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Written by jazz musicians, this mine of information spans the whole history and range of the genre. There are biographies of famous and lesser-known figures of today and yesterday,... more
Product code: 506359
£113.80
This book offers a comprehensive guide to operas and their composers. It contains more than 800 articles on opera composers and their works and includes operettas, singspiels etc.... more
Product code: 514271
£90.00
This book explores the musical language, forms and styles of the Romantic period. The works of Schubert, Mendelssohn, Meyerbeer, Liszt, Bellini, Berlioz, Schumann and Chopin are... more
Product code: 596926
£87.17
This biography tells the story of Neil Young's life and career: from his childhood in Canada to the founding of folk-rock pioneers Buffalo Springfield; the success of Crosby,... more
Product code: 593904
£85.68
This book contains the texts and translations of all Bach's Church and Secular Cantatas that have survived complete. Fragments have not been included. Several Cantatas that were... more
Product code: 574950
£80.64
A biography of Benjamin Britten, which presents a panorama of musical life since the 1920s. Carpenter examines what influenced works such as the "Young person's guide to the... more
Product code: 560044
£79.74
As the defining element in Jamaican popular music since the early 1960s, Perry was the producer that took Bob Marley and the Wailers from local renown to international... more
Product code: 573054
£70.88
An encyclopaedic account of the history of English-text sacred music in the period between the Reformation and the Commonwealth. It discusses every known composition from this... more
Product code: 518858
£70.56
This biography concerns Sir Hubert Parry one of Britain's most creative and influential musicians, and a key architect of the English Musical Renaissance. Well known for popular... more
Product code: 575880
£70.56
This biography of Shostakovich is drawn from the reminiscences and reflections of his contemporaries. The author sheds light on the composer's creative process and his working life... more
Product code: 572603
£66.45
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