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Top 101 musicians
Pro Tools for Music Production
Strange Sounds
Preparing for Success
Understanding the music business
Pumping Nylon
Foundations of Diatonic Theory
Music and modern art
Beyond Talent
Perspectives on Peter Maxwell Davies
Mahler, Symphony no. 3
The sociology of music
Music and orientalism in the British Empire, 1780s to 1940s
Machine musicianship
Images
Teaching Music History
Musical Meaning
Apolitical Politics: A Critique of Behavioralism
A simplified grammar of the Japanese language
The musician's guide to reading & writing music
Virgil Thomson
Classical form
Composing the Music of Africa
Counterpoint Workbook
Edexcel GCSE Music
Great novels of Charles Dickens
Eighteenth-century Russian music
Britten, War requiem
Masculinity and western musical practice
The imaginary museum of musical works
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