Genres & Styles

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780470894323Author Barney HoskynsFormat HardbackPage Count 576Imprint John Wiley & Sons IncPublisher Turner Publishing Company

for soprano solo, SATB, piano, bass, drums and optional alto saxophone Will Todd's Mass in Blue is a dynamic, uplifting, and highly popular jazz setting of the Latin mass. The work features driving grooves and blues harmonies, with provision for short...

On New Year's Day 1953, Hank Williams--numbed by a deadly combination of whiskey and narcotics--died in the back seat of his Cadillac en route to a performance in Canton, Ohio. He was only twenty nine years old at the time of his death and his passing...

From Angie to Wild Horses, Start Me Up to Ruby Tuesday, Rolling Stones Legends Alphabet is a blues-soaked journey through the works of Mick, Keith, Jones, Wyman, and Watts. Grab a Jagger-inspired velvet suit, and prepare for pure satisfaction as we dive...

Is The Marriage of Figaro just about Figaro? Is Don Giovanni's story the only one-or even the most interesting one-in the opera that bears his name? For generations of critics, historians, and directors, it's Mozart's men who have mattered most. Too...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780634092831Author Sergey ProkofievPage Count 37Imprint Hal Leonard CorporationPublisher Hal Leonard Corporation

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781900486606Author Joe AmbroseFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint HeadpressPublisher HeadpressWeight(grams) 312g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781423400462Author Janos BaliFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Hal Leonard CorporationPublisher Hal Leonard CorporationWeight(grams) 476gDimensions(mm)...

In Technology and the Diva, Karen Henson brings together an interdisciplinary group of scholars to explore the neglected subject of opera and technology. Their essays focus on the operatic soprano and her relationships with technology from the heyday of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781646332601Author Mark Amaru PinkhamFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Heartlight FellowshipPublisher Heartlight FellowshipWeight(grams)...

From the 'old world' to the 'new' and back again, this transnational history of the performance and reception of Bizet's Carmen - whose subject has become a modern myth and its heroine a symbol - provides new understanding of the opera's enduring yet...

for SSA, piano, and optional guitar, bass, and drum kit Samba Mass is a joyous and colourful setting of the Latin Missa brevis. The work is framed by the gentle bossa nova style of the warm Kyrie and relaxed Agnus Dei, which is prefaced by a funky...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788875926656Author Gaetano DonizettiPage Count 381Imprint Ricordi BMGPublisher Ricordi BMG

Michael Steinberg's 1996 volume The Symphony: A Reader's Guide received glowing reviews across America. It was hailed as "wonderfully clear...recommended warmly to music lovers on all levels" (Washington Post), "informed and...

From the Minds of Jazz Musicians, Volume II: Conversations with the Creative and Inspired is a follow-up to Volume I's celebration of contemporary jazz artists who have toiled, struggled, and succeeded in finding their creative space. Volume II was...

Andreas Werckmeister (1645 - 1706), a late seventeenth-century German Lutheran organist, composer, and music theorist, is the last great advocate and defender of the Great Tradition in music, with its assumptions that music is a divine gift to humanity,...

Articles, tributes and reminiscences of composer, pianist and author Peter Dickinson are here brought together for the first time. Peter Dickinson made an enduring contribution to British musical life, and his music has been regularly performed and...

The story of Manon Lescaut has become part of the European imagination: she is the fun-loving woman who is irresistible to men. Of Massenet's many operas, she inspired the most popular one, and this libretto shows his minute attention to detail in...

Explores the world of women's professional and amateur musical activity as it developed on and beyond the island of Ireland. In a story which spans several centuries, the book highlights representative composers and performers in classical music,...

Italian Opera in the 18th and 19th centuries was an experience unequaled anywhere else in the world. The unique emotion, flavor, and passion that existed have yet to be attained in any other country. Opera houses in Italy are the birthplace of this great...

Few bands have proven as long-standing and experimental as the Canadian rock act Rush, which has successfully survived and adapted like few others by continuing to work in an album-oriented "progressive hard rock" style. Rush bridged its original...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783795795252Author Paul HindemithPage Count 36Imprint Schott Musik International GmbH & Co KGPublisher Schott Musik International GmbH & Co KG

An indispensable guide for rock aficionados, this is the first book to survey the Detroit music scene of the 1960s and 70s - a pivotal era in rock music history, producing such legendary bands as The MC5, Iggy Pop and the Stooges, Mitch Ryder and the...

Microgroove continues John Corbett's exploration of diverse musics, with essays, interviews, and musician profiles that focus on jazz, improvised music, contemporary classical, rock, folk, blues, post-punk, and cartoon music. Corbett's approach to...

"The audience should feel as they come out of this show that they have over-eaten an enormous cream meringue". Jonathan Miller's ambition was completely successful, and his Mikado has been revived umpteen times in London and played in LA, Houston, New...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781841507378Author Christopher KelenFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint Intellect BooksPublisher Intellect Books

Singin' in the Rain, The Sound of Music, Camelot--love them or love to hate them, movie musicals have been a major part of all our lives. They're so glitzy and catchy that it seems impossible that they could have ever gone any other way. But the ease in...

Before the nineteenth century, instrumental music was considered inferior to vocal music. Kant described wordless music as "more pleasure than culture," and Rousseau dismissed it for its inability to convey concepts. But by the early 1800s, a dramatic...

When we talk about a jazz "standard" we usually mean one of the many songs that jazz musicians repeatedly play as part of their core repertoire. But unlike musical works in the tradition of so-called classical music, standards--whether plucked from the...

This is the first book for a century to explore the development of French opera with spoken dialogue from its beginnings. Musical comedy in this form came in different styles and formed a distinct genre of opera, whose history has been obscured by...

For more than 150 years, individuals have traveled the countryside with pen, paper, tape recorders, and even video cameras to document versions of songs, music, and stories shared by communities. As technologies and methodologies have advanced, the task...

In the illustrious and richly documented history of American jazz, no figure has been more controversial than the jazz critic. Jazz critics can be revered or reviled - often both - but they should not be ignored. And while the tradition of jazz has been...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780788444975Author Madeleine E MitchellFormat PaperbackPage Count 586Imprint Heritage BooksPublisher Heritage BooksWeight(grams) 771g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845358235Format HardbackPage Count 112Imprint D.C.Thomson & Co LtdPublisher D.C.Thomson & Co LtdWeight(grams) 570g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781602064263Author Catherine of Sien St Catherine of SienaFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint Cosimo ClassicsPublisher Cosimo ClassicsWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781439251935Author Steven a Foreman M DFormat PaperbackPage Count 350Imprint Booksurge PublishingPublisher Booksurge PublishingWeight(grams) 363g

A personal, and sometimes controversial, selection by three jazz critics of the "best" 250 jazz records - mostly LP collections of 78 rpm originals - from the earliest roots of music to the beginnings of the modern jazz era. Each record is placed in its...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780979502019Author Taffeta Chime O'NealFormat HardbackImprint Broken Oak PublishingPublisher Broken Oak PublishingWeight(grams) 435g

We're all familiar with the image of a fierce and scowling Beethoven, struggling doggedly to overcome his rapidly progressing deafness. That Beethoven continued to play and compose for more than a decade after he lost his hearing is often seen as an act...

Biobanks are critical infrastructure for medical research but they are also the subject of considerable ethical and legal uncertainty. Given that biobanks process large quantities of genomic data, questions have emerged as to how genetic privacy should...