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Celebrate the 30th anniversary of the landmark album Apocalypse 91: The Enemy Strikes Black with this commemorative sequel graphic anthology!Revolution Never Sleeps begins on the familiar backdrop of 1991 and explodes into far-flung futures with a series...

Written from the perspective of a scholar and performer, Traditional Music and Irish Society investigates the relation of traditional music to Irish modernity. The opening chapter integrates a thorough survey of the early sources of Irish music with...

for SATB and piano Written for the BBC Last night of the Proms, this sensitive setting of the well-known Irish folk song does justice to the beauty of the original melody. Chilcott's harmonic subtleties add to the poignancy of the lyrics, expressing...

The central experience of the Ramones and their music is of being an outsider, an outcast, a person who's somehow defective, and the revolt against shame and self-loathing. The fans, argues Donna Gaines, got it right away, from their own experience of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910089590Author Owen BroomfieldFormat PaperbackPage Count 290Imprint Tangent BooksPublisher Tangent BooksWeight(grams) 210gDimensions(mm) 215mm * 140mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781938620225Author Ron HamadyFormat PaperbackPage Count 274Imprint Westcom Press, LLCPublisher Westcom Press, LLCWeight(grams) 404gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780955090844Author Jim GodboltFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Northway PublicationsPublisher Northway Publications

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781423445463Author H. VoxmanPage Count 23Imprint Hal Leonard CorporationPublisher Hal Leonard Corporation

How the British rock band Radiohead subverts the idea of the concept album in order to articulate themes of alienation and anti-capitalism is the focus of Marianne Tatom Letts's analysis of Kid A and Amnesiac. These experimental albums marked a departure...

Compelling from cover to cover, this is the story of one of the most recorded and beloved jazz trumpeters of all time. With unsparing honesty and a superb eye for detail, Clark Terry, born in 1920, takes us from his impoverished childhood in St. Louis,...

TOTAL CHAOS is the first book telling Iggy Pop's story of The Stooges from his own words. Grammy winning editor and avid music historian Jeff Gold spent two days at the rock legend's home sharing pictures and memorabilia from his collection. Featuring a...

Relates Marguerite Long's working and personal association with Gabriel Faure. This book uses musical examples to discuss the interpretation of many of Faure's compositions.About the AuthorBoth a great concert pianist and professor of music, Marguerite...

When 20-year-old Odetta Holmes-classically trained as a vocalist and poised to become "the next Marian Anderson"-veered away from both opera and musical theater in favor of performing politically charged field hollers, prison songs, work songs, and folk...

57 Varieties is an amazing page-turning journey through the music scene of the early 1980s featuring an exclusive collection of never-republished vintage interviews with some of the biggest names in music: including Queen, Bob Marley, AC/DC, The Beach...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629222516Author Jade DellingerFormat PaperbackPage Count 285Imprint University of Akron PressPublisher University of Akron PressWeight(grams)...

The Bluffer's Guide to Rock will tell musical ingenues what to say, what not to say, and how to hold their own in any conversation about seven decades of the so-called rock 'canon'. It will give readers the tools to impress legions of marvelling...

An insightful examination of the impact of the Civil Rights Movement and African Independence on jazz in the 1950s and 60s, Freedom Sounds traces the complex relationships among music, politics, aesthetics, and activism through the lens of the hot button...

On the south side of Chicago in the late 1940s, two immigrants; one a Jew born in Russia, the other a black blues singer from Mississippi; met and changed the course of musical history. Muddy Waters electrified the blues, and Leonard Chess recorded it...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956267931Author Ian WallisFormat PaperbackPage Count 380Imprint Music Mentor BooksPublisher Music Mentor BooksWeight(grams) 624g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781401300289Author Charles R CrossFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint HyperionPublisher HyperionWeight(grams) 667gDimensions(mm) 239mm * 163mm * 30mm

For well over two hundred years, Joseph Haydn has been by turns lionized and misrepresented - held up as celebrity, and disparaged as mere forerunner or point of comparison. And yet, unlike many other canonic composers, his music has remained a fixture...

There were but four major galaxies in the early jazz universe, and three of them--New Orleans, Chicago, and New York--have been well documented in print. But there has never been a serious history of the fourth, Kansas City, until now. In this...

"Excellent social history...an indispensable account of a time of beauty and terror." -Kirkus Reviews, starred reviewA modern epic of the battles between innocence and cynicism, joy and terror Los Angeles in the 1960s gave the world some of the greatest...

This exciting collection of 10 hit tunes for piano has been meticulously arranged by Ned Bennett for Grade 3 (Late Elementary) level and is ideal for own-choice exam pieces. Take centre stage as you play with downloadable live backings and demo tracks...

Central to the repertoire of Western art music since the 1700s, the symphony has come to be regarded as one of the ultimate compositional challenges.In his series The Symphonic Repertoire, the late A. Peter Brown explored the symphony in Europe from its...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781770415089Author David A. LessFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint ECW Press,CanadaPublisher ECW Press,Canada

Bach & God explores the religious character of Bach's vocal and instrumental music in seven interrelated essays. Noted musicologist Michael Marissen offers wide-ranging interpretive insights from careful biblical and theological scrutiny of the...

As the 1960s ended, Herbie Hancock embarked on a grand creative experiment. Having just left the celebrated Miles Davis Quintet, he set out on the road, playing with his first touring group as a leader until he eventually formed what would become a...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781847613004Author Chris HaighPage Count 136Imprint Schott Music LtdPublisher Schott Music Ltd

The tale of the onstage fight between prima donnas Francesca Cuzzoni and Faustina Bordoni is notorious, appearing in music histories to this day, but it is a fiction. Starting from this misunderstanding, The Rival Sirens suggests that the rivalry...

*Nominated for the International Association for the Study of Popular Music Book Prize* Partly because they are the objects of such intense adulation by fans popular musicians remain strangely enigmatic figures, shrouded in mythology. This book looks...

With a string of number-one hits showcasing Karen Carpenter's warm and distinctive vocals and Richard Carpenter's sophisticated compositions and arrangements, the Carpenters were responsible for some of the most popular music of the 1970s, and this...

Being Time invites a deep consideration of the personal experience of temporality in music, focusing on the perceptual role of the listener. Through individual case studies, this book centers on musical works that deal with time in radical ways. These...

A series of little books of short carefully graded folk tunes beginning with the simplest passages and progressing to more difficult leaps, rhythms, chromatics, and modulations. The later books introduce two-part sight singing.About the AuthorThe...

for SATB (with divisions) and organ This tunefully lilting carol for choir and organ will prove popular with audiences and choirs alike, its six verses deftly marrying variety with diversity to create an attractive shape. Offprinted from Carols for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806512662Author John BauldieFormat PaperbackPage Count 236Imprint Kensington PublishingPublisher Kensington PublishingWeight(grams) 349g

Through a deft compilation of primary sources-letters, memoirs, and personal accounts from composers, librettists, and performers-Michael Rose re-creates for his readers the circumstances that gave rise to fifteen operatic milestones. From Monteverdi and...

In Strategies for Success in Musical Theatre, veteran musical director and teacher Herbert Marshall provides an essential how-to guide for teachers or community members who find themselves in charge of music directing a show. Stepping off the podium,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780966264951Author Bruce SpizerFormat HardbackPage Count 358Imprint 498 Productions, LLCPublisher 498 Productions, LLCWeight(grams) 2245gDimensions(mm)...