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Classical Seattle: Maestros, Impresarios, Virtuosi, and Other Music Makers by Melinda Bargreen 9780295742779
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £24.14The past 50 years have seen a tremendous arts boom in Seattle, which has given the city not only internationally recognized classical music institutions but also great performance halls to showcase... -
Notes for Violists: A Guide to the Repertoire by David M. Bynog
RRP: £122.50Booksplease Price: £113.44Notes for Violists: A Guide to the Repertoire offers historical and analytical information about thirty-five of the best-known pieces for the instrument, making it an essential resource for... -
Classical Seattle: Maestros, Impresarios, Virtuosi, and Other Music Makers by Melinda Bargreen
RRP: £48.95Booksplease Price: £44.96The past 50 years have seen a tremendous arts boom in Seattle, which has given the city not only internationally recognized classical music institutions but also great performance halls to showcase... -
Leo Ornstein: Modernist Dilemmas, Personal Choices by Michael Broyles
Booksplease Price: £39.92Leo Ornstein: Modernist Dilemmas, Personal Choices traces the meteoric rise and heretofore inexplicable disappearance of the Russian-American, futurist-anarchist, pianist-composer from his arrival in... -
Notes for Violists: A Guide to the Repertoire by David M. Bynog 9780190916114
Booksplease Price: £27.88Notes for Violists: A Guide to the Repertoire offers historical and analytical information about thirty-five of the best-known pieces for the instrument, making it an essential resource for... -
Jean-Luc Persecuted by C.F. Ramuz
RRP: £14.00Booksplease Price: £9.96Jean-Luc Persecuted follows the ill-fated life of an unhappily married man. When Jean-Luc's wife pursues an affair and leaves him with their child, Jean-Luc's behavior becomes more and more erratic... -
Victory Over the Sun: The World's First Futurist Opera by Rosamund Bartlett 9780859898393
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £75.50The Futurist opera Victory over the Sun, first staged in 1913 in St Petersburg, was a key event of the Russian avant-garde, notorious for its libretto, its unconventional score and its pioneering... -
The Great Orchestrator: Arthur Judson and American Arts Management by James M. Doering
RRP: £46.00Booksplease Price: £38.63This biography charts the career and legacy of the pioneering American music manager Arthur Judson (1881-1975), who rose to prominence in Philadelphia and New York at the beginning of the twentieth... -
Visionary Ayahuasca: A Manual for Therapeutic and Spiritual Journeys by Jan Kounen 9781620553459
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.06Since 1999 Jan Kounen has regularly traveled to the Peruvian Amazon to participate in ayahuasca ceremonies. At first only a curious filmmaker, over multiple trips he transformed from explorer to... -
Balanchine and Kirstein's American Enterprise by James Steichen 9780190607418
RRP: £36.49Booksplease Price: £30.04In 1933 choreographer George Balanchine and impresario Lincoln Kirstein embarked on an elusive quest to found a ballet company and school in the United States. Though their efforts would eventually... -
Notes for Clarinetists: A Guide to the Repertoire by Albert Rice 9780190205218
RRP: £36.49Booksplease Price: £27.21Notes for Clarinetists: A Guide to the Repertoire offers important historical and analytical information about thirty-five of the best-known pieces written for the instrument. Numerous contextual and... -
Didion & Babitz Lili Anolik 9781805463924
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.38'This book is magic. It's all I ever needed' LENA DUNHAMEve Babitz died on December 17, 2021. Found in the wrack, ruin and filth of her apartment, a stack of boxes packed by her mother decades before... -
Warren Zevon: Desperado of Los Angeles by George Plasketes 9781442234567
Booksplease Price: £51.71Warren 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... -
Neoclassical Music in America: Voices of Clarity and Restraint by R. James Tobin 9780810884397
Booksplease Price: £71.85From the 1920s to the 1950s, neoclassicism was one of the dominant movements in American music. Today this music is largely in eclipse, mostly absent in performance and even from accounts of music... -
The People's Tongue: Americans and the English Language by Ilan Stavans
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £17.75A riveting, one-of-a-kind anthology of the diversity, strangeness, and power of American English that features a tremendous array of letters, poems, memoir, jeremiads, stories, songs, documents, and... -
Didion & Babitz Lili Anolik 9781805463948
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95A TOP 12 BOOK OF THE YEAR PICK IN THE TIMES AND SUNDAY TIMESTHE BELLETRIST BOOK CLUB PICK FOR NOVEMBER 2024'This book is magic. It's all I ever needed' LENA DUNHAMEve Babitz died on December 17, 2021... -
When Paris Sizzled: The 1920s Paris of Hemingway, Chanel, Cocteau, Cole Porter, Josephine Baker, and Their Friends by Mary McAuliffe 9781538121801
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £14.98When Paris Sizzled vividly portrays the City of Light during the fabulous 1920s, les Annees folles, when Parisians emerged from the horrors of war to find that a new world greeted them-one that... -
When Paris Sizzled: The 1920s Paris of Hemingway, Chanel, Cocteau, Cole Porter, Josephine Baker, and Their Friends by Mary McAuliffe 9781442253322
Booksplease Price: £38.04When Paris Sizzled vividly portrays the City of Light during the fabulous 1920s, les Annees folles, when Parisians emerged from the horrors of war to find that a new world greeted them-one that... -
The Propaganda of Freedom: JFK, Shostakovich, Stravinsky, and the Cultural Cold War by Joseph Horowitz 9780252045271
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £24.26The perils of equating notions of freedom with artistic vitality Eloquently extolled by President John F. Kennedy, the idea that only artists in free societies can produce great art became a bedrock... -
Self-Portrait of Percy Grainger by Malcolm Gillies 9780195305371
Booksplease Price: £105.27Shortly before his death, Percy Grainger (1882-1961) lodged over twenty unpublished sketches in his Australian Museum. Self-Portrait of Percy Grainger draws exclusively from these sketches, revealing... -
Warren Zevon and Philosophy: Beyond Reptile Wisdom by John E. MacKinnon 9781637700280
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £13.18Warren Zevon and Philosophy is a collection of chapters on Zevon's life and music, authored by philosophers who are also Zevon fans, providing new and exciting insights into Zevon's thinking, his... -
Anthology for Musical Analysis, International Edition by Charles Burkhart 9781111837754
RRP: £88.99Booksplease Price: £86.52A 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... -
Centre and Periphery, Roots and Exile: Interpreting the Music of Istvan Anhalt, Gyoergy Kurtag, and Sandor Veress by Friedemann Sallis 9781554585823
RRP: £34.00Booksplease Price: £29.26This book examines the impact place and displacement can have on the composition and interpretation of Western art music, using as its primary objects of study the work of Istvan Anhalt (1919-2012),...