Music

Irving Berlin remains a central figure in American music, a lyricist/composer whose songs are loved all over the world. His first piece, `Marie from Sunny Italy', was written in 1907, and his `Alexander's Ragtime Band' attracted more public and media...

The saxophone, today an emblem of "cool" and the definitive jazz instrument, was largely ignored in the U.S. for more than half a century after its invention in France in 1838. The new sound, Vermazen argues, was finally brought to the American...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780994252517Author Lennart SvenssonFormat PaperbackPage Count 198Imprint Manticore PressPublisher Manticore PressWeight(grams) 272g

It has long been acknowledged that Richard Wagner was a virulent anti-Semite, yet the composer has also been characterized as an idealistic revolutionary. In this fascinating book, Paul Lawrence Rose argues that for Wagner, as for many other Germans, the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780951026885Author John HuntFormat PaperbackPage Count 380Imprint Hunt (John)Publisher Hunt (John)Weight(grams) 532g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692890745Author Richard Blake ThomasFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint Deus Crux PublishingPublisher Deus Crux PublishingWeight(grams) 199g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780648032380Author Glen HumphriesFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Last Day of SchoolPublisher Last Day of SchoolWeight(grams) 129g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780759649989Author Edward AnsaraFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint AuthorHousePublisher AuthorHouseWeight(grams) 290g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780759649996Author Edward AnsaraFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint AuthorHousePublisher AuthorHouseWeight(grams) 440g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780825673528Author Kwame DawesFormat PaperbackPage Count 356Imprint Bobcat BooksPublisher Bobcat BooksWeight(grams) 449g

In this book, follow the career of Carrie Underwood as she goes from the American Idol competition to worldwide celebrity. Carrie Underwood: A Biography follows the singer from a small town in Oklahoma to the stages of the most prestigious concert halls...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780473206840Author Professor Michael OwenFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint KahurangiPublisher KahurangiWeight(grams) 150g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780702254093Author Linda NeilFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint University of Queensland PressPublisher University of Queensland PressWeight(grams) 250g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780954575069Author Sean EganFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Askill PublishingPublisher Askill PublishingWeight(grams) 703gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 203mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781478752998Author Dr Ragnar V MoenFormat PaperbackPage Count 134Imprint Outskirts PressPublisher Outskirts PressWeight(grams) 191g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780645436259Author Tony GibbonsFormat HardbackPage Count 386Imprint Rack & Rune PublishingPublisher Rack & Rune PublishingWeight(grams) 203g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578367811Author Steven Vance TaylorFormat PaperbackPage Count 218Imprint Mega Multi-MediaPublisher Mega Multi-MediaWeight(grams) 281g

Three great operas - ""The Marriage of Figaro"", ""Don Giovanni"" and ""Cosi Fan Tutte"" - join the music of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart with the perfectly matched libretti of Lorenzo Da Ponte. Da...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780951026878Author John HuntFormat PaperbackPage Count 308Imprint Hunt (John)Publisher Hunt (John)Weight(grams) 435g

The first full-length study of Bartok's 1911 opera Duke Bluebeard's Castle, this book is an authoritative study of one of the twentieth century's enduring operatic works. It adopts a broad approach to the study of opera by introducing, in addition to the...

A composer of enormous musical innovation and influence, Marc Blitzstein remains one of the most versatile and fascinating figures in the history of American music, his creative works running the gamut from Broadway musicals and film scores to concert...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995279711Author Mark HoldenFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint M. Holden Productions Ltd.Publisher M. Holden Productions Ltd.Weight(grams) 417g

Few Mexican musicians in the twentieth century achieved as much notoriety or had such an international impact as the popular singer and songwriter Agustin Lara (1897-1970). Widely known as "el flaco de oro" ("the Golden Skinny"), this...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780977894505Author Joe EspositoFormat HardbackPage Count 468Imprint TCB JOE PublishingPublisher TCB JOE PublishingWeight(grams) 813g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316339315Author Willie NelsonFormat HardbackPage Count 464Imprint Little, Brown & CompanyPublisher Little, Brown & CompanyWeight(grams) 726g

Qualities of motion and emotion in song come from poetic images, melody, harmony, and voice leading, but they also come from rhythm and metre-the flow and articulation of words and music in time. This book explores rhythm and metre in the...

Tells the intriguing story of Bela Bartok's Viola Concerto, a work left unfinished at his death in 1945. Drawing on interviews and documents that reveal previously unavailable information, it discusses the commission, the reconstruction by Tibor Serly,...

In this vivid portrayal of a giant in American twentieth-century music and criticism, Anthony Tommasini recounts Thomson's experiences as a composer, critic, and gay man. Tommasini chronicles Thomson's upbringing in turn-of-the-century Kansas City, along...

Charlie Parker has been idolized by generations of jazz musicians and fans. Indeed, his spectacular musical abilities-his blinding speed and brilliant improvisational style-made Parker a legend even before his tragic death at age thirty-four. Now, in...

Joel Sachs offers the first complete biography of one of the most influential figures in twentieth-century American music. Henry Cowell, a major musical innovator of the first half of the century, left a rich body of compositions spanning a wide range of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780970388117Author Byron Bernard WilliamsFormat HardbackPage Count 172Imprint Manage Me ProductionsPublisher Manage Me ProductionsWeight(grams) 413g

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780446394314Author John McDermottFormat PaperbackPage Count 402Imprint Little, Brown & CompanyPublisher Little, Brown & CompanyWeight(grams) 544g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780970428097Author Albert LeichterFormat PaperbackPage Count 56Imprint Clocktower PublicationsPublisher Clocktower PublicationsWeight(grams) 132g

Grand Tours is a chronicle of the American visits of five charismatic pianists-Leopold de Meyer, Henri Herz, Sigismund Thalberg, Anton Rubenstein, and Hans von Bulow-during the late nineteenth century. Performing Beethoven and Chopin in gold-rush era...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781593935269Author Ray PallettFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint BearManor MediaPublisher BearManor MediaWeight(grams) 553g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780952582731Author St. John HuntFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Hunt (John)Publisher Hunt (John)Weight(grams) 559g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780952582724Author St. John HuntFormat PaperbackPage Count 246Imprint Hunt (John)Publisher Hunt (John)Weight(grams) 351g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780952582793Author St. John HuntFormat PaperbackPage Count 324Imprint Hunt (John)Publisher Hunt (John)Weight(grams) 456g

Enrique Granados (1867-1916) is one of the most compelling figures of the late-Romantic period in music. During his return voyage to Spain after the premiere of his opera Goyescas at New York's Metropolitan Opera in 1916, a German submarine torpedoed the...