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Vendor: David Cairns
Discovering Berlioz: Essays, Reviews, Talks
The writings of David Cairns have played a major part in the relatively recent acceptance of Berlioz as a central figure in western classical music. Discovering Berlioz collects articles, lectures and other texts from several decades of advocacy, throwing new light on this outsize...- $60.00
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Vendor: David Buckley
Kraftwerk: Publikation
Updated to include details of the group's recent concerts under the direction of Ralf Hutter. David Buckley examines the cult enigma that is Kraftwerk, including their beginnings in the avant-garde musical terrain of late-Sixties Germany and their Anglo-American breakthrough with Autobahn in 1975, as...- $23.99
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Vendor: Scott Messing
Schubert in the European Imagination, Volume 1: The Romantic and Victorian Eras
How Franz Schubert and his compositions were viewed in nineteenth-century European criticism, literature, and the visual arts, from Schumann to George Eliot to Whistler. In Schubert in the European Imagination, Volume 1: The Romantic and Victorian Eras, Scott Messing examines the historical reception of...- $130.00
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Vendor: Neil Daniels
Heavy Metal Madness - Reviews & Interviews With Metal Bands
Heavy Metal Madness is the latest collection of metal reviews and interviews from Neil Daniels, the author of acclaimed books on Pantera, Metallica, Judas Priest and Iron Maiden. It features reviews of some of the best known names in the genre such as Alice...- $17.16
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Vendor: Karol Szymanowski
Szymanowski on Music: Selected Writings of Karol Szymanowski
The first comprehensive selection of Szymanowski's writings to be published in English, containing all the most important of the composer's essays and interviews. Karol Szymanowski [1882-1937] is now widely acknowledged to be the most important Polish composer since Chopin. He was also a considerable...- $49.95
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Vendor: Allan B. Ho
Shostakovich Reconsidered
Dmitry Shostakovich's memoirs, Testimony, related to and edited by Solomon Volkov', have been the subject of fierce debate since their publication in 1979. Was Testimony a forgery, made up by an impudent impostor, or was it the deathbed confession of a bent, but unbroken,...- $36.95
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Vendor: Claude Debussy
Images, Bk 1
Composed in 1905 this volume of Images, comprised of three contrasting pieces, demonstrates conciseness, deep dramatic content and colorful tonal imagery. Debussy established Impressionism as a pianistic style and used evocative terms to shed light on the mood or character of each piece. Maurice...- $9.99
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Vendor: Jann Pasler
Camille Saint-Saëns and His World
A revealing look at French composer and virtuoso Camille Saint-Sa ns Camille Saint-Sa ns--perhaps the foremost French musical figure of the late nineteenth century and a composer who wrote in nearly every musical genre, from opera and the symphony to film music--is now being...- $49.95
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Vendor: Scott Burnham
Mozart's Grace
Aspects of beauty in the music of Mozart It is a common article of faith that Mozart composed the most beautiful music we can know. But few of us ask why. Why does the beautiful in Mozart stand apart, as though untouched by human...- $44.00
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Vendor: Francesca Brittan
Berlioz and His World
A collection of essays and short object lessons on the composer Hector Berlioz, published in collaboration with the Bard Music Festival. Hector Berlioz (1803-1869) has long been a difficult figure to place and interpret. Famously, in Richard Wagner's estimation, he hovered as a "transient,...- $35.00
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Vendor: C. C. McKee
Aqua's Aquarium
"I'm a Barbie Girl, in a Barbie world," the ubiquitous refrain that dominated the airwaves in summer 1997. Aqua's single from their debut album Aquarium spread like wildfire, topping charts across the globe. With their erotically charged lyrics and dance beats, Aqua moved beyond...- $80.00
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Vendor: Mark Fisher
The Resistible Demise of Michael Jackson
The essays in The Resistible Demise Of Michael Jackson consummately demonstrate that writing on popular culture can be both thoughtful and heartfelt. The contributors, who include accomplished music critics as well as renowned theorists, are some of the most astute and eloquent writers on...- $19.95
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Vendor: Michael Clarkson
The Secret Life of Glenn Gould: A Genius in Love
Long after his death, Glenn Gould still lures new listeners to his piano, connecting with them on a haunting, personal level. "He feels and you feel," says young New York writer Nicole Spectre. "I can feel his pain and joy -- it touches me....- $24.95
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Vendor: Brian Eno
What Art Does: An Unfinished Theory
Why do we need art? What Art Does is an invitation to explore this vital question. It is a chance to understand how art is made by all of us. How it creates communities, opens our worlds, and can transform us. Curious and playful,...- $19.95
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Vendor: Robert Gordon
The Theatre of Kander and Ebb
Discover John Kander and Fred Ebb, the most artistically and commercially successful musical theatre writing team since Rodgers and Hammerstein, in a brand new way.Identifying the theatrical approach that renders their musical dramaturgy unique, this book explores their importance within, and contribution to, musical...- $29.95
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Vendor: Neil J. Milliner
The Musician's Tech Toolbox-Essential Technical Tips and Equipment Know-How for Musicians
Master the technical side of your music career with The Musician's Tech Toolbox, your go-to guide for understanding and utilizing essential equipment and technology. This book is packed with practical advice on choosing the right gear, setting up your studio, and optimizing live performance...- $17.99
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Vendor: Craig Harris
The Musical Life of Melanie: From the Village to Woodstock and Beyond
At just twenty-two years old, Melanie was the first female solo performer at the historic 1969 Woodstock Festival, transforming into an overnight sensation. Craig Harris chronicles Melanie's remarkable journey, revealing her dedication to artistic integrity for more than half a century. Inspired by a...- $34.00
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Vendor: Bob Gluck
Pat Metheny: Stories beyond Words
An 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 our time, has for five decades toured with his many creative musical projects,...- $115.00
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Vendor: Pete Shelley
Ever Fallen in Love: The Lost Buzzcocks Tapes
Newly discovered recordings of a music legend in his own remarkable words: punk, Buzzcocks and the inspiration behind some of greatest songs ever written. *** A ROUGH TRADE UK BOOK OF THE YEAR A LOUDER THAN WAR BOOK OF THE YEAR "Fascinating" - MOJO...- $16.99
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Vendor: Sonia &. Perry Publishing
The Christmas Ukulele Songbook: Cute Ukulele Songs For Christmas I Gifts Book For Kids and Adults - Sing Xmas Melodies with Family
The Ukulele Christmas Songbook has 26 of the most loved holiday favorite songs for beginner to intermediate ukulelists. Each song includes lyrics, chord diagrams showing the finger placement. Songs include: Away In A Manger * Blue Christmas * Deck the Halls * Do They...- $7.49
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Recognition in Mozart's Operas
Since its beginnings, opera has depended on recognition as a central aspect of both plot and theme. Though a standard feature of opera, recognition--a moment of new awareness that brings about a crucial reversal in the action--has been largely neglected in opera studies. In...- $42.99
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Vendor: Robert Lawson
Solidarity Forever: The Art and Soul of Stevie Van Zandt
Author: Robert LawsonISBN-10: 1038317878ISBN-13: 9781038317872Publisher: FriesenPressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/17/2024Pages: 294Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.17lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.80d- $31.99
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Vendor: Robert Lawson
Solidarity Forever: The Art and Soul of Stevie Van Zandt
Author: Robert LawsonISBN-10: 1038317886ISBN-13: 9781038317889Publisher: FriesenPressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/16/2024Pages: 294Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.54lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.94d- $37.99
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Vendor: Kathleen Perricone
Lady Gaga Is Life: A Superfan's Guide to All Things We Love about Lady Gaga
Live your best Little Monster life with this gorgeously illustrated, all-encompassing fan book on everything there is to know, love, and celebrate about the modern icon that is Lady Gaga. From finding her voice on Manhattan's Lower East Side to working on her debut...- $19.99
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Vendor: François Lesure
Claude Debussy: A Critical Biography
English translation and revised edition of the most comprehensive and reliable biography of Claude Debussy. François Lesure's "critical biography" of Claude Debussy (Fayard, 2003) is widely recognized by scholars as the most comprehensive and reliable account of that composer's life and career as well...- $39.95
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Vendor: Will Oldham
Songs of Love and Horror: Collected Lyrics of Will Oldham
As a performer, songwriter, and actor, Will Oldham has carved a singular path through the worlds of indie folk and cinema. Now the critically acclaimed, enigmatic artist presents his life's work: the lyrics to more than two hundred songs spanning the 1980s to the...- $26.95
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Vendor: Chris Tapley
Cocteau Twins' Blue Bell Knoll
In this exploration of Cocteau Twins' quintessential album, Chris Tapley traces lines in all directions from Blue Bell Knoll to paint a revealing portrait of the enigmatic trio and their career-long struggles with self-doubt, stubborn principles, and pure experimentation. Throughout their career, Cocteau Twins...- $14.95
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Vendor: Derek Ansell
Sonny Clark - Fragile Virtuoso
Sonny Clark was a unique jazz pianist. Totally original, he never sounded like any other jazz pianist and no other piano player ever sounded like him.This is his story; the musicians he worked and recorded with included Rollins, Coltrane, Gordon and many others. His...- $23.99
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Be More Ariana Grande: Fierce Advice on Breaking Free and Being Yourself
"What Would Ariana Do?" Pop princess, whistle-note expert, dangerous woman - we'd all love to be more like Ariana. This excellent guide, packed with Grande wisdom, will show you how. Want to learn how to rock a perfect ponytail, write beautifully from the heart...- $12.99
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Vendor: Leslie Kearney
Tchaikovsky and His World
Tchaikovsky has long intrigued music-lovers as a figure who straddles many borders--between East and West, nationalism and cosmopolitanism, tradition and innovation, tenderness and bombast, masculine and feminine. In this book, through consideration of his music and biography, scholars from several disciplines explore the many...- $64.00
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Vendor: Michael Beckerman
Janácek and His World
Once thought to be a provincial composer of only passing interest to eccentrics, Leos Janácek (1854-1928) is now widely acknowledged as one of the most powerful and original creative figures of his time. Banned for all purposes from the Prague stage until the age...- $52.00
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Vendor: Marc Roberty
Eric Clapton: Day by Day Deluxe Set
Eric Clapton, Day by Day presents Clapton's professional life in music in a day-by-day format, giving details of which bands he joined and left, all recordings made - both released and unreleased - as well as guest appearances he made on other artists' records,...- $90.00
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Vendor: Sharon Kanach
Meta-Xenakis: New Perspectives on Iannis Xenakis's Life, Work, and Legacies
Author: Sharon KanachISBN-10: 1805112244ISBN-13: 9781805112242Publisher: Open Book PublishersLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/09/2024Pages: 836Format: PaperbackWeight: 4.23lbsSize: 10.00h x 7.00w x 2.27d- $103.95
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Vendor: Margaret Ann Mendenhall
Vox Eurydice: The Ascent of the Female Rescuer in German-Language Opera
Vox Eurydice: The Ascent of the Female Rescuer in German-Language Opera is a mythological and depth psychological analysis written from a feminist perspective, on the emergence of the theme of rescue stories, and specifically plots where a female heroine saves a male character, which...- $105.00
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Vendor: E. Taylor Atkins
Toshiko Akiyoshi-Lew Tabackin Big Band's Kogun
A study of the 1974 album Kogun by the Toshiko Akiyoshi-Lew Tabackin Big Band, this book assesses not just its importance in jazz history but also its part in public remembrance of World War II in Japan. In 1974 a Japanese soldier emerged from...- $22.95
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Vendor: Lewis Lockwood
Beethoven's Symphonies: An Artistic Vision
More than any other composer, Beethoven left to posterity a vast body of material that documents the early stages of almost everything he wrote. From this trove of sketchbooks, Lewis Lockwood draws us into the composer's mind, unveiling a creative process of astonishing scope...- $29.95
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Vendor: Ian Leslie
John & Paul: A Love Story in Songs
John Lennon and Paul McCartney knew each other for twenty-three years, from 1957 to 1980. This book is the myth-shattering biography of a relationship that changed the cultural history of the world. The Beatles shook the world to its core in the 1960's and,...- $30.00
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Vendor: David R. Adler
The Jazz Omnibus: 21st-Century Photos and Writings by Members of the Jazz Journalists Association
The Jazz Omnibus: 21st-Century Photos and Writings by Members of the Jazz Journalists Association is a spectacular anthology of works by 90 international experts in jazz and related music.90 contributors represent the finest music writers and photographers alive todayTheir skill, wisdom, insight, and generosity...- $39.95
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Vendor: David R. Adler
The Jazz Omnibus: 21st-Century Photos and Writings by Members of the Jazz Journalists Association
The Jazz Omnibus: 21st-Century Photos and Writings by Members of the Jazz Journalists Association is a spectacular anthology of works by 90 international experts in jazz and related music. This deluxe dust-jacketed hardcover edition is an essential collectible for any music library.90 contributors represent...- $59.95
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Vendor: David J. Haskins
Who Killed Mister Moonlight?: Bauhaus, Black Magick and Benediction
'Heroic and absurd, scurrilous and profound, Who Killed Mister Moonlight? charts the descent of four intelligent young men with faces like ruby-eyed dime-store skull rings into a glittering and very modern maelstrom. Fast, compelling, and disarmingly honest, this is an invaluable account of a...- $22.95
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Vendor: Thomas Delio
The Marvelous Illusion: Morton Feldman's the Viola in My Life I-IV
Author: Thomas DelioISBN-10: 0197759939ISBN-13: 9780197759936Publisher: Oxford University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/19/2024Pages: 248Format: Paperback- $29.95
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Vendor: Carl Magnus Palm
Bright Lights Dark Shadows: The Definitive Biography of Abba
The definitive biography of pop sensations ABBA, revised and fully updated.Exploding on to the international music scene after winning Eurovision with 'Waterloo' in 1974, Abba have since become one of the most famous pop groups in the world. Bright Lights Dark Shadows is the...- $20.00
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Vendor: Rachel Feder
Taylor Swift by the Book: The Literature Behind the Lyrics, from Fairy Tales to Tortured Poets
From the childhood nostalgia of Peter Pan in Speak Now to the haunted halls of Rebecca in Evermore, Taylor Swift's lyrics are packed with literary connections. Make sure you're catching them all with this expert guide to the novels, poems, and plays that influenced...- $39.95
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Vendor: Gary Graff
Alice Cooper: The Godfather of Shock & Roll
This value-priced reissue of Alice Cooper at 75 (2023) celebrates the godfather of shock rock with expert commentary, hundreds of images, and an illustrated timeline. Pythons, guillotines, stage blood...with his concoction of vaudeville, horror film tropes, and three-chord rock 'n' roll, Alice Cooper invented...- $24.99
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Vendor: K. Dawn Grapes
John Dowland: A Research and Information Guide
John Dowland: A Research and Information Guide offers the first comprehensive guide to the musical works and literature on one of the major composers of the English Renaissance. Including a catalog of works, discography of recordings, extensive annotated bibliography of secondary sources, and substantial...- $49.99
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Vendor: Eoin Devereux
Morrissey: Fandom, Representations and Identities
An influential star of British pop for more than three decades, Morrissey is known for his outspoken and often controversial views on class, ethnicity, and sexuality. Among critics and his many fans, he has long been seen as an anti-establishment figure who continues to...- $43.00
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Vendor: Benjamin Piekut
Henry Cow: The World Is a Problem
In its open improvisations, lapidary lyrics, errant melodies, and relentless pursuit of spontaneity, the British experimental band Henry Cow pushed rock music to its limits. Its rotating personnel, sprung from rock, free jazz, and orchestral worlds, synthesized a distinct sound that troubled genre lines,...- $29.95
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Vendor: Anton Rubinstein
Album of Six Pieces
Anton Rubinstein was one of the keyboard giants of the nineteenth century. This Kalmus Classic Edition features six piano works for the late intermediate to advanced pianist that feature the powerful lyricism characteristic of Rubinstein's compositional style. The folio includes selections from Op. 3,...- $8.99
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Vendor: Andrew Mead
An Introduction to the Music of Milton Babbitt
In this celebration of Milton Babbitt's art, Andrew Mead explores the development of a central figure in contemporary American music. As a teacher and writer, Babbitt has influenced two generations of students, including such notable musicians as Stephen Sondheim and Donald Martino. He has...- $141.00
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Vendor: Gemini
The Pocket Ariana Grande: An All-Access Pass to the Record-Breaking Star's Life and Career
An all-access pass to the record-breaking star's life and career.From her Nickelodeon years as Cat Valentine and subsequent teen idol status to her chart-topping music career, Ariana has marked herself as an all-round performer, solo super-talent and an artistic collaborator. With facts and stats...- $9.95
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