(Paperback)
By: Clare Nina Norelli
ISBN: 9781501323010
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2017
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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The first book to focus on the soundtrack of Twin Peaks, with publication timed alongside the series return.
(Paperback, Main)
By: Edward Dusinberre
ISBN: 9780571317141
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2016
UK Publication Date: 15th September 2016
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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The essential read for fans of Beethoven and string quartet music.
(Paperback)
By: Laura Tunbridge
ISBN: 9780241987445
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2021
UK Publication Date: 24th June 2021
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: John Mauceri
ISBN: 9781474618304
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2022
UK Publication Date: 7th July 2022
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
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Masterly conductor's guide to classical music for anyone seeking to love and understand it
(Paperback)
By: Bourke Chris
ISBN: 9781869408718
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2017
Publisher: Auckland University Press
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Be it "Tipperary" or "Pokarekare", the morning reveille or the bugle's last post, concert parties at the front or patriotic songs at home, music was central to New Zealand's experience of the First World War. In Good-Bye Maoriland, the acclaimed author of Blue Smoke introduces us the songs and sounds of World War I in order to take us deep inside
(Paperback)
By: Mark Evan Bonds
ISBN: 9780691168050
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Oct 2015
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Before the nineteenth century, instrumental music was considered inferior to vocal music. Kant described wordless music as "more pleasure than culture," and Rousseau dismissed it for its inability to convey concepts. But by the early 1800s, a dramatic shift was under way. Purely instrumental music was now being hailed as a means to knowledge and em
(Paperback, Main - Classic Edition)
By: David Toop
ISBN: 9781788160308
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2018
UK Publication Date: 2nd August 2018
Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
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The classic account of ambient music, with a new foreword by Michel Faber.
(Hardback)
By: Tim Bouverie
ISBN: 9781780725284
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2022
Publisher: Short Books Ltd
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A book for anyone who wants to bring more classical music into their life and doesn't know where to start.
(Paperback)
By: Tim Bouverie
ISBN: 9781780725796
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2022
UK Publication Date: 3rd November 2022
Publisher: Octopus Publishing Group
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A book for anyone who wants to bring more classical music into their life and doesn't know where to start.
(Hardback)
By: Jack Pepper
ISBN: 9781787419285
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2024
UK Publication Date: 6th June 2024
Publisher: Templar Books
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A cool introduction to classical music
(Hardback)
By: Richard Bratby
ISBN: 9781783967605
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2024
UK Publication Date: 19th October 2023
Publisher: Elliott & Thompson Limited
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(Paperback, Main)
By: Steven Isserlis
ISBN: 9780571355686
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2020
UK Publication Date: 5th March 2020
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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Celebrated cellist Steven Isserlis adds his own extensive commentary to Robert Schumann's Advice for Young Musicians, a nineteenth century text that remains a must-read for music students today.
(Hardback)
By: Archie Roach
ISBN: 9781761422201
Publication Date: Nov 2023
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Australia
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(Paperback)
By: Christopher Lawrence
ISBN: 9781863957502
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2015
Publisher: Black Inc.
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(Paperback)
By: Roger Scruton
ISBN: 9780141980720
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2017
UK Publication Date: 1st June 2017
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback, Main)
By: Mark Wigglesworth
ISBN: 9780571337910
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2020
UK Publication Date: 5th September 2019
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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A unique insight into a conductor's world.
(Hardback)
By: Norman Lebrecht
ISBN: 9780861544530
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2023
UK Publication Date: 2nd February 2023
Publisher: Oneworld Publications
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Beethovens life and legacy in 100 recordings
(Hardback)
By: Laura Klugherz
ISBN: 9780313305900
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 1998
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This guide provides the teacher and performer with information on approximately 300 works for violin and viola in solo, with piano, and with orchestra. The annotated entries provide practical information with regard to level of difficulty, musical language, and duration and number of movements. The music is placed in its historical context.
(Hardback)
By: William Scott
ISBN: 9780313289798
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 1993
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This volume provides a valuable resource for instrumental conductors, conducting teachers, and students. A Conductor's Repertory of Chamber Music lists over one thousand original works for chamber ensembles ranging in size from nine to fifteen solo instruments.
(Hardback)
By: Pamela Y. Dees
ISBN: 9780313319891
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2002
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Designed as a practical reference guide for professional pianists and piano teachers, A Guide to Piano Music by Women Composers, Volume I, is an annotated catalogue of the available piano music in print composed by 144 women born before the 20th century.
(Hardback)
By: William Drabkin
ISBN: 9780313301735
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 1999
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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The six string quartets comprising Joseph Haydn's Opus 20 (composed in 1772) are the first works in the genre to have received consistent critical attention from writers on music.
(Hardback)
By: Jeffrey Kresky
ISBN: 9780313292538
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 1994
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This work provides a detailed guide through Chopin's set of 24 interconnected Preludes. It examines the Preludes both individually and as a group, and assesses both technical and expressive means and ends.
(Paperback)
By: Christopher Hailey
ISBN: 9780691148564
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 2010
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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A collection of essays and source material that repositions Berg as the pivotal figure of Viennese musical modernism. It explores the specific qualities of Berg's brand of musical modernism, and present translated letters and documents that illuminate his relationship to the politics and culture of his era.
(Hardback)
By: Catherine Gold
ISBN: 9780313273636
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 1991
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This collection is a tribute to the talent, teaching, and humanism of Alfred Einstein, whose scholarship and criticisms affirm his position as one of the foremost musicologists of the twentieth century.
