Filter By
Books (1647)
- Book
- Qty in Cart
- Quantity
- Price
- Subtotal
-
A History of the Trombone by David M. Guion
RRP: $141.90Booksplease Price: $120.14A History of the Trombone, the first title in the new series American Wind Band, is a comprehensive account of the development of the trombone from its initial form as a 14th-century Medieval trumpet... -
The Functional Unity of the Singing Voice by Barbara M. Doscher
RRP: $91.59Booksplease Price: $88.30An understanding of how the singing voice functions should be a prerequisite for all those who wish to teach singing. And fundamental to any safe and efficient teaching method is the recognition that... -
Roller Skating for Gold by David H. Lewis
Booksplease Price: $113.62Given the popularity of all types of skating-on the ice, on the boards, and on the streets-why isn't roller skating an Olympic event? Author David H. Lewis sought out people involved in every aspect... -
Sherlock Holmes on the Stage: A Chronological Encyclopedia of Plays Featuring the Great Detective by Amnon Kabatchnik 9780810861251
Booksplease Price: $123.18One of the world's most well known fictional characters, Sherlock Holmes first appeared in print in 1887. The detective was featured in four novels and 56 short stories written by his creator, Sir... -
Act Like It's Your Business: Branding and Marketing Strategies for Actors by Jonathan Flom 9780810891586
Booksplease Price: $92.30Many actors treat their profession as a purely artistic endeavor, rarely conceding that there is more to making a living than simply showing up on stage or in front of a camera. By refusing to... -
The World's Best Thin Books, Revised: What to Read When Your Book Report is Due Tomorrow by Joni Richards Bodart 9781578860074
Booksplease Price: $34.33The book report is due and panic sets in. A THIN book is the ticket. But perhaps a THINNER book? Or the THINNEST book of all? And how to pick one (quickly) that will be interesting? Students,... -
Monty Python's Flying Circus: An Utterly Complete, Thoroughly Unillustrated, Absolutely Unauthorized Guide to Possibly All the References by Darl Larsen 9780810861312
Booksplease Price: $112.93In 1969, the BBC aired the first episode of a new comedy series titled Monty Python's Flying Circus, and the rest, as they say, is history. An instant success, the show ran until 1974, producing a... -
Peaceful Peoples: An Annotated Bibliography by Bruce D. Bonta 9780810827851
Booksplease Price: $97.79Peaceful peoples are societies that have developed harmonious social structures which allow them to get along with each other, and with outsiders, without violence. Most of these peoples foster a... -
A Conductor's Guide to the Choral-Orchestral Works of J. S. Bach by Jonathan D. Green 9780810837331
Booksplease Price: $124.21This is the third volume in an on-going series of books surveying the choral-orchestral repertoire. In this study, Green reviews Bach's entire oeuvre, including the more than two hundred works that... -
Reed Instruments: The Montagu Collection: An Annotated Catalogue by Jeremy Montagu 9780810839380
Booksplease Price: $111.49The Montagu Collection, of worldwide coverage and all types of instruments, began to take shape in the early 1960s when what had been a small and very random collection was then rapidly expanded to... -
Screening Science: Contexts, Texts, and Science in Fifties Science Fiction Film by Errol Vieth 9780810840232
Booksplease Price: $123.56Screening Science removes the science fiction genre from considerations of monsters and aliens, to an examination of humans and their relationship with science, technology and change. The book is... -
The Songs of Septimus Winner by Michael K. Remson 9780810847491
Booksplease Price: $78.74The Songs of Septimus Winner is a testament to a man with an extraordinarily unusual career in music. Most modern-day readers may have never heard of Septimus Winner or Alice Hawthorne. But the music... -
Singing: The First Art by Dan H. Marek 9780810857117
Booksplease Price: $132.24The Italian singing technique Bel Canto instructs, "He who knows how to breathe and how to pronounce, knows how to sing." Singing: The First Art incorporates the techniques of Bel Canto along with... -
Stress Relief: The Ultimate Teen Guide by Mark Powell 9780810858060
Booksplease Price: $20.91Today's teens are dealing with adult issues and problems that previous generations did not encounter. With little power to control or to affect outcomes, many teens feel overwhelmed, making stress... -
Slavery, Secession, and Civil War: Views from the UK and Europe, 1856-1865 by Charles Adams 9780810858633
Booksplease Price: $105.48Noted historian Charles Adams has assembled an extraordinary collection of articles-never before collected and made available for easy study-written by foreign journalists at the time of the U.S... -
Historical Dictionary of Modern Greece by Dimitris Keridis 9780810859982
Booksplease Price: $144.65Located on the southern-most tip of the Balkan peninsula in Europe's southeast, Greece is a small country of some 11 million people. And while few people have a longer history than the Greeks, Modern... -
Child Composers and Their Works: A Historical Survey by Barry Cooper 9780810869110
Booksplease Price: $117.89In Child Composers and Their Works: A Historical Survey, Barry Cooper examines over 100 composers born before 1900 who wrote substantial musical works before age 16. The book provides a general... -
International Students and Academic Libraries: A Survey of Issues and Annotated Bibliography by Diane E. Peters 9780810874299
Booksplease Price: $104.14The growing emphasis on globalization in the context of higher education has resulted in changes in academic curricula, increasing numbers of global partnerships, and in more concentrated efforts to... -
A History of American Movies: A Film-by-Film Look at the Art, Craft, and Business of Cinema by Paul Monaco 9780810874336
Booksplease Price: $130.86In A History of American Movies: A Film-by-Film Look at the Art, Craft and Business of Cinema, Paul Monaco provides a survey of the narrative feature film from the 1920s to the present. The book... -
Who Did It First?: Great Rhythm and Blues Cover Songs and Their Original Artists by Bob Leszczak 9780810888661
Booksplease Price: $60.69"Everybody has to start somewhere. Businessmen start on the ground floor and try to work their way up the corporate ladder. Baseball players bide their time in the minor leagues wishing for an... -
The Jerome Kern Encyclopedia by Thomas S. Hischak 9780810891678
Booksplease Price: $130.86Jerome Kern (1885-1945) is considered one of the most versatile and influential of all American theatre and film composers. His pioneer work in developing a truly American musical sound inspired many... -
Street Lit: Representing the Urban Landscape by Keenan Norris 9780810892620
Booksplease Price: $59.71Over the last few decades, the genre of urban fiction-or street lit-has become increasingly popular as more novels secure a place on bestseller lists that were once the domain of mainstream authors... -
Choral Performance: A Guide to Historical Practice by Steven E. Plank 9780810851412
Booksplease Price: $58.44This guide presents a detailed discussion of various aspects of historical performance practice, especially as they relate to liturgical polyphony of the Renaissance. The author considers such issues... -
A Guide to Research in Music Education by Roger P. Phelps 9780810852402
Booksplease Price: $97.79This Fifth Edition presents an updated and practical approach to the research concepts, techniques, and sources from the 4th edition. A new chapter concerning music and technology covers the current... -
Historical Dictionary of Iran by John H. Lorentz 9780810853300
Booksplease Price: $123.57Iran is a country with a deep and complex history. Over several thousand years, Iran has been the source of numerous creative contributions to the spiritual and literary world, and the site of many... -
B. Traven: A Bibliography by Edward Treverton 9780810836105
Booksplease Price: $116.84One of the most mysterious of authors, B. Traven spent his early life in Germany as an actor and anarchist publisher using the name of Ret Marut, then emerged in Mexico as B. Traven, a literary... -
My Only Great Passion: The Life and Films of Carl Th. Dreyer by Jean Drum 9780810836792
Booksplease Price: $97.79In an industry that celebrates extravagance and showmanship, Danish film director Carl Th. Dreyer was a rarity, a man who guarded his privacy fiercely and believed that film provided a way to... -
Maurice Durufle, 1902-1986: The Last Impressionist by Ronald Ebrecht 9780810843516
Booksplease Price: $117.89Maurice Durufle (1902-1986) is best known as composer of the hauntingly beautiful and moving Requiem of 1947, and as organist during his long tenure at the church of Saint-Etienne-du-Mont in Paris... -
Queen Kelly: The Complete Screenplay by Erich von Stroheim by Bret Wood 9780810843929
Booksplease Price: $110.27A rare and fascinating view into the creative process of one of the most notorious, talented and colorful figures of American cinema. When production began in 1928, writer/director Erich von Stroheim... -
Nicknames and Sobriquets of U.S. Cities, States, and Counties by Joseph Nathan Kane 9780810847040
Booksplease Price: $105.48From Scrapple City to City of Little Wedding Churches, this listing includes almost 12,500 official and unofficial nicknames and sobriquets of American states, cities, towns, and counties.About the... -
Administration of the Public Library by Alice Gertzog 9780810847569
Booksplease Price: $132.24Now available in paperback! The Administrative of the Public Library is a comprehensive approach to contemporary public library concerns. It combines theory and practical advice as it addresses in a... -
Dizzy Gillespie: The Bebop Years 1937-1952: Ken Vail's Jazz Itineraries 1 by Ken Vail 9780810848801
Booksplease Price: $71.48The Jazz Itineraries series, a new format based on Ken Vail's successful Jazz Diaries, charts the careers of famous jazz musicians, listing club and concert appearances with details of recording... -
Multiracial America: A Resource Guide on the History and Literature of Interracial Issues by Karen Downing 9780810851993
Booksplease Price: $78.74Multiracial America addresses a growing interest in interracial people and relationships in America. Over the past decade, there have been numerous books and articles written on interracial issues... -
Evangelical Hospitality: Catechetical Evangelism in the Early Church and its Recovery for Today by Tory K. Baucum 9780810858411
Booksplease Price: $85.89Christian faith is always a leap. When the leap takes particularly long in a society the Church has characteristically shortened that leap through a process approach to winning seekers known as... -
Musicologia: Musical Knowledge from Plato to John Cage by Robin Maconie 9780810876965
Booksplease Price: $105.48In Musicologia-meaning "musical reasoning" as distinct from a mere love of music-author and composer Robin Maconie takes aim against the fashionable misconception that music is empty of meaning, or... -
The Comedy of Charlie Chaplin: Artistry in Motion by Dan Kamin 9780810877801
Booksplease Price: $59.78From his early shorts in the 1910s through his final film in 1967, Charlie Chaplin's genius embraced many arts: mime, dance, acting, music, writing, and directing. The Comedy of Charlie Chaplin:... -
A Year of Hitchcock: 52 Weeks with the Master of Suspense by Jim McDevitt 9780810881396
Booksplease Price: $21.30Alfred Hitchcock's career spanned more than five decades, during which he directed more than 50 films, many of them indisputable classics: Notorious, Strangers on a Train, Rear Window, Vertigo, North... -
The Collected Drama of H. L. Mencken: Plays and Criticism by S. T. Joshi 9780810883697
Booksplease Price: $104.14Throughout his career as a literary critic, H. L. Mencken was intent on elevating the bold, the daring, and the innovative over the hackneyed, the trite, and the superficial, and his drama criticism... -
Building a Better Chinese Collection for the Library of Congress: Selected Writings by Chi Wang 9780810885486
Booksplease Price: $123.18In this collection of essays written by the former head of the Library of Congress Chinese Collection, Chi Wang chronicles the modest beginnings of the Chinese Collection at the Library of Congress... -
Dictionary of Music Education by Irma H. Collins 9780810886513
Booksplease Price: $124.68Irma Collins's Dictionary of Music Education is more than just a lexicon. It is a journey through time and the story of the evolution of music education, including entries on notable individuals,...