books tagged “music criticism”

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  20 Years of Rolling Stone: What a Long, Strange Trip It's Been
  by Jann S. Wenner
  Hardcover, Friendly Pr, ISBN 0914919105 (0-914919-10-5)
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  31 Songs
  by Nick Hornby
  Hardcover, Viking, ISBN 0670914266 (0-670-91426-6)
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  The Aesthetic Understanding: Essays in the Philosophy of Art and Culture
  by Roger Scruton
  Softcover, St Augustine Pr Inc, ISBN 1890318027 (1-890318-02-7)
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  American Popular Music
  by David Lee Joyner
  Softcover, McGraw-Hill College, ISBN 0697114392 (0-697-11439-2)
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  Another Tear Falls: An Appreciation of Scott Walker
  by Jeremy Reed
  Softcover, Creation Pub Group, ISBN 1871592755 (1-871592-75-5)
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  Arcana: Musicians on Music
  by John Zorn
  Softcover, Distributed Art Pub Inc, ISBN 188712327X (1-887123-27-X)
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  The Attentive Listener: Three Centuries of Music Criticism
  by Harry Haskell
  Hardcover, Princeton Univ Pr, ISBN 0691026416 (0-691-02641-6)
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  Audio Culture: Readings in Modern Music
  by Christoph Cox, Daniel Warner
  Softcover, Continuum Intl Pub Group, ISBN 0826416152 (0-8264-1615-2)
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  Beethoven: His Spiritual Development
  by J. W. N. Sullivan
  Softcover, Kessinger Publishing, LLC, ISBN 0766137988 (0-7661-3798-8)
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  Blues People: Negro Music in White America
  by Imamu Amiri Baraka
  Softcover, Harpercollins, ISBN 068818474X (0-688-18474-X)
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  Chet Baker: His Life and Music
  by Jeroen De Valk, Jerone De Valk
  Softcover, Berkeley Hills Books, ISBN 189316313X (1-893163-13-X)
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  Circumscribing the Open Universe: Essays on John Cage, Morton Feldman, Christian Wolff, Robert Ashley, Alvin Lucier
  by Thomas Delio
  Softcover, Univ Pr of Amer, ISBN 0819137480 (0-8191-3748-0)

  More editions of Circumscribing the Open Universe: Essays on John Cage, Morton Feldman, Christian Wolff, Robert Ashley, Alvin Lucier:

  • Circumscribing the Open Universe: Essays on John Cage, Morton Feldman, Christian Wolff, Robert Ashley, Alvin Lucier: Hardcover, Univ Pr of Amer, ISBN 0819137472 (0-8191-3747-2)
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  Deep in a Dream: The Long Night of Chet Baker
  by James Gavin
  Softcover, Welcome Rain, ISBN 156649284X (1-56649-284-X)
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  The Dustbin of History
  by Greil Marcus
  Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr, ISBN 0674218582 (0-674-21858-2)

  More editions of The Dustbin of History:

  • The Dustbin of History: Hardcover, Harvard Univ Pr, ISBN 0674218574 (0-674-21857-4)
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  Encyclopedia of Jazz
  by Leonard G. Feather
  Hardcover, Horizon Pr, ISBN 081801203X (0-8180-1203-X)
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  Endtroducing...: 33 1/3
  by Eliot Wilder
  Softcover, Continuum Intl Pub Group, ISBN 0826416829 (0-8264-1682-9)
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  Flowers in the Dustbin: The Risk of Rock and Roll, 1947-1977
  by James Miller
  Softcover, Fireside, ISBN 0684865602 (0-684-86560-2)
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  Flyboy in the Buttermilk: Essays on Contemporary America
  by Greg Tate
  Softcover, Simon & Schuster, ISBN 0671729659 (0-671-72965-9)
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  Forever Changes
  by Andrew Hultkrans
  Softcover, Continuum Intl Pub Group, ISBN 0826414931 (0-8264-1493-1)
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  The Frontiers of Meaning: Three Informal Lectures on Music
  by Charles Rosen
  Hardcover, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, ISBN 0809072548 (0-8090-7254-8)
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  Happy Alchemy: On the Pleasures of Music and the Theatre
  by Robertson Davies, Brenda Davies, Jennifer Surridge
  Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada), ISBN 0140275622 (0-14-027562-2)

  More editions of Happy Alchemy: On the Pleasures of Music and the Theatre:

  • Happy Alchemy: On the Pleasures of Music and the Theatre: Hardcover, Penguin USA, ISBN 0670880191 (0-670-88019-1)
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  Happy Alchemy: Writings on the Theatre and Other Lively Arts
  by Robertson Davies, Brenda Davies, Jennifer Surridge
  Hardcover, McClelland & Stewart, ISBN 0771035411 (0-7710-3541-1)
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  I'll Take You There: Pop Music And the Urge for Transcendence
  by Bill Friskics Warren
  Softcover, Continuum Intl Pub Group, ISBN 0826419216 (0-8264-1921-6)

  More editions of I'll Take You There: Pop Music And the Urge for Transcendence:

  • I'll Take You There: Pop Music And the Urge for Transcendence: Hardcover, Continuum Intl Pub Group, ISBN 0826417000 (0-8264-1700-0)
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  In the Fascist Bathroom: Punk in Pop Music, 1977-1992
  by Greil Marcus
  Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr, ISBN 0674445775 (0-674-44577-5)
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  In the Fascist Bathroom: Writings on Punk, 1977-1992
  by Greil Marcus
  Hardcover, Penguin Books, ISBN 0140149406 (0-14-014940-6)
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  The Innocent Eye: On Modern Literature and the Arts the Arts
  Softcover, Distributed Art Pub Inc, ISBN 0878466541 (0-87846-654-1)
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  Invisible Republic : Bob Dylan's Basement Tapes
  by Greil Marcus
  Softcover, Holt & Company, Henry, ISBN 0805058427 (0-8050-5842-7)

  More editions of Invisible Republic : Bob Dylan's Basement Tapes:

  • Invisible Republic : Bob Dylan's Basement Tapes: Hardcover, Holt & Company, Henry, ISBN 0805033939 (0-8050-3393-9)
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  J. S. Bach
  by Albert Schweitzer
  Hardcover, Tfh Pubns Inc, ISBN 0876666128 (0-87666-612-8)
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  Jim Morrison: Life, Death, Legend
  by Stephen Davis
  Softcover, Gotham Books, ISBN 159240099X (1-59240-099-X)

  More editions of Jim Morrison: Life, Death, Legend:

  • Jim Morrison: Life, Death, Legend: Hardcover, Penguin Group USA, ISBN 1592400647 (1-59240-064-7)
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  Last Night's Fun: In and Out of Time With Irish Music
  by Ciaran Carson
  Softcover, North Point Pr, ISBN 0865475318 (0-86547-531-8)

  More editions of Last Night's Fun: In and Out of Time With Irish Music:

  • Last Night's Fun: In and Out of Time With Irish Music: Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux, ISBN 0865475156 (0-86547-515-6)
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  Let It Blurt: The Life and Times of Lester Bangs, America's Greatest Rock Critic
  by Jim Derogatis
  Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group, ISBN 0767905091 (0-7679-0509-1)
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  Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the 20th Century
  by Greil Marcus
  Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr, ISBN 0674535812 (0-674-53581-2)
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  Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the Twentieth Century
  by Greil Marcus
  Hardcover, Harvard Univ Pr, ISBN 0674535804 (0-674-53580-4)
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  The Listener's Guide to Chamber Music
  by Christopher Headington
  Hardcover, Smithmark Pub, ISBN 0871965666 (0-87196-566-6)
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  The Listener's Guide to Great Instrumentalists
  by David Hamilton
  Hardcover, Facts on File, ISBN 0871965682 (0-87196-568-2)
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  Live Through This: American Rock Music in the Nineties
  by Everett True
  Softcover, Virgin Books Limited, ISBN 0753505584 (0-7535-0558-4)
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  Looking for Chet Baker
  by Bill Moody
  Hardcover, St Martins Pr, ISBN 0802733689 (0-8027-3368-9)
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  Main Lines, Blood Feasts, and Bad Taste: A Lester Bangs Reader
  by Lester Bangs
  Softcover, Anchor Books, ISBN 0375713670 (0-375-71367-0)
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  Manchester, England: The Story of the Pop Cult City
  by Dave Haslam
  Hardcover, Fourth Estate, ISBN 1841151459 (1-84115-145-9)
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  Messiah: The Gospel According to Handel's Oratorio
  by Roger A. Bullard
  Softcover, Eerdmans Pub Co, ISBN 0802801250 (0-8028-0125-0)
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  Mingus/Mingus: Two Memoirs
  by Janet Coleman, Al Young, Mingus, Al Mingus Young
  Softcover, Hal Leonard Corp, ISBN 0879101490 (0-87910-149-0)
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  Moment's Notice: Jazz in Poetry & Prose
  by Art Lange, Nathaniel MacKey
  Softcover, Coffee House Pr, ISBN 1566890012 (1-56689-001-2)
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  Mothers
  by Kathleen Hirsch, Katrina Kenison
  Softcover, North Point Pr, ISBN 0865475113 (0-86547-511-3)
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  Murmur
  by JUSTIN NIIMI
  Softcover, Continuum Intl Pub Group, ISBN 0826416721 (0-8264-1672-1)
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  Music in London
  by George Bernard Shaw
  Hardcover, Horizon Pr, ISBN 0844300586 (0-8443-0058-6)
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  The Nearest Far Away Place: Brian Wilson, the Beach Boys, and the Southern California Experience
  by Timothy White
  Softcover, Henry Holt & Co, ISBN 0805047026 (0-8050-4702-6)

  More editions of The Nearest Far Away Place: Brian Wilson, the Beach Boys, and the Southern California Experience:

  • The Nearest Far Away Place: Brian Wilson, the Beach Boys, and the Southern California Experience: Hardcover, Henry Holt & Co, ISBN 080502266X (0-8050-2266-X)
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  Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground 1981-1991
  by Michael Azerrad
  Softcover, Little Brown & Co, ISBN 0316787531 (0-316-78753-1)

  More editions of Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground 1981-1991:

  • Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground 1981-1991: Hardcover, Little Brown & Co, ISBN 0316063797 (0-316-06379-7)
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  The Piano Shop on the Left Bank: The Hidden World of a Paris Atelier
  by Thaddeus Carhart
  Hardcover, Ulverscroft Large Print Books, ISBN 0753156210 (0-7531-5621-0)
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  Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk
  by Gillian McCain, Legs McNeil
  Hardcover, Grove Pr, ISBN 0802115888 (0-8021-1588-8)
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  Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk
  by Andre Malraux, Gillian McCain
  Softcover, Grove Pr, ISBN 0802142648 (0-8021-4264-8)
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  Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung
  by Lester Bangs, Greil Marcus
  Softcover, Random House Inc, ISBN 0679720456 (0-679-72045-6)
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  Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung : An Anthology
  by Lester Bangs, Greil Marcus
  Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group, ISBN 039453896X (0-394-53896-X)
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  Quasi Una Fantasia: Essays on Modern Music
  by Theodore Adorno
  Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc, ISBN 1859841597 (1-85984-159-7)

  More editions of Quasi Una Fantasia: Essays on Modern Music:

  • Quasi Una Fantasia: Essays on Modern Music: Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc, ISBN 0860916138 (0-86091-613-8)
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  Ranters and Crowd Pleasers: Punk in Pop Music, 1977-1992
  by Greil Marcus
  Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group, ISBN 0385417217 (0-385-41721-7)

  More editions of Ranters and Crowd Pleasers: Punk in Pop Music, 1977-1992:

  • Ranters and Crowd Pleasers: Punk in Pop Music, 1977-1992: Hardcover, Doubleday Publishing, ISBN 0385417209 (0-385-41720-9)
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  The Rough Guide Classical Music
  by Joe Staines, Jonathan Buckley
  Softcover, Rough Guides, ISBN 1858282578 (1-85828-257-8)

  More editions of The Rough Guide Classical Music:

  • The Rough Guide Classical Music: Softcover, Rough Guides, ISBN 1858287219 (1-85828-721-9)
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  The Rough Guide Classical Music: 100 Essential Cds
  by Joe Staines
  Softcover, Rough Guides, ISBN 1858284899 (1-85828-489-9)
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  The Rough Guide To Classical Music
  by Rough Guides, Duncan Clark
  Softcover, Rough Guides, ISBN 1843532476 (1-84353-247-6)
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  Shaw on Music
  by Eric Bentley, Bernard Shaw
  Softcover, Hal Leonard Corp, ISBN 1557831491 (1-55783-149-1)
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  Sonata For Jukebox: An Autobiography of My ears
  by Geoffrey O'Brien
  Softcover, Counterpoint, ISBN 1582433291 (1-58243-329-1)
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  Sonata for Jukebox: Pop Music, Memory, and the Imagined Life
  by Geoffrey O'Brien
  Hardcover, Counterpoint, ISBN 1582431922 (1-58243-192-2)
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  Songbook
  by Nick Hornby
  Softcover, Riverhead Books, ISBN 1573223565 (1-57322-356-5)

  More editions of Songbook:

  • Songbook: Hardcover, McSweeneys Books, ISBN 0971904774 (0-9719047-7-4)
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  Sounding Off!: Music As Subversion/Resistance/Revolution
  by Ron Sakolsky
  Softcover, Autonomedia, ISBN 1570270260 (1-57027-026-0)

  More editions of Sounding Off!: Music As Subversion/Resistance/Revolution:

  • Sounding Off!: Music As Subversion/Resistance/Revolution: Softcover, Autonomedia, ISBN 1570270589 (1-57027-058-9)
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  The Sounds Of Slavery: Discovering African American History Through Songs, Sermons, And Speech
  by Graham J. White, Shane White
  Softcover, Beacon Pr, ISBN 080705027X (0-8070-5027-X)

  More editions of The Sounds Of Slavery: Discovering African American History Through Songs, Sermons, And Speech:

  • The Sounds Of Slavery: Discovering African American History Through Songs, Sermons, And Speech: Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin, ISBN 0807050261 (0-8070-5026-1)
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  Spider Kiss
  by Harlan Ellison
  Softcover, Dh Pr, ISBN 1595820582 (1-59582-058-2)

  More editions of Spider Kiss:

  • Spider Kiss: Hardcover, Simon & Schuster, ISBN 0922890544 (0-922890-54-4)
  • Spider Kiss: Hardcover, Armchair Detective Library, ISBN 0922890552 (0-922890-55-2)
  • Spider Kiss: Hardcover, Armchair Detective Library, ISBN 0922890560 (0-922890-56-0)
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  The Spirituals and the Blues: An Interpretation
  by James H. Cone
  Softcover, Orbis Books, ISBN 0883448432 (0-88344-843-2)

  More editions of The Spirituals and the Blues: An Interpretation:

  • The Spirituals and the Blues: An Interpretation: Softcover, Seabury Press, ISBN 0816420734 (0-8164-2073-4)
  • The Spirituals and the Blues: An Interpretation: Hardcover, Seabury Press, ISBN 0816402361 (0-8164-0236-1)
  • The Spirituals and the Blues: An Interpretation: Hardcover, Orbis Books, ISBN 0883447479 (0-88344-747-9)
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  Undercurrents: The Hidden Wiring of Modern Music
  by Wire
  Softcover, Continuum Intl Pub Group, ISBN 0826464505 (0-8264-6450-5)
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  The Velvet Underground and Nico
  by Joe Harvard
  Softcover, Continuum Intl Pub Group, ISBN 0826415504 (0-8264-1550-4)
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  Viva Mozart: An Anthology of Appreciation
  by George D. Snell
  Softcover, Amadeus Pub Co, ISBN 096216240X (0-9621624-0-X)
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  Wagner
  by Barry Millington
  Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr, ISBN 0691027226 (0-691-02722-6)
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  A Whore Just Like the Rest: The Music Writings of Richard Meltzer
  by Richard Meltzer
  Softcover, Perseus Books, ISBN 0306809532 (0-306-80953-2)
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  Words on Music: From Addison to Barzun
  by Jack Sullivan
  Hardcover, Ohio Univ Pr, ISBN 0821409581 (0-8214-0958-1)
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  Worst Rock-And-Roll Records of All Time: A Fan's Guide to the Stuff You Love to Hate
  by Jimmy Guterman, Owen O'Donnell
  Softcover, Diane Pub Co, ISBN 0756750474 (0-7567-5047-4)

  More editions of Worst Rock-And-Roll Records of All Time: A Fan's Guide to the Stuff You Love to Hate:

  • Worst Rock and Roll Records of All Time : A Fan's Guide to the Stuff You Love to Hate: Softcover, Kensington Publishing Corporation, ISBN 0806512318 (0-8065-1231-8)
  • Worst Rock-And-Roll Records of All Time: A Fan's Guide to the Stuff You Love to Hate: Softcover, Carol Pub Group, ISBN 0806599650 (0-8065-9965-0)
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  Young Chet: The Young Chet Baker
  by William Claxton
  Hardcover, Te Neues Pub Group, ISBN 382389966X (3-8238-9966-X)
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  Young Chet: The Young Chet Baker Photographed By William Claxton
  by William Claxton
  Softcover, Prestel Pub, ISBN 388814860X (3-88814-860-X)

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  All What Jazz
  by Philip Larkin
  Softcover, Paidos Iberica Ediciones S A, ISBN 8449315565 (84-493-1556-5)
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  El estilo clasico/ The Classic Style: Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven
  by Charles Rosen
  Softcover, Alianza Editorial Sa, ISBN 8420685291 (84-206-8529-1)
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  Gdel, Escher, Bach
  by D.R. Hofstadter
  Softcover, Tusquets Editor, ISBN 8472234592 (84-7223-459-2)