Music

Cash on Cash offers unprecedented insight into one of the most significant American cultural figures of the twentieth century. As an interviewee, Cash was an exemplary communicator to an astonishingly broad spectrum of people: always open and articulate,...

From "Over the Rainbow" to "Moon River" and from Al Jolson to Barbra Streisand, The Songs of Hollywood traces the fascinating history of song in film, both in musicals and in dramatic movies such as High Noon. Extremely well-illustrated with 200 film...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486216324Author Professor Albert SchweitzerPage Count 512Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781451606645Author Duff McKaganFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm) 232mm *...

The basic principles of progression and the means by which tonality is established in Bartok's music remain problematical to many theorists. Elliott Antokoletz here demonstrates that the remarkable continuity of style in Bartok's evolution is founded...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780835608756Author Gary TilleryFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Quest Books,U.S.Publisher Quest Books,U.S.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780859653848Author Kurt CobainFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Plexus Publishing LtdPublisher Plexus Publishing Ltd

Devo may have become synonymous with the crass commercialism of 80s new wave, but many of their inspirations and guiding principles are firmly rooted in the idealism of the 60s. They took a willfully non-traditional approach to the surprisingly...

The newest, most updated book on Prince available today-now updated with information about the afterlife of his work following his untimely death.Famously reticent and perennially controversial, Prince was one of the few music superstars who remained,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679737612Author Charles MingusFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 306gDimensions(mm) 202mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781455581092Author Amanda PalmerFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Little, Brown & CompanyPublisher Little, Brown & CompanyWeight(grams)...

Neil Young has had one of the most remarkable careers in the history of music. He hasn't just outlived many of his contemporaries a some of whom were great inspirations for him ( From Hank to Hendrix as one of his own songs says); his artistry lives on...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781883283841Author Daryl ClevelandFormat PaperbackPage Count 306Imprint Brick Tower PressPublisher Brick Tower PressWeight(grams) 446g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999477656Author Phil WoodsFormat HardbackPage Count 252Imprint Cymbal PressPublisher Cymbal PressWeight(grams) 508gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 16mm

Philip Brett's groundbreaking writing on Benjamin Britten altered the course of music scholarship in the later twentieth century. This volume is the first to gather in one collection Brett's searching and provocative work on the great British composer...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781948225397Author Bruce BlackmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 322Imprint Thewordverve IncPublisher Thewordverve IncWeight(grams) 431gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467103091Author Steven ManheimFormat PaperbackPage Count 95Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 235mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316387736Author John FogertyFormat HardbackPage Count 560Imprint Little, Brown & CompanyPublisher Little, Brown & CompanyWeight(grams) 862g

An intimate look at the legendary Frank Sinatra by one of his closest friends.Not many people were allowed inside Frank Sinatra's inner circle. But Tony Consiglio was a boyhood friend of Sinatra's who remained his friend and confidant for over sixty...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062002754Author Zakk WyldeFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 431gDimensions(mm) 226mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781566567336Author Garry StecklesFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Interlink BooksPublisher Interlink Publishing Group, IncWeight(grams) 381g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780759696167Author Shony Alex BraunFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint AuthorHousePublisher AuthorHouseWeight(grams) 327g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061715723Author Robert GreenfieldFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint HarperPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998166322Author Ronnie SchneiderFormat PaperbackPage Count 274Imprint Clb, Inc.Publisher Clb, Inc.Weight(grams) 481g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Street Literature Book Award Medal (Slbam) (Nonfiction) 2006.Book InformationISBN 9780743488044Author 50 CentFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Simon &...

George Gershwin blossomed as an accompanist before his talent as a songwriter opened the way to Broadway where he fashioned his own brand of American music. He composed a run of musical comedies, with his brother Ira as lyricist, and several classical...

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is one of the great icons of Western music. An amazing prodigy-he toured the capitals of Europe while still a child, astonishing royalty and professional musicians with his precocious skills-he wrote as an adult some of the finest...

Meet Christina Aguilera through a thorough and honest portrayal of her life and career and the things that have influenced both. Christina Aguilera appeared on Star Search when she was eight years old and hasn't stopped performing since. Christina...

Jade Visions is the first biography of one of the twentieth century's most influential jazz musicians, bassist Scott LaFaro. Best known for his landmark recordings with Bill Evans, LaFaro played bass a mere seven years before his life and career were...

Hugo Friedhofer: The Best Years of His Life surveys the impressive career of one of Hollywood's extraordinary composers of music for the movies. Friedhofer became the leading orchestrator for Max Steiner, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, and Alfred Newman soon...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781573223591Author Kurt CobainPage Count 304Imprint Riverhead Books,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780951026892Author John HuntFormat PaperbackPage Count 294Imprint Hunt (John)Publisher Hunt (John)Weight(grams) 416g

Gregor Tassie describes Nikolay Myaskovsky as "one of the great enigmas of 20th-century Russian music." Between the two world wars, the symphonies of Myaskovsky enjoyed great popularity and were performed by all major American and European orchestras;...

Bartok's virtuosic Concerto for Orchestra, his opera Duke Bluebeard's Castle, and his Mikrokosmos for solo piano are some of the works by this great Hungarian composer that are admired and performed throughout the Western world. Yet Bela Bartok, the man,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783903228252Author Birgit NilssonFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Verlag fur moderne Kunst GmbHPublisher Verlag fur moderne Kunst GmbHWeight(grams) 820g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780618054749Author Jan SwaffordFormat HardbackPage Count 1104Imprint Houghton MifflinPublisher Houghton Mifflin

Patrick Joseph McCall (1861-1919) was a musician best remembered for his epic ballad of the Insurrection of 1798, `Boolavogue'. His ballads stand as the soundtrack for much of the history of the area, and his life, both in music and through his efforts...

Bob Dylan has had a profound influence on the shape of modern pop music (folk, rock, blues) and as a modern literary figure. He has also attracted enormous attention from both professional and amateur "interpreters". In this book Gilmour offers a...

Bob Dylan has had a profound influence on the shape of modern pop music (folk, rock, blues) and as a modern literary figure. He has also attracted enormous attention from both professional and amateur "interpreters". In this book Gilmour offers a...

Maurice Durufle: The Man and His Music is a new biography of the great French organist and composer (1902-86), and the most comprehensive in any language. James E. Frazier traces Durufle's musical training, his studies with Tournemire and Vierne, and his...