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Cricket Songs

Fast Forward Your Guitar Playing

The Bible in Music

Twentieth-Century Countertenor Repertoire

La musicoterapia per un migliore sviluppo cognitivo ed emotivo del bambino

La invención musical

Paul McCartney Up Close

Samuel Wesley (1766–1837): A Source Book

A Descriptive Catalogue of the Musical Manuscript Collection of the National Library of Greece

The Concise Garland Encyclopedia of World Music, Volume 1

The Recorder

Sound Check For The Performing Musician

Phil Collins

Caravan

Wishbone Ash 1970-1982

The Beatles Book

Agli albori del jazz

Van Halen on track

The Symphonic Repertoire, Volume V

Ultravox

The Jam

Complete Guitar Scale Dictionary

Tutti i duetti e i quartetti vocali con pianoforte di Johannes Brahms

Giacomo Puccini