Music

Legendary record producer-turned-brain scientist explains why you fall in love with music.'Extraordinary insights about music, emotion and the brain...An instant classic' Daniel Levitin, author of This Is Your Brain on MusicThis Is What It Sounds Like is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781495061943Author Astor PiazzollaPage Count 118Imprint Hal Leonard CorporationPublisher Hal Leonard Corporation

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374538064Author David YaffeFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Sarah Crichton BooksPublisher Sarah Crichton BooksWeight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm) 208mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781540067630Author Elise EcklundPage Count 39Imprint Hal Leonard CorporationPublisher Hal Leonard Corporation

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 and features stories of his time working with everyone from the Beatles to the Ronettes and Elton John to the Rolling...

For many fans, David Bowie's Ziggy Stardust era remains the most extraordinarily creative period in his career. As a member of Bowie's legendary band at the time - The Spiders From Mars - Woody Woodmansey played drums on four seminal albums: The Man Who...

Passed down in the oral tradition and sung traditionally as working songs, sea shanties tell the human stories of life at sea: hard graft, battling the elements, the loss of ships or pining for a lady on shore. Its pages decorated with hand-drawn or...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781562241803Author Jamey AebersoldPage Count 80Imprint Jamey Aebersold JazzPublisher Jamey Aebersold Jazz

In this book, Wilson Neate gets beneath the surface of a punk band with a difference. In contrast with many of their punk peers, Wire were enigmatic and cerebral, always keeping a distance from the crowd. Although Pink Flag appeared before the end of...

In this book on Richard Wagner's compelling but enigmatic masterpiece Goetterdammerung, the final opera of his monumental Ring tetralogy, Alexander H. Shapiro advances an ambitious new interpretation which uncovers intriguing new facets to the work's...

This book is about a single, serpentine fact: late in 1976 a record called 'Anarchy in the UK' was issued in London, and this event launched a transformation of pop music all over the world. The song distilled, in crudely poetic form, a critique of...

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...

In The Most Beautiful, a title inspired by the hit song Prince wrote about their legendary love story, Mayte Garcia for the first time shares the deeply personal story of their relationship and offers a singular perspective on the music icon and...

Bowie: Hits presents over 40 of David Bowie's greatest songs spanning his entire career, newly arranged for piano & voice with guitar chords. Featuring classics from the early years such as Space Oddity and The Man Who Sold The World; to Ashes To Ashes,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781941566855Author Alan KaplanPage Count 39Imprint Music Minus OnePublisher Music Minus One

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781705120477Author Michael CichowiczPage Count 48Imprint Hal Leonard CorporationPublisher Hal Leonard Corporation

The manager who shepherded Van Halen from obscurity to rock stardom goes behind the scenes to tell the complete, unadulterated story of David Lee Roth, Eddie Van Halen, and the legendary band that changed rock music.Van Halen's rise in the 1980s was one...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956220400Author Bill HiltonFormat PaperbackPage Count 138Imprint Carrier BooksPublisher Carrier BooksWeight(grams) 350g

Christy Moore is in every sense Ireland's folk hero. Mentor to a whole generation of Irish musicians, he holds a unique place in musical history. In l992 he broke all attendance records during 12 packed nights at the Point in Dublin. In the UK he...

Fifteen tunes that reflect the breadth and diversity of jazz, from the great African-American tradition to the vibrant and multicultural sounds of jazz today. Introduces an approach that encourages playing by ear. Includes a CD featuring playalong...

Folk Tunes from the Women, is a tune book like no other! This is a bumper book of over 150 contemporary tunes from 100 composers from Britain and Ireland, all from different areas, traditions and backgrounds and has been curated by the Northumbrian piper...

Model answers for sample papers for ABRSM's Theory exams Grade 4 Key features: * updated for the new format ABRSM Theory exams * clear and concise presentationBook InformationISBN 9781786013637Author ABRSMPage Count 28Imprint Associated Board of the...

WINNER OF THE RALPH J. GLEASON AWARDWITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY JEREMY DELLER AND SCOTT KINGINCLUDES FOREWORD BY JOHNNY MARRAward-winning, Sunday Times bestselling author Jon Savage's definitive history of punk, its progenitors, the Sex Pistols, and their...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914453205Author James ShipwayFormat PaperbackPage Count 94Imprint Headstock BooksPublisher Headstock BooksWeight(grams) 240gDimensions(mm) 279mm * 216mm...

1970 was a year of change in pop and rock music, with divisions between both becoming ever more blurred. More ambitiously-constructed epics, heavy rock numbers and contemporary folk songs competed with mainstream and easy listening fare on Top of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781470633318Author Ron ManusPage Count 48Imprint Alfred Publishing Company IncPublisher Alfred Publishing Co Inc.,U.S.

Jazz on a Summer's Day is a unique collection of stylish jazz arrangements and original compositions for solo piano. It conveys the many sides of summer through swing, blues, samba, calypso, and folk, and draws inspiration from jazz artists including...

Discover the stories behind the songsTHE LIFE OF A SONG contains the stories of 100 songs exploring each song's biography and how they took on a new life following their release. Packed with intriguing factoids, these bite-sized essays will delight music...

This updated edition of the first ever book about Queens Of The Stone Age takes in nine years of chaos. Since the first edition appeared in 2005, Josh Homme's band has undergone multiple line-up changes, toured the world and released two acclaimed albums...

In her intimate memoir, More Myself, Alicia Keys shares her quest for truth: about herself, her past, and her shift from sacrificing her spirit to celebrating her worth.One of the most celebrated musicians of our time, Alicia Keys has enraptured the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781783054596Author Hal Leonard Publishing CorporationPage Count 79Imprint Music Sales LtdPublisher Hal Leonard Europe Limited

What is the secret code behind so many musical compositions? How do you substitute chords to create greater musical complexity? Why is music so good at playing with people's emotions? In this compact book, composer and pianist Jason Martineau presents...

A ROUGH TRADE BOOK OF THE YEARA LOUDER THAN WAR BOOK OF THE YEAR'Fascinating'-MOJO'As close as anyone was ever going to get to really understanding Pete Shelley'-UNCUT'The memoir that Pete Shelley never had a chance to write'-LOUDER THAN WAR'Lots of...

Are you a teacher of musical theatre who struggles to plan and construct lessons? Are you looking for a structured approach to teaching musical theatre to students of all abilities? Do you know your Ivor Novello from your Stephen Sondheim? Despite...

Paul McCartney's songwriting output as a member of the Beatles, mainly with his co-writer John Lennon, has been exhaustively documented over the years. Now, taking 50 key songs from his five-decade career since the break-up of the Fab Four, Paul...

This book contains all the scales and arpeggios required for ABRSM's Bassoon exams at Grades 6-8. It features all the new requirements from 2018, arranged in grade order.Book InformationISBN 9781848498990Author ABRSMPage Count 24Imprint Associated Board...

WInner of the Best First Book from the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association Winner of the Labriola Center American Indian National Book Award Winner of the Ann Saddlemyer Award from the Canadian Association for Theatre ResearchReimagining...

*A RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK*'Utterly enthralling - a beautifully-written voyage of discovery that takes us deep into the heart of music-making' Deborah MoggachFrom the moment she hears Lev's violin for the first time, Helena Attlee is captivated. She is...

Ronnie Lane's story is that of a working-class kid who started his musical career busking a ukulele at the age of eight. As a young man he signed with legendary manager Don Arden, who paid him in paisley shirts. He then enjoyed a phenomenal 17...

'Literally changed the course of my life' James Murphy'The chapter on Larry Levan alone transformed me into wanting to be your favorite DJ' Questlove'The original and still the best' Gilles Peterson'We can't tell the story of dance music without speaking...