Composers -- United States -- Biography
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- Schoenberg remembered, diaries and recollections, (1938-76), Dika Newlin
- The musical worlds of Lerner and Loewe, Gene Lees
- King of ragtime, Scott Joplin and his era, Edward A. Berlin
- The farthest north of humanness, letters of Percy Grainger, 1901-1914, edited by Kay Dreyfus
- The roaring silence, John Cage, a life, David Revill
- African rhythms, the autobiography of Randy Weston, composed by Randy Weston ; arranged by Willard Jenkins
- Music is my mistress, by Edward Kennedy Ellington
- I ain't studdin' ya, my American blues story, Bobby Rush ; with Herb Powell
- From spirituals to symphonies, African-American women composers and their music, Helen Walker-Hill
- Father of the blues, an autobiography, by W.C. Handy ; edited by Arna Bontemps ; with a foreword by Abbe Niles
- Famous Americans in history, Barnaby Chesterman
- Begin again, a biography of John Cage, Kenneth Silverman
- Somewhere for me, a biography of Richard Rodgers, Meryle Secrest
- Irving Berlin, American troubadour, Edward Jablonski
- Come and get these memories, the genius of Holland-Dozier-Holland, Motown's incomparable songwriters, Eddie and Brian Holland with Dave Thompson ; [foreword by Barney Ales]
- Stormie, Stormie Omartian
- Fascinating rhythm, the collaboration of George and Ira Gershwin, Deena Rosenberg
- Easily slip into another world, a life in music, Henry Threadgill and Brent Hayes Edwards
- Down in Orburndale, a songwriter's youth in old Florida, Bobby Braddock
- In the Heights, finding home, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Quiara AlegrÃa Hudes, and Jeremy McCarter
- Inventing champagne, the worlds of Lerner and Loewe, Gene Lees
- Wendy Carlos, a biography, Amanda Sewell
- Working with Bernstein, a memoir, Jack Gottlieb
- Paul Bowles, a life, Virginia Spencer Carr
- Schoenberg, why he matters, Harvey Sachs
- Words without music, a memoir, Philip Glass
- Stardust melody, the life and music of Hoagy Carmichael, Richard M. Sudhalter
- Stephen Sondheim, a life, Meryle Secrest
- Gershwin, Edward Jablonski
- Life is what you make it, find your own path to fulfillment, Peter Buffett
- Sondheim, his life, his shows, his legacy, Stephen M. Silverman
- Morton Gould, American salute, by Peter W. Goodman
- To anyone who ever asks, the life, music, and mystery of Connie Converse, Howard Fishman
- The way I was, Marvin Hamlisch with Gerald Gardner
- Swanee Ribber and a biographical sketch of Stephen Collins Foster, by Fletcher Hodges
- They're playing our song, a memoir, Carole Bayer Sager
- George Gershwin, his life and work, Howard Pollack
- Irving Berlin, a life in song, Philip Furia, with the assistance of Graham Wood ; Irving Berlin songography compiled by Ken Bloom
- Lush life, a biography of Billy Strayhorn, David Hajdu
- Finishing the hat, collected lyrics (1954-1981) with attendant comments, principles, heresies, grudges, whines and anecdotes, Stephen Sondheim
- As thousands cheer : the life of Irving Berlin, by Laurence Bergreen
- The memory of all that, the life of George Gershwin, Joan Peyser
- Doo-dah!, Stephen Foster and the rise of American popular culture, Ken Emerson
- Dancing to a black man's tune, a life of Scott Joplin, Susan Curtis
- They all sang my songs, Jack Lawrence ; foreword by Michael Feinstein
- W.C. Handy, the life and times of the man who made the blues, David Robertson
- Deems Taylor, a biography, James A. Pegolotti ; with a foreword by Gerard Schwarz
- Tell it like it is, my story, by Aaron Neville
- Resistance, a songwriter's story of hope, change, and courage, Tori Amos
- The music in George's head, George Gershwin creates Rhapsody in blue, Suzanne Slade ; illustrated by Stacy Innerst
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