Music

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781569767573Author James GavinFormat PaperbackPage Count 430Imprint Chicago Review PressPublisher Chicago Review PressWeight(grams) 640g

Mangalampalli Balamuralikrishna, the internationally renowned Carnatic vocalist, was a child prodigy and proficient at a number of musical instruments. He was a school dropout, a teenage poet and composer, a restless mind, a versatile musician, a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807014745Author Gustavus StadlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781451613957Author Ace FrehleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint MTV BooksPublisher MTV BooksWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 155mm * 20mm

A portrait of Jim Morrison is based on seven years of research and tells the story behind his musical genius, worship of darkness, rejection of all forms of authority, and tragic death when his life spun out of control. Reissue.Book InformationISBN...

Pat Reid delves into the hushed, dark territory that surrounds one of pop's most enigmatic and compelling figures, addressing the question of Morrissey's sexuality and its effect on his music. Morrisey's only public statement about his sexuality is that...

A vivid picture of the public and private life of a professional musician in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century London. This well-documented life of Samuel Wesley gives a vivid picture of the life of a professional musician in late...

Published for the first time: a rich epistolary dialogue revealing one master teacher's power to shape the cultural canon and one great composer's desire to embed himself within historical narratives. Nadia Boulanger and Igor Stravinsky began...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476714592Author University Joe PerryFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 544g

A new memoir from internationally renowned musician Liona Boyd. Few people's lives are as romantic and adventurous as Liona Boyd's has been. She has performed around the world, sold millions of albums, won five Juno awards, serenaded numerous heads of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780887486630Author Juan Francisco De DiosFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint Carnegie-Mellon University PressPublisher Carnegie-Mellon University...

A colorful, historically accurate biography of William B. Gill, a famous musical-comedy playwright and comedy performer of the late-19th-century who is now mostly forgotten, but who changed the course of American musical theater. Gill began his career as...

Legendary African American jazz bassist and photographer Milt Hinton (1910-2000) tells his compelling life story and illustrates it with more than 260 of his photographs, exquisitely reproduced in this collectors' edition. Hinton's stories - witnessing a...

Based on lengthy interviews with Ellington's bandmates, family, and friends, Duke Ellington and His World offers a fresh look at this legendary composer. The first biography of the composer written by a fellow musician and African-American, the book...

This is the story of Fred Taylor, who since 1960 has been bringing entertainers and audiences together in Boston and New England in nightclubs, concert halls, and festival grounds. As the owner of the legendary Back Bay nightclubs Paul's Mall and the...

Never before have sheet music covers of America's beloved song writer Irving Berlin been presented in a single volume. Over 540 beautiful color photographs display Berlin's sheet music, published by Irving Berlin himself, spanning the years 1907 to 1971...

First published in 1998, Carley collates twelve essays by an international group of contributors reflects the truly cosmopolitan nature of Delius's life and his music. They reveal the manner in which he absorbed the culture of the nations he came to...

Woody Guthrie is the most famous and influential folk music composer and performer in the history of the United States. His most popular song, "This Land is Your Land" has become the country's unofficial national anthem, known to every school child since...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788416420667Author Pauline ButcherFormat HardbackImprint Malpaso EditorialPublisher Malpaso EditorialWeight(grams) 612g

This work is an exposition of the traditions of Japanese blind singers who accompanied themselves on the biwa, and of the complex identity of Yamashika Yoshiyuki (1901-1996), a man widely portrayed as the last such "living relic" of the...

Letters I Never Mailed: Clues to a Life, by Alec Wilder, in a new, annotated edition with introduction and supplementary material by David Demsey, foreword by jazz pianist Marian McPartland, and photographs by Louis Ouzer. Letters I Never Mailed:...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780306825798Author Brian WilsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Da Capo Press IncPublisher Hachette BooksWeight(grams) 336gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm...

First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Book InformationISBN 9781138980136Author Kurt GanzlFormat PaperbackPage Count 252Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis LtdWeight(grams) 458g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781989555323Author Kat GoldmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 170Imprint The Sutherland House Inc.Publisher The Sutherland House Inc.

Up-close and personal views, by the renowned music critic and orchestra administrator, of musical luminaries from Alfred Brendel to Jessye Norman and beyond. Star Turns and Cameo Appearances is the entertaining and insightful memoir by veteran music...

Tyler Merritt's video "Before You Call the Cops" has been viewed millions of times. He's appeared on Jimmy Kimmel and Sports Illustrated and has been profiled in the New York Times. The viral video's main point-the more you know someone, the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993181382Author Michael A. O'NeillFormat HardbackPage Count 112Imprint Danann Publishing LimitedPublisher Danann Media Publishing Limited

Documents the craft of the organbuilder Gerhard Brunzema (1927-1992) in terms of the organs he built and how his instruments and his approach to organbuilding had an influence on music history. Divided into two parts, Part I contains essays by people who...

Based on lengthy interviews with Ellington's bandmates, family, and friends, Duke Ellington and His World offers a fresh look at this legendary composer. The first biography of the composer written by a fellow musician and African-American, the book...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916143302Author Stephen Wyatt-GoldFormat PaperbackImprint REFLEX BOOKSPublisher REFLEX BOOKS

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781948724333Author Richard ElmsFormat PaperbackPage Count 26Imprint Tidalwave ProductionsPublisher Tidalwave ProductionsWeight(grams) 59gDimensions(mm)...

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...

Born in South Carolina, White spent his childhood as a lead boy for traveling blind bluesmen. In the early '30s he moved to New York and became a popular blues star, then introduced folk-blues to a mass white audience in the 1940s. He was famed both for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780912777665Author Carmine AppiceFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Chicago Review PressPublisher Chicago Review PressWeight(grams) 376gDimensions(mm)...

The film Shine tells the story of David Helfgott, a piano prodigy who is victimised by an overbearing father and suffers a crippling mental illness. But was it true? In this biography his older sister, Margaret, tackles these questions to reveal the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316403412Author Mick FleetwoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Back Bay BooksPublisher Little, Brown & CompanyWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 208mm...

A virtual album of BeBe Winans' treasured memories of his friend and "sister," Whitney Houston. In the years between the first time BeBe Winans and Whitney Houston met in 1985, to the day he delivered the tribute that touched a watching nation at...

This is the first book-length examination of Bartok's 1911 opera Duke Bluebeard's Castle, one of the twentieth century's enduring operatic works. Writing in an engaging style, Leafstedt adopts an interdisciplinary approach to the opera by introducing, in...

This biography offeres a fresh understanding of the life and work of Spanish composer Manuel de Falla (1876 - 1946), recognised as the greatest composer in the Spanish cultural renaissance that extended from the latter part of the nineteenth century...

Willie Nelson is more than just a singer whose albums have captures this country's imagination for more than thirty years: he is the nearest thing we have to the poet laureate of America's heart and the heartland. Told with frankness, warmth and earthy...