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You Spin Me Round: Essays on Music

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A History of Opera: The Last Four Hundred Years

Carolyn Abbate

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This magnificent book - which takes its title from a remark of the singer Josephine Baker - gives us the cultural landscape of black genius from the mid C20th to the present. We are in extr... read more

A Little Devil in America: In Praise of Black Performance ...

Hanif Abdurraqib

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A Little Devil in America: In Praise of Black Performance ...

Hanif Abdurraqib

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Thomas Ades: Full of Noises: Conversations with Tom Service ...

Thomas Ades

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Her troubled life told through flashbacks of moments in her last year.

Bitter Crop: The Heartache and Triumph of Billie Holiday’s Last ...

Paul Alexander

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Vaughan Williams

Keith Alldritt

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Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege o ...

M. T. Anderson

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The marvellous Attlee takes us on the journey, through space and time, of one violin, whose voice "was powerful enough to unbuckle joints". Cremona, Russia, Venice, Alpine forests... (Her la... read more

Lev’s Violin: An Italian Adventure

Helena Attlee

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The fabulous singer who spied for the French Resistance, adopted twelve children, marched with Martin Luther King, was awarded the Croix de Guerre and was made a Chevalier of the Légion d'h... read more

Fearless and Free: A Memoir

Josephine Baker

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How and why does it work on us? This masterful study explores the mystery through the psychology, philosophy, mathematics, neurology and history that underlie as surrund it, in all its remar... read more

The Music Instinct: How Music Works and Why We Can’t Do Without ...

Philip Ball

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Parallels & Paradoxes: Explorations in Music and Society ...

Daniel Barenboim

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UnNatural Music: John Lennon & Yoko Ono in Cambridge 1969: Accoun ...

Anthony Barnett

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Sound: A Story of Hearing Lost and Found

Bella Bathurst

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Leonard Bernstein 100: The Masters Photograph the Maestro ...

Jaime Bernstein

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The Leonard Bernstein Letters

Leonard Bernstein

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The New Penguin Book of English Folk Songs

Julia Bishop

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With Billie

Julia Blackburn

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Hold Tight: Black Masculinity, Millennials and the Meaning of Grime [N ...

Jeffrey Boakye

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Musical Truth: A Musical Journey Through Modern Black Britain ...

Jeffrey Boakye

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The autobiography of the lead singer of U2.

Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story

Bono

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Schubert’s Winter Journey: Anatomy of an Obsession ...

Dr Ian Bostridge

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The Book of Lieder

Dr Ian Bostridge

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Wolf set the works of thirty-six poets to music. Here the genial professor of lieder at the Royal College of Music translates the poems, introduces the poets and Wolf's connections with them... read more

The Complete Songs of Hugo Wolf: Life, Letters, Lieder ...

Richard Stokes

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During lockdown, the great tenor turned his attention to some of the stories and ideas behind the song cycles that he was unable to perform.

Song & Self: A Singer’s Reflections on Music and Performanc ...

Ian Bostridge

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A short but extremely useful guide to help those without prior knowledge of classical music discover ways into wonders that can seem intimidating or closed.

Perfect Pitch: 100 Pieces of Classical Music

Tim Bouverie

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A magnificent, global social history of pop music, by the producer once at the forefront of world music.

And the Roots of Rhythm Remain: A Journey Through Global Music ...

Joe Boyd

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Music, Sense and Nonsense: Collected Essays and Lectures ...

Alfred Brendel

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A group biography of four magnificent and prodigiously talented women composers who, though famous in their lifetimes for their works, are now ghosts in the canon. All were born between 1858... read more

Quartet: How Four Women Changed the Musical World

Leah Broad

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From the author of 'Ma'am Darling' and other hoots, a ragbag of tales and thoughts about the Beatles and their circle which somehow adds up to a wonderful account of their charisma and influ... read more

One Two Three Four: The Beatles in Time

Craig Brown

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Tearing Down the Wall of Sound: The Rise and Fall of Phil Spector ...

Mick Brown

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Acute and wide-ranging, these disparate glimpses come together (ha!) to make up a picture not only of the 'Fab Four' but of the new and colourful 1960s' world that they helped to usher in. ... read more

One Two Three Four: The Beatles in Time

Craig Brown

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Verdi

Julian Budden

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From London in the Swinging Sixties to a hippie retreat in the Outer Hebrides: she and her partner travelled - slowly - by horse and wagon. She gave up music, disillusioned with the pop indu... read more

Wayward: Just Another Life to Live

Vashti Bunyan

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From London in the Swinging Sixties to a hippie retreat in the Outer Hebrides: she and her partner travelled – slowly – by horse and wagon. She gave up music, disillusioned with the pop ... read more

Wayward: Just Another Life to Live

Vashti Bunyan

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Menuhin: A Life

Sir Humphrey Burton

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Leonard Bernstein

Sir Humphrey Burton

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In My Own Time: An Autobiography

Humphrey Burton

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YEAR OF WONDER: Classical Music for Every Day

Clemency Burton-Hill

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How Music Works

David Byrne

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The Piano Shop On The Left Bank

T E Carhart

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The Wagner Clan

Jonathan Carr

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An enquiry into the history of unruly noise, by a genius.

The Gender of Sound

Anne Carson

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A personal exploration of Indian classical music, its improvisations that flower from well-established short sequences of notes, its subtle evocations of feeling. By a fine writer and vocali... read more

Finding the Raga: An Improvisation on Indian Music

Amit Chaudhuri

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Finding the Raga: An Improvisation on Indian Music

Amit Chaudhuri

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From childhood to the 1970s and her marriage to Sonny - therefore doesn't include her account of a surprising publicity stunt in 1979 (?) when she appeared at a boys school not unknown to li... read more

Cher: The Memoir, Part One

Cher

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A memoir by the Swedish singer-songwriter who found her voice with Poly Styrene and Viv Albertine, later working with Massive Attack and others in her long career in music.

A Thousand Threads

Neneh Cherry

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The first biography of one of the great codebreakers: she played a key role in both world wars, and also deciphered the letters of both Beethoven and Mozart.

Queen of Codes: The Secret Life of Emily Anderson, Britain’s Gre ...

Jackie Ui Chionna

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The Faber Pocket Guide to Opera: New Edition

Rupert Christiansen

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A Slim Volume: Glyndebourne: An Anecdotal Account

George Christie

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The Other Classical Musics: Fifteen Great Traditions ...

Michael Church

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Something of his Art: Walking to Lubeck with J. S. Bach ...

Horatio Clare

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Voices: How a Great Singer Can Change Your Life

Nick Coleman

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Verdi and/or Wagner: Two Men, Two Worlds, Two Centuries ...

Peter Conrad

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Bela Bartok

David Cooper

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What To Listen For In Music

Aaron Copland

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The Lyrics of Noel Coward

Noel Coward

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The first full biography (with access to his papers given by his family) to this Indian cultural icon and significant C20th musician, who influenced the Beatles, Coltrane, Glass, Menuhin.

Indian Sun: The Life and Music of Ravi Shankar

Oliver Craske

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Indian Sun: The Life and Music of Ravi Shankar

Oliver Craske

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Ring Resounding: The Recording of ‘Der Ring Des Nibelungen’ ...

John Culshaw

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