Music Books
Faber Music Ltd The Essential Handbook for Musicians Who Teach
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£14.24
Samuel French Ltd Bandstand Vocal Selections
Book SynopsisThe boys are back, but their war isn't over. Bandstand is a defiant and unflinching original musical that confronts the cost of war and the salvation that can be found in song. Featuring an exuberant jazz score and the modern musical theatre hit, Welcome Home, discover a new musical that plumbs the depths of celebration and suffering in post-war America. Now, the sheet music of Bandstand is available in one volume.This Vocal Selections book contains fifteen songs from the Broadway musical:Just Like It Was BeforeDonny NovitskiI Know A GuyAin't We ProudWho I WasFirst Steps FirstYou Deserve ItLove Will Come And Find Me AgainRight This WayNobodyI Got A TheoryEverything HappensBand In New York CityThis Is LifeWelcome Home
£20.00
Thomas Family ABC African American Musicians Coloring Book
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£9.19
Harvard University Press Historical Anthology of Music Volume II Baroque
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£52.20
James Clarke & Co Ltd The Older Liszt
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£24.70
John Murray Press The Making of Music
Book SynopsisBroadcaster James Naughtie takes a spellbinding journey through the history of musicTrade ReviewRomantic and rapturous, divertingly anecdotal and enthusiastic * The Times *[Naughtie's] real passion ... should easily entice anyone who reads about the works he praises to go and listen to them as soon as is practicable * Sunday Telegraph *'Immensely readable ... a cracking good yarn' * Scotsman *Consistently engaging ... It is enthralling, a very fine book. For Everyman * Herald *A genial, meandering but ultimately purposeful journey through the social history of music . . . this book is rich in anecdote, and it is all the better for it * Guardian *
£11.69
Prentice Hall Press No Walls and the Recurring Dream
Book SynopsisA candid, fascinating memoir from celebrated singer-songwriter and social activist Ani DiFranco.
£15.29
Edinburgh University Press The New Soundtrack
Book SynopsisThe New Soundtrack brings together leading edge academic and professional perspectives on the complex relationship between sound and moving images.
£18.04
Taylor & Francis Madonnas Drowned Worlds
Book SynopsisMadonna is perhaps one of the most consistently transgressive and self-transforming artists of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. The recent release of two critically acclaimed and best-selling albums and a sold-out world tour have renewed media and academic interest in the artist. Madonna presents a set of strikingly new challenges to cultural analysis, and new developments in Gender, Queer and Ethnic studies have shed more light on her entire oeuvre. Whilst the contributors do refer to classic cultural theorists such as Baudrillard, Zizek, Foucault and Barthes, new theoretical approaches to Madonna's work feature prominently. In view of this, the present volume offers new perspectives on Madonna's work to date, addressing her configurations of race, gender and sex(uality) and with special emphasis on her resurrection after the Sex backlash in the early 1990s. The collection focuses on new Madonna-related topics such as Hinduism, Judaism, Japanese culture, All-American culture,Trade Review'... the variety of issues discussed in the text should make it a valuable and up-to-date resource with quite a wide audience.' Popular MusicTable of ContentsContents: Who's That Girl?: Introduction: Re-invention? Madonna's drowned worlds resurface, Santiago Fouz-Hernández and Freya Jarman-Ivens. Part I The Girlie Show: Gender Identities: Dragging out camp: narrative agendas in Madonna's musical production, Stan Hawkins; Madonna's girls in the mix: performance of femininity beyond the beautiful, Patricia Pisters; Where is the female body? Androgyny and other strategies of disappearance in Madonna's music videos, Corinna Herr. Part II Post-Virgin: Sexual Identities: Queer hearing and the Madonna queen, Keith E. Clifton; What it feels like for two girls: Madonna's play with lesbian (sub-)cultures, Freya Jarman-Ivens. Part III Drowned Worlds: Ethnic Identities: East is hot! 'Madonna's Indian Summer' and the poetics of appropriation, Michael Angelo Tata; Re-worlding the oriental: critical perspectives on Madonna as geisha, Rahul Gairola; The day the music died laughing: Madonna and Country, Sean Albiez; Crossing the border(line): Madonna's encounter with the Hispanic, Santiago Fouz-Hernández. Part IV Blond Ambition: Consuming Celebrity: Madonna's daughters: girl power and the empowered girl-pop breakthrough, David Gauntlett; Consuming Madonna then and now: an examination of the dynamics and structuring of celebrity consumption, Lisa Peñaloza. Bibliography; Index.
£128.25
Taylor & Francis The Gei of Geisha Music Identity and Meaning
Book SynopsisThe Japanese geisha is an international icon, known almost universally as a symbol of traditional Japan. Numerous books exist on the topic, yet this is the first to focus on the 'gei' of geisha - the art that constitutes their title (gei translates as fine art, sha refers to person). Kelly M. Foreman brings together ethnomusicological field research, including studying and performing the shamisen among geisha in Tokyo, with historical research. The book elaborates how musical art is an essential part of the identity of the Japanese geisha rather than a secondary feature, and locates current practice within a tradition of two and half centuries. The book opens by deconstructing the idea of 'geisha' as it functions in Western societies in order to understand why gei has been, and continues to be, neglected in geisha studies. Subsequent chapters detail the myriad musical genres and traditions with which geisha have been involved during their artistic history, as well as their position wiTrade Review’This is the first book to focus on the art (gei) of the geisha and to position musical skills at the center of geisha life and identity ... Much of the material about geisha repertoire and history is not readily available in English. The final chapter is especially engaging. Summing Up: Recommended.’ Choice ’... this book is an insightful read, both informative and entertaining, bringing to life an area of Japanese society that continues to be steeped in myth and intrigue.’ Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies ’In this well-crafted book, Kelly M. Foreman takes on the pervasive conception of Japanese geisha as exploited erotic entertainers, and argues that the center of their professional lives is their dedication to traditional Japanese performing arts. ... The Gei of Geisha should attract those interested in the social phenomenon of female performing arts, as well as those interested in the arts themselves.’ International Journal of Asian Studies ’The Gei of Geisha is a beautiful and much needed work that fits nicely into Japanese musical studies. Scholars and everyday readers alike would gain a new perspective on geisha from this book and, ultimately, because of Foreman’s convincing detail, on what truly makes a geisha an artist - her gei (art).’ Ethnomusicology Forum 'This book is essential for anyone considering the scholarly study of geisha from an ethnomusicological or an anthropological perspective.' EthnomusicologyTable of ContentsContents: Preface; Introduction; Repertoire and training; Geisha performances and how they are constructed; Geisha and traditional arts society; Entertainer vs. artist: patronage and the negotiation of identity; Understanding geisha and gei: eroticism through ambiguity; Bibliography; Index.
£137.75
Taylor & Francis The Modernist Legacy Essays on New Music
Book SynopsisThis collection of essays offers a historical reappraisal of what musical modernism was, and what its potential for the present and future could be. It thus moves away from the binary oppositions that have beset twentieth-century music studies in the past, such as those between modernism and postmodernism, between conceptions of musical autonomy and of cultural contingency and between formalist-analytical and cultural-historical approaches. Focussing particularly on music from the 1970s to the 1990s, the volume assembles approaches from different perspectives to new music with a particular emphasis on a critical reassessment of the meaning and function of the legacy of musical modernism. The authors include scholars, musicologists and composers who combine culturally, socially, historically and aesthetically oriented approaches with analytical methods in imaginative ways.Trade Review’This collection present[s] ways in which we might (and must) reconsider modernism, enlarging our understanding of its breadth, depth and reach, and projecting a happier future for its reception. It does this through the sharpness of its arguments for the expressive, technical and social achievements of musical modernism. ... this is a collection of top-drawer contributions, intelligently compiled and thoroughly polished for publication.’ TempoTable of ContentsContents: Introduction: new music and the modernist legacy, Björn Heile; Part I New Music , Social Debates and the Aesthetics of Critical Modernism: Modernism's moment of plenitude, Andrew Timms; Fields of rubble: on the poetics of music after the post modern, John Croft; Spectralism, politics and the post-industrial imagination, Eric Drott; The scream in avant-garde music: the new left and the rediscovery of the body, Beate Kutschke; Verbal discourse as aesthetic arbitrator in contemporary music, Ian Pace; Weltmusik and the globalization of new music, Björn Heile. Part II Aspects of Compositional Poetics: Temps perdu: Aldo Clementi and the eclipse of music as praxis, David Osmond-Smith; Feldman - Beckett - Johns: patterning, memory and subjectivity, Catherine Laws; Brian Fernyhough, 'postmodern modernist', Lois Fitch; The electroacoustic music of Henri Pousseur and the 'open' form, John Dack; Self-portrait with Boulez and Machaut (and Ligeti is there as well): Harrison Birtwistles's Hoquetus Petrus, Mark Delaere; Local polymetric structures in Elliott Carters 90+ for Piano (1994), Ève Poudrier; Select bibliography; Index.
£150.00
Taylor & Francis Wax Trash and Vinyl Treasures Record Collecting
Book SynopsisThe term 'record collecting' is shorthand for a variety of related practices. Foremost is the collection of sound recordings in various formats - although often with a marked preference for vinyl - by individuals, and it is this dimension of record collecting that is the focus of this book. Record collecting, and the public stereotypes associated with it, is frequently linked primarily with rock and pop music. Roy Shuker focuses on these broad styles, but also includes other genres and their collectors, notably jazz, blues, exotica and 'ethnic' music. Accordingly, the study examines the history of record collecting; profiles collectors and the collecting process; considers categories - especially music genres - and types of record collecting and outlines and discusses the infrastructure within which collecting operates. Shuker situates this discussion within the broader literature on collecting, along with issues of cultural consumption, social identity and 'the construction of self'Trade Review'While the cultural analysis of popular music has been routinely consumed by consumption, few have taken the time to research how we acquire what we listen to and why some of us engage in that process compulsively. What might seem like an undirected act of ceaseless acquisition, record collecting can be, as Shuker illustrates, a process of self-definition, critical analysis and canon formation. Wax Trash and Vinyl Treasures: Record Collecting as a Social Practice is a readable, informative and insightful consideration of the social dimensions of commerce and the sometimes complicated ambitions of those record fanatics who might shop 'til they drop or their eardrums suffer damage.' David Sanjek, University of Salford, UK 'In Wax Trash and Vinyl Treasures: Record Collecting as a Social Practice, Roy Shuker captures both the passion and the precision that makes record collecting the enduring global phenomenon, community, and business it is. From his detailed history of various forms of collecting to his engaging case studies of contemporary collectors, Shuker's book is sure to engage the reader as much as would a day rummaging through a city block of used record stores!' Russell Reising, The University of Toledo, USA ’... In this long-overdue study...Roy Shuker...expertly develops a historical overview that explores changes in format and shifts in canon, and the impact these have on issues of taste, economic and cultural capital, and collecting practices.’ Times Higher Education ’This book is a fascinating social study of people like us. ... Wax Trash is a compelling look at the male (and sometimes female) obsession with rotating discs.’ 4 Stars, Record CollectorTable of ContentsContents: Introduction; The 78 era: creating a collecting constituency; The contemporary collector: beyond the High Fidelity stereotype; Formats, collectors, and the music industry; Taste, the canon, and the collectable; Collecting practices; Record collecting and the music press; Collector profiles; Appendices; Bibliography; Index.
£121.50
Running Press Mini Musical Ice Cream Truck
Book SynopsisThis sweet gift for ice cream lovers of all ages brings the signature sound of summertime to your home, office, or playroom. High-quality mini truck plays 3 tunes! Specifications: Mini ice cream truck features a vibrant, original design; measures approximately 3-1/4 x 2-3/4 x 1-1/2 inches Plays 3 tunes: Hear 30-second clips of three distinct, nostalgic ice cream truck songs Includes illustrated mini book: The accompanying 32-page full-color mini book (2-1/2 x 3 inches) offers history, fun facts, and more about ice cream and ice cream trucks Captures that summer feeling: With its bright design and fun tunes, the feel-good item will remind you of carefree, warm, and sunny summertime Perfect gift: For kids, parents, or anyone who loves ice cream and ice cream trucks Includes button cell batteries.
£10.06
Mel Bay Publications,U.S. Theory And Harmony Wall Chart
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£15.95
Mel Bay Publications,U.S. First Lessons Ukulele
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£999.99
Hal Leonard Corporation The Best of Blood Sweat Tears Transcribed Scores
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£26.99
Hal Leonard Corporation Texas Flood
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£17.99
University Press of Kentucky Apostles of Rock The Splintered World of
Book SynopsisSmith, DC Talk, and Sixpence None the Richer climb the mainstream charts, Jay Howard and John Streck talk about CCM as an important movement and show how this musical genre relates to a larger popular culture.
£20.25
Trinity College London Press Sound At Sight Singing Book 2 Grades 35
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£7.95
Trinity College London Press Mosaics Flute Book 1
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£10.40
Trinity College London Press Mosaics Flute Book 2
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£11.95
Trinity College London Press Mosaics Clarinet Book 2
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£11.45
Trinity College London Press Musical Moments Clarinet Book 2
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£9.45
Trinity College London Press Musical Moments Alto Saxophone Book 2
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£9.95
Trinity College London Press Musical Moments Alto Saxophone Book 3
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£10.95
Trinity College London Press Trombone Scales Grades 18 from 2015
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£14.68
Trinity College London Press Clarinet Scales Grades 18 from 2015
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£14.68
Trinity College London Press Saxophone Scales Grades 18 from 2015
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£14.68
Trinity College London Press Session Skills for Bass Grades 68
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£22.28
Trinity College London Press Viola Scales Arpeggios Studies Initial Grade 8
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£999.99
Trinity College London Press Trinity College London Guitar Exam Pieces Grade 1 20162019
£7.87
Trinity College London Press Trinity College London Guitar Exam Pieces Grade 5
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£7.68
Trinity College London Press Trinity College London Flute Exam Pieces Grade 6
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£4.95
Boydell & Brewer Ltd King Arthur in Music
Book SynopsisA survey of the influence of the Arthurian legends on musical works.King Arthur in Music is the first book to be devoted to the subject. The range of musical material is too wide for a single author to tackle satisfactorily, and the nine contributors to this volume are experts in the very different fields involved. The first essay, by Robert Shay, deals with the late seventeenth century semi-opera King Arthur, while the final essay by William Everitt looks at the appearances of Arthur on stage and screen and the scores that have accompanied these. Between these two extremes, the main body of the book deals largely with opera as we now understand it, from Wagner's 'Tristan' and 'Parsifal' to Harrison Birtwistle's 'Sir Gawain and the GreenKnight'. Some works have never been performed, such as Hubert Parry's 'Guenever' and Rutland Boughton's Arthurian cycle, while others have only recently been staged or revived, such as Isaac Albeníz's 'Merlin' and Ernest Chausson's 'Le roi Artus', both striking post-Wagnerian works in very different styles: 'Merlin', for instance, begins with a passage based on Gregorian chant. The range of music is therefore wider than one might at first suspect, and other aspects of Arthurian music are brought out in the introduction, which is a general survey of the field, and in Jerome V.Reel's comprehensive listing of Arthurian musical items which is printed as an appendix. Contributors ROBERT ADLINGTON, RICHARD BARBER, WALTER A. CLARK, JEREMY DIBBLE, WILLIAM A. EVERITT, TONY HUNT, MICHAEL HURD, JEROME V. REEL, NIGEL SIMEONE, ROBERT SHAY, DEREK WATSON.Trade ReviewNine authoritative essays... a very important book, a landmark for all future research in the area. ARTHURIANA This innovative collection adds a new dimension to Arthurian Studies. * MEDIUM AEVUM *Table of ContentsDryden and Purcell's King Arthur: Legend and Politics on the Restoration Stage - Robert Shay Wagner: Tristan and Isolde and Parsifal - Derek Watson Parry's Guenever: Trauma and Catharsis - Jeremy Dibble King Arthur and the Wagner Cult in Spain: Isaac Albéniz's Opera Merlin - Walter Clark Ernest Chausson's Le Roi Arthus - Tony Hunt Rutland Boughton's Arthurian Cycle - Michael Hurd An Exotic Tristan in Boston: the first performance of Messiaen's Turangalîla-Symphonie - 'Good lodging': Harrison Birtwistle's reception of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight - Robert Adlington King Arthur in Popular Musical Theatre and Film - William A Everett A Listing of Arthurian Music - Jerome V Reel
£72.00
Hal Leonard Corporation The Beatles Fake Book C Edition Fake Books
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£42.75
Sher Music Co ,U.S. The Jazz Solos of Chick Corea
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£15.19
Brackish Publishing International Country Music Journal 2021
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£999.99
Cambridge University Press Popular Music Heritage Cultural Justice and the
Book SynopsisThis Element analyses the capacity for popular music heritage to enact cultural justice in the deindustrialising cities of Wollongong, Australia; Detroit, USA; and Birmingham, UK. It outlines how the quest for cultural justice manifests in three key ways.Table of Contents1. Introduction; 2. Collection, preservation and archiving; 3. Curation, storytelling and heritage interpretation; 4. Mobilising communities for collective action; 5. Conclusion: a critical approach to cultural justice; References.
£17.00
Cambridge University Press Music from Aleppo during the Syrian War
Book SynopsisThis Element explores how 'tarab' lives on in new contexts through a focus on the work of Hello Psychaleppo, one of Aleppo's displaced musicians and the pioneer of 'electro-tarab', an eclectic style of urban electronic dance music that is conceived as a homage to Aleppo's musical legacy.Table of ContentsIntroduction; 1. 'Im al-Tarab': musical myths and afterlives; 2. 'Shahba': an aesthetic of displacement; 3. 'Radio Beirut': samples as codes; Conclusion; Epilogue.
£17.00
Cambridge University Press Olivier Messiaens Turangalilasymphonie
Book SynopsisThis Element contains information included on the commission and composition of the piece, its premiere by the Boston Symphony Orchestra conducted by Leonard Bernstein, its revision by Messiaen in 1990, and its reception history in both live and recorded performances.Table of Contents1. Introduction; 2. Context, commission, composition, and premiere; 3. Messiaen's musical style; 4. The Tristan trilogy and the extra-musical program; 5. Analysis and explanation of the Turangalîla-symphonie; 6. 1990 revisions to the score; 7. Reception history and interpretation; 8. Concluding remarks; Bibliography.
£17.00
Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Electronic Dance Music
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£23.75
Cambridge University Press Popular Music in Brazil
Book SynopsisThe Element outlines an overview of popular music in Brazil, from the nineteenth century to the beginning of the twenty-first century. An idea of 'popular music' was consolidated from being associated with rural musical performances of oral tradition to the recorded urban musical genres that were established through radio and television.
£17.00
Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Folk Music
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£26.60
Cambridge University Press Louise Farrenc Nonet for Winds and Strings
£18.39
Cambridge University Press Jazz and American Culture
Book SynopsisThis book offers an entry point for understanding the comprehensive way this uniquely American artistic form has influenced literature, art, film, and other art forms, while also providing a cultural space for political commentary or social critique.Trade Review'In this elegant, bold, ambitious, and much-needed intervention in the standard histories of Jazz, Borshuk brings together an all-star cast of leading scholars on a comprehensive set of topics that together enable us all to make a great leap forward in understanding the music's essential relation to American culture. The book begins with several insightful discussions of the specific aesthetic features that define jazz in the context of improvisation, race, literature, and performance, then situates the music historically in terms of Harlem, Modernism, and the watershed upheaval that peaked in 1968; from there, it connects jazz to American vernacular, the personal style of “cool,” and the music's eventual and always fraught relations with institutions of various kinds, its representation in poetry, autobiography, liner notes, and in the visual realm from cinema to TV to photography. An invaluable resource, a stunning achievement.' T. R. Johnson, Tulane University, Author of New Orleans: A Writer's CityTable of ContentsIntroduction: a brief history of jazz in American culture Michael Borshuk; Part I. Elements of Sound and Style: 1. Improvisation Ajay Heble; 2. Scat and vocalese Chris Tonelli; 3. Jazz as intertextual expression Charles Hersch; 4. How to watch jazz: the importance of performance Michael Borshuk; Part II. Aesthetic Movements: 5. Jazz age Harlem Fiona Ngo; 6. 'Hard Times Don't Worry Me': the blues in Black music and literature in the 1930s Steven Tracy; 7. A fool for beauty: modernism and the racial semiotics of crooning Michael Coyle; 8. Free Jazz, critical performativity, and 1968 Michael Hrebeniak; Part III. Cultural Contexts: 9. Jazz slang, jazz speak Amor Kohli; 10. Jazz cool Joel Dinerstein; 11. The institutionalization of jazz Dale Chapman; 12. Jazz abroad Jurgen Grandt; Part IV. Literary Genres: 13. Orchestrating chaos: othering and the politics of contingency in jazz fiction Herman Beavers; 14. 'Wail, wop': jazz poetry on the page and in performance Jessica Teague; 15. Jazz criticism and liner notes Timothy Gray; 16. Jazz autobiography Daniel Stein; 17. Jazz and the American songbook Katherine Williams; Part V. Images and Screens: 18. 'The Sound I Saw': jazz and visual culture Amy Abugo Ongiri; 19. Love, theft, and transcendence: jazz and narrative cinema Krin Gabbard; 20. Reinstating televisual histories of jazz Nicolas Pillai; 21. Documentary jazz/jazz documentary Will Finch; 22. Two dark rooms: jazz and photography Benjamin Cawthra.
£33.24
Cambridge University Press The Orchestra of the Cappella Reale Naples
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£17.00
Cambridge University Press The Aesthetic System of François Delsarte and
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£17.00
LEGARE STREET PR Prayers and Meditations
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£22.46
