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Duet by Steve Reich 9781540063502
RRP: £18.50Booksplease Price: £13.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781540063502Author Steve ReichPage Count 31Imprint -
Proverb by Steve Reich 9781495050114
RRP: £19.50Booksplease Price: £13.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781495050114Author Steve ReichPage Count 39Imprint -
Conversations by Steve Reich 9781335449467
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £13.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781335449467Author Steve ReichFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint -
Gavin Bryars by Steve Reich 9780995757486
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £34.80Arguably the most important British post-minimalist composer, Gavin Bryars has worked in classical music, jazz, free improvisation, minimalism, historicism, avant-garde, and experimental music. This... -
Steve Reich - Drumming Part One: Four Pairs of Tuned Bongo Drums by Steve Reich 9781480321632
RRP: £17.50Booksplease Price: £14.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781480321632Author Steve ReichPage Count 28Imprint -
Sextet: Hawkes Pocket Scores by Steve Reich 9781458417527
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £18.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781458417527Author Steve ReichPage Count 83Imprint -
Drumming: Hawkes Pocket Scores by Steve Reich 9781458417558
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £19.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781458417558Author Steve ReichPage Count 79Imprint -
Cello Counterpoint: Version for Cello Octet by Steve Reich 9781495083433
RRP: £19.50Booksplease Price: £13.52Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Cello Counterpoint: Version for Solo Cello and Tape by Steve Reich 9781495083426
RRP: £19.50Booksplease Price: £13.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781495083426Author Steve ReichPage Count 72Imprint -
A Choreographer's Score: Fase, Rosas danst Rosas, Elena's Aria, Bartok by Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £20.48An illustrated and in-depth exploration of four of Rosas's early works, Fase, Rosas danst Rosas, Elena's Aria, and Bartok, through sketches, notes, and photographs Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker is one... -
Minimalist Music George Grella 9798765123447
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.92Minimalist Music looks critically into the music's past, shows how the genre thrives across styles, and points the way toward minimalism's ongoing future.Minimalism as a genre is best defined not... -
Aliens Answer II: Continuing Interviews With Non-Earth Beings by Steven Reichmuth 9780989523110
RRP: £15.95Booksplease Price: £15.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780989523110Author Steven ReichmuthFormat PaperbackPage Count 244Imprint
Everything We Do is Music: How 20th-Century Classical Music Shaped Pop Elizabeth Alker 9780571370177
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.71The worlds of pop and rock owe a much greater debt to the classical canon than we realise. A direct and fascinating lineage draws from the experimentalism of Pierre Henry to The Beatles' 'Tomorrow...
Everything We Do is Music: How 20th-Century Classical Music Shaped Pop by Elizabeth Alker 9780571370184
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.68'Revelation after revelation . . . I love music more for reading it.' Guy Garvey'Alker joins the dots by following myriad musical ley lines. A fascinating journey into sound.' Mark Radcliffe'Reveals...
The Names of Minimalism: Authorship, Art Music, and Historiography in Dispute by Patrick Nickleson
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £24.14Minimalism stands as the key representative of 1960s radicalism in art music histories-but always as a failed project. In The Names of Minimalism, Patrick Nickleson holds in buzzing tension...
The Names of Minimalism: Authorship, Art Music, and Historiography in Dispute by Patrick Nickleson 9780472133284
Booksplease Price: £63.25Minimalism stands as the key representative of 1960s radicalism in art music histories-but always as a failed project. In The Names of Minimalism, Patrick Nickleson holds in buzzing tension...
Contemporary Opera in Flux by Yayoi U Everett 9780472076260
Booksplease Price: £71.25In twelve essays, Contemporary Opera in Flux discusses a series of shifts that, taken together, have radically redefined the production and reception of opera. Focusing on productions involving late...
American Poetry as Transactional Art by Stephen Fredman
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £26.32Explores the ways American poetry engages with visual art, music, fiction, spirituality, and performance art. Many people think of poetry as a hermetic art, as though poets wrote only about...
New Musical Figurations: Anthony Braxton's Cultural Critique by Ronald M. Radano 9780226701950
Booksplease Price: £112.74By relating biography to the cultural and musical contours of contemporary American life, Ronald M. Radano observes jazz practice as part of the complex interweaving of postmodern culture - a culture...
New Musical Figurations: Anthony Braxton's Cultural Critique by Ronald M. Radano 9780226701967
Booksplease Price: £28.55By relating biography to the cultural and musical contours of contemporary American life, Ronald M. Radano observes jazz practice as part of the complex interweaving of postmodern culture - a culture...
New Music, New Allies: American Experimental Music in West Germany from the Zero Hour to Reunification by Amy C. Beal 9780520247550
RRP: £71.00Booksplease Price: £63.44"New Music, New Allies" documents how American experimental music and its practitioners came to prominence in the West German cultural landscape between the end of the Second World War in 1945 and...
Drumming: Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker / Rosas Noe Soulier 9780300253986
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £22.62This book documents more than 20 years of performances of Drumming, a world-renowned dance piece on music by Steve Reich, through beautiful photography. Drumming is a widely admired dance piece...
The Sounds of Place: Music and the American Cultural Landscape by Denise Von Glahn 9780252086076
Booksplease Price: £23.21Composers like Charles Ives, Duke Ellington, Aaron Copland, and Ellen Taaffe Zwilich created works that indelibly commemorated American places. Denise Von Glahn analyzes the soundscapes of fourteen...
The Cognitive Basis of Aesthetics: Cassirer, Crowther, and the Future by Elena Fell 9780367877811
RRP: £47.99Booksplease Price: £44.79This book seeks to fill a void in contemporary aesthetics scholarship by considering the cognitive features that make the aesthetic and artistic worthy of philosophical study. Aesthetic cognition has...
Aaron Copland and His World by Carol J. Oja
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £39.23Aaron Copland and His World reassesses the legacy of one of America's best-loved composers at a pivotal moment--as his life and work shift from the realm of personal memory to that of history. This...
Edmund de Waal: Ten Thousand Things by Joan Simon
RRP: £65.00Booksplease Price: £49.86Edmund de Waal's art speaks to his enduring fascination with the nature of objects and the attendant history of their collection and display. Confronting European and Asian traditions of intimate...
Railways and Music by Julia Winterson 9781862182028
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £18.37When the Stockton & Darlington Railway opened in 1825, it was the first steam-powered railway to carry passengers. Since then there has been no shortage of music connected with trains and railways:...
The Cambridge Companion to Rhythm by Russell Hartenberger
RRP: £88.00Booksplease Price: £83.79One of the defining aspects of music is that it exists in time. From clapping to dancing, toe-tapping to head-nodding, the responses of musicians and listeners alike capture the immediacy and...
Music 109 by Alvin Lucier 9780819574923
RRP: £15.50Booksplease Price: £15.13Composer and peformer Alvin Lucier brings clarity to the world of experimental music as he takes the reader through more than a hundred groundbreaking musical works, including those of Robert Ashley,...
American Minimal Music by Wim Mertens
RRP: £15.95Booksplease Price: £14.72This is the first book which deals with the school of American repetitive music, also know as minimal music. The early work of La Monte Young, Terry Riley, Steve Reich and Philip Glass is discussed...
Pat Metheny: Stories beyond Words Bob Gluck 9780226834450
RRP: £18.00Booksplease Price: £17.10An in-depth exploration of the style and influence of Pat Metheny, a truly distinctive musical voice of our time. Guitarist and composer Pat Metheny, among the most acclaimed, visionary musicians of...
Source: Music of the Avant-garde, 1966 1973 by Larry Austin 9780520267459
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.77This journal "Source: Music of the Avant-garde" was and remains a seminal source for materials on the heyday of experimental music and arts. Conceived in 1966 and published to 1973, it included some...
In and Out of Phase: An Episodic History of Art and Music in the 1960s by Michael Maizels 9780472131938
Booksplease Price: £63.25Experimental artists and musicians thrived in New York, Los Angeles, and other creative hotspots in the 1960s, and those who would become major figures in the visual arts often worked closely with...
A Love Supreme: The Creation Of John Coltrane's Classic Album by Ashley Kahn 9781783786053
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23A deeply researched and beautifully illustrated study of saxophone legend John Coltrane's signature album. Written with the full co-operation of the Coltrane family and featuring the voices of...
The Music Room: A Story of Art, Friendship, and Gathering in Betty Freeman's Beverly Hills Home Jake Johnson 9780197775721
Booksplease Price: £26.49From 1981 to 1994, music patron and art collector Betty Freeman (1921--2009) hosted a series of monthly musicales, or salons, in Los Angeles. Most of these salons were held in a room off the den of...
The Music Room: A Story of Art, Friendship, and Gathering in Betty Freeman's Beverly Hills Home Jake Johnson 9780197775714
Booksplease Price: £70.76From 1981 to 1994, music patron and art collector Betty Freeman (1921--2009) hosted a series of monthly musicales, or salons, in Los Angeles. Most of these salons were held in a room off the den of...
Colin McPhee: Composer in Two Worlds by Carol J. Oja
Booksplease Price: £21.96Colin McPhee was a performer, writer, and pioneer among Western composers in turning to Asia for inspiration. A close friend of Aaron Copland, Carlos Chavez, Henry Cowell, and Virgil Thomson, he...
This Life of Sounds by Levine Packer 9780190632205
Booksplease Price: £39.56This Life of Sounds portrays an important and previously unexplored corner of the history of new music in America: the Center of the Creative and Performing Arts int eh State University of New York...
Crosscurrents - American and European Music in Interaction, 1900-2000 by Felix Meyer
Booksplease Price: £41.40An exploration of how music and musicians have moved between North America and Europe and the positive exchanges that have resulted. Throughout the 20th century, exchanges between North America...
The Ashgate Research Companion to Minimalist and Postminimalist Music Keith Potter 9781032919638
RRP: £46.99Booksplease Price: £43.94In recent years the music of minimalist composers such as La Monte Young, Terry Riley, Steve Reich and Philip Glass has, increasingly, become the subject of important musicological reflection,...