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Why Marianne Faithfull Matters by Tanya Pearson
RRP: $19.48$13.46A remarkable feminist history and biography that features fragments from the five-decade career of an iconic artist.'Through this deeply personal take, the real significance of Faithfull as an irrepressible female icon shines through.'SHINDIG'Excellent ... -
Finding the Raga: An Improvisation on Indian Music by Amit Chaudhuri
RRP: $19.48$13.46**WINNER OF THE JAMES TAIT BLACK PRIZE**'A splendid book.' Literary Review'A modern masterpiece.' New York Journal of BooksFinding the Raga is Amit Chaudhuri's revelatory exploration of North Indian classical music: an ancient, evolving tradition whose... -
Meter in Music, 1600-1800: Performance, Perception, and Notation by George Houle
RRP: $33.13$29.39"All practising musicians with an interest in the baroque owe it to themselves to be exposed to the ideas contained in this book." -Continuo"This is a book from an excellent musician in the early field who turns out also to be a most persistent scholar ... -
The Gift of Life: Six Canticles of Creation by John Rutter 9780193411500
RRP: $31.69$24.49for mixed choir (double choir for movement 3) with orchestra or chamber ensemble The Gift of Life is a six-movement choral celebration of the living earth and its creation. Setting a variety of sacred texts, including new words by the composer, the... -
Burning Down The Haus: Punk Rock, Revolution and the Fall of the Berlin Wall by Tim Mohr 9780349701318
RRP: $37.03$25.64LONGLISTED FOR THE CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE 'A thrilling and essential social history that details the rebellious youth movement that helped change the world' Rolling Stone'A riveting and inspiring history of punk's hard-fought struggle in East... -
Maestros And Their Music by John Mauceri
RRP: $37.03$25.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781101973608Author John MauceriFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA Inc -
Double Bass Exam Pack 2020-2023, Initial Grade: Score & Part, with audio by ABRSM 9781786012814
RRP: $19.40$16.09This book brings together in one place selected exam pieces, scales and sight-reading to support ABRSM's Initial Grade Double Bass syllabus for 2020-2023. The pieces, three from each of Lists A, B and C, have been carefully selected to offer an... -
Mary Climbs In: The Journeys of Bruce Springsteen's Women Fans by Lorraine Mangione
RRP: $42.88$37.42Bruce Springsteen has been cherished by his fans for decades, from his early days playing high school gymnasiums through globally successful albums and huge stadium shows to solo performances in intimate theaters. As his long and illustrious career has... -
The Cambridge Companion to the Musical by William A. Everett
RRP: $60.43$46.51The expanded and updated third edition of this acclaimed Companion provides an accessible, broadly based survey of one of the liveliest and most popular forms of musical performance. It ranges from the American musical of the nineteenth century to the... -
David Bowie Made Me Gay: 100 Years of LGBT Music by Darryl W. Bullock
RRP: $25.33$18.17'Lovingly detailed and exhaustively researched - easily the most readable and comprehensive guide I've seen to this fascinating hidden history' Tom Robinson, musician, broadcaster and long-time LGBT rights activist From Sia to Elton John, Dusty... -
Really Easy Violin Book (Piano Accompaniment) by Edward Huws Jones 9780571510917
RRP: $16.58$15.33If you can play just a few notes on the violin, then you're ready for the Really Easy Violin Book. Here are 15 imaginative, newly-composed little pieces for the absolute beginner, all with attractive piano accompaniments. The pieces are arranged... -
The Oxford Book of Easy Flexible Anthems: Simple, varied anthems for the church year by Alan Bullard 9780193413269
RRP: $51.19$38.42The Oxford Book of Easy Flexible Anthems caters for church choirs of all types and sizes, enabling them to have at their fingertips easy music for every occasion. The collection presents flexibility of scoring in a constructive and realistic way, with... -
Wild! Wild! Wild!: A People's History of Slade by Malcolm Wyatt 9781915858078
RRP: $48.75$32.84An oral history of the rock band Slade in the words of over 300 fansBook InformationISBN 9781915858078Author Malcolm WyattFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Spenwood BooksPublisher Spenwood BooksWeight(grams) 750g -
Festivals: A Survival Guide: Cope with Everything: Tents, Toilets, Torrential Rain, Too Much Booze, and More by Jo Hoare 9781909313873 [USED COPY]
RRP: $19.48$4.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909313873Author Jo HoareFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Dog 'n' BonePublisher Ryland, Peters & Small LtdWeight(grams) 297g -
Teaching Secondary Music by Jayne Price 9780857023933
RRP: $259.35$210.33Designed to support teachers in developing new strategies and pedagogies for teaching music, and for teacher education students requiring a comprehensive overview of the subject Teaching Secondary Music provides a modern and accessible insight into the... -
Scala Radio's A Soundtrack for Life: Classical Music to Take You Through the Day Scala Radio 9780857839671
RRP: $39.00$26.62Bringing together much-loved masterpieces with exciting new works, this accessible and inspiring guide is a celebration of classical music. With pieces ranging from Vaughan Williams's 'The Lark Ascending' and Beethoven's 'Pastoral' Symphony to the scores... -
Horn Solos Book 1 by Arthur A. Campbell 9780571512577
RRP: $21.43$19.79Horn Solos Book 1 includes 19 pieces of music, with solos graded from the very beginnings up to intermediate level. The early pieces are written or arranged so that beginners can play along with the piano from the first weeks, allowing a good sense of... -
Lutyens, Maconchy, Williams and Twentieth-Century British Music: A Blest Trio of Sirens Rhiannon Mathias 9781138262768
RRP: $97.48$86.27Elisabeth Lutyens (1906-1983), Elizabeth Maconchy (1907-1994) and Grace Williams (1906-1977) were contemporaries at the Royal College of Music. The three composers' careers were launched with performances in the Macnaghten-Lemare Concerts in the 1930s -... -
Gay Talese. Phil Stern. Frank Sinatra Has a Cold Gay Talese 9783836576185
RRP: $97.50$62.13"Sinatra with a cold is Picasso without paint, Ferrari without fuel-only worse. For the common cold robs Sinatra of that uninsurable jewel, his voice, cutting into the core of his confidence." - Gay Talese In the winter of 1965, writer Gay... -
Hans Keller 1919 - 1985: A musician in dialogue with his times Alison Garnham 9781138391048
RRP: $74.08$65.60Hans Keller 1919-1985: A musician in dialogue with his times is the first full biography of Hans Keller and the first appearance in print of many of his letters. Eight substantial chapters, integrating original documents with their historical context,... -
Heavy: How Metal Changes the Way We See the World by Dan Franklin
RRP: $19.48$13.46'A weighty discussion of metal, for both passionate fans and neophytes' Guardian'Heavy opens an ornate portal into a murky subculture, illuminating the marginalia as well as the big beasts' Sunday TimesWhat exactly is heavy metal music? How deep do its... -
Exploring Twentieth-Century Music: Tradition and Innovation by Arnold Whittall 9780521016681
RRP: $48.73$41.30In this wide-ranging book, Arnold Whittall considers a group of important composers of the twentieth century, including Debussy, Webern, Schoenberg, Stravinsky, Bartok, Janacek, Britten, Carter, Birtwistle, Andriessen and Adams. He moves skilfully... -
Oxford Hymn Settings for Organists: Pentecost and Trinity: 27 original pieces on hymns for Pentecost and Trinity by David Blackwell 9780193400696
RRP: $51.19$38.42With a host of accessible, quality new settings, and with pieces based on all the major hymn tunes, these volumes are a must for every church organist's library.About the AuthorRebecca Groom te Velde earned degrees in organ performance from Seattle... -
Microsound by Curtis Roads
RRP: $93.60$72.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262681544Author Curtis RoadsFormat PaperbackPage Count 424Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 771gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 203mm * 19mm -
China and the World since 1945: An International History by Chi-kwan Mark
RRP: $70.18$61.80The emergence of China as a dominant regional power with global influence is a significant phenomenon in the twenty-first century. Its origin could be traced back to 1949 when the Chinese Communist Party under Mao Zedong came to power and vowed to... -
Musical Modernism in Global Perspective: Entangled Histories on a Shared Planet by Björn Heile 9781009491709
RRP: $175.50$156.74In the first study of the global dimensions of musical modernism, Bjoern Heile proposes a novel theory according to which musical modernism is constituted by a global diasporic network of composers, musicians and institutions. In a series of historical... -
The Royal College of Music and its Contexts: An Artistic and Social History by David C. H. Wright
RRP: $72.13$50.41Located between the great Victorian museums of South Kensington and the Royal Albert Hall, the Royal College of Music, founded in 1883, has been a central influence on British musical life ever since. This wide-ranging account places the College within... -
Cecchetti Method of Classical Ballet: Theory and Technique by Cyril W.Beaumont & Stanis 9780486431772
RRP: $31.18$23.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486431772Author Cyril W.Beaumont & StanisFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
Dylan, Lennon, Marx and God by Jon Stewart
RRP: $48.73$41.96Bob Dylan and John Lennon are two of the most iconic names in popular music. Dylan is arguably the twentieth century's most important singer-songwriter. Lennon was founder and leader of the Beatles who remain, by some margin, the most covered songwriters... -
The Life of Messiaen by Christopher Dingle 9780521635479
RRP: $44.83$38.14Olivier Messiaen stands as one of the most influential composers of the twentieth century and among the foremost religious artists of any era. When he died in 1992, the prevailing image was of a deeply religious man whose only sources of inspiration were... -
Sound Figures by Theodor W. Adorno 9780804735582
RRP: $40.93$36.39Theodor Adorno is one of this century's most influential thinkers in the areas of social theory, philosophy, aesthetics, and music. Throughout the essays in this book, all of which concern musical matters, he displays an astonishing range of cultural... -
Nadia and Lili Boulanger Caroline Potter 9781138263512
RRP: $97.48$85.49Pioneers in their fields and two of the best-known women in music in the twentieth century, Nadia and Lili Boulanger have previously been considered in isolation from one another. Yet, as Caroline Potter's new book demonstrates, their careers were... -
The Road to Riverdance PB Bill Whelan 9781843518525
RRP: $42.90$35.06Riverdance exploded across the stage at Dublin's Point Theatre one spring evening in 1994 during a seven-minute interval of the Eurovision Song Contest hosted by Ireland. It was a watershed moment in the cultural history of a country embracing the... -
Goin' Down De Mont: A People’s History of Rock Concerts at Leicester’s De Montfort Hall by Bruce Pegg 9781916889644
RRP: $38.98$25.86Goin' Down De Mont catalogues the 800+ rock and pop concerts staged at Leicester's De Montfort Hall over the past 65 years through 200 eyewitness accounts from fans and celebrity musicians. This includes The Beatles, the Rolling Stones, David Bowie, Led... -
The Oxford Handbook of Sound Studies by Trevor Pinch 9780199995813
RRP: $97.48$90.71Written by the world's leading scholars and researchers in the emerging field of sound studies, The Oxford Handbook of Sound Studies offers new and fully engaging perspectives on the significance of sound in its material and cultural forms. The book... -
Even the Old Dude is Cool: William S. Burroughs on the Wheels of Steel and the Silver Screen by Simon Strong 9780992302108
RRP: $29.25$26.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780992302108Author Simon StrongFormat PaperbackPage Count 122Imprint Ledatape OrganisationPublisher Ledatape OrganisationWeight(grams) 224gDimensions(mm)... -
Become a Competent Music Producer in 365 Days Sam George 9781032446110
RRP: $64.33$57.31Become a Competent Music Producer in 365 Days is a comprehensive, step-by-step guide to the fundamentals of music-production. Over the course of a year, this book takes the reader through ten chapters covering mixing, equalization, compression, reverb,... -
The Music of Aaron Copland Neil Butterworth 9780907689072
RRP: $48.75$41.57First survey of Copland's entire output for some 30 years - a period seeing some of his most important works. Aaron Copland was one of the twentieth century's most popular and distinguished composers. Copland was born in 1900 in Brooklyn, where he... -
The Cambridge Companion to Krautrock by Uwe Schutte 9781009005272
RRP: $48.73$42.08This Companion is the first academic introduction to the 1960s/70s 'Krautrock' movement of German experimental music that has long attracted the attention of the music press and fans in Britain and abroad. It offers a structured approach to this... -
The Rolling Stones in the Sixties - A People's History by Richard Houghton 9781916889651
RRP: $38.98$25.08The Rolling Stones were formed in 1962 by Brian Jones, Mick Jagger and Keith Richards. Together with Bill Wyman and Charlie Watts, the Stones were pop music's bad boys, making newspaper headlines because they grew their hair long, refused to wear...