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Latin Poetry and Its Reception: Essays for Susanna Braund by C. W. Marshall 9780367552725
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69This volume offers 18 new studies reflecting the latest scholarship on Latin verse, explored both in its original context and in subsequent contexts as it has been translated and re-imagined. All... -
The Last Opera: <I>The Rake's Progress</I> in the Life of Stravinsky and Sung Drama by Chandler Carter 9780253041586
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.61From the fall of 1947 through the summer of 1951 composer Igor Stravinsky and poet W. H. Auden collaborated on the opera The Rake's Progress. At the time, their self-consciously conventional work... -
Stravinsky's Ballets by Charles M. Joseph 9780300118728
Booksplease Price: £30.73Igor Stravinsky, a towering composer of the twentieth century, was closely linked to dance. His early commissions for Diaghilev's Ballets Russes-The Firebird, Petrouchka, and The Rite of Spring-put... -
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The Ocean Liner by Marius Gabriel 9781477805145 [USED COPY]
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £2.53As war engulfs Europe, 1,500 passengers risk everything to find a brighter future. Cousins Masha and Rachel Morgenstern board the luxury liner the SS Manhattan bound for New York, desperate to... -
Toward a Cognitive Theory of Narrative Acts by Frederick Luis Aldama 9780292721579
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £30.21Toward a Cognitive Theory of Narrative Acts brings together in one volume cutting-edge research that turns to recent findings in cognitive and neurobiological sciences, psychology, linguistics,... -
Warren Zevon: Desperado of Los Angeles by George Plasketes 9780810895560
Booksplease Price: £33.49Warren Zevon was one of the most original songwriters to emerge from the prolific 1970s Los Angeles music scene. Beyond his most familiar song—the rollicking 1978 hit “Werewolves of London”—Zevon’s... -
The Ocean Liner by Marius Gabriel 9781477805145
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.72As war engulfs Europe, 1,500 passengers risk everything to find a brighter future. Cousins Masha and Rachel Morgenstern board the luxury liner the SS Manhattan bound for New York, desperate to... -
The Last Opera: <I>The Rake's Progress</I> in the Life of Stravinsky and Sung Drama by Chandler Carter
RRP: £84.00Booksplease Price: £68.32From the fall of 1947 through the summer of 1951 composer Igor Stravinsky and poet W. H. Auden collaborated on the opera The Rake's Progress. At the time, their self-consciously conventional work... -
A Conductor's Guide to Choral-Orchestral Works, Twentieth Century: Part II: The Music of Rachmaninov through Penderecki by Jonathan D. Green 9780810833760
Booksplease Price: £85.65This innovative survey of large choral-orchestral works is a continuation of the author's previous study of twentieth century works with English texts. Green examines nearly one hundred works, from... -
Other Planets: The Complete Works of Karlheinz Stockhausen 1950-2007 by Robin Maconie 9781442272675
Booksplease Price: £61.92German composer Karlheinz Stockhausen was arguably the most influential figure of the European postwar avant-garde and unquestionably the most elusive and enigmatic musical thinker of a generation... -
Nicholas Roerich: The Artist Who Would Be King by John McCannon 9780822947417
RRP: £40.95Booksplease Price: £37.26Russian painter, explorer, and mystic Nicholas Roerich (1874-1947) ranks as one of the twentieth century's great enigmas. Despite mystery and scandal, he left a deep, if understudied, cultural... -
Growing up with Legends: A Literary Memoir by Thomas E. Wright 9780275960506
Booksplease Price: £76.81In this evocative and engaging memoir, Thomas Wright recalls, with eloquence, frankness, and humor, a man coming to terms with his homosexuality and seeking his happiness in ignorant and repressive... -
Russian Music at Home and Abroad: New Essays by Richard Taruskin 9780520288089
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £63.59This new collection views Russian music through the Greek triad of "the Good, the True, and the Beautiful" to investigate how the idea of "nation" embeds itself in the public discourse about music... -
Russian Music at Home and Abroad: New Essays by Richard Taruskin 9780520288096
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.51This new collection views Russian music through the Greek triad of "the Good, the True, and the Beautiful" to investigate how the idea of "nation" embeds itself in the public discourse about music... -
Claude Debussy's Clair de Lune by Gurminder Kaur Bhogal
Booksplease Price: £18.30Debussy himself had little regard for Clair de Lune, and scholars have thus far followed suit--until now. Claude Debussy's Clair de Lune is the first book wholly dedicated to an historical, cultural,... -
Musical Illuminations of Genesis Narratives by Helen Leneman 9780567688811
Booksplease Price: £36.44This volume examines the stories of Genesis in music, showing how musical settings can illuminate many of the Bible's most noted tales. Helen Leneman studies oratorios, operas and songs (as well as... -
The Beloved Vision: Music in the Romantic Age by Professor Stephen Walsh 9780571356959
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.84Everyone loves romantic music: the sweet melody of a Schubert song, the heroine dying for love in an Italian opera, the swooning orchestration of a Tchaikovsky symphony. But as Stephen Walsh - author... -
Stravinsky and the Russian Period: Sound and Legacy of a Musical Idiom by Pieter C. van den Toorn 9781107021006
Booksplease Price: £66.27Van den Toorn and McGinness take a fresh look at the dynamics of Stravinsky's musical style from a variety of analytical, critical and aesthetic angles. Starting with processes of juxtaposition and... -
Perfect Pitch, Third Revised Edition: An Autobiography by Nicolas Slonimsky 9781438491639
RRP: £72.50Booksplease Price: £69.61The autobiography of one of the 20th century's most innovative and wittiest composers/performers/authors who witnessed the birth of modern music.Perfect Pitch tells the compelling story of Nicolas... -
The Essential Guide to Flex 2 with ActionScript 3.0 by Charles Brown 9781590597330
RRP: £39.49Booksplease Price: £32.78Flex 2 represents something of a revolution in web applications. It is the next evolutionary step of Flash, which has grown from a web animation tool to a powerful enterprise web design and... -
Conversations with Joseph Flummerfelt: Thoughts on Conducting, Music, and Musicians by Donald Nally 9780810869769
Booksplease Price: £61.62In Conversations with Joseph Flummerfelt: Thoughts on Conducting, Music, and Musicians, Donald Nally presents a window into the mind and heart of one of America's most celebrated and distinguished... -
The Apollonian Clockwork: On Stravinsky by Louis Andriessen 9789053568569
RRP: £68.99Booksplease Price: £63.49'I think my music deserves to be considered as a whole', Igor Stravinsky remarked at the end of a long and restless career, and that is exactly what the authors of The Apollonian Clockwork do. In... -
Fireworks MX 2004 Zero to Hero by Charles E. Brown
RRP: £27.49Booksplease Price: £24.60Macromedia's Fireworks MX 2004 enables you to design, optimize, and add basic interactivity to your graphics. It is mainly used for designing and optimizing web graphics, then exporting them to... -
Teaching Stravinsky: Nadia Boulanger and the Consecration of a Modernist Icon by Kimberly A. Francis 9780199373697
Booksplease Price: £60.70In 1929 Nadia Boulanger accepted Igor Stravinsky's younger son, Soulima, as her student. Within two years, Stravinsky and Boulanger merged their artistic spheres, each influencing and enhancing the... -
My Orchestras and Other Adventures: The Memoirs of Boyd Neel by J David Finch 9781487579227
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £22.44Trained as a surgeon, renowned as a conductor, Boyd Neel led a life rich in innovation, achievement, and enthusiasm. He reminisces about that life in this volume, and the ebullience, wit, charm, and... -
Ida Rubinstein: Revolutionary Dancer, Actress, and Impresario by Judith Chazin-Bennahum 9781438487977
RRP: £72.27Booksplease Price: £69.61The critical biography of a dynamic and under-represented figure who produced and starred in some of the most innovative works of her day.Ida Rubinstein (1883-1960) captivated Paris's dancers,... -
Ida Rubinstein: Revolutionary Dancer, Actress, and Impresario by Judith Chazin-Bennahum 9781438487984
Booksplease Price: £26.07The critical biography of a dynamic and under-represented figure who produced and starred in some of the most innovative works of her day.Ida Rubinstein (1883-1960) captivated Paris's dancers,... -
The Musical Legacy of Wartime France by Leslie A. Sprout 9780520275300
RRP: £71.00Booksplease Price: £64.42For the three forces competing for political authority in France during World War II, music became the site of a cultural battle that reflected the war itself. German occupying authorities promoted... -
Hollywood's Eve: Eve Babitz and the Secret History of L.A. by Lili Anolik 9781471190247
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40The goddaughter of Igor Stravinsky and a graduate of Hollywood High, Eve Babitz posed in 1963, at age twenty, playing chess with the French artist Marcel Duchamp. She was naked; he was not. The... -
The Complete Works of W. H. Auden: Libretti and Other Dramatic Writings, 1939-1973 by W. H. Auden
RRP: £92.00Booksplease Price: £75.51W. H. Auden called opera the "last refuge of the High Style," and considered it the one art in which the grand manner survived the ironic levelings of modernity. He began writing libretti soon after... -
Fireworks MX Zero to Hero by Charles E. Brown 9781590592038
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £22.92Fireworks MX Zero To Hero is intended for the majority of readers who don't need to be told when to jump, or ask how high. If you're new to Fireworks MX, this book will provide you with a fast... -
Modernism After the Ballets Russes: Movement in the British Theatre Gabriela Minden 9780198951674
RRP: £77.00Booksplease Price: £70.68Serge Diaghilev's Ballets Russes holds a renowned position in the history of modernism across various arts. The company's daring productions brought together leading artists working in diverse fields... -
Art as Music, Music as Poetry, Poetry as Art, from Whistler to Stravinsky and Beyond Peter Dayan 9781138276253
RRP: £59.99Booksplease Price: £55.84In 1877, Ruskin accused Whistler of 'flinging a pot of paint in the public's face'. Was he right? After all, Whistler always denied that the true function of art was to represent anything. If a... -
Seven Guitars by August Wilson 9780452276925
Booksplease Price: £8.99Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Fences and The Piano LessonWinner of the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best PlayIt is the spring of 1948. In the still cool evenings of Pittsburgh's Hill... -
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... -
The Essential Guide to Flex 3 by Charles E. Brown 9781590599501
RRP: £43.49Booksplease Price: £36.54Flex 3 is the next generation of a technology that revolutionized web applications. It is the next evolutionary step of Flash, which has grown from a web animation medium to a powerful enterprise web... -
I Sang the Unsingable: My Life in Twentieth-Century Music Bethany Beardslee 9781580469005
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £35.10Memoir of Bethany Beardslee, the iconic American soprano known as the "composer's singer." American soprano Bethany Beardslee rose to prominence in the postwar years when the modernist... -
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... -
Building Blocks: Repetition and Continuity in the Music of Stravinsky by Gretchen Horlacher 9780195370867
Booksplease Price: £90.87A pioneer of musical modernism, Igor Stravinsky marked a significant turn in compositional method. He broke free from traditional styles and contemporary trends in the early part of the twentieth... -
Details of Consequence: Ornament, Music, and Art in Paris by Gurminder Kaur Bhogal 9780199795055
Booksplease Price: £95.20Details of Consequence examines a trait that is taken for granted and rarely investigated in fin-de-siecle French music: ornamental extravagance. Considering why such composers as Claude Debussy,...