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Film Music in the Sound Era: A Research and Information Guide, Volume 1: Histories, Theories, and Genres Jonathan Rhodes Lee 9780815392385
RRP: $167.70Booksplease Price: $154.98Film Music in the Sound Era: A Research and Information Guide offers a comprehensive bibliography of scholarship on music in sound film (1927-2017). Thematically organized sections cover historical studies, studies of musicians and filmmakers, genre... -
Repeated Takes: A Short History of Recording and Its Effects on Music by Professor Michael Chanan
Booksplease Price: $29.62Repeated Takes is the first general book on the history of the recording industry, covering the entire field from Edison's talking tin foil of 1877 to the age of the compact disc.Michael Chanan considers the record as a radically new type of commodity... -
The Oxford Handbook of Social Justice in Music Education by Cathy Benedict 9780190886639
RRP: $56.10Booksplease Price: $50.74Music education has historically had a tense relationship with social justice. One the one hand, educators concerned with music practices have long preoccupied themselves with ideas of open participation and the potentially transformative capacity that... -
The Everything Essential Music Theory Book: A Guide to the Fundamentals of Reading, Writing, and Understanding Music by Marc Schonbrun 9781440583391
Booksplease Price: $15.67Master musical skills quickly and easily!From classical music to new age, hard rock, and pop, music has always played an important role in everyday life. Whether you're an intermediate musician or an aspiring music major, The Everything Essential Music... -
Inside Llewyn Davis by Joel Coen
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.63Inside Llewyn Davis chronicles a struggling young folk singer, played by Oscar Isaacs, who arrives in Manhattan in 1961 and tries to navigate the treacherous waters of the the Greenwich Village coffeehouse scene, as well as having to deal with a... -
The Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock and Roll: Completely Revised and Updated by Patricia Romanowski 9780743201209
Booksplease Price: $46.08The story of rock and roll from the one-hit wonders to the megastars, this photo-laden work shows how rock has developed.Book InformationISBN 9780743201209Author Patricia RomanowskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 1114Imprint Simon & Schuster LtdPublisher... -
Leonard Bernstein by Paul R. Laird 9781780239101
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $15.87Leonard Bernstein was one of twentieth-century music's most successful and recognizable figures. In a career spanning five decades he conducted many of the world's leading orchestras, and composed scores for landmark musicals such as Candide and West... -
Quick How to Read Music by Jake Jackson
RRP: $9.02Booksplease Price: $7.15A new compact format from best-selling music author Jake Jackson. A clear, simple, direct solution for anyone learning any instrument, particularly the guitar or keyboard, and for those needing a quick reminder. Great for beginners and intermediate... -
101 Albums that Changed Popular Music by Chris R. Smith 9780195373714
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $21.75Chris Smith's 101 Albums That Changed Popular Music tells the fascinating stories behind the most groundbreaking, influential, and often controversial albums ever recorded, ranging from The Anthology of American Folk Music (1952) to Elephant (2003) by... -
The Oxford Handbook of Community Music by Lee Higgins 9780197554371
RRP: $60.62Booksplease Price: $55.02Community music as a field of practice, pedagogy, and research has come of age. The past decade has witnessed an exponential growth in practices, courses, programs, and research in communities and classrooms, and within the organizations dedicated to the... -
The Oxford Handbook of Timbre by Emily I. Dolan
RRP: $180.60Booksplease Price: $143.53Despite its importance as a central feature of musical sounds, timbre has rarely stood in the limelight. First defined in the eighteenth century, denigrated during the nineteenth, the concept of timbre came into its own during the twentieth century and... -
Jazz Arranging and Composing Bill Dobbins 9783892210061
RRP: $52.88Booksplease Price: $44.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783892210061Author Bill DobbinsPage Count 999Imprint advance music GmbHPublisher advance music GmbH -
The Bloomsbury Handbook of Sonic Methodologies by Michael Bull 9781501393501
Booksplease Price: $56.45The field of Sound Studies has changed and developed dramatically over the last two decades involving a vast and dizzying array of work produced by those working in the arts, social sciences and sciences. The study of sound is inherently... -
Secret History Of Rock 'n' Roll: The Mysterious Roots of Modern Music by Christopher Knowles 9781573444057
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $20.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781573444057Author Christopher KnowlesFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Viva EditionsPublisher Viva EditionsWeight(grams) 1g -
Contemporary Cat: Terence Blanchard with Special Guests by Anthony Magro 9780810843233
Booksplease Price: $85.99A fascinating look into the new generation of jazz legends, Contemporary Cat is a welcome addition to Scarecrow Press's Studies in Jazz Series. Living legend Terence Blanchard's life and work are thoroughly examined through interviews with his... -
Aural Skills Acquisition: The Development of Listening, Reading, and Performing Skills in College-Level Musicians by Gary S. Karpinski 9780195117851
RRP: $116.10Booksplease Price: $85.42This book is about thinking in music. Music listeners who understand what they hear are thinking in music. Music readers who understand and visualize what they read are thinking in music. This book investigates the various ways musicians acquire those... -
Black Sabbath Faq: All That's Left to Know on the First Name in Metal by Martin Popoff 9780879309572
Booksplease Price: $21.30Unlike any Sabbath book thus far EBlack Sabbath FAQE digs deep into quirks obscure anecdotes and burning questions surrounding the Sabs. In a fast-moving topical format this book covers a tremendous amount of information delectable to any Sabbath... -
100 Greatest Film Scores by Matt Lawson 9781538103678
Booksplease Price: $70.41The background music on a film can make or break the audience experience. Imagine the shower scene in Psycho without the shrieking violins or Jaws without the ominous notes that portend the shark's attack! Musical accompaniment helps create atmosphere... -
Pickups, Windings and Magnets: ... and the Guitar Became Electric by Mario Milan 9781574242096
RRP: $37.40Booksplease Price: $27.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781574242096Author Mario MilanPage Count 174Imprint Centerstream PublishingPublisher Centerstream Publishing -
Disciplining Music: Musicology and Its Canons by Katherine Bergeron
Booksplease Price: $41.67Confronting a topic that has sparked considerable debate in recent years: how do musicians and music scholars "discipline" music in their efforts to confer order and meaning on it?, this collection of essays addresses this issue by formulating questions... -
Sing Us One of the Old Songs: A Guide to Popular Song, 1860-1920 by Michael Kilgarriff 9780198166573
Booksplease Price: $70.03Michael Kilgarriff's compilation of some 20,000 popular song titles, 1860-1920, provides for the first time in one volume answers to the questions which excite Music Hall and popular song enthusiasts more than anything in life: who wrote what and when,... -
Music Research: A Handbook by Laurie Sampsel
RRP: $116.09Booksplease Price: $109.69Concise and practical, Music Research introduces students to the major print and electronic research tools available to them. This unique handbook does not aim to provide an exhaustive introduction to the subject; rather, it is highly selective and... -
And the Band Begins to Play. the Definitive Guide to the Songs of the Beatles by Steve Lambley 9789491868009
RRP: $42.57Booksplease Price: $35.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789491868009Author Steve LambleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 612Imprint Slide BooksPublisher Slide BooksWeight(grams) 1397gDimensions(mm) 279mm * 216mm * 31mm -
Writing about Music: A Style Sheet by D. Kern Holoman
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $27.41Where do you place the hyphen in "Beethoven" if it breaks between two lines? How do you cite John Coltrane's album A Love Supreme? Is it "premiere" or "premiere"? The answers and much more can be found in this definitive resource for authors, students,... -
A Performer's Guide to Medieval Music by Ross W. Duffin
RRP: $39.99Booksplease Price: $35.36This is an excellent reference volume including essays on all aspects of medieval music performance. With forty essays written by experts in the field on everything from repertoire, voices and instruments to basic theory, all aspects of recreation are... -
Musical Terms, Symbols and Theory: An Illustrated Dictionary by Michael C. Thomsett 9780786467570
RRP: $28.37Booksplease Price: $26.02Noted lexicographer Thomsett here dissects over 1,400 terms, a buttula to zither, with his acclaimed clarity and precision (""definitely recommended"" said Library Journal of his Investment and Securities Dictionary); 383 high quality original... -
100 Things Beatles Fans Should Know and do Before They Die by Gillian G. Gaar 9781600787997
RRP: $19.29Booksplease Price: $17.16Few music groups have been able to sustain a fan base over half a century that is as significant and devoted as those of the Beatles, and this entertaining guide to all things Fab Four rewards those fans with everything they need to know about the band... -
Encyclopedia of Louisiana Musicians: Jazz, Blues, Cajun, Creole, Zydeco, Swamp Pop, and Gospel by Gene Tomko 9780807169322
RRP: $51.60Booksplease Price: $44.14Louisiana's unique multicultural history has led to the development of more styles of American music than anywhere else in the country. Encyclopedia of Louisiana Musicians compiles over 1,600 native creators, performers, and recorders of the state's... -
The Ultimate Keyboard Scale Chart by Hal Leonard Corp 9780634014420
RRP: $5.81Booksplease Price: $5.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780634014420Page Count 8Imprint Hal Leonard CorporationPublisher Hal Leonard Corporation -
Music and the Paranormal: An Encyclopedic Dictionary by Melvyn J Willin 9781476685984
RRP: $41.27Booksplease Price: $36.49Exploring the paranormal through musical phenomena, this encyclopedia covers a range of anomalies, from musical mediumship to locations throughout the world where music has been heard with no obvious source. Other manifestations, such as the abilities... -
Victory Over the Sun by Aleksei Eliseevich Kruchenykh 9780946311194
RRP: $41.28Booksplease Price: $31.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780946311194Author Mikhail MatiushinFormat PaperbackPage Count 364Imprint Artists BookworksPublisher Artists Bookworks -
Music for the Movies by Tony Thomas 9781879505377
RRP: $27.08Booksplease Price: $19.34Film music fans have eagerly awaited this fully updated and greatly expanded edition of Tony Thomas's popular history of Hollywood film music (from the thirties through the nineties) as viewed through portraits of many of its foremost practitioners.Book... -
Charlie Watts' Favorite Drummers by Chet Falzerano 9781574243383
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $21.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781574243383Author Chet FalzeranoFormat PaperbackPage Count 211Imprint Centerstream PublishingPublisher Centerstream PublishingWeight(grams)... -
The Harvard Concise Dictionary of Music and Musicians by Don Michael Randel
Booksplease Price: $31.58This new compact guide to the history and performance of music is both authoritative and a pleasure to use. With entries drawn and condensed from the widely acclaimed The New Harvard Dictionary of Music and its companion The Harvard Biographical... -
HowExpert Guide to Music Festivals: 101 Tips to Survive, Thrive, and Have the Most Epic Music Festival Experience by Lydia Endel 9781648914621
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $21.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781648914621Author Lydia EndelFormat PaperbackPage Count 122Imprint Hot MethodsPublisher Hot MethodsWeight(grams) 141gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 7mm -
50 Laws of Music Production & Engineering: Get the most from your home recording and production by Tony M Dofat 9780578190693
RRP: $12.85Booksplease Price: $9.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578190693Author Tony M DofatFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Tdc Group Inc.Publisher Tdc Group Inc.Weight(grams) 159gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *... -
Intervallic Ear Training for Musicians: Book & 2 CDs by Steve Prosser 9783892211075
RRP: $39.98Booksplease Price: $35.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783892211075Author Steve ProsserPage Count 999Imprint advance music GmbHPublisher advance music GmbH -
Mannerisms: The Five Phases of Manfred Mann by Greg Russo 9780998355085
RRP: $42.56Booksplease Price: $32.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998355085Author Greg RussoFormat PaperbackPage Count 422Imprint CrossFire Pub.Publisher CrossFire Pub.Weight(grams) 921gDimensions(mm) 273mm * 210mm *... -
American Opera Singers and Their Recordings: Critical Commentaries and Discographies by Clyde T. McCants 9780786419524
RRP: $69.65Booksplease Price: $58.66This book focuses on American opera singers and what their recordings say about their artistry. It is not a book about all American opera singers, since many who had important careers on stage, made few, if any, recordings. And many of those who did make... -
Musically Engaged Seniors: 40 Session Plans and Resources for a Vibrant Music Therapy Program by Meredith Faith Hamons Mt-Bc
RRP: $36.11Booksplease Price: $30.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615896281Author Meredith Faith Hamons Mt-BcFormat PaperbackPage Count 130Imprint Whelk & Waters PublishingPublisher Whelk & Waters...