Firefly Books The Music Lover's Diary provides a place to record comments, impressions and lists of albums you're dying to hear. September 1, 1996 by Firefly Books

Rene Clemenicic Nice color and black-and-white illustrations of musical instruments with explanatory essays. Chapters: Introduction, High Renaissance, Mannerism, High Baroque, Rococo, Classicism, Conclusion. January 1, 1973 by Octopus Books

George Melly This single volume includes three famous memoirs - Scouse Mouse, Rum, Bum & Concertina and Owning Up. Scouse Mouse is a funny and frequently touching story of the...

John Rockwell Traces the life and accomplishments of America's greatest popular singer, and also examines Sinatra's career as an actor January 1, 1984 by Random House/Rolling Stone

Spiegel and Grau Decoded is a book like no a collection of lyrics and their meanings that together tell the story of a culture, an art form, a moment in...

Rachel Joyce From the author of the world-wide bestseller, The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, a new novel about learning how to listen and how to feel; and about second chances and...

Carol H Behrman Presents the life of the talented violinist whose bout with polio left him disabled but still determined to pursue his love of music and the violin. January...

Harold C Schonberg The Pulitzer Prize-winning "New York Times" music critic provides anecdotal accounts of the lives and times of thirty-nine musical superstars--from the castrate to Pavarotti and Horowitz October...

John Hersey A saga of a magnificent violin, Antonietta, named after a beautiful woman who was the inspiration of Antonio Stradivari's later years. As Hersey brings Mozart, Berlioz, and Stravinsky...

Oliver Sacks With the same trademark compassion and erudition he brought to The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Oliver Sacks explores the place music occupies in the...

J Randy Taraborrelli Newly updated and published to celebrate Madonna's 50th birthday, this paperback edition covers the last six years in the star's life, including her self-imposed exile from America...

Lisa Wheeler and R Gregory ChristieWith a simple clap of hands, an itty-bitty beboppin' baby gets his whole family singing and dancing. Sister's hands snap. Granny sings scat. Uncle soft-shoes--and...