Music

Francis Poulenc (1899-1963) is widely acknowledged as one of the twentieth century's most significant masters of vocal music-solo, choral and operatic-quite apart from his achievements in instrumental spheres. But what it cost him has been underestimated...

Judy Garland on Judy Garland is the closest we will likely come to experiencing and exploring the legend's abandoned autobiography. Collecting and presenting the most important Garland interviews and encounters that took place between 1935 and 1969, this...

Fletcher Henderson (1897 - 1952) is a major figure in the history of jazz. He led the premier black jazz band of the 1920s and the early 1930s, and wrote the swing arrangements that helped make Benny Goodman the 'King of Swing'. The Uncrowned King of...

EBuck 'Em! The Autobiography of Buck OwensE is the life story of a country music legend. Born in Texas and raised in Arizona Buck eventually found his way to Bakersfield California. Unlike the vast majority of country singers songwriters and...

Declared a "national treasure" by the White House in 1990, John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie was a not only a great musician but also a major innovator in the jazz world. While his first and foremost claim to fame is helping to create the...

A contemporary of Shakespeare and Monteverdi, and a colleague of Galileo and Artemisia Gentileschi at the Medici court, Francesca Caccini was a dominant musical figure there for thirty years. Dazzling listeners with the transformative power of her...

Vic Damone is a lasting legend of American pop music. Befriended by Frank Sinatra and encouraged by legends like Perry Como and Tommy Dorsey, he had one of the greatest voices ever recorded. Now he tells his life story - and what a life it was! A mob...

Komeda: A Private Life in Jazz is the biography of Krzysztof (Trzcinski) Komeda (1931-1969), composer of no fewer than 40 soundtracks, including film scores to all of Roman Polanski's early films such as Knife in the Water and Rosemary's Baby; and...

The female vocalists who pioneered the disco genre in the '70s and early '80s were an extraordinarily talented group who dazzled the world with an exciting blend of elegance, soulful passion and gutsy fire. In this book of original interviews, 32 of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780985556167Author Don CusicFormat PaperbackPage Count 338Imprint Brackish PublishingPublisher Brackish PublishingWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781639362363Author Stephen WalshFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint Pegasus BooksPublisher Pegasus BooksWeight(grams) 590gDimensions(mm) 236mm * 152mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062309921Author Rich KienzleFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Dey Street Books, an imprint of HarperCollins USPublisher HarperCollins Publishers...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998166315Author Ronnie SchneiderFormat HardbackPage Count 490Imprint Clb, Inc.Publisher Clb, Inc.Weight(grams) 1061g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780979811098Author Alan LeedsFormat HardbackPage Count 98Imprint Wax Poetics BooksPublisher Wax Poetics BooksWeight(grams) 581g

The book explores the Hendrix legend from the perspective of the extraordinary year he spent in England recording a string of hit singles and achieving the fame that had escaped him in his native country. The book contains a wealth of interviews and new...

The book explores the Hendrix legend from the perspective of the extraordinary year he spent in England recording a string of hit singles and achieving the fame that had escaped him in his native country. The book contains a wealth of interviews and new...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781641609012Author Bruce ConforthFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Chicago Review PressPublisher Chicago Review PressWeight(grams) 553gDimensions(mm)...

In this book on Richard Wagner's compelling but enigmatic masterpiece Goetterdammerung, the final opera of his monumental Ring tetralogy, Alexander H. Shapiro advances an ambitious new interpretation which uncovers intriguing new facets to the work's...

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...

The first-ever biography of Richard Wagner's artistically gifted granddaughter who fought against Hitler's Germany but achieved no personal success for her troubles. She was not the 'black sheep' of her family, as often claimed, but a heroic rebel...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780953956166Author Patrick PiggottFormat PaperbackPage Count 198Imprint Moonrise Press LtdPublisher Moonrise Press LtdWeight(grams) 298g

I wonder, "Why me? Why have I survived?"' Eric Clapton, Rolling Stone, 1991 The million-selling, Grammy award-winning master of the blues guitar, Eric Clapton still generates the kind of adulation that led fans to graffiti London underground...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781956841183Author Adam RoseFormat HardbackPage Count 26Imprint Tidalwave ProductionsPublisher Tidalwave ProductionsWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 244mm *...

Vivaldi boasted that he could compose a concerto faster that a scribe could copy one. Despite his prolificacy, "The Four Seasons" and the majority of his already published work had fallen into obscurity by the time of his death in poverty in 1741. Most...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307717351Author Judy CollinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 354Imprint Three Rivers Press (CA)Publisher Three Rivers Press (CA)Weight(grams) 322g

Peter Warlock (Philip Heseltine) is one of the most fascinating and enigmatic of twentieth-century British composers. He was by turns a sensitive songwriter of remarkable genius, a witty and caustic critic, a rare scholar of early music, and a friend of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781935247135Author Josef WoodardFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Silman-James Press,U.S.Publisher Silman-James Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 404g

A brand-new look at the life and music of renowned composer Erich Wolfgang KorngoldErich Wolfgang Korngold (1897-1957) was the last compositional prodigy to emerge from the Austro-German tradition of Mozart and Mendelssohn. He was lauded in his youth by...

Bridging the nineteenth- and the twentieth-centuries, the late-Romantic tradition and the beginnings of modernism, Mahler's music is an intimate reflection of his life and thought - and his continual self-questioning on matters of belief and the role of...

As soloist, master class teacher, and pianist of the world-renowned Beaux Arts Trio, Menahem Pressler can boast of four Grammy nominations, three honorary doctorates, more than 80 recordings, and lifetime achievement awards presented by France, Germany,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781684541010Author Steven E MachatFormat PaperbackPage Count 428Imprint Machat Company DBA School of Sacred KnowledgePublisher Machat Company DBA School of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781777274672Author Paul Van GeldropFormat PaperbackPage Count 194Imprint Dwa MediaPublisher Dwa MediaWeight(grams) 254gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 11mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780974977935Author Jake BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Amber Communications Group, Inc.Publisher Amber Communications Group, Inc.Weight(grams)...

Guided by Voices was one of the most popular indie-rock bands of the 1990s. Critics internationally have lauded the band's brain trust, Robert Pollard, as a once-in-a-generation artist. Pollard has been compared by The New York Times to Mozart, Rossini,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780970388124Author Byron Bernard WilliamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 172Imprint Manage Me ProductionsPublisher Manage Me ProductionsWeight(grams)...

Musician, nightlife impresario, record label executive, photographer, and author, Michael Alago takes readers through this amazing journey that is his life. Alago grew up in Brooklyn, New York, in a large, spirited, and devoted Puerto Rican family...

Franz Xaver Niemetschek was born in 1766 in what is now the Czech Republic and came from a musical family, which gave him a deep appreciation and admiration for Mozart's genius. In 1798, he published his biography on Mozart, with a touching dedication to...

The unlikely, rocky relationship between an American country superstar and his straightlaced Canadian manager.Before there was Johnny and June, there was Johnny and Saul. The Man Who Carried Cash chronicles a relationship that was both volatile and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781737450016Author Mark O'ConnorFormat PaperbackPage Count 454Imprint Mark O'Connor Musik InternationalPublisher Mark O'Connor Musik...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525432630Author Stephen WalshFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 201mm *...