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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

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

By Johannes C. Jansen

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

Handel: Messiah

By Donald Burrows (The Open University, Milton Keynes)

What to Listen For in Jazz

By Barry Kernfeld

HIST W M4E CL

By Donald Jay Grout, Claude V. Palisca

The Blue Monday Diaries

By Michael Butterworth

Music in the Romantic Era

By Alfred Einstein

Shostakovich Studies

By David Fanning (University of Manchester)