 1630-1750

By Gerald Abraham

Early Jazz: Its Roots and Musical Development

By Gunther Schuller

The Story of Stereophonics: High Times & Headlines

By Mike Black

Masterpieces of Music Before 1750

By Carl Parrish, John F. Ohl

Woodwind Instruments And Their History

By Anthony Baines

Rock Covers

By Jonathan Kirby, Robbie Busch, Julius Wiedemann

Edward Elgar

By Jerrold Northrop Moore

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

By Johannes C. Jansen

The Lost Pianos of Siberia: A Sunday Times Paperback of 2021

By Sophy Roberts

Beethoven

By Martin Geck, Peter Sheppard Skaerved, Anthea Bell

Shostakovich Studies

By David Fanning (University of Manchester)

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

By H. C. Robbins Landon

Handel: Messiah

By Donald Burrows (The Open University, Milton Keynes)

Music in the Romantic Era

By Alfred Einstein

The Blue Monday Diaries

By Michael Butterworth

HIST W M4E CL

By Donald Jay Grout, Claude V. Palisca

What to Listen For in Jazz

By Barry Kernfeld

From "The Italian Girl" to "Cabaret": Musical Humour, Parody and Burlesque

By George Austen Colerick

The Age of Enlightenment 1745-1790

By Egon Wellesz, F. W. Sternfeld