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Joni Mitchell is one of the foremost singer-songwriters of the late twentieth century. Yet despite her reputation, influence, and cultural importance, a detailed appraisal of her musical achievement is still lacking. Whitesell presents a through...

Many listeners first heard "Hound Dog" when Elvis Presley's single topped the pop, country, and R&B charts in 1956. But some fans already knew the song from Big Mama Thornton's earlier recording, a giant but exclusively R&B hit. In Hound Dog Eric...

These Opera Guides are ideal companions to the opera. They provide stimulating introductory articles together with the complete text of each opera in English and the original. More than any other work in the operatic repertory, Parsifal demands a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781423447382Author Meredith MonkPage Count 69Imprint Hal Leonard CorporationPublisher Hal Leonard Corporation

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781401307455Author Anthony KiedisFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint HyperionPublisher HyperionWeight(grams) 431gDimensions(mm) 206mm * 135mm * 36mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911346661Author Paul AndersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 190Imprint Red PlanetPublisher Red Planet Publishing Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486218434Author Gail GrantFormat PaperbackPage Count 127Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams) 190gDimensions(mm)...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781609499532Author Michael C. ScogginsFormat PaperbackPage Count 174Imprint History PressPublisher History PressWeight(grams) 299gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Scott Ian, rhythm guitarist and cofounder of Anthrax and author of I'm the Man, collects all of his craziest hard rock stories into one balls-to-the-wall volume. Access All Areas has tales of humor, excess, fun, debauchery, food, booze, and mayhem from...

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This monograph offers a comprehensive study of the topos of the malmariee or the unhappily married woman within the thirteenth-century motet repertory, a vocal genre characterized by several different texts sounding simultaneously over a foundational...

The BBC's Jazz Book of the Year for 2008.Few jazz musicians have had the lasting influence or attracted as much scholarly study as John Coltrane. Yet, despite dozens of books, hundreds of articles, and his own recorded legacy, the "facts" about...

The first book to deal exclusively with the British musical film from the very beginning of talking pictures in the late 1920s through the Depression of the 1930s up to the end of World War II. Cheer Up! is the first book to deal exclusively with the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578680286Author Rick PrescottFormat PaperbackPage Count 618Imprint Lowell PrescottPublisher Lowell PrescottWeight(grams) 1057g

Brilliant, practical, and humorous conversations with one of the twentieth-century's greatest musicologists on art, culture, and the physical pain of playing a difficult passage until one attains its rewards.Throughout his life, Charles Rosen combined...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781770412422Author Dennis BryonFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint ECW Press,CanadaPublisher ECW Press,CanadaWeight(grams) 433g

'Ours is music with built-in hatred.' Pete Townshend A Band with Built-In Hate pictures The Who through the prism of pop art and the levelling of high and low culture it brought about. Peter Stanfield guides us through the British pop revolution as it...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781648430435Author Brian T. AtkinsonFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Texas A&M University PressPublisher Texas A&M University PressWeight(grams) 530g

A hybrid of reggae and rap, reggaeton is a music with Spanish-language lyrics and Caribbean aesthetics that has taken Latin America, the United States, and the world by storm. Superstars-including Daddy Yankee, Don Omar, and Ivy Queen-garner...

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...

for upper voices, SATB, and piano, or 2 pianos and percussion (4 players) A work filled with ambition, Circlesong is a musical portrayal of the human life cycle as captured in the indigenous poetry of North America. Based on poetry from the Chinook,...

for SATB (with divisions), cello, and piano This five-movement work celebrates the long Canadian winter, setting texts by the composer, Sara Teasdale, Lucy Maud Montgomery (of 'Anne of Green Gables' fame), and Melville Cane. Each movement depicts a...

Few operas have had more written about them than The Magic Flute, yet few are as often exposed to misguided comment - or to idiosyncratic productions. This book sets out to provide a straightforward account of Mozart's last opera, exposing the...

for SATB, piano, and optional bass and drum kit The Nidaros Jazz Mass draws on a variety of jazz styles to present a fun and innovative setting of the Latin Missa brevis. With a gentle Kyrie, funky Gloria, ballad-like Sanctus, laid-back Benedictus, and...

The 84 chansons in this collection are mainly for SATB, and were selected first and foremost for their musical value. Care has been taken to represent the great masters as well as lesser-known composers who made significant contributions to the genre...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781480350458Author Scott BinderPage Count 200Imprint Hal Leonard CorporationPublisher Hal Leonard CorporationWeight(grams) 503gDimensions(mm) 255mm * 204mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780786884964Author John SzwedFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint HyperionPublisher HyperionWeight(grams) 300gDimensions(mm) 202mm * 134mm * 28mm

The founding in 1777 of the Journal de Paris, France's first daily and distinctly commercial paper, represents an early use of disinformation as a tool for political gain, profit, and societal division. To attract a large readership and bar competition...

"Verdi's War and Peace", writes Peter Conrad of this epic opera composed in 1862. It encompasses the extremes of a religious and secular existence - the worlds of the lovers pursued by an uncompromising fate and of the people in the scenes at the inn and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781528991605Author Gillian PerrinFormat HardbackPage Count 382Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783955751746Author Jimi TenorFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint Ventil VerlagPublisher Ventil Verlag

Winner of the 2016 Living Blues Award for Blues Book of the Year Since the early 1900s, blues and the guitar have traveled side by side. This book tells the story of their pairing from the first reported sightings of blues musicians, to the rise of...

for SATB and piano or organ or chamber orchestra Written at the invitation of Cancer Research UK, Look to the day is a tuneful and uplifting anthem with warm harmonies. The words, written by the composer, project a strong central message of hope, ideal...

Selling over forty-five million copies, The Dark Side of the Moon topped the US Billboard charts when it was first released in 1973 and took up residence there for over 700 weeks. Lunacy delves into the making of this iconic record and why it continues...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780946535040Author Walter Van HauwePage Count 100Imprint Schott & Co LtdPublisher Schott & Co Ltd

Voiceworks 2 is a second inspired collection of 66 fabulous songs including material to stretch more confident groups. Every bit as practical and accessible as Voiceworks 1. BL Lively and simple ideas for Key Stage 3 (Scottish levels D and E) BL Ideal...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865476646Author David DubalFormat PaperbackPage Count 800Imprint Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plPublisher Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plWeight(grams)...

Celebrated singer-songwriter and guitarist Dave Alvin is, first and foremost, a storyteller. The Grammy winning artist's disarmingly well-crafted lyrics represent just one of the many expressions of his unique ability to capture the gritty and beautiful...

Few things tell us more about ourselves than the music we listen to, a fact that Tom Cox has demonstrated brilliantly in his acclaimed Observer column, The Lost Tribes of Pop. Extended from that column, Cox's beautifully illustrated book presents a...