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Ned Rorem Reader by Ned Rorem 9780300089844
Booksplease Price: £54.04Ned Rorem, composer and writer, is both a gifted memoirist and one of our most acerbic cultural commentators. This anthology of his musings on music, people, and life surveys the full range of his... -
The Later Diaries Of Ned Rorem: 1961-1972 by Ned Rorem 9780306809644
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.54Ned Rorem is celebrated as one of America's greatest living composers. His diary of his early years, The Paris Diary and the New York Diary , was widely acclaimed. The Later Diaries continues one... -
Piano Album II by Ned Rorem 9781423484622
RRP: £29.50Booksplease Price: £21.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781423484622Author Ned RoremPage Count 168Imprint Hal Leonard CorporationPublisher Hal Leonard... -
Piano Album II by Ned Rorem 9781423449546
RRP: £17.50Booksplease Price: £12.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781423449546Author Ned RoremPage Count 42Imprint Hal Leonard CorporationPublisher Hal Leonard... -
Lies: A Diary 1986-1999 by Ned Rorem 9780306811067
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.77This latest installment of Ned Rorem's diary opens in 1986, when the author is sixty-two, and closes in 1999, when he is seventy-five. Though Rorem remains as energetic as ever during these years,new... -
Ned Rorem: A Bio-Bibliography by Arlys L. McDonald 9780313255656
Booksplease Price: £66.89As a composer and as an author, Ned Rorem occupies a position of considerable influence and importance in American music. His numerous musical works are performed frequently, and his critical... -
Aftermath: For Medium Voice, Violin and Violoncello by Ned Rorem 9781476805573
RRP: £36.50Booksplease Price: £21.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476805573Author Ned RoremPage Count 48Imprint Hal Leonard CorporationPublisher Hal Leonard... -
Our Town: An Opera in Three Acts by Ned Rorem 9781480370241
RRP: £66.50Booksplease Price: £41.74Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781480370241Author Ned RoremPage Count 239Imprint Hal Leonard CorporationPublisher Hal Leonard... -
The Paris Diary & The New York Diary 1951-1961 by Ned Rorem 9780306808388
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.47When The Paris Diary exploded on the scene in 1966 there had never been a book in English quite like it: Its intimate combination of personal, literary, and social insights was unprecedented... -
Professors Are from Mars (R), Students Are from Snickers (R): How to Write and Deliver Humor in the Classroom and in Professional Presentations Ronald A. Berk 9781579220709
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £26.38Professors and students seem to come from different planets (or candy bars). Barriers frequently exist that impede their communication, such as age, income and cholesterol level.Humor can break down... -
Virgil Thomson: A Reader: Selected Writings, 1924-1984 by Richard Kostelanetz 9781138986763
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £47.80This essential reader includes Thomson's essays on making a living as a musician; his articles on classic composers; his relation to his contemporaries; his articles on newcomers in the music world,... -
Duet with the Past: A Composer's Memoir by Daron Hagen 9781476677378
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £19.59The first musical memoir to chronicle the world of the final generation of American composers mentored by America's great 20th century masters. Hagen traces his transit from selfish young Midwestern... -
Margaret Bonds: The Montgomery Variations and Du Bois Credo by John Michael Cooper 9781316511763
RRP: £65.00Booksplease Price: £59.58In her lifetime, African American composer Margaret Bonds was classical music's most intrepid social-justice activist. Furthermore, her Montgomery Variations (1964) and setting of W.E.B. Du Bois's... -
The Poetic Music of Wallace Stevens by Bart Eeckhout 9783031070341
RRP: £109.99Booksplease Price: £102.20Wallace Stevens’s musicality is so profound that scholars have only begun to grasp his ties to the art of music or the music of his own poetry. In this study, two long-time specialists present a... -
The American Wind Symphony Commissioning Project: A Descriptive Catalog of Published Editions 1957-1991 by Jeffrey H. Renshaw 9780313281464
Booksplease Price: £66.89The American Wind Symphony Editions comprises the more than 150 works commissioned by Robert Austin Boudreau for the American Waterways Wind Orchestra and published by the C. F. Peters Corporation... -
The Poetic Music of Wallace Stevens by Bart Eeckhout 9783031070310
RRP: £109.99Booksplease Price: £102.20Wallace Stevens's musicality is so profound that scholars have only begun to grasp his ties to the art of music or the music of his own poetry. In this study, two long-time specialists present a... -
Gabriel Fauré: Influences and Influence James William Sobaskie 9781837651658
RRP: £130.00Booksplease Price: £110.72Presents Faure not as a solitary figure, but part of a vibrant continuum of nineteenth- and twentieth-century composers and the first member of a French musical 'trinity', with Debussy and Ravel. ... -
Deep Gossip by Henry Abelove
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £14.34Henry Abelove, literary critic, astute historian, and pioneer in queer studies, offers interdisciplinary views on the connections between politics, culture, and sexuality. Deep Gossip addresses the... -
Music with Words: A Composers View by Virgil Thomson 9780300209815
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £27.34In this practical, stylish, and authoritative book, one of America's most influential musical figures reveals how he learned to compose music for English poetry and prose. Illustrated with numerous... -
Margaret Bonds: The Montgomery Variations and Du Bois Credo by John Michael Cooper 9781009054577
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £13.82In her lifetime, African American composer Margaret Bonds was classical music's most intrepid social-justice activist. Furthermore, her Montgomery Variations (1964) and setting of W.E.B. Du Bois's... -
Poets of the Civil War: (American Poets Project #15) by J. D. McClatchy 9781931082761
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £12.88Writers on both sides of the American Civil War "brought to the crisis" (in editor J. D. McClatchys' words) "poetry's unique ability to stir the emotions, to freeze the moment, to sweep the scene... -
Thornton Wilder: The Eighth Day, Theophilus North, Autobiographical Writings (LOA #224) by Thornton Wilder 9781598531466
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £22.68"The best thing he ever wrote," observed Edmund Wilson of Thornton Wilder's National Book Award winner The Eighth Day (1967), an enthralling novel that shows Wilder revisiting the small-town... -
Harvesting Darkness: New Poems 2019-2023 by Robin Morgan 9781925950830
RRP: £13.95Booksplease Price: £9.43Robin Morgan's latest collection is a tour-de force: poetry that thrills the intellect and stirs the emotions. Robin shares her joys and intimacies which take centre stage and laments 'the... -
The Older the Fiddle, the Better the Tune: The Joys of Reaching a Certain Age by Willard Scott 9780786890392
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.52A humorous and touching look at the joys of getting older,introduced by one of the Today show's beloved weathermen. Willard Scott is famous for celebrating the wit and wisdom of age. In The Older the... -
Making Your Own Days: The Pleasures of Reading and Writing Poetry by Kenneth Koch 9780684824383
RRP: £27.50Booksplease Price: £13.03From one of the most esteemed American poets of the twenty-first century comes a celebration of poetry and an invitation for anyone to experience its beauty and wonder.Full of fresh and exciting... -
Margaret Bonds John Michael Cooper 9780197659038
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £24.05Composer, pianist, teacher, and social-justice activist Margaret Bonds fought against racism, sexism, and economic injustice throughout her career, amassing a portfolio of social-justice compositions... -
Nicolas Nabokov: A Life in Freedom and Music by Vincent Giroud 9780199399895
RRP: £42.49Booksplease Price: £36.25Composer and cultural official Nicolas Nabokov (1903-78) led an unusual life even for a composer who was also a high-level diplomat. Nabokov was for nearly three decades an outstanding and... -
Thornton Wilder: Collected Plays & Writings on Theater (LOA #172) by Thornton Wilder
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £25.63Collected Plays and Writings on Theater, the most comprehensive one-volume edition of Thornton Wilder's work for the stage ever published, takes the measure of his extraordinary career as a dramatist... -
Sophocles, 2: King Oedipus, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone by David R. Slavitt
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36The Penn Greek Drama Series presents original literary translations of the entire corpus of classical Greek drama: tragedies, comedies, and satyr plays. It is the only contemporary series of all the... -
The Ballad of John Latouche: An American Lyricist's Life and Work by Howard Pollack 9780190458294
RRP: £38.49Booksplease Price: £31.34Born into a poor Virginian family, John Treville Latouche (1914-56), in his short life, made a profound mark on America's musical theater as a lyricist, book writer, and librettist. The wit and skill... -
Marc Blitzstein: His Life, His Work, His World by Howard Pollack 9780190280239
RRP: £33.49Booksplease Price: £31.64A composer and lyricist of enormous innovation and influence, Marc Blitzstein remains one of the most versatile and fascinating figures in the history of American music, his creative output running...