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Bill is Currently Reading

Introduction to M...

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Introduction to Music: A Guide to Good Listening (Barnes & Noble Outline Series; 109)

by Hugh Milton Miller

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A History of West...

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A History of Western Music

by J. Peter Burkholder

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The Analyst, Or, ...

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The Analyst, Or, A Discourse Addressed To An Infidel Mathematician: Wherein It Is Examined Whether The Object, Principles, And Inferences Of The Modern Analysis Are More Distinctly Conceived, Or More Evidently Deduced, Than Religious Mysteries And Poin...

by George Berkeley

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