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Charles Ives in the Mirror: American Histories of an Iconic Composer by David C. Paul
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £32.38American composer Charles Ives (1874-1954) has gone from being a virtual unknown to become one of the most respected and lauded composers in American music. In this sweeping survey of intellectual... -
Carter by David Schiff
RRP: £31.99Booksplease Price: £26.77Elliott Carter (1908-2012) was the foremost composer of classical music in America during the second half of the 20th century. Over the course of a career that spanned seven decades, he consistently... -
Charles Ives in the Mirror: American Histories of an Iconic Composer by David C. Paul 9780252080517
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36American composer Charles Ives (1874-1954) has gone from being a virtual unknown to become one of the most respected and lauded composers in American music. In this sweeping survey of intellectual... -
Nadia Boulanger: A Life in Music by Leonie Rosenstiel 9780393317138
RRP: £23.50Booksplease Price: £21.85Nadia Boulanger's life spanned nearly a century, and at her death she was still director of the American School of Music at Fontainebleau, which she helped found after World War I. Enormously... -
Roger Sessions: A Biography Andrea Olmstead 9780415977142
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £43.38Recognized as the primary American symphonist of the 20th century, Roger Sessions (1896-1985) is one of the leading representatives of high modernism. His stature among American composers rivals... -
Roger Sessions: A Biography by Andrea Olmstead 9780415977135
Booksplease Price: £112.05Recognized as the primary American symphonist of the 20th century, Roger Sessions (1896-1985) is one of the leading representatives of high modernism. His stature among American composers rivals... -
Music and Musical Composition at the American Academy in Rome by Martin Brody
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £91.38Combining cultural analysis with historical and personal accounts of a century of musical life at the American Academy in Rome, this volume provides a history of the AAR's Rome Prize in Composition. ... -
William Schuman: A Bio-Bibliography by K. Gary Adams 9780313273599
Booksplease Price: £56.97William Howard Schuman, a celebrated figure in 20th-century music, was a composer and a copious writer on music and music education. Early on, as a composer, he received the attention of several... -
The Concerto: A Listener's Guide by Michael P. Steinberg 9780195139310
Booksplease Price: £36.60Michael Steinberg's 1996 volume The Symphony: A Reader's Guide received glowing reviews across America. It was hailed as "wonderfully clear...recommended warmly to music lovers on all... -
The Concerto: A Listener's Guide by Michael P. Steinberg 9780195103304
Booksplease Price: £52.94Michael Steinberg's 1996 volume The Symphony: A Reader's Guide received glowing reviews across America. It was hailed as "wonderfully clear...recommended warmly to music lovers on all... -
Nadia and Lili Boulanger Caroline Potter 9781138263512
RRP: £55.99Booksplease Price: £52.44Pioneers in their fields and two of the best-known women in music in the twentieth century, Nadia and Lili Boulanger have previously been considered in isolation from one another. Yet, as Caroline... -
The Classical Style by Charles Rosen
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £15.97'Brilliant and epoch-making.' Times Literary SupplementThe Classical Style is an established classic which has remained in print since its first publication in 1971. With his experience as a... -
Ignition: Beethoven - Reception Documents from the Paul Sacher Foundation by Felix Meyer
RRP: £27.50Booksplease Price: £24.95This book accompanies the Paul Sacher Foundation's exhibition at the Bonn Beethovenhaus. In the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, composers have referred to Beethoven in their music. The volume... -
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The Night Whispers: An unputdownable new thriller with a shocking twist by Caroline Mitchell 9781471415418 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £2.65Detective Sarah Noble investigates a dark case in the town of Slayton.It began with the whispers. In the woods, in the park, and always at night. Then they came into town, down dark alleys, and in... -
The Night Whispers: An unputdownable new thriller with a shocking twist by Caroline Mitchell 9781471415418
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.28Detective Sarah Noble investigates a dark case in the town of Slayton.It began with the whispers. In the woods, in the park, and always at night. Then they came into town, down dark alleys, and in... -
The Modern Brass Ensemble in Twentieth-Century Britain by John Miller
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £81.75The first study of the performance practice, repertoire and context of the modern 'brass ensemble' in the musical world. Whereas the British 'brass band' originated in the nineteenth century and... -
Variations on the Canon - Essays on Music from Bach to Boulez in Honor of Charles Rosen on His Eightieth Birthday by Robert Curry 9781580462853
RRP: £115.00Booksplease Price: £111.92Masterful essays honoring the great pianist and critic Charles Rosen, on masterpieces from Bach and Beethoven to Chopin, Verdi, and Stockhausen. Charles Rosen, the pianist and man of letters, is... -
Analytical Essays on Music by Women Composers: Concert Music, 1960-2000 by Laurel Parsons 9780190665814
Booksplease Price: £41.15Over the past 30 years, musicologists have produced a remarkable new body of research literature focusing on the lives and careers of women composers in their socio-historical contexts. But detailed... -
Music in the Age of Anxiety: American Music in the Fifties by James Wierzbicki
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36Derided for its conformity and consumerism, 1950s America paid a price in anxiety. Prosperity existed under the shadow of a mushroom cloud. Optimism wore a Bucky Beaver smile that masked worry over... -
Pianists and the Music of their Time: Facing the Unknown Zélia Chueke 9781666958096
Booksplease Price: £95.49How to approach or build a sound image from a completely unknown material? What decisions must the interpreter make to bring this image to life? In an attempt to answer these questions, Pianists and... -
Schoenberg's Program Notes and Musical Analyses by J. Daniel Jenkins 9780190866914
Booksplease Price: £49.92In 1950, as Arnold Schoenberg anticipated the publication of a collection of 15 of his most important writings, Style and Idea, he was already at work on a second volume to be called Program Notes... -
Modern Music and After by Paul Griffiths 9780199740505
Booksplease Price: £52.65Over 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... -
The American Piano Concerto Compendium by William Phemister 9781538112335
Booksplease Price: £91.37The second edition of William Phemister's The American Piano Concerto Compendium reveals to professional and amateurs pianists alike a vast collection of available compositions by American composers... -
Vocal Repertoire for the Twenty-First Century, Volume 1: Works Written Before 2000 by Jane Manning 9780199391028
Booksplease Price: £117.72Described as the "life and soul of British contemporary music", Jane Manning is an internationally celebrated English concert and opera soprano. In this new follow-up to her highly regarded New Vocal... -
Vocal Repertoire for the Twenty-First Century, Volume 1: Works Written Before 2000 by Jane Manning
RRP: £30.99Booksplease Price: £29.90Described as the "life and soul of British contemporary music", Jane Manning is an internationally celebrated English concert and opera soprano. In this new follow-up to her highly regarded New Vocal... -
Musical Models of Democracy by Robert Adlington 9780197658819
RRP: £62.00Booksplease Price: £60.87Music's role in animating democracy--whether through protests and demonstrations, as a vehicle for political identity, or as a means of overcoming social divides--is well understood. Yet musicians... -
Terry Riley's in C by Robert Carl 9780195325287
Booksplease Price: £79.81Unquestionably the founding work of minimalism in musical composition, Terry Riley's In C (1964) challenges the standards of imagination, intellect, and musical ingenuity to which "classical" music... -
Vocal Repertoire for the Twenty-First Century, Volume 2: Works Written From 2000 Onwards by Jane Manning
RRP: £37.49Booksplease Price: £34.92Described as the "life and soul of British contemporary music", Jane Manning is an internationally celebrated English concert and opera soprano. In this new follow-up to her highly regarded New Vocal... -
Vocal Repertoire for the Twenty-First Century, Volume 2: Works Written From 2000 Onwards by Jane Manning 9780199390960
Booksplease Price: £112.35Described as the "life and soul of British contemporary music", Jane Manning is an internationally celebrated English concert and opera soprano. In this new follow-up to her highly regarded New Vocal... -
Henry Mancini: Reinventing Film Music by John Caps 9780252036736
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £21.44Through film composer Henry Mancini, mere background music in movies became part of pop culture--an expression of sophistication and wit with a modern sense of cool and a lasting lyricism that has... -
Three Questions for Sixty-Five Composers by Balint Andras Varga 9781580463799
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £39.20Master interviewer Balint Andras Varga poses three probing questions to renowned contemporary composers about their work, and carefully renders their answers in their own words. Do today's... -
Reflections of an American Harpsichordist: Unpublished Memoirs, Essays, and Lectures of Ralph Kirkpatrick Meredith Kirkpatrick (Customer) 9781580465915
RRP: £105.00Booksplease Price: £100.42Presents previously unpublished memoirs (1933-77), lectures, and essays by the eminent harpsichordist and scholar Ralph Kirkpatrick. This collection of unpublished writings by the eminent... -
The Joy of Playing, the Joy of Thinking: Conversations about Art and Performance by Charles Rosen
RRP: £18.95Booksplease Price: £16.51Brilliant, practical, and humorous conversations with one of the twentieth-century's greatest musicologists on art, culture, and the physical pain of playing a difficult passage until one attains its... -
Sounds of War: Music in the United States during World War II by Annegret Fauser 9780199948031
Booksplease Price: £57.99While music and musical life in Nazi Germany, Vichy France, Fascist Italy, and Stalinist Russia have been widely explored, concert music in the United States during World War II has remained markedly... -
Anthology for Musical Analysis, International Edition by Charles Burkhart 9781111837754
Booksplease Price: £92.67A landmark collection of over 200 complete musical compositions and movements, ranging from the Middle Ages to the present, ANTHOLOGY FOR MUSICAL ANALYSIS, International Edition offers first- and...