Music

This book contains nine pieces from ABRSM's Grade 5 Cello 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...

'I always keep a copy of Art & Fear on my bookshelf' JAMES CLEAR, author of the #1 best-seller Atomic Habits 'A timeless cult classic ... I've stolen tons of inspiration from this book over the years and so will you' AUSTIN KLEON, NYTimes...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857360076Author Trinity College LondonFormat PaperbackPage Count 76Imprint Trinity College London PressPublisher Trinity College London...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916232716Author Paul TallingFormat PaperbackPage Count 292Imprint Damaged Goods BooksPublisher Damaged Goods Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857361783Author James JamesPage Count 44Imprint Trinity College London PressPublisher Trinity College London PressWeight(grams) 170g

This book contains nine pieces from ABRSM's Grade 5 Violin syllabus for 2020-2023, three pieces chosen from each of Lists A, B and C. The pieces have been carefully selected to offer an attractive and varied range of styles, creating a collection that...

Telemann composed three dozen Fantasias, which were published in 1732. He deliberately set out to juxtapose the French and Italian styles, with the first (published here) and third dozen having Italian titles and tempo markings, and the second dozen...

This book is about the kind of ordinary dancing you and I might do in our kitchens when a favourite tune comes on. It's more than a social history: it's a set of interconnected histories of the overlooked places where dancing happens . . .Why do we dance...

This stimulating Very Short Introduction throws open the doors on a remarkably diverse musical genre, with a world-wide reach that goes far beyond America's shores to discuss folk music of every possible kind and in every corner of the globe. Written by...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857366672Page Count 60Imprint Trinity College London PressPublisher Trinity College London PressWeight(grams) 220g

This book looks at two years in the life of the UK's first Specialist Music College - the Northampton School for Girls - and sets the development of this school against what we know about other schools often described as 'musical'. The author also sets...

Cello Time Starters is a great beginner book for the budding cellist. Carefully paced to suit young learners, it supports players through the important early stages, step by step-from how to hold your instrument and bow, through basic notation, to...

'A really great book.' Bruce SpringsteenWith a foreword by Billy Bragg.The classic biography of the hugely influential American folk singer who inspired a generation of songwriters, including Bruce Springsteen and Bob Dylan.Few artists have captured the...

The definitive story of Amy Winehouse's life and career told through key photographs, memorabilia and recollections by those who knew her best. Curated by Amy's stylist and close friend Naomi Parry.Amy Winehouse left an indelible mark on both the music...

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)...

Music has been examined from multiple perspectives: as a product of human history, for example, or a product of human culture. But there is also a long tradition, intensified in recent decades, of thinking about music as a product of the human mind...

THE SUNDAY TIMES MUSIC BOOK OF THE YEARA TELEGRAPH BEST MUSIC BOOK OF THE YEARA NEW STATESMAN BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR Faith, Hope and Carnage is a book about Nick Cave's inner life.Created from more than forty hours of intimate conversations with the...

The popular beginner instruction books for kids with fun exercises, theory and easy songs to play. An exciting new course by Heather Hammond and Karen Marshall, written specially for the twenty-first century child. Using the...

"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...

Featuring contributions from over eighty original cast members, creatives, crew and audience members, Out For Blood pieces together the surprising, hilarious and often-moving inside story of Carrie The Musical to discover how this 'horror of a Broadway...

Piano Time Pieces 3 presents a sparkling selection of pieces in all styles. Here are classical and jazzy pieces, folksongs and specially written tunes, and songs and character pieces of all kinds. Practising the range of techniques and keys introduced in...

'Fascinating' The Sunday Times'Engaging . . . offers a fascinating glimpse into an altogether more innocent age' Independent'Vivid and engaging . . . refreshingly free of bitterness' Mail on Sunday* * *Cynthia and John Lennon's relationship spanned ten...

The second volume of Clinton Heylin's magisterial biography takes us from Dylan's 1966 motorcycle accident to the present day. We meet a man who is determined to confound expectations; yet whatever he does only seems to confirm his iconic status to fans...

The Sunday Times bestseller, revised and updated for the 250th anniversary of Beethoven's birth. ---- As heard throughout 2020 on Classic FM ---- You know the music... but do you know the man? ---- Ludwig van Beethoven is one of the world's best loved...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857368294Author Trinity College LondonPage Count 72Imprint Trinity College London PressPublisher Trinity College London PressWeight(grams) 254g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307453952Author Jonathan GouldFormat PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780877180258Author Edna-Mae BurnamPage Count 38Imprint Willis Music CompanyPublisher Willis Music Company

One autumn evening, not long after ending a stint as a pop music critic, Eric Siblin attended a recital of Johann Sebastian Bach's Cello Suites - and fell deeply in love. So began a quest that would unravel three centuries of mystery, intrigue, history,...

Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Beatles' Yellow Submarine comes this fully authorized graphic novel adaptation. The Beatles are recruited by the Captain of the Yellow Submarine to help him free Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, and the...

Discovering Music Theory is a suite of workbooks and corresponding answer books that offers all-round preparation for the updated ABRSM Music Theory exams from 2020, including the new online papers. This full-colour workbook will equip students of all...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857368379Author Trinity College LondonPage Count 20Imprint Trinity College London PressPublisher Trinity College London PressWeight(grams) 101g

Behind Bars is the indispensable reference book for composers, arrangers, teachers and students of composition, editors, and music processors. In the most thorough and painstakingly researched book to be published since the 1980s, specialist music editor...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914345272Author Jane DuffusFormat HardbackPage Count 464Imprint Tangent BooksPublisher Tangent BooksWeight(grams) 900gDimensions(mm) 245mm * 190mm * 18mm

John's Gospel has had an incalculable impact on human history. Its pages contain a moral and spiritual potency which, over the centuries, has transformed communities, brought about political change and remade human character on a scale without precedent...

Become a different drummer Drumming is natural to all of us-after all, it mimics the regular beat of our hearts. But some of us want to go further and really lay down a big beat. And no wonder-whether you want to become the powerful backbone of a band or...

This is a major collection of organ music for students, players, and church musicians of all levels and abilities. Compiler and editor Anne Marsden Thomas has drawn on her long experience of teaching and playing to select the most attractive, tuneful...

Selected and arranged by the author, and with a new introduction by novelist David Mitchell, How To Be Invisible presents the lyrics of Kate Bush for the first time in a beautiful cloth-bound Faber edition.'For millions around the world, Kate is way more...

In Why Beethoven Threw the Stew, renowned cellist Steven Isserlis sets out to pass on to children a wonderful gift given to him by his own cello teacher - the chance to people his own world with the great composers by getting to know them as friends...

Why did Pythagoras pause outside a Blacksmith's workshop? Can the nature of Harmony really be understood visually? Why do harmonies leave gaps or 'commas' when added together? In this charming little book Anthony Ashton uses a Victorian device called a...

A ROUGH TRADE, MOJO, UNCUT & LOUDER THAN WAR BOOK OF THE YEARSHORTLISTED FOR THE RALPH J. GLEASON MUSIC BOOK AWARDA redemptive, myth-shattering biography of one of the twentieth century's most underestimated creative and artistic forces.'Here is the...