The Beatles' England - There Are Places I'll Remember by David Bacon; Norman Maslov
$12.00 NZD
Category: Music | Reading Level: good-very good
Jenny McLeod - A Life in Music by Norman Meehan
$30.00 NZD
Category: Music | Reading Level: near fine
Born in 1941, at age five she discovered she could read music fluently. After a childhood in Timaru and Levin, she went on to study music with Douglas Lilburn and Frederick Page at Victoria University College, and in Europe with two imposing figures of mid-twentieth century modernism: Olivier Messiaen a ...Show more
A Distant Music - The Life and Times of Alfred Hill 1870-1960 by John M Thomson
$40.00 NZD
Category: Music | Reading Level: very good
The Lennon & McCartney Guitar Course by Morton Manus
$8.00 NZD
Category: Music | Reading Level: good
The Jazz Revolution - Twenties America and the Meaning of Jazz by Kathy J Ogren
$12.00 NZD
Category: Music | Reading Level: very good
Born of African rhythms, the spiritual "call and response," and other American musical traditions, jazz was by the 1920s the dominant influence on this country's popular music. Writers of the Harlem Renaissance (Langston Hughes, Claude McKay, Zora Neale Hurston) and the "Lost Generation"(Malcolm Cowley, ...Show more
Pulphead - Essays by John Jeremiah Sullivan
$10.00 NZD
Category: Music | Reading Level: good
A sharp-eyed, uniquely humane tour of America's cultural landscape--from high to low to lower than low--by the award-winning young star of the literary nonfiction world In "Pulphead, "John Jeremiah Sullivan takes us on an exhilarating tour of our popular, unpopular, and at times completely forgotten cul ...Show more
The History Of The Blues - The roots, the music, the people from Charley Patton to Robert Cray by Francis Davis
$20.00 NZD
Category: Music | Reading Level: very good
Traces the development of one of the world's greatest music styles and considers the changing attitudes towards the blues on the part of both blacks and whites, ranging from Count Basie to Bonnie Raitt. Starting from the 1900's the significance of the Blues on American culture is discussed.
The Listening Composer by George Perle
$20.00 NZD
Category: Music | Series: Ernest Bloch Lectures | Reading Level: very good
George Perle takes us into the composer's workshop as he reevaluates what we call "twentieth-century music"-a term used to refer to new or modern or contemporary music that represents a radical break from the tonal tradition, or "common practice," of the preceding three centuries. He proposes that this ...Show more
Mysterious Mozart by Philippe Sollers
$15.00 NZD
Category: Music | Reading Level: very good
Both a beguiling portrait of the artist and an idiosyncratic self-portrait of the author, Mysterious Mozart is Philippe Sollers's alternately oblique and searingly direct interpretation of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's oeuvre and lasting mystique, audaciously reformulated for the postmodern age.With a mix o ...Show more
Arnold Schoenberg - Theory of Harmony by Arnold Schoenberg
$65.00 NZD
Category: Music | Reading Level: very good
A new critical foreword by Walter Frisch, H. Harold Gumm/Harry and Albert von Tilzer Professor of Music at Columbia University, expands this centennial edition. Frisch puts Schoenberg's masterpiece into historical and ideological context, delineating the connections between music, theory, art, science, ...Show more
Mark the Music - The Life and Work of Marc Blitzstein by Eric A Gordon
$20.00 NZD
Category: Music | Reading Level: very good
The recently released Tim Robbins film Cradle Will Rock reawakened worldwide audiences to composer Marc Blitzstein's runaway Broadway hit of 1937, and to the exciting times he lived in. Blitzstein went on to write Regina (based on Lillian Hellman's "The Little Foxes"), the definitive translation of Kurt ...Show more