Bravo! - The NZSO At 50 by Joy Tonks
$25.00 NZD
Category: Music | Reading Level: very good
Written to celebrate the orchestra's 50th birthday and update its history in the decade following the publication, The New Zealand Symphony Orchestra: the first forty years.
Battle of the Band Names - The Best and Worst Band Names Ever (and All the Brilliant, Colorful, Stupid Ones in Between) by Bart Bull
$12.00 NZD
Category: Music | Reading Level: very good
Award-winning, long-time music journalist Bart Bull has compiled thousands of odd, obscure and funny band names and organised them into 25 highly-designed chapters including Best, Worst, Tribute Bands, Heavy Metal Bands, Heavy Metal Bands in France, Hip Hop names, Surf Bands, Punk ensembles, Japanese Ba ...Show more
Post Everything - Outsider Rock and Roll by Luke Haines
$12.00 NZD
Category: Music | Reading Level: very good
Britain in the late 1990s. Post Britpop. The dawn of the rock and roll apocalypse. If it feels like there's nothing new under the sun, that's because there is nothing new under the sun. After the death of Kurt Cobain popular culture entered, and is still in, its final phase: post everything. Post Every ...Show more
Tom Jones - The Life by Sean Smith
$14.00 NZD
Category: Music | Reading Level: very good
From bestselling biographer Sean Smith comes the fascinating and tumultuous true story behind Sir Tom Jones, the nation's treasure, sage of The Voice and living music legend. Now approaching his 75th birthday, Tom Jones' life has been an unforgettable rollercoaster ride. From starting out in a little We ...Show more
Sinfonia Eroica: The First Great Romantic Symphony (Beethoven's Third Symphony) by James Hamilton-Paterson
$20.00 NZD
Category: Music | Series: The Landmark Library | Reading Level: fine
In 1805, the world of music was set on its ears by a new work from a German composer. Intellectually and emotionally, Beethoven's Third Symphony, the 'Eroica', was revolutionary music. After those first two stunning chords, Western music was never the same again. And the whiff of actual political revolu ...Show more
Offenbach by Peter Gammond
$14.00 NZD
Category: Music | Series: Illustrated Lives of the Great Composers S. | Reading Level: very good
This series of biographies presents the great composers against the background of their times. Each draws on personal letters and recollections, engravings, paintings and, when they exist, photographs, to present a complete picture of the composer's life.
Just a Bloody Piano Player by Henry Shirley
$20.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
Composers on Music - An anthology of composers' writings from Palestrina to Copland by Sam Morgernstern (ed.)
$20.00 NZD
Category: Music | Reading Level: very good
Mozart - The Golden Years, 1781-1791 by H. C. Robbins Landon
$20.00 NZD
Category: Music | Reading Level: very good
Virgil Thomson - Composer on the Aisle by Anthony Tommasini
$30.00 NZD
Category: Music | Reading Level: very good
In this vivid portrayal of a giant in American twentieth-century music and criticism, Anthony Tommasini recounts Thomson's experiences as a composer, critic, and gay man. Tommasini chronicles Thomson's upbringing in turn-of-the-century Kansas City, along with his struggle to accept his sexuality-I didn' ...Show more
Solid Gold Maori Songs - 12 Best Sellers -Traditional and Contemporary Maori Music by Sam Freedman
$14.00 NZD
Category: Music | Reading Level: good