books by subject
Music History & Criticism

Crossing Paths: Schubert, Schumann, and Brahms

Mozart in Vienna (Oxford lives)

Piccolo, Saxo & Cie

The Best of Jazz

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

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

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

Louis Prima

Big Bangs

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

Music in Contemporary British Fiction: Listening to the Novel

The Africanist Aesthetic in Global Hip-Hop: Power Moves

This is Your Brain on Music: Understanding a Human Obsession

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

The Musical Heritage of Al-Andalus

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

Gustav Mahler: Memories and Letters

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

The Heaven Singing: Music in Early English Religious Drama I

PARIS THE GREAT KALEDIOSCOPE

Twentieth Century Music: An Introduction

Mahler Remembered

Sounds and Sweet Airs: The Forgotten Women of Classical Music

Harmonograph: A Visual Guide to the Mathematics of Music

Listen to This

Shostakovich: A Life

Erich Wolfgang Korngold

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

Why Beethoven: A Phenomenon in 100 Pieces
