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Electronic and Experimental Music: Technology, Music, and Culture Thom Holmes 9781138365469
RRP: €59.49€53.26Electronic and Experimental Music: Technology, Music, and Culture, Sixth Edition, presents an extensive history of electronic music-from its historical beginnings in the late nineteenth century to its everchanging present-recounting the musical ideas... -
Therapeutic Songwriting: Developments in Theory, Methods, and Practice by F. Baker
RRP: €39.26€35.06Therapeutic Songwriting provides a comprehensive examination of contemporary methods and models of songwriting as used for therapeutic purposes. It describes the environmental, sociocultural, individual, and group factors shaping practice, and how... -
Mystery Train by Greil Marcus
RRP: €23.80€16.02Greil Marcus's study of American rock 'n' roll is justly regarded as one of the most accomplished examples of contemporary music writing. Using a handful of artists -- a brace of bluesmen, The Band, Sly Stone, Randy Newman and Elvis Presley -- Marcus... -
How Popular Musicians Learn: A Way Ahead for Music Education Lucy Green 9780754632269
RRP: €45.21€40.03Popular musicians acquire some or all of their skills and knowledge informally, outside school or university, and with little help from trained instrumental teachers. How do they go about this process? Despite the fact that popular music has recently... -
String Time Christmas: 16 pieces for flexible ensemble by Kathy Blackwell 9780193528055
RRP: €32.73€24.51From the authors of the award-winning Fiddle Time series, String Time Christmas is the perfect resource for beginner string groups of all sizes. This exciting collection provides a fantastic range of flexible ensemble material for the festive season... -
Miserere by Gregorio Allegri
€4.95for unaccompanied SSATB voices with SSAB soloists A practical edition of the extremely famous work by Allegri.About the AuthorJohn Rutter studied music at Clare College, Cambridge and first came to notice as a composer and arranger of Christmas carols... -
Like Some Forgotten Dream: What if the Beatles hadn't split up? by Daniel Rachel 9781788403214
RRP: €17.84€13.03***This is the story of the great lost Beatles album.The end of the Beatles wasn't inevitable. It came through miscommunication, misunderstandings and missed opportunities to reconcile.But what if it didn't end? What if just one of those chances was... -
Treble Recorder Sight-Reading Tests, ABRSM Grades 1-5: from 2018 by ABRSM 9781848499843
RRP: €10.65€8.90This book contains valuable practice material for candidates preparing for ABRSM's Treble Recorder exams at Grades 1-5. It features sample sight-reading tests for the new requirements from 2018, written in attractive and approachable styles.Book... -
'79 Time For Action Mod Revival by Garry Bushell 9781912733378
RRP: €15.46€13.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorGarry Bushell was born and raised in South East London. He started his career on Sounds, interviewing everyone from The Clash and Steel Pulse to Blondie, U2, The... -
Music Engineering by Richard Brice 9780750650403
RRP: €52.35€47.96Music Engineering is a hands-on guide to the practical aspects of electric and electronic music. It is both a compelling read and an essential reference guide for anyone using, choosing, designing or studying the technology of modern music. The... -
Aural Diversity John L. Drever 9781032024998
RRP: €44.02€39.01Aural Diversity addresses a fundamental methodological challenge in music and soundscape research by considering the nature of hearing as a spectrum of diverse experiences. Bringing together an interdisciplinary array of contributors from the arts,... -
Satie the Composer by Robert Orledge 9780521078993
RRP: €32.12€29.01Erik Satie remains one of the most bizarre figures in music history, yet everything he did has its own curious logic, once it can be perceived. In this important new study Dr Orledge reveals what made Satie 'tick' as a composer, dealing with every aspect... -
The Computer Music Tutorial by Curtis Roads 9780262680820
RRP: €107.10€94.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262680820Author Curtis RoadsFormat PaperbackPage Count 1256Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 2404gDimensions(mm) 254mm * 200mm * 52mm -
Style and Idea by Arnold Schoenberg 9780806530956
RRP: €14.22€10.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806530956Author Arnold SchoenbergFormat PaperbackPage Count 236Imprint Philosophical LibraryPublisher Philosophical Library -
Style and Idea by Arnold Schoenberg 9780806530956 [USED COPY]
€18.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806530956Author Arnold SchoenbergFormat PaperbackPage Count 236Imprint Philosophical LibraryPublisher Philosophical Library -
Music and Ceremonial at British Coronations: From James I to Elizabeth II by Matthias Range
RRP: €27.36€24.94Coronations are the grandest of all state occasions. This is the first comprehensive in-depth study of the music that was performed at British coronations from 1603 to the present, encompassing the sixteen coronations that have taken place in Westminster... -
Musical Composition by Reginald Smith Brindle 9780193171077
RRP: €85.68€71.25An instructive book for students at all levels and abilities Musical composition is becoming a key discipline in music courses in both schools and universities, and many teachers consider it as important in the development of young musicians as playing... -
Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 by Nicholas Cook 9780521399241
RRP: €28.55€24.24Beethoven's Ninth Symphony is acknowledged as one of the supreme masterpieces of the Western tradition. More than any other musical work it has become an international symbol of unity and affirmation. Yet early critics rejected it as cryptic and... -
Music and Society: The Politics of Composition, Performance and Reception by Richard Leppert 9780521379779 [USED COPY]
RRP: €47.59€8.89This provocative volume of essays is now available in paperback. The contributors to this volume - musicologists, sociologists, cultural theorists - all challenge the view that music occupies an autonomous aesthetic sphere. Recently, socially and... -
Music and Society: The Politics of Composition, Performance and Reception by Richard Leppert 9780521379779
RRP: €47.59€39.26This provocative volume of essays is now available in paperback. The contributors to this volume - musicologists, sociologists, cultural theorists - all challenge the view that music occupies an autonomous aesthetic sphere. Recently, socially and... -
Write All These Down: Essays on Music by Joseph Kerman
RRP: €36.89€29.07If one name stands out among musicologists writing today, that name is Joseph Kerman. Eminent, wide-ranging, and wonderfully readable, Kerman's writing on musicology, opera, Beethoven, and Elizabethan music has informed and inspired an extensive audience... -
Music's Cult Artists: 100 Artists from Punk, Alternative, and Indie Through to Hip-HOP, Dance Music, and Beyond by John Riordan
RRP: €11.89€8.77Love music? Love illustration? Want to know more about some of the best musicians ever to record - from Bowie and the Beastie Boys to The Smiths and St. Vincent? Then A Guide to Music's Cult Artists is for you. Featuring 100 of the coolest artists... -
Relentless: The Memoir by Yngwie J. Malmsteen 9781118517710
RRP: €29.74€24.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781118517710Author Yngwie J. MalmsteenFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint John Wiley & Sons IncPublisher Turner Publishing Company -
The Cambridge Companion to the String Quartet by Robin Stowell 9780521000420
RRP: €36.88€30.75This Companion offers a concise and authoritative survey of the string quartet by eleven chamber music specialists. Its fifteen carefully structured chapters provide coverage of a stimulating range of perspectives previously unavailable in one volume. It... -
Banjo Roots and Branches by Robert B Winans
RRP: €30.93€26.76The story of the banjo's journey from Africa to the western hemisphere blends music, history, and a union of cultures. In Banjo Roots and Branches, Robert B. Winans presents cutting-edge scholarship that covers the instrument's West African origins and... -
The Paris Diary & The New York Diary 1951-1961 by Ned Rorem 9780306808388
€25.35When The Paris Diary exploded on the scene in 1966 there had never been a book in English quite like it: Its intimate combination of personal, literary, and social insights was unprecedented. Rorem's self-portrait of the artist as a young man, written... -
Bach Transcriptions for Piano: Twentieth-century arrangements from choral and instrumental works by Johann Sebastian Bach 9780193392618
RRP: €27.31€20.65Demonstrating the range and popularity of Bach piano transcriptions during the early twentieth century, this volume brings together arrangements from notable British musical figures, including Myra Hess, Leonard Borwick, Harriet Cohen, and William H... -
A Concise Survey of Music Philosophy Donald A. Hodges 9781138954519
RRP: €64.25€56.25A Concise Survey of Music Philosophy helps music students choose a philosophy that will guide them throughout their careers. The book is divided into three sections: central issues that any music philosophy ought to consider (e.g., beauty, emotion, and... -
GEMIGNANI: Life and Lessons from Broadway and Beyond by Margaret Hall
RRP: €29.75€21.32Paul Gemignani is one of the titans of the modern musical theater industry. Serving as musical director for more than forty Broadway productions since 1971, his collaborations with Stephen Sondheim, Andrew Lloyd Webber, John Kander, Fred Ebb, Hal Prince,... -
The Oxford Book of Choral Music by Black Composers by Marques L. A. Garrett
RRP: €35.40€26.42for SATB accompanied (piano or organ) and unaccompanied The Oxford Book of Choral Music by Black Composers is a landmark collection of non-idiomatic compositions from the sixteenth century to the present day, providing a comprehensive introduction to... -
Alban Berg: Master of the Smallest Link by Theodor W. Adorno
RRP: €19.03€15.62Adorno's study of Alban Berg is a unique document. Itself now a part of music history, it is a personal account, by a pre-eminent philosopher and aesthetician, of the life and musical works of his mentor, friend and composition teacher. Shortly after... -
Rock: 101 Iconic Rock, Heavy Metal and Hard Rock Albums by Paul Elliott
€26.13A chronological review of the most essential and heaviest metal and hard rock albums, illustrated throughout, demonstrating the global popularity of the genre and just how much it has grown. The 1970s was the era when the great heavy metal... -
Dance Of The Infidels: A Portrait Of Bud Powell by Francis Paudras 9780306808166
€25.35What Charlie Parker was to the saxophone, Bud Powell (1924-1966) was to the piano: No jazz pianist can rival his brilliance. But his life was filled with tragedy, including years of electroshock therapy in psychiatric institutions, illnesses, physical... -
Poetry in (e)motion: The Illustrated Words of Scroobius Pip by Scroobius Pip
€9.83One of the UK's most exciting up-and-coming hip-hop artists, Scroobius Pip is a master of the spoken word lyric. From his childhood musings in the school playground to his feelings on the rat race, Pip has selected from his online fan collective artistic... -
Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring by Peter Hill
RRP: €29.74€25.20The Rite of Spring is Stravinsky's most revolutionary work. This important new book provides a comprehensive guide to the work, telling in vivid detail the story of its inception and composition, of the stormy rehearsals which led to the scandalous... -
Music Theory Essentials: A Streamlined Approach to Fundamentals, Tonal Harmony, and Post-Tonal Materials Jason W. Solomon 9781138052536
RRP: €70.20€61.27Music Theory Essentials offers an antidote to music theory textbooks that are overly long and dense. Focusing on the essentials, this text provides a clear-cut guide to the key concepts of music theory. Beginning with no assumptions about music theory... -
The Prague Sonata by Bradford Morrow 9781611855036
RRP: €10.70€7.47Pages of a weathered original sonata manuscript - the gift of a Czech immigrant living in Queens - come into the hands of Meta Taverner, a young musicologist whose concert piano career was cut short by an injury. The gift comes with the request that Meta... -
The Long-Player Goodbye by Travis Elborough
RRP: €11.89€8.33For nearly 60 years, since the arrival of the long-playing record in 1948, the album has provided the soundtrack to our lives. Our record collections, even if they're on CD, or these days, an iPod, are personal treasure, revealing our loves, errors of... -
The Cambridge Companion to Video Game Music by Melanie Fritsch
RRP: €32.12€27.61Video game music has been permeating popular culture for over forty years. Now, reaching billions of listeners, game music encompasses a diverse spectrum of musical materials and practices. This book provides a comprehensive, up-to-date survey of video... -
The Raincoats' The Raincoats by Jenn Pelly
RRP: €11.89€9.25In 1979, from the basement of a London squat, the Raincoats reinvented what punk could be. They had a violin player. They came from Portugal, Spain, and England. Their anarchy was poetic. Working with the iconic Rough Trade Records at its radical...