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In the summer of 1972, during a compulsory stint in the South African military, Stephen 'Sugar' Segerman heard the music that would forever change his life. A decade later, on yet another military base, Craig Bartholomew Strydom heard the same music. It...

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

Unbeaten Tracks (Flute) introduces contemporary pieces of standard and new to unusual repertoire to the Intermediate flautist player (Grade 4-7), and is paired with piano accompaniment, offering both challenge and reward in equal measure. This book,...

This book brings together - for the first time - selected exam pieces, scales and arpeggios, sight-reading and audio downloads, to support ABRSM's 2018-2021 Grade 5 Flute syllabus. Key features: Nine pieces in a range of styles, chosen from Lists A, B...

This book contains nine pieces from ABRSM's Grade 4 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...

Album art is indelibly linked to our collective musical memories; when you think of your favorite albums, you picture the covers. Many photographers, illustrators, and art directors have become celebrities from their album artworks-the best examples of...

This book contains nine pieces for ABRSM's Grade 4 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 4 Drum Kit syllabus from 2024, providing...

The most successful weekend show on Radio 2, Sounds of the Sixties has over 3.5 million listeners every Saturday morning. Presented by Brian Matthew, the programme has become an institution. This new book contains fascinating facts about memorable hits...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912685790Author Dhanveer Singhi. BrarFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Goldsmiths, Unversity of LondonPublisher Goldsmiths, Unversity of London

THE LOUDER THAN WAR #1 BOOK OF THE YEARA ROUGH TRADE, THE TIMES, MOJO, UNCUT, THE HERALD BOOK OF THE YEARThis is not a book about a rock band. This is not even a book about Mark E Smith. This is a book about The Fall group - or more precisely, their...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781785581557Author Richard KnightPage Count 376Imprint Rhinegold EducationPublisher Hal Leonard Europe Limited

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525573883Author Vikki TobakFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Clarkson PotterPublisher Potter/Ten Speed/Harmony/Rodale

Everything you want to know about the fabulousness that is Eurovision! The Eurovision Song Contest is one of the world's longest running TV programmes, and has become a much loved tradition across Europe and now Australia. From the spandex to the...

Everything you want to know about the fabulousness that is Eurovision! The Eurovision Song Contest is one of the world's longest running TV programmes, and has become a much loved tradition across Europe and now Australia. From the spandex to the...

'For all these years I've told stories. Sometimes these days I also tell them on the radio. I've met some amazing people and their stories need told too. The first time Deacon Blue ever played Wembley Arena I started to introduce a song only to...

From the Minds of Jazz Musicians: Conversations with the Creative and Inspired celebrates contemporary jazz artists who have toiled, struggled and succeeded in finding their creative space. The volume was developed through transcribing and editing...

'Lia Louis has become a must-buy author for me!' JODI PICOULT'Heartwarming, hope-filled and hilarious' LINDSEY KELK Can you ever really find the one after 'the one'?Some people spend their whole lives trying to find the one. But Natalie had found him -...

Engaging, clear and informative, this is the story of western music - of its great composers and also of its performers and listeners, of changing ideas of what music is and what it is for. Paul Griffiths shows how music has evolved through the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780951105559Author Helio OrovioFormat PaperbackPage Count 246Weight(grams) 152g

Sound At Sight Trumpet (Grades 1-8), an addition to the Sound At Sight series, provides a wealth of approachable and attractive sight-reading pieces for the trumpet. Each piece has been carefully graded to match exam requirements and is presented in a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486297255Author Herder HerderFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

This book explores how, and why, the blues became a central component of English popular music in the 1960s. It is commonly known that many 'British invasion' rock bands were heavily influenced by Chicago and Delta blues styles. But how, exactly, did...

This book contains nine pieces from ABRSM's Grade 2 Piano syllabus for 2023 & 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...

This book contains all the scales and arpeggios required for ABRSM's Treble Recorder exams at Grades 1-5. It features all the new requirements from 2018, arranged in grade order.Book InformationISBN 9781848499126Author ABRSMPage Count 16Imprint...

This book contains nine pieces from ABRSM's Grade 3 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913689506Author Adrian WhittakerFormat PaperbackPage Count 704Imprint Strange Attractor PressPublisher Strange Attractor Press

Standing at the crossroads - the Mississippi crossroads of Robert Johnson and the devil's infamous meeting - Mark Radcliffe found himself facing his own personal juncture. Aged sixty, he had just mourned the death of his father, only to be diagnosed with...

Book Prize Winner of the International Alliance for Women in Music of the 2022 Pauline Alderman Awards for Outstanding Scholarship on Women in Music The Heart of a Woman offers the first-ever biography of Florence B. Price, a composer whose career...

'Heavenly is more than a record label, it's the absolute nectar of all that's brilliant in the culture of these island. I love the shit out of them and everything they stand for.' Irvine WelshBELIEVE IN MAGIC tells the story of Heavenly Recordings in...

In the American musical theater, the most typical form of structuring musicals has been the book musical, in which songs interrupt spoken dialogue and add means to depict characters and dramatic situations. After 1980, a form of structuring musicals that...

ABRSM's official Music Theory Practice Papers 2021 are essential resources for candidates preparing for our online Music Theory exams. They provide authentic practice material and are a reliable guide as to what to expect in the exam. - Essential...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781883217426Author Barry FinnertyPage Count 162Imprint Sher Music Co ,U.S.Publisher Sher Music Co ,U.S.Weight(grams) 451g

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

This work on Charlie "Bird" Parker offers a picture of not only of the saxophonist-composer as an artist and as a human being, but also of zeitgeist and the musical/social setting that produced him. It shows his complex personality; his great appetites;...

Handel called Britain 'The Ringing Isle' because he heard bells ringing everywhere he went. Behind the quintessentially English sound of bells ringing lies a unique way of hanging bells and a special way of ringing them that evolved in the late sixteenth...

Everyone remembers their first NOW album. Since NOW That's What I Call Music Volume 1 was released in 1983 on double vinyl and double cassette, NOW has become synonymous with pop music and has featured some of the most iconic artists of the last three...

From the earliest years of the 20th century composers sought ways in which to break from earlier musical traditions. Serialism is one of the most prominent innovations resulting from this. From Schoenberg to Stockhausen, Berg to Boulez, this introduction...

In 1996, Patterson Hood recruited friends and fellow musicians in Athens, Georgia, to form his dream band: a group with no set lineup that specialized in rowdy rock and roll. The Drive-By Truckers, as they named themselves, grew into one of the best and...

An intimate, coming-of-age memoir by legendary guitarist Kid Congo Powers, detailing his experiences as a young, queer Mexican-American in 1970s Los Angeles through his rise in the glam rock and punk rock scenes. Kid Congo Powers has been described as...