Genres & Styles

The Miserere by Italian composer Gregorio Allegri (1582-1652) is one of the most popular, oft performed and recorded choral pieces of late Renaissance/early Baroque music. Yet the piece known today bears little resemblanceto Allegri's original or to the...

Gillian G. Gaar's critically acclaimed, breakthrough book, the first full history of women in rock and pop ever written, became an instant classic upon its publication in 1992. Arranged chronologically and told with impassioned detail, She's A Rebel...

Wanda Jackson's debut single, "You Can't Have My Love," reached the Top 10 while she was still a sixteen-year-old high school student. She hit the road after graduation, playing package shows with Carl Perkins, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Elvis...

This book explains how and why Gluck's historically important and best-loved opera Orfeo came into existence, and shows why it has retained its popularity. The work is placed in its context of Gluck's 'reform of opera', an artistic movement involving...

The Wizard of Oz, Gigi, Top Hat, High Society - some of the most popular movie musicals ever made were written by Broadway songwriters. The Sound of Music, Chicago, West Side Story, The Music Man, Grease - some of the other most popular movie musicals...

The musical and cultural impact of the Fab Four in FloridaIn 1964, Beatlemania flooded the United States. The Beatles appeared live on the Ed Sullivan Show and embarked on their first tour of North America-and they spent more time in Florida than...

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Here is the first dual biography of the early lives of two key figures in Russian ballet: famed choreographer George Balanchine and his close childhood friend, the extraordinary ballerina Lidia (Lidochka) Ivanova. Tracing the lives and friendship of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780939511099Author Rick SpencerFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint Applewood BooksPublisher Applewood Books

Chopin's Second Ballade, Op. 38 is frequently performed, and takes only seven or so minutes to play. Yet the work remains very poorly understood-disagreement prevails on issues from its tonic and two-key structure to its posited relationship with the...

Betty Comden and Adolph Green were the writers behind such classic stage musicals as On the Town, Wonderful Town, and Bells Are Ringing, and they provided lyrics for such standards as "New York, New York," "Just in Time," "The Party's Over," and "Make...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780544484054Author Jessye NormanFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Houghton MifflinPublisher Houghton Mifflin

A Star Is Born -- the classic Hollywood tale about a young talent rising to superstardom, and the downfall of her mentor/lover along the way -- has never gone out of style. It has seen five film adaptations, but none compares to the 1954 version starring...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781604860054Author John RobbFormat PaperbackPage Count 568Imprint PM PressPublisher PM PressWeight(grams) 527g

Death Metal is among the most despised forms of violently themed entertainment. Many politicians, conservative groups and typical Americans attribute youth violence and the destruction of social values to such entertainment. The usual assumptions about...

The figure of the gypsy is simultaneously vilified and romanticized. Gypsies have for centuries been associated with criminality and dirt, but also with colour, magic and music. Gypsy music is popular around the world, and is performed at occasions that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780793584772Author Giuseppe VerdiPage Count 308Imprint Hal Leonard CorporationPublisher Hal Leonard Corporation

Coping with trauma and the losses of World War I was a central concern for French musicians in the interwar period. Almost all of them were deeply affected by the war as they fought in the trenches, worked in military hospitals, or mourned a friend or...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999212769Author Various WritersFormat PaperbackPage Count 138Imprint Wax Poetics BooksPublisher Wax Poetics BooksWeight(grams) 178g

At the turn of the twentieth century Italian opera participated to the making of a modern spectator. The Ricordi stage manuals testify to the need to harness the effects of operatic performance, activating opera's capacity to cultivate a public. This...

Billy Budd, based on Herman Melville's nautical allegory, is one of Britten's most challenging operas. This comprehensive guide considers the work from both literary and musical viewpoints. Melville's novella is discussed, as is the interpretation given...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780851622187Page Count 213Imprint Boosey & Hawkes Music Publishers LtdPublisher Boosey & Hawkes Music Publishers Ltd

Refazenda connects a remarkable album by one of the 20th and 21st centuries' great musicians to a dazzling, often unexpected, array of people and places spread across the globe from Brazil to England to Chile to Japan. Critics and fans often project (or...

In this groundbreaking book, Jeffrey O. G. Ogbar celebrates hip-hop and confronts the cult of authenticity that defines its essential character. Deftly balancing an insider's love of the culture with a scholar's detached critique, he traces hip-hop's...

"Bring my goat!" Porgy exclaims in the final scene of Gershwin's opera Porgy and Bess. Bess, whom he loves, has left for New York City, and he's determined to find her. When his request is met with astonishment-New York is a great distance from South...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780991077397Author Alan HallPage Count 106Imprint Sher Music Co ,U.S.Publisher Sher Music Co ,U.S.Weight(grams) 270g

Bringing together reception history, music analysis and criticism, the history of music theory, and the philosophy of music, Beethoven Hero explores the nature and persistence of Beethoven's heroic style. What have we come to value in this music, asks...

A wide-ranging look at the interplay of opera and political ideas through the centuries The Politics of Opera takes readers on a fascinating journey into the entwined development of opera and politics, from the Renaissance through the turn of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781847614315Author Hans-Gunter HeumannPage Count 31Imprint Schott Music LtdPublisher Schott Music Ltd

for SAMen and piano A highly expressive setting of the biblical text, this simple work is at once tender and profound. It was composed for a memorial service for Edward T. Chapman, the Director of Music at Highgate School, where John Rutter was a pupil...

Dolly Parton is instantly recognizable for her iconic style and persona, but how did she create her enduring image? Dolly crafted her exaggerated appearance and stage personality by combining two opposing stereotypes-the innocent mountain girl and the...

for SSA and piano This work for upper voices with a text by the composer was inspired by members of the Radcliffe Ladies' Choir and their motto 'friendship through singing'. The lilting vocal lines are subtly underpinned by a delicate piano...

Composing Apartheid is the first book ever to chart the musical world of a notorious period in world history, apartheid South Africa. It explores how music was produced through, and was productive of, key features of apartheid's social and political...

In his iconic musical travelogue Heavy Metal Islam, Mark LeVine first brought the views and experiences of a still-young generation to the world. In We'll Play till We Die, he joins with this generation's leading voices to write a definitive history of...

Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643) was the first important composer of opera. This innovative study by one of the foremost experts on Monteverdi and seventeenth-century opera examines the composer's celebrated final works - "Il ritorno d'Ulisse" (1640) and...

for SS or SA with a simplified piano accompaniment An arrangement for upper voices, with a simplified piano part, of John Rutter's popular Jesus Child, an upbeat carol with a clear Caribbean influence.About the AuthorJohn Rutter was born in London in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780934558365Author Paul WilliamsPage Count 240Imprint Entwhistle Books,U.S.Publisher Entwhistle Books,U.S.Weight(grams) 318g

In celebration of the 45th anniversary of The Dark Side of the Moon, Bill Kopp explores the ingenuity with which Pink Floyd rebranded itself following the 1968 departure of Syd Barrett. Not only did the band survive Barrett's departure, but it went on to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781945509797Author Ben SnakepitFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Silver SprocketPublisher Silver Sprocket

Venerated for his lyrics, Bob Dylan in fact is a songwriting musician with a unique mastery of merging his words with music and performance. Larry Starr cuts through pretention and myth to provide a refreshingly holistic appreciation of Dylan's music...