Letters of Frank Loesser
ISBN: HB: 9780300250749,
Yale University Press,
July 2025
576 pp., 23,4x15,3 cm, 32 colour illus., 16 black&white illus.
576 pp., 23,4x15,3 cm, 32 colour illus., 16 black&white illus.
The first collected correspondence of one of America's greatest songwriters - revealing a fascinating life and lasting influence.
Frank Loesser was one of the most versatile and influential figures of the Golden Age of Broadway, most famous for "Gu...
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25.00 GBP
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Women and the Piano
A History in 50 Lives
ISBN: PB: 9780300281101,
ISBN: HB: 9780300266573,
Yale University Press,
May 2025
304 pp., 19,8x12,9 cm, 20 black&white illus.
304 pp., 19,8x12,9 cm, 20 black&white illus.
Women are an essential part of the history of the piano - but how many women pianists can you name?
Throughout most of the piano's history, women pianists lacked access to formal training and were excluded from male-dominated performance spaces. Ev...
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11.99 GBP
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25.00 GBP
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Bagpipes
A Cultural History
ISBN: HB: 9781805262848,
Hurst Publishers,
May 2025
272 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 16 colour illus.
272 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 16 colour illus.
A diverse history of the pipes - from inspiring terror on battlefields to enriching cultures worldwide.
History's first named bagpiper is a man playing a pipe 'with a bag tucked under his armpit' in the first century CE. He was the Roman Emperor Ner...
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20.00 GBP
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Little History of Music
New Edition
ISBN: PB: 9780300279085,
Yale University Press,
April 2025
320 pp., 19,8x12,8 cm
320 pp., 19,8x12,8 cm
A superbly engaging guide to music around the world, from prehistory to the present.
Music excites and moves us perhaps more than any other art form. From a Neanderthal's bone flute to the festivals of Glastonbury and Coachella, human beings have a...
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10.99 GBP
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Ariosto, Opera, and the 17th Century
Evolution in the Poetics of Delight
ISBN: PB: 9788822265012,
Yale University Press,
Paul Holberton Publishing,
April 2025
292 pp., 23,4x17,1 cm
292 pp., 23,4x17,1 cm
The success of Orlando furioso in Italian musical theatre is vast and complex. This book examines the main phases of the circulation and influence of Orlando furioso on the seventeenth-century music scene by reconstructing an overall historical and c...
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30.00 GBP
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Puccini's Soundscapes
Realism and Modernity in Italian Opera
ISBN: PB: 9788822264473,
Yale University Press,
Paul Holberton Publishing,
April 2025
180 pp., 23,4x17,1 cm
180 pp., 23,4x17,1 cm
From the bells in Tosca and the birdcalls in Madame Butterfly to the horns and sirens in Il tabarro and the music box melodies that inspired Turandot, Puccini's operas rely to an unprecedented degree on realistic and seemingly unmediated acoustic obj...
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22.00 GBP
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Opera Meets New Media
Puccini, Ricordi and the Rise of the Modern Entertainment Industry
ISBN: HB: 9783791377728,
Prestel Publishing,
January 2025
152 pp., 24,0x17,0 cm, 121 colour illus.
152 pp., 24,0x17,0 cm, 121 colour illus.
A gloriously illustrated book which sheds new light on the Puccini era and the roots of the modern music industry.
After Mozart and Verdi, Giacomo Puccini is the third most performed opera composer in the world today. On the centenary of his death,...
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Music and Joy
Lessons on the Good Life
ISBN: HB: 9780300264210,
Yale University Press,
November 2024
336 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm, 40 black&white illus.
336 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm, 40 black&white illus.
From Confucius to Saint Augustine and Beethoven to the blues, a rediscovery of the joy that is music.
In this revelatory book, Daniel K. L. Chua asks a simple question: Is music joy? For Chua, the answer is a resounding yes - music is a lesson in j...
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25.00 GBP
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Jazz Age Illustration
ISBN: HB: 9780300278811,
Yale University Press,
October 2024
176 pp., 27,9x24,1 cm, 125 colour illus.
176 pp., 27,9x24,1 cm, 125 colour illus.
A gorgeous look at popular illustrators of the Jazz Age and their influential role in the dynamic culture of the 1920s and '30s.
The 1920s in the United States was characterized by economic prosperity and dramatic social change. Known as the Jazz A...
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40.00 GBP
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The Beatles
In Pictures
ISBN: HB: 9781781454909,
GMC Group,
Ammonite Press,
August 2024
288 pp., 18,0x18,0 cm, black&white photos
288 pp., 18,0x18,0 cm, black&white photos
"The Beatles: In Pictures" celebrates the career and legacy of one of history's most iconic groups through 300 archive photographs.
The best-selling band in history, with sales of over a billion, The Beatles John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harri...
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16.99 GBP
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