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Hat Box: The Collected Lyrics of Stephen Sondheim: A Box Set by Stephen Sondheim
RRP: £120.00£80.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307957726Author Stephen SondheimFormat HardbackImprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher Alfred A. KnopfWeight(grams) 3257gDimensions(mm) 290mm * 221mm * 60mm -
The Violinist.com Interviews: Volume 1 by Laurie Niles 9780983813071
RRP: £16.31£14.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780983813071Author Laurie NilesFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Niles OnlinePublisher Niles OnlineWeight(grams) 431g -
On Bowie Rob Sheffield 9781472241078
RRP: £10.99£7.40On Bowie is a thoughtful and loving meditation on the life of the late David Bowie that explores his creative legacy and the enduring and mutual connection he enjoyed with his fansInnovative. Pioneering. Brave. Until his death in January 2016, David... -
The Musical Child: Using the Power of Music to Raise Children Who are Happy, Healthy and Whole by Joan Koenig
RRP: £18.99£16.78'Wonderful ... we need music in our lives now more than ever' HERBIE HANCOCK 'Joan Koenig is on a wonderful mission to enrich children's lives through music' DR GUY DEUTSCHER A... -
Music for Silenced Voices: Shostakovich and His Fifteen Quartets by Wendy Lesser
RRP: £15.99£13.82A new biography of Shostakovich that views him through the intimate music of his string quartets Most previous books about Dmitri Shostakovich have focused on either his symphonies and operas, or his relationship to the regime under which he lived, or... -
Pink Floyd and Philosophy: Careful with that Axiom, Eugene! by George A. Reisch 9780812696363
RRP: £22.99£15.46Pink Floyd's sound and light shows in the 1960s defined psychedelia, but their later recordings combined rock, orchestral music, literature, and philosophy. Dark Side of the Moon and The Wall ignored pop music's usual strictures to focus on themes of... -
Rock Atlas UK & Ireland: Second Edition by David Roberts 9781905959570
RRP: £25.00£18.92A book of more than 700 great music locations throughout the UK and Ireland and the stories behind them. Featuring landmark album cover locations, gravestones, plaques, recording locations, statues, and sites of famous and infamous gigs. Rock Atlas... -
The Life and Death of Classical Music: Featuring the 100 Best and 20 Worst Recordings Ever Made by Norman Lebrecht 9781400096589
RRP: £19.00£13.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400096589Author Norman LebrechtFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 317gDimensions(mm) 202mm *... -
Guided by Voices Bee Thousand by Marc Woodworth
RRP: £9.99£7.67Marc Woodworth's book covers the album's long and unorthodox period of writing, recording, sequencing, and editing. It includes interviews with members of the band, manager Pete Jamison, web-master and GBV historian Rich Turiel and Robert Griffin of Scat... -
Sweat the Technique: Revelations on Creativity from the Lyrical Genius by Rakim
RRP: £12.99£11.87On the heels of Kendrick Lamar's Pulitzer Prize, as the world begins to recognize the creative side of Hip-Hop, comes a writing guide from a musician and "The greatest MC of all time," Rakim.The musician and Hip Hop legend-hailed as "the greatest MC of... -
"Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny" by Bertolt Brecht 9780713686746
£11.29Brecht's operatic play produced with Hauptmann, Neher and Weill was first staged in 1930. The story is that three criminals create the city of Mahagonny. Drinking, gambling, prize-fights and similar activities are the sole occupation of the inhabitants,... -
The Show That Never Ends: The Rise and Fall of Prog Rock by David Weigel 9780393356021
RRP: £13.99£11.37The Show That Never Ends is the behind-the-scenes story of the extraordinary rise and fall of progressive ("prog") rock, epitomised by such classic, chart-topping bands as Yes, Genesis, Pink Floyd, Jethro Tull and Emerson Lake & Palmer, and their... -
Rebel Music: Race, Empire, and the New Muslim Youth Culture by Hisham Aidi 9780307279972
RRP: £21.00£15.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307279972Author Hisham AidiFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 357gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
The Oxford Book of Easy Flexible Anthems: Simple, varied anthems for the church year by Alan Bullard 9780193413269
RRP: £26.25£19.70The Oxford Book of Easy Flexible Anthems caters for church choirs of all types and sizes, enabling them to have at their fingertips easy music for every occasion. The collection presents flexibility of scoring in a constructive and realistic way, with... -
The Golden Road: The Recorded History of Grateful Dead by John Kilbride 9781789521566
RRP: £17.99£12.95Over their 30-year career as one of the most influential and successful bands in the world, the Grateful Dead released just a handful of studio albums and a small number of live albums. With a reputation built on their stellar live performances, it was... -
Vernon Subutex Three by Virginie Despentes
RRP: £10.99£7.40"A literary phenomenon" The Times"Despentes' writing is intelligent, outspoken, witty, shocking, propulsive and streetwise" Times Literary SupplementTHE FINAL VOLUME IN THE EPIC ROCK AND ROLL TRILOGY BY CULT AUTHOR VIRGINIE DESPENTESAlthough it means... -
Comfortably Numb by Mark Blake
£13.61Mark Blake draws on his own interviews with band members as well as the group's friends, road crew, musical contemporaries, former housemates, and university colleagues to produce a riveting history of one of the biggest rock bands of all time. We follow... -
Rabbit's Blues: The Life and Music of Johnny Hodges by Con Chapman
RRP: £27.49£23.20In his eulogy of saxophonist Johnny Hodges (1907-70), Duke Ellington ended with the words, "Never the world's most highly animated showman or greatest stage personality, but a tone so beautiful it sometimes brought tears to the eyesthis was Johnny Hodges... -
Keyboards From Scratch: A Complete Guide to Playing Keyboards for Beginners of All Ages Christopher Norton 9780851622095
£19.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780851622095Author Christopher NortonPage Count 64Imprint Boosey & Hawkes Music Publishers LtdPublisher Boosey & Hawkes Music Publishers Ltd -
Who Invented Heavy Metal? by Martin Popoff
RRP: £14.99£10.95It's one of the great debates in musicology and the answer is as complicated as it is hotly contested. Popoff's Who Invented Heavy Metal? provides the most detailed, well argued, reasonable, ridiculously complete, and most lively and readable telling of... -
Songs my Heart has Taught Me by Bob Chilcott
RRP: £11.50£8.65for SATB and piano In this passionate four-movement work, composer Bob Chilcott and lyricist Delphine Chalmers explore themes of inclusivity, identity, and unity. The middle movements, 'Harmony' and 'Rhythm', have strong grooves and rhythmic drive,... -
Don Drummond: The Genius and Tragedy of the World's Greatest Trombonist by Heather Augustyn 9780786475476
RRP: £21.99£17.97This is a comprehensive biography of a brilliant musician and his lover who forever shaped the course of ska, reggae, and popular music worldwide despite poverty, class separation, mental illness, racial politics, exploitation, and sexism that resulted... -
We Never Learn: The Gunk Punk Undergut, 1988-2001 by Eric Davidson
RRP: £18.99£14.72Includes a code for free CD download of many of the bands featured in this book!Nirvana, the White Stripes, Hole, the Hives - all sprang from an underground music scene where similarly raw bands, enjoying various degrees of success and hard luck, played... -
La boheme by Giacomo Puccini 9780714544519
RRP: £10.00£7.97These Opera Guides are ideal com-panions to the opera. They provide stimulating introductory articles together with the complete text of each opera in English and the original. Italian opera expert William Ashbrook asks why this love story attracted... -
Song of the Far Isles by Nicholas Bowling 9781912626670
RRP: £7.99£5.82From Costa Award-shortlisted author Nicholas Bowling comes a tale of adventure, myth and music to make your heart sing ... 'Cast its spell over me from the first page ... it really is my perfect book.' Jasbinder... -
The Complete Company Collection: Author'S Edition by Stephen Sondheim 9780793567638
£17.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780793567638Author Stephen SondheimPage Count 168Imprint Hal Leonard CorporationPublisher Hal Leonard Corporation -
Other Planets: The Complete Works of Karlheinz Stockhausen 1950-2007 by Robin Maconie 9781442272675
RRP: £58.00£53.47German composer Karlheinz Stockhausen was arguably the most influential figure of the European postwar avant-garde and unquestionably the most elusive and enigmatic musical thinker of a generation that includes Pierre Boulez, John Cage, and Luciano Berio... -
Mozart by Julian Rushton 9780195388251
RRP: £18.99£13.34Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is one of the great icons of Western music. An amazing prodigy who toured the capitals of Europe as a child, astonishing royalty and professional musicians with his precocious skills, in his adulthood he wrote some of the finest... -
Te lucis ante terminum by David Bednall 9780193514256
£3.12for tenor solo and SATB unaccompanied David Bednall's unaccompanied setting of this Compline hymn contrasts sections of chant, for tenor soloist, with rich responses for full SATB choir. The introit has a gentle sense of ebb and flow, compounded by... -
Twice: The Story of K-Pop's Greatest Girl Group by Jamie Heal
RRP: £14.99£9.84In the space of just five years, Twice have taken the K-Pop world by storm. With hundreds of millions of views on YouTube, a sell-out world tour and record-breaking album sales under their belts, Twice have well and truly earned their place in... -
Infinity Blues by Ryan Adams
RRP: £16.95£11.51Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781933354743Author Ryan AdamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 285Imprint Akashic Books,U.S.Publisher Akashic Books,U.S.Weight(grams) 326g -
Move on Up: Chicago Soul Music and Black Cultural Power by Aaron Cohen
RRP: £19.00£18.50Curtis Mayfield. The Chi-Lites. Chaka Khan. Chicago's place in the history of soul music is rock solid. But for Chicagoans, soul music in its heyday from the 1960s to the 1980s was more than just a series of hits: it was a marker and a source of black... -
Amy Winehouse by Mick O'Shea 9780859654821
RRP: £14.99£9.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780859654821Author Mick O'SheaFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Plexus Publishing LtdPublisher Plexus Publishing Ltd -
Dear Mr Pop Star by Derek Philpott
RRP: £16.99£12.68For more than a decade, Derek Philpott and his son, Dave, have been writing to pop stars from the 1960s to the 90s to take issue with the lyrics of some of their best-known songs.But then, to their great surprise, the pop stars started writing back..... -
The Great History of ROCK MUSIC: From Elvis Presley to the Present Day Ernesto Assante 9788854420007
RRP: £35.00£24.83Rock is not just a genre of music. It is a way of being; an attitude. It was a movement that swept and sweeps stages around the world from the 1950s until present day. The universe of rock is a star-studded one; filled with artists and songs that have... -
No Machos or Pop Stars: When the Leeds Art Experiment Went Punk by Gavin Butt
RRP: £21.99£18.21After punk's arrival in 1976, many art students in the northern English city of Leeds traded their paintbrushes for guitars and synthesizers. In bands ranging from Gang of Four, Soft Cell, and Delta 5 to the Mekons, Scritti Politti, and Fad Gadget, these... -
Giacomo Puccini: La Boheme by Arthur Groos 9780521319133
RRP: £19.99£17.13This guide presents a unique collection of critical, analytical, and documentary essays on Puccini's most popular opera. There are new studies on the background to Parisian bohemianism (by Jerrold Seigel), on Puccini's musical language (by William... -
A New Heaven: Harry Christophers and The Sixteen Choral conversations with Sara Mohr-Pietsch by Harry Christophers 9780571348534
RRP: £9.99£6.70The Sixteen have become a household name. They are the Voices of Classic FM, and stars of the BBC Four series Sacred Music, presented by Simon Russell Beale. Every year since the millennium, they have undertaken a Choral Pilgrimage, bringing a programme... -
The Heavy Metal Fun Time Activity Book by Aye Jay Morano 9781550227987
RRP: £9.99£6.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781550227987Author Aye Jay MoranoFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint ECW Press,CanadaPublisher ECW Press,CanadaWeight(grams) 133g -
Dave Brubeck: A Life in Time Philip Clark 9781472272508
RRP: £14.99£9.80NOMINATED FOR THE JAZZ JOURNALISTS ASSOCIATION BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021 WINNER OF THE PRESTO JAZZ BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020An articulate, scrupulously researched account based on first-hand information, this book presents Brubeck's contribution to music with...