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Murray Talks Music: Albert Murray on Jazz and Blues by Albert Murray 9780816699551
RRP: $25.79$23.14The year 2016 will mark the centennial of the birth of Albert Murray (1916-2013), who in thirteen books was by turns a lyrical novelist, a keen and iconoclastic social critic, and a formidable interpreter of jazz and blues. Not only did his prizewinning... -
Leonora's Last Act: Essays in Verdian Discourse Roger L. Parker 9780691015576
RRP: $96.75$86.74In 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... -
The Life of Elvis Presley by Charles L. Ponce de Leon 9780809016419
RRP: $19.34$14.91Apologies 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)... -
Opera in Context: Essays on Historical Staging from the Late Renaissance to the Time of Puccini by Mark A. Radice 9781574670325
RRP: $52.89$47.06Apologies 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 *... -
Masses and Motets by Giovanni da Palestrina 9780486276311
RRP: $29.61$27.46Apologies 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: New African Music in a Globalizing World by Eric S. Charry
RRP: $36.11$18.43Hip 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... -
Reichsrock: The International Web of White-Power and Neo-Nazi Hate Music by Kirsten Dyck
RRP: $36.11$31.14From 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... -
Orchestration by Cecil Forsyth 9780486243832
RRP: $26.19$25.14Apologies 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. -
Hidden History of the Mississippi Blues by Roger Stolle 9781540205742
RRP: $42.56$25.83Apologies 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)... -
Bts: One by Triumph Books 9781629379029
RRP: $20.63$12.05This 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... -
Creating Country Music: Fabricating Authenticity by Richard Peterson 9780226662855
RRP: $34.83$34.66This 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... -
Cuban Flute Style: Interpretation and Improvisation by Sue Miller 9780810884410
RRP: $126.42$110.55Richard 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... -
Electric Frankenstein: Illustrated Lyrics by Sal Canzonieri
RRP: $41.27$29.85Apologies 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 -
Water Music by George Frideric Handel 9783795765248
RRP: $16.76$15.60Apologies 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 -
Richard Wagner's Music Dramas by Carl Dahlhaus 9780521428996
RRP: $51.59$42.91Previous 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... -
Digging: The Afro-American Soul of American Classical Music by Amiri Baraka 9780520265820
RRP: $27.09$21.97For 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... -
25 Bach Duets from the Cantatas by Fred Sherry
RRP: $21.29$15.65Apologies 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 -
Journeys Through Galant Expositions by L. Poundie Burstein
RRP: $51.59$44.36Ever 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... -
The Go-betweens by David Nichols
RRP: $30.95$20.34Apologies 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 -
All Thats Jazz by Sammy Stein 9780955767098
RRP: $25.79$17.23Apologies 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 -
Unbreak My Heart: A Memoir by Toni Braxton 9780062293299
RRP: $24.50$17.66Apologies 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 *... -
Vocal Repertoire for the Twenty-First Century, Volume 2: Works Written From 2000 Onwards by Jane Manning
RRP: $45.78$34.61Described 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... -
Rockdetector: A To Z Of Death Metal by Garry Sharpe-Young
RRP: $19.34$13.16Apologies 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 -
Serge Rachmaninoff - Preludes, Op. 32: Piano with a CD of Performances by Alexandre Dossin 9781476812793
RRP: $21.92$13.09Apologies 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 -
Jazz Child: A Portrait of Sheila Jordan by Ellen Johnson 9781442277762
RRP: $38.70$34.42When 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... -
Talking 'Bout Your Mama: The Dozens, Snaps, and the Deep Roots of Rap by Elijah Wald 9780199394043
RRP: $20.63$17.20From 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... -
Grand Illusion: Phantasmagoria in Nineteenth-Century Opera by Gabriela Cruz
RRP: $114.81$79.27A 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... -
Escape Philosophy: Journeys beyond the Human Body by Roy Christopher 9781685710620
RRP: $23.22$20.85Apologies 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 *... -
Ten Easy Pieces by Bela Bartok 9781495061172
RRP: $15.47$9.13Apologies 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 -
The Words and Music of Paul McCartney: The Solo Years by Vincent P. Benitez, Jr. 9780313349690
$62.28This 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 by Peter C. Zimmerman 9781496837431
RRP: $32.19$30.25The 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'... -
Verklarte Nacht by Arnold Schoenberg 9780486445373
RRP: $8.97$8.42Apologies 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)... -
Arlen and Harburg's Over the Rainbow by Walter Frisch
RRP: $23.85$19.88"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... -
Classical Crossroads: The Path Forward for Music in the 21st Century by Leonard Slatkin
RRP: $32.25$19.38Apologies 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 -
A Cultural Dictionary of Punk: 1974-1982 by Nicholas Rombes 9780826427793
$41.64This 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... -
Musicology and Dance: Historical and Critical Perspectives by Davinia Caddy 9781108469951
RRP: $29.66$26.65Long 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,... -
The Life and Legacy of B. B. King: A Mississippi Blues Icon by Diane Williams 9781467142403
RRP: $30.95$20.18Apologies 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 by Marie Buscatto
RRP: $54.17$47.41Women 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... -
Jenufa: Translations and Pronunciation by Timothy Cheek 9781442275188
RRP: $122.55$112.38Czech 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... -
Frozen: Music From The Motion Picture Soundtrack - Vocal Selections by Kristen Anderson-Lopez 9781480391581
$27.12Apologies 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