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Crossing Paths: Schubert, Schumann, and Brahms

By Daverio, John

Mozart in Vienna (Oxford lives)

By Braunbehrens, Volkmar, Bell, T.

Piccolo, Saxo & Cie

By Sales, Juliette, Catalogne, Isabelle de, Popp, Andre, Broussole, Jean

The Best of Jazz

By Humphrey Lyttelton

Play It Loud: An Epic History of the Style, Sound, and Revolution of the Electric Guitar

By Brad Tolinski, Alan Di Perna, Carlos Santana

Music for the People: The Pleasures and Pitfalls of Classical Music

By Gareth Malone

Overpaid, Oversexed and Over There: How a Few Skinny Brits with Bad Teeth Rocked America

By David Hepworth

Louis Prima

By Garry Boulard

Big Bangs

By Goodall, Howard

The Funk Era and Beyond: New Perspectives on Black Popular Culture

By T. Bolden

Music in Contemporary British Fiction: Listening to the Novel

By G. Smyth

The Africanist Aesthetic in Global Hip-Hop: Power Moves

By H. Osumare

This is Your Brain on Music: Understanding a Human Obsession

By Daniel Levitin

Music of a Thousand Years: A New History of Persian Musical Traditions

By Ann E. Lucas

The Musical Heritage of Al-Andalus

By Dwight Reynolds

Man and His Music: Story of Musical Experience in the West: Pt.4: Romanticism and the Twentieth Century

By Wilfrid Mellers

Gustav Mahler: Memories and Letters

By Alma Maria Werfel-Mahler, Donald Mitchell

Covent Garden: The Untold Story - Dispatches from the English Culture War, 1945-2000

By Norman Lebrecht

The Heaven Singing: Music in Early English Religious Drama I

By Richard Rastall

PARIS THE GREAT KALEDIOSCOPE

Twentieth Century Music: An Introduction

By Eric Salzmann

Mahler Remembered

By Norman Lebrecht

Sounds and Sweet Airs: The Forgotten Women of Classical Music

By Anna Beer

Harmonograph: A Visual Guide to the Mathematics of Music

By Anthony Ashton

Listen to This

By Alex Ross

Shostakovich: A Life

By Laurel Fay (Former Assistant Professor of Music, Former Assistant Professor of Music, Ohio State University)

Erich Wolfgang Korngold

By Jessica Duchen

Genesis of a Music: An Account of a Creative Work, Its Roots and Its Fulfillments

By Harry Partch

Why Beethoven: A Phenomenon in 100 Pieces

By Norman Lebrecht

John Lennon: The Life

By Norman, Philip