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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857365996Page Count 16Imprint Trinity College London PressPublisher Trinity College London PressWeight(grams) 81g

A source book of creative ideas for every age group.Book InformationISBN 9780285631120Author G. StormsFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Souvenir Press LtdPublisher Profile Books Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780711901308Author Kenneth BakerPage Count 80Imprint Music Sales LtdPublisher Hal Leonard Europe Limited

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780711997981Author Paco PenaPage Count 85Imprint Music Sales LtdPublisher Hal Leonard Europe Limited

Whether you're a regular Rolling Stone or bananas about Beethoven, this cacophony of quips and quotes will have your ears ringing with laughter. Perfect for when you've hit too many bum notes and need a little harmony.Book InformationISBN...

Featuring lyrics from Paul Simon's ten solo albums, four collaborations with Art Garfunkel, and his Songs from the Capeman, Lyricsis a landmark collection of folk history.Book InformationISBN 9781847374196Author Paul SimonFormat PaperbackPage Count...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780851621524Author G BROOKSFormat PaperbackPage Count 34Imprint Boosey & Hawkes Music Publishers LtdPublisher Boosey & Hawkes Music Publishers...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906015022Author Terence MurphyFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Pennant Books LtdPublisher Pennant Books Ltd

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993570278Author Andrew HumphreysFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint Paradise RoadPublisher Paradise Road

Conventional business marketing often suggests that the primary function of business is to market a product in order to maximize efficiency and profit. In How to Market the Arts: A Practical Approach for the 21st Century, expert authors Anthony Rhine and...

This title is written by a distinguished team of music journalists, musicologists, and musicians. It seeks to convey the spirit and the passion of almost every type of music.Book InformationISBN 9781904041702Author Paul du NoyerFormat HardbackPage Count...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780711932593Author Denes AgayPage Count 80Imprint Music Sales LtdPublisher Hal Leonard Europe Limited

This Complete Scales and Arpeggios for Piano is an essential resource for piano students, encompassing the Trinity College London scale requirements up to Grade 8 and beyond, with performance notes by John York. This is an easy reference to all major and...

This book is a major new study - dealing with notions of film music as a device that desires to control its audience, using a most powerful thing: emotion. The author emphasises the manipulative and ephemeral character of film music dealing not only with...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780634077753Author Oscar PetersonPage Count 200Imprint Hal Leonard CorporationPublisher Hal Leonard CorporationWeight(grams) 672g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857362384Author Various ArtistsPage Count 32Imprint Trinity College LondonPublisher Trinity College London PressWeight(grams) 152g

Despite the ever-changing nature of the music industry, one constant remains: you must become a ruthless promotion fanatic to achieve success. There are no quick fixes or shortcuts to fame and fortune in the music business. But if you truly desire...

Kate Bush is widely respected as one of the most unique solo female performers to have ever emerged in the field of popular music. She has achieved that rare combination of great commercial success and critical acclaim, with Hounds of Love considered...

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As the Soviet Union's foremost composer, Shostakovich's status in the West has always been problematic. Regarded by some as a collaborator, and by others as a symbol of moral resistance, both he and his music met with approval and condemnation in equal...

Throughout the twentieth century, musicians frequently incorporated bits of works by other musicians into their own compositions and performances. When a musician borrows from a piece, he or she draws upon not only a melody but also the cultural...

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This Companion is an accessible introduction to Schumann: his time, his temperament, his style and his uvre. An international team of scholars explores the cultural context, musical and poetic fabric, sources of inspiration and interpretative reach of...

The transformation of Vienna and the Habsburg Empire at the end of the nineteenth century was accompanied by the development of a new musical genre, Viennese operetta, and no composer was better suited than Johann Strauss to express his native city's...

Modernism is both a contested aesthetic category and a powerful political statement. Modernist music was condemned as degenerate by the Nazis and forcibly replaced by socialist realism under the Soviets. Sympathetic philosophers and critics have...

This 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...

Famous for a handful of compositions that continue to sparkle with originality, Mendelssohn, as conductor and scholar, was also one of the principal architects of the musical canon that has underpinned concert life to this day. Mendelssohn was one of...

Michael Tippett's oratorio A Child of our Time was written at the beginning of the second world war as an expression of 'man's inhumanity to man'. It has become one of his most widely known works and one which is seen to symbolise the composer's...

Michael Tippett (1905-98) was one of the major figures of British music in this century. This volume of essays provides the first substantial writing on the composer for over a decade and includes the work of established scholars as well as several new...

On its first appearance in 1891, Brahms' Clarinet Quintet was immediately recognised as a remarkable achievement, and a century later it still has the power to claim the hearts and minds of players and audiences alike. Widely regarded as Brahms' supreme...

This Companion, first published in 2000, provides a comprehensive view of Beethoven and his work. The first part of the book presents the composer as a private individual, as a professional, and at the work-place, discussing biographical problems,...

The main purpose of this book is to clarify the meaning and use of the conventions governing the practice of implied accidentals in vocal polyphony from the early fourteenth to the mid-sixteenth century - a problem which has fascinated musicologists for...

During the lifetime of Guillaume Du Fay (c. 1400-1474) the motet underwent a profound transformation. Because of the protean nature of the motet during this period, problems of definition have always stood in the way of a full understanding of this...

This is the first book to examine Schubert's songs as active shaping forces in the culture of their era rather than as mere reflections of it. Responding to rising new forms of social organisation, Schubert discovered that songs could serve as a medium...

In considering the role of practical music in education, this book attempts to define the art of performance in Germany during the Baroque period. The author examines the large number of surviving treatises and instruction manuals used in the Lutheran...

Mozart's piano sonatas form a richly diverse and significant part of his instrumental output, and span much of his mature composing career, thereby representing a microcosm of the composer's changing style. Part I examines the contexts in which the...

Few composers' posthumous reputations have grown as steadily as Shostakovich's. Yet outside the concert hall the focus of attention seems to have been on the extraordinary circumstances of his life rather than on the music itself. This book seeks to show...

The Four Seasons and the rest of the concertos in Op. 8 represent Vivaldi's remarkable innovation in the field of the Baroque concerto. This detailed guide examines the work's origin and construction in a way that enables the reader to distinguish what...

This symposium celebrates the 450th anniversary of the birth of William Byrd, one of the greatest English composers. Twelve scholars contribute essays which together cover all the genres of Byrd's prolific output. Topics discussed in this collection...