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for SATB and piano or small orchestra This classic Rutter anthem, with its familiar words, optimistic feel, and characterful orchestral accompaniment, is essential repertoire for any choir. Orchestral material is available on sale and on hire/rental. ...

'I always thought I would get into painting, but I got waylaid by rock 'n' roll. Finally, I thought, "Now's the time." As soon as I was in a situation where I could be alone and paint without any interruptions, I just couldn't stop.' - Chrissie Hynde ...

One of the defining moments of College Rock in the USA, Let It Be (and the Replacments themselves) had an enormous impact on the lives of the fans who fell under its spell. For Colin Meloy, a daydreaming adolescent in the cultural wilderness of Montana,...

ENew York TimesE Bestseller EA Perfect Union of Contrary ThingsE is the authorized biography of musician and vintner Maynard James Keenan. Co-author Sarah Jensen's 30-year friendship with Keenan gives her unique insight into his history and career...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911374145Author Paul SkellettFormat HardbackPage Count 172Imprint Flood Gallery PublishingPublisher Flood Gallery Publishing

Rossini is one of the great operatic composers and a major innovator in the field of serious and comic operas. Moise et Pharaon is a score which he revised for Paris ten years after it had been composed for Naples; the result shows the evolution of his...

'Present Tense is an anthology to savour . . . giving you as sharp a portrait of this unknowable band as you could hope for . . . Radiohead fans will love it' Classic RockA Rock's Backpages anthology of Radiohead, the most radical and fascinating rock...

Covering over 1500 singers from the origins of opera to the present day, this book is an essential resource for all serious opera lovers and an indispensable companion to the enormously successful Grove Book of Operas, with more than 40 specially...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812974201Author Wynton MarsalisFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 133gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781495052927Author Nick RosaciPage Count 144Imprint Hal Leonard CorporationPublisher Hal Leonard Corporation

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615276502Author Mark CurryFormat PaperbackPage Count 225Imprint New Mark BooksPublisher New Mark Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061931369Author Roxana ShiraziFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint IgniterPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 476g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781925988017Author Eric ReeseFormat PaperbackPage Count 202Imprint Eric ReesePublisher Eric ReeseWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 11mm

In 1965, photographer Jerry Schatzberg, already well-established in the field due to his fashion and portrait photography for various publications, such as Vogue, Esquire and Life, listened to Bob Dylan for the first time. He had been hearing about the...

A Matter Of Fact is the perfect companion to Deep Purple's music. Full of bizarre, obscure and amazing facts that have surrounded the band throughout its career of over forty years. If you have ever had disagreements with fellow fans about various...

Neil Young's Harvest is one of those strange albums that has achieved lasting success without ever winning the full approval of rock critics or hardcore fans. Even Young himself has been equivocal, describing it in one breath as his "finest" album,...

It's all about the scratch in Groove Music, award-winning music historian Mark Katz's groundbreaking book about the figure that defined hip-hop: the DJ. Today hip-hop is a global phenomenon, and the sight and sound of DJs mixing and scratching is...

Drawing on a decade s worth of pioneering photography and journalism, Punk Perfect Awful is an irreverent love letter to music and the passion that makes it happen. Known for shedding new light on legends of popular culture and championing revolutionary...

In The England's Dreaming Tapes, Jon Savage has gone back to the source to re-create, in original interview form, the extraordinarily disparate and contentious personalities who emerged in the mid-70s as the harbingers of what became known as punk.Here...

The ethnically and geographically heterogeneous countries that comprise Latin America have each produced music in unique styles and genres - but how and why have these disparate musical streams come to fall under the single category of "Latin American...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060539924Author Christopher John FarleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Amistad PressPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 172g

The raw material and interviews behind Anthony Scaduto's iconic biography of Bob Dylan draw an intimate and multifaceted portrait of the singer-songwriter who defined his era When Anthony Scaduto's Bob Dylan: An Intimate Biography was first published in...

NATIONAL BESTSELLERThe New York Times bestselling author and front man and rhythm guitarist of KISS grants fans an all-access backstage pass to his personal life and shows them how to pursue a rock ‘n’ roll lifestyle of their own, offering hard-won...

In a dim clearing off a county road in Kentucky sits a sagging outdoor stage buried in moss and dead leaves. It used to be the centrepiece of carnival-like Sunday afternoons where local guitarists, fiddlers and mandolin players hammered out old mountain...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781770413481Author Neil PeartFormat HardbackPage Count 312Imprint ECW Press,CanadaPublisher ECW Press,Canada

DJ Screw, a.k.a. Robert Earl Davis Jr., changed rap and hip-hop forever. In the 1990s, in a spare room of his Houston home, he developed a revolutionary mixing technique known as chopped and screwed. Spinning two copies of a record, Screw would "chop" in...

Tosca, one of Puccini's greatest and most popular operas, is a supreme example of music's power to enthral the audience. In his introductory essay to this guide, Bernard Williams discusses the enduring quality of its appeal. Bernard Keeffe, in his...

Evelyn Dove embraced the worlds of jazz, musical theatre and, most importantly, cabaret, in a career spanning five decades from the 1920s through to the 1960s. A black British diva with movie star looks, she captivated audiences and admirers around the...

Bob Spitz takes his place... among the most able chroniclers of the many myths, poses and postures of the middle-class Jewish boy from Minnesota and his dogged and at times ruthless pursuit of superstardom.-Boston Herald "The great strength of this...

ERingo: With a Little HelpE is the first in-depth biography of Beatles drummer Ringo Starr who kept the beat for an entire generation and who remains a rock icon over fifty years since the Beatles took the world by storm. EWith a Little HelpE traces the...

The White Stripes were one of the breakout bands of the early 2000s 'rock revival'. They produced some of the most indelible songs of the 21st Century and reintroduced a sense of mystery and panache to the staid indie rock scene of the era. But that was...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781495074721Author Hal Leonard Publishing CorporationPage Count 43Imprint Hal Leonard CorporationPublisher Hal Leonard Corporation

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781847498052Author Wolfgang Amadeus MozartFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Oneworld Classics LtdPublisher Alma Books LtdWeight(grams) 302g

Bob Dylan was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in June 2016, and seldom in recent years has it been more richly deserved. That a song writer's lyrics should be regarded as literature was an idea at which many were surprised. Others have...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250234827Author Dr Alan WalkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 768Imprint Picador USAPublisher Picador USAWeight(grams) 544gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 137mm * 38mm

The shortest runs can have the longest legacies: for too long, scholarship surrounding British musical theatre has coalesced around the biggest names, ignoring important works that have not had the critical engagement they deserve. Through academic...

Becoming Jimi Hendrix traces"Jimmy's" early musical roots, from a harrowing, hand-to-mouth upbringing in a poverty-stricken, broken Seattle home to his early discovery of the blues to his stint as a reluctant recruit of the 101st Airborne who...

The piano is the best loved of musical instruments, thanks in part to the elegant symmetrical design of its ivory and ebony keyboard that ensures each pitch is reliably equidistant from the next. But this 'equal temperament' tuning was once a hugely...

Bernard Williams was one of the most influential moral philosophers of his generation. A life-long opera-lover, his articles and essays, talks for the BBC, contributions to the Grove Dictionary of Opera, and programme-notes for The Royal Opera House,...

A look beyond the virtuosity of Romanticism's piano superstar.Pianist Paul Roberts recasts Franz Liszt as a composer of poetic feeling rather than just a purveyor of technical brilliance. Reading Franz Liszt: Revealing the Poetry behind the Piano Music...