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Constant Lambert: Beyond The Rio Grande Stephen Lloyd 9781843838982
RRP: £35.00£31.17An indispensable biography for anyone interested in Constant Lambert, ballet and British musical life in the first part of the twentieth century. To the economist and ballet enthusiast John Maynard Keynes he was potentially the most brilliant man he'd... -
Imperfect Harmony by Stacy Horn 9781616200411
RRP: £10.99£8.29"In this one-of-a-kind celebration of singing with others, I'd call her pitch nearly perfect."-The Atlantic For Stacy Horn, regardless of what is going on in the world or her life, singing in an amateur choir-the Choral Society of Grace Church in New... -
The Julian Bream Guitar Library Volume 1: The Baroque Era by Julian Bream 9780571506071
RRP: £10.99£9.40The Julian Bream Guitar Library Volume 1: The Baroque Era includes works by Bach, Purcell and Froberger scored for classical guitar together with a reference guide to the symbols used.Book InformationISBN 9780571506071Author Julian BreamPage Count... -
Chalet Monet: Inside the Home of Dame Joan Sutherland and Richard Bonynge by Richard Bonynge
RRP: £70.99£59.47Situated in a dress circle position on the slopes of the village of Les Avants, overlooking Lake Geneva in Switzerland, Chalet Monet is the magnificent home of Dame Joan Sutherland OM AC DBE and her husband, Maestro Richard Bonynge AC CBE. In his... -
Hip Hop Family Tree Book 3: 1983-1984 by Ed Piskor
RRP: £27.99£20.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781606998489Author Ed PiskorFormat PaperbackPage Count 114Imprint FantagraphicsPublisher FantagraphicsWeight(grams) 534g -
Divas and Scholars: Performing Italian Opera by Philip Gossett 9780226304823
RRP: £44.00£43.27"Divas and Scholars" is a dazzling and beguiling account of how opera comes to the stage, filled with Philip Gossett's personal experiences of triumphant - and even failed - performances and suffused with his towering passion for music. Gossett, the... -
Jethro Tull: A History of the Band 1968-2001 by Scott Allen Nollen 9780786411016
RRP: £21.99£17.97Originally formed by singer-songwriter Ian Anderson in psychedelic 1968, the band Hethro Tull has been recording its own kind of rock and roll and touring the globe for more than three decades. This is a history of the band through the present, written... -
City Baby: Surviving in Leather, Bristles, Studs, Punk Rock, and G.B.H by Ross Lomas
RRP: £14.95£12.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781935950158Author Ross LomasFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Bazillion Points LLCPublisher Bazillion Points LLCWeight(grams) 476gDimensions(mm) 226mm... -
Desperados: The Roots of Country Rock by John Einarson 9780815410652
RRP: £14.99£11.53As told by the musicians who made it happen, Desperados: The Roots of Country Rock revisits country rock's rise to the top of the charts. Music scholar John Einarson delves into the years from 1963, when Buck Owens and his Buckaroos brought an electric... -
The Shangri-Las' Golden Hits of the Shangri-Las by Ada Wolin
RRP: £9.99£7.67Of the many girl-groups that came out of the 1960s, none is more idiosyncratic and influential than the Shangri-Las. They were together only five years, but within that time they subverted pop standards and foreshadowed a generation of tough women in... -
Journey To A Plugged In State Of Mind: Electronic Music: A Century of Exploration and Exploitation by Dave Henderson 9781901447422
RRP: £14.99£9.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781901447422Author Dave HendersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 378Imprint Cherry Red BooksPublisher Cherry Red BooksWeight(grams) 500g -
Circular Breathing: The Cultural Politics of Jazz in Britain by George McKay
RRP: £23.99£20.84In Circular Breathing, George McKay, a leading chronicler of British countercultures, uncovers the often surprising ways that jazz has accompanied social change during a period of rapid transformation in Great Britain. Examining jazz from the founding of... -
Goin' Off: The Story of the Juice Crew & Cold Chillin' Records by Ben Merlis 9781947026322
RRP: £20.95£15.49As Hip-Hop first exploded throughout New York City's boroughs and surrounding towns, a new generation was emerging-the first to be raised on the genre. At the center of it all was a collective known as the Juice Crew, led by the charismatic radio... -
Thunderbirds Theme by Barry Gray 9781843283331
RRP: £4.50£3.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781843283331Author Barry GrayPage Count 4Imprint International Music PublicationsPublisher Faber Music LtdWeight(grams) 19g -
Why the Beach Boys Matter by Tom Smucker
RRP: £12.99£11.77Of all the white American pop music groups that hit the charts before the Beatles, only the Beach Boys continued to thrive throughout the British Invasion to survive into the 1970s and beyond. The Beach Boys helped define both sides of the era we broadly... -
Gestures of Music Theater: The Performativity of Song and Dance by Dominic Symonds 9780199997169
RRP: £56.00£35.21Gestures of Music Theater: The Performativity of Song and Dance offers new cutting edge essays focusing on Song and Dance as performative gestures that not only entertain but also act on audiences and performers. The chapters range across musical... -
The Oxford Handbook of Opera by Helen M Greenwald
RRP: £41.99£39.80What is opera? Contributors to The Oxford Handbook of Opera respond to this deceptively simple question with a rich and compelling exploration of opera's adaption to changing artistic and political currents. Fifty of the world's most respected scholars... -
The Rio Grande by Constant Lambert
RRP: £17.50£16.59for SATB, solo piano, and orchestra There is an alternative accompaniment for 2 pianos, timpani, and percussion players (3 or 4 players). The vocal score and instrumental material is available on hire. From the poem by Sacheverell Sitwell. The vocal... -
W. A. Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro by Tim Carter
RRP: £19.99£17.13Le nozze di Figaro (1786) was Mozart's first mature opera buffa. It was also the first of his three major collaborations with the librettist Lorenzo da Ponte. Unlike Don Giovanni (1787) and Cosi fan tutte (1790), Figaro has few obvious problems, and even... -
33 1/3 Greatest Hits: v. 1 by Prof David Barker 9780826419033
£16.18Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Mystery Train: Images of America in Rock 'n' Roll Music: Sixth Edition by Contributor Greil Marcus
RRP: £19.00£13.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780142181584Author Greil MarcusFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint PlumePublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 482gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 24mm -
Understanding Italian Opera by Tim Carter 9780190247942
RRP: £37.99£20.94Ever since its invention in Florence around 1600, opera has exerted a peculiar fascination for creative artists and audiences alike. A "Western" genre with a global reach, it is often regarded as the pinnacle of high art, where music and drama... -
Benjamin Britten: Peter Grimes by Philip Brett
RRP: £19.99£17.13Benjamin Britten's Peter Grimes is one of the few operas of the last half-century to have gained a secure place in the repertory. Its appearance in 1945 shortly after the end of the war in Europe was a milestone in operatic history as well as in British... -
Wagner Beyond Good and Evil by John Deathridge 9780520254534
RRP: £50.00£39.52John Deathridge presents a different and critical view of Richard Wagner based on recent research that does not shy away from some unpalatable truths about this most controversial of composers in the canon of Western music. Deathridge writes... -
The Pre-history of 'The Midsummer Marriage': Narratives and Speculations by Roger Savage
RRP: £21.99£19.34The Pre-history of 'The Midsummer Marriage' examines the early collaborative phase (1943 to 1946) in the making of Michael Tippett's first mature opera and charts the developments that grew out of that phase.Drawing on a fascinating group of Tippett's... -
J.S. Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier - 48 Preludes And Fugues (Book I) by ,Johann,Sebastian Bach 9780486493718
RRP: £18.99£16.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486493718Author Johann Sebastian BachPage Count 192Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc. -
Five Traditional Songs by John Rutter 9780193437173
RRP: £13.25£12.79for SATBarB unaccompanied 'Dashing away with the smoothing iron' and 'O waly, waly' are also available in Folk-songs for Choirs 1.About the AuthorJohn Rutter studied music at Clare College, Cambridge and first came to notice as a composer and arranger... -
Scrooge The Musical: All the songs from the hit show, arranged for piano and voice with guitar chords by Leslie Bricusse 9780571537389
RRP: £15.99£13.33Now in its fifth decade of existence, Scrooge The Musical started its screen life to celebrate the centennial of Charles Dickens' death in 1970. The return to the Palladium, in the 22nd year of its stage life, coincided with the bi-centennial of Mr... -
Made in Hollywood: All Access with the Go-Go's by Gina Schock
RRP: £32.00£27.88The Go-Go's were the first all-female rock group in history to write their own songs, play their own instruments, and reach the top of the Billboard charts with their #1 album, Beauty and the Beat. Made In Hollywood is drummer Gina Schock's personal... -
Fare Thee Well: The Final Chapter of the Grateful Dead's Long, Strange Trip by Joel Selvin 9780306903069
RRP: £14.99£14.78A tell-all biography of the epic in-fighting of the Grateful Dead in the years following band leader Jerry Garcia's death in 1995The Grateful Dead rose to greatness under the inspired leadership of guitarist Jerry Garcia, but the band very nearly died... -
Crooner: Singing from the Heart from Sinatra to Nas by Alex Coles 9781789147667
RRP: £11.99£8.43Crooners sing close to the mic in a soft, intimate style. In this book Alex Coles explores the crooner in popular music from the 1950s to the present. Each chapter focuses on one song and one singer – Frank Sinatra, Scott Walker, Barry White, David... -
More Music for Baritone Ukulele: Classical and Fingerstyle by Ellen S Whitaker 9781312469105
RRP: £19.13£16.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781312469105Author Ellen S WhitakerFormat PaperbackPage Count 90Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 231g -
Swingin' the Dream: Big Band Jazz and the Rebirth of American Culture by Lewis A. Erenberg
RRP: £24.00£23.03During the 1930s, swing bands combined jazz and popular music to create large-scale dreams for the Depression generation, capturing the imagination of America's young people, music critics and the music business. This book explores that world, looking at... -
The Opera Singer's Acting Toolkit by Martin Constantine 9781350006454
£35.61The complete dramatic toolbox for the opera singer - a step-by-step guide detailing how to create character, from auditions through to rehearsal and performance and formulate a successful career. Drawing upon the innovative approach to the training... -
Prog 50: Progressive Rock Around the World in Fifty Years by Maurizio Galia
RRP: £30.00£19.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788889571163Author Maurizio GaliaFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Edizioni ApplausiPublisher Edizioni ApplausiWeight(grams) 968g -
Dynamite!: Ike Turner's Recorded Legacy by Fred Rothwell
RRP: £48.99£30.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Association for Recorded Sound Collections Awards for Excellence Certificate of Merit 2003 (UK).Book InformationISBN 9781739966713Author Fred RothwellFormat... -
American Popular Song: The Great Innovators, 1900-1950 by Robert Rawlins
RRP: £31.49£27.18"Wonderful"--The New York Times. "Provocative, opinionated, and never dull"--Down Beat. "A singular book."--Studs Terkel. When it was first published, Alec Wilder's American Popular Song quickly became a classic and today it remains essential reading... -
Trash by Kris Needs 9780859653695
RRP: £14.99£9.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780859653695Author Kris NeedsFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Plexus Publishing LtdPublisher Plexus Publishing Ltd -
Rollin' and Tumblin': The Postwar Blues Guitarists by Jas Obrecht 9780879306137
RRP: £16.99£13.34This is the most comprehensive and insightful study ever published on the pioneers of electric blues guitar a including the great Chicago Mississippi Delta Louisiana Texas and West Coast bluesmen. ERollin' and Tumblin'E offers extensive interviews... -
Book of Rhymes by Adam Bradley 9780465094400
RRP: £11.99£11.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780465094400Author Adam BradleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Basic Civitas BooksPublisher INGRAM PUBLISHER SERVICES USWeight(grams)...