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Schubert

By Richard Baker

African Music: A People's Art

By Francis Bebey, Josephine Bennett

Musical Meaning and Expression

By Stephen Davies

Authenticities: Philosophical Reflections on Musical Performance

By Peter Kivy

Modern Music: A Concise History

By Paul Griffiths

African Rhythm and African Sensibility: Aesthetics and Social Action in African Musical Idioms

By John Miller Chernoff

The Concept of Music

By Robin Maconie (Professor of Music, Professor of Music, Savannah College of Art and Design, Georgia, USA)

Music and Imagination

By Aaron Copland

Foundations of Music History

By Carl Dahlhaus, J. B. Robinson

Arvo Part

By Paul Hillier (Director, Director, Early Music Institute, Indiana University School of Music)

Esthetics of Music

By Carl Dahlhaus, William W. Austin

Put the Needle on the Record: The 1980s at 45 Revolutions Per Minute

By Matthew Chojnacki

Music and Society: The Politics of Composition, Performance and Reception

By Richard Leppert, Susan McClary

Parallels and Paradoxes: Explorations in Music and Society

By Edward W. Said, Daniel Barenboim

Bob Marley and the Wailers: The Ultimate Illustrated History

By Richie Unterberger

Mozart and His Piano Concertos

By Cuthbert Girdlestone, Sara Davis Buechner

Bach: Chorale Harmonization and Instrumental Counterpoint

By Malcolm Boyd

Encyclopedia of Classical Music

By Rob Ainsley

Michael Jackson: All the Songs: The Story Behind Every Track

By Francois Allard, Richard Lecocq

The New Shostakovich

By Ian MacDonald

Listening to Music: The Essential Guide to the Classical Repertoire

By Jonathan D. Kramer

The Concise Oxford History of Music

By Gerald Abraham

Freddie Mercury (Paperback Edition)

Social Theory and Political Practice: Wolfson College Lectures, 1981

By Christopher Lloyd

Tchaikovsky: The Man Revealed

By John Suchet

The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction

By R V Cassill (late of Brown University)

Classic Ephemera: A Musical Miscellany (Classic FM)

By Darren Henley, Tim Lihoreau, Howard Goodall

Mozart in Vienna (Oxford lives)

By Braunbehrens, Volkmar, Bell, T.

HELL BENT FOR LEATHER: Confessions of a Heavy Metal Addict

By Hunter

Crossing Paths: Schubert, Schumann, and Brahms

By Daverio, John