Genres & Styles

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780684865607Author James MillerFormat PaperbackPage Count 420Imprint Fireside BooksPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 532gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm...

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"...

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,...

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...

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 9781538136669Author Frederick Paul WalterFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Rowman & Littlefield PublishersPublisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams)...

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...

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...

No music is as individual as jazz. And no writer is as deft at bringing out what is individual in each artist as W. Royal Stokes. As a reviewer, feature writer, public radio host, and author of three books on the subject, Stokes has spent three decades...

Bono (U2) once said, "More than any other band, The Who are our role models." Starting as a simple four-piece 'mod' band in the early 1960s, The Who went on to conquer the world with their unique and supremely powerful music that transcended any genre...

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...

This stylish rock'n'roll book is published on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of dEUS. It sums up the aura and the specific character of the successful Antwerp-based band by means of the best photographs and private pictures. Included are the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781480342422Author Gerald McCauleyPage Count 274Imprint Hal Leonard CorporationPublisher Hal Leonard CorporationWeight(grams) 1497gDimensions(mm) 264mm *...

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...

"The first volume of Perle's magnificent study focused on Wozuck ...Its successor, equally painstaking and perceptive, is if anything more invaluable, for the clouds of mystery around Berg's second opera are only now beginning to disperse, and the work...

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,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780936661780Author Mildred J. HillPage Count 9Imprint Hal Leonard CorporationPublisher Hal Leonard Corporation

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...

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...

Jazz and Death: Reception, Rituals, and Representations critically examines the myriad and complex interactions between jazz and death, from the New Orleans "jazz funeral" to jazz in heaven or hell, final recordings, jazz monuments, and the music's own...

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 *...

This encyclopaedia of operas, ballets, composers and performers begins with an introductory essay which aims to provide an appropriate overview and a necessary framework within which the detailed entries may be placed. It emphasizes entries for works,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781637276822Author Katy SprinkelFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Triumph BooksPublisher Triumph BooksWeight(grams) 467gDimensions(mm) 279mm * 216mm *...

This collection of over fifty years of writing about the South and its music by Stanley Booth, one of the undisputedly great chroniclers of the subject, is a classic, essential read. Booth's close contacts with many of the musicians he writes about...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781891241673Author Katherine SpielmannFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Verse Chorus Press,U.S.Publisher Puncture Publications

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781947732360Author Grandmaster CazFormat PaperbackPage Count 134Imprint Wahida Clark Presents Publishing, LLCPublisher Wahida Clark Presents Publishing,...

Prominent components of Louis XIV's propaganda, the arts of spectacle also became sources of a potent resistance to the monarchy in late seventeenth-century France. With a particular focus on the court ballet, comedy-ballet, opera, and opera-ballet,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783795765026Author Johann Sebastian BachPage Count 110Imprint Ernst Eulenburg & CoPublisher Schott Musik International GmbH & Co KG

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...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781455624010Author Craig HarrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Pelican Publishing CompanyPublisher Pelican Publishing CompanyWeight(grams) 590g

ERush FAQE documents the amazing story of the world's greatest Canadian prog rock power trio from its origins in a church basement in Willowdale Ontario to its induction ceremony at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Covering 40 albums 10 DVDs ...

This compilation assembles previously published and unpublished essays by Schnittke and supplements them with an interview with cellist and scholar Alexander Ivashkin. The book is illustrated with musical examples, many of them in Schnittke's own hand...

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

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...

Revised and expanded, A Performer's Guide to Seventeenth Century Music is a comprehensive reference guide for students and professional musicians. The book contains useful material on vocal and choral music and style; instrumentation; performance...