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ENirvana FAQE traces the band from its genesis to its end. Founded by friends Kurt Cobain and Krist Novoselic Nirvana had a rocky start and a succession of drummers but by the end of 1990 its debut album EBleachE had garnered international attention...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781604869576Author Gabriel San RomanFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint PM PressPublisher PM PressWeight(grams) 65g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999212745Author Wax Poetics StaffFormat PaperbackPage Count 82Imprint Wax Poetics BooksPublisher Wax Poetics BooksWeight(grams) 213g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781617804700Author Aaron CoplandPage Count 158Imprint Hal Leonard CorporationPublisher Hal Leonard Corporation

Boots Riley is best known as the lyricist and frontman for Oakland's underground hip hop group, The Coup, as well as for The Street Sweeper Social Club which he founded with guitarist Tom Morello. For two decades, Riley's lyrical style has combined...

Martin Williams is recognized as one of the most significant jazz critics of recent times. This third collection of record notes, interviews, portraits, and reviews recalls the Charlie Parker-Dizzy Gillespie Dial Record sessions, Langston Hughes reading...

The William Walton Edition score of Facade Entertainments brought together for the first time all thirty-three extant Walton settings of the Edith Sitwell poems that were written and performed under this title. This version of Facade Entertainments...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783795795146Author Erich DofleinPage Count 64Imprint Schott Musik International GmbH & Co KGPublisher Schott Musik International GmbH & Co KG

for SATB (with divisions) unaccompanied This beautifully expressive piece is based around The Seven Sacred Virtues of the Lakota; the title, 'Walking the Red Road', refers to the commitment to purposefully live by these values, the metaphorical 'red...

After a hundred years of recording, the process of making records is still mysterious to most people who listen to them. Records hold a fundamental place in the dynamics of modern musical life, but what do they represent? Are they documents? Snapshots?...

Christmas Jazzin' About for violin is a vibrant collection of original pieces in a range of contemporary styles. So celebrate the festive season in style with these jazzy arrangements of popular Christmas carols for violin and piano accompaniment. ...

More than fifteen years since the death of lead guitarist and singer Jerry Garcia, the Grateful Dead stand as a symbol of the unresolved cultural clashes of the 1960s. The band's thirty-year odyssey is a testament to the American imagination, with...

Rap music was born in America in the early 1980s. Over the last decade it has not only grown in popularity within the United States, with rap music soaring to the top of the music charts, but it has also influenced other cultures around the world. Black,...

This seminal study of Giuseppe Verdi's German-language reception provides important new perspectives on German musical culture and nationalism from the mid-nineteenth century onwards. Kreuzer argues that the concept of Germany's musical supremacy, so...

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...

Robert Ponsonby has been at the centre of the music world both in Britain and elsewhere for some sixty years, and "Musical Heroes" is a distillation of his experiences, achievements and friendships in that world. With its deft touch and its...

The musical, social and political history of the renowned St Thomas School and Church In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the cantors of the St. Thomas School and Church in Leipzig could be counted among the most significant German composers...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780915608355Author John RumbleFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint Country Music Foundation Press,U.S.Publisher Country Music Foundation Press,U.S...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780571571673Author Simon DobsonPage Count 64Imprint Faber Music LtdPublisher Faber Music LtdWeight(grams) 199g

for SATB and chamber ensemble A splendid curtain-raiser to Vivaldi's Gloria, Francesco Durante's artful Magnificat has long been misattributed to his pupil Pergolesi in a version for four voices, not five. Durante's vocally richer five-voice version has...

The first edition of John Warrack's study of Weber was published in 1968 and quickly became recognized as the standard 'life and works' - indeed the best book on Weber in any language. The second edition was produced in 1976 to mark the 150th anniversary...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781621068785Author Bob SurenFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Microcosm PublishingPublisher Microcosm PublishingWeight(grams) 233g

A dazzling, epic biography of Levon Helm--the beloved, legendary drummer and singer of the Band. He sang the anthems of a generation: "The Weight," "Up on Cripple Creek," and "Life Is a Carnival." Levon Helm's story--told...

This smart, incisive biography traces Bruce Springsteen's evolution from a young artist who wasn't sure what he wanted to say to an acclaimed musician with a distinctive vision for a better society. Brilliantly analyzing and evoking Springsteen's output,...

"Celluloid Symphonies" is a unique sourcebook of writings on music for film, bringing together fifty-three critical documents, many previously inaccessible. It includes essays by those who created the music - Max Steiner, Erich Korngold, Jerry Goldsmith,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781495057625Author Astor PiazzollaFormat PaperbackImprint Boosey & Hawkes IncPublisher Boosey & Hawkes IncWeight(grams) 181g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578249414Author Cathy ScottFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint Crime, She WritesPublisher Crime, She WritesWeight(grams) 140g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783795795559Author Johann Sebastian BachFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint SchottPublisher SchottWeight(grams) 207g

Though Brahms' symphonies are often treated somewhat like medicine, as something 'good for you', but otherwise lacking in purely sensual pleasure, David Hurwitz takes the reader beyond the jargon and pedantry and unlocks the mystery (and the joy)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781540063427Author John AdamsPage Count 19Imprint Hal Leonard CorporationPublisher Hal Leonard Corporation

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780990668602Author Noal CohenFormat PaperbackPage Count 404Imprint Current Research in JazzPublisher Current Research in JazzWeight(grams) 467g

Presents a first analytical study that looks at the overarching designs of Benjamin Britten's John Donne, Thomas Hardy and William Blake solo song cycles. By questioning when a group of songs ought to be understood not merely as a collection, but as a...

The perils of equating notions of freedom with artistic vitality Eloquently extolled by President John F. Kennedy, the idea that only artists in free societies can produce great art became a bedrock assumption of the Cold War. That this conviction defied...

Musical Echoes tells the life story of the South African jazz vocalist Sathima Bea Benjamin. Born in Cape Town in the 1930s, Benjamin came to know American jazz and popular music through the radio, movies, records, and live stage and dance band...

for SATB unaccompanied with hand drum Sing, my Child sets a joyful text celebrating the beauty found all around us in everyday life. Characterized by tight harmonies and a dynamic percussion line, the buoyant 7/8 metre of the opening drives the piece...

for SATB and piano or small orchestra This setting of a song from Act II of Shakespeare's As You Like It was originally published as part of John Rutter's cycle of six choral settings with small orchestra When Icicles Hang. Orchestral material is...

Cultural criticism and pop culture history intertwine in this important book, which dissects how hip hop has sidelined Black women's identity and emotional well-being.A "ride-or-die chick" is a woman who holds down her family and community. She's your...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250862976Author Dan CharnasFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 458gDimensions(mm) 208mm *...

A Stanford University Press classic.Book InformationISBN 9780804722407Author David J. LevinFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Stanford University PressPublisher Stanford University PressWeight(grams) 372g

The Routledge Handbook of Pink Floyd is intended for scholars and researchers of popular music, as well as music industry professionals and fans of the band. It brings together international researchers to assess, evaluate and reformulate approaches to...