Music

'Communicative Musicality' explores the intrinsic musical nature of human interaction. The theory of communicative musicality was developed from groundbreaking studies showing how in mother/infant communication there exist noticeable patterns of timing,...

A uniquely accessible and comprehensive resource for use in church services and concerts throughout the Church's year. The volume's 50 SATB pieces, both accompanied and unaccompanied, are suitable for choirs of all sizes and abilities. BL Provides an...

The bestselling guide to improving musical performance The Inner Game of Music is the battle that all musicians have to fight against elusive opponents such as nervousness, self-doubt and fear of failure. Using the world-famous Inner Game principles,...

Guy Pratt's life as bass player to the stars. The book behind the successful comedy show.Guy Pratt came of age just as playing bass became cool, with the likes of Paul Simonon and Bruce Foxton. Having dallied with Funkapolitan, Pratt suddenly found...

This book brings together in one place selected exam pieces, scales and sight-reading to support ABRSM's Initial Grade Violin syllabus from 2024 - ideal for both Practical and Performance Grade exams. The pieces, three from each of Lists A, B and C, have...

Born the son of Scotland's last telescope-maker, Stuart Braithwaite was perhaps always destined for a life of psychedelic adventuring on the furthest frontiers of noise in MOGWAI, one of the best loved and most ground-breaking post-rock bands of the past...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780306845420Author Jonathan ReissFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Hachette BooksPublisher Hachette BooksWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 226mm * 150mm...

Oxford Choral Classics: English Church Music assembles in two volumes around 100 of the finest examples of English sacred choral music. The second volume presents a wealth of service material suitable for use throughout the year. The evening canticles...

'Beautifully judged account of the Manchester scene . . . There is something of the fairy tale about Dave Haslam's sage joyful testament to the kind of life that nobody could ever plan, a happy aligning of a cultural moment and a young man who...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908724939Author Richard MacPhailFormat PaperbackPage Count 238Imprint Wymer UKPublisher Wymer UKWeight(grams) 281g

The incredible first memoir by System Of A Down frontman Serj TankianWith nearly 40 million record sales, three albums topping the Billboard charts, a Grammy win and a legion of fans, System Of A Down are one of the biggest metal bands on the planet. At...

for SATB, accompanied, and unaccompanied To celebrate the centenary of the Oxford University Press Music Department, this volume of 50 new carols complements the five previous volumes, bringing new names and styles to the series while providing a...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE PENDERYN MUSIC BOOK PRIZE'The story of a band that's always on the brink: of stardom, of madness, of brilliance, of disgrace' Miranda Sawyer, Observer'You begin to wonder why more biographies aren't tackled with such invention' Record...

An indispensable collection of sixty progressive studies for unaccompanied saxophone, suitable for E flat and B flat instruments. The book systematically covers aspects of technique, in order of difficulty from Grades 1 to 8, while being carefully paced...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857369154Author Trinity College LondonPage Count 24Imprint Trinity College London PressPublisher Trinity College London PressWeight(grams) 116g

for upper voices, SATB, and organ or chamber ensemble On Christmas Night is a musical celebration of the Christmas story, presented as a sequence of eight original carols. Chilcott calls upon several familiar carol melodies within his own settings,...

John Mayall's story is like no other in the annals of rock and blues. Born in the UK in 1933, he laid the foundations of British blues, nurtured a generation of future superstars and then took the music back to the land of its birth. This extraordinary...

In her long career, Canadian songstress Joni Mitchell has been hailed as everything from 1960s folk icon to 20th century cultural figure, artistic iconoclast to musical heroine, extreme romantic confessor to outspoken commentator and lyrical painter...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250032898Author Stephen DavisFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint St. Martin's PressPublisher St. Martin's Press

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

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909394124Author David McGowanFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint HeadpressPublisher HeadpressWeight(grams) 416g

** CONTAINS NEW MATERIAL ** THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTELLER & WINNER OF THE ATTITUDE BOOK AWARD 'Refreshing, inspiring and candid.' ATTITUDE 'I love this man so much. He was, and always will be, my knight in shining Westwood.' DAVINA MCCALL'This is a story...

With nearly 1,500 Broadway performances, six Tony Awards, more than three million albums sold, and five Academy Awards, The Sound of Music, based on the lives of Maria, the baron, and their singing children, is as familiar to most of us as our own family...

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...

'Utterly absorbing and deeply affecting' - The GuardianAs a Spice Girl, TV talent show judge and Broadway star, Mel B a.k.a Scary Spice, has been a global icon since her twenties. But behind the glittering facade of fame, the struggles and pain of this...

50 Christmas carols Orchestrations for several of the carols from this collection are available on sale or hire under the titles Three Carol Orchestrations and Five Christmas Carols. Eight Carols for Brass for 5 and 8 part brass (to accompany carols...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911273745Author Clive SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 374Imprint Mango BooksPublisher Mango BooksWeight(grams) 499g

In response to the anti-war movements of the 1960s, pioneering musician and composer Pauline Oliveros began experimenting with meditation, movement and activism in her compositions. Fascinated by sound and consciousness in daily life, Oliveros developed...

This book contains valuable practice material for candidates preparing for ABRSM's Singing for Musical Theatre exams at Grades 1-3. It features sample tests for the sight-singing requirements from 2019, written in attractive and accessible styles...

On a lazy Sunday in 1954, twelve-year-old Jerry Schilling wandered into a Memphis touch football game, only to discover that his team was quarterbacked by a nineteen-year-old Elvis Presley, the local teenager whose first record, "That's All Right," had...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781946837134Author Bobby OwsinskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 398Imprint Bobby Owsinski Media GroupPublisher Bobby Owsinski Media GroupWeight(grams)...

No question Scorpions, Germany's loudest and proudest rock band ever, have been one of that country's most successful musical exports. Wind of Change documents the band's career with analysis of every song on every album the Teutonic tone-masters ever...

There are two versions of this anthem - for SATB with organ or strings, or SA with piano The words are from Numbers 6:24.About the AuthorJohn Rutter studied music at Clare College, Cambridge and first came to notice as a composer and arranger of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913316037Author Stefania FiorendiFormat PaperbackImprint Antenne PublishingPublisher Antenne Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789671250426Author Ying Ying NgPage Count 52Imprint Poco StudioPublisher Poco Studio

This sumptuous and luxuriously produced volume gathers portraits, album covers, photographs of performances and rehearsals, rarely seen private moments, and candid snapshots of Prince, one of the greatest singer-songwriters of his generation. This...

For over 30 years, Sammy Hagar has been a fixture in heavy metal music. Beginning with his successful solo career where he churned out hits such as "I Can't Drive 55" and stretching into his decade long stint as the frontman for Van Halen, Hagar has sold...

'This book is a must for everyone interested in illuminating the idea of unexplainable genius' - QUESTLOVE Equal parts biography, musicology, and cultural history, Dilla Time chronicles the life and legacy of J Dilla, a musical genius who transformed...

BL Clear and systematic progression BL For beginners of all ages BL Teaches with reference to jazz and contemporary music styles throughout BL First steps towards confident improvisation BL Covers all relevant elements of technique BL Lots of idiomatic...

'Smart, analytical and enormously good fun' Stuart Maconie, Mail on Sunday'Ingenious . . . conjures a whole cultural history of the past six decades' The Spectator'Strikingly insightful . . . page after page of glorious anecdotes' The i Newspaper'A book...