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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

HIST W M4E CL

By Donald Jay Grout, Claude V. Palisca

What to Listen For in Jazz

By Barry Kernfeld

From "The Italian Girl" to "Cabaret": Musical Humour, Parody and Burlesque

By George Austen Colerick

The Age of Enlightenment 1745-1790

By Egon Wellesz, F. W. Sternfeld

Hawkwind: Sonic Assassins

By Ian Abrahams

Rainbow Rising: The Story of Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow

By Roy Davies

Led Zeppelin SBTS

By Chris Welch

I Was There: Gigs That Changed the World

By Mark Paytress

The Golden Century of Italian Opera from Rossini to Puccini

By William Weaver

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

By Simon Doonan

M Train

By Ms Patti Smith

Classic and Romantic Music: A Comprehensive Guide

By Frederich Blume

A Million Years of Music: The Emergence of Human Modernity

By Gary Tomlinson (Yale University)

THE DARK SIDE OF THE MOON: The Making of the Pink Floyd Masterpiece

By Harris

Mozart

By Richard Baker

Anatomy of a Song: The Oral History of 45 Iconic Hits That Changed Rock, R&B and Pop

By Marc Myers

How to Play Keyboards: All You Need to Know to Play Easy Keyboard Music

By Roger Evans