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Memoirs

By Hector Berlioz, David Cairns

Schumann (Master Musician S.)

By Joan Chissell

Bob Marley: His Musical Legacy

By Jeremy Collingwood

Bob Dylan All the Songs: The Story Behind Every Track

By Philippe Margotin, Jean-Michel Guesdon

Ballet Music: Billy the Kid Suite-Four Dance Episodes from Rodeo

By Aaron Copland

Organ Works Book 1: 8 Short Preludes & Fugues

By Johann Sebastian Bach, John Dykes Bower, Walter Emery

Moldau, The, and Other Works for Orchestra: In Full Score

By Bedrich Smetana

Rock Covers

By Jonathan Kirby, Robbie Busch, Julius Wiedemann

Somewhere for Me: A Biography of Richard Rogers

By Meryle Secrest

The Richard Rodgers Reader

By Geoffrey Block (Professor of Music History, Professor of Music History, University of Puget Sound)

As Serious as Your Life: Story of the New Jazz

By Valerie Wilmer

The Lives Of The Great Composers: Third Edition

By Harold C. Schonberg

Fantastic Symphony

By Hector Berlioz, Edward T. Cone

Shostakovich Studies

By David Fanning (University of Manchester)

Elgar

By Robert Anderson

Handel: Messiah

By Donald Burrows (The Open University, Milton Keynes)

The Oxford Companion to Music

By Alison Latham

Dolly: My Life and other unfinished business

By Dolly Parton

What's It All About?

By Cilla Black

The Cambridge Companion to the String Quartet

By Robin Stowell (Cardiff University)

S'wonderful: A Symphony of Musical Memories

By Tony Ireland

Jean-Christophe

By Romain Rolland

The Rat Pack: Neon Nights with the Kings of Cool

By Lawrence J. Quirk

Access All Areas: A Backstage Pass Through 50 Years of Music And Culture

By Barbara Charone

Oh yes, oh yes!

By Carl Cox

Industry of Magic & Light

By David Keenan

A Cry from the Heart: A Biography of Edith Piaf

By Margaret Crosland

To Anyone Who Ever Asks: The Life, Music, and Mystery of Connie Converse: 1 of Pitchfork's 10 Best Music Books of 2023

By Howard Fishman

Always Look on the Bright Side of Life: A Sortabiography

By Eric Idle

Reckless Daughter: A Joni Mitchell Anthology

By Barney Hoskyns