Music and Joy
Music and Joy
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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Tchaikovsky's Empire
A New Life of Russia's Greatest Composer
ISBN: HB: 9780300192100,
Yale University Press,
August 2024
384 pp., 23,4x15,3 cm, 16 colour illus., 2 black&white illus., 1 map
384 pp., 23,4x15,3 cm, 16 colour illus., 2 black&white illus., 1 map
A thrilling new biography of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky – composer of some of the world's most popular orchestral and theatrical music.
Tchaikovsky is famous for all the wrong reasons. Portrayed as a hopeless romantic, a suffering melancholic, or a m...
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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
For sale in Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Mongolia, Poland, Russia, Ukraine and Uzbekistan only!
"The Beatles: In Pictures" celebrates the career and legacy of one of his...
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16.99 GBP
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Women and the Piano
A History in 50 Lives
ISBN: HB: 9780300266573,
Yale University Press,
March 2024
304 pp., 23,4x15,3 cm, 20 black&white illus.
304 pp., 23,4x15,3 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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25.00 GBP
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Devil Prefers Mozart
On Music and Musicians, 1962-1993
ISBN: PB: 9781800173088,
Carcanet,
January 2024
320 pp., 21,6x13,5 cm
320 pp., 21,6x13,5 cm
Born into a family of musicians – his mother a music-hall singer, his father a pianist in silent cinemas – Anthony Burgess became interested in music at an early age. A composer long before he became a writer, he gained a wide knowledge of the classi...
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30.00 GBP
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Horn
ISBN: HB: 9780300118933,
Yale University Press,
November 2023
480 pp., 23,4x15,5 cm, 50 black&white illus.
480 pp., 23,4x15,5 cm, 50 black&white illus.
A rich and fascinating account of one of music history's most ancient, varied, and distinctive instruments.
From its origins in animal horn instruments in classical antiquity to the emergence of the modern horn in the seventeenth century, the horn...
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35.00 GBP
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Music of Exile
The Untold Story of the Composers who Fled Hitler
ISBN: HB: 9780300266504,
Yale University Press,
October 2023
416 pp., 23,4x15,3 cm, 15 black&white illus.
416 pp., 23,4x15,3 cm, 15 black&white illus.
What happens to a composer when persecution and exile means their true music no longer has an audience?
In the 1930s, composers and musicians began to flee Hitler's Germany to make new lives across the globe. The process of exile was complex: altho...
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25.00 GBP
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Folk Music
A Bob Dylan Biography in Seven Songs
ISBN: PB: 9780300274103,
ISBN: HB: 9780300255317,
Yale University Press,
September 2023
288 pp., 19,6x12,7 cm, 1 black&white illus.
288 pp., 19,6x12,7 cm, 1 black&white illus.
Acclaimed cultural critic Greil Marcus tells the story of Bob Dylan through the lens of seven penetrating songs.
Across seven decades, Bob Dylan has been the first singer of American song. As a writer and performer, he has rewritten the national so...
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11.99 GBP
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20.00 GBP
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Song
A History in 12 Parts
ISBN: HB: 9780300263534,
Yale University Press,
August 2023
288 pp., 21,6x13,5 cm, 12 black&white illus.
288 pp., 21,6x13,5 cm, 12 black&white illus.
From one of our most innovative singers, a vibrant history of song stretching from Hildegard von Bingen and Benjamin Britten to Bjork.
"Songs can be intensely personal (whether you hear them or sing them) and none of us would choose the same twelve...
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