Genres & Styles

In these essays, Roger Parker brings a series of valuable insights to bear on Verdian analysis and criticism, and does so in a way that responds both to an opera-goer's love of musical drama and to a scholar's concern for recent critical trends. As he...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780809016419Author Charles L. Ponce de LeonFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint Hill & Wang Inc.,U.S.Publisher Hill & Wang Inc.,U.S.Weight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781574670325Author Mark A. RadiceFormat HardbackPage Count 410Imprint Amadeus PressPublisher Hal Leonard CorporationWeight(grams) 862gDimensions(mm) 241mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486276311Author Giovanni da PalestrinaPage Count 240Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.

Hip Hop Africa explores a new generation of Africans who are not only consumers of global musical currents, but also active and creative participants. Eric Charry and an international group of contributors look carefully at youth culture and the...

From rap to folk to punk, music has often sought to shape its listeners' political views, uniting them as a global community and inspiring them to take action. Yet the rallying potential of music can also be harnessed for sinister ends. As this...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486243832Author Cecil ForsythPage Count 530Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781540205742Author Roger StolleFormat HardbackPage Count 146Imprint History Press Library EditionsPublisher History Press Library EditionsWeight(grams)...

This South Korean group is at the forefront of the K-Pop wave sweeping the globe With a phenomenal string of No. 1 albums plus hit singles like Dynamite, ON, Black Swan, and Life Goes On, BTS is on an unstoppable path to greatness! BTS: ONE is a...

This work traces the development of country music and its institutionalization from Fiddlin' John Carson's pioneering recordings in Atlanta in 1923 to the posthumous success of Hank Williams. Richard Peterson seeks to capture the free-wheeling...

Richard Egues and Jose Fajardo are universally regarded as the leading exponents of charanga flute playing, an improvisatory style that crystallized in 1950s Cuba with the rise of the mambo and the chachacha. Despite the commercial success of their...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781951038366Author Mr. Craig YoeFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Clover PressPublisher Clover Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783795765248Author George Frideric HandelPage Count 134Imprint Ernst Eulenburg & CoPublisher Schott Musik International GmbH & Co KG

Previous studies of Wagner's operas have tended to approach the works as chunks of autobiography, philosophical speculations or historical-political comments on the age in which they were written. Professor Dahlhaus dissociated himself from all such...

For almost half a century, Amiri Baraka has ranked among the most important commentators on African American music and culture. In this brilliant assemblage of his writings on music, the first such collection in nearly twenty years, Baraka blends...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781458407931Author Fred SherryPage Count 61Imprint Hal Leonard CorporationPublisher Hal Leonard Corporation

Ever since the nineteenth century, descriptions of musical form have tended to rely heavily on architectonic analogies. In contrast, earlier discussions more often invoked the metaphor of a journey to describe the structure of a composition. In Journeys...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781891241161Author David NicholsFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Verse Chorus Press,U.S.Publisher Puncture PublicationsWeight(grams) 411g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780955767098Author Sammy SteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 198Imprint Tomahawk PressPublisher Tomahawk PressWeight(grams) 566g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062293299Author Toni BraxtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Described as the "life and soul of British contemporary music", Jane Manning is an internationally celebrated English concert and opera soprano. In this new follow-up to her highly regarded New Vocal Repertory, Volumes I and II, she provides a seasoned...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781901447354Author Gary Sharpe-YoungFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Cherry Red BooksPublisher Cherry Red BooksWeight(grams) 650g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476812793Author Alexandre DossinPage Count 75Imprint G Schirmer, IncorporatedPublisher Hal Leonard Corporation

When Sheila Jordan dropped a nickel in the juke box of a Detroit diner in the 1940s and heard "Now's The Time" by Charlie Parker, she was instantly hooked-and so began a seventy-year jazz journey. In 1962, she emerged as the first jazz singer to record...

From Two Live Crew's controversial comedy to Ice Cube's gangsta styling and the battle rhymes of a streetcorner cypher, rap has always drawn on deep traditions of African American poetic word-play, In Talking About Your Mama, author Elijah Wald explores...

A new and groundbreaking approach to the history of grand opera, Grand Illusion: Phantasmagoria in Nineteenth-Century Opera explores the illusion and illumination behind the form's rise to cultural eminence. Renowned opera scholar Gabriela Cruz argues...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781685710620Author Roy ChristopherFormat PaperbackPage Count 164Imprint Punctum BooksPublisher Punctum BooksWeight(grams) 168gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781495061172Author Bela BartokPage Count 37Imprint Hal Leonard CorporationPublisher Hal Leonard Corporation

This examination of the solo music of Paul McCartney, from 1970-2007, offers an analysis of his songs, recordings, and his impact on popular music. The Words and Music of Paul McCartney: The Solo Years examines the large and varied oeuvre of this deeply...

The Jazz Masters: Setting the Record Straight features twenty-one conversations with musicians who have had at least fifty years of professional experience, and several as many as seventy-five. In all, these voices reflect some seventeen hundred years'...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486445373Author Arnold SchoenbergFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

"Over the Rainbow" exploded into worldwide fame upon its performance by Judy Garland in the MGM film musical The Wizard of Oz (1939). Voted the greatest song of the twentieth century in a 2000 survey, it is a masterful, delicate balance of sophistication...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781538152225Author Leonard SlatkinFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Rowman & Littlefield PublishersPublisher Rowman & Littlefield

This is a fascinating guide to a critical time in music and cultural history. "A Cultural Dictionary of Punk" is a bold book that examines punk as a movement that is best understood by placing it in its cultural field. It contains myriad...

Long treated as peripheral to music history, dance has become prominent within musicological research, as a prime and popular subject for an increasing number of books, articles, conference papers and special symposiums. Despite this growing interest,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467142403Author Diane WilliamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 8mm

Women in Jazz: Musicality, Femininity, Marginalization examines the invisible discrimination against female musicians in the French jazz world and the ways in which women thrive as professionals despite such conditions. The author shines a light on the...

Czech composer Leos Janacek's most famous opera, Jenufa is a harrowing tale of forbidden love, abandonment, hypocrisy, desperation, and tragic infanticide. As today's second most frequently performed Czech opera (following Dvorak's Rusalka), Jenufa holds...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781480391581Author Kristen Anderson-LopezPage Count 64Imprint Hal Leonard CorporationPublisher Hal Leonard Corporation

A history of hip-hop cites its origins in the post-civil rights Bronx and Jamaica, drawing on interviews with performers, activists, gang members, DJs, and others to document how the movement has influenced politics and culture.Book InformationISBN...