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The Beatles' North American tours turned the entertainment business on its ear and forever changed the landscape of the concert touring industry. In February 1964 after finally achieving a number-one hit in America the Fab Four came to the country with...

for SATB and harp or piano In this arrangement of the traditional Irish hymn Be thou my vision, Rutter sets the 8th-century text (in its English translation) to the Irish folk melody known as Slane, the tune to which it has been sung since 1919...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781891241260Author David NicholsFormat PaperbackPage Count 608Imprint Verse Chorus Press,U.S.Publisher Puncture Publications

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780671787004Author Dave MarshFormat PaperbackPage Count 624Imprint Fireside BooksPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 783gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *...

This handbook contains famous operas from fourteen Italian, French, and German composers. The text is designed to help listeners understand and appreciate the special skills required to sing famous operatic songs. The songs are introduced in their...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781705110935Author Alanis MorissetteFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Hal Leonard Publishing CorporationPublisher Hal Leonard Publishing...

No nineteenth-century composer had more diverse ties to his contemporary world than Franz Liszt (1811-1886). At various points in his life he made his home in Vienna, Paris, Weimar, Rome, and Budapest. In his roles as keyboard virtuoso, conductor, master...

This collection provides an in-depth look at musical criticism between the mid-nineteenth and the mid-twentieth century. British music between the mid-nineteenth and the mid-twentieth century reflected changes and developments in society, education,...

for SSAA unaccompanied or with optional handbells (or percussion, or organ) Sarah Quartel brings a fresh take on a familiar fifteenth-century text in this carol for upper voices. The dialogue between Mary and the infant Jesus is woven to a beguiling...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312376918Author Bob GreeneFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint St. Martin's GriffinPublisher St. Martin's GriffinWeight(grams) 544gDimensions(mm) 226mm...

Jay-Z is one of America's leading rappers and entrepreneurs, as well known for his music as for his business acumen. This text seeks to situate Jay-Z within his musical, intellectual and cultural context for educational study. Thirteen essays address...

A prominent star in both pre-Revolutionary Russia and New York, Lina Cavalieri, described as "the most beautiful woman in the world," was one of the most frequently photographed personalities of her time. The cabaret performer, courtesan, and...

This book examines the renowned portrait collection assembled by C. P. E. Bach, J. S. Bach's second son. One of the most celebrated German composers of the eighteenth century, C. P. E. Bach spent decades assembling an extensive portrait collection of...

Satirically utilized by Strauss II to highlight the deceptive aristocratic class, under Lehar, Schoenberg, Mahler, and Webern's pens the waltz became the pivot between the conscious and unconscious, forcing the music into a paralytic "second state"...

The History of Italian Opera marks the first time a team of scholars has worked together to investigate the entire Italian operatic tradition, rather than limiting its focus to major composers and their masterworks. Including both musicologists and...

Piano Progress Book 2 is part of The Waterman/Harewood Piano Series, and provides a graded sequence of pieces by master composers ranging from Bach to Bartok. Here is a well tested, diverse repertoire for the pianist who has begun to master a basic...

Again available in paperback, this definitive work on the genius of Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757) is the result of twelve years of devoted effort by America's foremost harpsichordist and one of the principal authorities on eighteenth-century harpsichord...

Show Boat: Performing Race in an American Musical tells the full story of the making and remaking of the most important musical in Broadway history. Drawing on exhaustive archival research and including much new information from early draft scripts and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781606999400Author Ed PiskorFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint FantagraphicsPublisher Fantagraphics

for SATB choir unaccompanied With a text by John Henry Newman, Lead, kindly Light is a short, moving piece perfectly suited for our current times. Step-like movement in the melody reflects the speaker seeking light in the darkness, slow but steady in...

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Expression and truth are traditional opposites in Western thought: expression supposedly refers to states of mind, truth to states of affairs. Expression and Truth rejects this opposition and proposes fluid new models of expression, truth, and knowledge...

Written more than a century ago and initially regarded even by their creators as nothing more than light entertainment, the fourteen operas of Gilbert & Sullivan emerged over the course of the twentieth century as the world's most popular body of...

In Why the Grateful Dead Matter, veteran writer and lifelong Deadhead Michael Benson argues that the Grateful Dead are not simply a successful rock-and-roll band but a phenomenon central to American culture. He defends the proposition that the Grateful...

Since its origin, opera has been identified with the performance and negotiation of power. Once theaters specifically for opera were established, that connection was expressed in the design and situation of the buildings themselves, as much as through...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783795795184Author Paul HindemithPage Count 20Imprint Schott Musik International GmbH & Co KGPublisher Schott Musik International GmbH & Co KG

for unison voices and piano This tender Advent carol sets an original text by Charles Bennett that creates a sense of anticipation for the arrival of Jesus. Underpinned by a gently rippling piano part throughout, the piece opens with a simple melody...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780739086247Author Alfred Music Publishing Co, Inc.Format PaperbackPage Count 563Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486493015Author Erich KorngoldFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.

Of all the great composers of the eighteenth century, Handel was the supreme cosmopolitan, an early and extraordinarily successful example of a freelance composer. For thirty years the opera-house was the principal focus of his creative work and he...

Most histories of American music have ignored the presence of twelve-tone music before and during the Second World War, and virtually all have ignored its presence after 1970, even though so many major composers continued (and continue) to compose...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783795765064Author Hector BerliozPage Count 197Imprint Ernst Eulenburg & CoPublisher Schott Musik International GmbH & Co KG

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781480352414Author Hal Leonard Publishing CorporationPage Count 24Imprint Hal Leonard CorporationPublisher Hal Leonard Corporation

How can we account for the persistent appeal of glossy commercial pop music? Why do certain performers have such emotional power, even though their music is considered vulgar or second rate? In "The Persistence of Sentiment", Mitchell Morris gives a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783905477740Author Oskar RiedingPage Count 23Imprint Dowani InternationalPublisher Dowani International

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307390981Author Alec WilkinsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 185gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Musorgsky's last opera is set at the end of the seventeenth century, a turbulent period of Russian history. The title refers to the conspiracy of Prince Khovansky against the young Tsar Peter the Great, and the epic drama ends with the exile, murder and...

PJ Harvey's performances are premised on the core contention that she is somehow causing 'trouble'. Just how this trouble can be theorised within the context of the music video and what it means for a development of the ways we might conceptualise...

This volume of essays discusses the European and global expansion of Italian opera and the significance of this process for debates on opera at home in Italy. Covering different parts of Europe, the Americas, Southeast and East Asia, it investigates the...

The name Giuseppe Verdi conjures images of Italians singing opera in the streets and bursting into song at political protests or when facing the firing squad. While many of the accompanying stories were exaggerated, or even invented, by later...