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Reflecting a wide variety of approaches to eighteenth-century opera, this Companion brings together leading international experts in the field to provide a valuable reference source. Viewing opera as a complex and fascinating form of art and social...

Deep Inside the Blues collects thirty-four of Margo Cooper's interviews with blues artists and is illustrated with over 160 of her photographs, many published here for the first time. For thirty years, Cooper has been documenting the lives of blues...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780714510996Author Samuel B. ChartersFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Marion Boyars Publishers LtdPublisher Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd

"Operetta: A Theatrical History" is considered the classic history of this important musical theater form. Traubner's book, first published in 1983, is still recognized as the key history of the people and productions that made operetta a worldwide...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781101873496Author Nate ChinenFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

The female vocalists who pioneered the disco genre in the '70s and early '80s were an extraordinarily talented group who dazzled the world with an exciting blend of elegance, soulful passion and gutsy fire. In this book of original interviews, 32 of...

Swedish Jazz in the United States: Swede and Cool traces and analyzes the dissemination and reception of jazz from Sweden in the United States during the period of 1947-1963. It maps the networks through which Swedish record companies exchanged...

For more than six decades, Reggae legend Glen daCosta has worked as a musician, songwriter and producer. As a session player, his distinctive sax sound backed many international Reggae stars at Joe Gibbs' Studio and Lee Scratch Perry's Blackheart Studio...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781847614001Author Samantha WardPage Count 91Imprint Schott Music LtdPublisher Schott Music Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789078668244Author Jack McCray +Format PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Vof Conceptual ContinuityPublisher Vof Conceptual ContinuityWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780793587483Author Thelonious MonkPage Count 96Imprint Hal Leonard CorporationPublisher Hal Leonard Corporation

The first comprehensive guide to Pelleas et Melisande, Debussy's only completed opera, this book is written by three of the leading authorities on French music of the period. As a background to the opera Richard Langham Smith discusses the play, by the...

An essential work for rock fans and scholars, Before Elvis: The Prehistory of Rock 'n' Roll surveys the origins of rock 'n' roll from the minstrel era to the emergence of Bill Haley and Elvis Presley. Unlike other histories of rock, Before Elvis offers a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780983358312Author Kathleen M KarlsenFormat PaperbackPage Count 186Imprint Living Arts Enterprises, LLCPublisher Living Arts Enterprises, LLCWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910885062Author Brian RichardsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Bookmarks PublicationsPublisher Bookmarks PublicationsWeight(grams) 129g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781891241307Author Jon LangfordFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Verse Chorus Press,U.S.Publisher Puncture PublicationsWeight(grams) 524g

Hamilton opened on Broadway in 2015 and quickly became one of the hottest tickets the industry has ever seen. Lin-Manuel Miranda - who wrote the book, lyrics, and music, and created the title role - adapted the show from Ron Chernow's biography Alexander...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486277264Author Wolfgang Amadeus MozartPage Count 320Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781484088012Author Mark GregoryFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint CreateSpacePublisher CreateSpace

The origin story of hip-hop-one that involves Kool Herc DJing a house party on Sedgwick Avenue in the Bronx-has become received wisdom. But Joseph C. Ewoodzie Jr. argues that the full story remains to be told. In vibrant prose, he combines...

In Chicago Jazz, William Howland Kenny offers a wide-ranging look at jazz in the Windy City, revealing how Chicago became the major centre for jazz in the 1920s, one of the most vital periods in the history of the music. He describes how the migration of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsNominated for New York Public Library Books for the Teen Age.Book InformationISBN 9780679765394Author Geoffrey C. WardFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Random House...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912740116Author Chris Alpert CoyleFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Korero PressPublisher Korero Press

Richard Cook's Jazz Encyclopedia is not merely an A-Z guide to the artists and bands who have shaped jazz, but it also tracks the history of jazz and its changing styles. This is a wonderfully accessible work. Richard Cook's passion for jazz and his...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780517586501Author Myra FriedmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 437gDimensions(mm)...

The origins and secrets of the Grateful Dead's magical sound are told! This book is the first in-depth examination of the Dead's technical side including their recording methods. From the Acid Tests of the mid-'60s to the famous Wall of Sound PA...

'A beautiful retelling ... which captures the great man's spirit.' UNCUTFrom 'Crossroads Blues' to 'Sweet Home Chicago', 'Hellhound on My Trail' to 'Come On In My Kitchen', Robert Johnson wrote some of the most enduring and formative songs of the...

Song and dance style--viewed as nonverbal communications about culture--are here related to social structure and cultural history. Patterns of performance, theme, text and movement are analyzed in large samples of films an recordings from the whole range...

for solo voice, SATB (with divisions), flute, and piano John Rutter's timeless arrangement of Skylark, a standard of the golden age of American song, is rich, mellow, and mellifluous. Soaring lines for flute depict the eponymous songbird, and the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780996372213Author Tony BroadbentFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Plain Sight PressPublisher Plain Sight PressWeight(grams) 585g

'Because a life lived in fear is equal to no life at all'This is the uncompromising vision of Jehnny Beth and Johnny Hostile. Fearless and highly erotic, these stories delight in ideas of sexual transgression and liberation, offering a window onto a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781901447132Author Garry Sharpe-YoungFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Cherry Red BooksPublisher Cherry Red BooksWeight(grams) 871g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780793552221Author Edvard GriegPage Count 24Imprint G Schirmer, IncorporatedPublisher Hal Leonard Corporation

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781480390690Author Frederic ChopinFormat PaperbackPage Count 191Imprint Hal Leonard CorporationPublisher Hal Leonard CorporationWeight(grams)...

for SATB and organ This short collection presents the complete set of hymns from Chilcott's stunning setting of the St John Passion. The five well-known hymn texts are set to new, original melodies, which are also intended for performance by the...

"An occasion to appreciate Dexter's resounding musical genius as well as his wish for major social transformation."-Angela Y. Davis, political activist, scholar, author, and speakerSophisticated Giant presents the life and legacy of tenor saxophonist...

Once tainted by association with Hitler and Nazism, Richard Wagner's work has experienced an international cultural renaissance in the last 25 years. His magnum opus, Der Ring des Nibelungen, which took him over 20 years to finish, is a complex tale...

Swing Street was the name given to 52nd Street in midtown Manhattan in New York City, where there were more jazz clubs and bars per square block than anywhere else in the world, all showcasing the finest jazz musicians of the era. This illustrated book...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781847614322Author Hans-Gunter HeumannPage Count 31Imprint Schott Music LtdPublisher Schott Music Ltd