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How Music Works: A Listener’s Guide to Harmony, Keys, Broken Chords, Perfect Pitch and the Secrets of a Good Tune
As a practising composer and holder of a PhD in physics, John Powell is well-placed to provide an introduction to the science of musical sound. In ... See details
£25.00
Forbidden Music: The Jewish Composers Banned by the Nazis
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Looks at the contribution of Jewish composers in Germany and Austria before 1933, at their increasingly precarious ...
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Gustav Mahler
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Explores Mahler’s early life, his relationship to literature, his achievements as a conductor in Vienna and N...
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The Birth of an Opera: Fifteen Masterpieces from Poppea to Wozzeck
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The Birth of an Opera offers illuminating insight into how operas are written and the personalities, incidents, and...
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Here Comes Everybody: The Story of The Pogues
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Reviled by traditionalists for their frequently fast, often riotous interpretations of Irish folk songs, the Pogues...
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Dinner with Lenny: The Last Long Interview with Leonard Bernstein
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Leonard Bernstein was arguably the most highly esteemed, influential, and charismatic American classical music pers...
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Boring Formless Nonsense: Experimental Music and the Aesthetics of Failure
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<p>Highly original in form and content, this radical work redefines the aesthetics of failure through the pri...
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Pigs Might Fly: The Inside Story of Pink Floyd
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Mark Blake’s history of Pink Floyd – the first for fifteen years – has already been acknowledged ...
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Verdi and/or Wagner: Two Men, Two Worlds, Two Centuries
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Giuseppe Verdi and Richard Wagner, the two greatest operatic composers of their time, had everything and nothing in...
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Forget About Today: Bob Dylan’s Genius for (re)invention, Shunning the Naysayers, and Creating a Personal Revolution
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Shows a side of Bob Dylan that most people – from fans to skeptics – have never seen. This book offers ...
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£22.00
Song Reader
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Complete with full-colour, heyday-of-home-play-inspired art for each song and a produced hardcover carrying case (a...
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Mozart’s Grace
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It is a common article of faith that Mozart composed the most beautiful music we can know. But few of us ask why. W...
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£45.00
Letters from a Life: The Selected Letters of Benjamin Britten, 1913-1976 (Vol. 6, 1966-1976)
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The composer’s final decade sees a new outpouring of creativity.
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£30.00
Toscanini in Britain
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This is the first book to describe Arturo Toscanini’s activities – the life he led, his concerts and re...
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