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Ambient Century: From Mahler to Moby - The Evolution of Sound in the Electronic Age

By Prendergast, Mark

If it Ain't Baroque: More Music History as it Ought to be Taught

By Barber, David W., Donald, Dave

A Guide to the Concerto

By Layton, Robert

O Sing unto the Lord: A History of English Church Music

By Gant, Andrew

J.S.Bach (Oxford Composer Companions)

By Boyd, Malcolm

Lennon Legend: An Illustrated Life of John Lennon

By Henke, James

Lives of the Great Composers

By Schonberg, Harold C.

The Music of Brahms (Companion to the Great Composers S.)

By Musgrave, Michael

Yeah Yeah Yeah: The Story of Modern Pop

By Stanley, Bob

Tchaikovsky

By Edward Garden

The Record Men: Chess Records and the Birth of Rock & Roll

By Rich Cohen, Richard Cohen

Memories of Beethoven: From the House of the Black-Robed Spaniards

By Gerhard von Breuning, Maynard Solomon, Henry Mins

Mozart

By Wendy Thompson

Modern Music and After: Directions Since 1945

By Paul Griffiths

The Great Rock Discography

By Strong, Martin C.

Roots, Radicals and Rockers: How Skiffle Changed the World

By Bragg, Billy

Popular Music in Theory: An Introduction

By Negus, Keith

Million Dollar Bash: Bob Dylan, the Band, and the Basement Tapes

By Sid Griffin

Why Dylan Matters

By Thomas, Richard F.

Portrait of Elgar

By Kennedy, Michael

Remembering Bix: Biography of Bix Beiderbecke

By Berton, Ralph

Cowboys and Indies: The Epic History of the Record Industry

By Murphy, Gareth

Stephen Fry's Incomplete and Utter History of Classical Music

By Tim Lihoreau, Stephen Fry

The History of Rock ′N′ Roll in Ten Songs

By Marcus, Greil

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

By Myers, Marc

Vaughan Williams

By Heffer, Simon

On Late Style: Music and Literature Against the Grain

By Said, Edward

Mozart

By Gay, Peter

Classical Music – The Era of Hadyn, Mozart, & Beethoven: The Era of Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven: 0000 (Norton Introduction to Music History)

By Downs, Philip G

The World in Six Songs: How the Musical Brain Created Human Nature

By Levitin, Professor Daniel J