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The Hal Leonard Pocket Music Dictionary (Music Instruction)

Sound Check For The Performing Musician

Living Genres in Late Modernity

Music Resources Online

La música en el cine documental cubano

Beethoven

音乐修辞研究论文集

Composers in the Classroom

This Band Has No Past

The New Broadway Song Companion

Eight Symphonic Masterworks of the Nineteenth Century

Educação musical

Radio Fenomeni

Il gesto impresso

Playing Guitar for Beginners

Wilcopedia

Beni musicali, musica, musicologia

The Nurse in History and Opera

Jethro Tull - Stand Up, Benefit, Aqualung

Early Printed Music and Material Culture in Central and Western Europe

Listen to Soul!

Making Music for Life

Afro-American Radio Directory

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