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Bali Moods No.1 by Anne Boyd 9780571514038
RRP: £8.50£7.67Bali Moods No.1 takes as its starting point traditional Balinese gamelan music and is written throughout in an equally-tempered version of the pelog scale, one of the two predominant scale systems associated with Indonesian music. The 'moods' of the... -
Eco-Literate Music Pedagogy by Daniel Shevock
RRP: £21.99£19.34Eco-Literate Music Pedagogy examines the capacity of musiciking to cultivate ecological literacy, approaching eco-literate music pedagogy through philosophical and autoethnographical lenses. Building on the principle that music contributes uniquely to... -
Twentieth-Century Organ Music Christopher S. Anderson (Southern Methodist University, USA) 9780415875660
RRP: £54.99£44.67This volume explores twentieth-century organ music through in-depth studies of the principal centers of composition, the most significant composers and their works, and the evolving role of the instrument and its music. The twentieth-century was a time... -
On Sonic Art Trevor Wishart 9783718658473
RRP: £96.99£84.45In this newly revised book On Sonic Art, Trevor Wishart takes a wide-ranging look at the new developments in music-making and musical aesthetics made possible by the advent of the computer and digital information processing. His emphasis is on musical... -
Brook Benton: There Goes That Song Again by Herwig Gradischnig
RRP: £24.99£16.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956267986Author Herwig GradischnigFormat PaperbackPage Count 434Imprint Music Mentor BooksPublisher Music Mentor BooksWeight(grams) 742g -
Ain't Misbehaving: The Story Of Fats Waller by Ed Kirkeby 9780306800153
£18.09Once the king of the blues-derived "stride" school of jazz piano, Fats Waller earned his reputation as the most perfect of all jazz pianists with impeccable time keeping, instrumental mastery, the intensity of swing, and melodic gift. He... -
Big Mama Thornton: The Life and Music by Michael Sporke 9780786477593
RRP: £21.99£17.97You ain't nothing but a "Hound Dog" ... with these words shouted into the microphone she will always be remembered: Big Mama Thornton. Who is this woman who sang the megahit "Hound Dog" before Elvis Presley and who wrote "Ball & Chain," the song that... -
Music and Medicine: Medical Profiles of Great Composers by John O'Shea 9780460861069
£46.76BL Fascinating medical histories of 20 composers, explained without the use of medical jargon The lives of many great composers were beset by sever pain and disease, often exacernbated by the dubious medical practices of the time. Drawing on recent... -
Da Capo Best Music Writing 2000: The Year's Finest Writing On Rock, Pop, Jazz, Country And More by Douglas Wolk 9780306809996
£21.30Welcome to the first volume in an exciting new annual series that celebrates the year's best American writing about music and its culture, as selected by one of the genre's preeminent practitioners. Covering the gamut of contemporary styles,rock, pop,... -
Kiss Me Kate by Cole Porter 9780571532865
RRP: £22.00£20.97Cole Porter’s musical that incorporates Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew within his own story. This was Porter’s ‘comeback’ musical and was indeed his most successful.Book InformationISBN 9780571532865Author Cole PorterPage Count 216Imprint Faber... -
Recital Training [Incl. CD]: Book & CD by Kerstin Wartberg
RRP: £28.95£18.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780014110025Author Kerstin WartbergFormat PaperbackPage Count 999Imprint HarperCollins Publishers LtdPublisher HarperCollins PublishersWeight(grams) 340g -
Female Composers, Conductors, Performers: Musiciennes of Interwar France, 1919-1939 Laura Hamer 9780367590697
RRP: £39.99£35.06Drawing upon extensive archival research, interview material, and musical analysis, Female Composers, Conductors, Performers: Musiciennes of Interwar France, 1919-1939 presents an innovative study of women working as professional musicians in France... -
Gypsy by Stephen Sondheim 9780881880243
RRP: £69.99£45.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780881880243Author Stephen SondheimPage Count 192Imprint Hal Leonard CorporationPublisher Hal Leonard CorporationWeight(grams) 644g -
Jazz Masters Of The 50s by Joe Goldberg 9780306801976
£18.09The fifties, though a quiescent period in many ways, was one of the most fervent decades in jazz history. The landmarks of modern jazz were firmly planted and, it could be argued, nearly all directions the music has taken since then can be charted back... -
Technology and the Stylistic Evolution of the Jazz Bass Peter Dowdall 9781138236561
RRP: £125.00£107.86Technology and the Stylistic Evolution of the Jazz Bass traces the stylistic evolution of jazz from the bass player's perspective. Historical works to date have tended to pursue a 'top down' reading, one that emphasizes the influence of the treble... -
Pop Music - Technology and Creativity: Trevor Horn and the Digital Revolution Timothy Warner 9780754631323
RRP: £39.99£35.33This highly original and accessible book draws on the author's personal experience as a musician, producer and teacher of popular music to discuss the ways in which audio technology and musical creativity in pop music are inextricably bound together... -
Brahms: His Life And Work by Karl Geiringer 9780306802232
£18.42Karl Geiringer's biography of Brahms is generally regarded as the finest study of the composer ever published in any language. It is based upon the great body of material in the archives of the Viennese Society of Friends, for which Dr. Geiringer was... -
Schumann: Fantasie, Op. 17 by Nicholas Marston 9780521398923
RRP: £26.99£22.80Schumann's Fantasie, Op. 17 is one of the finest examples of Romantic piano music. In a rounded picture of this major keyboard work, Nicholas Marston traces the fascinating history of its composition, drawing on many of Schumann's letters to Clara Wieck... -
Strauss: Also sprach Zarathustra by John Williamson 9780521409353
RRP: £26.99£22.80Richard Strauss's tone poem Also sprach Zarathustra is one of his most controversial works. Its greatest popularity has been achieved when its connection with Nietzsche's book of the same name has seemed less relevant than its associations with Kubrick's... -
Lateness and Modernism: Untimely Ideas about Music, Literature and Politics in Interwar Britain by Sarah Collins
RRP: £30.99£21.89In the aftermath of World War I, a sense of impasse and thwarted promise shaped the political and cultural spheres in Britain. Writers such as D. H. Lawrence, Hilda Doolittle, T. S. Eliot and Wyndham Lewis were among the literary figures who responded by... -
Lost in the Grooves: Scram's Capricious Guide to the Music You Missed by Kim Cooper
RRP: £35.99£31.69Do you remember these great pop stars and their hits? Deerhoof's The Man, The King, The Girl Butch Hancock's West Texas Waltzes and Dust Blown Tractor Tunes, Swamp Dogg's Cuffed, Collared and Tagged, Michael Head's TheMagical World Of The Strands, John... -
Sibelius Studies by Timothy L. Jackson 9780521033572
RRP: £26.99£24.38This book, first published in 2001, presents a portrait of Jean Sibelius as composer and man, a figure of national and international significance, patriot, husband and father. Three introductory articles explore Sibelius's reception in Finland,... -
Music of the Soviet Era: 1917-1991 Levon Hakobian 9781138362659
RRP: £43.99£38.84This volume is a comprehensive and detailed survey of music and musical life of the entire Soviet era, from 1917 to 1991, which takes into account the extensive body of scholarly literature in Russian and other major European languages. In this... -
Mozart: The 'Haydn' Quartets by John Irving 9780521585613
RRP: £25.99£21.99Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Luigi Nono: A Composer in Context by Carola Nielinger-Vakil 9780521845342
RRP: £125.00£106.03The anti-fascist cantata Il canto sospeso, the string quartet Fragmente - Stille, an Diotima and the 'Tragedy of Listening' Prometeo cemented Luigi Nono's place in music history. In this study, Carola Nielinger-Vakil examines these major works in the... -
Olivier Messiaen's System of Signs: Notes Towards Understanding His Music Andrew Shenton 9781138257290
RRP: £49.99£43.84Andrew Shenton's groundbreaking cross-disciplinary approach to Messiaen's music presents a systematic and detailed examination of the compositional techniques of one of the most significant musicians of the twentieth century as they relate to his desire... -
Jazz Improvisation Using Simple Melodic Embellishment by Mike Titlebaum
RRP: £49.99£43.90Jazz Improvisation Using Simple Melodic Embellishment teaches fundamental concepts of jazz improvisation, highlighting the development of performance skills through embellishment techniques. Written with the college-level course in mind, this... -
Film Music: Cognition to Interpretation by Juan Chattah 9781138586710
RRP: £37.99£33.38Integrates concepts from cognitive research with film music studies, offering a new application of this research, and a new mode of analysis for film music. Clear explanations help bridge disciplinary divide, introducing cognition research to music and... -
Dixie Dewdrop: The Uncle Dave Macon Story by Michael D. Doubler
RRP: £15.99£14.24One of the earliest performers on WSM in Nashville, Uncle Dave Macon became the Grand Ole Opry's first superstar. His old-time music and energetic stage shows made him a national sensation and fueled a thirty-year run as one of America's most beloved... -
The Virtuoso Liszt by Dana Gooley 9780521108720
RRP: £34.99£29.35The greatest virtuoso career in history - that of Franz Liszt - has been told in countless biographies. But what does that career look like when viewed from the perspective of European cultural history? In this study Dana Gooley examines the world of... -
Orlando Gibbons and the Gibbons Family of Musicians by John Harley
RRP: £32.99£29.79First published in 1999, this volume is the first full-length study to deal with the life and music of Orlando Gibbons since E.H. Fellowes's short book, originally published in 1923. John Harley investigates in detail the family and musical background... -
Holding the Note by David Remnick
RRP: £16.99£13.18'Always up close and personal, always tenacious and informed by deep background, and always vivid and veracious' The TimesThe greatest popular songs, whether it's Aretha Franklin singing 'Respect' or Bob Dylan performing 'Blind Willie McTell', have a way... -
Music Making and Civic Imagination: A Holistic Philosophy Dave Camlin (Royal College of Music, UK) 9781789388022
RRP: £99.95£93.07In a world facing multiple existential crises, music might be seen as little more than a distraction. However, in this synthesis of ideas developed over a decade, a timely re-appraisal of the potential of musicing for human flourishing is presented,... -
Bach, Handel and Scarlatti: Reception in Britain 1750-1850 by Mark Kroll 9781009009065
RRP: £17.00£14.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781009009065Author Mark KrollFormat PaperbackPage Count 75Imprint Cambridge University PressPublisher Cambridge University Press -
The Age of Mozart and Beethoven by Giorgio Pestelli 9780521284790
RRP: £30.99£23.80Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
European Film Music by David Burnand
£46.85The vast majority of writing on film music is concentrated on Hollywood in particular and on a canon of North American scores and films more generally. Recent scholarship acknowledges other traditions of film scoring but little has been written about... -
Arbans complete celebrated method for the cornet by Jean-Baptiste Arban 9783956980831
RRP: £40.90£36.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783956980831Author Jean-Baptiste ArbanFormat PaperbackPage Count 294Imprint Vero VerlagPublisher Vero VerlagWeight(grams) 685gDimensions(mm) 279mm * 216mm *... -
New Kids on the Block's Hangin' Tough by Rebecca Wallwork
RRP: £9.99£7.89Hangin' Tough, the second album by the New Kids on the Block, has sold more than seventeen million copies worldwide since it was released in 1988. But the album and the band have also been dismissed, derided and deemed uncool by the music establishment. ... -
Myself Among Others: A Life In Music by George Wein 9780306813528
RRP: £23.99£20.56No one has had a better seat in the house than George Wein. The legendary impresario has known the most celebrated figures of music in general and jazz in particular- from Duke Ellington to Ella Fitzgerald to Miles Davis to Frank Sinatra. As a founder of... -
Women in Rock Memoirs: Music, History, and Life-Writing by Cristina Garrigós 9780197659335
RRP: £25.99£21.99Women in Rock Memoirs vindicates the role of women in rock music. The chapters examine memoirs written by women in rock from 2010 onwards to explore how the artists narrate their life experiences and difficulties they had to overcome, not only as...