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Vendor: Daniel Barenboim
Music Quickens Time
An acclaimed examination of music's power to transform society, from Israel's most celebrated musician and outspoken critic.Author: Daniel BarenboimISBN-10: 1844674029ISBN-13: 9781844674022Publisher: VersoLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/01/2009Pages: 192Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.55lbsSize: 8.18h x 5.50w x 0.56d- $24.95
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Vendor: Arved Ashby
Experiencing Mahler: A Listener's Companion
Experiencing Mahler surveys the symphonies and major song sets of Gustav Mahler, presenting them not just as artworks but as vivid and deeply felt journeys. Mahler took the symphony, perhaps the most tradition-bound genre in Western music, and opened it to the widest span...- $45.00
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Vendor: Elliott Graeme
Beethoven: A Memoir
The following brief sketch can lay no claim to originality; it is merely a slight résumé of the principal events in the master's life (from the works of Schindler, Ries, and Wegeler, and more especially from Marx and Thayer), and is intended for those...- $14.99
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Vendor: Simon Trowbridge
The Music of Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band
Bruce Springsteen is both a singer-songwriter and the leader of the last of the iconic groups of rock's golden age still operating at a peak level of passion and creativity. Like most of the great groups, the E Street Band was the product of...- $34.99
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Vendor: Bobbie Malone
Nashville's Songwriting Sweethearts: The Boudleaux and Felice Bryant Story Volume 6
"The story of Felice and Boudleaux Bryant is the story of towering artistic achievement wrapped in a love story so deep and so complete that the two are their own country song. Bobbie and Bill Malone are precisely the right match to tell this...- $24.95
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Vendor: Percy Aldridge Grainger
Molly on the Shore, BFMS 1: Study score
Percy Grainger, like his contemporary Bela Bartok, was intensely interested in folk music and became a member of the English Folk-Song Society soon after his arrival in London in the first decade of the 20th century. He produced numerous works based upon folk music...- $7.95
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Vendor: Gustav Holst
First Suite in E-flat, Op.28 No.1: Study score
Gustav Holst's first excursion into music for band (known as "military band" at the time) was composed in 1909. Despite there being very little standardization of the instruments and number of players used in such ensembles, Holst managed to score his three-movement work in...- $9.95
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Vendor: Tanya Buchdahl Tintner
Out of Time: The Vexed Life of Georg Tintner
Georg Tintner is best known to music lovers for his stunning interpretations of Bruckner's symphonies recorded by Naxos in the 1990s. He was a man who lived and breathed music. Blessed with perfect pitch, at the age of nine he was the first Jew...- $39.99
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Vendor: David Lasocki
Johnny V: John Vidacovich of New Orleans on the Drums and on the Cymbals
The drummer (and cymbalist) John Vidacovich, familiarly known as Johnny V, the winner of a lifetime achievement award from OffBeat magazine, has made an enormous impact on the music of his native New Orleans over the last fifty-plus years. Whether as a founding member...- $22.95
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Vendor: Franz Liszt
Life of Chopin
Life of Chopin, has been acknowledged as a major work throughout human history, and we have taken precautions to assure its preservation by republishing this book in a modern manner for both present and future generations. This book has been completely retyped, revised, and...- $12.72
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Vendor: Michael Walker
Johann Sebastian Bach: Arranged for Low G Ukulele
Who would have thought you could play classical music on a ukulele? But you can! Recommended for intermediate and advanced performers, here are Baroque compositions by Johann Sebastian Bach transcribed into tablature and modern notation. These pieces have been arranged for low G ukulele....- $29.95
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Vendor: Dan Callahan
Bing and Billie and Frank and Ella and Judy and Barbra
Crosby, Holiday, Sinatra, Fitzgerald, Garland, and Streisand were the major interpreters of the American songbook, and this is the interlocking story of their lives and careers. Here is the epic tale of how these artists dominated American popular music over a fifty-year period, a...- $30.00
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Vendor: Franz Liszt
Ballade No.2 S.171 - For Solo Piano (1853)
"Ballade No.2 S.171" is a solo piano ballad in one movement composed in 1853 by Franz Liszt. Franz Liszt (1811 - 1886) was a seminal 19th-century composer, virtuoso, teacher, conductor, and author from Hungary. He is commonly hailed as one of the most important...- $14.99
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Vendor: Michael J. Masci
Charles-Simon Catel's Treatise on Harmony and the Disciplining of Harmony at the Early Paris Conservatory
This book traces the formation of the discipline of harmony at the Paris Conservatory, focusing on the seminal work of Charles-Simon Catel, and outlines the processes that would determine the content and scope of the discipline for much of the nineteenth century.Author: Michael J....- $100.00
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Vendor: Dale Carter
Reading Smile: History, Myth and American Identity in Brian Wilson and Van Dyke Parks' Long-Lost Album
First conceived in 1966 but only completed in 2004, Brian Wilson Presents Smile has been called "the best-known unreleased album in pop music history" and "an American Sergeant Pepper." Reading Smile offers a close analysis of the recording in its social, cultural and historical...- $48.95
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Vendor: Lynn Melnick
I've Had to Think Up a Way to Survive: On Trauma, Persistence, and Dolly Parton
"An ode to storytelling itself . . . A gorgeous and heart-rending story of survival."--Melissa Febos, author of GirlhoodA moving and essential exploration of what it takes to find your voice as a woman, a survivor, an artist, and an icon.The first time Lynn...- $18.00
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Vendor: Michael Walker
Melchioro de Barberis & Giacomo Gorzanis: Music of the Italian Renaissance For the Low G Ukulele
Melchior de Barberis (1500-1549) was an Italian lutenist and composer.His book "Opera Intitolata Contina" was published in Venice in 1549. Most of the book is dedicated to the lute, but the final few pages of the book contain 4 pieces (fantasias) for the renaissance...- $29.95
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Vendor: Michael Walker
Guillaume Morlaye Second Book of Tablature For Low G Ukulele
These compositions were transcribed for Low G ukulele from a facsimile copy of Guillaume Morlaye's first book of tablature for the guitar. Guillaume de Morlaye, (c. 1510-c. 1558) was a French Renaissance-era lutenist, composer, and music publisher. He was a pupil of Albert de...- $29.95
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Vendor: Michael Walker
Guillaume Morlaye" First Book of Tablature For Low G Ukulele
These compositions were transcribed for Low G ukulele from a facsimile copy of Guillaume Morlaye's first book of tablature for the guitar. Guillaume de Morlaye, (c. 1510-c. 1558) was a French Renaissance-era lutenist, composer, and music publisher. He was a pupil of Albert de...- $29.95
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Vendor: Daru Jones
Daru Jones
Enjoy an audio-commentary experience like no other as Grammy-award winner, Daru Jones, talks about his time drumming on some favorite hits, including Jack White's "Lazaretto", Milk's "Brain", Inventors "Closer", Neon's "I'm Gonna Go Away Now", Pack's "L.T.A.I" and more! Hear about the inspirations, behind-the-scenes...- $37.99
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Vendor: James Gavin
George Michael: A Life
In George Michael: A Life, "Gavin's engrossing biography of the singer takes the measure of a gifted, tragic, and infuriating man" (New York Times Book Review). George Michael was an extravagantly gifted, openhearted soul singer whose work was both pained and smolderingly erotic. He...- $20.00
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Vendor: Lynn馥 Denise
Why Willie Mae Thornton Matters
Finalist, 2024 Lesbian Memoir/Biography, Lambda Literary Award for Arts and Culture A queer, Black "biography in essays" about the performer who gave us "Hound Dog," "Ball and Chain," and other songs that changed the course of American music. Born in Alabama in 1926, raised...- $24.95
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Vendor: G駻ard Pape
Iannis Xenakis and the Ethics of Absolute Originality
Iannis Xenakis is one of the major composers of the 20th century. His influence is immense, because of his radicalism, his aesthetic, and the intransigence of his musical compositions. As an eternal immigrant, as he defined himself, he always refused to settle in any...- $11.00
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Vendor: Greil Marcus
Folk Music: A Bob Dylan Biography in Seven Songs
Acclaimed cultural critic Greil Marcus tells the story of Bob Dylan through the lens of seven penetrating songsAuthor: Greil MarcusISBN-10: 0300274106ISBN-13: 9780300274103Publisher: Yale University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/05/2023Pages: 288Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.70lbsSize: 7.70h x 5.00w x 0.80d- $18.00
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Vendor: B. Pincus
Barry Manilow: The Untold Story
Barry Manilow, born Barry Alan Pincus, on June 17th, 1943, Brooklyn, New York, U.S., is a singer-songwriter, arranger, pianist, theatrical and music producer, with a career that has spanned more than 50 years. His hit records include 'Mandy', 'Can't Smile Without You' & 'Copacabana...- $14.01
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Vendor: Michael Walker
Francesco Molino: Three Sonatas and Six Themes with Variations For Low G Ukulele
Who would have thought you could play classical music on a ukulele? But you can! Francesco Molino was an Italian musician and composer, born at Ivrea near Turin on 4 June 1768. At the age of fifteen, in 1783, he enrolled in the band...- $29.95
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Vendor: Graham Coxon
Verse, Chorus, Monster!
Along-awaited memoir of Blur co-founder, guitar legend and visual artist GrahamCoxon.Among the noise and clamour of the Britpop era, Blur co-founder Graham Coxon managed to carve out a niche to become one of the most innovative and respected guitarists of his generation - but...- $15.95
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Vendor: Charles Schlueter
Indirection: On Becoming a Better Musician and Trumpet Player as a Conceptual Process
Combining a memoir by one of today's most renowned musicians with musical insights, reflections from colleagues and students, and even a few recipes, INDIRECTION is both a technical resource for trumpet players and a valuable performance guide for anyone who wishes to achieve his...- $23.99
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Vendor: Thomas P. Athridge
The Life, Aftermath, and Legacy of Elmo Lewis
A 21st Century Reexamination of the Story and Contemporary Impact of Brian Jones-Brian's short life was filled with controversy, violence, misogyny, and betrayal from a wide variety of sources. Brian had a profound dark side to him that hurt him on many different levels:...- $32.99
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Vendor: Walter Gam Nkwi
Singing Our Unsung Heroes: (Re)Membering Manu Dibango, Celebrating Cameroon Music
This book collates thematic reflections on Cameroon music exalting Manu Dibango, one of the first-generation Cameroonian musicians, who bowed to Covid-19 on 24 March 2020. Granted his enormous contribution to Cameroon, African and world music, one would have expected that scholarly books and encyclopaedia...- $44.00
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Vendor: Gary D. Zenker
Beach Boys Archives Volume 6
Covering their beginnings through 1976, this 186 page volume reprints a variety of printed artifacts related to America's Band, The Beach Boys. this volume focuses on the individual members' solo efforts and efforts related to related musicians, including Brian Wilson as a solo act....- $23.79
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Vendor: Frederick Josef Moehn
Jorge Ben Jor's チfrica Brasil
1976, Rio de Janeiro. Revered Brazilian pop musician Jorge Ben Jor, known for his 'samba-rock' fusions and hits such as 'Pa s Tropical' and 'Mas que Nada', picks up the electric guitar and records the album frica Brasil. With grooves structured around guitar and...- $22.95
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Vendor: Lisa Perrott
David Bowie and the Art of Music Video
The first in-depth study of David Bowie's music videos across a sustained period takes on interweaving storyworlds of an iconic career. Remarkable for their capacity to conjure elaborate imagery, Bowie's videos provide fascinating exemplars of the artistry and remediation of music video. When their...- $29.95
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Vendor: Lisa Perrott
David Bowie and the Art of Music Video
The first in-depth study of David Bowie's music videos across a sustained period takes on interweaving storyworlds of an iconic career. Remarkable for their capacity to conjure elaborate imagery, Bowie's videos provide fascinating exemplars of the artistry and remediation of music video. When their...- $120.00
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Vendor: Stephen Rumph
The Faure Song Cycles: Poetry and Music, 1861-1921
Gabriel Faur 's m lodies offer an inexhaustible variety of style and expression that have made them the foundation of the French art song repertoire. During the second half of his long career, Faur composed all but a handful of his songs within six...- $70.00
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Vendor: Brenda Perlin
Crime and PUNKishment: Exclusive Interviews with Rodney Bingenheimer, Jack Grisham, Palmolive of the Slits, Linda Ramone and Captain Sensible
When punk first burst into the public consciousness, it caused the establishment to take fright. Suddenly, anarchy was no longer crouching in the shadows, but out on the streets offering disempowered and disenfranchised youth a rallying flag and a new identity. In 'Crime and...- $10.99
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Vendor: Daniel Grimley
Carl Nielsen and the Idea of Modernism
A critical re-evaluation of the music of Carl Nielsen which examines its context and relationship to musical modernism. Carl Nielsen (1865-1931) is one of the most playful, life-affirming and awkward voices in twentieth-century music. His work resists easy stylistic categorisation or containment, yet its...- $115.00
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Vendor: Antonin Dvorak
Czech Suite, Op.39 / B.93: Study score
Composed rapidly during April of 1879 in the wake of his success with the two serenades (Opp.22 and 44), Dvorak this time incorporated Czech folk dances into his new work, which was to be for full orchestra. The term serenade, then more often associated...- $9.95
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Vendor: Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Symphony No.2 'Little Russian', Op.17: Study score
Composed in 1872 and first performed in Moscow at the Russian Musica Society on February 7, 1873, Tchaikovsky's second venture into the symphonic form was well-received, soon earning the nickname 'Little Russian' due to his quotation of the Ukranian folk-song "The Crane" in the...- $16.95
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Vendor: Peter Dickinson
Cagetalk: Dialogues with and about John Cage
Revealing unpublished interviews with John Cage and some of his closest colleagues, including Virgil Thomson, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Pauline Oliveros, Merce Cunningham, and David Tudor. John Cage, one of America's most renowned composers from the 1940s until his death in 1992, was also a much-admired...- $34.95
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Vendor: Charles Villiers Stanford
St Patrick's Breastplate - Hymn of the Ancient Irish Church - Words by Cecil Frances Alexander - Sheet Music Arranged for Mixed Chorus and Organ in G
This book contains the original musical notation for Charles V. Stanford's "St Patrick's Breastplate", a classical music composition for chorus and organ in the key of G, using the words from Cecil Frances Alexander's eponymous hymn. Cecil Frances Alexander (1818 - 1895) was an...- $19.99
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Vendor: Neil Daniels
Made Of Metal - A Casual Guide To The Solo Music Of Judas Priest's Rob Halford
Rob Halford is a heavy metal icon and his influence on the genre is immeasurable. Bands such as Anthrax, Pantera, Slayer and Metallica have cited Rob Halford and Judas Priest as a major inspiration on their own music. This book isn't about Judas Priest...- $15.50
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Vendor: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Minuets 1-6 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart for Solo Piano (1762-1789) K.1/K6.1e K.4 K.2 K.94/576b K355/K6.576b
This volume presents the scores for Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's "Minuets" 1-6 for solo piano, composed between 1762 and 1789. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791) was an extraordinarily prolific and seminal composer during the Classical era. He displayed astonishing musical ability from a very...- $18.99
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Vendor: Timothy D. Neufeld
U2: Rock 'n' Roll to Change the World
U2's significant career far exceeds that of most average successful rock bands, with a prolific output of thirteen well-received studio albums and a sometimes relentless touring schedule. The band is famous for uniquely drawing together music, art, faith, and activism, all within a lucrative...- $50.00
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Vendor: William Rothstein
The Musical Language of Italian Opera, 1813-1859
Though studying opera often requires attention to aesthetics, libretti, staging, singers, compositional history, and performance history, the music itself is central. This book examines operatic music by five Italian composers--Rossini, Bellini, Mercadante, Donizetti, and Verdi--and one non-Italian, Meyerbeer, during the period from Rossini's first...- $120.00
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Vendor: Karen M. Cook
Music Theory in Late Medieval Avignon: Magister Johannes Pipardi
The manuscript Seville, Biblioteca Colombina y Capitular 5-2-25, a composite of dozens of theoretical treatises, is one of the primary witnesses to late medieval music theory. Its numerous copies of significant texts have been the focus of substantial scholarly attention to date, but the...- $22.95
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Vendor: Robin a. Leaver
Bach Studies: Liturgy, Hymnology, and Theology
This volume draws together a collection of Robin A. Leaver's essays on Bach's sacred music, exploring the religious aspects of this repertoire through consideration of three core themes: liturgy, hymnology, and theology. Rooted in a rich understanding of the historical sources, the book illuminates...- $48.95
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Vendor: Carl Czerny
Practical Method for Beginners, Op. 599: Piano Technique
Practical Method for Beginners, Op. 599. Czerny's piano exercises have been revered since they were created. Together with Hanon's The Virtuoso Pianist and Czerny's own The School of Velocity, Czerny's Practical Method for Beginners on the Pianoforte is among the most widely practiced set...- $19.99
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Vendor: Robert Rosen
Nowhere Man: The Final Days of John Lennon
By all appearances, John Lennon was working on a tell-all memoir in the final years of his life. Every day he poured into diaries his raw thoughts and feelings-about his jealous rivalry with Paul McCartney; his tumultuous marriage to Yoko Ono; his love for...- $15.99
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Vendor: Michael Walker
The Renaissance Lute: Compositions For Low G Ukulele and Other Four Course Instruments
Who would have thought you could play classical music on a ukulele? But you can! Here are 60 Renaissance Lute pieces transcribed for the Low G ukulele in tablature and modern notation. These pieces were composed by almost thirty different masters of the lute...- $35.95
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