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Peking opera is one of the most distinctive traditions in Chinese culture - a tradition that can seem mysterious and complex to foreign eyes. In this illustrated introduction, Xu Chengbei explains the colourful make up, intricate costumes, characters,...

for SATB and piano Following the success of the upper-voice version, Chilcott has arranged the beautiful Like a Singing Bird for mixed choir. Combining texts by Christina Rossetti and Robert Burns, this version retains the upper-voice opening of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385471992Author Michael AzerradFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing GroupPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781550226782Author Martin PopoffFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint ECW Press,CanadaPublisher ECW Press,CanadaWeight(grams) 650g

One-of-a-kind tribute from one of the best-selling bands in the world direct to their legions of fans. The Red Hot Chili Peppers' performances have become legendary as much for the music and antics on stage as the generous, loving community of people who...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909394728Author Richard StevensonFormat PaperbackPage Count 270Imprint HeadpressPublisher Headpress

for unison voices and organ Settings of Psalms 15, 126, and 133. The vocal part is fairly simple, with some interesting rhythms while the organ part adds some 'spice' with Tranchell's individual harmonies. Psalm 133 uses two different antiphons.Book...

Following on from Giant Steps, comes the second instalment in Kenny Mathieson's series of jazz histories.Cookin' examines the birth and development of two of the key jazz styles of the post-war era, hard bop and its related offshoot, soul jazz. Hard bop...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916302419Author James AkersFormat PaperbackPage Count 42Imprint Gmi - Guitar & Music InstitutePublisher Gmi - Guitar & Music InstituteWeight(grams)...

This cantata was adapted by the composer from music from his opera Sir John in Love. Comprising five choral songs, it features texts by Shakespeare (from 'Much Ado About Nothing') and his near contemporaries Thomas Ravenscroft, John Lyly, and Thomas...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783899555073Author Many AmeriFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint gestaltenPublisher Die Gestalten VerlagWeight(grams) 2336gDimensions(mm) 284mm * 246mm *...

Investigation of unjustly neglected opera. Hans Pfitzner's `musical legend' Palestrina is considered in the German-speaking countries to be one of the supreme masterpieces of music, and yet it is all but unknown elsewhere. The opera, first performed...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780946535422Author Gerhard EngelImprint Schott & Co LtdPublisher Schott & Co Ltd

This is the b format version of the critically acclaimed book on the singer. In "Waiting for Kate Bush", the reader will not only laugh out loud at Herskovits' attempt to make sense of his life in an alien culture, but also learn in detail what Kate Bush...

Bringing together a diverse group of world leading professionals across Post-Production Film Sound and Electroacoustic Music, Art of Sound explores the creative principles that underpin how sonic practitioners act to compose, tell stories, make us feel,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781495089800Author Lin-Manuel MirandaPage Count 32Imprint Hal Leonard CorporationPublisher Hal Leonard Corporation

Death-defying scooter stunts, Ukrainian tanks, sharks, monster trucks... these are just some of the indignities facing Oliver Tree as he is thrown into the meat grinder of the music industry to promote his debut retirement album "Ugly is Beautiful"...

Mr. and Mrs. Peachum are horrified when they learn of their daughter Polly's secret marriage to the rebellious and notorious highwayman, Macheath. However, their fear is soon mitigated when they decide to kill him for his money. When Macheath is in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780571569748Author Pam WedgwoodPage Count 32Imprint Faber Music LtdPublisher Faber Music LtdWeight(grams) 116g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781480387713Author The RamonesPage Count 48Imprint Hal Leonard CorporationPublisher Hal Leonard CorporationWeight(grams) 215g

Beyonce is not simply a pop sensation. She is a cultural phenomenon empowering the oppressed and dispossessed, challenging white privilege and misogyny and exploding gender politics. But who is Beyonce Knowles-Carter? And how did a small girl from...

Look out for a new book from Garry Wills, What the Qur'an Meant, coming fall 2017."Riveting . . . a double-barreled salvo that hits two bull's-eyes." -The New York Times Book ReviewThis dazzling study of the three operas that Giuseppe Verdi adapted from...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781870352901Author Brigid BrophyFormat PaperbackPage Count 332Imprint LibrisPublisher Libris

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781538730225Author Shea SerranoFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint TwelvePublisher TwelveWeight(grams) 880gDimensions(mm) 232mm * 199mm * 22mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780739094785Author Alfred MusicFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Alfred MusicPublisher Alfred MusicWeight(grams) 862gDimensions(mm) 300mm * 229mm * 18mm

Freedom Girls: Voicing Femininity in 1960s British Pop shows how the vocal performances of girl singers in 1960s Britain defined-and sometimes defied-ideas about what it meant to be a young woman in the 1960s British pop music scene. The singing and...

For 6,557 miles, from New York to Mississippi to Seattle, Chuck Klosterman decided to chase rock n roll and death across a continent. 21 days later, after three relationships, an encounter with various cottonmouth snakes, and a night spent snorting...

Brought up in Las Vegas on a diet of rock and synth bands such as The Cure, Oasis, mid-70s David Bowie, Morrissey and classic Depeche Mode among others, The Killers are in fact a very British band. Their rise to fame has been meteoric, inspired and...

In this unique guide to rhythm and blues vocal groups, Mitch Rosalsky has collected an abundance of information on individual groups. One of the first books to approach this subject from the groups' personnel standpoint, the Encyclopedia of R&B and Doo...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780859653503Author Dick PorterFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Plexus Publishing LtdPublisher Plexus Publishing Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780571539925Author Anders HillborgPage Count 40Imprint Faber Music LtdPublisher Faber Music LtdWeight(grams) 160g

In this guide, Julian Budden reviews the difficulties that faced the management that had commissioned La Traviata and how, in some previously unpublished letters, Verdi fought their views on casting the leading lady. Denis Arnold contributes a musical...

Philip Larkin (1922-85) was not only one of the foremost English poets of the twentieth century, but also a notable novelist and a distinguished writer on jazz. He was jazz critic for The Daily Telegraph between 1961 and 1971. Jazz Writings brings...

This book provides a manuscript-megaphone for a variety of perspectives on popular music education, including those we do not usually hear from, but who are doing far and away the coolest, most relevant and most interesting things. It includes rants,...

The Metropolitan has stood among the grandest of opera companies since its birth in 1883. Tracing the offstage/onstage workings of this famed New York institution, Charles Affron and Mirella Jona Affron tell how the Met became and remains a powerful...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781891241185Author Clinton WalkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Verse Chorus Press,U.S.Publisher Puncture PublicationsWeight(grams) 745g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780813068527Author Aaron CometbusFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint University Press of FloridaPublisher University Press of FloridaWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993589409Author Derek ShelmerdineFormat HardbackPage Count 704Imprint DCA Rock'n'Roll LtdPublisher DCA Rock'n'Roll Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781933354323Author Daniel SinkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 350Imprint Akashic Books,U.S.Publisher Akashic Books,U.S.Weight(grams) 503g