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A History of the Symphony: The Grand Genre identifies the underlying cultural factors that have shaped the symphony over the past three hundred years, presenting a unified view of the entire history of the genre. The text goes beyond discussions of...

A century after his death, Gustav Mahler is the most important composer of modern times. Displacing Beethoven as a box-office draw, heard in Hollywood films and on state occasions, his music inspires particular devotion. Some believe it helps heal...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781495051647Author BrahmsPage Count 176Imprint Hal Leonard CorporationPublisher Hal Leonard Corporation

'Exhilarating' - Sunday Times 'Funny and moving' - Jarvis Cocker Music critic and writer Paul Morley weaves together memoir and history in a spiralling tale that establishes classical music as the most rebellious genre of all. Paul Morley had...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781480371002Author Carlo AonzoPage Count 87Imprint Hal Leonard CorporationPublisher Hal Leonard Corporation

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780793537747Author Jacques F. MazasPage Count 44Imprint G Schirmer, IncorporatedPublisher Hal Leonard Corporation

How does music heard and played over many years inform one's sense of home? In Distant Melodies, Edward Dusinberre, the English first violinist of the Takacs Quartet, explores changing ideas of home, exile and return in the lives and particular chamber...

Can ballet ever be reconciled with feminist ideals? 'Beautiful, difficult, and compelling.' VANITY FAIR 'Don't think, dear,' said Balanchine. 'Just do.' For centuries, being a ballerina has been synonymous with being beautiful, thin, obedient...

The music of J.S.Bach has a unique power and attraction some 300 years after it was written. From annual performances of the great Passions and BBC Radio 3's hugely successful Bach Christmas, to its use in adverts, films and popular arrangements, the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781495061943Author Astor PiazzollaPage Count 118Imprint Hal Leonard CorporationPublisher Hal Leonard Corporation

An intimate conversation about music and creativity, between the internationally bestselling writer Haruki Murakami and world-class conductor, Seiji Ozawa. Haruki Murakami's passion for music runs deep. Before turning his hand to writing, he ran a jazz...

for high voice and piano This beautiful collection of 14 songs for high voice offers Christmas settings by some of Oxford's best-loved composers. Suitable for solo singers and unison choirs alike, each song is presented with piano accompaniment, and...

'Clemmie writes about each piece of music with such energy and passion that you can't help but immediately want to stop what you're doing and seek it out' Eddie Redmayne'The only requirements for enjoying classical music are open ears and an open mind.'...

The compositions of Stephen Heller (1813-1885), a prolific composer of music for piano, were known for their musical interest and touches of charming ingenuity. His popular studies, twenty of which are gathered together in this easy to moderate...

'How refreshing, to read a book about music written for a music lover and not a musicologist. In clear, lucid, entertaining prose, Jane Glover makes those of us who lack musical literacy better understand and appreciate Handel's divinity.' - Donna Leon,...

Mozart's Sonatas for Pianoforte are published as part of ABRSM's 'Signature' Series - a series of authoritative performing editions of standard keyboard works, prepared from original sources by leading scholars. Includes informative introductions and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805071894Author Bryan MageeFormat PaperbackPage Count 424Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 567gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Over three decades, Paul Griffiths's survey has remained the definitive study of music since the Second World War; this fully revised and updated edition re-establishes Modern Music and After as the preeminent introduction to the music of our time. The...

From music written in praise of Irish, Scottish, Welsh, and English saints to the selection of Gospel readings by the Dominicans, this book introduces readers to the richness of medieval liturgical culture from across Britain and Ireland. Each of its...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781480382336Author Astor PiazzollaPage Count 130Imprint Hal Leonard CorporationPublisher Hal Leonard Corporation

Inflated egos. Corporate insanity. Slave labour. Sexual excess. Dazzling genius. Welcome to the world of classical recording. Maestros, Masterpieces and Madness is a sparkling expose of the strange truth and sheer brilliance behind the classical music...

A fascinating history of the piano explored through 100 pieces chosen by one of the UK's most renowned concert pianists "Tomes . . . casts her net widely, taking in chamber music and concertos, knotty avant-garde masterworks and (most welcome) jazz...

Challenging current music making approaches which have traditionally relied on the repetition of fixed forms when played, this book provides a new framework for musicians, composers and producers wanting to explore working with music that can be...

for high voice and piano This beautiful collection of 14 songs for high voice offers secular pieces by some of Oxford's best-loved composers. Suitable for solo singers and unison choirs alike, each song is presented with piano accompaniment, and...

This brilliant portrayal weaves Beethoven's musical and biographical stories into their historical and artistic contexts. Lewis Lockwood sketches the turbulent personal, historical, political, and cultural frameworks in which Beethoven worked and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780793560851Author Edward MacDowellPage Count 32Imprint G Schirmer, IncorporatedPublisher Hal Leonard Corporation

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781495006883Author Hal Leonard Publishing CorporationPage Count 189Imprint Hal Leonard CorporationPublisher Hal Leonard Corporation

The long-awaited memoir by 'the most prolific and popular of all contemporary composers' (New York Times)Rapturous in its ability to depict the creative process, Words Without Music allows readers to experience that sublime moment of creative fusion...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781616771867Author Nancy FaberPage Count 80Imprint Faber Piano AdventuresPublisher Faber Piano Adventures

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781705172438Author David JaggsPage Count 88Imprint Hal Leonard CorporationPublisher Hal Leonard Corporation

_______________ 'Edward Said had a lifelong passion for music, and possessed the rare ability to write about it for the general reader with a lucid and penetrating intelligence' - TLS 'There are few whose command of words is sufficient not only to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781495010422Author Hal Leonard Publishing CorporationPage Count 111Imprint Hal Leonard CorporationPublisher Hal Leonard Corporation

for vocal soloists or SATB choir and orchestra or reduced orchestra Serenade to Music is sublime - one of the most stunningly beautiful musical creations of the 20th century. This choral meditation on the nature of music and its power to enrapture is a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780634070013Author R. (Delete) SchumannPage Count 20Imprint G Schirmer, IncorporatedPublisher Hal Leonard Corporation

Professor Sir Donald Tovey's celebrated bar-by-bar analysis of Beethoven's 32 Pianoforte Sonatasremains a key text for pianists, students, scholars and music lovers. Intended as a companion to the ABRSM's Complete Pianoforte Sonatas edition - edited by...

The concept of subjectivity is one of the most popular in recent scholarly accounts of music; it is also one of the obscurest and most ill-defined. Multifaceted and hard to pin down, subjectivity nevertheless serves an important, if not indispensable...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781495014819Author Kazimierz SerockiFormat PaperbackPage Count 16Imprint Hal Leonard CorporationPublisher Hal Leonard CorporationWeight(grams)...

When Twin Peaks debuted on the ABC network on the night of April 8, 1990, thirty-five million viewers tuned in to some of the most unusual television of their lives. Centered on an eccentric, coffee-loving FBI agent's investigation into the murder of a...

Learn to play the cello with popular pieces - lessons and sheet music for beginners The Abracadabra approach to learning through songs and tunes has set countless beginners on a clear path of progress and enjoyment with their chosen instrument...