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The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.10 — 15,776 ratings — published 2007
Rolling Stone Album Guide: All New Reviews (The Definitive Guide to the Best of Rock, Pop, Rap, Jazz, Blues, Country, Soul, Folk & Gospel)
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avg rating 3.89 — 349 ratings — published 1992
A History of Western Music (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.98 — 2,773 ratings — published 1960
Jazz: The Rough Guide (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.02 — 80 ratings — published 1995
Listen to This (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.95 — 2,915 ratings — published 2010
Theory of Harmony (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.30 — 640 ratings — published 1978
The History of Jazz (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.08 — 5,519 ratings — published 1997
Spin Alternative Record Guide (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.16 — 127 ratings — published 1995
World Music: The Rough Guide (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.28 — 47 ratings — published 1994
Rock Encyclopedia (softcover)
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avg rating 4.34 — 68 ratings — published 1969
All Time Top 1000 Albums (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.78 — 46 ratings — published 1994
Fundamentals of Musical Composition (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.16 — 344 ratings — published 1967
A Night at the Opera: An Irreverent Guide to The Plots, The Singers, The Composers, The Recordings (Modern Library (Paperback))
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avg rating 4.24 — 184 ratings — published 1995
Wagnerism: Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.18 — 1,227 ratings — published 2020
The New Trouser Press Record Guide (Revised Edition)
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avg rating 4.41 — 75 ratings — published
The Rough Guide to Rock (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.20 — 40 ratings — published 1999
Classic Jazz: The Musicians and Recordings That Shaped Jazz, 1895-1933 (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.67 — 9 ratings — published 2001
The Rolling Stone Record Guide (Reviews And Ratings Of Almost 10,000 Currently Available Rock, Pop, Soul, Country, Blues, Jazz, And Gospel Albums)
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avg rating 4.07 — 112 ratings — published 1979
The Rough Guide to Classical Music (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.18 — 134 ratings — published 1998
The Enjoyment of Music: An Introduction to Perceptive Listening (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.69 — 311 ratings — published 1955
Soundings: Music in the Twentieth Century (Perfect Paperback)
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avg rating 4.08 — 26 ratings — published 1988
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.45 — 496 ratings — published 1992
The Classical Style: Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.23 — 1,497 ratings — published 1971
1,000 Recordings to Hear Before You Die (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.02 — 1,125 ratings — published 2008
Japrocksampler: How the Post-war Japanese Blew Their Minds on Rock 'n' Roll (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.94 — 720 ratings — published 2007
Writing Better Lyrics (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.22 — 1,374 ratings — published 1995
The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.54 — 190 ratings — published 1985
The New Rolling Stone Record Guide (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.15 — 46 ratings — published 1983
The Billboard Book of Number One Hits (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.34 — 102 ratings — published 1985
The New Rolling Stone Album Guide (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.09 — 98 ratings — published 2004
"Galactic Ramble" (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.33 — 24 ratings — published 2009
The Acid Archives (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.72 — 72 ratings — published 2006
Revolution in the Head: The Beatles Records and the Sixties (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.25 — 5,758 ratings — published 1994
1001 Classical Recordings You Must Hear Before You Die (1001 before you die)
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avg rating 4.12 — 120 ratings — published 2007
The New Book of Rock Lists (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.83 — 93 ratings — published 1994
Christgau's Consumer Guide: Albums of the '90s (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.93 — 109 ratings — published 2000
Christgau's Record Guide: The '80s (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.29 — 142 ratings — published 1990
Rock Albums of the '70s: A Critical Guide (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.37 — 199 ratings — published 1981
Joel Whitburn's Pop Memories 1890-1954: The History of American Popular Music (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.62 — 21 ratings — published 1986
Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.19 — 36,276 ratings — published 1996
The Essential Canon of Classical Music (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.19 — 153 ratings — published 2001
The Symphony: A Listener's Guide (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.18 — 97 ratings — published 1995
How Music Works (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.01 — 27,859 ratings — published 2014
The New York Times Essential Library- Jazz: A Critic's Guide to the 100 Most Important Recordings (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.74 — 100 ratings — published 2002
How Equal Temperament Ruined Harmony (And Why You Should Care)
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avg rating 3.91 — 548 ratings — published 2006
Schwann Opus (Winter 1997-1998; Volume 9, Number 1)
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avg rating 3.50 — 2 ratings — published 1997
Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground 1981-1991 (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.21 — 17,693 ratings — published 2001
Dreams, Fantasies and Nightmares from Far Away Lands Revisited (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.00 — 9 ratings — published 2009
All Music Guide to Rock: The Definitive Guide to Rock, Pop, and Soul (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.35 — 78 ratings — published 2002
Sonata Forms (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.37 — 167 ratings — published 1980
