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The Musical Language of Italian Opera, 1813-1859 by Professor of Music Theory William Rothstein
RRP: £120.00£108.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780197609682Author Professor of Music Theory William RothsteinFormat HardbackPage Count 544Imprint Oxford University Press, USAPublisher Oxford University... -
PJ Harvey's Rid of Me: A Story by Kate Schatz
RRP: £9.99£7.67'Songs are there for the people, to be used by people, in any way they want to use them.' (Polly Jean Harvey, 1993) This book takes Polly Jean at her word. Kate Schatz puts together a collection of stories that is weird, dark, and seductive in its... -
How to Rap 2: Advanced Flow and Delivery Techniques by Paul Edwards 9781613744017
RRP: £11.95£8.69This sequel to How to Rap breaks down and examines techniques that have not previously been explained-such as triplets, flams, lazy tails, and breaking rhyme patterns. Based on interviews with hip-hop's most innovative artists and groups, including Tech... -
Breaks in the Air: The Birth of Rap Radio in New York City by John Klaess
RRP: £19.99£17.54In Breaks in the Air John Klaess tells the story of rap's emergence on New York City's airwaves by examining how artists and broadcasters adapted hip hop's performance culture to radio. Initially, artists and DJs brought their live practice to radio by... -
Delta Blues: The Life and Times of the Mississippi Masters Who Revolutionized American Music by Ted Gioia 9780393337501
RRP: £15.99£12.66In this "expertly researched, elegantly written, dispassionate yet thoughtful history" (Gary Giddins), award-winning author Ted Gioia gives us "the rare combination of a tome that is both deeply informative and enjoyable to read" (Publishers Weekly,... -
Rock Concert: A High-Voltage History, from Elvis to Live Aid by Marc Myers
RRP: £20.00£14.69Decades after the rise of rock music in the 1950s, the rock concert retains its allure and its power as a unifying experience - and as an influential multi-billion-dollar industry. In Rock Concert, acclaimed interviewer Marc Myers sets out to uncover the... -
It Is Well with My Soul by Mack Wilberg
£3.12for SATB and organ or orchestra This is an arrangement of the 19th-century hymn by Philip Bliss, with words written by Horatio Spafford following several personal tragedies. Despite having lost his first son to scarlet fever, most of his assets in the... -
Music in Golden-Age Florence, 1250–1750: From the Priorate of the Guilds to the End of the Medici Grand Duchy by Anthony M. Cummings
RRP: £48.00£40.43A comprehensive account of music in Florence from the late Middle Ages until the end of the Medici dynasty in the mid-eighteenth century. Florence is justly celebrated as one of the world's most important cities. It enjoys mythic status and occupies an... -
Orain Ceilidh Teaghlaich: The Family Ceilidh Gaelic Song Collection by Brian O'Headhra 9780957498204
RRP: £9.50£6.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780957498204Author Brian O'HeadhraFormat PaperbackPage Count 95Imprint Anam CommunicationsPublisher Anam Communications -
Junior Tomlin: Flyer & Cover Art by Junior Tomlin
RRP: £25.00£17.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913231033Author Junior TomlinFormat PaperbackPage Count 170Imprint Velocity PressPublisher Velocity Press -
The Definitive Biography of p. d. q. Bach, 1807-1742? by Peter Schickele 9780394734095
RRP: £13.99£9.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780394734095Author Peter SchickeleFormat PaperbackImprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 471g -
The Politics of Opera: A History from Monteverdi to Mozart by Mitchell Cohen 9780691211510
RRP: £25.00£19.59A wide-ranging look at the interplay of opera and political ideas through the centuriesThe Politics of Opera takes readers on a fascinating journey into the entwined development of opera and politics, from the Renaissance through the turn of the... -
Selections From Chess (PVG) by Benny Andersson
RRP: £22.50£13.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780881889185Author Benny AnderssonPage Count 108Imprint Hal Leonard CorporationPublisher Hal Leonard Corporation -
A Field Guide to Britpop Steve Wide 9781922417206
RRP: £12.99£8.60A Field Guide to ... delves into music's most influential genres to uncover the innovators and agitators who changed music history forever. In A Field Guide to Britpop, Steve Wide explores a scene fueled by north-south rivalries, tribal fashion and a... -
Debussy's Late Style by Marianne Wheeldon 9780253352392
RRP: £27.99£24.14Debussy's Late Style explores Claude Debussy's musical responses to World War I. This period of composition encompasses the duration of the war and the last four years of Debussy's life. The works that emerged during this time reflect both wartime events... -
Cumbia!: Scenes of a Migrant Latin American Music Genre by Hector D. Fernandez l'Hoeste
RRP: £22.99£20.01Cumbia is a musical form that originated in northern Colombia and then spread throughout Latin America and wherever Latin Americans travel and settle. It has become one of the most popular musical genre in the Americas. Its popularity is largely due to... -
Rap Capital: An Atlanta Story by Joe Coscarelli
RRP: £20.00£16.70A modern epic about the most consequential music culture today, Atlanta rap-a masterful, street-level story of art, money, race, class, and salvation from acclaimed New York Times reporter Joe Coscarelli.From mansions to trap houses, office buildings to... -
Jazz Religion, the Second Line, and Black New Orleans, New Edition: After Hurricane Katrina by Richard Brent Turner
RRP: £19.99£19.47An examination of the musical, religious, and political landscape of black New Orleans before and after Hurricane Katrina, this revised edition looks at how these factors play out in a new millennium of global apartheid. Richard Brent Turner explores the... -
Rave New World: Confessions of a Raving Reporter by Kirk Field 9781788707718
RRP: £15.99£11.61'Love this book! It triggers so many memories of the rave era. Thoroughly recommended.' - FATBOY SLIM'Captures the hedonism and humour of the nineties with a laugh-out-loud honesty. The perfect Ibiza holiday read...if you can get it through customs!' -... -
Gerald Finzi's Letters, 1915-1956 Diana McVeagh 9781783275724
RRP: £70.00£67.24A fully annotated edition of more than 1600 letters from and to Gerald Finzi, spanning the composer's life from ca. the early 1920s up until his untimely death in 1956. WINNER of the 2022 C.B. Oldman prize, by the International Association of Music... -
Stepping Out: The Musical by Richard Harris
£11.42This musical follows the story of the lives, loves and laughs of a group of women (and one man) attending a weekly tap class in a dingy church hall. Accompanied on the piano by the lugubrious Mrs Fraser, the tappers improve, so much so, that the show... -
John Gardner Carols by John Gardner 9780193388161
RRP: £13.75£10.78for SATB accompanied and unaccompanied This anthology of eleven carols celebrates the festive music of John Gardner (1917-2011). It contains some of his most well-known settings alongside new repertoire, including a previously unpublished Epiphany... -
Drive-By Truckers' Southern Rock Opera by Rien Fertel
RRP: £9.99£7.67The Drive-By Truckers' Southern Rock Opera takes listeners on a road trip through the American South, with stops along mean old highways and soul-sucking swamps, iconic recording studios and doomed chartered jets, and even Heaven and Hell. Along the way,... -
The Grove Book of Operas by Stanley Sadie 9780195309072
RRP: £31.49£24.06First published in 1996 to great critical and popular acclaim, the Grove Book of Operas, is a collection of synopses and descriptions of over 250 operas. Each succinct yet insightful entry is written by a leading authority on the opera and includes a... -
Spice Girls: The Extraordinary Lives of Five Ordinary Women by Sean Smith
RRP: £10.99£7.89'Get the inside scoop on all things Spice!' OK! Magazine 'A compelling new book' Daily Express From the moment they burst... -
Music Theory through Musical Theatre: Putting It Together by John Franceschina 9780199999552
RRP: £55.00£41.58Music Theory through Musical Theatre takes a new and powerful approach to music theory. Written specifically for students in music theatre programs, it offers music theory by way of musical theatre. Not a traditional music theory text, Music Theory... -
I'd Fight the World: A Political History of Old-Time, Hillbilly, and Country Music by Peter La Chapelle
RRP: £19.00£16.20Celebrity has long been tied to political aspirations in American history. Decades before the United States had a president from the realm of reality TV or the movies, we had scores of politicians with strong connections to the world of country music... -
La Boheme: Vocal Score by Giacomo Puccini
RRP: £29.99£19.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780634071331Author Giacomo PucciniPage Count 284Imprint Hal Leonard CorporationPublisher Hal Leonard Corporation -
Julian Anderson: Dialogues on Listening, Composing and Culture Julian Anderson (Royalty Account) 9781783274987
RRP: £50.00£47.85Revealing much about the workings of the musical world, these conversations will not only be essential reading for composers and composition students, but also contemporary music lovers more generally Julian Anderson is renowned internationally as one... -
Beethoven by Barry Cooper 9780195313314
RRP: £26.49£19.97Originally published as the centenary celebration volume in the Master Musicians series, Barry Cooper's Beethoven incorporates international research on many aspects of the composer's life and work and presents these in a truly integrated narrative. His... -
In the Midnight Hour: The Life and Soul of Wilson Pickett by Tony Fletcher
RRP: £18.49£13.61He was the Wicked Wilson Pickett, the legendary soul man whose forty-plus hits included "In the Midnight Hour," "634-5789," "Land of 1000 Dances," "Mustang Sally," and "Don't Let the Green Grass Fool You." Remarkably handsome and with the charisma to... -
Music in European Capitals: The Galant Style, 1720-1780 by Daniel Heartz 9780393050806
RRP: £78.99£67.39This volume continues the study of the eighteenth century begun in Haydn, Mozart, and the Viennese School 1740-1780 (1995) by focusing on the capital cities other than Vienna that were most important in the creation and diffusion of new music. It tells... -
Kickstart My Heart: A Motley Crew Day-by-Day by Martin Popoff
RRP: £30.00£25.85EKickstart My Heart: A Metley Crde Day-by-DayE is an exciting chronology that celebrates in innovative form a through the use of day-by-day entries and supporting band quotes mostly collected firsthand by the author as well as memorabilia shots and... -
Techno: an Artistic and Political Laboratory of the Present by Professor Michel Maffesoli 9782906571761
RRP: £21.00£14.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782906571761Author Professor Michel MaffesoliFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Dis VoirPublisher Dis Voir -
A Field Guide to Grunge Steve Wide 9781922417190
RRP: £12.99£11.50A Field Guide to ... delves into music's most influential genres to uncover the innovators and agitators who changed music history forever. In A Field Guide to Grunge, Steve Wide explores the dynamic scene that sprung from the ashes of punk and... -
More Life With Deth David Ellefson 9781911036517
RRP: £14.95£9.78In this follow-up to his 2013 memoir My Life With Deth, Megadeth bassist and co-founder David Ellefson carries on where he left off, charting his mid-2000s departure from Megadeth through his triumphant return in 2010, and offering an inside look at the... -
The History of Rock & Roll, Volume 2: 1964-1977: the Beatles, the Stones, and the Rise of Classic Rock by Ed Ward
RRP: £23.99£22.81Rock historian Ed Ward shares the behind-the-scenes stories of the musicians, DJs, record executives, concert promoters, and producers who were at the forefront of this incredible time in music history. The story begins with the Beatles landing in New... -
50 Women in the Blues by Jennifer Noble 9780993220784
RRP: £25.00£22.43Women have been at the dawn of the blues since Bessie Smith and Ma Rainey were singing about hard knocks and tough love in smoky bars. This book gives an overview of the early days of the blues and its development from the Mississippi Delta to the... -
Hard Hitting Songs for Hard-Hit People by Woody Guthrie 9780803244757
RRP: £23.99£19.84Twenty-seven years in the making (1940-67), this tapestry of nearly two hundred American popular and protest songs was created by three giants of performance and musical research: Alan Lomax, indefatigable collector and preserver; Woody Guthrie,... -
Gypsy Jazz: In Search of Django Reinhardt and the Soul of Gypsy Swing by Michael Dregni 9780199756254
RRP: £35.99£21.89Of all the styles of jazz to emerge in the twentieth century, none is more passionate, more exhilaratingly up-tempo, or more steeped in an outsider tradition than Gypsy Jazz. And there is no one more qualified to write about Gypsy Jazz than Michael...