Music

Along with Factory, Mute, and Creation, Some Bizzare was the vanguard of outsider music in the 1980s. The label s debut release reads like a who s who of electronic music, featuring early tracks from Soft Cell, Depeche Mode, Blancmange, and The The,...

Model answers for four practice papers from ABRSM's 2021 Music Theory exams for Grade 6 Key features: - a list of correct answers where appropriate -a selection of likely options where the answer can be expressed in a variety of ways - a single exemplar...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857368973Author Trinity College LondonPage Count 136Imprint Trinity College London PressPublisher Trinity College London PressWeight(grams) 501g

Model answers for practice papers for ABRSM's Grade 6 Theory examsBook InformationISBN 9781786015273Author ABRSMPage Count 16Imprint Associated Board of the Royal Schools of MusicPublisher Associated Board of the Royal Schools of MusicWeight(grams)...

From the Booker-shortlisted author of The Mars Room, a career-spanning collection of spectacular essays about politics and culture.In The Hard Crowd, Rachel Kushner gathers a selection of her writing from over the course of the last twenty years that...

'The title is Search Party - the idea being that we're all out here looking for something, and my poems are my way of finding myself.' A young black poet blending spoken word and rap; an inner city upbringing with a...

Featuring over 150 of the world's greatest guitar superstars, this updated edition of our successful Rock Guitar Heroes is a definitive guide to those guitarists whose talents helped change the face of music forever and touched the lives of millions. ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857360052Author Trinity College LondonFormat PaperbackPage Count 76Imprint Trinity College London PressPublisher Trinity College London...

Model answers for practice papers for ABRSM's Grade 4 Theory examsBook InformationISBN 9781786016034Author ABRSMPage Count 28Imprint Associated Board of the Royal Schools of MusicPublisher Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music

The Tastemaker charts the singular life of a man who has been at the beating heart of music's most iconic moments for over sixty years. Leaving school and starting his career at Decca Records in 1958 at the age of sixteen, Tony King would soon find...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486452654Author Curt SachsPage Count 560Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.

Few people rode the popular wave of the sixties quite like Tara Browne. One of Swinging London's most popular faces, he lived fast, died young and was immortalized for ever in the opening lines of 'A Day in the Life', a song that many critics regard as...

Rick Bucklers autobiography is the first from a member of The Jam, who some considered were the ultimate Mod band. Rick tells The Jam story from growing up in Woking and meeting fellow members Paul Weller and Bruce Foxton at school, through their...

Since the release of his first best-selling album Look Sharp in 1979, Joe Jackson has forged a singular career in music through his originality as a composer and his notoriously independent stance toward music-business fashion. He has also been a...

Always enigmatic and outside of the mainstream, most people associate Hawkwind with 'whoosh' noises, 'Silver Machine', Lemmy and 'Space Rock' music. From the beginning, Hawkwind have been trailblazers, even when they have explored blind alleys and...

'People say I made the Stones. I didn't. They were there already. They only wanted exploiting. They were all bad boys when I found them. I just brought out the worst in them.' Andrew Loog Oldham was nineteen years old when he discovered and became the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780876391860Author Mimi RabsonPage Count 117Imprint Berklee Press PublicationsPublisher Berklee Press Publications

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804902622Author Ralph AllwoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 92Imprint Trinity College London PressPublisher Trinity College London PressWeight(grams) 353g

A MUST-HAVE COLLECTION OF RARE AND UNSEEN PHOTOGRAPHS OF KATE BUSH.WITH ESSAYS BY HER BROTHER, JOHN CARDER BUSH, ABOUT KATE'S LIFE AND CAREER.Stunning and unique images from throughout Kate Bush's career including:Outtakes from classic album shoots and...

Four separate papers from ABRSM's 2023 Music Theory exams for Grade 8 *Essential practice material for all ABRSM Music Theory exam candidates *Model answers also availableBook InformationISBN 9781786015914Author ABRSMPage Count 36Imprint Associated Board...

The Brandenburg Concertos represent a pinnacle in the history of the Baroque Concerto, as well as being among the most universally admired of all Bach's works. This fascinating new guide places the concertos in their historical context, investigates...

*A SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR | A GUARDIAN MEMOIR OF THE YEAR | A TELEGRAPH BEST MUSIC BOOK OF THE YEAR *'Chronicles, in enthralling detail, Madonna Louise Ciccone's path from terrifyingly ambitious trainee dancer to pop colossus, all the while...

"...unparalleled behind-the-scenes glimpse into life on the road with Duran Duran." - Classic Pop "Denis got to see a different side of the machine - he saw the cogs going around, and there were times when that wasn't popular with everybody ... Once...

You want to write songs, and you want to write them on guitar. This updated twentieth-anniversary third edition of the bestselling songwriting handbook shows you how. Learn the techniques and tricks used in two thousand great songs by everyone from the...

Founding member and guitarist of Joy Division and the lead singer of New Order, Bernard Sumner has been famous over the years for his reticence. Until now... An integral part of the Manchester music scene since the late 1970s, his is the definitive...

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...

Formed in 1964 and still going strong in 2019, the Moody Blues are one of the most enduring bands in the history of rock. R&B, pop, psychedelic, symphonic, prog rock, folk rock, synth-pop, mainstream rock, they've experienced it all. 'Go Now', A number...

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...

This book contains nine pieces selected from ABRSM's Grade 5 Clarinet syllabus from 2022. Key features: Nine pieces in a range of styles, chosen from Lists A, B and C - ideal for both Practical and Performance Grade exams - Includes clarinet part and...

A Times Book of the YearA Mojo Book of the YearA Louder Than War Book of the YearA Waterstones Book of the YearA Resident Book of the Year'A beautifully written, meticulously researched account. 4/5.' - CLASSIC POP1979. Months of industrial action...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781847614650Author Melanie SpanswickPage Count 120Imprint Schott Music LtdPublisher Schott Music Ltd

So this is permanence, edited by Jon Savage with a foreword by Deborah Curtis, presents the intensely personal writings of one of the most enigmatic and influential songwriters and performers of the late twentieth century, Joy Division's Ian Curtis. The...

None of This Rocks is a memoir by Joe Trohman - lead guitarist and cofounder of Fall Out Boy - that reads like a double album full of revealing stories from his youth and his experiences of modern rock and roll stardom. With wit and wisdom, and maybe...

No other jazz musician has proved so inspirational and so fascinating as Coltrane. Ben Ratliff, jazz critic for the New York Times, has written the first book to do justice to this great and controversial music pioneer. As well as an elegant narrative of...

Richard Strauss is a composer much loved among audiences throughout the world, both in the opera house and the concert hall. Despite this popularity, Strauss was for many years ignored by scholars, who considered his commercial success and his continued...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780193578388Author Wolfgang Amadeus MozartPage Count 12Imprint Oxford University PressPublisher Oxford University PressDimensions(mm) 311mm * 231mm * 2mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857369956Author John Paul EkinsPage Count 240Imprint Trinity College London PressPublisher Trinity College London PressWeight(grams) 863g

There were only a handful of people in the world who still really believed in Suede at the time, and five of them were in the band. Brett Anderson, Suede. Suede were Marmite at the time, and I was expecting the press to trash them. Every meeting I had...

The world's most famous mononym, Madonna may be outspoken, but she's never outgunned. With a loyal legion of millions of adoring fans, who have stayed by her side for more than four decades, Madonna has inspired and influenced the hearts, souls, and...

Alan Bullard's award-winning Joining the Dots series now includes five books that develop sight-singing skills. By working through creative exercises and pieces students can prepare for ABRSM Singing exams. The books can also be used to build confidence...