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Rethinking Britten by Philip Rupprecht 9780199794812
Booksplease Price: £61.52Rethinking Britten offers a fresh portrait of one of the most widely performed composers of the 20th century. In twelve essays, a diverse group of contributors-both established authorities and... -
Decomposition: Post-Disciplinary Performance by Sue-Ellen Case
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £15.90The fluid nature of performance studies and the widening embrace of the idea of performativity has produced in Decomposition: Post-Disciplinary Performance a collection of great interest that crosses... -
A Conductor's Guide to Choral-Orchestral Works: Part I by Jonathan D. Green 9780810847200
Booksplease Price: £65.96Now in paperback. This innovative survey of large choral-orchestral works written between 1900 and 1972 and containing some English text examines eighty-nine works, from Elgar's Dream of Gerontius to... -
Thomas Mann`s Death in Venice - A Novella and Its Critics by Ellis Shookman
Booksplease Price: £109.33Thomas Mann's 1912 novella Death in Venice is one of the most famous and widely read texts in all of modern literature, raising such issues as beauty and decadence, eros and irony, and aesthetics and... -
Parcel Arrived Safely: Tied with String by Michael Crawford
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15By turns hilarious, revelatory and desperately sad, here is the autobiography of the man whose TV and stage appearances such as Hello Dolly!, Some Mothers Do `Ave 'Em and The Phantom of the Opera... -
The Aldeburgh Scallop by Maggi Hambling
RRP: £12.50Booksplease Price: £9.31EADT "Reader's Choice" winner, The New Angle Prize for Literature 2011"Scallop is at once a monument to a great musician-composer and a celebration of the origins of his art... A robust and poetic... -
The Cambridge Companion to Film Music by Mervyn Cooke 9781107094512
Booksplease Price: £48.09This wide-ranging and thought-provoking collection of specially-commissioned essays provides a uniquely comprehensive overview of the many and various ways in which music functions in film... -
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Parcel Arrived Safely: Tied with String by Michael Crawford 9780099406419 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £2.85By turns hilarious, revelatory and desperately sad, here is the autobiography of the man whose TV and stage appearances such as Hello Dolly!, Some Mothers Do `Ave 'Em and The Phantom of the Opera... -
The Cambridge Companion to Film Music by Mervyn Cooke
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £27.39This wide-ranging and thought-provoking collection of specially-commissioned essays provides a uniquely comprehensive overview of the many and various ways in which music functions in film... -
Naked Ambition: 100 Pictures of the Present Crisis Kaya Mar 9781785905957
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £13.80Attentive observers of the past ten years of British politics may not have heard of Kaya Mar, but chances are they will have seen one of his pictures - at a rally, or in an agency photograph... -
Summer Songbook: Seasonal Verses, Poems and Songs for Children, Parents and Teachers. An Anthology for Family, School, Festivals and Fun! by Sally Schweizer 9781855845473
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £11.84This treasure trove of an anthology is full to the brim with songs and seasonal verses that will delight children and encourage them to sing and play. Illustrated throughout with colour images, the... -
Through the Lens of Janet Stone: Portraits, 1953-1979 Ian Archie Beck 9781851242597
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £18.30Janet Stone's photograph albums feature informal portraits from the mid-twentieth century of many of the leading cultural figures and personalities of the day. The wife of the distinguished engraver... -
Ben and Imo by Mark Ravenhill 9781350471603
Booksplease Price: £12.52The 1953 Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II is fast approaching. To mark the occasion, Benjamin Britten has just nine months to write a new opera about her predecessor Elizabeth I. Into the world of... -
The World of Wes Anderson Johan Chiaramonte 9783791393414
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.77Welcome to the Wes Anderson museum-a place packed with illustrations, ephemera, trivia, and insightful commentary, and as whimsical and visually arresting as the cult director's films themselves. ... -
Lives of Houses by Hermione Lee 9780691193663
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £17.35A group of notable writers-including UK poet laureate Simon Armitage, Julian Barnes, Margaret MacMillan, and Jenny Uglow-celebrate our fascination with the houses of famous literary figures, artists,... -
Revealing Masks: Exotic Influences and Ritualized Performance in Modernist Music Theater by William Anthony Sheppard 9780520223028
RRP: £53.00Booksplease Price: £47.95W. Anthony Sheppard considers a wide-ranging constellation of important musical works in this fascinating exploration of ritualized performance in twentieth-century music. "Revealing Masks" uncovers... -
England Resounding: Elgar, Vaughan Williams, Britten and the English Musical Renaissance by Keith Alldritt
RRP: £19.95Booksplease Price: £15.52The spectacular revival of serious music in England is a chief feature of the history of British culture from the turn of the twentieth century and after. For some two centuries the art form had... -
Britten David Matthews 9781914979545
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.59UPDATED SECOND EDITION Benjamin Britten (1913-1976) is celebrated for revitalising English opera and is recognised as one of the outstanding British composers of the 20th century. Growing up in a... -
The Hollywood Film Music Reader Mervyn Cooke (Professor of Music, Professor of Music, University of Nottingham) 9780195331196
Booksplease Price: £59.84A rich and informative look at the experiences of composers working under high pressure in the US film industry, The Hollywood Film Music Reader brings readers from film's earliest days to the modern... -
The Making of Peter Grimes: Essays Paul Banks 9780851157917
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £25.02Historic accounts and new material illuminate the creation, early history and artistic intentions of Britten's first opera. The premiere of Peter Grimes on 7 June 1945 announced the emergence of... -
Winter Songbook: Seasonal Verses, Poems and Songs for Children, Parents and Teachers. An Anthology for Family, School, Festivals and Fun! by Sally Schweizer 9781855845527
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £11.84This treasure trove of an anthology is full to the brim with songs and seasonal verses that will delight children and encourage them to sing and play. Illustrated throughout with colour images, the... -
Britten’s Donne, Hardy and Blake Songs: Cyclic Design and Meaning by Gordon Cameron Sly
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £75.20Presents a first analytical study that looks at the overarching designs of Benjamin Britten's John Donne, Thomas Hardy and William Blake solo song cycles. By questioning when a group of songs... -
Forward: 100 Years of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra by Richard Bratby
Booksplease Price: £18.78Over a century of history, the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra has taken different names and forms. It has weathered war, recession and social change, evolving from a part-time municipal... -
Autumn Songbook: Seasonal Verses, Poems and Songs for Children, Parents and Teachers. An Anthology for Family, School, Festivals and Fun! by Sally Schweizer 9781855845510
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £11.84This treasure trove of an anthology is full to the brim with songs and seasonal verses that will delight children and encourage them to sing and play. Illustrated throughout with colour images, the... -
The Habit of Art by Alan Bennett 9780571255610
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Auden often said that metre and rhyme led him down unexpected paths to thoughts he wouldn't otherwise have had, and in this respect versification and fornication are not so different. Benjamin... -
Who Was Cousin Alice? and Other Questions by John Matthias 9781848611689
RRP: £16.95Booksplease Price: £16.06Who Was Cousin Alice? & Other Questions attempts to answer both the first question posed in the title about American poet John Matthias' early family memories, and then to raise and engage, in a... -
Refugee Countess: The Five Lives of Marion Stein by Janet Tennant 9781836281795
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.78Marion Stein, a Viennese half-Jewish child escapes from Nazi persecution with her musical family to London. Proving to be a talented musician, she is set for a professional career as a concert... -
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Mr Majeika and the Music Teacher by Humphrey Carpenter 9780140321418 [USED COPY]
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £1.97'Music teacher? What music teacher?'The sudden arrival of a new music teacher throws St barty's School into confusion. Mysterious smells start coming from the staffroom and creepy-crawlies appear out... -
Mr Majeika and the School Inspector by Humphrey Carpenter
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £5.83'Use of magic by teacher strictly forbidden.'Poor Mr Majeika goes to the bottom of the class when the school inspector comes to call. Things don't get any easier when Mr Majeika turns himself into a... -
Mr Majeika on the Internet by Humphrey Carpenter
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.24Class Three has got a new computer and while exploring it, Mr Majeika manages to get the whole class trapped in the school website. Many adventures follow and Class Three meet bizarre characters... -
100 People You Never Knew Were at Bletchley Park by Sinclair McKay 9781838405120
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £9.75The reason for the huge commercial success of Sinclair McKay's The Secret Life of Bletchley Park was simple: for the first time it told the stories of the ordinary people (mostly women), who worked... -
Britten's Musical Language by Philip Rupprecht 9780521031035
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £27.99Blending insights from linguistic and social theories of speech, ritual and narrative with music-analytic and historical criticism, Britten's Musical Language offers interesting perspectives on the... -
Gustav Mahler: The Early Years by Donald Mitchell 9781843830023
RRP: £32.99Booksplease Price: £29.40Without an understanding of the conflicts of Mahler's youth one cannot truly appreciate the impulses behind the major symphonies and song cycles of his later years. Available again for a new... -
Mr Majeika and the Music Teacher by Humphrey Carpenter
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £5.83'Music teacher? What music teacher?'The sudden arrival of a new music teacher throws St barty's School into confusion. Mysterious smells start coming from the staffroom and creepy-crawlies appear out... -
Mr Majeika and the School Trip by Humphrey Carpenter
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £5.83More amazing adventures with Mr Majeika, the ex-wizard, turned teacher, and his class at St Barty's School. This time there's a trip down a magic river, a battle to save St Barty's from the wrecking... -
Suffolk Places Behind the Faces by John Ling 9781398116160
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.68Throughout Suffolk's history, important national figures have played a role in the county. This book explores locations around the county linked with historical figures and major events, from the... -
The Elmhirsts of Dartington by Michael Young
RRP: £36.99Booksplease Price: £35.44Dorothy and Leonard Elmhirst were the founders of Dartington - she the daughter of an American millionaire who was once Secretary to the US Navy; he the son of a Yorkshire parson and secretary to... -
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Mr Majeika and the School Trip by Humphrey Carpenter 9780141303352 [USED COPY]
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £1.98More amazing adventures with Mr Majeika, the ex-wizard, turned teacher, and his class at St Barty's School. This time there's a trip down a magic river, a battle to save St Barty's from the wrecking... -
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Mr Majeika on the Internet by Humphrey Carpenter 9780141310107 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £1.87Class Three has got a new computer and while exploring it, Mr Majeika manages to get the whole class trapped in the school website. Many adventures follow and Class Three meet bizarre characters... -
The Republic of Love: Opera and Political Freedom Martha C. Nussbaum 9780197812556
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £21.24A major work of scholarship by world-renowned, prize-winning philosopher Martha C. Nussbaum, The Republic of Love reveals opera as a profound form of political thought--and an often-overlooked force...