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U2: Rock 'n' Roll to Change the World by Timothy D. Neufeld 9781442249394
RRP: $52.89$48.83U2'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,... -
Experiencing Carl Maria von Weber: A Listener's Companion by Joseph E. Morgan 9781442255562
RRP: $52.89$46.54Scholars 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... -
Verdi in the Age of Italian Romanticism by David R. B. Kimbell 9780521316781
RRP: $49.01$45.70Professor 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... -
Visual Vinyl Heerlen Schunk 9783862065790
RRP: $45.15$28.93Collects 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,... -
Fanfares and Finesse: A Performer's Guide to Trumpet History and Literature by Elisa Koehler
RRP: $49.02$42.92Unlike 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... -
Experiencing Jazz: A Listener's Companion by Michael Stephans 9781442279520
RRP: $38.70$34.93In 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... -
Blues from the Bayou: The Rhythms of Baton Rouge by Julian Piper 9781455623099
RRP: $33.53$19.48Apologies 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 -
A Simple and Direct Guide to Jazz Improvisation by Robert Rawlins 9780793555963
RRP: $19.34$13.24Apologies 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)... -
Beatles: The Press Reports 1961-1970 by W. Fraser Sandercombe
RRP: $18.05$10.81Apologies 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 -
Decoding Dylan: Making Sense of the Songs That Changed Modern Culture by Jim Curtis 9781476678450
RRP: $28.37$23.18Taking 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... -
The Tragic and the Ecstatic: The Musical Revolution of Wagner's Tristan and Isolde by Eric Chafe 9780195343007
RRP: $51.59$35.98During 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 9780571532834
RRP: $20.63$19.01African 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... -
Die Frist ist um: Navigate the Language of 10 German Operas by Bernd Hendricks 9781008908529
RRP: $27.93$24.51Apologies 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 -
Identities and Audiences in the Musical: An Oxford Handbook of the American Musical, Volume 3 by Raymond Knapp
RRP: $27.72$24.72Issues 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... -
Fastlines Blues Guitar Method Primer: Learn to solo for blues guitar with Fastlines, the combined book and audio tutor by Gerald Brockie 9780995673205
RRP: $8.39$7.59Apologies 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... -
Song of the North Country: A Midwest Framework to the Songs of Bob Dylan by David Pichaske 9781441197665
$45.94This 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... -
LMH Official Dictionary of Jamaican Reggae & Dancehall Stars Vol. 1 K. Sean Harris 9789768202581
RRP: $7.73$5.73Apologies 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 -
The Ultimate Guide to Vinyl and More: All You Need to Know About Collecting Essential Music from Cylinders and CDs to LPs and Tapes by Dave Thompson
RRP: $32.25$27.55An 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... -
Open thou mine eyes by John Rutter 9780193405509
$4.02for 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... -
The Underground Is Massive: How Electronic Dance Music Conquered America by Michaelangelo Matos 9780062271792
$15.17Joining 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... -
Mary's Lullaby by John Rutter 9780193413931
$4.02for 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... -
Serbocroatian Heroic Songs, Volume 3: The Wedding of Smailagic Meho: Avdo Međedovic by Milman Parry 9780674801639
RRP: $25.74$21.31In 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... -
Listening to Rap: An Introduction Michael Berry 9781138231153
RRP: $79.97$69.16Over 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... -
Motor City Music: A Detroiter Looks Back by Mark Slobin 9780190882082
RRP: $38.69$28.24This 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... -
Deep River: Music and Memory in Harlem Renaissance Thought by Paul Allen Anderson
RRP: $30.95$26.88"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 by Senior Lecturer of Music Alon Schab 9780197600658
RRP: $129.00$118.04A 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... -
Music for Choir and Cello by Becky McGlade 9780193570290
RRP: $13.55$10.26for 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... -
The La Traviata Affair: Opera in the Age of Apartheid by Dr. Hilde Roos 9780520299894
RRP: $38.70$30.04Race, 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... -
All people that on earth do dwell by Mack Wilberg 9780193511736
$5.68for 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... -
Cabals and Satires: Mozart's Comic Operas in Vienna by Ian Woodfield 9780190692636
RRP: $73.53$60.85When 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... -
Broadway in the Box: Television's Lasting Love Affair with the Musical by Kelly Kessler
RRP: $38.69$26.30It 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... -
The Comedians of the King: "Op?ra-Comique" and the Bourbon Monarchy on the Eve of Revolution by Julia Doe
RRP: $61.92$51.64Lyric 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... -
Contextualizing Melodrama in the Czech Lands: In Concert and on Stage by Judith A. Mabary
RRP: $51.59$45.23The 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... -
Resonances of the Raj: India in the English Musical Imagination,1897-1947 by Nalini Ghuman 9780199314898
RRP: $77.40$67.74During 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 by Robert F. Waters
RRP: $96.75$87.38The 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... -
Ring of Power: Symbols and Themes Love vs Power in Wagners Ring Cycle and in Us by Jean Shinoda Bolen
RRP: $23.21$16.63Apologies 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)... -
The Baroque Violin Collection: 9 Pieces by 9 Composers, Violin and Piano by Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation 9781480387683
RRP: $23.87$18.02Apologies 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 -
Devil's Music, Holy Rollers and Hillbillies: How America Gave Birth to Rock and Roll by James A. Cosby 9781476662299
RRP: $19.34$16.19Rock 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... -
Songs in the Key of Black Life: A Rhythm and Blues Nation Mark Anthony Neal 9780415965712
RRP: $46.43$40.88In 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... -
French Piano Music, An Anthology by Isidor Philipp 9780486233819
RRP: $21.29$19.31Apologies 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.