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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781891241680Author Robert Dean LurieFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Verse Chorus Press,U.S.Publisher Puncture Publications

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780997661736Author Richard LawnPage Count 434Imprint Sher Music Co ,U.S.Publisher Sher Music Co ,U.S.Weight(grams) 1173g

In 1962 Mick Jagger was a bright, well-scrubbed boy (planning a career in the civil service), while Keith Richards was learning how to smoke and to swivel a six-shooter. Add the mercurial Brian Jones (who'd been effectively run out of Cheltenham for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956267993Author Colin DriscollFormat PaperbackPage Count 428Imprint Music Mentor BooksPublisher Music Mentor BooksWeight(grams) 828g

From 1969 to 1971, as the United States convulsed with political upheaval and transformative social movements, no band was bigger than Creedence Clearwater Revival. They managed a two-year barrage of top-10 singles and LPs that doubled as an ubiquitous...

I want to give my country a model of perfection. My country needs cheering up. I'm the man to do it.A man of great passions, John Christie wooed his opera singer wife with a determination befitting a man who won the Military Cross at the Battle of Loos...

Iolanthe (Libretto)Book InformationISBN 9780571534425Author William S. GilbertFormat PaperbackPage Count 52Imprint Faber Music LtdPublisher Faber Music LtdWeight(grams) 119g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629639345Author Martin PopoffFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint PM PressPublisher PM Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781935950110Author Bruce PavittFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Bazillion PointsPublisher Bazillion PointsWeight(grams) 1116g

Released in the U.S. in January 1968, "The Who Sell Out" was, according to critic Dave Marsh, 'a complete backfire...the album sold well, but not spectacularly [and was] ultimately a nostalgic in-joke'. Who but a pop intellectual could appreciate such a...

On 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912733231Author David ArnoffFormat HardbackImprint Red Planet Publishing LtdPublisher Red Planet Publishing Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781455623648Author John BrovenFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Pelican Publishing CoPublisher Pelican Publishing Co

Sophisticated Giant presents the life and legacy of tenor saxophonist Dexter Gordon (1923-1990), one of the major innovators of modern jazz. In a context of biography, history, and memoir, Maxine Gordon has completed the book that her late husband began,...

This famous opera has had a chequered performance history, and Professor Laurel E. Fay, in an illuminating musical analysis, points out that the interpretation of the opera depends very much on which edition is used. Robert Oldani introduces the 'Boris...

for SA and harp or piano This arrangement of the hymn tune Royal Oak is not to be confused with Rutter's famous original composition of the same title, which also sets the beloved text by C.F. Alexander. The elegant text praising God's creation,...

A richly informed, up-to-date performance guide to more than 140 favorite ballets, from the classical era to the present day This engaging book is a welcome guide to the most successful and loved ballets seen on the stage today. Dance writer and critic...

for SAMen and piano An easy anthem with words and music by the composer. There are four different versions of the vocal parts: unison (or two-part) with keyboard, upper voices with keyboard, SA and Men with piano or SATB unaccompanied or with keyboard...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781847614216Author Barrie Carson TurnerPage Count 56Imprint Schott Music LtdPublisher Schott Music Ltd

Shortly before his death, the Devonshire-born cleric, writer and antiquarian, Sabine Baring-Gould (1834-1924) wrote: 'To this day I consider that the recovery of our West Country melodies has been the principal achievement of my life.' Though there have...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780609807156Author Russell SimmonsFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Crown PublicationsPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 396gDimensions(mm)...

The Oxford Handbook of Sondheim Studies offers a series of cutting-edge essays on the most important and compelling topics in the growing field of Sondheim Studies. Focusing on broad groups of issues relating to the music and the production of Sondheim...

This is a fascinating look at the Stones in the late 70s - inspired by a year just spent in the disco/punk cauldron of New York City. It's October 1977, and the Rolling Stones are in a Paris recording studio. They're under siege. Keith Richards' legal...

The Big Book of Rock & Roll Names tells the behind-the-scenes stories of how the world's most popular and influential rock and pop acts got their names. By turns fascinating, funny, and bizarre, the pages offer insight into the peculiar choices and...

Since ascending onto the world stage in the 1990s as one of the premier bassists and composers of his generation, William Parker has perpetually toured around the world and released over forty albums as a leader. He is one of the most influential jazz...

`Valentin Berlinsky (1925-2008) was a founding member of the Borodin Quartet and its cellist and mainstay for more than six decades. A proud Russian but also a man of compromise, his was a life lived for and through the Borodin Quartet. This book...

Legends have to start somewhere... Witness the King of Rock 'n' Roll's humble beginnings in Memphis as a young artist struggling to define his voice and break into the music industry. From the history-making Sun Studio to television sets across the...

KISS is an American arena-rock group that formed in the early 1970s in New York City and is most recognisable by their face paint and dramatic outfits. With makeup and costumes, Paul Stanley, Gene Simmons, Peter Criss, and Ace Frehley created characters...

Thirty-Three and a Third is a series of short books about critically acclaimed and much-loved albums of the past 40 years. Over 50,000 copies have been sold! "Passionate, obsessive, and smart." -Nylon "...an inspired new series of short books about...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780901938411Author Paul HindemithPage Count 160Imprint Schott & Co LtdPublisher Schott & Co Ltd

In 1741, in just 24 days, the German-born, British-naturalized composer George Frideric Handel wrote an oratorio rich in tuneful arias and choruses of robust grandeur. Coolly received in London at first, after Handel's death Messiah enjoyed an...

Beginning several generations before Schubert, the Lied first appears as domestic entertainment. In the century that follows it becomes one of the primary modes of music-making. By the time German song comes to its presumed conclusion with Richard...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780983295778Author Bruce SpizerFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint 498 Productions, LLCPublisher 498 Productions, LLCWeight(grams) 1021gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913231187Author Rob FordFormat HardbackPage Count 424Imprint Velocity PressPublisher Velocity Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909360464Author Matthew JacobsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Empire Publications LtdPublisher Empire Publications LtdWeight(grams) 200g

A brash and dazzling celebration of the instruments that created the sounds of rock and roll from the 1940s to the present dayPlay It Loud celebrates the musical instruments that gave rock and roll its signature sound-from Louis Jordan's alto saxophone...

Monteverdi's 1607 version of the legend of Orpheus is arguably the first masterpiece of opera. Composed for the court of Mantua, where Monteverdi was employed, it is very different from his two other surviving operas, which he wrote more than thirty...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781538135563Author Mark RingerPage Count 208Imprint Rowman & Littlefield PublishersPublisher Rowman & Littlefield

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781495075087Author Miles DavisPage Count 51Imprint Hal Leonard CorporationPublisher Hal Leonard Corporation

'Any book on my life would start with my basic philosophy of fighting racial prejudice. I loved jazz, and jazz was my way of doing that,' Norman Granz told Tad Hershorn during the final interviews given for this book. Granz, who died in 2001, was...