North East of Scotland Music School

Books about Music arranged by Topic

Tuesday 22nd September 2026

Composers-- by Country

Some English symphonists: a selection from 'Essays in musical analysis' / Donald Francis Tovey (OUP 1941) 80 p. mus. illus. | Comp- Pl:Tov

Composers-- General

Composers' gallery: biographical sketches of contemporary composers / Donald Brook (Rockliff 1946) 218 p. illus. | Comp:Bro

The heritage of music, 2nd series: essays by E.H. Fellowes etc / Hubert J. Foss (OUP 1946) vi,263 p. | Comp:Fos(2)

Hush! Handel's in a passion: tales of Bach, Handel and their contemporaries / Norman Lebrecht (André Deutsch 1985) 127 p. illus. | Comp:Leb

Lexicon of musical inventive: critical assaults on composers since Beethoven's time / Nicolas Slonimsky (Univ. Washington P. 2nd ed. 1969) 325 p. 2nd ed. | Comp:Slo

The lives of the great composers / Harold C Schonberg (Davis-Poynter 1971) 600 p. | Comp:Sch

Lives of the great composers, vol. 1: From Byrd to Mozart and Haydn - the Classics / A L Bacharach (Pelican Books 1942) 192 p. | Comp:Bac(1)

Lives of the great composers vol. 2: Beethoven and the Romantics / A L Bacharach (Pelican Books 1943) 192 p. | Comp:Bac(2)

Lives of the great composers, vol. 3: Brahms, Wagner and their contemporaries / A L Bacharach (Penguin 1943) 186 p. | Comp:Bac(3)

Lives, wives and loves of the great composers / Fritz Spiegel (Marion Boyars 1997) 256 p. | Comp:Spi

The music masters, [vol. 1]: from the sixteenth century to the time of Beethoven / A L Bacharach (Maurice Fridberg 1948) 366 p. including "Lives of the great composers" | Comp:Bac(1)

The music masters, vol. 4: the Twentieth Century / A L Bacharach (Penguin 1957) 416 p. | Comp:Bac(4)

My favourite intervals: lives of the musical giants and other facts you didn't know you'd missed / Victor Borge & Robert Sherman (Sphere Books 1976) 189 p. illus. | Comp:Bor

Our favourite musicians: from Stanford to Holbrooke / Sydney Grew (T.N. Foulis 1922) 257 p. illus., 10 pl. | Comp:Gre

Die Reihe, 4: young composers / Eduard Mörike (Theodore Presser 1960) 135 p. 2 fold. charts | Comp:Mör(4)

Romain Rolland's essays on music / Romain Rolland ed. David Ewen (Dover 1959) 371 p. | Comp:Rol

Vivaldi and the number 3: and other impossible stories / Ron Butlin (Serpent's Tail 2004) xi,206 p. | Comp:But

Composers--Bach

Auf den Lebenswegen Johann Sebastian Bachs / Werner Neuman (Verlag der Nation 1953) 319 p. illus., 200+ pl. | Comp-Bac:Neu

Bach / Eva Mary & Sydney Grew (Dent 1947) 239 p. | Comp-Bac:Mar

Bach organ music / Peter Williams (BBC Music Guides 1972) 71 p. mus. illus. | Comp-Bac:Wil

Bach's orchestra / Charles Sanford Terry (OUP 1961) xix,250 p. | Comp-Bac:Ter

The background of Passion music: J S Bach and his predecessors / Basil Smallman (SCM Press 1957) 125 p. | Comp-Bac:Sma

The Baroque organ; and Bach organ music / A304 Course Team Open University (Open University 1974) 121 p. (The development of instruments and their music, Units 1-2) | Comp-Bac:Ope

The Chorale preludes of J. S. Bach: a handbook / Stainton de B. Taylor (OUP 1942) x,126 p. | Comp-Bac:Tay

The forty-eight preludes and fugues of Johann Sebastian Bach analysed for the use of students / Frederick Iliffe (Novello c.1950) 194 p. | Comp-Bac:Ili

Composers--Bartók

Bartók (Novello Short Biographies) / Kenneth Dommett (Novello 1978) 23 p. | Comp-Bar:Dom

Bartok orchestral music / John McCabe (BBC Music Guides 1974) 64 p. mus. illus. | Comp-Bar:McC

Bartók's workshop: documents of the compositional process / László Somfai (MTA ZI, Budapest 1995) 44 p. | Comp-Bar:Som

Bela Bartók Memorial House: [an illustrated guide] / Márta Strack (Budapest History Museum 2006) 74 p. | Comp-Bar:Str

Composers--Beethoven

Beethoven / A202 Course Team Open University (Open University 1972) 108 p. (The Age of Revolutions, Units 25-27) | Comp-Bee:Ope

Beethoven / Marion M Scott (Dent/Dutton 1934) 340 p. | Comp-Bee:Sco

Beethoven / J W N Sullivan (Pelican Books 1949) 159 p. | Comp-Bee:Sul

Beethoven: the man revealed / John Suchet (Elliott & Thompson 2012) xii,274 p. | Comp-Bee:Suc

Beethoven: the man who freed music / Robert Haven Schauffler (Tudor Pub 1946) xxvii,693 p. mus. illus. | Comp-Bee:Sch

Beethoven: notes on the sonatas / Frederic Lamond (n.p. n.d.) 14 p. | Comp-Bee:Lam

Beethoven piano sonatas / Denis Matthews (BBC Music Guides 1967) 56 p. mus. illus. | Comp-Bee:Mat

Beethoven string quartets 2 / Basil Lam (BBC Music Guides 1975) 72 p. mus. illus. | Comp-Bee:Lam(2)

Beethoven's hair: an extraordinary historical odyssey and a musical mystery solved / Russell Martin (Bloomsbury 2000) 276 p. | Comp-Bee:Mar

A companion to Beethoven's pianoforte sonatas: complete analyses / Donald Francis Tovey (ABRSM c.1950) xiv+301 p. | Comp-Bee:Tov

A companion to Beethoven's pianoforte sonatas: bar-to-bar analysis / Donald Francis Tovey (Associated Board 1931) xiv,284 p. mus. illus., 1pl. | Comp-Bee:Tov

The last master: vol. 1 of a fictional biography of Ludwig van Beethoven / John Suchet (Little Brown 1996) 622 p. | Comp-Bee:Suc

Ludwig van Beethoven 1770-1827: [exhibition catalogue] / Joseph Schmidt-Görg (IFR Stuttgart 1970) 120 p. | Comp-Bee:Sch

The Ninth: Beethoven and the world in 1824 / Harvey Sachs (Faber 2010) 225 p. illus. | Comp-Bee:Sac

Two Beethoven sketchbooks: a description with musical extracts / Gustav Nottebohm (Gollancz 1979) xi,130 p. | Comp-Bee:Not

Composers--Berlioz

Berlioz (Novello's Biographies of Great Musicians) / Edward Lockspeiser (Novello 1945(?)) 16 p. | Comp-Ber:Loc

Composers--Bizet

Bizet (Novello's Biographies of Great Musicians) / Edward Lockspeiser (Novello 1951) 16 p. | Comp-Biz:Loc

Composers--Bliss

Bliss (Novello Short Biographies) / Christopher Palmer (Novello 1976) 24 p. | Comp-Bli:Pal

Composers--Brahms

Brahms (Novello's Biographies of Great Musicians) / Alec Robertson (Novello 1941(?)) 16 p. | Comp-Bra:Rob

Brahms (The Mayfair Biographies) / Charles V Stanford (Murdoch, Murdoch n.d.) 28 p. | Comp-Bra:Sta

Brahms songs / Eric Sams (BBC Music Guides 1972) 68 p. mus. illus. | Comp-Bra:Sam

Brahms: the symphonies (The Musical Pilgrim) / P. A. Browne (OUP 1944) 71 p. | Comp-Bra:Bro

Composers--Britten

Benjamin Britten: a biography / Humphrey Carpenter (Faber 1993) 680 p. illus. | Comp-Bri:Car

Benjamin Britten: pictures from a life 1913-1976 / Donald Mitchell (Faber 1978) viii,16 p. 440 pl., some col. | Comp-Bri:Mit

Benjamin Britten - The Rape of Lucretia [and] Albert Herring (Covent Garden Operas) / Hans Keller (Boosey & Hawkes 1947) 35 p. | Comp-Bri:Kel

Britten's children / John Bridcut (Faber 2007) xvii,334 p. 8 pl. | Comp-Bri:Bri

Composers--Bruckner

Bruckner symphonies / Philip Barford (BBC Music Guides 1978) 68 p. mus. illus. | Comp-Bru:Bar

Composers--Chopin

Chopin / J Cuthbert Hadden (Dent/Dutton 1934) 243 p. rev. ed. | Comp-Cho:Had

Chopin / Arthur Hedley (Dent 1974) viii,214 p. illus., 8 pl. | Comp-Cho:Hed

Chopin / E. Markham Lee (Chappell 1948) 28 p. illus. | Comp-Cho:Lee

Chopin's funeral / Benita Eisler (Little, Brown 2003) 230 p. | Comp-Cho:Eis

Composers--Couperin

Couperin / David Tunley (BBC Music Guides 1982) 104 p. mus. illus. | Comp-Cou:Tun

Composers--Debussy

Debussy orchestral music / David Cox (BBC Music Guides 1974) 64 p. mus. illus. | Comp-Deb:Cox

Composers--Donizetti

Lucia di Lammermoor - Gaetano Donizetti: [synopsis and opera guide] / Eduard Mörike (Scottish Opera 2007) 54 p. | Comp-Don:Mör

Composers--Dvorák

Dvorák / John Clapham (David & Charles 1979) 238 p. | Comp-Dvo:Cla

Dvorák (Novello's Biographies of Great Musicians) / Mosco Carner (Novello 1941) 14 p. | Comp-Dvo:Car

Composers--Elgar

Elgar / Simon Mundy (Omnibus 2001) 224 p. illus. | Comp-Elg:Mun

Elgar (Master musicians series) / Ian Parrott (J.M. Dent 1971) xi,143 p. 8 pp. of plates | Comp-Elg:Par

Elgar / W H Reed (Dent 1939) 227 p. | Comp-Elg:Ree

Composers--Finzi

The clock of the years : a Gerald and Joy Finzi anthology / Rolf Jordan (Chosen Press 2007) xx,299 p. illus. | Comp-Fin:Jor

The Finzi journal 2011, 2014 / Rolf Jordan (Finzi Friends 2011,14) 92,156 p. | Comp-Fin:Jor

Composers--Gilbert & Sullivan

The Gilbert & Sullivan Book / Leslie Baily (Cassell 1952) xiv+443 p. 10 col. plates+ 400 illus. | Comp-GS:Bai

The Osprey guide to Gilbert and Sullivan / Michael Hardwick (Osprey 1972) 284 p. | Comp-GS:Har

Composers--Gluck

Gluck (Novello's Biographies of Great Musicians) / Frank Howes (Novello 1941 (?)) 16 p. | Comp-Glu:How

Composers--Grainger

The farthest north of humanness: letters of Percy Grainget 1901-14 / Kay Dreyfus (Macmillan 1985) 542 p. 16 pl. | Comp-Gra:Dre

The Grainger journal (1978-1984): vol. 3 no. 1, vol. 5 no. 2, vol. 6 no. 1 only / Grainger Society (Grainger 1980-1984) p. | Comp-Gra:Gra

The Grainger Society journal (1985- ): vol. 7 no. 1 - vol. 9 no. 2 / Grainger Society (Grainger Society 1985-1989) p. MISSING: vol. 8 no. 2 | Comp-Gra:Gra

Percy Grainger / John Bird (Faber 1982) xvi,319 p. illus., 24 pl. | Comp-Gra:Bir

Percy Grainger / Wilfrid Mellers (OUP 1992) ix,166 p. illus | Comp-Gra:Mel

The Percy Grainger companion / Lewis Foreman (Thames 1981) 268 p. illus. | Comp-Gra:For

Composers--Handel

Handel / Percy M Young (Dent/Dutton 1947) 246 p. | Comp-Han:You

Handel (Novello's Biographies of Great Musicians) / (Sir) Jack Allan Westrup (Novello 1941(?)) 22 p. | Comp-Han:Wes

Handel and his world / H. C. Robbins Landon (Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1984) 256 p. illus. | Comp-Han:Lan

Handel and the Opera Seria / Winton Dean (Univ. California Press 1969) xi,220 p. illus. | Comp-Han:Dea

Handel: Messiah (Cambridge music handbook) / Donald Burrows (CUP 1991) x,127 p. | Comp-Han:Bur

Composers--Haydn

Haydn: a documentary study / H. C. Robbins Landon (Thames & Hudson 1981) 224 p. illus., 96 pl. | Comp-Hay:Lan

Haydn: his life and music / H. C. Robbins Landon & David Wyn Jones (Thames and Hudson 1988) 383 p. illus. | Comp-Hay:Lan

Haydn string quartets / Rosemary Hughes (BBC Music Guides 1966) 56 p. mus. illus. | Comp-Hay:Hug

Composers--Janácek

Jenufa Katya Kabanova (Opera guide 33, Leos Janácek) / Eduard Mörike (ENO / John Calder 1985) 128 p. | Comp-Jan:Mör

Leos Janácek: letters and reminiscences / Bohumír Stedron (Artia 1955) 234 p. illus., 24 pl. | Comp-Jan:Ste

Composers--Kodály

Zoltán Kodály: his life and work / László Eösze (Collet's 1962) 183 p. | Comp-Kod:Eös

Composers--Liszt

Franz Liszt: a romantic biography / Jean Rousselot (Jonathan Cape 1960) 248 p. | Comp-Lis:Rou

Liszt (The Master Musicians) / Walter Beckett (Dent 1956) ix,185 p. | Comp-Lis:Bec

Composers--Mahler

Gustav Mahler 1860-1911: a companion to the BBC's celebrations of the centenary of his birth / Deryck Cooke (BBC 1960) 47 p. | Comp-Mah:Coo

The Mahler companion / Donald Mitchell ed. Andrew Nicholson (OUP 2002) 647 p. | Comp-Mah:Mit

Composers--Mendelssohn

Mendelssohn / Stephen S Stratton (Dent/Dutton 1934) 233 p. | Comp-Men:Str

Mendelssohn (Novello's Biographies of Great Musicians) / Marion M Scott (Novello 1951(?)) 14 p. | Comp-Men:Sco

Composers--Monteverdi

Monteverdi madrigals / Denis Arnold (BBC Music Guides 1967) 61 p. mus. illus. | Comp-Mon:Arn

Composers--Mozart

A companion to Mozart's piano concertos / Arthur Hutchings (OUP 1950) xiv,211 p. | Comp-Moz:Hut

The Magic Flute = Die Zauberflöte (Opera guide 3, W. A. Mozart) / Eduard Mörike (ENO / John Calder 1983) 128 p. | Comp-Moz:Mör

The marriage of Figaro = Le nozze di Figaro (Opera guide 17, W. A. Mozart) / Eduard Mörike (ENO / John Calder 1983) 128 p. | Comp-Moz:Mör

Mozart: his character, his work / Albert Einstein (Cassell 1946) xi,492 p. 6 pl. | Comp-Moz:Ein

Mozart (Master musicians series) / Eustace Breakspeare (Dent/Dutton 1906) x,300 p. illus. | Comp-Moz:Bre

Mozart / Eric Blom (Dent/Dutton 1935) 388 p. | Comp-Moz:Blo

Mozart chamber music / Alexander Hyatt King (BBC Music Guides 1968) 68 p. mus. illus. | Comp-Moz:Kin

Mozart / Hugh Ottaway (Orbis Publishing 1979) 208 p. | Comp-Moz:Ott

Mozart piano concertos / Philip Radcliffe (BBC Music Guides 1978) 72 p. mus. illus. | Comp-Moz:Rad

Mozart's operas: a critical study / Edward J. Dent (OUP 2nd ed. 1960) xii,276 p. mus. illus., 16 pl. | Comp-Moz:Den

Mozart's women: his family, his friends, his music / Jane Glover (Pan 2006) 406 p. 16 col. pl. | Comp-Moz:Glo

Mozart's journey to Prague [fiction] / Eduard Mörike (Penguin 2006) 91 p. | Comp-Moz:Mör

Mozart's letters / Eric Blom annot. Anon. (Penguin 1956) vii,278 p. | Comp-Moz:Blo

Composers--Mussorgsky

Musorgsky: the Russian musical nationalist / M. D. Calvocoressi (Kegan Paul / Dutton n.d.) 216 p. illus. | Comp-Mus:Cal

Composers--Nielsen

Carl Nielsen, symphonist / Robert Simpson (Kahn & Averill 1986) 260 p. illus. | Comp-Nie:Sim

Sibelius and Nielsen: a centenary essay / Robert Simpson (BBC 1965) 40 p. illus. | Comp-Nie:Sim

Composers--O'Neill

Norman O'Neill: a life of music / Derek Hudson (Quality Press 1945) 160 p. 15 pl. | Comp-One:Hud

Composers--Palestrina

Palestrina / Henry Coates (Dent/Dutton 1938) 243 p. | Comp-Pal:Coa

Composers--Prokofiev

Prokofiev (Novello's Biographies of Great Musicians) / Malcolm Rayment (Novello 1961(?)) 24 p. | Comp-Pro:Ray

Composers--Puccini

Madama Butterfly - Giacomo Puccini: [synopsis and opera guide] / Eduard Mörike (Scottish Opera 2007) 54 p. | Comp-Puc:Mör

Composers--Purcell

Henry Purcell / Dennis Arundell (OUP 1927) 136 p. illus. | Comp-Pur:Aru

Henry Purcell / A. K. Holland (Penguin 1948) 191 p. | Comp-Pur:Hol

Henry Purcell: the English musical tradition / A. K. Holland (G. Bell & Sons 1932) 248 p. | Comp-Pur:Hol

Purcell remembered / Michael Burden (Faber 1995) xxv1,188 p. 8pp. of pl. | Comp-Pur:Bur

Voice and verse: a study in English song (Cramb Lectures 1927) / H. C. Colles (OUP 1928) xii,167 p. illus. | Comp-Pur:Col

Composers--Rachmaninov

Rachmaninov orchestral music / Patrick Piggott (BBC Music Guides 1974) 60 p. mus. illus. | Comp-Rac:Pig

Composers--Ravel

Ravel orchestral music / Laurence Davies (BBC Music Guides 1970) 64 p. mus. illus. | Comp-Rav:Dav

Composers--Rossini

Rossini (Novello's Biographies of Great Musicians) / F. Bonavia (Novello 1941(?)) 16 p. | Comp-Ros:Bon

Rossini: a study in trag-comedy / Francis Toye (Norton 1963) xii,269 p. | Comp-Ros:Toy

Composers--Schoenberg

Arnold Schoenberg / H. H. Stuckenschmidt (John Calder 1959) 168 p. mus. illus., 12 pl. | Comp-Scho:Stu

Schoenberg / Charles Rosen (Fontana 1976) 124 p. | Comp-Scho:Ros

Schoenberg (Novello Short Biographies) / Christopher Small (Novello 1977) 28 p. | Comp-Scho:Sma

Schoenberg chamber music / Arnold Whittall (BBC Music Guides 1972) 64 p. mus. illus. | Comp-Scho:Whi

Composers--Schubert

Schubert / Edmondstoune Duncan (Dent/Dutton 1934) 244 p. rev. ed. | Comp-Schb:Dun

Schubert: the man and his music / Albert Einstein (Panther 1971) 384 p. | Comp-Schb:Ein

Schubert / Marcel Schneider (Grove Press / John Calder 1959) 191 p. | Comp-Schb:Sch

Schubert songs / Maurice J. E. Brown (BBC Music Guides 1977) 64 p. | Comp-Schb:Bro

Composers--Schumann

Robert Schumann: his life and work / Ronald Taylor (Panther 1982) 354 p. 8 pp. of plates | Comp-Schm:Tay

Schumann (Novello's Biographies of Great Musicians) / Edwin Evans (Novello 1946(?)) 14 p. | Comp-Schm:Eva

Schumann piano music / Joan Chissell (BBC Music Guides 1972) 72 p. mus. illus. | Comp-Schm:Chi

Composers--Shostakovich

Shostakovich symphonies / Hugh Ottaway (BBC Music Guides 1978) 68 p. mus. illus. | Comp-Sho:Ott

Composers--Sibelius

Sibelius (Novello Short Biographies) / Hugh Ottaway (Novello 1968) 18 p. | Comp-Sib:Ott

Sibelius and Nielsen: a centenary essay / Robert Simpson (BBC 1965) 40 p. illus. | Comp-Sib:Sim

Composers--Strauss (Richard)

The complete operas of Strauss: a critical guide / Charles Osborne (Grange Books 1995) 252 p. | Comp-StrR:Osb

Richard Strauss / Alan Jefferson (Macmillan 1975) 112 p. | Comp-StrR:Jef

Richard Strauss: the life of a non-hero / George R Marek (Gollancz 1967) 350 p. | Comp-StrR:Mar

Composers--Stravinsky

Stravinsky: 2nd ed. / Roman Vlad (OUP 2nd ed. 1967) p. mus. illus. | Comp-Stra:Vla

Stravinsky in conversation with Robert Craft / Igor Stravinsky & Robert Craft (Penguin 1962) 301 p. 8 pl. | Comp-Stra:Str

Composers--Szymanowski

Szymanowski / Christopher Palmer (BBC Music Guides 1983) 104 p. mus. illus. | Comp-Szy:Pal

Composers--Tchaikovsky

Tchaikovsky (Novello's Biographies of Great Musicians) / Gerald Abraham (Novello 1951(?)) 14 p. | Comp-Tch:Abr

Tchaikovsky: symphonies and concertos (BBC Music Guides) / John Warrack (BBC rev. ed. 1974) 64 p. | Comp-Tch:War

Composers--Vaughan Williams

The dramatic works of Vaughan Williams (The Musical Pilgrim) / Frank Howes (OUP 1937) 108 p. | Comp-VW:How

Vaughan Willams symphonies / Hugh Ottaway (BBC Music Guides 1972) 64 p. mus. illus. | Comp-VW:Ott

Vaughan Williams and the vision of Albion / Wilfrid Mellers (Barrie & Jenkins 1989) 270 p. | Comp-VW:Mel

The works of Ralph Vaughan Williams / Michael Kennedy (OUP 1971) viii,405 p. mus. illus. | Comp-VW:Ken

Composers--Verdi

Verdi (Novello's Biographies of Great Musicians) / Dyneley Hussey (Novello 1941?)) 14 p. | Comp-Ver:Hus

Composers--Vivaldi

Vivaldi / Michael Talbot (Dent 1984) 275 p. illus.+ 8 pl. Master Musicians | Comp-Viv:Tal

Composers--Wagner

The mastersingers of Nuremberg = Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (Opera guide 19, Richard Wagner) / Eduard Mörike (ENO / John Calder 1983) 128 p. | Comp-Wag:Mör

The music dramas of Richard Wagner and his Festival Theatre in Bayreuth / Albert Lavignac (Dodd, Mead 1903) ix,511 p. illus., diag. | Comp-Wag:Lav

My life (2 v.) / Richard Wagner (Constable 1911) (2 v.) 911 p. 'authorised trans. from the German' | Comp-Wag:Wag

Nights at the opera: Wagner / Wakeling Dry (Foulis 1924) vi,234 p. | Comp-Wag:Dry

Richard Wagner: his life, art and thought / Ronald Taylor (Panther 1983) 480 p. | Comp-Wag:Tay

The Ring: anatomy of an opera / Stephen Fay & Roger Wood (Secker & Warburg 1984) vi,218 p. illus.+32 col. pl. | Comp-Wag:Fay

The stories of Wagner's operas / J. Walker McSpadden (Harrap 1932) xv,282 p. 16 col. pl. | Comp-Wag:McS

Tristan and Isolde (Opera guide 6, Richard Wagner) / Eduard Mörike (ENO / John Calder 1983) 96 p. | Comp-Wag:Mör

Wagner / Robert L Jacobs (Dent/Dutton 1935) 242 p. | Comp-Wag:Jac

Wagner as man and artist / Ernest Newman (J M Dent 1914) 386 p. | Comp-Wag:New

The Wagner clan / Jonathan Carr (Faber 2007) xxvi,409 p. 16 pl. | Comp-Wag:Car

Wagner opera / Audrey Williamson (John Calder 1962) 192 p. | Comp-Wag:Wil

Wagner's Ring of the Nibelung: a companion / Stewart Spencer ed. Barry Millington (Thames & Hudson 2000) 384 p. German text with English translation and commentaries | Comp-Wag:Spe

Composers--Walton

William Walton: behind the façade / Susana Walton (OUP 1988) xi,255 p. | Comp-Wal:Wal

Composers--Weber

Weber (Novello's Biographies of Great Musicians) / Scott Goddard (Novello 1941(?)) 16 p. | Comp-Web:God

Composers--Wolf

Hugo Wolf songs / Mosco Carner (BBC Music Guides 1982) 72 p. mus. illus. | Comp-Wol:Car

Folk & National Music--Australia

Folk songs of Australia: and the men and women who sang them / John Meredith & Hugh Anderson (Ure Smith 1967) 300 p. illus. | Folk-Aus:Mer

Folk & National Music--England

A century of ballads 1810-1910: their composers and singers / Harold Simpson (Mills & Boon 1910) 349 p. illus. | Folk-Eng:Sim

The English folksinger: 159 modern and traditional folksongs / Sam Richards & Tish Stubbs (Collins 1979) 224 p. | Folk-Eng:Ric

English music / W J Turner (William Collins 1943) 48 p. illus., 12 col. pl. | Folk-Eng:Tur

English music / W J Turner (Longmans Green 1931) 188 p. | Folk-Eng:Tur

Sea songs and shanties / W B Whall (Jas. Brown 5th ed. 1926) 122 p. 5.ed (illus.) | Folk-Eng:Wha

Sea songs and shanties / W B Whall (Brown Son & Ferguson 6th ed. 1927) 154 p. enlarg. & illus. | Folk-Eng:Wha

Folk & National Music--Ireland

The second book of Irish ballads / James N Healy (Mercier Press 1964) 128 p. | Folk-Ire:Hea

Folk & National Music--Poland

Polish music / Jerzy Sulikowski (Polish Publications Committee 1944) 33 p. | Folk-Pol:Sul

Folk & National Music--Scotland

The ballad minstrelsy of Scotland: romantic and historical / Anon. (Maurice Ogle 1871) 656 p. | Folk-Sco:Ano

The Caledonian Companion: [a collection of Scottish fiddle music and guide to its performance] / Alastair James Hardie (EMI 1981) 144 p. | Folk-Sco:Har

The Cromar collection / Paul Anderson (Paul Anderson (privately pub.) 2003) 86 p. inc. 100+ mus. compositions | Folk-Sco:And

The fiddle music of Scotland: a comprehensive annotated collection of 365 tunes with a historical introduction / James Hunter (Hardie Press 1988) [190] p. | Folk-Sco:Hun

The Gideon Stove tune book, vol. 1 / Magnus J Stove (Shetland Folk Festival Society 1986) 77 p. (The Shetland Violinist) | Folk-Sco:Sto

The Lochnagar collection : 308 original compositions / Paul Anderson (Highland Music Trust 2009) viii,128 p. inc. music | Folk-Sco:And

Scotland's music / Cedric Thorpe Davie (William Blackwood 1980) 56 p. | Folk-Sco:Dav

Scotland's music: a history of the traditional and classical music of Scotland from early times to the present day / John Purser (Mainstream/BBC 1992) 311 p. illus., 30 col. pl. | Folk-Sco:Pur

The Scottish folksinger: 118 modern and traditional folksongs / Norman Buchan & Peter Hall (Collins 1978) 159 p. | Folk-Sco:Buc

Music-- General

The artless musician / Sidney Harrison (Pelham Books 1964) 119 p. | Mus:Har

Collins music encyclopedia / (Sir) Jack Allan Westrup & Frank Llewellyn Harrison (Collins 1959) 739 p. illus. | Mus:Wes

Collins music encyclopedia / Conrad Wilson & (Sir) Jack Allan Westrup (Book Club Associates rev. ed. 1976) 608 p. illus. | Mus:Wil

The concise Oxford dictionary of music / Michael Kennedy (OUP 3rd ed. 1980) [vi]+724 p. 3rd ed. | Mus:Ken

A dictionary of music / Robert Illing (Penguin Books 1950) 318 p. | Mus:Ill

Dictionary of music / Theodore Karp (Dell 1973) 448 p. | Mus:Kar

Get to know music: answers to 1001 questions on every aspect of the art / J Raymond Tobin (Evans Bros. 1946) 144 p. | Mus:Tob

The Glenn Gould reader / Glenn Gould ed. Tim Page (Faber 1987) xvi+475 p. | Mus:Gou

The Gramophone guide to classical composers and recordings / Lionel Salter (Salamander books 1978) 217 p. | Mus:Sal

Introduction to music / A100 Course Team Open University (Open University 1971) 49 p. (Humanities: a Foundation Course, Units 13-14) | Mus:Ope

Letters to a musical boy / Mervyn Bruxner (OUP 1940) 175 p. | Mus:Bru

Living music: Hamish Hamilton guide / Keith Spence (Book Club Associates 1979) 144 p. illus. | Mus:Spe

Music / (Sir) William Henry Hadow ed. (Sir) George Dyson (OUP 3rd ed. 1949) ix+198 p. 3rd ed. | Mus:Had

Music dictionary / Marilyn Kornreich Davis (Faber & Faber 1957) 63 p. | Mus:Dav

A musician talks, 1: the integrity of music / Donald Francis Tovey (OUP 1941) xv,161 p. | Mus:Tov(1)

A new dictionary of music / Arthur Jacobs (Penguin 1958) 416 p. | Mus:Jac

A new dictionary of music / Arthur Jacobs (Penguin 2nd ed. 1967) 425 p. | Mus:Jac

The Oxford companion to music / Percy A Scholes (OUP 1st ed. 1938) lv,1091 p. illus. | Mus:Sch

The Oxford companion to music / Percy A Scholes (OUP 9th ed. 1955) lx,1195 p. 9th ed. illus. | Mus:Sch

The Oxford junior companion to music / Percy A Scholes (OUP 1954) xxviii,436 p. illus. | Mus:Sch

The student's dictionary of musical terms / Arthur J Greenish (Joseph Williams 1953) 131 p. | Mus:Gre

Sullivan's music trivia: the greatest music trivia book ever . . . / Paul Sullivan (Sanctuary 2003) 217 p. | Mus:Sul

Music--Analysis & Criticism

Analyses of musical classics Bks 1-4 / Annie O Warburton (Longman 1963-1974) 4v. xii,340; xi,333; [vi],306; x,278 p. xii+340; xi+333; [vi]+306; x+278 pp. | MusAna:War(1-4)

Brahms: the symphonies (The Musical Pilgrim) / P. A. Browne (OUP 1944) 71 p. | MusAna:Bro

Classics: major and minor: with some other musical ruminations / Eric Blom (Dent 1958) xi,212 p. | MusAna:Blo

A companion to Mozart's piano concertos / Arthur Hutchings (OUP 1950) xiv,211 p. | MusAna:Hut

The dramatic works of Vaughan Williams (The Musical Pilgrim) / Frank Howes (OUP 1937) 108 p. | MusAna:How

Essays and lectures / H. C. Colles (OUP 1945) vii,224 p. | MusAna:Col

Essays and lectures on music / Donald Francis Tovey (OUP 1949) ix,404 p. | MusAna:Tov

Essays in musical analysis vol. 1: symphonies / Donald Francis Tovey (OUP 1935) viii,223 p. | MusAna:Tov(1)

Essays in musical analysis vol. 2: symphonies (II), variations and orchestral polyphony / Donald Francis Tovey (OUP 1935) xiv,212 p. | MusAna:Tov(2)

Essays in musical analysis vol. 3: concertos / Donald Francis Tovey (OUP 1936) ix,226 p. | MusAna:Tov(3)

Essays in musical analysis vol. 4: vocal music / Donald Francis Tovey (OUP 1936) viii,176 p. | MusAna:Tov(4)

Essays in musical analysis vol. 5: vocal music / Donald Francis Tovey (OUP 1937) vi,256 p. | MusAna:Tov(5)

Essays in musical analysis vol. 6: vocal music / Donald Francis Tovey (OUP 1939) vii,188 p. | MusAna:Tov(6)

Essays on music: an anthology from 'The Listener' / Felix Aprahamian (Cassell 1967) xi,260 p. | MusAna:Apr

The forty-eight preludes and fugues of Johann Sebastian Bach analysed for the use of students / Frederick Iliffe (Novello c.1950) 194 p. | MusAna:Ili

The Glenn Gould reader / Glenn Gould ed. Tim Page (Faber 1987) xvi+475 p. | MusAna:Gou

The heritage of music, 2nd series: essays by E.H. Fellowes etc / Hubert J. Foss (OUP 1946) vi,263 p. | MusAna:Fos(2)

Lexicon of musical inventive: critical assaults on composers since Beethoven's time / Nicolas Slonimsky (Univ. Washington P. 2nd ed. 1969) 325 p. 2nd ed. | MusAna:Slo

The listener's history of music, vol. 1: to Beethoven / Percy A Scholes (OUP 6th ed. 1943) xiv,175 p. illus. | MusAna:Sch(1)

The listener's history of music, vol. 2: the Romantic and Nationalist schools of the 19th century / Percy A Scholes (OUP 3rd ed. 1943) xii,216 p. illus. | MusAna:Sch(2)

The listener's history of music, vol. 3: to the composers of to-day / Percy A Scholes (OUP 4th ed. 1949) xii,169 p. illus. | MusAna:Sch(3)

Music sounded out: essays, lectures, interviews, afterthoughts / Alfred Brendel (Robson 1990) 258 p. illus. | MusAna:Bre

Opera nights / Ernest Newman (Putnam 1943) x,629 p. illus. | MusAna:New

Score reading: form and history / Annie O Warburton (Longmans 1959) xviii+208 p. illus., 4pl. | MusAna:War

Score reading: form and history / Annie O Warburton (Longman (pbk) 1959) xviii+208 p. illus.+ 4pl. | MusAna:War

Some English symphonists: a selection from 'Essays in musical analysis' / Donald Francis Tovey (OUP 1941) 80 p. mus. illus. | MusAna:Tov

Talking about concertos: an analytical study ... Mozart to the present day / Anthony Hopkins (Heinemann 1970) 148 p. mus. illus. | MusAna:Hop

Talking about symphonies: an analytical study ... Haydn to the present day / Anthony Hopkins (Heinemann 1961) 157 p. | MusAna:Hop

Music--Anecdotes

The book of musical anecdotes / Norman Lebrecht (Sphere Books 1987) 382 p. | MusAnec:Leb

The music lover's literary companion / Dannie Abse comp Joan Abse (Robson Books 1988) 330 p. | MusAnec:Abs

Off-beat: [a book of musical anecdotes] / Dudley Moore (Robson 1992) 168 p. | MusAnec:Moo

Stick to the music: scores of orchestral tales / John Boyden (Hutchinson 1984) 117 p. illus. | MusAnec:Boy

Sullivan's music trivia: the greatest music trivia book ever . . . / Paul Sullivan (Sanctuary 2003) 217 p. | MusAnec:Sul

The wit of music / Leslie Ayre (Leslie Frewin 1966) 95 p. | MusAnec:Ayr

Music--Appreciation

Approach to music / Lawrence Abbot (Harrap 1942) 286 p. | MusApp:Abb

Bach organ music / Peter Williams (BBC Music Guides 1972) 71 p. mus. illus. | MusApp:Wil

Bartok orchestral music / John McCabe (BBC Music Guides 1974) 64 p. mus. illus. | MusApp:McC

Basic music knowledge / Annie O Warburton (Longman 1967) xxii+215 p. | MusApp:War

Beethoven piano sonatas / Denis Matthews (BBC Music Guides 1967) 56 p. mus. illus. | MusApp:Mat

Beethoven string quartets 2 / Basil Lam (BBC Music Guides 1975) 72 p. mus. illus. | MusApp:Lam(2)

Brahms piano music / Denis Matthews (BBC Music Guides 1978) 76 p. | MusApp:Mat

Brahms songs / Eric Sams (BBC Music Guides 1972) 68 p. mus. illus. | MusApp:Sam

Bruckner symphonies / Philip Barford (BBC Music Guides 1978) 68 p. mus. illus. | MusApp:Bar

Cameos of musical history / Stewart Macpherson (Winthrop Rogers 1937) [iv]+209 p. | MusApp:Mac

Classics: major and minor: with some other musical ruminations / Eric Blom (Dent 1958) xi,212 p. | MusApp:Blo

Come to the opera / Stephen Williams (Arrow 1958) 351 p. mus. illus. | MusApp:Wil

The common sense of music / Sigmund Spaeth (Bodley Head 1925) 375 p. | MusApp:Spa

A composers eleven / Neville Cardus (Jonathan Cape 1958) 255 p. illus. | MusApp:Car

Couperin / David Tunley (BBC Music Guides 1982) 104 p. mus. illus. | MusApp:Tun

Debussy orchestral music / David Cox (BBC Music Guides 1974) 64 p. mus. illus. | MusApp:Cox

Essays and lectures / H. C. Colles (OUP 1945) vii,224 p. | MusApp:Col

Essays and lectures on music / Donald Francis Tovey (OUP 1949) ix,404 p. | MusApp:Tov

Full orchestra / Frank Howes (Secker & Warburg 3rd ed. 1943) 176 p. 3rd ed. | MusApp:How

G. B. S. on music / George Bernard Shaw (Penguin 1962) 189 p. | MusApp:Sha

Going to the opera / Lionel Salter (Penguin 1958) 189 p. 16 pl. | MusApp:Sal

Haydn string quartets / Rosemary Hughes (BBC Music Guides 1966) 56 p. mus. illus. | MusApp:Hug

Hugo Wolf songs / Mosco Carner (BBC Music Guides 1982) 72 p. mus. illus. | MusApp:Car

Journey towards music: a memoir / Victor Gollancz (Gollancz 1964) 238 p. 32 pl. | MusApp:Gol

The listener's book on harmony / Lawrence Abbot (Harrap 1943) xvi,237 p. | MusApp:Abb

The listener's history of music, vol. 1: to Beethoven / Percy A Scholes (OUP 6th ed. 1943) xiv,175 p. illus. | MusApp:Sch(1)

The listener's history of music, vol. 2: the Romantic and Nationalist schools of the 19th century / Percy A Scholes (OUP 3rd ed. 1943) xii,216 p. illus. | MusApp:Sch(2)

The listener's history of music, vol. 3: to the composers of to-day / Percy A Scholes (OUP 4th ed. 1949) xii,169 p. illus. | MusApp:Sch(3)

Living music: Hamish Hamilton guide / Keith Spence (Book Club Associates 1979) 144 p. illus. | MusApp:Spe

Maine on music / Basil Maine (John Westhouse 1945) 129 p. | MusApp:Mai

Monteverdi madrigals / Denis Arnold (BBC Music Guides 1967) 61 p. mus. illus. | MusApp:Arn

More opera nights / Ernest Newman (Putnam 1954) ix,708 p. | MusApp:New

Mozart chamber music / Alexander Hyatt King (BBC Music Guides 1968) 68 p. mus. illus. | MusApp:Kin

Mozart piano concertos / Philip Radcliffe (BBC Music Guides 1978) 72 p. mus. illus. | MusApp:Rad

Music, a joy for life / Edward Heath (Sidgwick & Jackson 1976) 208 p. autographed copy | MusApp:Hea

Music and its appreciation: or the foundations of good listening / Stewart Macpherson (Joseph Williams 1910) xi,166 p. mus. illus. | MusApp:Mac

Music and the mind / Anthony Storr (HarperCollins 1993) xii,212 p. | MusApp:Sto

Music Ho! / Constant Lambert (Pelican Books 1948) 251 p. | MusApp:Lam

A musical chair / Compton Mackenzie (Chatto and Windus 1939) 303 p. | MusApp:Mac

The musical companion: a compendium for all lovers of music / A L Bacharach (Victor Gollancz 1940) 751 p. | MusApp:Bac

Opera annual no. 7 / Harold Rosenthal (John Calder 1960) 218 p. illus. | MusApp:Ros(7)

Opera guide / Gerhart von Westermann ed. Harold Rosenthal (Sphere Books 1968) 580 p. | MusApp:Wes

Rachmaninov orchestral music / Patrick Piggott (BBC Music Guides 1974) 60 p. mus. illus. | MusApp:Pig

Ravel orchestral music / Laurence Davies (BBC Music Guides 1970) 64 p. mus. illus. | MusApp:Dav

Richard Baker's music guide / Richard Baker (David & Charles 1979) 144 p. illus. | MusApp:Bak

The rudiments of music / William Lovelock (Bell & Hyman 1957) 128 p. | MusApp:Lov

Schoenberg chamber music / Arnold Whittall (BBC Music Guides 1972) 64 p. mus. illus. | MusApp:Whi

Schumann piano music / Joan Chissell (BBC Music Guides 1972) 72 p. mus. illus. | MusApp:Chi

Shostakovich symphonies / Hugh Ottaway (BBC Music Guides 1978) 68 p. mus. illus. | MusApp:Ott

Szymanowski / Christopher Palmer (BBC Music Guides 1983) 104 p. mus. illus. | MusApp:Pal

This is your brain on music : understanding a human obsession / Daniel Levitin (Atlantic Books 2007) 322 p. | MusApp:Lev

Vaughan Willams symphonies / Hugh Ottaway (BBC Music Guides 1972) 64 p. mus. illus. | MusApp:Ott

Words about music: an anthology / John Amis & Michael Rose (Faber and Faber 1989) 440 p. | MusApp:Ami

You and music / Christian Darnton (Penguin 1940) 159 p. timeline chart | MusApp:Dar

Young person's guide to concerts / Michael Hurd (Routledge & Kegan Paul 1962) vii,131 p. | MusApp:Hur

Music--Biography / Autobiography

Aberdeen Bach Choir 1956-1985: its origins and history / Alison I Shiel (Aberdeen Bach Choir 1985) 69+9 p. illus. | MusBio:Shi

Aberdeen Bach Choir 1956-1996: its origins and history / Alison I Shiel (Aberdeen Bach Choir 1996) 93 p. illus. | MusBio:Shi(2)

Always playing: [reminiscences and ruminations] / Michael Kennedy (Weidenfeld and Nicholson 1991) 154 p. | MusBio:Ken

Am I too loud?: memoirs of an accompanist / Gerald Moore (Hamish Hamilton 1962) 304 p. | MusBio:Moo

Arnold Schoenberg / H. H. Stuckenschmidt (John Calder 1959) 168 p. mus. illus., 12 pl. | MusBio:Stu

Artur Schnabel: a biography / César Saerchinger (Cassell 1957) xxi,354 p. illus., 17pl. | MusBio:Sae

An autobiography / James Galway (Coronet Books 1979) 208 p. | MusBio:Gal

Bach / Eva Mary & Sydney Grew (Dent 1947) 239 p. | MusBio:Mar

Beecham stories: anecdotes sayings and impressions of Sir Thomas Beecham / Harold Atkins comp. Archie Newman (Futura 1979) 96 p. | MusBio:Atk

Beethoven / A202 Course Team Open University (Open University 1972) 108 p. (The Age of Revolutions, Units 25-27) | MusBio:Ope

Beethoven / Marion M Scott (Dent/Dutton 1934) 340 p. | MusBio:Sco

Beethoven / J W N Sullivan (Pelican Books 1949) 159 p. | MusBio:Sul

Beethoven: the man revealed / John Suchet (Elliott & Thompson 2012) xii,274 p. | MusBio:Suc

Beethoven: the man who freed music / Robert Haven Schauffler (Tudor Pub 1946) xxvii,693 p. mus. illus. | MusBio:Sch

Benjamin Britten: a biography / Humphrey Carpenter (Faber 1993) 680 p. illus. | MusBio:Car

Benjamin Britten: pictures from a life 1913-1976 / Donald Mitchell (Faber 1978) viii,16 p. 440 pl., some col. | MusBio:Mit

Beyond frontiers: Ashkenazy / Vladimir Ashkenazy & Jasper Parrott (Collins 1984) 239 p. 8 pl. | MusBio:Ash

The book of musical anecdotes / Norman Lebrecht (Sphere Books 1987) 382 p. | MusBio:Leb

Britten's children / John Bridcut (Faber 2007) xvii,334 p. 8 pl. | MusBio:Bri

Chopin / J Cuthbert Hadden (Dent/Dutton 1934) 243 p. rev. ed. | MusBio:Had

Chopin / Arthur Hedley (Dent 1974) viii,214 p. illus., 8 pl. | MusBio:Hed

Chopin / E. Markham Lee (Chappell 1948) 28 p. illus. | MusBio:Lee

Chopin's funeral / Benita Eisler (Little, Brown 2003) 230 p. | MusBio:Eis

The clock of the years : a Gerald and Joy Finzi anthology / Rolf Jordan (Chosen Press 2007) xx,299 p. illus. | MusBio:Jor

Composers' gallery: biographical sketches of contemporary composers / Donald Brook (Rockliff 1946) 218 p. illus. | MusBio:Bro

Composers' notes: financial triumphs and disasters of the great composers / John Suchet (Edition Peters (for Classic FM) 2006) 190 p. | MusBio:Suc

Conductors' gallery: biographical sketches ... including notes on leading symphony orchestras ... / Donald Brook (Rockliff 2nd ed. 1946) 188 p. 2nd ed. (illus.) | MusBio:Bro

Dvorák / John Clapham (David & Charles 1979) 238 p. | MusBio:Cla

Elgar / Simon Mundy (Omnibus 2001) 224 p. illus. | MusBio:Mun

Elgar / W H Reed (Dent 1939) 227 p. | MusBio:Ree

Erich Kleiber: a memoir / John Russell (Andre Deutsch 1957) 256 p. | MusBio:Rus

Facing the music: an autobiography / Joseph Cooper (Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1979) x,213 p. | MusBio:Coo

Farewell recital: further memoirs / Gerald Moore (Penguin Books 1979) 208 p. illus.+ 8 pl. | MusBio:Moo

The farthest north of humanness: letters of Percy Grainget 1901-14 / Kay Dreyfus (Macmillan 1985) 542 p. 16 pl. | MusBio:Dre

First night fever: the memoirs of Herman Prey / Herman Prey (John Calder 1986) 288 p. 28 pl. | MusBio:Pre

Folk songs of Australia: and the men and women who sang them / John Meredith & Hugh Anderson (Ure Smith 1967) 300 p. illus. | MusBio:Mer

Franz Liszt: a romantic biography / Jean Rousselot (Jonathan Cape 1960) 248 p. | MusBio:Rou

Good vibrations: my autobiography / Evelyn Glennie (Hutchinson 1990) xii,179 p. 16 b&w pl. NB additional signed copy in Spec Coll | MusBio:Gle

Handel / Percy M Young (Dent/Dutton 1947) 246 p. | MusBio:You

Handel and his world / H. C. Robbins Landon (Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1984) 256 p. illus. | MusBio:Lan

Haydn: a documentary study / H. C. Robbins Landon (Thames & Hudson 1981) 224 p. illus., 96 pl. | MusBio:Lan

Haydn: his life and music / H. C. Robbins Landon & David Wyn Jones (Thames and Hudson 1988) 383 p. illus. | MusBio:Lan

Henry Purcell / Dennis Arundell (OUP 1927) 136 p. illus. | MusBio:Aru

Henry Purcell / A. K. Holland (Penguin 1948) 191 p. | MusBio:Hol

Hush! Handel's in a passion: tales of Bach, Handel and their contemporaries / Norman Lebrecht (André Deutsch 1985) 127 p. illus. | MusBio:Leb

The last master: vol. 1 of a fictional biography of Ludwig van Beethoven / John Suchet (Little Brown 1996) 622 p. | MusBio:Suc

Leos Janácek: letters and reminiscences / Bohumír Stedron (Artia 1955) 234 p. illus., 24 pl. | MusBio:Ste

The life of Benvenuto Cellini, written by himself / Benvenuto Cellini (Dent 1960) xi,368 p. | MusBio:Cel

The lives of the great composers / Harold C Schonberg (Davis-Poynter 1971) 600 p. | MusBio:Sch

Lives of the great composers, vol. 1: From Byrd to Mozart and Haydn - the Classics / A L Bacharach (Pelican Books 1942) 192 p. | MusBio:Bac(1)

Lives of the great composers vol. 2: Beethoven and the Romantics / A L Bacharach (Pelican Books 1943) 192 p. | MusBio:Bac(2)

Lives of the great composers, vol. 3: Brahms, Wagner and their contemporaries / A L Bacharach (Penguin 1943) 186 p. | MusBio:Bac(3)

Lives, wives and loves of the great composers / Fritz Spiegel (Marion Boyars 1997) 256 p. | MusBio:Spi

Luciano Pavarotti: my world / Luciano Pavarotti & William Wright (Arrow 1996) xviii,345 p. 8 col., 16 b&w pl. | MusBio:Pav

The Mahler companion / Donald Mitchell ed. Andrew Nicholson (OUP 2002) 647 p. | MusBio:Mit

Mendelssohn / Stephen S Stratton (Dent/Dutton 1934) 233 p. | MusBio:Str

A mingled chime: leaves from an autobiography / (Sir) Thomas Beecham (Hutchinson 1944) 198 p. | MusBio:Bee

Mozart: his character, his work / Albert Einstein (Cassell 1946) xi,492 p. 6 pl. | MusBio:Ein

Mozart (Master musicians series) / Eustace Breakspeare (Dent/Dutton 1906) x,300 p. illus. | MusBio:Bre

Mozart / Eric Blom (Dent/Dutton 1935) 388 p. | MusBio:Blo

Mozart / Hugh Ottaway (Orbis Publishing 1979) 208 p. | MusBio:Ott

Mozart's women: his family, his friends, his music / Jane Glover (Pan 2006) 406 p. 16 col. pl. | MusBio:Glo

Mozart's letters / Eric Blom annot. Anon. (Penguin 1956) vii,278 p. | MusBio:Blo

Music, wit and wisdom: the autobiography of Artur Schnabel / Artur Schnabel (Wolke 2009) 298 p. | MusBio:Sch

Musorgsky: the Russian musical nationalist / M. D. Calvocoressi (Kegan Paul / Dutton n.d.) 216 p. illus. | MusBio:Cal

My heart and I / Diana Napier Tauber (Evans Bros. 1959) 208 p. 16 pl. | MusBio:Tau

My life / Tito Gobbi (Futura 1980) 286 p. | MusBio:Gob

My life (2 v.) / Richard Wagner (Constable 1911) (2 v.) 911 p. 'authorised trans. from the German' | MusBio:Wag

My life of music / (Sir) Henry J Wood (Victor Gollancz 1946) 384 p. | MusBio:Woo

My own trumpet / Adrian Boult (Hamish Hamilton 1973) 213 p. 12 pl. | MusBio:Bou

Norman O'Neill: a life of music / Derek Hudson (Quality Press 1945) 160 p. 15 pl. | MusBio:Hud

Palestrina / Henry Coates (Dent/Dutton 1938) 243 p. | MusBio:Coa

Percy Grainger / John Bird (Faber 1982) xvi,319 p. illus., 24 pl. | MusBio:Bir

Peter Pears: a biography / Christopher Headington (Faber 1992) xv,351 p. | MusBio:Hea

Purcell remembered / Michael Burden (Faber 1995) xxv1,188 p. 8pp. of pl. | MusBio:Bur

Recital / Elena Gerhardt (Methuen 1953) x,183 p. illus., 8 pl. | MusBio:Ger

Richard Strauss / Alan Jefferson (Macmillan 1975) 112 p. | MusBio:Jef

Rossini: a study in trag-comedy / Francis Toye (Norton 1963) xii,269 p. | MusBio:Toy

Schubert / Edmondstoune Duncan (Dent/Dutton 1934) 244 p. rev. ed. | MusBio:Dun

Schubert: the man and his music / Albert Einstein (Panther 1971) 384 p. | MusBio:Ein

Schubert / Marcel Schneider (Grove Press / John Calder 1959) 191 p. | MusBio:Sch

Simon Rattle: the making of a conductor / Nicholas Kenyon (Faber 1989) viii,246 p. illus. | MusBio:Ken

Solti on Solti: a memoir, with assistance from Harvey Sachs / (Sir) Georg Solti & Harvey Sachs (Vintage 1998) xi,276 p. 16 pl. | MusBio:Sol

Some great music educators: a collection of essays / Kenneth Simpson (Novello 1976) 128 p. 16 pl. | MusBio:Sim

Star on the door / Maggie Teyte (Putnam 1958) 192 p. illus., 12 pl. | MusBio:Tey

Stravinsky: 2nd ed. / Roman Vlad (OUP 2nd ed. 1967) p. mus. illus. | MusBio:Vla

Stravinsky in conversation with Robert Craft / Igor Stravinsky & Robert Craft (Penguin 1962) 301 p. 8 pl. | MusBio:Str

Unfinished journey / Yehudi Menuhin (Futura 1978) 508 p. illus.+ 16 pl. | MusBio:Men

Unfinished journey / Yehudi Menuhin (Macdonald and Janes 1977) xvii,393 p. illus., 16 pl. | MusBio:Men

Vaughan Williams and the vision of Albion / Wilfrid Mellers (Barrie & Jenkins 1989) 270 p. | MusBio:Mel

Virtuoso: the story of John Ogdon / Brenda Lucas Ogdon & Michael Kerr (Hamish Hamilton 1981) x,293 p. 8 pl. | MusBio:Ogd

Vivaldi / Michael Talbot (Dent 1984) 275 p. illus.+ 8 pl. Master Musicians | MusBio:Tal

Wagner / Robert L Jacobs (Dent/Dutton 1935) 242 p. | MusBio:Jac

Wagner as man and artist / Ernest Newman (J M Dent 1914) 386 p. | MusBio:New

The Wagner clan / Jonathan Carr (Faber 2007) xxvi,409 p. 16 pl. | MusBio:Car

Why no Beethoven?: the diary of a vagrant musician / Humphrey Lyttelton (Robson Books 1984) 176 p. | MusBio:Lyt

William Walton: behind the façade / Susana Walton (OUP 1988) xi,255 p. | MusBio:Wal

The works of Ralph Vaughan Williams / Michael Kennedy (OUP 1971) viii,405 p. mus. illus. | MusBio:Ken

Yehudi Menuhin: unfinished journey: autobiography / Yehudi Menuhin (Macdonald & Jane's 1977) xviii,394 p. illus. (16 b&w pl.) | MusBio:Men

Zoltán Kodály: his life and work / László Eösze (Collet's 1962) 183 p. | MusBio:Eös

Zubin Mehta: the score of my life / Zubin Mehta (Amadeus 2009) xii,212 p. | MusBio:Meh

Music--Festivals & Venues

Aldeburgh anthology / Ronald Blythe (Faber 1972) 457 p. illus., 82pl. | MusFes:Bly

Conducted tour: a journey through twelve music festivals of Europe and Australia / Bernard Levin (Coronet Books 1983) 240 p. | MusFes:Lev

The Covent Garden album: 250 years of theatre opera and ballet / Charles Drogheda (Earl of) comp. Ken Davison (Routledge & Keegan Hall 1981) 208 p. with Andrew Wheatcroft | MusFes:Dro

Music making in the olden days: the story of the Aberdeen concerts 1748-1801 / Henry George Farmer (Peters-Hinrichsen 1950) 122 p. | MusFes:Far

Music--Humour

Bluff your way in music / Peter Gammond (Wolfe 1966) 63 p. | MusHum:Gam

The Hoffnung music festival: [cartoon sketches] / Gerard Hoffnung (Dobson/Putnam 1956) 56 p. illus. | MusHum:Hof

The Hoffnung symphony orchestra: [cartoon sketches] / Gerard Hoffnung (Dobson 1955) 64 p. illus. | MusHum:Hof

How to be tremendously tuned in to opera / E. O. Parrott (Penguin 1990) ix,230 p. | MusHum:Par

Im Konzersaal karikiert: [100 autographed caricature drawings of well-known performers and conductors] / R. P. Bauer (Langen/Muller 1961) 88 p. | MusHum:Bau

Mini music / Leighton Lucas (Duckworth 1967) 48 p. | MusHum:Luc

My favourite intervals: lives of the musical giants and other facts you didn't know you'd missed / Victor Borge & Robert Sherman (Sphere Books 1976) 189 p. illus. | MusHum:Bor

Organo pleno / Gordon Reynolds (Novello 1970) 48 p. illus. | MusHum:Rey

The wit of music / Leslie Ayre (Leslie Frewin 1966) 95 p. | MusHum:Ayr

Music--Journals, Periodicals

The Grainger journal (1978-1984): vol. 3 no. 1, vol. 5 no. 2, vol. 6 no. 1 only / Grainger Society (Grainger 1980-1984) p. | MusJnl:Gra

The Grainger Society journal (1985- ): vol. 7 no. 1 - vol. 9 no. 2 / Grainger Society (Grainger Society 1985-1989) p. MISSING: vol. 8 no. 2 | MusJnl:Gra

ISM music journal (Incorporated Society of Musicians): Nov. 1999 onwards / ISM (ISM ) p. MISSING: Mar-Jun '00, Jan-Feb '01, Feb, Dec '04, Sep-Oct '06, Aug '09, Feb-Apr, Jun, Sep/Oct '10 | MusJnl:ISM

Music journal (Incorporated Society of Musicians): Nov. 1999 onwards / ISM (ISM ) p. MISSING: Mar-Jun '00, Jan-Feb '01, Feb, Dec '04, Sep-Oct '06, Aug '09, Feb-Apr, Jun, Sep/Oct '10 | MusJnl:ISM

Music--Quizzes

A classical music quiz with Richard Baker / Roy Carter (David & Charles 1980) 128 p. | MusQuz:Car

A music quiz / Neil Butterworth (Banks 1974) 62 p. with answers | MusQuz:But

The quiz book of music / Graham Hewitt (Futura 1979) 189 p. | MusQuz:Hew

To make you think: unconventional questions on music / Harry Dexter & Ernest Haywood (Keith Prowse 1950) 79 p. incl. supp. with answers | MusQuz:Dex

Music--Reference

Cobbett's cyclopedic survey of chamber music, 3 vol. / Walter Wilson Cobbett (OUP 1963) 3v. xiv,585;641;viii,209 p. 3 vol., illus. | MusRef:Cob

The concise Oxford dictionary of music / Michael Kennedy (OUP 3rd ed. 1980) [vi]+724 p. 3rd ed. | MusRef:Ken

Dictionary of music / Theodore Karp (Dell 1973) 448 p. | MusRef:Kar

A directory of composers for the organ / John Henderson (John Henderson 1999) 789 p. | MusRef:Hen

Grove's dictionary of music and musicians / Eric Blom ed. Denis Stevens (Macmillan 5th ed. 1954-61) 10v. 8438,493 p. illus., 76 pl., 16 col. | Including supplementary volume | MusRef:Blo

The Larousse encyclopedia of music / Geoffrey Hindley (Hamlyn 1971) 576 p. illus., 60 col.pl. | MusRef:Hin

Opera at home / Gramophone Co. (Gramophone Co. 1921) 392 p. rev. ed. illus. | MusRef:Gra

The student's dictionary of musical terms / Arthur J Greenish (Joseph Williams 1953) 131 p. | MusRef:Gre

Music History by Period-- General

Cameos of musical history / Stewart Macpherson (Winthrop Rogers 1937) [iv]+209 p. | MuzH:Mac

Catechism of musical history Part 1: Bk 1: musical instruments; Bk 2: tone-systems and notations / Hugo Riemann (Augener 1892) v,144 p. | MuzH:Rie(1)

Catechism of musical history Part 2: Bk 3: musical forms / Hugo Riemann (Augener 1892) iv,186 p. | MuzH:Rie(2)

Chamber music / Alexander Hyatt King (Max Parrish / Chanticleer 1948) 72 p. illus. | MuzH:Kin

Chamber music / Alec Robertson (Penguin 1957) 427 p. illus. | MuzH:Rob

Classical music: updated 3rd ed. / Joe Staines (Rough Guides 2001) xiii,610 p. illus. | MuzH:Sta

Collins music encyclopedia / (Sir) Jack Allan Westrup & Frank Llewellyn Harrison (Collins 1959) 739 p. illus. | MuzH:Wes

Collins music encyclopedia / Conrad Wilson & (Sir) Jack Allan Westrup (Book Club Associates rev. ed. 1976) 608 p. illus. | MuzH:Wil

The concerto / Ralph Hill (Penguin 1952) 448 p. illus. | MuzH:Hil

A concise history of music / William Lovelock (Bell & Hyman 1980) 244 p. | MuzH:Lov

A dictionary of music / Robert Illing (Penguin Books 1950) 318 p. | MuzH:Ill

The early music revival: a history / Harry Haskell (Thames & Hudson 1988) 232 p. illus. | MuzH:Has

The evolution of the art of music / Charles Hubert H. Parry (Routledge & Kegan Paul 1950) x,342 p. | MuzH:Par

The Gramophone guide to classical composers and recordings / Lionel Salter (Salamander books 1978) 217 p. | MuzH:Sal

The growth of music: a study in musical history for schools Parts 1-3 (in 1) / H. C. Colles (OUP 2nd ed. 1951) 3v. (in 1) 160,176,194 p. 2nd ed. | MuzH:Col

The growth of music: a study in musical history Part 1: from the Troubadours to J S Bach / H. C. Colles rev. Eric Blom (OUP 3rd ed. 1956) xii,164 p. 3rd ed. | MuzH:Col(1)

The history of music / Cecil Gray (Kegan Paul 2nd ed. 1931) viii,284 p. | MuzH:Gra

A history of music / William Smoldon (Herbert Jenkins 1965) 472 p. 32 pl., mus. illus. | MuzH:Smo

An introduction to musical history / (Sir) Jack Allan Westrup (Hutchinson 1955) 174 p. | MuzH:Wes

Keyboard music / Denis Matthews (Penguin 1972) 386 p. illus. | MuzH:Mat

The listener's history of music, vol. 1: to Beethoven / Percy A Scholes (OUP 7th ed., 1954) xiii,176 p. | MuzH:Sch(1)

Makers of music: the story of singers and instrumentalists [ie violinists and pianists] / Sydney Grew (Foulis c.1910) 365 p. 11 pl. | MuzH:Gre

Music / (Sir) William Henry Hadow ed. (Sir) George Dyson (OUP 3rd ed. 1949) ix+198 p. 3rd ed. | MuzH:Had

Music dictionary / Marilyn Kornreich Davis (Faber & Faber 1957) 63 p. | MuzH:Dav

Music in Western civilization / Paul Henry Lang (Norton 1941) xxii,1107 p. 16 pl., 3 maps | MuzH:Lan

The music masters, [vol. 1]: from the sixteenth century to the time of Beethoven / A L Bacharach (Maurice Fridberg 1948) 366 p. including "Lives of the great composers" | MuzH:Bac(1)

The music masters, vol. 4: the Twentieth Century / A L Bacharach (Penguin 1957) 416 p. | MuzH:Bac(4)

The music of Man / Yehudi Menuhin & Curtis W Davis (Macdonald and Jane's 1980) 320 p. | MuzH:Men

Music of the World: a history / Kurt Pahlen (Spring Books c.1960) 424 p. 216 pl. | MuzH:Pah

The musical companion: a compendium for all lovers of music / A L Bacharach (Victor Gollancz 1940) 751 p. | MuzH:Bac

Musical instruments through the ages / Anthony Baines (Penguin Books 1961) 383 p. illus.+ 32 pl. | MuzH:Bai

A new dictionary of music / Arthur Jacobs (Penguin 1958) 416 p. | MuzH:Jac

A new dictionary of music / Arthur Jacobs (Penguin 2nd ed. 1967) 425 p. | MuzH:Jac

Norton anthology of Western music vol. 2: Classic, Romantic, Modern / Claude V Palisca (Norton 1988) 822 p. 57 mus. scores | MuzH:Pal(2)

The Oxford companion to music / Percy A Scholes (OUP 1st ed. 1938) lv,1091 p. illus. | MuzH:Sch

The Oxford companion to music / Percy A Scholes (OUP 9th ed. 1955) lx,1195 p. 9th ed. illus. | MuzH:Sch

The Oxford junior companion to music / Percy A Scholes (OUP 1954) xxviii,436 p. illus. | MuzH:Sch

The Pelican history of music vol. 1: Ancient forms to polyphony / Denis Stevens ed. Alec Robertson (Penguin Books 1960) 343 p. illus.+ 16 pl. | MuzH:Ste(1)

The Pelican history of music vol. 2: Renaiisance and Baroque / Alec Robertson ed. Denis Stevens (Penguin Books 1963) 335 p. illus.+ 32 pl. | MuzH:Rob(2)

The Pelican history of music vol. 3: Classical and Romantic / Alec Robertson ed. Denis Stevens (Penguin Books 1968) 250 p. | MuzH:Rob(3)

The rise of the string quartet / A304 Course Team Open University (Open University 1974) 47 p. (The development of instruments and their music Unit 18} | MuzH:Ope(1)

The rise of the string quartet [scores] / A304 Course Team Open University (Open University 1974) 24 p. [mus.] The development of instruments and their music Unit 19) | MuzH:Ope(sc)

The rise of the symphony 1 / A304 Course Team Open University (Open University 1974) 86 p. (The development of instruments and their music Units 12-13) | MuzH:Ope(1)

The rise of the symphony 1 [scores A & B] / A304 Course Team Open University (Open University 1974) 2v. 40,40 p. mus. (The development of instruments and their music, Units 14A,B) | MuzH:Ope(sc1)

The rise of the symphony 2 / A304 Course Team Open University (Open University 1974) 103 p. (The development of instruments and their music, Units 15-16) | MuzH:Ope(2)

The rise of the symphony 2 [scores A & B] / A304 Course Team Open University (Open University 1974) 2v. 30,30 p. mus. (The development of instruments and their music, Units 17A,B) | MuzH:Ope(sc2)

Romain Rolland's essays on music / Romain Rolland ed. David Ewen (Dover 1959) 371 p. | MuzH:Rol

Score reading: form and history / Annie O Warburton (Longmans 1959) xviii+208 p. illus., 4pl. | MuzH:War

Score reading: form and history / Annie O Warburton (Longman (pbk) 1959) xviii+208 p. illus.+ 4pl. | MuzH:War

A short history of music / Alfred Einstein (Cassell 3rd ed. 1944) viii,212 p. 3rd ed. | MuzH:Ein

Songs of the Ages: the growth of song through the centuries illustrated by examples / Ralph Dunstan & C E Bygott (Schofield & Sims 1962) xii+233 p. mus. illus. | MuzH:Dun

Songs of the Ages - words and airs / Ralph Dunstan & C E Bygott (Schofield & Sims 1962) viii+113 p. mus. . | MuzH:Dun

The story of chamber music / N Kilburn (Walter Scott 1904) 252 p. | MuzH:Kil

The story of music / Benjamin Britten & Imogen Holst (Rathbone Books 1958) 69 p. | MuzH:Bri

The symphony / Ralph Hill (Penguin 1949) 416 p. illus. | MuzH:Hil

Music History by Period--Ancient

Music in the age of Confucius: [exhibition catalogue] / Jenny F. So (Smithsonian 2000) 152 p. illus. | MuzH-Anc:So

The Pelican history of music vol. 1: Ancient forms to polyphony / Denis Stevens ed. Alec Robertson (Penguin Books 1960) 343 p. illus.+ 16 pl. | MuzH-Anc:Ste(1)

Music History by Period--Baroque

Baroque instrumental music 1: people instruments and the continuo / A304 Course Team Open University (Open University 1974) 128 p. (The development of instruments and their music, Units 4-6) | MuzH-Bar:Ope(1)

Baroque instrumental music 2: suite sonata and concerto / A304 Course Team Open University (Open University 1974) 157 p. (The development of instruments and their music, Units 7-9) | MuzH-Bar:Ope(2)

Baroque instrumental music [scores]: / A304 Course Team Open University (Open University 1974) 2v. 48,31 p. mus. (The development of instruments and their music, Units 10-11) | MuzH-Bar:Ope(sc)

The Baroque organ; and Bach organ music / A304 Course Team Open University (Open University 1974) 121 p. (The development of instruments and their music, Units 1-2) | MuzH-Bar:Ope

The Baroque organ; and Bach organ music [scores] / A304 Course Team Open University (Open University 1974) 22 p. mus. (The development of instruments and their music, Unit 3) | MuzH-Bar:Ope(sc)

The interpretation of the music of the XVII and XVIII centuries: revealed by contemporary evidence / Arnold Dolmetsch (Novello/OUP ) x,493 p. | MuzH-Bar:Dol

Untersuchungen zur italienischen Literatur- und Kulturgeschichtsschreibung in der zweiten Hálfte des Settecento / Klaus Dieter Schreiber (Gehlen 1968) 163 p. | MuzH-Bar:Sch

Music History by Period--Classical

From Classical to Romantic keyboard music / A304 Course Team Open University (Open University 1974) 185 p. (The development of instruments and their music, Units 20-22) | MuzH-Cla:Ope

The Pelican history of music vol. 3: Classical and Romantic / Alec Robertson ed. Denis Stevens (Penguin Books 1968) 250 p. | MuzH-Cla:Rob(3)

Music History by Period--Contemporary

Contemporary music: an introduction / Francis Routh (EUP 1968) 292 p. | MuzH-Con:Rou

Contemporary music - case studies 1 / A304 Course Team Open University (Open University 1974) 92 p. (The development of instruments and their music, Units 27-29) | MuzH-Con:Ope(1)

Contemporary music - case studies 2 / A304 Course Team Open University (Open University 1974) 71 p. (The development of instruments and their music, Units 31-32) | MuzH-Con:Ope(2)

Music and society today / A304 Course Team Open University (Open University 1974) 32 p. (The development of instruments and their music, Units 30) | MuzH-Con:Ope

Die Reihe, 4: young composers / Eduard Mörike (Theodore Presser 1960) 135 p. 2 fold. charts | MuzH-Con:Mör(4)

Music History by Period--Mediaeval

Anthology of medieval music / Richard H Hoppin (Norton 1978) xiii,173 p. | MuzH-Med:Hop

The Gregorian highway code / Schola Gregoriana of Cambridge (Paraclete Press 1981) 4 p. | MuzH-Med:Sch

Die Lyrik des Mittelalters: eine Einführung / Peter Dronke (C H Beck 1968) xi+297 p. | MuzH-Med:Dro

Medieval music / Richard H Hoppin (Norton 1978) 566 p. b&w illus. | MuzH-Med:Hop

Music History by Period--Renaissance

Contrapuntal technique in the sixteenth century / R. O.. Morris (Clarendon Press 1922) xii,74 p. with 49 pp. of musical examples | MuzH-Ren:Mor

Music in the Renaissance / Howard Mayer Brown (Prentice-Hall 1976) 384 p. | MuzH-Ren:Bro

Music in the Renaissance / Gustave Reese (Norton 1954) xvii,1022 p. | MuzH-Ren:Ree

The Pelican history of music vol. 2: Renaiisance and Baroque / Alec Robertson ed. Denis Stevens (Penguin Books 1963) 335 p. illus.+ 32 pl. | MuzH-Ren:Rob(2)

A plain and easy introduction to practical music / Thomas Morley ed. R. Alec Harman (Dent 2nd ed. 1962) xxix,325 p. 2nd ed., illus. | MuzH-Ren:Mor

Renaissance music / A201 Course Team Open University (Open University 1972) 2v. 111,35 p. inc. mus. suppl. (Renaissance and Reformation Units 17-19) | MuzH-Ren:Ope

The sources of keyboard music in England / Charles van den Borren (Novello/OUP c.1913) vii+378 p. | MuzH-Ren:Bor

Music History by Period--Twentieth Century

European music in the twentieth century / Howard Hartog (Penguin 1961) 360 p. | MuzH-Twe:Har

The Faber companion to 20th-century popular music / Phil Hardy & Dave Laing (Faber 1990) xi,875 p. | MuzH-Twe:Har

The language of modern music / Donald Mitchell (Faber 1966) 168 p. | MuzH-Twe:Mit

The path to the new music / Anton Webern (Presser/Universal 1963) 67 p. | MuzH-Twe:Web

Schoenberg / Charles Rosen (Fontana 1976) 124 p. | MuzH-Twe:Ros

The symphony, vol. 2: Elgar to the present day / Robert Simpson (Penguin 1967) 282 p. | MuzH-Twe:Sim

Twentieth-century music: an introduction / Eric Salzman (Prentice-Hall 1967) v,196 p. illus. | MuzH-Twe:Sal

Twentieth-century music 1900-1945 / A304 Course Team Open University (Open University 1974) 115 p. (The development of instruments and their music, Units 23-25) | MuzH-Twe:Ope

Twentieth-century music 1900-1945 [scores] / A304 Course Team Open University (Open University 1974) 25 p. mus. (The development of instruments and their music, Unit 26) | MuzH-Twe:Ope(sc)

Music History by Place--Czechoslovakia

Czechoslovak opera: a brief outline / Pavel Eckstein (Theatre Institute, Prague 1964) 115 p. illus., 16 pl. | MuzHZ-Cze:Eck

Music History by Place--England

Daring to excel: the story of the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain / Ruth Railton (Secker & Warburg 1992) ix,466 p. illus.,24 pl. | MuzHZ-Eng:Rai

English hymns and hymn writers / Adam Fox (Collins 1947) 48 p. illus. 8 col. pl. | MuzHZ-Eng:Fox

Henry Purcell: the English musical tradition / A. K. Holland (G. Bell & Sons 1932) 248 p. | MuzHZ-Eng:Hol

Music in England / Eric Blom (Penguin rev. ed., 1947) 288 p. | MuzHZ-Eng:Blo

The old church gallery minstrels: an account of the church bands and singers in England from about 1660 to 1860 / K H MacDermott (SPCK 1948) IV,77 p. illus., 16 pl. | MuzHZ-Eng:Mac

Our favourite musicians: from Stanford to Holbrooke / Sydney Grew (T.N. Foulis 1922) 257 p. illus., 10 pl. | MuzHZ-Eng:Gre

Voice and verse: a study in English song (Cramb Lectures 1927) / H. C. Colles (OUP 1928) xii,167 p. illus. | MuzHZ-Eng:Col

Music History by Place--Germany

Of German music: a symposium / Hans-Hubert Schonzeler (Wolff/Barnes & Noble 1976) 328 p. | MuzHZ-Ger:Sch

Music History by Place--Scotland

A history of Scottish music / Kenneth Elliott & Frederick Rimmer (BBC 1973) 84 p. mus. illus. | MuzHZ-Sco:Ell

St Machar's Cathedral, Old Aberdeen, its organ and music / Michael Thomson & David Murray (Friends of StMC 2002) 32 p. | MuzHZ-Sco:Tho

Scotland's music: a history of the traditional and classical music of Scotland from early times to the present day / John Purser (Mainstream/BBC 1992) 311 p. illus., 30 col. pl. | MuzHZ-Sco:Pur

Music Performance--Early Music

The early music revival: a history / Harry Haskell (Thames & Hudson 1988) 232 p. illus. | MuzPf-Ear:Has

Music Teaching-- General

Common sense in music teaching / William Lovelock (G. Bell & Sons 1965) 124 p. | MuzTch:Lov

Handbook for music teachers, Bks 1-2 / Bernarr Rainbow (Novello 3rd ed. 1964) 2v.: 230,222 p. | MuzTch:Rai(1-2)

A music course for teacher and student / E. Markham Lee (Banks & Son 6th ed. c.1932) iv,68 p. 6th ed. | MuzTch:Lee

Music in schools / J Brian Brocklehurst (Routledge & Kegan Paul 1962) vii+172 p. | MuzTch:Bro

Music in the secondary school curriculum: trends and developments in class music teaching / John Paynter (Cambridge UP 1982) xiv,256 p. illus. | MuzTch:Pay

Musical interpretation: its laws and principles, and their application in teaching and performing / Tobias Matthay (Jos. Williams c.1912) xiv,169 p. | MuzTch:Mat

Some great music educators: a collection of essays / Kenneth Simpson (Novello 1976) 128 p. 16 pl. | MuzTch:Sim

Sound and silence: classroom projects in creative music / John Paynter & Peter Aston (CUP 1970) xv,365 p. illus. | MuzTch:Pay

What Matthay meant: his musical and technical teachings clearly explained ... / Ambrose Coviello (Bosworth n.d.) 72 p. | MuzTch:Cov

Music Teaching--Children

Children singing / Cyril Winn (OUP 1952) 87 p. | MuzTch-Chi:Win

Voice-training in schools / Reginald Jacques (OUP 2nd ed. 1952) viii+110 p. 2nd ed. | MuzTch-Chi:Jac

Voices and instruments / Avril Dankworth (Granada 1973) 119 p. | MuzTch-Chi:Dan

Young person's guide to concerts / Michael Hurd (Routledge & Kegan Paul 1962) vii,131 p. | MuzTch-Chi:Hur

Music Teaching--Conducting

Voice-training and conducting in schools / Reginald Jacques (OUP 3rd ed. 1963) x,157 p. | MuzTch-Cnd:Jac

Music Teaching--Keyboard

On teaching the piano / Hetty Bolton (Novello 1954) 93 p. | MuzTch-Key:Bol

The piano teacher's yearbook 1947 / James Ching & Betty Reeves (Walsh Holmes 1946) 40 p. | MuzTch-Key:Chi

The teacher's guide to Mrs Curwen's pianoforte method: practical course of the elements of music / Annie Jessy (Mrs J Spencer) Curwen (J Curwen & Sons 1914) vii+388+11 p. 17th ed. | MuzTch-Key:Cur

We piano teachers: the crotchets and quavers of our early days / Victor Booth (Skeffington & Son 1946) 99 p. mus. illus., 8 pl | MuzTch-Key:Boo

Music Teaching--Singing

Children singing / Cyril Winn (OUP 1952) 87 p. | MuzTch-Sin:Win

Infant school singing: a graded course / Hugh Hunter (Bayley & Ferguson c.1950) 38 p. | MuzTch-Sin:Hun

Let us sing correctly (Kodály Choral Method) / Zoltán Kodály (Boosey & Hawkes 1965) 16 p. | MuzTch-Sin:Kod

Music in schools / J Brian Brocklehurst (Routledge & Kegan Paul 1962) vii+172 p. | MuzTch-Sin:Bro

66 two-part exercises (Kodály Choral Method) / Zoltán Kodály (Boosey & Hawkes 1964) 48 p. Kod | MuzTch-Sin:Kod

The teaching of Elisabeth Schumann / Elizabeth Puritz (Methuen 1956) vii,136 p. | MuzTch-Sin:Pur

Vocal physiology and the teaching of singing / David Slater (J H Larway n.d.) 91 p. | MuzTch-Sin:Sla

Voice-training and conducting in schools / Reginald Jacques (OUP 3rd ed. 1963) x,157 p. | MuzTch-Sin:Jac

Voice-training in schools / Reginald Jacques (OUP 2nd ed. 1952) viii+110 p. 2nd ed. | MuzTch-Sin:Jac

Yes, you can sing / Yvie Burnet (John Blake 2017) xiv,274 p. | MuzTch-Sin:Bur

Music Teaching--Wind Instruments

Musical experience through the use of the recorder: a method for the descant and tenor recorder / Malcolm Hey Anderton (Longman 1970) viii+216 p. | MuzTch-Win:And

Music Theory-- General

The AB guide to music theory, part 1 / Eric Taylor (Associated Board 1990) xiv,114 p. | MuzTh:Tay(1)

The AB guide to music theory, part 2 / Eric Taylor (Associated Board 1991) viii,105-252,ix-xx p. | MuzTh:Tay(2)

An ABC of music: a short, practical guide to rudiments, harmony, form / Imogen Holst (OUP 1963) ix,189 p. mus. illus. | MuzTh:Hol

The Academus book of questions on the rudiments of music: for use by the Royal Scottish Academy of Music / RSAMD (OUP 1933) 99 p. | MuzTh:RSA

The Academus rudiments primer: [for use by the Scottish National Academy of Music] / Robert Barrett-Watson (OUP 1933) 98 p. | MuzTh:Bar

The anatomy of music: a complete popular outline of musical theory / Winthrop Parkhurst (Alfred Knopf 1930) 211 p. | MuzTh:Par

Basic music knowledge / Annie O Warburton (Longman 1967) xxii+215 p. | MuzTh:War

Diplomas in music / T. C. L. Pritchard (Dent 1960) xii,112 p. | MuzTh:Pri

Examination questions with model answers for candidates preparing for all examinations in music / Wilson Manhire (Larway c.1940) 174 p. | MuzTh:Man

General musicianship / Roy Bennett (CUP 1984) 97 p. mus. illus. | MuzTh:Ben

Get to know music: answers to 1001 questions on every aspect of the art / J Raymond Tobin (Evans Bros. 1946) 144 p. | MuzTh:Tob

The good musician, Book 3: a pupil's course leading to the understanding and enjoyment of music / James Easson & R. C. McCrone (Novello c.1935) 46 p. Fold-out chart showing 'Periods (or Schools) of Musical Composition' | MuzTh:Eas

A handbook of musical knowledge part 1: Rudiments of music / James Murray Brown (Trinity College of Music 3rd ed. 1972) 55 p. 3rd ed. | MuzTh:Bro(1)

Introduction to music / A100 Course Team Open University (Open University 1971) 49 p. (Humanities: a Foundation Course, Units 13-14) | MuzTh:Ope

The language of music / Deryck Cooke (OUP 1962) xiv,289 p. | MuzTh:Coo

A music course for teacher and student / E. Markham Lee (Banks & Son 6th ed. c.1932) iv,68 p. 6th ed. | MuzTh:Lee

Musical theory: books 1-5 / John Curwen (Curwen 8th ed. a.1879) 372 p. 8th ed | MuzTh:Cur(1-5)

A plain and easy introduction to practical music / Thomas Morley ed. R. Alec Harman (Dent 2nd ed. 1962) xxix,325 p. 2nd ed., illus. | MuzTh:Mor

Questions and exercises in musical knowledge: advanced intermediate division / Charles W Pearce (Trinity College of Music 1918) 62 p. | MuzTh:Pea

Rudiments and theory of music: based on the syllabus of the Royal schools of Music / ABRSM (Assoc Board 1958) 150 p. | MuzTh:ABR

Rudiments of music / Thomas Keighley (Bayley & Ferguson n.d.) 77 p. | MuzTh:Kei

The rudiments of music / William Lovelock (Bell & Hyman 1957) 128 p. | MuzTh:Lov

Rudiments of music / Stewart Macpherson (Joseph Williams n.d.) 84 p. | MuzTh:Mac

Text-book of musical knowledge: advanced intermediate division / Charles W Pearce (Trinity College of Music 1918) 116 p. | MuzTh:Pea

Music Theory--Composition

Compose music (Teach Yourself Books) / King Palmer (Hodder & Stoughton 2nd ed. 1972) viii,276 p. | MuzTh-Com:Pal

Notes on fugue for beginners / Edward J. Dent (CUP 1958) 47 p. | MuzTh-Com:Den

Paper-work test, Bk 2: suitable for FRCO and other examination candidates / Craig Sellar Lang (Novello 1951) 33 p. | MuzTh-Com:Lan(2)

Pianoforte accompaniment writing / Wilfrid Dunwell (A. Hammond n.d.) 55 p. | MuzTh-Com:Dun

Music Theory--Counterpoint

The art of counterpoint / C H Kitson (OUP 2nd ed. 1924) 344 p. | MuzTh-Cou:Kit

Introduction to counterpoint / R. O.. Morris (OUP 1944) 35 p. | MuzTh-Cou:Mor

Invertible counterpoint and canon / C H Kitson (OUP 1928) 96 p. mus. illus. | MuzTh-Cou:Kit

Music Theory--Form

The examination fugue / William Lovelock (Hammond n.d.) 125 p. illus. | MuzTh-Frm:Lov

Form in music: with special reference to the designs of instrumental music / Stewart Macpherson (Joseph WIlliams 1930) xii+279 p. | MuzTh-Frm:Mac

Form in brief / William Lovelock (A. Hammond n.d.) 49 p. | MuzTh-Frm:Lov

Formal analysis / William Lovelock (A. Hammond n.d.) 16 p. | MuzTh-Frm:Lov

A handbook of musical knowledge part 2: Basis of harmony and composition / James Murray Brown (Trinity College of Music 3rd ed. 1972) 103 p. 3rd ed. | MuzTh-Frm:Bro(2)

Notes on form / William Lovelock (A. Hammond n.d.) 10 p. | MuzTh-Frm:Lov

The structure of music: an outline for students / R. O.. Morris (OUP 1935) vi,124 p. mus. illus. | MuzTh-Frm:Mor

200 questions on form / William Lovelock (A. Hammond n.d.) 11 p. | MuzTh-Frm:Lov

Music Theory--Harmony

Elementary harmony part 1 / C H Kitson (OUP 1920(1978)) vi+108 p. | MuzTh-Har:Kit(1)

Elementary harmony, Parts 1-3 / C H Kitson (OUP 1920 (1932-3)) 3v. (in 1) 108,106,94 p. | MuzTh-Har:Kit

First year harmony (complete) / William Lovelock (A. Hammond n.d.) 109 p. | MuzTh-Har:Lov

First year harmony: appendix on figured bass / William Lovelock (A. Hammond n.d.) 23 p. | MuzTh-Har:Lov

A handbook of musical knowledge part 2: Basis of harmony and composition / James Murray Brown (Trinity College of Music 3rd ed. 1972) 103 p. 3rd ed. | MuzTh-Har:Bro(2)

Harmony for students / A Eaglefield Hull (Augener c.1947) vii,291 p. | MuzTh-Har:Hul

Harmony: a simple and systematic treatise on the harmonization of melodies and basses / Thomas Keighley (Bayley & Ferguson 1914) 189 p. | MuzTh-Har:Kei

Harmony / Annie O Warburton (Longman 1979) vi+322 p. new ed. | MuzTh-Har:War

The listener's book on harmony / Lawrence Abbot (Harrap 1943) xvi,237 p. | MuzTh-Har:Abb

Melody and harmony: a treatise for the teacher and the student / Stewart Macpherson (Joseph Williams 1920) vii+304 p. | MuzTh-Har:Mac

Melody and harmony Book 1: Melodic movement / Stewart Macpherson (Joseph Williams 1923) vii+63+xvi p. | MuzTh-Har:Mac(1)

Melody and harmony Book 2: Elementary harmonic progression / Stewart Macpherson (Joseph Williams 1923) vii+64-178+xxi p. | MuzTh-Har:Mac(2)

Melody and harmony Book 3: Advanced harmony / Stewart Macpherson (Joseph Williams 1923) vii+179-297 p. | MuzTh-Har:Mac(3)

One hundred tunes from the great masters, for harmonization / Paul Steinitz (Novello 1963) 36 p. | MuzTh-Har:Ste

The Oxford harmony, vol. 2 / H. K. Andrews (OUP 1950) 241 p. mus. illus. | MuzTh-Har:And(2)

The Oxford student's harmony, vol.1-2: a practical approach to creative musicianship / Edwin Smith & David Renouf (OUP 1965-6) 2v. 138,172 p. | MuzTh-Har:Smi(1-2)

Practical harmony: a concise treatise with progressive exercises / Stewart Macpherson (Joseph Williams 1907) 162 p. [7th] ed. | MuzTh-Har:Mac

Second year harmony: complete / William Lovelock (Hammond n.d.) 131 p. | MuzTh-Har:Lov

Unfigured harmony: a short treatise ... / Percy Buck (OUP 2nd ed. 1920) 174 p. | MuzTh-Har:Buc

Music Theory--Melody

Melody and harmony: a treatise for the teacher and the student / Stewart Macpherson (Joseph Williams 1920) vii+304 p. | MuzTh-Mel:Mac

Melody and harmony Book 1: Melodic movement / Stewart Macpherson (Joseph Williams 1923) vii+63+xvi p. | MuzTh-Mel:Mac(1)

Melody writing and analysis / Annie O Warburton (Longman 2nd ed. 1960) xi+188 p. 2nd ed. | MuzTh-Mel:War

Unfigured harmony: a short treatise ... / Percy Buck (OUP 2nd ed. 1920) 174 p. | MuzTh-Mel:Buc

Music Theory--Orchestration

The elements of orchestration / Gordon Jacob (Herbert Jenkins 1962) 216 p. | MuzTh-Orc:Jac

Orchestration / Cecil Forsyth (Macmillan 1955) ix,530 p. illus. | MuzTh-Orc:For

Music Theory--Score Reading

Score reading exercises, Bk 2 (FRCO) / H. A. Harding (Weekes 1912) 32 p. | MuzTh-Sco:Har(2)

Score reading exercises in two, three and four parts. Book 2: in G, F and C clefs / Craig Sellar Lang (Novello 1951) 83 p. | MuzTh-Sco:Lan

Music Theory--Transposition

Transposition, Book 1 / Kathleen A. Benning (Cramer 1953) 24 p. | MuzTh-Tra:Ben(1)

Music Theory--Voice

Think afresh about the voice: a general theory and guide to practice / Arthur D Hewlett (CMC 3rd ed. 1981) viii+90 p. 3rd ed. | MuzTh-Voc:Hew

Musical Forms-- General

Contemporary music - case studies 1 / A304 Course Team Open University (Open University 1974) 92 p. (The development of instruments and their music, Units 27-29) | MuzF:Ope(1)

Contemporary music - case studies 2 / A304 Course Team Open University (Open University 1974) 71 p. (The development of instruments and their music, Units 31-32) | MuzF:Ope(2)

Music and society today / A304 Course Team Open University (Open University 1974) 32 p. (The development of instruments and their music, Units 30) | MuzF:Ope

Norton anthology of Western music vol. 2: Classic, Romantic, Modern / Claude V Palisca (Norton 1988) 822 p. 57 mus. scores | MuzF:Pal(2)

Twentieth-century music 1900-1945 / A304 Course Team Open University (Open University 1974) 115 p. (The development of instruments and their music, Units 23-25) | MuzF:Ope

Twentieth-century music 1900-1945 [scores] / A304 Course Team Open University (Open University 1974) 25 p. mus. (The development of instruments and their music, Unit 26) | MuzF:Ope(sc)

Musical Forms--Chamber Music

Chamber music / Alexander Hyatt King (Max Parrish / Chanticleer 1948) 72 p. illus. | MuzF-Cha:Kin

Chamber music / Alec Robertson (Penguin 1957) 427 p. illus. | MuzF-Cha:Rob

Cobbett's cyclopedic survey of chamber music, 3 vol. / Walter Wilson Cobbett (OUP 1963) 3v. xiv,585;641;viii,209 p. 3 vol., illus. | MuzF-Cha:Cob

The story of chamber music / N Kilburn (Walter Scott 1904) 252 p. | MuzF-Cha:Kil

Musical Forms--Church Music

The background of Passion music: J S Bach and his predecessors / Basil Smallman (SCM Press 1957) 125 p. | MuzF-Chu:Sma

Companion to Congregational praise: with notes on the music by Erik Routley / K. L. Parry & Erik Routley (Independent Press 1953) xli,580 p. | MuzF-Chu:Par

Opera and church music 1630-1750 (The New Oxford History of Music, 5) / Anthony Lewis ed. Nigel Fortune (OUP 1975) xxii,869 p. | MuzF-Chu:Lew

Musical Forms--Concerto

The concerto / Ralph Hill (Penguin 1952) 448 p. illus. | MuzF-Con:Hil

Essays in musical analysis vol. 3: concertos / Donald Francis Tovey (OUP 1936) ix,226 p. | MuzF-Con:Tov(3)

Talking about concertos: an analytical study ... Mozart to the present day / Anthony Hopkins (Heinemann 1970) 148 p. mus. illus. | MuzF-Con:Hop

Musical Forms--Dance

People who dance / Mary Clarke (Hamlyn 1961) 93 p. | MuzF-Dan:Cla

Musical Forms--Fiddle Music

The Caledonian Companion: [a collection of Scottish fiddle music and guide to its performance] / Alastair James Hardie (EMI 1981) 144 p. | MuzF-Fid:Har

The Gideon Stove tune book, vol. 1 / Magnus J Stove (Shetland Folk Festival Society 1986) 77 p. (The Shetland Violinist) | MuzF-Fid:Sto

The Lochnagar collection : 308 original compositions / Paul Anderson (Highland Music Trust 2009) viii,128 p. inc. music | MuzF-Fid:And

Musical Forms--Folksong

The ballad minstrelsy of Scotland: romantic and historical / Anon. (Maurice Ogle 1871) 656 p. | MuzF-Fol:Ano

A century of ballads 1810-1910: their composers and singers / Harold Simpson (Mills & Boon 1910) 349 p. illus. | MuzF-Fol:Sim

The English folksinger: 159 modern and traditional folksongs / Sam Richards & Tish Stubbs (Collins 1979) 224 p. | MuzF-Fol:Ric

The Scottish folksinger: 118 modern and traditional folksongs / Norman Buchan & Peter Hall (Collins 1978) 159 p. | MuzF-Fol:Buc

Sea songs and shanties / W B Whall (Jas. Brown 5th ed. 1926) 122 p. 5.ed (illus.) | MuzF-Fol:Wha

Sea songs and shanties / W B Whall (Brown Son & Ferguson 6th ed. 1927) 154 p. enlarg. & illus. | MuzF-Fol:Wha

Musical Forms--Fugue

The examination fugue / William Lovelock (Hammond n.d.) 125 p. illus. | MuzF-Fug:Lov

The technique and spirit of fugue: an historical study / George Oldroyd (OUP 1948) vii,220 p. mus. illus. | MuzF-Fug:Old

Musical Forms--Hymns

English hymns and hymn writers / Adam Fox (Collins 1947) 48 p. illus. 8 col. pl. | MuzF-Hym:Fox

Musical Forms--Instrumental Music

Baroque instrumental music 1: people instruments and the continuo / A304 Course Team Open University (Open University 1974) 128 p. (The development of instruments and their music, Units 4-6) | MuzF-Ins:Ope(1)

Baroque instrumental music 2: suite sonata and concerto / A304 Course Team Open University (Open University 1974) 157 p. (The development of instruments and their music, Units 7-9) | MuzF-Ins:Ope(2)

Baroque instrumental music [scores]: / A304 Course Team Open University (Open University 1974) 2v. 48,31 p. mus. (The development of instruments and their music, Units 10-11) | MuzF-Ins:Ope(sc)

Form in music: with special reference to the designs of instrumental music / Stewart Macpherson (Joseph WIlliams 1930) xii+279 p. | MuzF-Ins:Mac

Musical Forms--Jazz

The book of jazz: a guide to the entire field / Leonard Feather (Arthur Baker 1957) 280 p. | MuzF-Jaz:Fea

Jazz / Rex Harris (Penguin 5th ed. 1957) 272 p. | MuzF-Jaz:Har

Why no Beethoven?: the diary of a vagrant musician / Humphrey Lyttelton (Robson Books 1984) 176 p. | MuzF-Jaz:Lyt

Musical Forms--Keyboard Music

Brahms piano music / Denis Matthews (BBC Music Guides 1978) 76 p. | MuzF-Key:Mat

A companion to Beethoven's pianoforte sonatas: complete analyses / Donald Francis Tovey (ABRSM c.1950) xiv+301 p. | MuzF-Key:Tov

From Classical to Romantic keyboard music / A304 Course Team Open University (Open University 1974) 185 p. (The development of instruments and their music, Units 20-22) | MuzF-Key:Ope

Keyboard music / Denis Matthews (Penguin 1972) 386 p. illus. | MuzF-Key:Mat

Piano (Yehudi Menuhin Music Guides) / Louis Kentner (Macdonald 1976) xi+204 p. illus.+ 4 pl. | MuzF-Key:Ken

The sources of keyboard music in England / Charles van den Borren (Novello/OUP c.1913) vii+378 p. | MuzF-Key:Bor

Musical Forms--Light Opera

The Gilbert & Sullivan Book / Leslie Baily (Cassell 1952) xiv+443 p. 10 col. plates+ 400 illus. | MuzF-LOp:Bai

The story of the Mikado: illus. Alice B. Woodward / W S Gilbert (Daniel O'Connor 1921) 115 p. 6 col. illus.+ 10 b&w. | MuzF-LOp:Gil

Musical Forms--Musique concrète

Composing with tape recorders: musique concrète for beginners / Terence Dwyer (OUP 1971) iv,74 p. 4 pl. | MuzF-Mus:Dwy

Musical Forms--Opera

Come to the opera / Stephen Williams (Arrow 1958) 351 p. mus. illus. | MuzF-Op:Wil

The complete operas of Strauss: a critical guide / Charles Osborne (Grange Books 1995) 252 p. | MuzF-Op:Osb

Czechoslovak opera: a brief outline / Pavel Eckstein (Theatre Institute, Prague 1964) 115 p. illus., 16 pl. | MuzF-Op:Eck

Going to the opera / Lionel Salter (Penguin 1958) 189 p. 16 pl. | MuzF-Op:Sal

Handel and the Opera Seria / Winton Dean (Univ. California Press 1969) xi,220 p. illus. | MuzF-Op:Dea

How to be tremendously tuned in to opera / E. O. Parrott (Penguin 1990) ix,230 p. | MuzF-Op:Par

Jenufa Katya Kabanova (Opera guide 33, Leos Janácek) / Eduard Mörike (ENO / John Calder 1985) 128 p. | MuzF-Op:Mör

The Joan Sutherland album / Joan Sutherland comp. Richard Bonynge (Craftsman House 1986) 191 p. | MuzF-Op:Sut

Kobbé's complete opera book / Gustave Kobbé ed. Earl of Harewood (Bodley Head 1987) xvii,1404 p. 10th ed., rev., 32 pl. | MuzF-Op:Kob

Lucia di Lammermoor - Gaetano Donizetti: [synopsis and opera guide] / Eduard Mörike (Scottish Opera 2007) 54 p. | MuzF-Op:Mör

Madama Butterfly - Giacomo Puccini: [synopsis and opera guide] / Eduard Mörike (Scottish Opera 2007) 54 p. | MuzF-Op:Mör

The Magic Flute = Die Zauberflöte (Opera guide 3, W. A. Mozart) / Eduard Mörike (ENO / John Calder 1983) 128 p. | MuzF-Op:Mör

The marriage of Figaro = Le nozze di Figaro (Opera guide 17, W. A. Mozart) / Eduard Mörike (ENO / John Calder 1983) 128 p. | MuzF-Op:Mör

The mastersingers of Nuremberg = Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (Opera guide 19, Richard Wagner) / Eduard Mörike (ENO / John Calder 1983) 128 p. | MuzF-Op:Mör

More opera nights / Ernest Newman (Putnam 1954) ix,708 p. | MuzF-Op:New

Mozart's operas: a critical study / Edward J. Dent (OUP 2nd ed. 1960) xii,276 p. mus. illus., 16 pl. | MuzF-Op:Den

The music dramas of Richard Wagner and his Festival Theatre in Bayreuth / Albert Lavignac (Dodd, Mead 1903) ix,511 p. illus., diag. | MuzF-Op:Lav

Nights at the opera: Wagner / Wakeling Dry (Foulis 1924) vi,234 p. | MuzF-Op:Dry

Nights at the opera: the stories of 15 popular operas discussed / Barbara McFadyean & Spike Hughes (Pilot Press 1948) 410 p. | MuzF-Op:McF

Opera and church music 1630-1750 (The New Oxford History of Music, 5) / Anthony Lewis ed. Nigel Fortune (OUP 1975) xxii,869 p. | MuzF-Op:Lew

Opera annual no. 7 / Harold Rosenthal (John Calder 1960) 218 p. illus. | MuzF-Op:Ros(7)

Opera at home / Gramophone Co. (Gramophone Co. 1921) 392 p. rev. ed. illus. | MuzF-Op:Gra

Opera guide / Gerhart von Westermann ed. Harold Rosenthal (Sphere Books 1968) 580 p. | MuzF-Op:Wes

Opera nights / Ernest Newman (Putnam 1943) x,629 p. illus. | MuzF-Op:New

Operamania / Robin May (Vernon & Yates 1967) 96 p. illus. | MuzF-Op:May

The Pan book of opera / Arthur Jacobs & Stanley Sadie (Pan Books 1969) 492 p. | MuzF-Op:Jac

The Ring: anatomy of an opera / Stephen Fay & Roger Wood (Secker & Warburg 1984) vi,218 p. illus.+32 col. pl. | MuzF-Op:Fay

Royal Opera House retrospective, 1732-1982: 250 years of actors, singers, dancers, [etc] ... seen through the eyes of the artist / Geoffrey Ashton & Iain Mackintosh (Royal Academy 1982) 144 p. | MuzF-Op:Ash

Scottish Opera: the first ten years / Conrad Wilson (Collins 1972) 168 p. 14 col. pl. | MuzF-Op:Wil

Stories of the great operas / Milton Cross (Pocket Books 1956) 482 p. | MuzF-Op:Cro

The stories of Wagner's operas / J. Walker McSpadden (Harrap 1932) xv,282 p. 16 col. pl. | MuzF-Op:McS

Tristan and Isolde (Opera guide 6, Richard Wagner) / Eduard Mörike (ENO / John Calder 1983) 96 p. | MuzF-Op:Mör

Wagner opera / Audrey Williamson (John Calder 1962) 192 p. | MuzF-Op:Wil

Wagner's Ring of the Nibelung: a companion / Stewart Spencer ed. Barry Millington (Thames & Hudson 2000) 384 p. German text with English translation and commentaries | MuzF-Op:Spe

Musical Forms--Organ Music

The Baroque organ; and Bach organ music [scores] / A304 Course Team Open University (Open University 1974) 22 p. mus. (The development of instruments and their music, Unit 3) | MuzF-Org:Ope(sc)

The Chorale preludes of J. S. Bach: a handbook / Stainton de B. Taylor (OUP 1942) x,126 p. | MuzF-Org:Tay

A directory of composers for the organ / John Henderson (John Henderson 1999) 789 p. | MuzF-Org:Hen

Musical Forms--Sonata

Beethoven: notes on the sonatas / Frederic Lamond (n.p. n.d.) 14 p. | MuzF-Son:Lam

A companion to Beethoven's pianoforte sonatas: bar-to-bar analysis / Donald Francis Tovey (Associated Board 1931) xiv,284 p. mus. illus., 1pl. | MuzF-Son:Tov

Musical Forms--Song

Choir / Gareth Malone (Collins 2012) xii,308 p. | MuzF-Sng:Mal

Essays in musical analysis vol. 4: vocal music / Donald Francis Tovey (OUP 1936) viii,176 p. | MuzF-Sng:Tov(4)

Essays in musical analysis vol. 5: vocal music / Donald Francis Tovey (OUP 1937) vi,256 p. | MuzF-Sng:Tov(5)

Essays in musical analysis vol. 6: vocal music / Donald Francis Tovey (OUP 1939) vii,188 p. | MuzF-Sng:Tov(6)

The golden treasury [of songs and lyrical poems in the English language]: with a supplementary fifth book sel. etc. by Laurence Binyon / Francis T Palgrave comp. Laurence Binyon (Macmillan 1939) 524 p. | MuzF-Sng:Pal

Interpretation in song / Harry Plunket Greene (Macmiillan 1919) xii,323 p. illus. | MuzF-Sng:Gre

More than singing: the interpretation of songs / Lotte Lehmann (Boosey & Hawkes 1945) 192 p. | MuzF-Sng:Leh

Schubert songs / Maurice J. E. Brown (BBC Music Guides 1977) 64 p. | MuzF-Sng:Bro

Songs of the Ages: the growth of song through the centuries illustrated by examples / Ralph Dunstan & C E Bygott (Schofield & Sims 1962) xii+233 p. mus. illus. | MuzF-Sng:Dun

Songs of the Ages - words and airs / Ralph Dunstan & C E Bygott (Schofield & Sims 1962) viii+113 p. mus. . | MuzF-Sng:Dun

Songs that never die: ... the most famous words and melodies enriched with ... historical-biographical sketches / Henry Frederic Reddall (J.H. Moore c.1910) 615 p. illus. | MuzF-Sng:Red

Voice (Yehudi Menuhin Music Guides) / (Sir) Keith Falkner (Macdonald 1983) x+310 p. | MuzF-Sng:Fal

Musical Forms--String Quartet

The rise of the string quartet / A304 Course Team Open University (Open University 1974) 47 p. (The development of instruments and their music Unit 18} | MuzF-StrQ:Ope(1)

The rise of the string quartet [scores] / A304 Course Team Open University (Open University 1974) 24 p. [mus.] The development of instruments and their music Unit 19) | MuzF-StrQ:Ope(sc)

Musical Forms--Symphony

Carl Nielsen, symphonist / Robert Simpson (Kahn & Averill 1986) 260 p. illus. | MuzF-Sym:Sim

Essays in musical analysis vol. 1: symphonies / Donald Francis Tovey (OUP 1935) viii,223 p. | MuzF-Sym:Tov(1)

Essays in musical analysis vol. 2: symphonies (II), variations and orchestral polyphony / Donald Francis Tovey (OUP 1935) xiv,212 p. | MuzF-Sym:Tov(2)

The rise of the symphony 1 / A304 Course Team Open University (Open University 1974) 86 p. (The development of instruments and their music Units 12-13) | MuzF-Sym:Ope(1)

The rise of the symphony 1 [scores A & B] / A304 Course Team Open University (Open University 1974) 2v. 40,40 p. mus. (The development of instruments and their music, Units 14A,B) | MuzF-Sym:Ope(sc1)

The rise of the symphony 2 / A304 Course Team Open University (Open University 1974) 103 p. (The development of instruments and their music, Units 15-16) | MuzF-Sym:Ope(2)

The rise of the symphony 2 [scores A & B] / A304 Course Team Open University (Open University 1974) 2v. 30,30 p. mus. (The development of instruments and their music, Units 17A,B) | MuzF-Sym:Ope(sc2)

The symphony / Ralph Hill (Penguin 1949) 416 p. illus. | MuzF-Sym:Hil

The symphony, vol. 2: Elgar to the present day / Robert Simpson (Penguin 1967) 282 p. | MuzF-Sym:Sim

Talking about symphonies: an analytical study ... Haydn to the present day / Anthony Hopkins (Heinemann 1961) 157 p. | MuzF-Sym:Hop

Musical Instruments-- Early

Bach's orchestra / Charles Sanford Terry (OUP 1961) xix,250 p. | MuzIns- E:Ter

The Russell Collection and other early keyboard instruments in St Cecilia's Hall Edinburgh / Sidney Newman comp. Peter Williams (Edinburgh Univ Press 1968) 79 p. illus. | MuzIns- E:New

Musical Instruments-- General

An exhibition of European musical instruments: Galpin Society 21st anniversary exhibition / Graham Melville-Mason (The Society 1968) 100 p. illus.+40 pl. | MuzIns:Mel

The instruments of music / Robert Donington (Methuen 3rd ed. 1970) xxvi,262 p. 37 pl. | MuzIns:Don

Musical instruments: from the Renaissance to the 19th century / Sergio Paganelli (Hamlyn 1970) 157 p. illus. | MuzIns:Pag

Musical instruments through the ages / Anthony Baines (Penguin Books 1961) 383 p. illus.+ 32 pl. | MuzIns:Bai

Orchestration / Cecil Forsyth (Macmillan 1955) ix,530 p. illus. | MuzIns:For

Musical Instruments--Clarinet

Clarinet (Yehudi Menuhin Music Guides) / Jack Brymer (Macdonald and Jane's 1979) xii+259 p. illus.+ 8 pl. | MuzIns-Cla:Bry

Musical Instruments--Horn

I found my horn: one man's struggle with the orchestra's most difficult instrument / Jasper Rees (Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2008) 294 p. | MuzIns-Hor:Ree

Musical Instruments--Keyboard

The Russell Collection and other early keyboard instruments in St Cecilia's Hall Edinburgh / Sidney Newman comp. Peter Williams (Edinburgh Univ Press 1968) 79 p. illus. | MuzIns-Key:New

Musical Instruments--Oboe

The oboe (Instruments of the orchestra) / Philip Bate (Ernest Benn 1975) xv,236 +pl. p. | MuzIns-Ob:Bat

Musical Instruments--Organ

The organ: [music primer] / John Stainer (Novello, Ewer c.1900) viii,102 p. mus. illus. | MuzIns-Org:Sta

Orgeln und Orgel-Musik: das Bild der Orgellandschaften / Eberhard Kraus (Fr. Pustet 1972) 302 p. 96 b&w pl. | MuzIns-Org:Kra

St Machar's Cathedral, Old Aberdeen, its organ and music / Michael Thomson & David Murray (Friends of StMC 2002) 32 p. | MuzIns-Org:Tho

Musical Instruments--Percussion

Percussion (Yehudi Menuhin Music Guides) / James Holland (Macdonald and Jane's 1978) xii+283 p. illus. | MuzIns-Per:Hol

Musical Instruments--Piano

Guide to the pianist's repertoire: supplement / Maurice Hinson (Indiana UP 1979) xxxiii,413 p. | MuzIns-Pia:Hin

A history of the pianoforte and pianoforte players / Oscar Bie (Dent / Dutton 1899) 336 p. illus., 23pl. trans. & ed.E. E. Kellett & E. W. Naylor | MuzIns-Pia:Bie

Piano (Yehudi Menuhin Music Guides) / Louis Kentner (Macdonald and Jane's 1978) xi+204 p. illus.+ 4 pl. | MuzIns-Pia:Ken

Piano (Yehudi Menuhin Music Guides) / Louis Kentner (Macdonald 1976) xi+204 p. illus.+ 4 pl. | MuzIns-Pia:Ken

Musical Instruments--Recorder

Musical experience through the use of the recorder: a method for the descant and tenor recorder / Malcolm Hey Anderton (Longman 1970) viii+216 p. | MuzIns-Rec:And

Musical Instruments--Saxophone

The art of saxophone playing / Larry Teal (Summy-Birchard 1963) 111 p. | MuzIns-Sax:Tea

Musical Instruments--String

Scottish violin makers: past and present / William C Honeyman (Scotpress 1984) 105 p. Reprinted from the 1910 ed. | MuzIns-Str:Hon

Violin and viola (Yehudi Menuhin Music Guides) / Yehudi Menuhin & William Primrose (Macdonald and Jane's 1978) xiii+250 p. illus.+ 16 pl. | MuzIns-Str:Men

Musical Instruments--Voice

Voice (Yehudi Menuhin Music Guides) / (Sir) Keith Falkner (Macdonald 1983) x+310 p. | MuzIns-Voc:Fal

Musical Technique-- General

Diplomas in music / T. C. L. Pritchard (Dent 1960) xii,112 p. | MuzTe:Pri

The good musician, Book 3: a pupil's course leading to the understanding and enjoyment of music / James Easson & R. C. McCrone (Novello c.1935) 46 p. Fold-out chart showing 'Periods (or Schools) of Musical Composition' | MuzTe:Eas

Musical interpretation: its laws and principles, and their application in teaching and performing / Tobias Matthay (Jos. Williams c.1912) xiv,169 p. | MuzTe:Mat

Voices and instruments / Avril Dankworth (Granada 1973) 119 p. | MuzTe:Dan

What Matthay meant: his musical and technical teachings clearly explained ... / Ambrose Coviello (Bosworth n.d.) 72 p. | MuzTe:Cov

Musical Technique--Composing

Bartók's workshop: documents of the compositional process / László Somfai (MTA ZI, Budapest 1995) 44 p. | MuzTe-Cmp:Som

Compose music (Teach Yourself Books) / King Palmer (Hodder & Stoughton 2nd ed. 1972) viii,276 p. | MuzTe-Cmp:Pal

The elements of orchestration / Gordon Jacob (Herbert Jenkins 1962) 216 p. | MuzTe-Cmp:Jac

The invention and composition of music / Arthur Hutchings (Novello 1958) 309 p. mus. illus. | MuzTe-Cmp:Hut

Musical composition for pleasure / Percy M Young (Hutchinson 1961) 166 p. | MuzTe-Cmp:You

The technique and spirit of fugue: an historical study / George Oldroyd (OUP 1948) vii,220 p. mus. illus. | MuzTe-Cmp:Old

Two Beethoven sketchbooks: a description with musical extracts / Gustav Nottebohm (Gollancz 1979) xi,130 p. | MuzTe-Cmp:Not

Musical Technique--Conducting

Are you beating two or four?: some hints to help you make up your mind / Maurice Miles (Novello 1977) 54 p. | MuzTe-Cnd:Mil

The armchair conductor: how to lead a symphony orchestra in the privacy of your own home / Dan Carlinsky & Ed Goodgold (Titan Books 1994) 94 p. | MuzTe-Cnd:Car

Conductor's world / David Wooldridge (Barrie & Rockliff 1970) xiv,379 p. 16 pl. | MuzTe-Cnd:Woo

A handbook on the technique of conducting / Adrian Boult (Hall 7th ed. 1949) 47 p. 7th ed. rev. & illus., 2 pl. | MuzTe-Cnd:Bou

Musical Technique--Counterpoint

The art of counterpoint / C H Kitson (OUP 2nd ed. 1924) 344 p. | MuzTe-Cou:Kit

Contrapuntal technique in the sixteenth century / R. O.. Morris (Clarendon Press 1922) xii,74 p. with 49 pp. of musical examples | MuzTe-Cou:Mor

Harmony and counterpoint with the Masters: [musical examples] / Paul Steinitz (Novello 1963) 179 p. | MuzTe-Cou:Ste

Harmony, counterpoint and improvisation, Book 1 / B. J. Dale & Gordon Jacob (Novello 1964) [vi],106 p. | MuzTe-Cou:Dal

Musical Technique--Harmony

Harmony and counterpoint with the Masters: [musical examples] / Paul Steinitz (Novello 1963) 179 p. | MuzTe-Har:Ste

Harmony, counterpoint and improvisation, Book 1 / B. J. Dale & Gordon Jacob (Novello 1964) [vi],106 p. | MuzTe-Har:Dal

Melody and harmony Book 2: Elementary harmonic progression / Stewart Macpherson (Joseph Williams 1923) vii+64-178+xxi p. | MuzTe-Har:Mac(2)

Melody and harmony Book 3: Advanced harmony / Stewart Macpherson (Joseph Williams 1923) vii+179-297 p. | MuzTe-Har:Mac(3)

One hundred tunes from the great masters, for harmonization / Paul Steinitz (Novello 1963) 36 p. | MuzTe-Har:Ste

The Oxford harmony, vol. 2 / H. K. Andrews (OUP 1950) 241 p. mus. illus. | MuzTe-Har:And(2)

The Oxford student's harmony, vol.1-2: a practical approach to creative musicianship / Edwin Smith & David Renouf (OUP 1965-6) 2v. 138,172 p. | MuzTe-Har:Smi(1-2)

Practical harmony: a concise treatise with progressive exercises / Stewart Macpherson (Joseph Williams 1907) 162 p. [7th] ed. | MuzTe-Har:Mac

Musical Technique--Interpretation

Casals and the art of interpretation / David Blum (UCLA 1980) xiv,222 p. | MuzTe-Int:Blu

The Gregorian highway code / Schola Gregoriana of Cambridge (Paraclete Press 1981) 4 p. | MuzTe-Int:Sch

Interpretation in song / Harry Plunket Greene (Macmiillan 1919) xii,323 p. illus. | MuzTe-Int:Gre

The interpretation of the music of the XVII and XVIII centuries: revealed by contemporary evidence / Arnold Dolmetsch (Novello/OUP ) x,493 p. | MuzTe-Int:Dol

Musical Technique--Keyboard

Classical music: updated 3rd ed. / Joe Staines (Rough Guides 2001) xiii,610 p. illus. | MuzTe-Kyb:Sta

Commonsense in pianoforte playing / Cuthbert Whitemore (Augener 1926) v,47 p. | MuzTe-Kyb:Whi

First principles of pianoforte playing / Tobias Matthay (Longmans Green 1910) viii+128 p. | MuzTe-Kyb:Mat

Foundations of pianoforte technique: co-ordination exercises / Ambrose Coviello (OUP 1934) 99 p. mus. illus. | MuzTe-Kyb:Cov

Great pianists of our time / Joachim Kaiser (Allen & Unwin 1971) 230 p. illus.,12 pl. | MuzTe-Kyb:Kai

Music sounded out: essays, lectures, interviews, afterthoughts / Alfred Brendel (Robson 1990) 258 p. illus. | MuzTe-Kyb:Bre

On teaching the piano / Hetty Bolton (Novello 1954) 93 p. | MuzTe-Kyb:Bol

Organ playing (The musician's library) / Percy Buck (Macmillan 1929) 102 p. | MuzTe-Kyb:Buc

Organ playing: its technique and expression / A Eaglefield Hull (Augener 1911) viii+263 p. | MuzTe-Kyb:Hul

The Paderewski paradox: [with two essays by I. J. Paderewski / Ronald Stevenson (Klavar Music Foundation 1992) 45 p. | MuzTe-Kyb:Ste

The pianist's talent / Harold Taylor (Kahn & Averill 1994) 112 p. "a new approach to piano playing based on the principles of F. Matthias Alexander and Raymond Thiberge" | MuzTe-Kyb:Tay

The piano (Teach Yourself Books) / King Palmer (Hodder & Stoughton 3rd ed. 1986) 151 p. | MuzTe-Kyb:Pal

Piano (Yehudi Menuhin Music Guides) / Louis Kentner (Macdonald and Jane's 1978) xi+204 p. illus.+ 4 pl. | MuzTe-Kyb:Ken

Piano technique: foundation principles / James Ching (Murdoch, Murdoch 1934) xiii,117 p. | MuzTe-Kyb:Chi

Play it again!: an amateur against the impossible / Alan Rusbridger (Jonathan Cape 2013) 405 p. | MuzTe-Kyb:Rus

Playing a church organ / Marmaduke P Conway (Canterbury Press 1949) 144 p. | MuzTe-Kyb:Con

Scales and arpeggios: for advanced players / H J Taylor (Weekes n.d.) 24 p. | MuzTe-Kyb:Tay

The teacher's guide to Mrs Curwen's pianoforte method: practical course of the elements of music / Annie Jessy (Mrs J Spencer) Curwen (J Curwen & Sons 1914) vii+388+11 p. 17th ed. | MuzTe-Kyb:Cur

The visible and invisible in pianoforte technique: a digest / Tobias Matthay (OUP 1947) xiii,176 p. incl. separately paged Epitome (59 pp.) | MuzTe-Kyb:Mat

The young person's guide to playing the piano / Sidney Harrison (Faber and Faber 2nd ed. 1973) 100 p. 2nd ed. | MuzTe-Kyb:Har

Musical Technique--Melody

Melody writing and analysis / Annie O Warburton (Longman 2nd ed. 1960) xi+188 p. 2nd ed. | MuzTe-Mel:War

Musical Technique--Orchestration

Method in orchestration / Ian Parrott (Dennis Dobson 1957) 85 p. | MuzTe-Orc:Par

Orchestral technique: a manual for students / Gordon Jacob (OUP 2nd ed. 1940) 106 p. 2nd. ed. | MuzTe-Orc:Jac

Musical Technique--Percussion

Percussion (Yehudi Menuhin Music Guides) / James Holland (Macdonald and Jane's 1978) xii+283 p. illus. | MuzTe-Per:Hol

Musical Technique--Strings

A guide to bowing: Strathspeys, reels, pastoral melodies, hornpipes, etc / J Scott Skinner (Hardie Press 1984) 32 p. | MuzTe-Str:Ski

Violin and viola (Yehudi Menuhin Music Guides) / Yehudi Menuhin & William Primrose (Macdonald and Jane's 1978) xiii+250 p. illus.+ 16 pl. | MuzTe-Str:Men

Musical Technique--Strings:Guitar

Guitar / Dan Morgan (Corgi Books 1965) 173 p. | MuzTe-StrG:Mor

Musical Technique--Voice

Choral technique and interpretation / Henry Coward (Novello c.1920) 333 p. | MuzTe-Voc:Cow

How to acquire ease of voice production: the preservation of the voice / Charles Tree (Joseph Williams 1911) 61 p. | MuzTe-Voc:Tre

Infant school singing: a graded course / Hugh Hunter (Bayley & Ferguson c.1950) 38 p. | MuzTe-Voc:Hun

Let us sing correctly (Kodály Choral Method) / Zoltán Kodály (Boosey & Hawkes 1965) 16 p. | MuzTe-Voc:Kod

More than singing: the interpretation of songs / Lotte Lehmann (Boosey & Hawkes 1945) 192 p. | MuzTe-Voc:Leh

The principles of singing: a practical guide for vocalists and teachers / Albert B Bach (William Blackwood 2nd ed. 1895) 305 p. | MuzTe-Voc:Bac

The singer and the voice: vocal technique for singers / Arnold Rose (Faber and Faber 1962) 252 p. | MuzTe-Voc:Ros

66 two-part exercises (Kodály Choral Method) / Zoltán Kodály (Boosey & Hawkes 1964) 48 p. Kod | MuzTe-Voc:Kod

A textbook of vocal training and preparation for song interpretation / Frank Philip (Wm Reeves c.1930) 261 p. | MuzTe-Voc:Phi

Think afresh about the voice: a general theory and guide to practice / Arthur D Hewlett (CMC 3rd ed. 1981) viii+90 p. 3rd ed. | MuzTe-Voc:Hew

Voice production in choral technique / Charles Cleall (Novello rev. & enlarg.1) 155 p. | MuzTe-Voc:Cle

Yes, you can sing / Yvie Burnet (John Blake 2017) xiv,274 p. | MuzTe-Voc:Bur

Musical Technique--Wind Instruments

The art of saxophone playing / Larry Teal (Summy-Birchard 1963) 111 p. | MuzTe-Win:Tea

Clarinet (Yehudi Menuhin Music Guides) / Jack Brymer (Macdonald and Jane's 1979) xii+259 p. illus.+ 8 pl. | MuzTe-Win:Bry

I found my horn: one man's struggle with the orchestra's most difficult instrument / Jasper Rees (Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2008) 294 p. | MuzTe-Win:Ree

Musicians-- General

ISM music journal (Incorporated Society of Musicians): Nov. 1999 onwards / ISM (ISM ) p. MISSING: Mar-Jun '00, Jan-Feb '01, Feb, Dec '04, Sep-Oct '06, Aug '09, Feb-Apr, Jun, Sep/Oct '10 | Pf:ISM

The ISM: the first hundred years: a short history ... in honour of the Centenary in October 1982 / Edmund Bohan (ISM 1982) 80 p. | Pf:Boh

Music and the line of most resistance / Artur Schnabel (Wolke ) 144 p. | Pf:Sch

Music journal (Incorporated Society of Musicians): Nov. 1999 onwards / ISM (ISM ) p. MISSING: Mar-Jun '00, Jan-Feb '01, Feb, Dec '04, Sep-Oct '06, Aug '09, Feb-Apr, Jun, Sep/Oct '10 | Pf:ISM

Music making in the olden days: the story of the Aberdeen concerts 1748-1801 / Henry George Farmer (Peters-Hinrichsen 1950) 122 p. | Pf:Far

Musicians--Choirs

Aberdeen Bach Choir 1956-1985: its origins and history / Alison I Shiel (Aberdeen Bach Choir 1985) 69+9 p. illus. | Pf-Cho:Shi

Aberdeen Bach Choir 1956-1996: its origins and history / Alison I Shiel (Aberdeen Bach Choir 1996) 93 p. illus. | Pf-Cho:Shi(2)

Choir / Gareth Malone (Collins 2012) xii,308 p. | Pf-Cho:Mal

Musicians--Conductors

The armchair conductor: how to lead a symphony orchestra in the privacy of your own home / Dan Carlinsky & Ed Goodgold (Titan Books 1994) 94 p. | Pf-Con:Car

Beecham stories: anecdotes sayings and impressions of Sir Thomas Beecham / Harold Atkins comp. Archie Newman (Futura 1979) 96 p. | Pf-Con:Atk

Conductor's world / David Wooldridge (Barrie & Rockliff 1970) xiv,379 p. 16 pl. | Pf-Con:Woo

Conductors' gallery: biographical sketches ... including notes on leading symphony orchestras ... / Donald Brook (Rockliff 2nd ed. 1946) 188 p. 2nd ed. (illus.) | Pf-Con:Bro

Erich Kleiber: a memoir / John Russell (Andre Deutsch 1957) 256 p. | Pf-Con:Rus

A mingled chime: leaves from an autobiography / (Sir) Thomas Beecham (Hutchinson 1944) 198 p. | Pf-Con:Bee

My life of music / (Sir) Henry J Wood (Victor Gollancz 1946) 384 p. | Pf-Con:Woo

My own trumpet / Adrian Boult (Hamish Hamilton 1973) 213 p. 12 pl. | Pf-Con:Bou

The orchestra speaks: [essays on modern conductors] / Bernard Shore (Longmans Green 1938) 218 p. | Pf-Con:Sho

Simon Rattle: the making of a conductor / Nicholas Kenyon (Faber 1989) viii,246 p. illus. | Pf-Con:Ken

Solti on Solti: a memoir, with assistance from Harvey Sachs / (Sir) Georg Solti & Harvey Sachs (Vintage 1998) xi,276 p. 16 pl. | Pf-Con:Sol

Zubin Mehta: the score of my life / Zubin Mehta (Amadeus 2009) xii,212 p. | Pf-Con:Meh

Musicians--Instrumentalists-- Piano

Am I too loud?: memoirs of an accompanist / Gerald Moore (Hamish Hamilton 1962) 304 p. | Pf-Ins:Moo

Artur Schnabel: a biography / César Saerchinger (Cassell 1957) xxi,354 p. illus., 17pl. | Pf-Ins:Sae

Beyond frontiers: Ashkenazy / Vladimir Ashkenazy & Jasper Parrott (Collins 1984) 239 p. 8 pl. | Pf-Ins:Ash

Facing the music: an autobiography / Joseph Cooper (Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1979) x,213 p. | Pf-Ins:Coo

Farewell recital: further memoirs / Gerald Moore (Penguin Books 1979) 208 p. illus.+ 8 pl. | Pf-Ins:Moo

Great pianists of our time / Joachim Kaiser (Allen & Unwin 1971) 230 p. illus.,12 pl. | Pf-Ins:Kai

Guide to the pianist's repertoire: supplement / Maurice Hinson (Indiana UP 1979) xxxiii,413 p. | Pf-Ins:Hin

A history of the pianoforte and pianoforte players / Oscar Bie (Dent / Dutton 1899) 336 p. illus., 23pl. trans. & ed.E. E. Kellett & E. W. Naylor | Pf-Ins:Bie

Music, wit and wisdom: the autobiography of Artur Schnabel / Artur Schnabel (Wolke 2009) 298 p. | Pf-Ins:Sch

The Paderewski paradox: [with two essays by I. J. Paderewski / Ronald Stevenson (Klavar Music Foundation 1992) 45 p. | Pf-Ins:Ste

Piano man: a life of John Ogdon / Charles Beauclerk (Simon & Schuster 2014) xvi,416 p. | Pf-Ins:Bea

Play it again!: an amateur against the impossible / Alan Rusbridger (Jonathan Cape 2013) 405 p. | Pf-Ins:Rus

The unashamed accompanist / Gerald Moore (Methuen rev. ed. 1959) 101 p. mus. illus. + 7 b&w pl. | Pf-Ins:Moo

Virtuoso: the story of John Ogdon / Brenda Lucas Ogdon & Michael Kerr (Hamish Hamilton 1981) x,293 p. 8 pl. | Pf-Ins:Ogd

Virtuoso: the life and art of Paganini, Liszt, Rubinstein, Paderewski, etc / Harvey Sachs (Thames & Hudson 1982) 208 p. illus., 32 pl. | Pf-Ins:Sac

Musicians--Instrumentalists--Other

Always playing: [reminiscences and ruminations] / Michael Kennedy (Weidenfeld and Nicholson 1991) 154 p. | Pf-Ins-X:Ken

An autobiography / James Galway (Coronet Books 1979) 208 p. | Pf-Ins-X:Gal

Casals and the art of interpretation / David Blum (UCLA 1980) xiv,222 p. | Pf-Ins-X:Blu

The Cromar collection / Paul Anderson (Paul Anderson (privately pub.) 2003) 86 p. inc. 100+ mus. compositions | Pf-Ins-X:And

Good vibrations: my autobiography / Evelyn Glennie (Hutchinson 1990) xii,179 p. 16 b&w pl. NB additional signed copy in Spec Coll | Pf-Ins-X:Gle

The instrumentalist / Harriet Constable (Bloomsbury 2024) ix,324 p. based on the life of violinist Anna Maria della Pietà (c1696-1782) | Pf-Ins-X:Con

Organo pleno / Gordon Reynolds (Novello 1970) 48 p. illus. | Pf-Ins-X:Rey

Unfinished journey / Yehudi Menuhin (Futura 1978) 508 p. illus.+ 16 pl. | Pf-Ins-X:Men

Unfinished journey / Yehudi Menuhin (Macdonald and Janes 1977) xvii,393 p. illus., 16 pl. | Pf-Ins-X:Men

Yehudi Menuhin: unfinished journey: autobiography / Yehudi Menuhin (Macdonald & Jane's 1977) xviii,394 p. illus. (16 b&w pl.) | Pf-Ins-X:Men

Musicians--Orchestras

Bars rest / John Burness (Paterson 1975) 32 p. | Pf-Orc:Bur

Daring to excel: the story of the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain / Ruth Railton (Secker & Warburg 1992) ix,466 p. illus.,24 pl. | Pf-Orc:Rai

Orchestra: [31] interviews by Michael Foss / André Previn ed. Michael Foss (Macdonald and Jane's 1979) 224 p. | Pf-Orc:Pre

The orchestra speaks: [essays on modern conductors] / Bernard Shore (Longmans Green 1938) 218 p. | Pf-Orc:Sho

Stick to the music: scores of orchestral tales / John Boyden (Hutchinson 1984) 117 p. illus. | Pf-Orc:Boy

Musicians--Singers

First night fever: the memoirs of Herman Prey / Herman Prey (John Calder 1986) 288 p. 28 pl. | Pf-Sin:Pre

The Joan Sutherland album / Joan Sutherland comp. Richard Bonynge (Craftsman House 1986) 191 p. | Pf-Sin:Sut

Luciano Pavarotti: my world / Luciano Pavarotti & William Wright (Arrow 1996) xviii,345 p. 8 col., 16 b&w pl. | Pf-Sin:Pav

My heart and I / Diana Napier Tauber (Evans Bros. 1959) 208 p. 16 pl. | Pf-Sin:Tau

My life / Tito Gobbi (Futura 1980) 286 p. | Pf-Sin:Gob

Peter Pears: a biography / Christopher Headington (Faber 1992) xv,351 p. | Pf-Sin:Hea

Plácido Domingo / Cornelius Schnauber (Robson Books 1997) xvi,268 p. | Pf-Sin:Sch

Placido Domingo: my operatic roles / Plácido Domingo & Helena Matheopoulos (Little, Brown 2000) xlvi,290 p. 32pp. of plates | Pf-Sin:Dom

Recital / Elena Gerhardt (Methuen 1953) x,183 p. illus., 8 pl. | Pf-Sin:Ger

Star on the door / Maggie Teyte (Putnam 1958) 192 p. illus., 12 pl. | Pf-Sin:Tey

The teaching of Elisabeth Schumann / Elizabeth Puritz (Methuen 1956) vii,136 p. | Pf-Sin:Pur

Related Topics--Literary & Cultural Sources

Beethoven's hair: an extraordinary historical odyssey and a musical mystery solved / Russell Martin (Bloomsbury 2000) 276 p. | Rel-Lit:Mar

Companion to Congregational praise: with notes on the music by Erik Routley / K. L. Parry & Erik Routley (Independent Press 1953) xli,580 p. | Rel-Lit:Par

Essays on music: an anthology from 'The Listener' / Felix Aprahamian (Cassell 1967) xi,260 p. | Rel-Lit:Apr

Fanfare: fourteen stories on a musical theme [by Carol Shields et al.] / Duncan Minshull ed. Helen Wallace (BBC 1999) 160 p. | Rel-Lit:Min

The golden treasury [of songs and lyrical poems in the English language]: with a supplementary fifth book sel. etc. by Laurence Binyon / Francis T Palgrave comp. Laurence Binyon (Macmillan 1939) 524 p. | Rel-Lit:Pal

The instrumentalist / Harriet Constable (Bloomsbury 2024) ix,324 p. based on the life of violinist Anna Maria della Pietà (c1696-1782) | Rel-Lit:Con

The language of modern music / Donald Mitchell (Faber 1966) 168 p. | Rel-Lit:Mit

Ludwig van Beethoven 1770-1827: [exhibition catalogue] / Joseph Schmidt-Görg (IFR Stuttgart 1970) 120 p. | Rel-Lit:Sch

Die Lyrik des Mittelalters: eine Einführung / Peter Dronke (C H Beck 1968) xi+297 p. | Rel-Lit:Dro

Mozart's journey to Prague [fiction] / Eduard Mörike (Penguin 2006) 91 p. | Rel-Lit:Mör

Music and the line of most resistance / Artur Schnabel (Wolke ) 144 p. | Rel-Lit:Sch

Music in Western civilization / Paul Henry Lang (Norton 1941) xxii,1107 p. 16 pl., 3 maps | Rel-Lit:Lan

The music lover's literary companion / Dannie Abse comp Joan Abse (Robson Books 1988) 330 p. | Rel-Lit:Abs

The Ninth: Beethoven and the world in 1824 / Harvey Sachs (Faber 2010) 225 p. illus. | Rel-Lit:Sac

Royal Opera House retrospective, 1732-1982: 250 years of actors, singers, dancers, [etc] ... seen through the eyes of the artist / Geoffrey Ashton & Iain Mackintosh (Royal Academy 1982) 144 p. | Rel-Lit:Ash

Songs that never die: ... the most famous words and melodies enriched with ... historical-biographical sketches / Henry Frederic Reddall (J.H. Moore c.1910) 615 p. illus. | Rel-Lit:Red

The story of the Mikado: illus. Alice B. Woodward / W S Gilbert (Daniel O'Connor 1921) 115 p. 6 col. illus.+ 10 b&w. | Rel-Lit:Gil

Untersuchungen zur italienischen Literatur- und Kulturgeschichtsschreibung in der zweiten Hálfte des Settecento / Klaus Dieter Schreiber (Gehlen 1968) 163 p. | Rel-Lit:Sch

Vivaldi and the number 3: and other impossible stories / Ron Butlin (Serpent's Tail 2004) xi,206 p. | Rel-Lit:But

Related Topics--Psychology, Aesthetics

Man, mind and music / Frank Howes (Secker & Warburg 1948) viii,184 p. mus. illus. | Rel-Psy:How

Music and the mind / Anthony Storr (HarperCollins 1993) xii,212 p. | Rel-Psy:Sto

The music of Rosemary Brown / Ian Parrott (Regency Press 1978) 92 p. | Rel-Psy:Par

Piano man: a life of John Ogdon / Charles Beauclerk (Simon & Schuster 2014) xvi,416 p. | Rel-Psy:Bea

Psychology for musicians / Percy Buck (OUP 1944) viii,115 p. mus. illus. | Rel-Psy:Buc

This is your brain on music : understanding a human obsession / Daniel Levitin (Atlantic Books 2007) 322 p. | Rel-Psy:Lev

Related Topics--Sound, Hearing, Physiology

Composing with tape recorders: musique concrète for beginners / Terence Dwyer (OUP 1971) iv,74 p. 4 pl. | Rel-Sou:Dwy

A guide to musical acoustics / Harry Lowery (Dennis Dobson 1956) 94 p. | Rel-Sou:Low

The instruments of music / Robert Donington (Methuen 3rd ed. 1970) xxvi,262 p. 37 pl. | Rel-Sou:Don

Vocal physiology and the teaching of singing / David Slater (J H Larway n.d.) 91 p. | Rel-Sou:Sla

The world of sound: six lectures . . . at the Royal Institution Christmas 1919 / (Sir) William Bragg (G. Bell & Sons 1923) vii+196 p. | Rel-Sou:Bra

 

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