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Fortunate is the man who has been able to realise his childhood dreams: this beautiful book is the result of Andrew Winton's long cherished dream - 'to pass on some of the pleasures I got from Burn's songs.' As a child, he had the North Lanarkshire moors...

Are you football crazy? Are you football mad? Melissa Bastin, together with Pam Wedgwood, will help any aspiring beginner pianist with two great new books with the title Piano for the Young Football Fanatic. Designed to complement any beginner piano...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780849762017Author Frederic ChopinPage Count 64Imprint Kjos (Neil A.) Music Co ,U.S.Publisher Kjos (Neil A.) Music Co ,U.S.Weight(grams) 228g

Hollywood's conversion to sound in the 1920s created an early peak in the film musical following the immense success of The Jazz Singer. The opportunity to synchronize moving pictures with a soundtrack suited the musical in particular, since the...

Originally published in 2000 by Editions Allia in France, The Song of the Machine is a richly detailed graphic novel based on the history of electronic music. From the disco of the 1970's to the rave culture of the 1990's, The Song of the Machine ...

Casts new and valuable light on English musical history and on Enlightenment culture more generally. This is a book guaranteed to make waves. It skilfully weaves the story of one key musical figure into the story of one key institution, which it then...

Hark, hark, the lark is a collection of eight exquisite settings for upper voices, specially commissioned to celebrate the four hundredth anniversary of William Shakespeare's death. The volume pays tribute to Britain's greatest writer, presenting a...

In the years spanning from 1800 to 1824, Ludwig van Beethoven completed nine symphonies, now considered among the greatest masterpieces of Western music. Yet despite the fact that this time period, located in the wake of the Enlightenment and at the peak...

This intimate story of Lynyrd Skynyrd tells of how a band of lost souls and self-destructive misfits with uncertain artistic objectives clawed their way to the top of the rock 'n' roll world. Based on interviews with surviving band members, Whiskey...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781480352865Author Amy BeachPage Count 85Imprint Hal Leonard CorporationPublisher Hal Leonard Corporation

Hungary's political and cultural ferment at the start of the twentieth century produced geniuses such as the literary critic Gyorgy Lukacs, the writer (and later film theorist) Bela Balazs and the composer Bela Bartok. Their determination to participate...

for SATB choir and jazz trio or piano solo This exciting collection by Bob Chilcott gives a jazzy twist to nine favourite folk songs from around the world, including 'Scarborough Fair', 'A la claire fontaine', and 'Waltzing Matilda' as you've never...

This edition of Walton's principal orchestral overtures has been off-printed from the William Walton Edition full scores, edited by David Lloyd Jones. It combines the scholarship of the main edition with the practical benefits of a study score format,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780228834359Author Jack KopsteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 450Imprint Tellwell TalentPublisher Tellwell TalentWeight(grams) 517gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm...

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Addicted to Noise collects the best interviews, profiles, and essays Michael Goldberg has written during his forty-plus years as a journalist. From combative interviews with Frank Zappa and Tom Waits to essays on how Jack Kerouac influenced Bob Dylan and...

Beginning early in the 1980s, a dance music revolution swept across Europe and Britain, merging rock, new wave, disco and worldbeat sounds. The resulting explosion of high-energy, increasingly electronic dance-pop caused a sensation worldwide. In...

Throughout Africa, artists use hip-hop both to describe their lives and to create shared spaces for uncensored social commentary, feminist challenges to patriarchy, and resistance against state institutions, while at the same time engaging with the...

In studies of gender and sexuality in popular music, the concept of difference is often a crucial analytic used to detect social agency; however, the alternative analytic of ambiguity has never been systematically examined. While difference from...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780786865147Author Dwight YoakamFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint HyperionPublisher Hyperion

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692554340Author Theron D MooreFormat PaperbackPage Count 348Imprint Mean Machine PressPublisher Mean Machine PressWeight(grams) 467gDimensions(mm) 229mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781932419047Author Claude DebussyFormat PaperbackPage Count 76Imprint Serenissima MusicPublisher Serenissima MusicWeight(grams) 195gDimensions(mm) 284mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788759808948Author Jacob GadePage Count 12Imprint Wilhelm HansenPublisher Wilhelm Hansen

As Earl Scruggs picked his banjo with machine gun precision at his 1945 debut at the Ryman Auditorium, he set in motion a successful career and enduring legacy that would eclipse anything the humble farm boy from North Carolina could have imagined...

Chamber music includes some of the world's greatest music. It is widely played in homes, without an audience, by players who are mostly amateurs, and much of the repertoire is playable even by those of quite moderate ability. Player's Guide to Chamber...

This is the first study of its kind, focusing exclusively on scenes throughout the world; it makes an important contribution to metal studies. Metal Scenes around the World is a collection of thirteen chapters that examine metal scenes from smaller...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781540026392Author Hal Leonard Publishing CorporationPage Count 48Imprint Hal Leonard CorporationPublisher Hal Leonard Corporation

Philip Ennis presents a major social and cultural study of the origins and evolution of "rocknroll." With masterful command of general trends and telling details, he describes the artistic, economic, and political context that nurtured this radically new...

Sonic Rebellions combines theory and practice to consider contemporary uses of sound in the context of politics, philosophy, and protest, by exploring the relationship between sound and social justice, with particular attention to sonic methodologies not...

A selection of Arnold Whittall's masterly writings on Wagner dealing with all major works in the context of 150 years' of critical reception - with copious music examples. The book celebrates Arnold Whittall's 80th birthday with a collection of his...

As one of the most beloved and beguiling genres of entertainment, the film musical wears its style ostentatiously. The genre allows for hyperbolic expression, extravagant sonic and visual dA (c)cor, and extremely stylized forms of movement and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692163672Author Nancy MonsmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Cathedral Rock ArtPublisher Cathedral Rock ArtWeight(grams) 413g

The hurdy-gurdy, or vielle, has been part of European musical life since the eleventh century. In eighteenth-century France, improvements in its sound and appearance led to its use in chamber ensembles. This new and expanded edition of The Hurdy-Gurdy in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781423470472Author Johannes BrahmsPage Count 178Imprint G Schirmer, IncorporatedPublisher Hal Leonard Corporation

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780879102869Author Bruce AdolpheFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Limelight EditionsPublisher Limelight EditionsWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 215mm *...

Winner of the 2022-2023 New York City Book Awards! SPECIAL MENTION, 2023 IASPM Book Prize, given by the International Association for the Study of Popular Music SHORTLISTED, 2023 Ralph J. Gleason Book Award, given by the Rock N Roll Hall of Fame/Clive...

Mozart's greatest works were written in Vienna in the decade before his death (1781-1791). This biography focuses on Mozart's dual roles as a performer and composer and reveals how his compositional processes are affected by performance-related concerns...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780837198996Author Ludwig van BeethovenFormat HardbackPage Count 282Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

In jazz circles, players and listeners with "big ears" hear and engage complexity in the moment, as it unfolds. Taking gender as part of the intricate, unpredictable action in jazz culture, this interdisciplinary collection explores the terrain opened up...

This is the first book to be devoted to Mozart's opera, La clemenza di Tito. Rice considers the opera from a variety of historical and critical viewpoints. Tito is a political opera. The author examines its origins in the politically unstable Habsburg...