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How to Write About Music: Excerpts from the 33 1/3 Series, Magazines, Books and Blogs with Advice from Industry-leading Writers by Marc Woodworth
Booksplease Price: £38.03If writing about music is like dancing about architecture, you'd do best to hone your chops and avoid cliches (like the one that begins this sentence) by learning from the prime movers. How to Write... -
Beethoven Variations: Poems on a Life by Ruth Padel
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £10.12From the author of the bestselling Darwin: A Life in Poems, Ruth Padel's new collection follows in the footsteps of one of the world's greatest composers, Beethoven, and investigates what his life... -
DUNE: The Graphic Novel, Book 2: Muad'Dib: Deluxe Collector's Edition by Brian Herbert
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £20.75The second of three volumes of the graphic novel adaptation of Dune, the groundbreaking science fiction classic by Frank Herbert, offering a prescient look into our galactic future-now in a deluxe... -
Perfecting Sound Forever: The Story Of Recorded Music by Greg Milner 9781783784561
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23From our CD collections to iPods bursting with MP3s to the hallowed vinyl of DJs, recordings are the most common way we experience music. Perfecting Sound Forever tells the story of recorded music,... -
Off the Record: Performing Practices in Romantic Piano Playing by Neal Peres da Costa
RRP: £79.00Booksplease Price: £68.73Off the Record is a revealing exploration of piano performing practices of the high Romantic era. Author and well-known pianist Neal Peres Da Costa bases his investigation on a range of early sound... -
The Simpsons Futurama Crossover Crisis by Matt Groening 9780810988378
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £20.60What would happen if the Planet Express crew and the citizens of New York City in the 31st Century met the Simpsons and the citizens of Springfield . . . and how is it even possible? Prepare yourself... -
Music`s Modern Muse - A Life of Winnaretta Singer, Princesse de Polignac by Sylvia Kahan 9781580463331
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £23.83A biography of Winnaretta Singer-Polignac, heiress to the Singer Sewing Machine fortune, who befriended and subsidized some of the most important musical and literary artists of the 20th Century,... -
Industry: Bang on a Can and New Music in the Marketplace by William Robin
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £27.09Amidst the heated fray of the Culture Wars emerged a scrappy festival in downtown New York City called Bang on a Can. Presenting eclectic, irreverent marathons of experimental music in crumbling... -
Sleeping in Temples by Susan Tomes 9781843839750
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.22Highly acclaimed author Susan Tomes takes up various topics of perennial interest: how music awakens and even creates memories, what 'interpretation' really means, what effect daily practice has on... -
Lines of Descent: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Emergence of Identity by Kwame Anthony Appiah 9780674724914
RRP: £35.95Booksplease Price: £30.26W. E. B. Du Bois never felt so at home as when he was a student at the University of Berlin. But Du Bois was also American to his core, scarred but not crippled by the racial humiliations of his... -
House Concert by I Levit
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.89Igor Levit ranks among the greatest pianists of his generation, described by The New York Times as 'one of the essential artists of our time'. But his influence reaches far beyond music: he uses his... -
All the Beauty in the World: A Museum Guard’s Adventures in Life, Loss and Art by Patrick Bringley 9781529924596
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.46**THE SUNDAY TIMES ART BOOK OF THE YEAR****A Financial Times Best Book of 2023**A revelatory portrait of a great museum and the moving story of one guard's quest to find solace and meaning in art'Who... -
Bob Dylan: Mixing Up the Medicine Mark Davidson 9781734537796
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £55.20BOB DYLAN: MIXING UP THE MEDICINE is an unprecedented glimpse into the creative life of one of America's most groundbreaking, influential and enduring artists. 'If there is anything new to be... -
The Life of Music: New Adventures in the Western Classical Tradition by Nicholas Kenyon
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £10.86Nicholas 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... -
Schoenberg's New World by Sabine Feisst
RRP: £37.99Booksplease Price: £32.74The first full-length study dedicated to Schoenberg's life and music in the United States, Schoenberg's New World dispels many myths and fills significant gaps in the existing literature on... -
Super Hero’s Journey by Patrick McDonnell 9781419769108
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £16.21The second book in Abrams' Marvel Arts line, featuring the work of beloved Mutts creator Patrick McDonnell and the greatest super heroes of the Marvel Universe "The miracle is not to fly in the air,... -
The Karl Muck Scandal: Classical Music and Xenophobia in World War I America Melissa D Burrage 9781648251283
RRP: £34.99Booksplease Price: £30.95The demonization, internment, and deportation of celebrated Boston Symphony Orchestra conductor Dr. Karl Muck, finally told, and placed in the context of World War I anti-German sentiment in the... -
Beethoven: A Life in Nine Pieces by Laura Tunbridge
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95**WINNER of Presto Books' Best Composer Biography**NINE WORKS OF BEETHOVEN, NINE WINDOWS INTO THE LIFE AND LEGACY OF A MUSICAL GENIUS. 'We are doubly blessed that Beethoven should have led such an... -
Cleanness by Garth Greenwell 9781509874637
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50Cleanness revisits and expands the world of Garth Greenwell's beloved debut, What Belongs to You, declared 'an instant classic' by the New York Times Book Review. In exacting, elegant prose,... -
Wagner's Melodies: Aesthetics and Materialism in German Musical Identity by David Trippett 9781316618233
RRP: £44.00Booksplease Price: £43.05Since the 1840s, critics have lambasted Wagner for lacking the ability to compose melody. But for him, melody was fundamental - 'music's only form'. This incongruity testifies to the surprising... -
Wagner and the Erotic Impulse by Laurence Dreyfus
RRP: £26.95Booksplease Price: £23.28Though his image is tarnished today by unrepentant anti-Semitism, Richard Wagner (1813-1883) was better known in the nineteenth century for his provocative musical eroticism. In this illuminating... -
Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties by Mike Davis 9781839761225
Booksplease Price: £47.56Histories of the US sixties invariably focus on New York City, but Los Angeles was an epicenter of that decade's political and social earthquake. L.A. was a launchpad for Black Power-where Malcolm X... -
Nietzsche's Great Politics by Hugo Drochon 9780691180694
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.21"A superb case of deep intellectual renewal and the most important book to have been written about [Nietzsche] in the past few years."-Gavin Jacobson, New StatesmanNietzsche's impact on the world of... -
After the Golden Age: Romantic Pianism and Modern Performance by Kenneth Hamilton 9780195178265
Booksplease Price: £39.38Kenneth Hamilton's book engagingly and lucidly dissects the oft-invoked myth of a Great Tradition, or Golden Age of Pianism. It is written both for players and for members of their audiences by a... -
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde 9780674057920
RRP: £45.95Booksplease Price: £38.75The Picture of Dorian Gray altered the way Victorians understood the world they inhabited. It heralded the end of a repressive Victorianism, and after its publication, literature had-in the words of... -
Celine Dion Let's Talk About Love by Carl Wilson
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.54This book is a riveting investigation of what it means to love music and what it means to hate music, both of good and bad taste.Non-fans regard Celine Dion as ersatz and plastic, yet to those who... -
How To Be Gay by David M. Halperin 9780674283992
RRP: £21.95Booksplease Price: £19.15No one raises an eyebrow if you suggest that a guy who arranges his furniture just so, rolls his eyes in exaggerated disbelief, likes techno music or show tunes, and knows all of Bette Davis's best...