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Musings: The Musical Worlds Of Gunther Schuller by Gunther Schuller 9780306809026
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.00Musings gathers together the essays, speeches, liner notes, dictionary entries, and magazine articles of Gunther Schuller, one of the most important musical figures of the century. The writings in... -
Musings: The Musical Worlds of Gunther Schuller: A Collection of his Writings by Gunther Schuller 9780195059212
Booksplease Price: £25.63Composer, conductor, educator, jazz critic, and horn virtuoso, Gunther Schuller here brings together his writings on music. There are numerous articles about jazz, dealing with his favourite figures... -
Octet: Score by Gunther Schuller 9780793514854
RRP: £47.50Booksplease Price: £28.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780793514854Author Gunther SchullerPage Count 124Imprint -
The Compleat Conductor by Gunther Schuller 9780195126617
Booksplease Price: £24.96Gunther Schuller is one of America's leading contemporary composers, conductors, and musicologists. He has become increasingly dismayed about the way contemporary orchestra leaders have been ignoring... -
Horn Technique by Gunther Schuller 9780198162773
Booksplease Price: £54.66The first edition of this book was published in 1962 and quickly established itself as the classic guide to all aspects of horn-playing, with chapters on tone-production, exercises, legato and... -
Octet: Set of Parts by Gunther Schuller 9780793514861
RRP: £72.99Booksplease Price: £50.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780793514861Author Gunther SchullerPage Count 41Imprint -
Studies for unaccompanied horn by Gunther Schuller 9780195366129
Booksplease Price: £19.77for horn solo Includes 13 short pieces for horn that help the player master breath support, tonguing, articulations, rapid note-playing, and varying rhythms, all while exploring the range of the... -
Gunther Schuller: A Bio-Bibliography by Norbert Carnovale 9780313250842
Booksplease Price: £66.89Product information not available.Book InformationISBN 9780313250842Author Norbert CarnovaleFormat HardbackPage Count 350Imprint -
Duo Sonata: Score and Parts by Gunther Schuller 9780634013898
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780634013898Author Gunther SchullerPage Count 16Imprint -
Early Jazz: Its Roots and Musical Development by Gunther Schuller
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.88Early Jazz is one of the seminal books on American jazz, ranging from the beginnings of jazz as a distinct musical style at the turn of the century to its first great flowering in the 1930s. Schuller... -
The Swing Era: The Development of Jazz, 1930-1945 by Gunther Schuller 9780195043129
Booksplease Price: £89.96This second volume of Gunther Schuller's comprehensive history of jazz covers the period from the 1930s to the late 1940s, decades which saw the transition from big band swing to the virtuoso bop... -
The Swing Era: The Development of Jazz, 1930-1945 by Gunther Schuller 9780195071405
Booksplease Price: £32.25Taking up where Early Jazz (OPB, #6.95) leaves off, this second volume of Gunther Schuller's history of jazz considers the swing era - the age of dance bands and radio shows. Tracing the origins of... -
Early Jazz: Its Roots and Musical Development by Gunther Schuller 9780195000979
Booksplease Price: £81.11Early Jazz is one of the seminal books on American jazz, ranging from the beginnings of jazz as a distinct musical style at the turn of the century to its first great flowering in the 1930s. Schuller... -
The Power Within Us: For Narrator, Baritone Solo, Chorus and Orchestra. by Gunther Schuller 9781480363151
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £15.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781480363151Author Gunther SchullerPage Count 112Imprint -
The Jazz Barn: Music Inn, the Berkshires, and the Place of Jazz in American Life John Gennari 9781684582853
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £22.02How a small town in New England became a home for jazz, challenging conventional assumptions about the relationship between culture and landscape, art and geography, town and city, and race and place... -
Annual Review of Jazz Studies 1: 1982 by Dan Morgenstern 9780810822955
Booksplease Price: £56.66Features King Oliver, Gunther Schuller, Fats Waller, and black college bands.Book InformationISBN 9780810822955Author Dan MorgensternFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint -
Early Jazz: A Concise Introduction, from Its Beginnings through 1929 by Fumi Tomita 9781438496375
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £23.92Early Jazz is an overview of the beginnings of jazz from its nineteenth-century roots through 1929, when elements of the Swing Era began to emerge. It is the first book on early jazz history in over... -
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... -
Eric Dolphy: A Musical Biography And Discography by Barry Tepperman 9780306805240
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.52In his tragically short life (1928-1964), Eric Dolphy was a titanic force in the development of the sixties avant-garde (or "new thing") from the hard bop of the late fifties. The searing intensity... -
Early Jazz: A Concise Introduction, from Its Beginnings through 1929 by Fumi Tomita 9781438496382
RRP: £72.50Booksplease Price: £69.61A concise history of early jazz, from its major innovators to its unrecognized heroes.Early Jazz is an overview of the beginnings of jazz from its nineteenth-century roots through 1929, when elements... -
Jazz Revolutionary: The Life & Music Of Eric Dolphy Jonathon Grasse 9781916829084
RRP: £16.95Booksplease Price: £12.32Jazz Revolutionary is the first full biography of Eric Dolphy, passionately tracing his creative life from Los Angeles clubs of the late 1940s and 50s, to New York in the early 1960s, and on to... -
Avant-Garde on Record: Musical Responses to Stereos by Jonathan Goldman 9781009363396
Booksplease Price: £89.89An innovative contribution to music history, cultural studies, and sound studies, Avant-garde on Record revisits post-war composers and their technologically oriented brand of musical modernism. It... -
George Gershwin: A Bio-Bibliography by Norbert Carnovale 9780313260032
Booksplease Price: £66.77American composer George Gershwin, an icon of the American Jazz Age, indelibly marked 20th-century music, with many of his works becoming standards in the popular and jazz music repertory, not to... -
Keeping Time: Readings in Jazz History by Robert Walser 9780199765775
Booksplease Price: £116.20Featuring more than seventy thought-provoking selections drawn from contemporary journalism, reviews, program notes, memoirs, interviews, and other sources, Keeping Time: Readings in Jazz History,... -
Jazz in Its Time by Martin Williams 9780195069044
Booksplease Price: £22.73Martin Williams is one of the most perceptive and entertaining jazz critics writing in America today. This collection of pieces on the past, present, and future of the jazz idiom includes profiles of... -
Contemporary Composers On Contemporary Music by Elliott Schwartz 9780306808197
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £16.51This anthology of essays, interviews, and autobiographical pieces provides an invaluable overview of the evolution of contemporary music,from chromaticism, serialism, and indeterminacy to jazz,... -
Supremely American: Popular Song in the 20th Century by Nicholas E. Tawa 9780810852952
Booksplease Price: £65.96This is a study of the way in which popular words and music relate to American life. The question of what popular song was, and why it came into existence, as well as how each song fit within the... -
Keeping Time by Robert Walser 9780195091731
Booksplease Price: £32.75Drawing from contemporary journalism, reviews, program notes, memoirs, interviews, and other sources, Keeping Time lets you experience, first hand, the controversies and critical issues that have... -
Too Marvelous for Words: The Life and Genius of Art Tatum by James Lester 9780195096408
Booksplease Price: £20.99Art Tatum defined the limits of the possible in jazz piano. Gunther Schuller called Tatum's playing "a marvel of perfection.... His deep-in-the-keys full piano sonority, the tone and touch control in... -
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... -
The Oxford Companion to Jazz by Bill Kirchner 9780195183597
RRP: £34.49Booksplease Price: £29.81Jazz and its colorful, expansive history resonate in this unique collection of 60 essays specially-commissioned from today's top jazz performers, writers, and scholars. Contributors include such jazz... -
Mr. Trumpet: The Trials, Tribulations, and Triumph of Bunny Berigan by Michael P. Zirpolo 9780810888746
Booksplease Price: £52.00The life of jazz trumpeter Roland Bernard "Bunny" Berigan (1908-1942) resembles nothing less than an ancient Greek tragedy: a heroic figure who rises from obscurity to dizzying heights, touches...