Appreciation

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780786880256Author Fred PlotkinFormat PaperbackPage Count 494Imprint HyperionPublisher HyperionWeight(grams) 567g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593081662Author Victor L. WootenFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Bantam Dell Publishing Group, Div of Random House, IncPublisher Random House USA Inc

Music therapy is growing internationally to be one of the leading evidence-based psychosocial allied health professions, meeting needs right across the lifespan. Music therapy is a relational therapy in which the therapist and client collaborate to...

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Nicholas Kenyon explores the enduring appeal of the classical canon at a moment when we can access all music-across time and cultures"Nicholas Kenyon is an amiable and enthusiastic guide to a thousand years of classical music."-Neil Fisher, The Times"A...

'One of the finest accounts of the mysterious workings of grief I have ever read.' Helen MacdonaldI tore the arse of my pyjamas one morning, about a year before he died, and my father sewed it up perfect in a few minutes, just like that. I was looking at...

The guitarist and composer Pat Metheny ranks among the most popular and innovative jazz musicians of all time. In Pat Metheny: The ECM Years, 1975-1984, Mervyn Cooke offers the first in-depth account of Metheny's early creative period, during which he...

Ian Bradley's Complete Annotated Gilbert and Sullivan has established itself across the world as the authorized and definitive 'Bible' for all those interested in the Savoy operas. Originally published in two Penguin paperbacks in the 1980's, a...

In the swinging 1960s, after nearly a century of colonisation, Cambodia had gained its independence and was ready to rock. Young musicians from the countryside flocked to the vibrant cosmopolitan capital city of Phnom Penh. Teenagers cycled along the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556523724Author Irwin ChusidFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint A Cappella BooksPublisher A Cappella BooksWeight(grams) 476g

With style wit and expertise Leonard Bernstein shares his love and appreciation for music in all its varied forms in EThe Infinite Variety of MusicE illuminating the deep pleasure and sometimes subtle beauty it offers. He begins with an imaginary...

Originally published in 2003, the revised and updated third edition of The Songwriting Sourcebook is the third entry in Rikky Rooksby's bestselling How to Write Songs series. This easy-to-use book will help you write better songs by explaining the art of...

The second edition of The Oxford Handbook of Music Psychology updates the original landmark text and provides a comprehensive review of the latest developments in this fast-growing area of research. Covering both experimental and theoretical...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780380782093Author Robert JourdainFormat PaperbackPage Count 394Imprint Avon BooksPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc

Contemporary popular musics such as hip hop, techno, grime, EDM, drill, house and so on are among the most listened to in the world and yet, typically, they are barely covered in the music classroom if at all. This needs to be better reflected in...

'Sharply insightful and vividly imaginative... the perfect Christmas gift for anyone asking: 'How do I get into classical music?'' - Rupert Christiansen, Mail on Sunday'A treat from the very first page... written with style and humour, this is a perfect...

"If You're Feeling Sinister" includes interviews with band members, producers, management, and a range of fans, and provides perspective on how Belle & Sebastian transformed themselves, over the space of a decade, from an underground, slightly shambolic...

Stephen Catanzarite takes a closer look at what many consider to be U2's most fully formed album through the prisms of politics, spirituality, and culture, illuminating its previously unexplored depths. It features interviews with Daniel Lanois, Steve...

Titans of Bass: The Tactics, Habits, and Routines from over 140 of the World's Best reveals the experiences of over 140 of the world's top bassists to help the beginning bassist learn and play their first song. Picking up an instrument for the first time...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781627311243Author Michael TauFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Feral House,U.S.Publisher Feral House,U.S.

Widely considered a classic, Beyond Talent is the "go to" guide for musicians. This newly revised and updated 3rd edition cracks the code of how to build a creatively fulfilling career in music. With key insights into the mindset issues that often plague...

What is it about the music you love that makes you want to hear it again? Why do we crave a "hook" that returns, again and again, within the same piece? And how does a song end up getting stuck in your head? Whether it's a motif repeated...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679728054Author Jan SwaffordFormat PaperbackPage Count 624Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 573gDimensions(mm) 202mm *...

Fifty years since Bruce Springsteen's debut album Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J. brought a new songwriting talent to the public, Bruce Springsteen is long established as one of the giants of popular music. Through a long career of studio and live...

Gustav Mahler (1860-1911) took the symphony, one of the most abstract and tradition-bound genres in Western music, and opened it to the widest (and wildest) span of human experience. He opened it to themes of love, nature, the world's chasmic depth at...

ESomething's Coming Something Good: West Side Story and the American ImaginationE takes a critical comprehensive look at one of the most inventive influential and internationally beloved Broadway musicals of all time a from its inception by a...

Skyhorse Publishing is proud to revive Playing Piano for Pleasure. With the wonderful writing one would expect from a longtime New Yorker reporter, Piano aficionado Charles Cooke, offers concrete routines for improving your piano performance. A pleasant...

Even before the Beatnik Riots of 1961, New York City's Greenwich Village was the epicenter of revolutionary movements in American music and culture. But, in the early 1960s and throughout the decade, a new wave of writers and performers inspired by the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780786691579Author Stanley YatesImprint Mel Bay Publications,U.S.Publisher Mel Bay Publications,U.S.

People around the world and throughout history have used music to express their inner emotions, reach out to the divine, woo lovers, celebrate weddings, inspire political movements, and lull babies to sleep. In "Music as Social Life", Thomas Turino...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812974201Author Wynton MarsalisFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 133gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590308318Author W. A. MathieuFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781557837912Author Robert S. BaderFormat PaperbackPage Count 310Imprint Applause Theatre Book PublishersPublisher Hal Leonard CorporationWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780393332551Author Richard Franko GoldmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint WW Norton & CoPublisher WW Norton & Co

Gorillaz, the biggest animated band in the world, grabbed a Grammy in 2005 for 'Best pop collaboration' and subsequently wowed fans with their stunning 3D performances. Their Brit-nominated album Demon Days went platinum and included the UK top ten hits...

This is a major new work from one of the world's most erudite, intellectual, and influential thinkers and writers about sound and music. "Sinister Resonance" begins with the premise that sound is a haunting, a ghost, a presence whose location is...

Taking a cognitive approach to musical meaning, Arnie Cox explores embodied experiences of hearing music as those that move us both consciously and unconsciously. In this pioneering study that draws on neuroscience and music theory, phenomenology and...

Did Alaska create the music of John Luther Adams, or did the music create his Alaska? For the past thirty years, the vastness of Alaska has swept through the distant reaches of the composer's imagination and every corner of his compositions. In this new...

This innovative book, assembled by the editors of the renowned periodical Terra Nova, is the first anthology published on the subject of music and nature. Lush and evocative, yoking together the simplicities and complexities of the world of natural sound...

The 'IB Music Revision Guide 3rd Edition' includes analyses of all the prescribed works of the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme music course through to 2021. It also includes a comprehensive overview of all the musical styles and cultures...