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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

What to Listen For in Jazz

By Barry Kernfeld

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

Transformer: A Story of Glitter, Glam Rock, and Loving Lou Reed

By Simon Doonan

I Was There: Gigs That Changed the World

By Mark Paytress

The Golden Century of Italian Opera from Rossini to Puccini

By William Weaver

Led Zeppelin SBTS

By Chris Welch

M Train

By Ms Patti Smith