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Arranged in chronological order, these pieces add up to nothing less than a full-scale history of the greatest tour band in the history of rock. From Tom Wolfe's account of the Dead's first performance as the Grateful Dead (at an Acid Test in 1965), to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781951874018Author Ginny Z. BersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint Aunt Lute BooksPublisher Aunt Lute Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780991427505Author Beth HarringtonFormat PaperbackImprint Pfp PublishingPublisher Pfp PublishingWeight(grams) 222g

for SATB and piano, piano three-hands, and organ or orchestra This collection of five new arrangements by Mack Wilberg is scored with varying accompaniments. Most are for piano, but one is with piano three-hands and another with organ. All five hymns...

From the storied ache of mbube harmonies of the '40s to the electronic boom of kwaito and the amapiano and house explosion of the '00s, this book explores vignettes taken from across South Africa's popular music history. There are moments in time where...

Ombra is the term which applies to an operatic scene involving the appearance of an oracle or demon, witches, or ghosts. Such scenes can be traced back to the early days of opera and were commonplace in the seventeenth century in Italy and France. Operas...

In sixteenth-century Italy, Rome ranked second only to Venice as an important center for music book production. Throughout the century, printers in the Eternal City experimented more readily and more consistently with the materiality of the book than...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780571569717Author Pam WedgwoodPage Count 32Imprint Faber Music LtdPublisher Faber Music LtdWeight(grams) 141g

This is a book on the best known of the Weill-Brecht collaborations which explores the extent and significance of the composer's contribution. After a detailed reconstruction of the work's genesis and continued revision over three decades, Stephen Hinton...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780962812088Author Deborah FriouPage Count 96Imprint Friou MusicPublisher Friou Music

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780977124299Author Professor GriffFormat PaperbackPage Count 258Imprint Taqiyyah MusicPublisher Taqiyyah MusicWeight(grams) 603gDimensions(mm) 280mm * 216mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780306828423Author Lol TolhurstFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Hachette BooksPublisher Hachette BooksWeight(grams) 431gDimensions(mm) 230mm * 150mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501189401Author Bob DylanFormat HardbackPage Count 32Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 113gDimensions(mm) 180mm * 132mm *...

"A fresh new perspective that will be a true revolution to readers and will open new lines of discussion on . . . the importance of the city of New Orleans for generations to come." -Dr. Michael White, jazz clarinetist, composer, and Keller Endowed Chair...

Fred Onovwerosuoke and the St. Louis African Chorus carefully selected the favourite, most requested songs from their workshops, while trying to represent a wide spectrum of Africas regions and cultural practicessongs of spirituality, religion,...

Roll With It is a firsthand account of the precarious lives of musicians in the Rebirth, Soul Rebels, and Hot 8 brass bands of New Orleans. These young men are celebrated as cultural icons for upholding the proud traditions of the jazz funeral and the...

Through his reading of primary and secondary classical sources, as well as his theoretical writings, Richard Wagner developed a Hegelian-inspired theory linking the evolution of classical Greek politics and poetry. This book demonstrates how, by turning...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629637020Author Mat CallahanFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint PM PressPublisher PM Press

Women played crucial roles in the history of rock music. Without Sister Rosetta Tharpe, a gospel-singing electric guitarist, rock might never have been born. Janis Joplin and Grace Slick were forefront in the growing hippie subculture that marked a...

Creativities, Media, and Technology in Music Learning and Teaching is one of five paperback books derived from the foundational two-volume Oxford Handbook of Music Education. Designed for music teachers, students, and scholars of music education, as well...

for SATB, piano, and optional saxophone, bass, and drum kit Ophelia, Caliban, and Miranda puts a jazzy twist on three Shakespearean characters. With newly written texts by Charles Bennett, each of the three movements focuses in on Ophelia from Hamlet...

This reprint is of the first English paperback edition of Richard Wagner's autobiography. This is a primary document of enormous importance for all Wagner enthusiasts, being virtually the sole source of information of the composer's childhood and youth...

for SATB, accompanied and unaccompanied To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the publication of Carols for Choirs 1, OUP presents a new volume in this ground-breaking series. Carols for Choirs 5 continues the tradition of its predecessors by providing a...

The third volume to appear in the magnum opus of A. Peter Brown takes as its topic the European symphony ca. 1800-ca. 1930 and is divided into two parts. The first part focuses on the symphonies of Germany and the Nordic countries and discusses in great...

Kitty Clive (1711-1785) was a top London stage star. She dominated spoken as well as musical comedy. From the 1740s onwards, her reputation suffered a sharp decline. For anyone curious about star production in eighteenth-century Britain, her story is not...

In recent years, a growth in dance and wellbeing scholarship has resulted in new ways of thinking that place the body, movement, and dance in a central place with renewed significance for wellbeing. The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Wellbeing examines...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999212790Author Wax Poetics WritersFormat PaperbackPage Count 114Imprint Wax Poetics BooksPublisher Wax Poetics BooksWeight(grams) 286g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781609492199Author Roger StolleFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint History PressPublisher History PressWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 222mm * 146mm *...

When he first started working on Pet Sounds, Brian Wilson said that he was going to write "the greatest rock album ever made." That album, released in 1966, fifty years ago, changed the face of popular music.From conception and composition to arrangement...

More than just a biography or discography, this work is a thoroughly detailed guide to the recorded works of the legendary British rock and roll group The Who. From their early hits of the 1960s (""I Can't Explain"" and ""My Generation"") through the...

Many regard jazz as the soundtrack of America, born and raised in its cities and echoing throughout its tumultuous century of progress. So when Ernest Hemingway wrote about seeing jazz in 1920s Paris, and when British colonial officials danced to jazz in...

The history of Soul music has been defined, first and foremost, by a succession of exceptional vocalists. It is impossible to conceive of the genre without them. This does not mean, however, that those who back singers, those who play instruments - ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781770416185Author William IrwinFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint ECW Press,CanadaPublisher ECW Press,Canada

for SATB, upper voices, and organ This compelling work tells the story of creation through a tapestry of biblical passages, spiritual writings, poems, and hymns by writers such as Thomas Traherne. The piece is structured around a recurring refrain,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781532363719Author Antwan 'Ant' Bank$Format PaperbackPage Count 650Imprint VIP Ink Publishing Group, Inc. / Printhouse BooksPublisher VIP Ink Publishing...

Insights into an opera stage director's work from an internationally acclaimed director and teacher. Opera is nowadays performed worldwide. But as an art form it is little understood by performers and audiences alike. The Crafty Art of Opera wants to...

Which Song is the Best and Why? Read it and see! Organized by rank, from 1 to 100, this illustrated celebration of the best songs by the boys who revolutionized rock-and-roll includes expert commentary, historical context, interview material, and lots of...

Reality first appeared in the late 1980s-in the sense not of real life but rather of the TV entertainment genre inaugurated by shows such as Cops and America's Most Wanted; the daytime gabfests of Geraldo, Oprah, and Donahue; and the tabloid news of A...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781678107826Author Igor SardiFormat PaperbackPage Count 98Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 254gDimensions(mm) 297mm * 210mm * 5mm

Covering Brahms's 32 song opuses published during four decades of song-writing, this book offers a way of understanding what Brahms believed to be the right poetic basis for his immortal music. Johannes Brahms's much-loved solo songs continue to be...