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A 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...

In 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...

Rock 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...

Women 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...

Twenty-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,...

Of 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...

An 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...

"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 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...

Situated 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...

Apologies 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" 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...

Originally 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...

Apologies 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...

As 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...

Of 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...

Why Jazz Happened is the first comprehensive social history of jazz. It provides an intimate and compelling look at the many forces that shaped this most American of art forms and the many influences that gave rise to jazz's post-war styles. Rich with...

Apologies 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

In 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...

As 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...

Apologies 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

Of 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 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...

What 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...

for 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...

Le 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...

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Apologies 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

Ever 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'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...

John 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' 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...

Apologies 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.

for 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...

Now 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...

The 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...

A 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...

Crooners 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...

Apologies 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

During 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...