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The Women's Orchestra of Auschwitz: A Story of Survival

By Anne Sebba

The Days Grow Short: The Life and Music of Kurt Weill

By Ronald Sanders

A History of Western Musical Aesthetics

By Edward A. Lippman

Chopin's Piano: A Journey through Romanticism

By Paul Kildea

Empirical Musicology: Aims, Methods, Prospects

By Eric Clarke, Nicholas Cook

Understanding Music: Philosophy and Interpretation

By Roger Scruton

Performing Rites: Evaluating Popular Music

By Simon Frith

The Anthropology of Music

By Alan P. Merriam, Valerie Merriam

The John Rutter Christmas Piano Album: 8 of his best-loved seasonal choral pieces in new transcriptions for solo piano

By Rutter, John

Operetta: A Theatrical History

By Richard Traubner

"Beatles" Files

By Andy Davis

Performing Pain: Music and Trauma in Eastern Europe

By Maria Cizmic, Kirill Batygin

Gioachino Rossini's The Barber of Seville

By Hilary Poriss (Professor of Music, Professor of Music, Northeastern University)

Classic Electrics: A Visual History Of Great Guitars

By Walter Carter

Twentieth-Century Classical Music: A Ladybird Expert Book

By Fiona Maddocks

A History Of Musical Style

By Richard L. Crocker

How Music Works

By David Byrne

Fenby on Delius: Collected Writings on Delius to Mark Eric Fenby's 90th Birthday

By Eric Fenby, Stephen Lloyd

50 Years of Glastonbury: Music and Mud at the Ultimate Festival

By Malcolm Croft

Stravinsky's Piano: Genesis of a Musical Language

By Graham Griffiths (City University London)

Stephen Fry's Incomplete and Utter History of Classical Music

By Tim Lihoreau, Stephen Fry

Enrique Granados: Poet of the Piano

By Walter Aaron Clark (Professor, Professor, University of California Riverside)

Victorian Music: A social and cultural history

By Asa Briggs, Janet Lovegrove

The Rough Guide to The Beatles

By Chris Ingham

Renaissance and Baroque Music: A Comprehensive Survey

By Frederich Blume

Classical Composers

By Wendy Thompson

Correlations, Transformations, and Interactions in Organic Crystal Chemistry: Proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on Organic Crystal Chemistry, Poznan-Rydzyna, Poland, 26-30 July 1992

By Derry Jones (Professor, Chemistry and Chemical Technology, Professor, University of Bradford), Andrzej Katrusiak (Doctor, Department of Crystal Chemistry, Doctor, Adam Mickiewicz Unive...

The Vinyl Frontier: The Story of NASA's Interstellar Mixtape

By Jonathan Scott

George Michael's Faith

By Matthew Horton (Music Journalist, UK)

Verdi: The Man Revealed

By John Suchet