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Sophisticated Giant: The Life and Legacy of Dexter Gordon by Maxine Gordon
RRP: $21.92$15.87"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... -
Inside the Ring: Essays on Wagner's Opera Cycle by John Louis DiGaetani 9780786423309
RRP: $46.43$38.18Once 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: The Rise and Fall of New York's 52nd Street Jazz Scene: An Illustrated Tribute, 1930-1950 by ,Leo,T. Sullivan 9780764359736
RRP: $29.66$19.41Swing 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... -
Piano Junior: Duet: A Creative and Interactive Piano Course for Children: Book 2 by Hans-Gunter Heumann 9781847614322
RRP: $9.02$7.57Apologies 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 -
Candy-Striped Cauliflower Capers-A Wyrd-Psych-Folk sampler 2013-2023 by Dave Thompson 9781312459694
RRP: $38.69$31.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781312459694Author Dave ThompsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 292Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 395gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 15mm -
W. A. Mozart: Idomeneo by Julian Rushton 9780521437417
RRP: $25.79$22.10Idomeneo, by common consent Mozart's greatest opera seria, is a rich synthesis of the dramatic potentialities of Italian opera seria, French tragedie lyrique, and recent German opera. It was composed for the finest orchestra in Germany and some excellent... -
London Town: A Choral Celebration by John Rutter 9780193528383
RRP: $16.13$12.07London Town was commissioned and written to be performed by the combined forces of unison children's choir and SATB mixed voices, with piano. The vividly communicative six-movement work, which is accompanied throughout, is full of musical contrasts from... -
Houston Rap Tapes: An Oral History of Bayou City Hip-Hop by Lance Scott Walker
RRP: $36.11$32.43The neighborhoods of Fifth Ward, Fourth Ward, Third Ward, and the Southside of Houston, Texas, gave birth to Houston rap, a vibrant music scene that has produced globally recognized artists such as Geto Boys, DJ Screw, Pimp C and Bun B of UGK, Fat Pat,... -
Inside Mahleras Second Symphony: A Listeneras Guide by Lawrence Bernstein
RRP: $30.30$25.76This guide introduces concertgoers, serious listeners, and music students to Gustav Mahler's Second Symphony, one of the composer's most popular and most powerful works. It examines the symphony from several perspectives: Mahler's struggle to create what... -
Lipatti by Dragos Tanasescu 9781871082586
RRP: $21.87$20.76Features the life and work of Dinu Lipatti. This book deals with Lipatti as pianist, composer and teacher. It includes many quotations from letters written by him, many musical examples, a list of works and two cadenzas for the Mozart Piano Concerto in C... -
Different Drummers: Jazz in the Culture of Nazi Germany by Michael H. Kater 9780195165531
RRP: $59.97$41.01When the African-American dancer Josephine Baker visited Berlin in 1925, she found it dazzling. "The city had a jewel-like sparkle," she said, "the vast cafes reminded me of ocean liners powered by the rhythms of their orchestras. There... -
I Wonder U: How Prince Went beyond Race and Back by Adilifu Nama
RRP: $32.24$27.95Featured in the 2020 Association of University Presses Book, Jacket, and Journal Show In 1993, Prince infamously changed his name to a unique, unpronounceable symbol. Yet this was only one of a long string of self-reinventions orchestrated by Prince as... -
England's Dreaming, Revised Edition: Anarchy, Sex Pistols, Punk Rock, and Beyond by Jon Savage 9780312288228
RRP: $34.82$27.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312288228Author Jon SavageFormat PaperbackPage Count 656Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 907g -
Listen Up!: Recording Music with Bob Dylan, Neil Young, U2, The Tragically Hip, REM, Iggy Pop, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Tom Waits... by Mark Howard
RRP: $24.50$15.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781770414822Author Chris HowardFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint ECW Press,CanadaPublisher ECW Press,Canada -
Wedgwood Blue by Oliver Wedgwood 9780571523597
RRP: $12.89$11.71Wedgwood Blue is a landmark collection of arrangements for solo piano: 10 original pieces in a variety of jazz styles for the grade 5-7 pianist, from modern ballads to honky tonk, blues to Latin - all with sophisticated downloadable backing tracks. The... -
Dead Man's Curve: The Rock 'n' Roll Life of Jan Berry by Mark A Moore 9781476672106
RRP: $46.43$38.70Jan Berry, leader of the music duo Jan & Dean from the late 1950s to mid-1960s, was an intense character who experienced more in his first 25 years than many do in a lifetime. As an architect of the West Coast sound, he was one of rock 'n' roll's... -
Mass Opus 130 by Joseph Jongen
$29.70for SATB chorus, organ, and optional brass ensemble (2 trumpets, 4 horns, 3 trombones, and tuba) Jongen's Messe en l'honneur du Saint-Sacrement was written in 1945 to celebrate the 700th anniversary of the inception of the Festival of Corpus Christi... -
A Theory of Musical Narrative by Byron Almen 9780253352385
RRP: $39.99$35.29Byron Almen proposes an original synthesis of approaches to musical narrative from literary criticism, semiotics, historiography, musicology, and music theory, resulting in a significant critical reorientation of the field. This volume includes an... -
130 Great Irish Ballads by Robert Gogan 9780953206889
$19.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780953206889Author Robert GoganPage Count 164Imprint Music IrelandPublisher Music Ireland -
The Music of The Statler Brothers: An Anthology by Don Reid
RRP: $37.35$25.52The Music of the Statler Brothers: An Anthoology is an in-depth look at the musical career of The Statler Brothers's forty-year reign as country music's premier group. Lead singer, Don Reid, writes about each song ever recorded by the Grammy... -
The Heebie-Jeebies at CBGB's: A Secret History of Jewish Punk by Steven Lee Beeber
RRP: $19.29$14.65Based in part on the recent interviews with more than 125 people-among them Tommy Ramone, Chris Stein (Blondie), Lenny Kaye (Patti Smith Group), Hilly Kristal (CBGBs owner), and John Zorn-this book focuses on punk's beginnings in New York City to show... -
How The Beatles Destroyed Rock 'n' Roll: An Alternative History of American Popular Music by Elijah Wald
RRP: $19.34$16.05Overthrowing the conventional pieties of mainstream jazz and rock history, Elijah Wald traces the evolution of popular music through developing tastes, trends and technologies--including the role of records, radio, jukeboxes and television--to give a... -
Folk Songs of the Four Seasons by Ralph Vaughan Williams 9780193850873
RRP: $22.58$21.40This cantata features sixteen highly-varied folk song settings, bound together in seasonal groupings to take the listener on an engaging journey through the year from Spring to Winter. The prologue implores us to 'sing and be merry', and many of the... -
Amazing Grace: The Cambridge Singers Hymn Series by John Rutter 9780193416437
$4.02for SATB (with divisions) and harp or piano This is a simple and gentle setting of the popular American folk hymn. Beginning softly with the sopranos accompanied by piano/harp in the first verse, Rutter explores a wide variety of textures, building to a... -
Pop Charts by Katrina McHugh 9780062747877
RRP: $20.63$19.92Test your musical knowledge with this fun compilation, filled with 100 beautifully designed infographics, that pays homage to the songs we can't get out of our heads-inspired by lyrics from artists such as Madonna, Fleetwood Mac, Paul Simon, TLC, Bob... -
The White Album: The Album, the Beatles and the World in 1968 by Brian Southall 9781787391871
$28.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781787391871Author Brian SouthallFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Carlton Books LtdPublisher Welbeck Publishing Group -
The Miles Davis Lost Quintet and Other Revolutionary Ensembles Bob Gluck 9780226527000
RRP: $30.96$29.71Miles Davis's Bitches Brew is one of the most iconic albums in American music, the preeminent landmark and fertile seedbed of jazz-fusion. Fans have been fortunate in the past few years to gain access to Davis's live recordings from this time, when he... -
Jazz in the 1970s: Diverging Streams by Bill Shoemaker 9781442242098
RRP: $52.89$46.54Breaking through pervasive misconceptions, Jazz in the 1970s explores a pivotal decade in jazz history. Many consider the 1970s to be the fusion decade, but Bill Shoemaker pushes back against this stereotype with a bold perspective that examines both the... -
Schoenberg: Pierrot Lunaire by Jonathan Dunsby 9780521387156
RRP: $25.79$22.10Pierrot Lunaire (1912) is one of the most important music theatre works ever written. This is the first guide in English to a work which continues to be performed, broadcast and recorded worldwide. The book describes the artistic environment around the... -
The Road Goes on Forever: Fifty Years of The Allman Brothers Band Music (1969-2019) by Michael Buffalo Smith 9780881467123
RRP: $30.90$24.32The Road Goes on Forever utilizes history, personal interviews, and many collected documents to aid in the telling of the story of the humble beginnings and career of the original Southern rock band on this, the 50th anniversary of their formation... -
Embryo: A Pink Floyd Chronology 1966-1971 by Nick Hodges 9781901447071
RRP: $19.34$12.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781901447071Author Nick HodgesFormat PaperbackPage Count 302Imprint Cherry Red BooksPublisher Cherry Red BooksWeight(grams) 574g -
This Ain't the Summer of Love: Conflict and Crossover in Heavy Metal and Punk by Steve Waksman 9780520257177
RRP: $38.70$30.04This lively and entertaining revisionist history of rock music after 1970 reconsiders the roles of two genres, heavy metal and punk. Instead of considering metal and punk as aesthetically opposed to each other, Steve Waksman breaks new ground by showing... -
Siren Songs: Representations of Gender and Sexuality in Opera by Mary Ann Smart
RRP: $45.15$35.78It has long been argued that opera is all about sex. Siren Songs is the first collection of articles devoted to exploring the impact of this sexual obsession, and of the power relations that come with it, on the music, words, and staging of opera. Here a... -
Who Knew?: Answers to Questions about Classical Music you Never Thought to Ask by Robert A. Cutietta 9780190462543
RRP: $18.05$13.98This book answers questions from real classical music lovers about things they have always wondered but didn't know whom to ask. The information in this book is not readily found in music history or appreciation books, nor can it be found on line... -
I Ain't Studdin' YA: My American Blues Story by Bobby Rush
RRP: $32.25$22.36This memoir charts the extraordinary rise to fame of living blues legend, Bobby Rush. Born Emmet Ellis, Jr. in Homer, Louisiana, he adopted the stage name Bobby Rush out of respect for his father, a pastor. As a teenager, Rush acquired his first real... -
Segregating Sound: Inventing Folk and Pop Music in the Age of Jim Crow by Karl Hagstrom Miller
RRP: $30.95$26.88In Segregating Sound, Karl Hagstrom Miller argues that the categories that we have inherited to think and talk about southern music bear little relation to the ways that southerners long played and heard music. Focusing on the late nineteenth century and... -
Piano Junior: Theory Book 1: A Creative and Interactive Piano Course for Children: Book 1 by Hans-Gunter Heumann 9781847614285
RRP: $11.60$11.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781847614285Author Hans-Gunter HeumannPage Count 48Imprint Schott Music LtdPublisher Schott Music Ltd -
The Song Machine: Inside the Hit Factory by John Seabrook 9780393353280
$12.45There's a reason today's ubiquitous pop hits are so hard to ignore-they're designed that way. The Song Machine goes behind the scenes to offer an insider's look at the global hit factories manufacturing the songs that have everyone hooked. Full of vivid,... -
Music 109 by Alvin Lucier 9780819574923
RRP: $20.00$17.88Composer and peformer Alvin Lucier brings clarity to the world of experimental music as he takes the reader through more than a hundred groundbreaking musical works, including those of Robert Ashley, John Cage, Charles Ives, Morton Feldman, Philip Glass,... -
Jimi Hendrix and the Making of Are You Experienced: Updated and Expanded by Sean Egan 9780954575052
$23.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780954575052Author Sean EganFormat PaperbackImprint Askill PublishingPublisher Askill PublishingWeight(grams) 299g