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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

Erich Wolfgang Korngold

By Jessica Duchen

Music and German National Identity

By Celia Applegate, Pamela Potter

Silence: Lectures and Writings

By John Cage

Jimi Hendrix's Electric Ladyland

By John Perry

Let's Do It: The Birth of Pop

By Mr Bob Stanley

Solti on Solti: A Memoir

By George Solti, Harvey Sachs

Bowie Style

By Mark Paytress

On Record: Rock, Pop and the Written Word

By Simon Frith, Andrew Goodwin

Beethoven's Skull: Dark, Strange, and Fascinating Tales from the World of Classical Music and Beyond

By Tim Rayborn

Classical Music: A Beginner's Guide

By Julian Johnson (University of Sussex)

A New Philosophy of Opera

By Yuval Sharon

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

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

By Ann E. Lucas

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 in Contemporary British Fiction: Listening to the Novel

By G. Smyth

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