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Teaching Little Fingers to Play More Easy Duets: Mid to Later-Elementary Equal-Level Piano Duets by Carolyn Miller 9781423483311 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99£4.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781423483311Author Carolyn MillerPage Count 31Imprint Hal Leonard CorporationPublisher Hal Leonard Corporation -
The Early Clarinet: A Practical Guide by Colin Lawson 9780521624664
RRP: £30.99£23.80This practical guide is intended for all clarinettists with a desire to investigate music of earlier periods. It contains practical help on both the aquisition and playing of historical clarinets, while players of modern instruments will find much advice... -
Skye Boat Song by Alexander L'Estrange
RRP: £2.50£1.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780571538126Author Alexander L'EstrangePage Count 8Imprint Faber Music LtdPublisher Faber Music LtdWeight(grams) 20g -
The Early Horn: A Practical Guide by John Humphries 9780521635592
RRP: £30.99£21.89This introduction to the early horn provides a historical account of the instrument's development during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries as well as a practical guide to playing techniques and principles of interpretation. The book aims to help... -
Fugal Composition: A Guide to the Study of Bach's '48' by Dorene Groocock 9780313323232
£95.42Eminently readable despite the complexity of its subject, Fugal Composition: A Guide to the Study of Bach's 48 guides the reader in studying the 48 fugues of the composer's Well-Tempered Clavier. Author Joseph Groocock analyzes each of the fugues... -
Guitar Man: A Six-String Odyssey, or, You Love that Guitar More than You Love Me by Will Hodgkinson 9780306815140
£15.73The guitar is the iconic instrument of modern popular music. It is portable, it has history, and it will always be hip. But why has the guitar become such a classic? Will Hodgkinson, a wannabe guitar player, whose only experience was an afternoon's... -
The BBC and Ultra-Modern Music, 1922-1936: Shaping a Nation's Tastes by Jennifer Doctor 9780521035866
RRP: £37.99£34.46This book, first published in 2000, examines the BBC's campaign to raise cultural awareness of British mass audiences in the early days of radio. As a specific case, it focuses on policies and plans behind transmissions of music by composers associated... -
Concerto for Viola by Malcolm Arnold 9780571505678
RRP: £10.99£10.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780571505678Author Malcolm ArnoldFormat PaperbackPage Count 52Imprint Faber Music LtdPublisher Faber Music LtdWeight(grams) 200g -
William Forsythe and the Practice of Choreography: It Starts From Any Point by Steven Spier 9780415978231
RRP: £35.99£31.69William Forsythe's reinvigoration of classical ballet during his 20-year tenure at the Ballett Frankfurt saw him lauded as one of the greatest choreographers of the postwar era. His current work with The Forsythe Company has gone even further to... -
Analyzing Popular Music by Professor Allan F. Moore 9780521100359
RRP: £39.99£33.26How do we know music? We perform it, we compose it, we sing it in the shower, we cook, sleep and dance to it. Eventually we think and write about it. This book represents the culmination of such shared processes. Each of these essays, written by leading... -
A Handbook to Twentieth-Century Musical Sketches by Patricia Hall 9781107405400
RRP: £23.99£20.66This indispensable handbook, first published in 2004, explains how scholars and students should work with and think about the composer's working manuscripts. This book surveys the knowledge necessary to work efficiently in archives and libraries housing... -
Polish Folk Music: Slavonic Heritage - Polish Tradition - Contemporary Trends by Anna Czekanowska 9780521027977
RRP: £43.99£37.16This study of Polish folk music is especially enlightening as it reveals both the history and practice of a musical tradition and offers an illuminating view of a culture and its social activities. Within her study, Anna Czekanowska analyses the vocal... -
Open Sky: Sonny Rollins And His World Of Improvisation by Eric Nisenson 9780306809880
£14.78Sonny Rollins is one of jazz's great innovators, arguably the most influential tenor saxophonist, along with John Coltrane, in the history of modern jazz. He began his musical career at the age of eleven, and within five short years he was playing with... -
Elliott Carter's Late Music by John Link 9781009490269
RRP: £27.99£25.84The first comprehensive study of the late music of one of the most influential composers of the last half century, this book places Elliott Carter's music from 1995 to 2012 in the broader context of post-war contemporary concert music, including his own... -
A City Called Heaven: Chicago and the Birth of Gospel Music by Robert M. Marovich
RRP: £23.99£21.24In A City Called Heaven, Robert M. Marovich follows gospel music from early hymns and camp meetings through its growth into the sanctified soundtrack of the city's mainline black Protestant churches. Marovich mines print media, ephemera, and hours of... -
Performing Beethoven by Robin Stowell
RRP: £22.99£20.66The ten essays in this volume explore different aspects of the performance of instrumental works by Beethoven. Each essay discusses performance issues from Beethoven's time to the present, whether the objective be to realise a performance in an... -
Beethoven Studies 4 by Keith Chapin
RRP: £79.99£72.56Did you know that Beethoven contemplated, however fleetingly, writing more than forty symphonies and that for the Missa solemnis he sought stimulus from a Latin-German dictionary? And what about the underappreciated sociable side of Beethoven's music to... -
Schubert and the Symphony: A New Perspective Brian Newbould 9780907689263
RRP: £25.00£21.32First full-length study of Schubert's career as a symphonist. Astonishingly, Schubert's symphonies have never received the detailed study that their prominence in the orchestral repertoire would suggest they deserve. In this book Professor Brian... -
Beethoven: The 'Moonlight' and other Sonatas, Op. 27 and Op. 31 by Timothy Jones 9780521598590
RRP: £23.99£20.37Even in Beethoven's day the 'Moonlight' Sonata was a popular favourite. This 1999 book provides an accessible introduction to the Sonatas Opp. 27 and 31 (including The 'Moonlight' and 'The Tempest'), aimed at pianists, students, and music lovers. It... -
Music and the French Revolution by Malcolm Boyd 9780521081870
RRP: £39.99£33.26Rouget de Lisle's famous anthem, La marseillaise, admirably reflects the confidence and enthusiasm of the early years of the French Revolution. But the effects on music of the Revolution and the events that followed it in France were more far-reaching... -
A History of Stringed Keyboard Instruments by Stewart Pollens
£118.32This book explores the history of keyboard instruments from their fourteenth-century origins to the development of the modern piano. It reveals the principles of their design and describes structural and mechanical developments through the medieval and... -
Focus: Irish Traditional Music by Sean Williams
RRP: £43.99£38.44Focus: Irish Traditional Music, Second Edition introduces the instrumental and vocal musics of Ireland, its diaspora in North America, and its Celtic neighbors while exploring the essential values underlying these rich musical cultures and placing them... -
French Pianism: An Historical Perspective by Charles Timbrell
RRP: £30.00£25.15The undisputed pre-eminence of Paris as a centre of the piano world dates from the early 19th century, and the professors of the Paris Conservatoire transmitted the characteristic French style to each new generation for some 150 years. First published in... -
Music in Star Trek: Sound, Utopia, and the Future by Jessica Getman
RRP: £39.99£35.73The tensions between utopian dreams and dystopian anxieties permeate science fiction as a genre, and nowhere is this tension more evident than in Star Trek. This book breaks new ground by exploring music and sound within the Star Trek franchise across... -
Discography of Western Swing and Hot String Bands, 1928-1942 by Cary Ginell 9780313311161
£60.35The result of years of research by its authors, this discography strives to identify and trace the recorded development of the musical style now known as western swing from its early years through World War II. The style developed from the Texas string... -
Music in Twin Peaks: Listen to the Sounds Reba Wissner 9781032005973
RRP: £39.99£35.06In this edited volume, contributors explore an essential element of the influential television series Twin Peaks: the role of music and sound. From its debut in 1990 to its return to television in 2017, Twin Peaks has amassed a cult following, and... -
Music in Television: Channels of Listening by James Deaville 9780415881364
RRP: £39.99£35.06Music in Television is a collection of essays examining television's production of meaning through music in terms of historical contexts, institutional frameworks, broadcast practices, technologies, and aesthetics. It presents the reader with overviews... -
Music in the London Theatre from Purcell to Handel by Colin Timms
RRP: £30.99£22.85This 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... -
Desire, Drink and Death in English Folk and Vernacular Song, 1600-1900 Vic Gammon 9781138278332
RRP: £49.99£43.84This much-needed book provides valuable insights into themes and genres in popular song in the period c. 1600-1900. In particular it is a study of popular ballads as they appeared on printed sheets and as they were recorded by folk song collectors. Vic... -
The Raga-Ness of Ragas: Ragas Beyond the Grammar by Deepak S. Raja 9788124608357
£49.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788124608357Author Deepak S. RajaFormat HardbackPage Count 414Imprint D.K. Print World LtdPublisher D.K. Print World LtdDimensions(mm) 270mm * 150mm * 30mm -
The Music of Aaron Copland Neil Butterworth 9780907689089
RRP: £16.99£14.61First 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... -
German for Musicians by Josephine Barber
RRP: £25.99£22.49"There can be no doubt that German for Musicians will prove a real asset to every young singer and instrumentalist who needs to become acquainted with the German language, written or spoken." -Dietrich Fischer-DieskauGerman for Musicians is an intensive... -
Crucifixus Re-imagined by Cecilia McDowall
£4.16for SSAATTBB unaccompanied Commissioned by Sonoro for the second instalment of their Choral Inspirations project, McDowall has composed Crucifixus Reimagined as a response to Lotti's Crucifixus from Credo in F. Use of suspensions, decorated melodies,... -
Marimba Encores by Evelyn Glennie 9780571517343
£9.33For many, Evelyn Glennie's encores are the highlight of her live performances. These six exquisite, simple melodies, transcribed and arranged by Evelyn, are ideally suited to the emotional qualities of the marimba and are enjoyed immensely by audiences... -
The Musical Dilettante: A Treatise on Composition by J. F. Daube by Johann Friedrich Daube 9780521365642
RRP: £116.00£103.07This is an English translation of Johann Friedrich Daube's Musical Dilettante: A Treatise on Composition (Vienna, 1773). Written as a practical, comprehensive guide for aristocratic dilettantes wishing to compose instrumental chamber music for their... -
Made in Japan: Studies in Popular Music Toru Mitsui 9781138961500
RRP: £37.99£33.64Made in Japan serves as a comprehensive and rigorous introduction to the history, sociology, and musicology of contemporary Japanese popular music. Each essay, written by a leading scholar of Japanese music, covers the major figures, styles, and social... -
Leonard Bernstein: The Political Life of an American Musician by Barry Seldes 9780520257641
RRP: £40.00£31.93From his dazzling conducting debut in 1943 until his death in 1990, Leonard Bernstein's star blazed brilliantly. In this fresh and revealing biography of Bernstein's political life, Barry Seldes examines Bernstein's career against the backdrop of cold... -
The Life of Charles Ives by Stuart Feder 9780521599313
RRP: £22.99£19.56Charles Ives grew up in the nineteenth century and composed chiefly in the twentieth. His nostalgia for a simpler life in the New England country town of his youth is revealed in his frequent musical quotation of songs of that earlier time: parlor and... -
Early English Viols: Instruments, Makers and Music Michael Fleming 9780367229689
RRP: £43.99£38.44Winner of the Nicholas Bessaraboff PrizeMusical repertory of great importance and quality was performed on viols in sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century England. This is reported by Thomas Mace (1676) who says that 'Your Best Provision' for playing... -
The Viola da Gamba Bettina Hoffmann 9781138240230
RRP: £115.00£100.54The viola da gamba was a central instrument in European music from the late 15th century well into the late 18th. In this comprehensive study, Bettina Hoffmann offers both an introduction to the instrument -- its construction, technique and history --...