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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781470664916Author Robert ParissiFormat PaperbackPage Count 114Imprint Alfred MusicPublisher Alfred MusicWeight(grams) 272g

Mixtape Nostalgia: Culture, Memory, and Representation analyzes the role of the mixtape as a site of collective memory tied to youth culture, community identity, and sharing music. The author looks at the history of the mixtape from the early 1980s and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781470664510Author Percy MayfieldFormat PaperbackPage Count 78Imprint Alfred MusicPublisher Alfred MusicWeight(grams) 318g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780571503223Author Malcolm ArnoldPage Count 4Imprint Faber Music LtdPublisher Faber Music LtdWeight(grams) 38g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780571570447Author Nigel HessPage Count 244Imprint Faber Music LtdPublisher Faber Music LtdWeight(grams) 1250g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780571519002Author Carl VineFormat PaperbackPage Count 52Imprint Faber Music LtdPublisher Faber Music LtdWeight(grams) 183g

Space It is Mary Cohen's tuneful introduction to 2nd finger spacing. Comprising a collection of easy well-known pieces for violin, each tune is presented on a double-page spread in two versions: first in finger pattern one, then, at a different...

for SATB and organ A beautiful, melodic new slant on the well-loved traditional carol.Book InformationISBN 9780193862852Author Antony BaldwinPage Count 8Imprint Oxford University PressPublisher Oxford University PressWeight(grams) 17g

Keyboard Skills for Music Educators: Score Reading is the first textbook equip future educators with the ability to play from an open score at the keyboard. Score reading can be a daunting prospect for even the most accomplished pianist, but it is a...

Choral Music: A Research and Information Guide, Third Edition, offers a comprehensive guide to the literature on choral music in the Western tradition. Clearly annotated bibliographic entries guide readers to resources on key topics within choral music,...

Music, Health, and Power offers an original, on-the-ground analysis of the role that music plays in promoting healthy communities. The book brings the reader inside the world of kanyeleng fertility societies and HIV/AIDS support groups, where women use...

In addition, The Tone Clock contains a broad selection of Peter Schat's polemical writings, embracing historical, political, aesthetic and environmental perspectives. His book is not just of interest to composers, but it also provides a valuable insight...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780014107674Author Oskar RiedingFormat PaperbackPage Count 30Imprint HarperCollins Publishers LtdPublisher HarperCollins PublishersWeight(grams) 136g

For students learning the principles of music theory, it can often seem as though the tradition of tonal harmony is governed by immutable rules that define which chords, tones, and intervals can be used where. Yet even within the classical canon, there...

World Music Pedagogy, Volume VI: School-Community Intersections provides students with a resource for delving into the meaning of "world music" across a broad array of community contexts and develops the multiple meanings of community relative...

Today, jazz history is dominated by iconic figures who have taken on an almost God-like status. From Satchmo to Duke, Bird to Trane, these legendary jazzmen form the backbone of the jazz tradition. Jazz icons not only provide musicians and audiences with...

St Martin of Tours was a protector saint of numerous French kings. His was one of the most successful saintly cults in medieval Europe, and the city of Tours functioned as a religious metropolis, drawing pilgrims from all over the continent. Until now,...

Prokofiev considered himself to be primarily a composer of opera, and his return to Russia in the mid-1930s was partially motivated by the goal to renew his activity in this genre. His Soviet career coincided with the height of the Stalin era, when...

The impact of digital technologies on music has been overwhelming: since the commercialisation of these technologies in the early 1980s, both the practice of music and thinking about it have changed almost beyond all recognition. From the rise of digital...

This book is concerned with a hundred years of musical drama in England. It charts the development of the genre from the theatre works of Henry Purcell (and his contemporaries) to the dramatic oratorios of George Frideric Handel (and his). En route it...

This is the first musicological study entirely devoted to a comprehensive analysis of musical Holocaust representations in the Western art music tradition. Through a series of chronological case studies grounded in primary source analysis, Amy Lynn...

Scientific thinking has long been linked to music theory and instrument making, yet the profound and often surprising intersections between the sciences and opera during the long nineteenth century are here explored for the first time. These touch on a...

This is the first ever book-length study of the a cappella masses which appeared in France in choirbook layout during the baroque era. Though the musical settings of the Ordinarium missae and of the Missa pro defunctis have been the subject of countless...

Ernest Bloch left his native Switzerland to settle in the United States in 1916. One of the great twentieth-century composers, he was influenced by a range of genres and styles - Jewish, American and Swiss - and his works reflect his lifelong struggle...

Musical Creativity in Restoration England is the first comprehensive investigation of approaches to creating music in late seventeenth-century England. Understanding creativity during this period is particularly challenging because many of our basic...

The music of Gustav Mahler repeatedly engages with Romantic notions of redemption. This is expressed in a range of gestures and procedures, shifting between affirmative fulfilment and pessimistic negation. In this groundbreaking study, Stephen Downes...

Go, team, go! Rah, rah, rah! Boomalacka, boomalacka! Sis-boom-bah! Get your pennants and varsity colors and head for the stadium because College Fight Songs will make you an expert on the musical history of university athletic themes and anthems before...

Come join the band! College Fight Songs II is a supplement to the original College Fight Songs, providing 97 additional song texts and interesting historical information. Together they are a unique anthology of college fight songs from across the country...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780521898164Author James GrierFormat HardbackPage Count 225Imprint Cambridge University PressPublisher Cambridge University Press

Luigi Dallapiccola is widely considered a defining figure in twentieth-century Italian musical modernism, whose compositions bear passionate witness to the historical period through which he lived. In this book, Ben Earle focuses on three major works by...

Duke Ellington (1899-1974) is widely considered the jazz tradition's most celebrated composer. This engaging yet scholarly volume explores his long career and his rich cultural legacy from a broad range of in-depth perspectives, from the musical and...

for tenor solo and SATB unaccompanied This is a poignant evocation of morning, opening and closing with a delicate, folk-like melody in the solo part supported by hums and vocalizing. A central episode is more urgent and uses dance rhythms. Despite the...

A French carol setting for SSA and piano or chamber orchestra The arrangement is inventive and sensitive to the original, with easy vocal parts and colourful orchestral accompaniments. Orchestral material is available on hire. A version for SATB is also...

for SATB and piano or chamber orchestra The arrangement is inventive and sensitive to the original, with easy vocal parts and colourful orchestral parts. Material is available on hire. A version for SSA is also available.Book InformationISBN...

Suitable for SATB choir, piano four hands, and percussion.Book InformationISBN 9780193861626Author Mack WilbergPage Count 20Imprint Oxford University PressPublisher Oxford University PressWeight(grams) 54g

Suitable for SA and keyboard or orchestra, this setting of a Catalonian carol aims to be cheerful. It presents an interplay of two treble voices with each other and with the transparent orchestration.Book InformationISBN 9780193861343Author Mack...

for SATB and piano duet or woodwinds (piccolo, flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon) and percussion The rhythmic power of 'Videntes Stellam Magi' is echoed in this jubilant finale. Instrumental material is available on hire.Book InformationISBN...

for SATB with piano or organ, or orchestra Also in Carols for Choirs 3, and 100 Carols for Choirs. The orchestral accompaniment is available on hire.Book InformationISBN 9780193856752Author John RutterPage Count 4Imprint Oxford University PressPublisher...

for SATB and organ, or brass and percussion, or orchestra The Festival Te Deum was composed for the Coronation of King George VI in 1937 and sets the Te Deum text in its English translation from the Book of Common Prayer. It is suitably majestic and...

for SATB choir and SSS soli or semi-chorus, with organ OR brass ensemble (4tpt, 3tbn, tba), timpani, percussion (1 or 2 players), and organ or full orchestra. An exuberant festival psalm setting, commissioned for the Golden Jubilee service in June 2002...