Music History & Criticism

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

Uproot

By Jace Clayton

The Complete Guide to the Music of Jimi Hendrix

By John Robertson

Japrocksampler

By Julian Cope

Totally Wired: Postpunk Interviews and Overviews

By Simon Reynolds

Wire's Pink Flag

By Wilson Neate

The Velvet Underground's The Velvet Underground and Nico

By Joe Harvard

Slayer's Reign in Blood

By D.X. Ferris

The Art of the Band T-shirt

By Amber Easby, Henry Oliver

Tony Bacon: Six Decades Of Fender Telecaster - The Story Of The World's First Solidbody Electric Guitar

By Tony Bacon

The Cambridge Companion to the Saxophone

By Richard Ingham (Leeds College of Music)

How Music Got Free: The Inventor, the Music Man, and the Thief

By Stephen Witt

Guitarists Picture Chords

By Happy Traum

The Oxford Illustrated History of Opera

By Roger Parker

The Vintage Guide to Classical Music: An Indispensable Guide for Understanding and Enjoying Classical Music

By Jan Swafford