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This book contains all the scales and arpeggios required for ABRSM's Oboe exams at Grades 6-8. It features all the new requirements from 2018, arranged in grade order.Book InformationISBN 9781848499102Page Count 24Imprint Associated Board of the Royal...

Bruce Springsteen might be the quintessential American rock musician but his songs have resonated with fans from all walks of life and from all over the world. This unique collection features reflections from a diverse array of writers who explain what...

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...

Shostakovich: A Life Remembered is a unique study of the great composer Dmitri Shostakovich, based on reminiscences from his contemporaries: family members, friends, fellow musicians and other prominent figures of the time. Elizabeth Wilson covers the...

This five-volume graded series of organ music by J. S. Bach (2 volumes for manuals only; 3 volumes for manuals and pedals) provides a wonderful selection of pieces for all players. The whole is an authoritative and fully practical introduction to this...

How DO you avoid the 'nightmare scenario' of having two open tubs of margarine in your fridge? Throw one tub away, or give it to a friend or neighbour? If the remedy were that simple no one would have bothered to write a book about it, would they? John...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857361738Page Count 76Imprint Trinity College London PressPublisher Trinity College London PressWeight(grams) 265g

Although we are acquainted with the music of J. S. Bach through countless performances and recordings, the composer himself continues to come across as the somewhat enigmatic figure depicted in a single, familiar portrait. Published in 2000 to mark the...

Pianoworks: Popular Styles is a superb one-stop introduction to key musical styles of the last 100 years. Through 18 original pieces it captures the essential ingredients of blues, gospel, rock, jazz, and Latin, as well as neo-classicism, minimalism, and...

Graded Keyboard Musicianship provides graded and integrated exercises for developing five core skills at the keyboard: figured bass, score-reading, transposition, harmonization, and improvisation. Organized into two books, it develops these skills from...

This book contains nine pieces selected from ABRSM's Grade 2 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857366696Page Count 68Imprint Trinity College London PressPublisher Trinity College London PressWeight(grams) 244g

Improvisation plays a key role in the toolbox of the music therapist. Tony Wigram's practical and comprehensive guide and online content will prove indispensable to students, teachers, therapists and musicians as a book of musical techniques and...

In these fifty-two interviews, the greatest songwriters of our time go straight to the source of the magic of songwriting by offering their thoughts, feelings, and opinions on their art. Representing almost every genre of popular music, from folk to Tin...

THE TOP FIVE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERA BOOK OF THE YEARROUGH TRADE, THE TIMES, ROLLING STONE, CLASH, MOJO, UNCUTThe memoir of international music icon Richard Thompson, co-founder of the legendary folk rock group Fairport Convention.'I encourage everyone...

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,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857361936Page Count 52Imprint Trinity College London PressPublisher Trinity College London PressWeight(grams) 192g

This book contains the piano accompaniments for Fiddle Time Sprinters. Characterful and easy to play, these piano parts provide stylish accompaniments to all of the pieces in the pupil book. Essential for teachers and musical parents, these books will...

The fascinating and diverse descriptions contained in this text begin the process of developing indigenous understandings of music therapy in group work and alert the reader to issues for future exploration. A fascinating text, describing a range of...

62 very short, progressive exercisesBook InformationISBN 9780193554672Author A. W. BenoyPage Count 16Imprint Oxford University PressPublisher Oxford University PressWeight(grams) 86gDimensions(mm) 312mm * 231mm * 2mm

Violin Playtime Studies is a first anthology of established and newly-composed studies for the young violinist. Taking as its starting point the one octave scale of D major, and remaining in first position throughout, it may be used in conjunction with...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857361721Page Count 52Imprint Trinity College London PressPublisher Trinity College London PressWeight(grams) 170g

for SATB (with opt. solos) and organ or piano, or with small orchestra or chamber group A Light in the Stable tells the Christmas story through a blend of original settings and well-known carols, and is suitable for both concert and church choirs. The...

'You hold in your hand a miracle. A book about a passion, and the hipsters, oddballs and old heads who share it, written by one of their number, albeit a ludicrously erudite one' - Danny Kelly A revival of interest in vinyl music has taken place in...

for mezzo-soprano solo, mixed choir, and orchestra or chamber ensemble Feel the Spirit is a cycle of seven familiar spirituals, expertly arranged by John Rutter. Equally suitable for concert, school, or church use, the vivid and expressive arrangements...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912535743Author Jem RobertsFormat PaperbackPage Count 426Imprint Candy Jar BooksPublisher Candy Jar Books

This book contains nine pieces for ABRSM's Grade 2 Drum Kit syllabus from 2024, providing drummers with everything they need to take ABRSM's Performance Grade exam. This book contains nine pieces for ABRSM's Grade 2 Drum Kit syllabus from 2024, providing...

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*AS READ ON BBC RADIO 4 'BOOK OF THE WEEK'*'Lip-lickingly, dance-around-the-living-room good... A smash hit' Observer'Unflinching and heartwarming' - Adam Kay'Tender, clever and as funny as it gets ... a heart-piercing joy' - Lauren Laverne'An...

An addition to the Fiddle Time series for young violinists, this book provides violin accompaniments to all of the pieces in Fiddle Time Sprinters. The duet part is suitable for a teacher or more advanced student, and this new duet book will enhance...

'Daniel Rachel imagines what the next Beatles album might have been like, with painstaking detail and great stories' - David Hepworth, The Guardian'A fantastical journey through what might have been... Exciting and compelling.' - Chris Hawkins, BBC 6...

for SATB and organ or orchestra with English and French texts Orchestral material is available on hire.About the AuthorJohn Rutter studied music at Clare College, Cambridge and first came to notice as a composer and arranger of Christmas carols and...

for double SATB chorus unaccompanied This is Stanford's extended Latin setting of this text, written in 1918 and acknowledged as its composer's finest a cappella choral work.About the AuthorJohn Rutter studied music at Clare College, Cambridge and first...

A singular resource, Exploring the World of J. S. Bach puts Bach aficionados and classical music lovers in the shoes of the master composer. Bach scholar Robert L. Marshall and veteran writer-translator Traute M. Marshall lead readers on a Baroque Era...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857361127Author Trinity GuildhallPage Count 56Imprint Trinity College London PressPublisher Trinity College London PressWeight(grams) 208g

Gary Numan is widely recognised as being the most important electronic pioneer in music history. Foo Fighters' Dave Grohl, hip-hop innovator Afrika Bambaataa, and Oscar winner and Nine Inch Nails auteur Trent Reznor are among legions of musicians who...

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,...

This book explores art song as an emblem of musical modernity in early twentieth-century East Asia and Australia. It appraises the lyrical power of art song - a solo song set to a poem in the local language in Western art music style accompanied by piano...

FOREWORD BY PETER HOOKThe music. The fashion. The nights. The people. The love. These are the threads that came together to make the Hacienda great.Celebrate the magic of the club that changed everything in this official book, told through evocative...

Music is one of humanity's oldest medicines. From the Far East to the Ottoman Empire, Europe to Africa and the pre-colonial Americas, many cultures have developed their own rich traditions for using sound and rhythm to ease suffering, promote healing,...