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- Cole Porter, a biography, by William McBrien
- Colored lights, forty years of words and music, show biz, collaboration and all that jazz, by John Kander and Fred Ebb as told to Greg Lawrence
- Maurice Ravel, by Gerald Larner
- They all sat down, pianists in profile, by Leonice Thompson Kidd
- 1001 classical recordings you must hear before you die, general editor, Matthew Rye ; preface by Steven Isserlis
- They're playing our song, a memoir, Carole Bayer Sager
- King of ragtime, Scott Joplin and his era, Edward A. Berlin
- Somewhere for me, a biography of Richard Rodgers, Meryle Secrest
- A most remarkable fella, Frank Loesser and the guys and dolls in his life : a portrait by his daughter, Susan Loesser
- Music by Philip Glass, by Philip Glass ; edited and with supplemental material by Robert T. Jones
- Fryderyk Chopin, a life and times, Alan Walker
- Dolly on Dolly, interview and encounters, edited by Randy L. Schmidt
- Love song, the lives of Kurt Weill and Lotte Lenya, Ethan Mordden
- Composers since 1900, a biographical and critical guide, compiled and edited by David Ewen
- Rachmaninoff, composer, pianist, conductor, Barrie Martyn
- Famous father girl, a memoir of growing up Bernstein, Jamie Bernstein
- George Gershwin, his life and work, Howard Pollack
- Walt's time, from before to beyond--, [by Robert B. Sherman and Richard M. Sherman ; edited by Bruce Gordon, David Mumford, Jeff Kurtti]
- Look, I made a hat, collected lyrics (1981-2011) with attendant comments, amplifications, dogmas, harangues, digressions, anecdotes and miscellany, Stephen Sondheim
- Bela Bartok letters., Collected, selected, edited, and annotated by Janos Demeny. Prefaced by Sir Michael Tippett. Translated into English by Peter Balaban and Istvan Farkas. Translation rev. by Elisabeth West and Colin Mason
- The lives of the great composers, Harold C. Schonberg
- George Gershwin, a new biography, by William G. Hyland
- The lives and times of the great composers, Michael Steen
- Sweet dreams and flying machines, the life and music of James Taylor, Mark Ribowsky
- As thousands cheer, the life of Irving Berlin, by Laurence Bergreen
- The only pirate at the party, Lindsey Stirling and Brooke S. Passey
- Sound within sound, radical composers of the twentieth century, Kate Molleson
- Benjamin Britten, by Michael Oliver
- The cake and the rain, Jimmy Webb
- George Frideric Handel, a life with friends, Ellen T. Harris
- Falling up, the days and nights of Carlisle Floyd : the authorized biography, Thomas Holliday ; with a foreword by Plácido Domingo
- Anyone who had a heart, my life and music, Burt Bacharach with Robert Greenfield
- A natural woman, a memoir, Carole King
- Hound dog, the Leiber and Stoller autobiography, Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller with David Ritz
- Noel and Cole, the sophisticates, Stephen Citron
- Arthur Honegger, by Harry Halbreich ; translated by Roger Nichols ; Reinhard G. Pauly, general editor
- Light fantastic, adventures in theatre, by John Lahr
- Music and musicians in early America
- Composers since 1900, a biographical and critical guide, compiled and edited by David Ewen, First supplement
- The piano, Jeremy Siepmann
- Doo-Dah!, Stephen Foster and the rise of American popular culture, Ken Emerson
- The Gershwin years, George and Ira, by Edward Jablonski and Lawrence D. Stewart ; with an introduction by Carl van Vechten
- Stephen Sondheim, a life, Meryle Secrest
- Stravinsky, the second exile : France and America, 1934-1971, Stephen Walsh
- Inventing champagne, the worlds of Lerner and Loewe, Gene Lees
- Handel in London, a genius and his craft, Jane Glover
- Composers, their lives and works
- Kurt Weill, an illustrated life, Jürgen Schebera ; translated by Caroline Murphy
- Words without music, a memoir, Philip Glass
- The indispensable composers, a personal guide, Anthony Tommasini