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Toward a Sound Ecology: New and Selected Essays by Jeff Todd Titon 9780253049681
RRP: £29.99£26.50How does sound ecology-an acoustic connective tissue among communities-also become a basis for a healthy economy and a just community? Jeff Todd Titon's lived experiences shed light on the power of song, the ecology of musical cultures, and even cultural... -
New Musical Figurations: Anthony Braxton's Cultural Critique by Ronald M. Radano 9780226701967
RRP: £28.00£27.39By relating biography to the cultural and musical contours of contemporary American life, Ronald M. Radano observes jazz practice as part of the complex interweaving of postmodern culture - a culture that has eroded conventional categories defining jazz... -
Dowland: Lachrimae (1604) by Professor Peter Holman 9780521588294
RRP: £25.99£21.99Dowland's Lachrimae (1604) is perhaps the greatest but most enigmatic publication of instrumental music from before the eighteenth century. This new handbook, the first detailed study of the collection, investigates its publication history, its... -
SF Rave Flyers 1991-1993 Volume 2 by Dano Lepez
RRP: £15.00£9.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913316044Author Dano LepezFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Antenne Books LimitedPublisher Antenne Books LimitedWeight(grams) 120g -
Culturally Responsive Choral Music Education: What Teachers Can Learn From Nine Students' Experiences in Three Choirs Julia T. Shaw (Ohio State University, USA) 9781032240459
RRP: £19.99£17.69Culturally Responsive Choral Music Education visits the classrooms of three ethnically diverse choral teacher-conductors to highlight specific examples of ways that culturally responsive teaching (CRT) can enrich choral music education.Principles of CRT... -
Every Little Thing Gonna Be Alright: The Bob Marley Reader by Hank Bordowitz 9780306813405
£19.16Throughout Africa, the Caribbean, Europe, and America, Bob Marley represents far more than just the musician who translated spiritual and political beliefs into hypnotic, hard-hitting songs such as "Get Up, Stand Up," "No Woman, No... -
The Bluegrass Reader by Thomas Goldsmith
RRP: £17.99£15.90In The Bluegrass Reader, Thomas Goldsmith joins his insights as a journalist with a lifetime of experience in bluegrass to capture the full story of this beloved American music. Inspired by the question "What articles about bluegrass would you want to... -
Black Talk by Ben Sidran 9780306801846
£18.09Black Music,whether it be jazz, blues, r&b, gospel, or soul,has always expressed, consciously or not, its African "oral" heritage, reflecting the conditions of a minority culture in the midst of a white majority. Black Talk is one of those... -
Music at First Sight: The Nine Fundamental Concepts for Sight Reading Mastery by Kevin Ernesto Valenzuela 9789877780505
RRP: £9.97£8.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789877780505Author Kevin Ernesto ValenzuelaFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint Online Music GuildPublisher Online Music GuildWeight(grams)... -
Songs for the Spirits: Music and Mediums in Modern Vietnam by Barley Norton
RRP: £39.00£34.52Songs for the Spirits examines the Vietnamese practice of communing with spirits through music and performance. During rituals dedicated to a pantheon of indigenous spirits, musicians perform an elaborate sequence of songs--a "songscape"--for possessed... -
Modzines: Special Edition: Fanzine Culture from the Mod Revival by Eddie Piller
RRP: £40.00£29.87Modzines is the ultimate celebration of fanzines from the Mod revival era, featuring original artwork, photography and interviews with the key creators. Leading figures from the scene including fanzine editors, bands, DJ s, promoters, journalists... -
Theme and Variations: Musical Notes by a Neurologist by Carl Ellenberger 9780999561249
RRP: £21.95£19.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999561249Author Carl EllenbergerFormat HardbackPage Count 306Imprint Promusica PressPublisher Promusica PressWeight(grams) 603gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
The Nature of Nordic Music by Tim Howell
RRP: £39.99£35.06The Nature of Nordic Music explores two distinctive yet complementary understandings of the term 'nature': the inherent features, characters and qualities of contemporary Nordic music, and how the elemental forces of nature, the phenomena of the physical... -
The Stick Bag Book Of Rhythms And Percussion by Felipe Orozco 9780825633775
£4.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780825633775Author Felipe OrozcoFormat PaperbackPage Count 63Imprint AMSCO MusicPublisher AMSCO Music -
The String Quartets of Beethoven by William Kinderman
RRP: £27.99£24.54"We do not understand music-it understands us." This aphorism by Theodor W. Adorno expresses the quandary and the fascination many listeners have felt in approaching Beethoven's late quartets. No group of compositions occupies a more central position in... -
'Composing with Tones': A Musical Analysis of Schoenberg's Op.23 Pieces for Piano Kathryn Bailey 9780947854096
RRP: £86.99£76.14Schoenberg's Op.23 for solo piano, written between 1920 and 1923, represented a move from his atonal music of the preceding twelve years to 12-note music. In this analysis of the five pieces which make up Op.23, Kathryn Bailey discusses the ways in which... -
Street Scene by Kurt Weill 9780881880526
RRP: £64.99£49.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780881880526Author Kurt WeillPage Count 280Imprint Hal Leonard CorporationPublisher Hal Leonard CorporationWeight(grams) 904g -
The Queerness of Video Game Music by Tim Summers 9781009371407
RRP: £17.00£14.72Video game music is a significant site of queerness where normative demands are questioned, suspended or loosened. Games resist hegemonic musical logics, challenge musical value systems and use music to complicate essentialist notions of identity. This... -
In The Space Of A Song: The Uses of Song in Film Richard Dyer 9780415223744
RRP: £36.99£32.53Songs take up space and time in films. Richard Dyer's In the Space of a Song takes off from this perception, arguing that the way songs take up space indicates a great deal about the songs themselves, the nature of the feelings they present, and who is... -
Performance and Popular Music: History, Place and Time Ian Inglis 9780754640578
RRP: £43.99£38.74Since the emergence of rock'n'roll in the early 1950s, there have been a number of live musical performances that were not only memorable in themselves, but became hugely influential in the way they shaped the subsequent trajectory and development of... -
Yo-Yo Ma: A Biography by Jim Whiting 9780313344862
£38.39A musician of rare artistry, the self-effacing yet charismatic Yo-Yo Ma connects with his audiences with startling effectiveness. He remains devoted to the classical repertoire yet has long roved far beyond the Western classical music canon. Despite his... -
Songsters and Saints: Vocal Traditions on Race Records by Paul Oliver 9780521269421
RRP: £39.99£33.26In this innovatory book the celebrated writer on the blues, Paul Oliver, rediscovers the wealth of neglected vocal traditions presented on Race records. When blues first reached a large audience it was through the 'Race records' issued specifically for... -
King of the Queen City: The Story of King Records by Jon Hartley Fox
RRP: £19.99£17.54King of the Queen City is the first comprehensive history of King Records, one of the most influential independent record companies in the history of American music. Founded by businessman Sydney Nathan in the mid-1940s, this small outsider record... -
Rachmaninoff: Composer, Pianist, Conductor Barrie Martyn 9781138268012
RRP: £49.99£43.96This study is the first to consider all three of Rachmaninoff's careers in detail. After surveying his place in Russian musical history and his creative activity, the author examines, with musical examples, each working chronological order against the... -
The Sounds and Sights of Performance in Early Music: Essays in Honour of Timothy J. McGee Maureen Epp 9781138264984
RRP: £49.99£43.84The experience of music performance is always far more than the sum of its sounds, and evidence for playing and singing techniques is not only inscribed in music notation but can also be found in many other types of primary source materials. This volume... -
The Cambridge Companion to the Beatles by Kenneth Womack 9780521869652
RRP: £78.99£70.59From Please Please Me to Abbey Road, this collection of essays tells the fascinating story of the Beatles - the creation of the band, their musical influences, and their cultural significance, with emphasis on their genesis and practices as musicians,... -
Creative Teaching for Creative Learning in Higher Music Education Elizabeth Haddon 9781138504998
RRP: £36.99£32.78This edited volume explores how selected researchers, students and academics name and frame creative teaching and learning as constructed through the rationalities, practices, relationships, events, objects and systems that are brought to educational... -
A Pleasant Change from Politics: Music and the British Labour Movement Between the Wars by Duncan Hall 9781873797297
RRP: £12.95£9.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781873797297Author Duncan HallFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint New Clarion PressPublisher New Clarion Press -
Cecile Chaminade: A Bio-Bibliography by Marcia J. Citron 9780313253195
£60.35This first scholarly book on Cecile Chaminade, a popular composer, pianist, and one of the few women to attain critical acclaim as a composer in the early twentieth century, contains an extensive biography drawn from a significant collection of primary... -
The Cambridge Companion to Film Music by Mervyn Cooke
RRP: £26.99£21.62This wide-ranging and thought-provoking collection of specially-commissioned essays provides a uniquely comprehensive overview of the many and various ways in which music functions in film soundtracks. Citing examples from a variety of historical... -
The Blue Note Label: A Discography, 2nd Edition by Michael Cuscuna 9780313318269
£73.77The Blue Note label is one of the most widely known and respected producers of jazz music in the world. This reference book, by noted discographer Michel Ruppli and Blue Note producer Michael Cuscuna, expands upon the previous edition and includes... -
The Life of Schubert by Christopher H. Gibbs 9780521594264
RRP: £45.00£40.59Franz Schubert's tragically short life was spent in one of Europe's most richly musical cities: a Vienna that worshipped Beethoven, adored Rossini, and thrilled to Paganini. Schubert, with the help of supportive friends who were themselves immersed in... -
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time: A Game Music Companion by Tim Summers
RRP: £85.00£78.27Some 22 years after its creation, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time is still held in high critical regard as one of the finest examples of the video game medium. The same is true of the game's music, whose superlative reception continues to be... -
Three Pieces by Frank Bridge 9780571516490
RRP: £8.50£7.74Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780571516490Author Frank BridgeFormat PaperbackPage Count 20Imprint Faber Music LtdPublisher Faber Music LtdWeight(grams) 98g -
Disney Music Activity Book (2nd Edition) by Hal Leonard Corp 9781540004253
RRP: £16.99£12.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781540004253Author Sharon StosurPage Count 96Imprint Hal Leonard CorporationPublisher Hal Leonard Corporation -
Nielsen: Symphony No. 5 by David Fanning 9780521446327
RRP: £19.99£17.13After the death of Mahler in 1911 the great Austro-German symphonic line was carried on mainly in England, America, Scandinavia and Russia. The Fifth Symphony of Carl Nielsen, Denmark's greatest composer, was composed in 1921-2. David Fanning discusses... -
Patrons and Musicians of the English Renaissance by David C. Price 9780521115506
RRP: £34.99£29.35Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Film Music in concert: The Pioneering Role of the Boston Pops Orchestra by Emilio Audissino 9781009009096
RRP: £17.00£14.72The Boston Pops Orchestra was the first orchestra of its kind in the USA: founded in 1885 from the ranks of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, its remit was to offer concerts of light symphonic music. Over the years, and in particular during the fifty-year... -
No Encore!: Musicians Reveal Their Weirdest, Wildest, Most Embarrassing Gigs by Drew Fortune 9781642930849
RRP: £12.99£11.66Featuring never-before-told stories, No Encore! takes you on tour with over sixty iconic musicians as they relive their weirdest, wildest, most embarrassing gigs."They hated us and started throwing cups, bottles, change, chairs, and anything that wasn't... -
Gender in the Music Industry: Rock, Discourse and Girl Power Marion Leonard 9780754638629
RRP: £45.99£40.44Why, despite the number of high profile female rock musicians, does rock continue to be understood as masculine? Why is rock generally assumed to be created and performed by men? Marion Leonard explores different representations of masculinity offered...