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W. W. Norton & CompanyA History of Western Music
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Cambridge University PressThe Invention of 'Folk Music' and 'Art Music': Emerging Categories from Ossian to Wagner (New Perspectives in Music History and Criticism, Series Number 16)
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Cambridge University PressThe Cambridge History of Music Criticism
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Three Rivers PressHow Music Works
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Basic BooksHow Black Music Took Over the World
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Cambridge University PressBach and the Meanings of Counterpoint (New Perspectives in Music History and Criticism, Series Number 10)
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Cambridge University PressPortrait of a Castrato: Politics, Patronage, and Music in the Life of Atto Melani (New Perspectives in Music History and Criticism, Series Number 19)
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Oxford University Press, USAAssimilate: A Critical History of Industrial Music
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Oxford University Press, USAThe Oxford History of Western Music
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Oxford University Press, USAMusic from the Earliest Notations to the Sixteenth Century: The Oxford History of Western Music
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