Music

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781926743295Author Jesse StaniforthFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Invisible PublishingPublisher Invisible Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993181306Author Michael A. O'NeillFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Danann Publishing LimitedPublisher Danann Media Publishing Limited

A captivating memoir from one of jazz's most beloved practitioners, a fascinating tour of a life lived in music and a useful guidebook for aspiring artists everywhere. Years after receiving a fan letter with no return address, Latin jazz legend Paquito...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780618250769Author OrgillFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint Houghton Mifflin (Trade)Publisher Houghton MifflinDimensions(mm) 254mm * 205mm * 3mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781926743400Author The Rt Hon Malcolm FraserFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Invisible PublishingPublisher Invisible Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781771621489Author Grant LawrenceFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Douglas & McIntyrePublisher Douglas & McIntyreDimensions(mm) 228mm * 152mm * 25mm

George Perle takes us into the composer's workshop as he reevaluates what we call 'twentieth-century music' - a term used to refer to new or modern or contemporary music that represents a radical break from the tonal tradition, or 'common practice', of...

This long-awaited, authoritative account of Bartok's compositional processes stresses the composer's position as one of the masters of Western music history and avoids a purely theoretical approach or one that emphasizes him as an enthusiast for...

In these vivid and anecdotal memoirs, Giulio Gatti-Casazza, one of the twentieth century's most successful impresarios, tells of his long reign in two of the world's most famous opera houses: a decade at La Scala in Milan, followed by twenty-seven years...

With a new postscript celebrating forty years of AerosmithFrom the great American band-Steven Tyler, Joe Perry, Tom Hamilton, Brad Whitford, and Joey Kramer-that lived by the motto "Anything worth doing is worth overdoing" comes the story of rock...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385347563Author Graham NashFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Crown PublicationsPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 335gDimensions(mm) 201mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780767927093Author Barney HoskynsFormat PaperbackPage Count 609Imprint Three Rivers Press (CA)Publisher Three Rivers Press (CA)Weight(grams) 476g

Desire-Emile Inghelbrecht was a conductor and composer. His friendship with Claude Debussy began in 1911 (although they had met previously), and he soon became one of the Master's closest friends. This book is the first publication, in the original...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780767923200Author Paul TrynkaFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 202mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451497840Author Dylan JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 576Imprint Crown PublicationsPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 459gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

The first modern biography in English of Russian composer-pianist Anton Rubinstein, this book places Rubinstein within the context of Russian and western European musical culture during the late 19th century, exploring his rise to international fame from...

Zilphia Horton was a pioneer of cultural organizing, an activist and musician who taught people how to use the arts as a tool for social change, and a catalyst for anthems of empowerment such as "We Shall Overcome" and "We Shall Not Be Moved." Her...

Authorised by the Marriott family. Steve Marriott, lead singer of the Small Faces and Humble Pie, had a voice coveted by Bob Dylan, Robert Plant, Roger Daltrey and David Bowie, amongst many others. All or Nothing, Simon Spence's oral history...

Kazuki Tomokawa has lived many lives: poet, self-taught guitarist, actor, day laborer, basketball coach, painter, bicycle race tipster, and incomparable drinker among them. Above all, he is a legend of Japan's avant-folk music scene and his searing...

Forced by a hand injury to abandon a career as a pianist, Robert Schumann went on to become one of the world's great composers. Among many works, his Spring Symphony (1841), Piano Concerto in A Minor (1841/1845), and the Third, or Rhenish, Symphony...

For years, Todd Snider has been one of the most beloved country-folk singers in the United States, compared to Bob Dylan, Tom Petty, John Prine, and dozens of others. He's become not only a new-century Dylan but a modern-day Will Rogers, an everyman...

The Irish composer, Ina Boyle (1889-1967), was born in Enniskerry, Co. Wicklow, where she enjoyed a sheltered childhood as a member of an Anglo-Irish family with roots in the medical, military and diplomatic professions. Her first music teacher was her...

HardcoverAbout the AuthorThomas May writes for numerous music publications, including Opera Now and is author of several books. He is also senior music editor at Amazon.comBook InformationISBN 9781574671322Author Thomas MayFormat HardbackPage Count...

A tour de force of storytelling years in the making: a dual biography of two of the greatest songwriters, Bob Dylan and Woody Guthrie, that is also a murder mystery and a history of labor relations and socialism, big business and greed in...

For fans of Bradley Cooper's film Maestro, an appreciation that gives Bernstein his due as composer as well as conductor Leonard Bernstein stood at the epicenter of twentieth-century American musical life. His creative gifts knew no boundaries as he...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780306834950Author Richard Morton JackFormat HardbackPage Count 576Imprint Hachette BooksPublisher Hachette BooksWeight(grams) 839gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Something to Live For investigates and analyzes the entire oeuvre of Billy Strayhorn. Nearly seventy musical examples, drawn directly from his original autograph scores, provide insight into the development of his style, in his unique and often advanced...

THE "FEARLESS ...VIVID ...FAST-PACED ...AND INSPIRING"* NATIONAL BESTSELLER (*ROLLING STONE) "Heavy metal's leading female rocker (Rolling Stone) bares all, opening up about the Runaways, the glory days of the punk and hard-rock scenes, and the highs...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780786868674Author Rita MarleyFormat HardbackPage Count 209Imprint Hachette BooksPublisher Hachette BooksWeight(grams) 449gDimensions(mm) 242mm * 163mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525566571Author Joseph VogelFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781934170403Author Robert ScottoFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Process MediaPublisher Process MediaWeight(grams) 542g

George Young wasn't so much on the charts for the best part of three decades: he and his musical partner Harry Vanda were the charts. George's journey began with the trailblazing Easybeats and continued, alongside Harry, as producer/songwriter for hire...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781955712149Author Marc ShapiroFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Tidalwave ProductionsPublisher Tidalwave ProductionsWeight(grams) 168gDimensions(mm)...

In this new edition, Harold Schonberg offers music lovers a series of fascinating biographical chapters. Music, the author contends, is a continually evolving art, and all geniuses, unique as they are, were influenced by their predecessors. Schonberg...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905139149Author Marc ShapiroFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Helter Skelter PublishingPublisher Helter Skelter PublishingWeight(grams) 318g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781496718679Author Tupac ShakurFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Kensington PublishingPublisher Kensington Publishing

The beginnings of jazz and the story of Charles ""Buddy"" Bolden (1877- 1931) are inextricably intertwined. Just after the turn of the century, New Orleanians could often hear Bolden's powerful horn from the city's parks and through dance hall windows...

'Idiosyncratic, humorous, enlightening and written by one of the finest conductors alive ... This is the book to buy if you are going to see Wagner or listen to him at home' LITERARY REVIEWOver a distinguished career conducting some of the world's finest...

Many books about Hendrix concentrate on showmanship and rock-and-roll excess but Keith Shadwick's EJimi Hendrix: MusicianE brings to Hendrix's musical legacy as a guitarist singer and composer a depth of analysis missing from other accounts of his...

In the months before she died, Florence Ballard, the spunky teenager who founded the most successful female vocal group in history-the Supremes-told her own side of the story. Recorded on tape, Flo shed light on all areas of her life, including the...