Music History & Criticism

Beethoven: Missa Solemnis

By William Drabkin (University of Southampton)

Shostakovich: A Life Remembered

By Elizabeth Wilson

The Olivetti Chronicles

By John Peel

Cliff Richard: The Bachelor Boy

By Steve Turner

Musicology: The Key Concepts

By David Beard (University of Cardiff, UK), Kenneth Gloag (University of Cardiff

Disciplining Music: Musicology and Its Canons

By Katherine Bergeron, Philip V. Bohlman

Country Music: Facts, Figures and Fun

By Mike Evans

John Lennon: The Life

By Norman, Philip

Why Beethoven: A Phenomenon in 100 Pieces

By Norman Lebrecht

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

By Harry Partch

Erich Wolfgang Korngold

By Jessica Duchen

Shostakovich: A Life

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

Listen to This

By Alex Ross

Harmonograph: A Visual Guide to the Mathematics of Music

By Anthony Ashton

Sounds and Sweet Airs: The Forgotten Women of Classical Music

By Anna Beer

Mahler Remembered

By Norman Lebrecht

Twentieth Century Music: An Introduction

By Eric Salzmann

PARIS THE GREAT KALEDIOSCOPE

The Heaven Singing: Music in Early English Religious Drama I

By Richard Rastall

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

By Norman Lebrecht

Crossing Paths: Schubert, Schumann, and Brahms

By Daverio, John

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

By Gareth Malone

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

By Brad Tolinski, Alan Di Perna, Carlos Santana

The Best of Jazz

By Humphrey Lyttelton

Piccolo, Saxo & Cie

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

Mozart in Vienna (Oxford lives)

By Braunbehrens, Volkmar, Bell, T.

Psychedelia and Other Colours

By Rob Chapman

Turn! Turn! Turn!: The '60s Folk-Rock Revolution

By Richie Unterberger

1966: The Year the Decade Exploded

By Jon Savage

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

By David Hepworth