Music Books
MCD X Fsg Originals The First Collection of Criticism by a Living
Book SynopsisJessica Hopper''s criticism is a trenchant and necessary counterpoint not just on music, but on our culture at large. Annie Clark, St. VincentAn acclaimed, career-spanning collection from a fiercely feminist and revered contemporary rock critic, reissued with new materialThroughout her career, spanning more than two decades, Jessica Hopper, a revered and pioneering music critic, has examined women recording and producing music, in all genres, through an intersectional feminist lens. The First Collection of Criticism by a Living Female Rock Critic features oral histories of bands like Hole and Sleater Kinney, interviews with the women editors of 1970s-era Rolling Stone, and intimate conversations with iconic musicians such as Björk, Robyn, and Lido Pimienta. Hopper journeys through the truths of Riot Grrrl''s empowering insurgence; decamps to Gary, Indiana, on the eve of Michael Jackson''s death; explodes the grunge-era mythologies of Nirvana and Courtney Love; and examines the rise of emo. The collection also includes profiles and reviews of some of the most-loved, and most-loathed, women artists making music today: Fiona Apple, Kacey Musgraves, M.I.A., Miley Cyrus, Lana Del Rey. In order for the music industry to change, Hopper writes, we need the continual presence of radicalized women . . . being encouraged and given reasons to stay, rather than diminished by the music which glues our communities together. The First Collection of Criticism by a Living Female Rock Criticpublished to acclaim in 2015, and reissued now with new material and an introduction by Samantha Irbyis a rallying cry for women-centered history and storytelling, and a groundbreaking, obsessive, razor-sharp panorama of music writing crafted by one of the most influential critics of her generation.
£17.85
Penguin Random House LLC Holding the Note
Book SynopsisNEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • The Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and editor of The New Yorker gathers his writing on some of the essential musicians of our time—intimate portraits of Leonard Cohen, Buddy Guy, Mavis Staples, Paul McCartney, Bruce Springsteen, Patti Smith, and more.The greatest popular songs, whether it’s “Respect” sung by Aretha Franklin or “Blind Willie McTell” performed by Bob Dylan, have a way of embedding themselves in our memories. You remember a time and a place and a feeling whenever you hear them. In Holding the Note, David Remnick writes about some of the most influential musicians, songwriters, and performers of the past fifty years. He portrays a series of musical lives—Leonard Cohen, Buddy Guy, Mavis Staples, Paul McCartney, Bruce Springsteen, Patti Smith, and more—and their unique encounters with the passing of that essential element of music: time. From Cohen’s performing debut, when his stage fright was so debilitating he couldn’t get through “Suzanne,” to Franklin’s iconic mink-drop at the Kennedy Center, Holding the Note delivers intimate portraits of some of the greatest creative minds of our era, written with a passionate lifelong attachment to their music and an acute appreciation of how it has shaped us.
£13.09
WW Norton & Co The Lives of the Great Composers
Book SynopsisAn updated and expanded edition of this perennial favorite, tracing the line of composers from Monteverdi to the tonalists of the 1990s.
£999.99
WW Norton & Co Faking It
Book SynopsisMusicians strive to “keep it real”; listeners condemn “fakes”; ... but does great music really need to be authentic?
£19.94
WW Norton & Co Mozart The Early Years 17561781
Book SynopsisThe first comprehensive life and works of the composer in over sixty years, by a leading Mozart specialist.
£26.59
WW Norton & Co Lili Marlene
Book SynopsisThe dramatic story of an iconic love song, its three creators, and their lives under the Nazis.Trade Review"A fascinating story. Lively and well-informed, this book tells it all, with lots of attention to the travails of those involved." -- Atlantic Monthly"Not even the most iconic of songs necessarily deserves its very own biography, but in the case of that Second World War classic, "Lili Marlene," dear to soldiers and civilians on both sides, there really is a fascinating story to tell. Forged in the crucible of 20th-century German history, a First World War favorite composers, recorded by an ambitious, anti-Nazi singer. Lively and well-informed, this book tells it all, with lots of attention to the travails of those involved. Nazi music had some rousing tunes, but generally the lyrics were rebarbative. Here the sentiments are unobjectionable and universal, just made for a time when the shadow of the barracks gate was bound to heighten romance under lamplight for a world at war." -- The Atlantic
£19.94
WW Norton & Co The Gesualdo Hex
Book SynopsisA riveting investigation of one of the most provocative musicians of the Renaissance, who continues to captivate composers, artists, and audiences today.Trade Review"[A] brilliant look at how cultural influences propagate through time in strange and unpredictable ways…" -- Library Journal"With his second wonderfully illuminating book on Gesualdo, Watkins reconfirms the extremely significant role he has played in the further understanding of this remarkable prince’s life and work." -- Brett Dean
£26.60
WW Norton & Co The Music of Africa
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£32.34
WW Norton & Co Ear Training Sight Singing
Book SynopsisEar Training and Sight Singing is the result of years of experimentation in this field; it is a tool to help the development of the skills a student must have.
£47.00
WW Norton & Co TwentiethCentury Harmony
Book SynopsisOne of the most important books on contemporary music in the twentieth century.
£40.50
WW Norton & Co Playing for Their Lives The Global El Sistema
Book SynopsisAn eye-opening view of the unprecedented global spread of El Sistema—intensive music education that disrupts the cycles of poverty.Trade Review"Playing for Their Lives brings us the news that not only is it possible to change the lives of children through music-it's already happening on a worldwide scale. This book is an important call to action for people everywhere who care about using music to remake our kids' future." -- Quincy Jones, music producer, arranger, and humanitarian "Playing for Their Lives affirms the power of music to change lives and communities. This is a book every orchestra lover must read, but also every community organizer, every school board member, and every citizen artist who is ready to change the world." -- Joshua Bell, violinist "I am hopeful that this inspiring book will encourage more communities to launch programs on the El Sistema model, so that all of our children can have this beautiful opportunity." -- Congressman Elijah E. Cummings, Maryland, 7th Congressional District "This is an amazing story that has meaning for all of us in education. Plus, there's a blueprint for how your own school can duplicate the remarkable success of El Sistema. You'll love the book!" -- Eric Jensen, author of Teaching with the Brain in Mind "Tunstall and Booth provide a beautifully textured exploration of the intersection of child development, social justice, and the orchestral experience. Their book should eliminate any doubt about the global relevance of the orchestral canon and its transformative powers." -- Jesse Rosen, president and CEO, League of American Orchestras "Anyone looking for evidence of the transformative power of the arts should read this important book." -- Daniel H. Pink, author of Drive and A Whole New Mind
£21.84
WW Norton & Co The Gustav Sonata
Book SynopsisWinner of the 2016 National Jewish Book Award for Fiction A poignant tale about the enduring friendship between two men under the shadow of the Second World War.Trade Review"Tremain is one of those few writers you trust completely when she goes to any unfamiliar territory, historical or emotional… Tremain knows how to show all the terrible bleak things that can happen between mothers and sons… This most unconventional book offers no easy answer, which makes it as disturbing and electric as any high-wire act. " -- The New York Times Book Review"[Tremain’s] expertise is evident in its gradual layering of personal history and its subtle mingling of lights and darks." -- Wall Street Journal"The Gustav Sonata is beautifully rendered, and magnificent in its scope. It glows with mastery." -- Ian McEwan"The Gustav Sonata is a work of extreme and painful beauty, the story of one profound love amid many failed relationships, and of the conflict between passion and self-control. Rose Tremain is one of the very finest British novelists, and deserves, with this brilliant novel, to reach a wide new audience." -- Salman Rushdie"[F]rom this tangled mess of human relations, Tremain draws a conclusion that is simultaneously straightforward and sweetly transformative. Like so much else in this compassionate and musical novel, it hits a perfect note." -- The Telegraph"This is a perfect novel about life’s imperfection…What Rose Tremain understands, above all, is the tragedy of temperament and the way it plays havoc with choice… Tremain is anything but an indulgent writer and is, here, writing at the height of her inimitable powers." -- The Guardian
£12.34
WW Norton & Co The Musicians Guide to Theory and Analysis
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£999.99
WW Norton & Co Anthology for Music in the Twentieth and
Book SynopsisA concise anthology including a wide range of music from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.Table of Contents Gustav Mahler, Symphony No. 3, fourth movement Claude Debussy, Estampes, Pagodes Arnold Schoenberg, Pierrot lunaire, No. 1, Mondestrunken Alban Berg, Wozzeck, Act 3, Scene 3 Charles Ives, Symphony No. 4, first movement Igor Stravinsky, The Rite of Spring, Introduction Kurt Weill, Lindbergh’s Flight, Introduction of the Pilot Igor Stravinsky, Symphony of Psalms, second movement Maurice Ravel, Piano Concerto in G, first movement Arnold Schoenberg, Piece for Piano, Op. 33a Anton Webern, Symphony Op. 21, second movement Béla Bartók, Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celeste, first movement Aaron Copland, Billy the Kid, “Street in a Frontier Town” William Grant Still, Africa, second movement, Land of Romance Benjamin Britten, War Requiem, Requiem aeternam Dmitri Shostakovich, String Quartet No. 8, third movement Pierre Boulez, Le Marteau sans Maitre, No. 5, Bel Édifice Et Les Pressentiments Pauline Oliveros, Traveling Companions Mario Davidovsky, Synchronisms No. 6 for Piano and Electronic Sounds (1970), excerpt Kaija Saariaho, Noa Noa György Ligeti, Continuum for Harpsichord Elliott Carter, String Quartet No. 5: Introduction, Giocoso, Interlude, first movement George Crumb, Vox Balanae, excerpt Chen Yi, Ba Ban Steve Reich, Violin Phase John Adams, Doctor Atomic, Act 1, Scene 3, “Batter My Heart”
£45.58
WW Norton & Co Music in the Eighteenth Century
Book SynopsisEighteenth Century Music in its cultural, social, and intellectual contexts.Table of Contents1. The Encyclopedic Century 2. Learned and Galant 3. Naples 4. Carnival Opera in Rome and Venice 5. Instrumental Music in Italy and Spain 6. Paris of the Ancien Régime 7. Georgian London 8. Vienna under Empress Maria Theresa 9. Leipzig and Berlin 10. Courts of Central Europe: Mannheim, Bayreuth, and Eisenstadt/Eszterháza 11. Galant Music in the New World 12. St. Petersburg under Catherine the Great 13. Foreigners in Paris: Gluck, Mozart, Salieri, Cherubini 14. Mozart’s Vienna 15. Prague 16. London in the 1790s 17. Vienna in the Napoleonic Era
£45.58
WW Norton & Co Music in the Nineteenth Century
Book SynopsisNineteenth-century music in its cultural, social, and intellectual contexts.Table of Contents1. Nineteenth-Century Music and Its Contexts 2. The Romantic Imagination 3. Music and the Age of Metternich 4. The Opera Industry 5. Making Music Matter: Criticism and Performance 6. Making Music Speak: Program Music and the Character Piece 7. Beyond Romanticism 8. Richard Wagner and Wagnerism 9. Verdi, Operetta, and Popular Appeal 10. Concert Culture and the “Great” Symphony 11. Musical Life and Identity in the United States 12. The Fin de Siècle and the Emergence of Modernism 13. The Sound of Nineteenth-Century Music
£51.28
WW Norton & Co Music in the Twentieth and TwentyFirst Centuries
Book SynopsisThe music of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries in its cultural, social, and intellectual contexts.Table of Contents1. Introduction: A Sense of Possibility Part I: From the Turn of the Century to the First World War 2. Expanding Musical Worlds at the Turn of the Twentieth Century 3. Making New Musical Languages 4. Folk Sources, the Primitive, and the Search for Authenticity Part II: The Interwar Years 5. New Music Taking Flight after World War I 6. Paris, Neo-Classicism, and the Art of the Everyday 7. The Search for Order and Balance 8. Inventing Traditions Part III: The Second World War and Its Aftermath 9. Rebuilding amid the Ruins 10. Electronic Music from Magnetic Tape to the Internet 11. Trajectories of Order and Chance Part IV: From the 1960s to the Present 12. Texture, Groups, Loops, and Layers 13. Histories Recollected and Remade 14. Minimalism and its Repercussions 15. Border Crossings
£45.88
WW Norton & Co Norton Recorded Anthology of Western Music 7e
Book SynopsisThe Norton Recorded Anthology of Western Music offers dynamic performances by great artists of every work in the Norton Anthology of Western Music.
£45.00
WW Norton & Co The Interpretation of Early Music
Book SynopsisSince it was first published in 1963, Robert Donington's classic text has become the standard of reference for all would-be performers , students, and amateurs of baroque music.
£61.85
WW Norton & Co Strunks Source Readings in Music History the
Book SynopsisIn The Late Eighteenth Century, Wye Jamison Allanbrook presents twenty-six readings that reveal how the music establishment of 1750-1800 saw itself.
£35.93
WW Norton & Co Strunks Source Readings in Music History the
Book SynopsisThe definitive collection of great writings on music of the nineteenth century.
£35.13
WW Norton & Co Strunks Source Readings in Music History the
Book SynopsisThis book began as an attempt to carry out a suggestion made in 1929 by Carl Engel in his "Views and Reviews"-to fulfill his wish for " a living record of musical personalities, events, conditions, tastes ...a history of music faithfully and entirely carved from contemporary accounts.
£35.22
Penguin Putnam Inc What to Listen for in Music
Book SynopsisNow in trade paperback: “The definitive guide to musical enjoyment” (Forum).In this fascinating analysis of how to listen to both contemporary and classical music analytically, eminent American composer Aaron Copland offers provocative suggestions that will bring readers a deeper appreciation of the most viscerally rewarding of all art forms.
£14.40
Basic Books Passionate Spirit The Life of Alma Mahler
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£25.60
The University of Michigan Press Indian Sound Cultures Indian Sound Citizenship
Book SynopsisThe sounds of India are inextricably tied to issues of citizenship, identity, and belonging
£44.90
The University of Michigan Press Tomorrow Is the Question
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£64.95
LUP - University of Michigan Press Sounds of the Underground
Book SynopsisExamines the largely unexplored terrain of underground music - exploratory forms of music-making, such as noise, free improvisation, and extreme metal, that exist outside or on the fringes of mainstream culture, generally independent from both the market and from traditional high-art institutions.Trade ReviewThere are no sustained considerations of the underground currently in academic literature. There are many discussions of noise, of exchanges between pop and art spheres, and of course of popular music, but Stephen Graham provides a sorely needed contribution in the form of a study that unites all of these different strands intelligibly. I can think of few other scholars who would be able to speak with the confidence and authority that he commands.” — Joanna Demers, University of Southern California
£53.54
The University of Michigan Press Broadway Rhythm
Book SynopsisA guide to Manhattan like nothing you've ever read. Author Dominic Symonds calls it a performance cartography, and argues that the city of New York maps its iconicity in the music of the Broadway songbook. A series of walking tours takes the reader through the landscape of Manhattan, clambering over rooftops, riding the subway, and flying over skyscrapers.Trade ReviewA witty, whimsical exploration of how the physical place of Broadway has been represented in song. The book brings place into an ongoing scholarly conversation about the ways in which Broadway musicals do important cultural work and adds layers of meaning to a form that is generally considered solely in terms of words and music."" - Andrea Most, University of Toronto""With an ear attuned to the rhythmic and harmonic structures of the musical, Symonds proposes inventive and sometimes audacious new interpretations of classic Broadway songs and songwriters. His examples explore how form and experience shape each other and provide affective maps of the city. . . . Broadway Rhythm offers a new way to read the American musical."" - Shane Vogel, Indiana University
£68.95
Anthology For Music In Western Civilization The
Book SynopsisThe perfect companion to MUSIC IN WESTERN CIVILIZATION! With an introduction to, a score for, and lyrics and translation for each piece, ANTHOLOGY FOR MUSIC IN WESTERN CIVILIZATION, VOLUME II:THE ENLIGHTENMENT TO THE PRESENT enhances your understanding of the major European styles, genres, and composers.
£82.99
Cengage Learning, Inc Piano for the Developing Musician Update
Book SynopsisPIANO FOR THE DEVELOPING MUSICIAN, Sixth Edition, is ideal for the music major who must pass a piano proficiency before graduating. This intuitive, flexible text synthesizes functional keyboard skills, repertoire, ensemble, and creativity in every chapter, all while coordinating with theory curriculum.Table of ContentsPreliminary Chapter on Rudiments. 1. Intervals. 2. Pentascales. 3. Root Position Triads. 4. Extended Use of Intervals, Pentascales, and Triads/Dominant Seventh. 5. Chord Shapes/Pentascales with Black-Key Group. 6. Scalar Sequences/Modal Patterns/Black-Key-Group Major Scales. 7. White-Key Major Scale Fingerings/Blues Pentascale and the 12-Bar Blues. 8. White-Key Minor Scale Fingerings/Diatonic Harmonies in Minor. 9. The ii-V7-I Progression. 10. Secondary Dominants/Styles of Accompanying. 11. Harmonic Implications of Common Modes. 12. Diatonic Seventh Chords in Major and Minor/Secondary Seventh Chords. 13. Altered/Borrowed Triads. 14. Altered Seventh Chords/Extended Harmonies (Ninth, Thirteenth). Glossary. Index of Titles. Index of Composers.
£134.90
Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation Kings Singers Madrigals Madrigals in 4 Parts 1
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£9.45
Faber Music Ltd Improve Your SightReading Level 6 US EDITION
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£10.88
Faber Music Ltd Improve Your SightReading Level 7 US EDITION
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£11.33
Faber Music Ltd Improve Your SightReading Level 8 US EDITION
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£12.10
Random House USA Inc Decoding Despacito An Oral History of Latin Music
Book SynopsisA behind the scenes look at the music that is currently the soundtrack of the globe, reported on and written by Leila Cobo, Billboard's VP of Latin Music and the world's ultimate authority on popular Latin music.Decoding Despacito tracks the stories behind the biggest Latin hits of the past fifty years. From the salsa born and bred in the streets of New York City, to Puerto Rican reggaetón and bilingual chart-toppers, this rich oral history is a veritable treasure trove of never-before heard anecdotes and insight from a who's who of Latin music artists, executives, observers, and players. Their stories, told in their own words, take you inside the hits, to the inner sanctum of the creative minds behind the tracks that have defined eras and become hallmarks of history.FEATURING THE STORIES BEHIND SONGS BY:José Feliciano • Los Tigres Del Norte • Julio Iglesias • Gloria Estefan and Miami Sound Machine • Will
£13.29
Penguin Young Readers Shine Bright
Book SynopsisAmerican pop music is arguably this country’s greatest cultural contribution to the world, and its singular voice and virtuosity were created by a shining thread of Black women geniuses stretching back to the country’s founding. This is their surprising, heartbreaking, soaring story—from “one of the generation’s greatest, most insightful, most nuanced writers in pop culture” (Shea Serrano)“Sparkling . . . the overdue singing of a Black girl’s song, with perfect pitch . . . delicious to read.”—Oprah DailyONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: San Francisco Chronicle, NPR, The Root, Variety, Esquire, The Guardian, Newsweek, Pitchfork, She Reads, Publishers WeeklySHORTLISTED FOR THE PORCHLIGHT BUSINESS BOOK AWARDA weave of biography, criticism, and memoir, Shine Bright is Danyel Smith’s intimate history of Black women’s music as the foun
£15.30
Penguin Putnam Inc Declassified
Book Synopsis“A refreshingly fun guide” that reads “as if you’re a fly on the wall in conservatory auditions, cutthroat competitions and the obsessive practice routines of professional musicians.” (The New York Times)Arianna Warsaw-Fan Rauch’s life-long fascination with classical music has taken her through Juilliard and into the shiny world of symphony halls and international concert tours. She’s loved classical music her whole life. But she’s also hated classical music her whole life. After all, if you can like Beyoncé without liking Bieber, you can certainly like Brahms without liking Bach—especially since they were born 148 years apart and the thing we call “classical music” is really just centuries of compositions shoved into one hodge-podge of a genre. In Declassified, Warsaw-Fan Rauch blows through the cobwebs of elitism and exclusion and invites everyone to love and hate
£21.60
Penguin Putnam Inc World Within a Song
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£20.80
Penguin Young Readers Mad Libs For the Fans Beyoncé Edition
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£7.38
Hal Leonard Corporation Hal Leonard Fretboard Roadmaps 5String Banjo
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£16.14
Hal Leonard Corporation BERT LIGON COMPREHENSIVE TECHNIQUE FOR JAZZ
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£999.99
Hal Leonard Corporation STRUM IT GUITAR DISNEY FAVORITES MLC
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£13.49
Hal Leonard Corporation KingSingers Irish Songbook Collection
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£9.76
Hal Leonard Corporation The Creative Soloist Vocal Solos
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£9.78
Faber Music Ltd FastTrack Bass 1 Songbook 2
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£14.99
Hal Leonard Corporation Mission Impossible Theme for Brass Quintet Music
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£24.29
Hal Leonard Corporation Miles Davis Originals 2
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£14.95
Berklee Press Publications Essential Ear Training For the Contemporary
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£999.99
