Music

Although together for only five years The Yardbirds exerted tremendous influence on the music and style of the '60s and for decades beyond. Their impact has been felt throughout the rock genre from psychedelia to blues-rock heavy metal and the music...

Core Classics is a collection of seven books of music from the piano canon, selected and graded by leading educationalists. Each volume contains a rich selection of engaging pieces to form the backbone of any pianist's repertoire. With pieces from...

'I was saying things in songs that female singers didn't really say back then. I wasn't submissive or begging him to come back, I was kicking his ass, kicking him out, kicking my own ass too. My Blondie character was an inflatable doll but...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911267607Author Serkan SuerFormat PaperbackPage Count 90Imprint www.fundamental-changes.comPublisher Fundamental Changes Ltd

Bound for Glory is the funny, cynical and earthy autobiography of Woody Guthrie, the father of American folk music. He tells of his childhood running wild in an Oklahoma oil-boom town, the tragedies that struck his family and of his life on the open road...

This book contains nine pieces from ABRSM's Grade 8 Violin syllabus from 2024, three pieces chosen from each of Lists A, B and C - ideal for both Practical and Performance Grade exams. The pieces have been carefully selected to offer an attractive and...

Hamilton Easy Piano Selections presents music from the critically acclaimed musical about Alexander Hamilton. The show debuted on Broadway in August 2015 to unprecedented advanced box office sales and has already become one of the most successful...

Radiohead Complete is the definitive collection of Radiohead songs, including every song ever released by the British rock band (at time of publication). This artist-approved 368-page book contains 154 songs, including B-sides and rarities, all with...

Jazz on a Winter's Night is a Christmas piano album of stylish, swinging arrangements. Favourite Christmas carols and songs receive the complete jazz treatment, with rhythm, harmony, grooves, and solos all carefully notated. The expertise of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781735969237Author Terry CarterFormat PaperbackPage Count 50Imprint Blinky PublishingPublisher Blinky Publishing

In this, the first book to take a big-picture view of the entire post punk period, acclaimed author and music journalist Simon Reynolds recreates a time of tremendous urgency and idealism in pop music. Full of anecdote and insight, and featuring the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781785585296Imprint Music Sales LtdPublisher Hal Leonard Europe Limited

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739947439Author Louise LawrenceFormat PaperbackPage Count 92Imprint Uptake PublicationsPublisher Uptake PublicationsWeight(grams) 100gDimensions(mm)...

"The Beatles will be remembered, and rightly so, as the sociological phenomenon of the Sixties...but if you're talking about music, it has to be Brian Wilson and the Beach Boys. That's who they'll be studying." (anonymous fan) The Beach Boys are...

101 Exercises for Piano brings together a collection of Carl Czerny's famous piano studies. Czerny's most important legacy is that of a teacher of piano & composition & above all as a writer of studies which develop both technique & musicianship. These...

Before she became Smokin Jo - the most famous and visible of the first generation of 'superstar DJs' - Joanne Joseph was a young girl growing up in a children's home with her sister. Until her mother returned and whisked the siblings away just before...

'Too often we treat popular music as wallpaper surrounding us as we live our lives. Jude Rogers shows the emotional and cerebral heft such music can have. It's a personal journey which becomes universal. Fascinating' Ian Rankin'Moving and absorbing, The...

The Faber Music Piano Anthology is a beautiful collection of core repertoire from the great composers, presented in progressive order. This luxury hardback edition features high-quality premium paper, page finder ribbon and 'The Concerto' linocut cover...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857369215Author Trinity College LondonPage Count 48Imprint Trinity College London PressPublisher Trinity College London PressWeight(grams) 199g

A thrilling new biography of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky-composer of some of the world's most popular orchestral and theatrical music "A lively, argumentative and thoughtful reflection on one of the 19th century's most important musical figures."-Michael...

Piano Mix is packed full of brilliant music that has been specially arranged for easy piano. It's a whirlwind of styles and genres from centuries gone by through to the present day. The repertoire reflects the type of music found in our Piano syllabuses...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857367785Author Trinity College London PressFormat PaperbackPage Count 16Imprint Trinity College London PressPublisher Trinity College London Press

Hamilton presents vocal selections from the critically acclaimed musical about Alexander Hamilton. The show debuted on Broadway in August 2015 to unprecedented advanced box office sales and has already become one of the most successful Broadway musicals...

October 1982: ABC, Culture Club, Shalamar and Survivor dominate the top twenty when the Pogues barrel out from the backstreets of King's Cross, a furious, pioneering mix of punk energy, traditional melodies and the powerfully poetic songwriting of Shane...

The best-selling Improve your sight-reading! Series, by renowned educationalist Paul Harris, has now been extended to offer a series of editions supporting the Trinity College London sight-reading criteria. Improve your sight-reading! Trinity Edition...

It seems excessive...but that doesn't mean it didn't happen. The mass of black curls. The top hat. The cigarette dangling from pouty lips. These are the trademarks of one of the world's greatest and most revered guitarists, a celebrity...

Fundamentals of Musical Composition represents the culmination of more than forty years in Schoenberg's life devoted to the teaching of musical principles to students and composers in Europe and America. For his classes he developed a manner of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915343116Author Alison JamesFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint Sona BooksPublisher Danann Media Publishing LimitedWeight(grams) 757gDimensions(mm)...

This book contains valuable practice material for candidates preparing for ABRSM's Singing for Musical Theatre Practical exams at Grades 4 & 5. It features sample tests for the sight-singing requirements from 2021, written in attractive and accessible...

A piece a week Piano Grade 3 is ideal to be used alongside the Improve your sight-reading! Series graded piano books to support and improve the reading skills so fundamental to successful sight-reading. These fun, short pieces are specifically written to...

This combined book of scales, arpeggios and sight-reading contains valuable practice material for candidates preparing for ABRSM's Clarinet exams at Grades 1-5. Key features: All the new scales and arpeggios from 2018, arranged in grade order Sample...

T. E. Carhart, an American living in Paris, is intrigued by a piano repair shop hidden down a street near his apartment. When he finally gains admittance to the secretive world of the atelier, he finds himself in an enormous glass-roofed workshop filled...

A collection of pieces which have been set for ABRSM's piano exams over the years. Available in three series, each containing five graded volumes and reflecting the wide variety of pieces on the syllabuses. The series concentrate on the baroque and...

Brass Mix is an original series of graded pieces that can be played by any brass instrument. Book 2 covers Grades 4 & 5 and contains 8 new pieces for solo brass and piano, specially commissioned from some of today's most dynamic composers for brass. The...

This is the world's first guide to become the ultimate DJ - and the only guide you'll ever need, perfect for beginners and more experienced DJs who want to hone their skills from music industry experts. The illustrated tutorials and no-nonsense tips and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781785586026Author Tim HallasFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Rhinegold EducationPublisher Hal Leonard Europe LimitedDimensions(mm) 265mm * 195mm * 9mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781937306250Author Kazadi Wa MukunaFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Diasporic Africa PressPublisher Diasporic Africa PressWeight(grams)...

The Number One Sunday Times BestsellerForty years after his death, Elvis Presley remains one of the world's most beloved and iconic figures. There has been an impressive array of bestselling Elvis books over the years, but there has never been a book...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781450781282Author Gustavo Assis-BrasilFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Independent PublisherPublisher Independent PublisherWeight(grams)...

This book contains all the scales and arpeggios required for ABRSM's Flute exams at Grades 6-8. It features all the new requirements from 2018, arranged in grade orderBook InformationISBN 9781848499034Author ABRSMPage Count 24Imprint Associated Board of...