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A comprehensive account of the life of composer Chou Wen-Chung, including biographical information, cultural and musical analysis of his approach and compositions, and ethnomusicological insights.

(Paperback, Main)

Here's something to set you singing this Christmas - a history of carols. An ideal Christmas book gift or stocking filler, now available in paperback.

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(Paperback)

What does classical music mean to the Western World How has it transformed over the centuries This book examines how music is related to some of the big ideas of Western experience including spirituality, emotion, the weight of history, and self identity.

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From Bach to Mozart to Wagner, this comprehensive, opinionated, one-volume guide ranks the top 50 classical composers, provides a detailed and anecdotal look at the life of each, and analyzes five essential works of each composer. Goulding offers specific recommendations for the best CDs, concise explanations of music terms, and more.

(Hardback)

(Paperback)

A detailed history of the exhaustive road experience of Canadian rock icons Rush. Celebrating the band's 30th anniversary, By-Tour features in-depth original interviews with Geddy Lee, Alex Lifeson, and Neil Peart.

(Paperback, Main)

Following on from Giant Steps, comes the second instalment in Kenny Mathieson's series of jazz histories.

(Paperback)

This guide contains articles that describe the genesis of the opera and the circumstances surrounding its first performances, a musical commentary, a detailed description of its performance history. It also includes sixteen pages of illustrations, a musical thematic guide, the full libretto with English translation, a discography and bibliography.

(Hardback)

(Paperback)

A collection of pop culture activity fun for both adults and children, focusing on country music, this book is sure to cheer up anyone.

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In this elegantly tooled volume, Adam Sweeting gets the lowdown on cover versions - the worst, the most popular, the most frequently recorded, the most successful, the stupidest, the most tasteless, the most influential, and the ones nobody got around to yet.

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Crap Lyrics is a humorous celebration (and occasionally, condemnation) of over 120 of the most ridiculous hooks, lines and stinkers from pop poetry through the modern ages.

(Hardback)

The first and most complete narrative biography of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, by acclaimed music journalist and Rolling Stone contributing editor David Browne, in time for the band's 50th anniversary

(Paperback, Main)

The best and most ambitious book about Jimi Hendrix, being reissued with a revised introduction on the 70th anniversary of Hendrix's birth.

(Paperback)

The full story for the first time of the legendary pop icon written with the full cooperation of family and friends.

(Hardback)

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(Paperback)

English National Opera Guides are ideal companions to the opera. They provide stimulating introductory articles together with the complete text of each opera in English and the original.

(Paperback)

(Paperback, New edition)

The story of how hip-hop created, and came to dominate, the twenty-first century.

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From his emergence in the 1950s - when an uncannily beautiful young man from Oklahoma appeared in the West Coast and became, seemingly overnight, the prince of 'cool' jazz - until his violent, drug-related death in Amsterdam in 1988, Chet Baker lived a life that has become an American myth.

(Paperback)

English National Opera Guides are ideal companions to the opera. They provide stimulating introductory articles together with the complete text of each opera in English and the original.

(Paperback)

English National Opera Guides are ideal companions to the opera. They provide stimulating introductory articles together with the complete text of each opera in English and the original.

(Paperback)

English National Opera Guides are ideal companions to the opera. They provide stimulating introductory articles together with the complete text of each opera in English and the original.