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The first book to provide comprehensive expert guidance on managing orchestrasSuitable for those in executive education going into practice as well as current managers and leaders involved with orchestras around the worldIncludes case studies that offer...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681340326Author Cyn CollinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 392Imprint Minnesota Historical Society PressPublisher Minnesota Historical Society...

for SATB and organ The charming and vibrant melody of this attractive carol for choir and organ glides above harmonies that are almost entirely diatonic, but whose originality and frequent passing dissonances mean that predictability is never a danger...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781847613998Author Samantha WardPage Count 86Imprint Schott Music LtdPublisher Schott Music Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780571539697Author Thomas AdèsFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Faber Music LtdPublisher Faber Music LtdWeight(grams) 100g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674733374Author Mark Evan BondsFormat HardbackPage Count 212Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 494g

A detailed documentary history of opera in Portugal from the beginning of the eighteenth century to the inauguration of the still existing Teatro de S. Carlos in 1793. This 1989 study shows how the introduction of opera into the country at the beginning...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781934389799Author Ron DavidFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint For BeginnersPublisher For Beginners

The convergence of rock music, counterculture politics and avant-garde aesthetics in the late 1960s underscored the careers of the Beatles, Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention, and the Velvet Underground. This book examines these artists'...

Nadine Jansen, a flugelhornist and pianist, remembers a night in the 1940s when a man came out of the audience as she was playing both instruments. 'I hate to see a woman do that,' he explained as he hit the end of her horn, nearly chipping her tooth...

A few weeks after the reunification of Germany, Leonard Bernstein raised his baton above the ruins of the Berlin Wall and conducted a special arrangement of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. The central statement of the work, that "all men will be brothers,"...

Improvisation is a performance practice that animates and activates diverse energies of inspiration, critique, and invention. In recent years it has coalesced into an exciting and innovative new field of interdisciplinary scholarly inquiry, becoming a...

for SATB unaccompanied Originally published in the anthology, An American Christmas, this is a serene setting of a macaronic text by M. K. Dean describing the song the angels sang for the birth of the Christ-child.About the AuthorLibby Larsen is one of...

for SA and piano or orchestra This charming piece brings to life a magical world that exists in everyone's mind - a land of make-believe, where there are dragons, giants, and castles in the air. The composer's wonderfully imaginative words will appeal...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781716963704Author Daniel BotkinFormat PaperbackPage Count 60Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 82gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 148mm * 3mm

This book defines the key ideas, scholarly debates, and research activities that have contributed to the formation of the international and interdisciplinary field of Metal Studies. Drawing on insights from a wide range of disciplines including popular...

CO-WINNER: The Triennial Alan Walker Book Award, sponsored by the American Liszt Society 2023 A new and wide-ranging collection of essays by leading international scholars, exploring the concept and practices of virtuosity in Franz Liszt and his...

Richard Strauss' fifteen operas, which span the years 1893 to 1941, make up the largest German operatic legacy since Wagner's operas of the nineteenth century. Many of Strauss's works were based on texts by Europe's finest writers: Oscar Wilde, Hugo von...

for SATB and piano or harp or orchestra This joyful carol of celebration, with its uplifting 'Gloria in excelsis Deo' refrain, is presented here in German translation. The orchestral accompaniment is available on sale and on hire/rental.About the...

Performed throughout Europe during the eighteenth century, Italian heroic opera, or opera seria, was the century's most significant and popular musical art form, engaging such figures as Handel, Haydn, and Mozart. In "Opera and Sovereignty", Martha...

Jazz Works is a brand new collection of compositions for jazz ensembles at three levels. For each level there are eight original pieces in a challenging range of styles, with parts for C, Bb, Eb and bass-clef instruments, and for a rhythm section of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780849705403Author Dean SorensonFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Kjos (Neil A.) Music Co ,U.S.Publisher Kjos (Neil A.) Music Co ,U.S.Weight(grams) 320g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556527333Author Ian MacDonaldFormat PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint Chicago Review PressPublisher Chicago Review Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905792450Author Lawrence WatsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 116Imprint Foruli CodexPublisher Foruli LimitedWeight(grams) 224gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 216mm *...

Argentine Queer Tango: Dance and Sexuality Politics in Buenos Aires investigates changes in tango dancing in Buenos Aires during the first decade of the twenty-first century and its relationship to contemporary social and cultural transformations...

In the German states in the late eighteenth century, women flourished as musical performers and composers, their achievements measuring the progress of culture and society from barbarism to civilization. Female excellence, and related feminocentric...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805070705Author Allan KozinnFormat PaperbackPage Count 348Imprint Times BooksPublisher Times BooksWeight(grams) 435g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781970047080Author David CalcanoFormat HardbackPage Count 116Imprint Fantoons LLCPublisher Fantoons LLC

It is common to hear heavy metal music fans and musicians talk about the "metal community". This concept, which is widely used when referencing this musical genre, encompasses multiple complex aspects that are seldom addressed in traditional academic...

Dorothea Link examines singers' voices and casting practices in late eighteenth-century Italian opera as exemplified in Vienna's court opera from 1783 to 1791. The investigation into the singers' voices proceeds on two levels: understanding the...

Highlights of the Norton Critical Score of Symphony No. 4: * The first edition of the score with Brahm's corrections incorporated * Historical background * Correspondence before publication * Reviews of first and early performances * Analysis and...

Project Blowed is a legendary hiphop workshop based in Los Angeles. It began in 1994 when a group of youths moved their already renowned open-mic nights from the Good Life, a Crenshaw district health food store, to the KAOS Network, an arts center in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781540097279Author Frederic ChopinFormat PaperbackPage Count 212Imprint PwmPublisher PwmWeight(grams) 680gDimensions(mm) 302mm * 226mm * 15mm

For female pop stars, whose star bodies and star performances are undisputedly the objects of a sexualized external gaze, the process of ageing in public poses particular challenges. Taking a broadly feminist perspective, 'Rock On': women, ageing and...

Across his directorial films, American filmmaker Dennis Hopper used music and sound to propel the narrative, signpost the era in which the films were made, and delineate the characters' place within American culture. This book explores five of Hopper's...

Choro is a type of Brazilian popular music similar in background to the celebrated Cuban son of Buena Vista Social Club fame. Choro started in Rio de Janeiro as a fusion of African-based rhythms and structures with European instruments and dance forms...

Using the prize money from his Somerset Maugham Award, Duncan McLean traveled from Orkney, Scotland, to Texas in search of the extraordinary mix of jazz, blues, country, and mariachi that is Western Swing. This account of his travels takes in...

A New Yorker writer's intimate, revealing account of Tupac Shakur's life and legacy, timed to the fiftieth anniversary of his birth and twenty-fifth anniversary of his death.In the summer of 2020, Tupac Shakur's single "Changes" became an anthem for the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375707124Author Manuela HoelterhoffFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint VintagePublisher VintageWeight(grams) 408g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999477663Author Jon GordonFormat PaperbackPage Count 278Imprint Cymbal PressPublisher Cymbal PressWeight(grams) 376gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 15mm