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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780862433628Author Y LolfaFormat PaperbackPage Count 204Imprint Y LolfaPublisher Y Lolfa

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062657138Author Steven HydenFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 201mm *...

John Coltrane's unique and powerful saxophonic sound is commonly recognized among jazz scholars and fans alike as having a "spiritual" nature, imbued with the perfomer's soul, which deeply touches musicians and listeners worldwide. This revered...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780879101800Author S. Frederick StarrFormat PaperbackPage Count 436Imprint Limelight EditionsPublisher Limelight EditionsWeight(grams) 581gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781495088209Author Lin-Manuel MirandaPage Count 64Imprint Hal Leonard CorporationPublisher Hal Leonard CorporationWeight(grams) 227g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783793141686Author Elena Kats-CherninPage Count 84Imprint Boosey & Hawkes Bote & Bock GmbH & Co. KGPublisher Boosey & Hawkes Bote & Bock GmbH & Co. KG

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780957559363Author Dave HadfieldFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Scratching Shed Publishing LtdPublisher Scratching Shed Publishing LtdDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780997661712Author Jim ThorntonPage Count 110Imprint Sher Music Co ,U.S.Publisher Sher Music Co ,U.S.Weight(grams) 277g

Written by one of the best-known academic writers on African music, On African Music is a collection of seven essays addressing various techniques, influences, and scholarly approaches to African music. After a concise introduction spelling out the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781540026811Author MegadethFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Hal Leonard CorporationPublisher Hal Leonard CorporationWeight(grams) 617g

When political protest is read as epidemic madness, religious ecstasy as nervous disease, and angular dance moves as dark and uncouth, the disorder being described is choreomania. At once a catchall term to denote spontaneous gestures and the unruly...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780739098851Author John LennonFormat PaperbackPage Count 4Imprint Alfred MusicPublisher Alfred MusicWeight(grams) 5g

A groundbreaking study of the trailblazing music of Chicago's AACM, a leader in the world of jazz and experimental music. Founded on Chicago's South Side in 1965 and still thriving today, the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians...

Listening in Detail is an original and impassioned take on the intellectual and sensory bounty of Cuban music as it circulates between the island, the United States, and other locations. It is also a powerful critique of efforts to define "Cuban music"...

More than fifty years ago, on a trip dubbed "the Southern Journey," Alan Lomax visited Virginia, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Kentucky, and Tennessee, uncovering the little-known southern backcountry and blues music that we now consider uniquely...

In this remarkable book, Douglas Wolk recreates the evening of October 24th 1962, at Harlem's Apollo Theatre, an evening at the epicentre of Cold War tensions. An evening when James Brown took the stage to be faced by 1500 screaming fans - fans who...

Prior to new editions of legendary Man musician Deke Leonard's previous books Rhinos, Winos & Lunatics and Maybe I Should've Stayed in Bed? planned for 2020, we are happy to bring back his 3rd and 4th books in their original editions. The Twang...

A no-holds-barred memoir of legendary Dead Kennedys and Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer D.H. Peligro, Dreadnaught chronicles Peligro from his pre-DK years growing up in a deprived St. Louis ghetto to his years in San Francisco with Jello Biafra, East Bay...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781477322369Author David CantwellFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint University of Texas PressPublisher University of Texas PressWeight(grams) 156g

George Dyson (1883-1964) was a highly influential composer, educator and administrator, whose work touched the lives of millions. Yet today, apart from his Canterbury Pilgrims and two sets of canticles for Choral Evensong, his music is little known. In...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781550228755Author Jake BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 254Imprint ECW Press,CanadaPublisher ECW Press,CanadaWeight(grams) 433g

". . . a remarkable collection of observations and reflections on past experiences by many excellent artists and teachers that will doubtless help . . . those interested in creating 'opera magic.'" -Tito CapobiancoSinging, Acting, and Movement in Opera...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783795762377Author Carl OrffPage Count 170Imprint Ernst Eulenburg & CoPublisher Schott Musik International GmbH & Co KG

"[I]nvaluable for musicologists and troubadour scholars interested in knowing about the 'whole song', and it also provides an excellent introduction to troubadour music for the historian, philologist or, indeed, anyone with a passing interest." -David...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781458426796Author Hal Leonard Publishing CorporationFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint Willis Music CompanyPublisher Willis Music CompanyWeight(grams)...

The contributors to Negotiated Moments explore how subjectivity is formed and expressed through musical improvisation, tracing the ways the transmission and reception of sound occur within and between bodies in real and virtual time and across memory,...

Over the past four decades, Richard Taruskin's publications have redefined the field of Russian-music study. This volume gathers thirty-six essays on composers ranging from Bortnyansky in the eighteenth century to Tarnopolsky in the twenty-first, as well...

James Inverne provides an indispensable guide to his top one hundred greatest shows of all time - and ten of the worst. Whether you know your Pal Joey from The Producers, your West Side Story from your Witch Witch, the Faber Pocket Guide To Musicals is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781458421074Author Jean-Louis DuportPage Count 70Imprint G Schirmer, IncorporatedPublisher Hal Leonard Corporation

In The Poets of Tin Pan Alley, Philip Furia presents a fascinating accout of the lives in words and music of some of America's greatest popular lyricists. Full chapters are devoted to such golden names as Irving Berlin, Lorenz Hart, Ira Gershwin, Cole...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999212714Author Chris WilliamsFormat HardbackPage Count 100Imprint Wax Poetics BooksPublisher Wax Poetics BooksWeight(grams) 576g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999212721Author Chris WilliamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Wax Poetics BooksPublisher Wax Poetics BooksWeight(grams) 376gDimensions(mm) 276mm *...

Welcome to Stats, Records & Rock 'n' Roll, an exploration of the aural beauty of music told through 80 visually stunning infographics - the most popular information medium of the 21st century. With extensive research sourced from all over the world,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781784545260Author Karl JenkinsPage Count 64Imprint Boosey & Hawkes Music Publishers LtdPublisher Boosey & Hawkes Music Publishers LtdWeight(grams) 237g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913231330Author Sarah GinnFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Velocity PressPublisher Velocity Press

This is a groundbreaking study of every aspect of Van Morrison's artistic career - his influences, lyrical themes, vocal performances, his relationship with America, and more. In 1991 Van Morrison said, 'Music is spiritual, the music business isn't'...

Despite having been composed in the years 1938-43 when Europe was ravaged by war, this work radiates peace and serenity. It marks the peak of the lyrical modalism of works such as the Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis (1910), Flos Campi (1925), and...

This 2004 Companion is a collection of specially commissioned essays on one of the most influential opera composers in the repertoire. The volume is divided into four parts, each exploring an important element of Rossini's life, his world, and his works:...

The era of popular music from about 1917 onward saw an explosion of creative songwriting that converged with a new sound from reed, brass, and rhythm instruments. Jazz was born, and the musical sophistication that accompanied this original sound set the...

A behind-the-scenes look at the premieres of five extraordinary operas What was it like at the opening night of Mozart's Don Giovanni or Wagner's Das Rheingold? This glittering introduction to the world of opera takes us behind the scenes during premiere...