Genres & Styles

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780820463650Author Steve JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 293Imprint Peter Lang Publishing IncPublisher Peter Lang Publishing IncWeight(grams) 440g

Offering innovative approaches to thinking about orchestras, Global Perspectives on Orchestras: Collective Creativity and Social Agency adopts ethnographic, historical and comparative perspectives on a variety of traditions, including symphony, Caribbean...

Although David Bowie has famously characterized himself as a "leper messiah," a more appropriate moniker might be "rock god": someone whose influence has crossed numerous sub-genres of popular and classical music and can at times seem ubiquitous. By...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781550228724Author Aye JayFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint ECW Press,CanadaPublisher ECW Press,CanadaWeight(grams) 133g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781438429748Author Joel MakowerFormat PaperbackPage Count 369Imprint Excelsior EditionsPublisher State University of New York PressWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781495079566Author Eric J. PlahnaFormat PaperbackPage Count 77Imprint Hal Leonard CorporationPublisher Hal Leonard CorporationWeight(grams) 295g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780369316547Author Jake BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 498Imprint ReadHowYouWantPublisher ReadHowYouWantWeight(grams) 621g

From behind the walls of a handful of well-hidden, unlikely recording studios in the Los Angeles area, legends-in-waiting created masterpiece albums. It was a time of astonishing creativity and unprecedented fame and fortune. It was also a time of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780992686345Author Daniel-Sidney BechetFormat HardbackPage Count 204Imprint Books of Africa LtdPublisher Books of Africa Ltd

There is little question about the incredible power of Bruce Springsteen's work as a particularly transformative art, as a lyrical and musical fusion that never shies away from sifting through the rubble of human conflict. As Rolling Stone magazine's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780571521012Author Nicholas MawFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Faber Music LtdPublisher Faber Music LtdWeight(grams) 375g

Lauri Suurpaa brings together two rigorous methodologies, Greimassian semiotics and Schenkerian analysis, to provide a unique perspective on the expressive power of Franz Schubert's song cycle. Focusing on the final songs, Suurpaa deftly combines textual...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781538135587Author Victor LedererFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Rowman & Littlefield PublishersPublisher Rowman & Littlefield

Christopher Fox (1955) has emerged as one of the most fascinating composers of the post-war generation. His spirit of experimentalism pervades an oeuvre in which he has blithely created his own version of a range of contemporary musical practices. In his...

In 1893 the composer Antonin Dvorak prophesied a "great and noble" school of American classical music based on the searing "negro melodies" he had excitedly discovered since arriving in the United States a year before. But while Black music would found...

During the last thirty years Eastern Europe has been a place of radical political, economic, and social transformation, and these changes have affected the cultural industries of its countries. This volume consists of twelve chapters by leading...

33 1/3 Revolutions per Minute: A Critical Trip Though the Rock LP Era, 1955-1999 is a history of the rock LP era told though critiques of a very personal selection of nearly 750 albums. It follows rock and roll from its earliest days in the 1950s to the...

Philip J. Lang, Jonathan Tunick - are names well known to musical theatre fans, but few people understand precisely what the orchestrator does. The Sound of Broadway Music is the first book ever written about these unsung stars of the Broadway musical...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476874487Author Van HalenPage Count 96Imprint Hal Leonard CorporationPublisher Hal Leonard CorporationWeight(grams) 363g

This new collection views Russian music through the Greek triad of "the Good, the True, and the Beautiful" to investigate how the idea of "nation" embeds itself in the public discourse about music and other arts with results at times invigorating, at...

Lyric diction is a portal to powerful and meaningful vocal performance because diction enables singers to communicate the vision of both the poet and the composer. The study of diction involves learning to perceive speech patterns in different languages,...

While a stage production can disrupt a work that was thought to be established, David J. Levin here argues that the genre of opera is itself unsettled, and that the performance of operas, at its best, clarifies this condition by bringing opera's...

Popular music in the Americas, from jazz, Cuban and Latin salsa to disco and rap, is overwhelmingly neo-African. Created in the midst of war and military invasion, and filtered through a Western worldview, these musical forms are completely modern in...

Sounds French examines the history of popular music in France between the arrival of rock and roll in 1958 and the collapse of the first wave of punk in 1980, and the connections between musical genres and concepts of community in French society. During...

Punk and industrial culture in late '70s and early '80s San Francisco Spanning music, art and literature, the industrial and punk scenes of San Francisco in the late 1970s and early 1980s were diverse but united by a DIY, anti-authoritarian attitude...

Challenging and unsettling their predecessors, modern choreographers such as Matthew Bourne, Mark Morris and Masaki Iwana have courted controversy and notoriety by reimagining the most canonical of Classical and Romantic ballets. In this book, Vida L...

Maria Callas was, perhaps, the greatest opera singer of the 20th century. Hers was a life lived on the world stage, and her fame extended to the public consciousness of many parts of the world. Even after her mysterious death in 1977, her singing and...

From Queen Latifah to Count Basie, Madonna to Monk, "Hole in our soul: the loss of beauty and meaning in American popular music" traces popular music back to its roots in jazz, blues, country, and gospel through the rise in rock'n'roll and the emergence...

The Essays Before a Sonata was conceived by Ives as a preface of sorts to the composition. Ives's musings also explore the nature of music, discuss the source of a composer's impulses and inspiration, and offer some biting comments on celebrated masters...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780982723968Author Josh Alan FriedmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Wyatt Doyle Books/New TexturePublisher Wyatt Doyle Books/New TextureWeight(grams)...

A group of three friends who made music in a house in Lubbock, Texas, recorded an album that wasn't released and went their separate ways into solo careers. That group became a legend and then-twenty years later-a band. The Flatlanders-Joe Ely, Jimmie...

Hailed by the New York Times Book Review as a "no-holds-barred biography" and "a state-of-the-art guide to the composer's life and works," this superb volume in the Master Musicians series offers the first life-and-works study of this...

The ultimate biography of the musical icon. A groundbreaking and vibrant look at the music hero to generations, DYLAN: The Biography digs deep into Bob Dylan lore-including subjects Dylan himself left out of Chronicles: Volume One. DYLAN:...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781458421265Author Paul RollandPage Count 72Imprint Hal Leonard CorporationPublisher Hal Leonard Corporation

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781847614018Author Samantha WardPage Count 88Imprint Schott Music LtdPublisher Schott Music Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781847614711Author Julian RowlandsPage Count 64Imprint Schott Music LtdPublisher Schott Music LtdWeight(grams) 263g

Boosting the bass guitar, blending the vocals, overdubbing percussion while fretting over shoot-outs in the street. Grumbling about a producer, teasing a white engineer, challenging an artist to feel his African beat. Sound of Africa! is a riveting...

Claude Debussy holds a place as a one of the most recognizable and influential composers in the classical music. Debussy forged a new and influential sound for the twentieth century with his remarkable harmonies, fluid rhythms, airy textures, and an...

Joel Sachs offers the first complete biography of one of the most influential figures in twentieth-century American music. Henry Cowell, a major musical innovator of the first half of the century, left a rich body of compositions spanning a wide range of...

This book provides new practical tools that bridge the gap between familiar, easy-to-use technology and musical practice to enhance musicianship and motivate students. Authors Jennifer Mishra and Barbara Fast provide ideas for use with students of all...