Genres & Styles

U2's significant career far exceeds that of most average successful rock bands, with a prolific output of thirteen well-received studio albums and a sometimes relentless touring schedule. The band is famous for uniquely drawing together music, art,...

Scholars have long recognized Carl Maria von Weber as the father of the German Romantic and Nationalist music. The success of his opera Der Freischutz almost single handedly brought German operatic style onto the world stage, competing with and...

Professor Kimbell's classic study illuminates the first fifteen years of Verdi's composing career, the era that culminated in his trio of masterpieces, Rigoletto, Il Trovatore and La Traviata. Verdi had become an acknowledged master of the peculiar brand...

Collects some of the most visually stunning and evocative album covers from the 20th Century Features homages to numerous important designers and artists, such as Damien Hirst, Yoko Ono and Raymond Pettibon Up until the 1940s, records were sold in plain,...

Unlike the violin, which has flourished largely unchanged for close to four centuries, the trumpet has endured numerous changes in design and social status from the battlefield to the bandstand and ultimately to the concert hall. This colorful past is...

In Experiencing Jazz: A Listener's Companion, writer, teacher, and renowned jazz drummer Michael Stephans offers a much-needed survey in the art of listening to and enjoying this dynamic, ever-changing art form. More than mere entertainment, jazz...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781455623099Author Julian PiperFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Pelican Publishing CoPublisher Pelican Publishing CoWeight(grams) 204g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780793555963Author Robert RawlinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 60Imprint Hal Leonard CorporationPublisher Hal Leonard CorporationWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781894959612Author W Fraser SandercombeFormat PaperbackPage Count 317Imprint Apogee BooksPublisher Collector's Guide PublishingWeight(grams) 434g

Taking readers behind Bob Dylan's familiar image as the enigmatic rebel of the 1960s, this book reveals a different view--that of a careful craftsman and student of the art of songwriting. Drawing on revelations from Dylan's memoir Chronicles and a...

During the years preceding the composition of Tristan and Isolde, Wagner's aesthetics underwent a momentous turnaround, principally as a result of his discovery of Schopenhauer. Many of Schopenhauer's ideas, especially those regarding music's...

African Sanctus, by David Fanshawe for chorus, ensemble and solo soprano. David Fanshawe is a composer, explorer, ethnomusicologist, sound recordist, photographer and author.The African Sanctus is a universal work conveying a simple message of praise...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781008908529Author Bernd HendricksFormat PaperbackPage Count 380Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 508g

Issues of identity have always been central to the American musical in all its guises. Who appears in musicals, who or what they are meant to represent, and how, over time, those representations have been understood and interpreted, provide the very...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995673205Author Gerald BrockieFormat PaperbackPage Count 34Imprint Guitar & Music Online Learning Ltd.Publisher Guitar & Music Online Learning...

This is a remarkably fresh piece of Dylan scholarship, focusing on the profound impact that his Midwestern roots have had on his songs, politics, and prophetic character. In the 1966 "Playboy" interview, Dylan said, 'I'm North Dakota-Minnesota-Midwestern...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789768202581Author K. Sean HarrisFormat HardbackPage Count 132Imprint LMH PublishingPublisher LMH PublishingWeight(grams) 191g

An in-depth and comprehensive guide to a and history of a music collecting EThe Ultimate Guide to Vinyl and MoreE traces the hobby from its beginnings over a century ago. The book features informative and entertaining sections on every significant...

for SATB (with divisions) unaccompanied Part of the John Rutter Anniversary Edition, this a cappella anthem, suitable as an introit or call to worship, was inspired by Celtic folksong.About the AuthorJohn Rutter studied music at Clare College, Cambridge...

Joining the ranks of Please Kill Me and Can't Stop Won't Stop comes this definitive chronicle of one of the hottest trends in popular culture-electronic dance music-from the noted authority covering the scene. It is the sound of the millennial...

for SATB and piano or chamber ensemble Written in 1978 for the choir of Clare College, Cambridge, this gentle, dreamy lullaby has gone on to become one of John Rutter's most popular carols. Full scores and instrumental parts (flute, oboe, harp, and...

In researching this collection, Milman Parry set out to test the theories he had evolved on oral epic, theories that were to introduce a new era of Homeric scholarship. In the Balkans, one of the few areas where a living tradition of oral heroic poetry...

Over the past four decades, rap and hip hop culture have taken a central place in popular music both in the United States and around the world. Listening to Rap: An Introduction enables students to understand the historical context, cultural impact, and...

This is the first-ever historical study across all musical genres in any American metropolis. Detroit in the 1940s-60s was not just "the capital of the twentieth century" for industry and the war effort, but also for the quantity and extremely high...

"The American Negro," Arthur Schomburg wrote in 1925, "must remake his past in order to make his future." Many Harlem Renaissance figures agreed that reframing the black folk inheritance could play a major role in imagining a new future of racial...

A Performer's Guide to Transcribing, Editing, and Arranging Early Music provides instruction on three important tasks that early music performers often undertake in order to make their work more noticeable and appealing to their audiences. First, the...

for SATB and solo cello Music for Choir and Cello draws twelve compelling pieces for SATB voices and solo cello into a collection that may be used to form a complete concert programme. Edited by composer and cellist Becky McGlade, the anthology includes...

Race, politics, and opera production during apartheid South Africa intersect in this historiographic work on the Eoan Group, a "coloured" cultural organization that performed opera in the Cape. The La Traviata Affair charts Eoan's opera activities from...

for SATB and organ or orchestra Mack Wilberg's arrangement of 'Old Hundredth', paired with William Kethe's popular hymn of exaltation, builds from a simple opening to a rich-textured, rousing conclusion, with a soaring soprano descant for the last verse...

When Joseph II placed his opera buffa troupe in competition with the re-formed Singspiel, he provoked an intense struggle between supporters of the rival national genres, who organized claques to cheer or hiss at performances, and encouraged press...

It was as if American television audiences discovered the musical in the early 21st century. In 2009 Glee took the Fox Network and American television by storm with the unexpected unification of primetime programming, awkward teens, and powerful voices...

Lyric theater in ancien regime France was an eminently political art, tied to the demands of court spectacle. This was true not only of tragic opera (tragedie lyrique) but also its comic counterpart, opera comique, a form tracing its roots to the...

The mention of the term "melodrama" is likely to evoke a response from laymen and musicians alike that betrays an acquaintance only with the popular form of the genre and its greatly heightened drama, exaggerated often to the point of the ridiculous. Few...

During the century of British rule of the Indian subcontinent known as the British Raj, the rulers felt the significant influence of their exotic subjects. Resonances of the Raj examines the ramifications of the intertwined and overlapping histories of...

The Stage Works of Philip Glass is the first publication to exclusively examine Glass's stage works from 1976 to the present day. Glass, who is regularly acclaimed as the most popular living classical composer, created stage works that have had a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780892540433Author Jean Shinoda BolenFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Hays (Nicolas) Ltd ,U.S.Publisher Hays (Nicolas) Ltd ,U.S.Weight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781480387683Author Hal Leonard Publishing CorporationPage Count 120Imprint G Schirmer, IncorporatedPublisher Hal Leonard Corporation

Rock music today is universal and its popular history is well known. Yet few know how and why it really came about. Taking a fresh look at events long overlooked or misunderstood, this book tells how some of the most disenfranchised people in a free and...

In Songs in the Key of Black Life, acclaimed cultural critic Mark Anthony Neal turns his attention to Rhythm and Blues. He argues that R&B-often dismissed as just a bunch of love songs, yet the second most popular genre in terms of sales-can tell us much...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486233819Author Isidor PhilippPage Count 188Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.