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Liberace - A Bio-Bibliography (Hardcover, Annotated edition): Jocelyn Faris Liberace - A Bio-Bibliography (Hardcover, Annotated edition)
Jocelyn Faris
R2,458 Discovery Miles 24 580 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Born in Wisconsin in 1919, Wladziu Valentino Liberace began his career as a performer at roadhouses, bars, stag parties, afternoon teas, and dances in the Milwaukee area. Television brought him to stardom in 1952, when The Liberace Show was watched by more than 35 million people each week. His television exposure led to one of the most lucrative concert, nightclub, and recording careers in history. His death from AIDS in 1987 continued the perpetual speculation about his personal life. This book charts the always controversial life and career of Liberace, from his birth in America's heartland to his death as one of the most flamboyant entertainers of his generation. A short biography and chronology present his life in capsule form and give full attention to the scandals that plagued his career. The chapters that follow detail his work in film, television, radio, recordings, and concerts. Each entry provides fascinating information about his performances, and an annotated bibliography describes sources for additional information.

Paul Yandell, Second to the Best: A Sideman's Chronicle (Hardcover): Norm Van Maastricht Paul Yandell, Second to the Best: A Sideman's Chronicle (Hardcover)
Norm Van Maastricht
R738 R587 Discovery Miles 5 870 Save R151 (20%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Unassuming late guitarist Paul Yandell described his career not as one of celebrity but as sideman, the musician that audiences hear while they're focused on the star. From his humble beginnings as a poor Kentucky farm boy learning to play to taking the stage at the Grand Ole Opry, he ultimately gained the trust and confidence of two of America's finest musicians, Jerry Reed and the incomparable Chet Atkins. Compiled from personal correspondence and interviews, Paul's online posts, and family members, a lifetime in the music business is recounted, from breaking in with the Louvin Brothers in the 1950s to his 25-year association with "Mr. Guitar" Chet Atkins, to his last recording in 2006. Along the way, Paul provides a wealth of information and history about guitar modification, gear and gadgets, and the people and personalities of country music's golden era in the second half of the 20th century.

A Sourcebook of Nineteenth-Century American Sacred Music for Brass Instruments (Hardcover, New): Mark J. Anderson A Sourcebook of Nineteenth-Century American Sacred Music for Brass Instruments (Hardcover, New)
Mark J. Anderson
R1,340 Discovery Miles 13 400 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Exploring the parallel development of the brass band movement and religious fervor in late 19th-century America, this work includes illustrations from original materials as well as scores for 22 works. While the choral tradition has remained strong in churches, in this earlier period both choral and instrumental forms were equally popular. This study begins with solo cornet parts, used by men like George Ives to lead the singing at revival meetings, and ends with an extensive band arrangement of Pleyel's Hymn. Extensive historical notes, old-time illustrations, and sacred music make this a most interesting and useful reference book. An enormous amount of music was written and arranged for the popular brasswinds at the time, some of which was sacred music for the church. Changing taste and secularism resulted in the loss of the entire body of written and arranged sacred music for brass, once as cherished in church performance as the choral tradition is today. For scholars and performers interested in the variety of music produced in the United States during the 19th century.

The Philadelphia Orchestra - An Annotated Discography (Hardcover): Richard A Kaplan The Philadelphia Orchestra - An Annotated Discography (Hardcover)
Richard A Kaplan
R2,955 Discovery Miles 29 550 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The Philadelphia Orchestra is the most-recorded orchestra in the United States, and its recordings have contributed much to its reputation as "The World's Greatest Orchestra." In The Philadelphia Orchestra: An Annotated Discography, Richard A. Kaplan documents more than 2,000 commercial recordings made by the Philadelphia Orchestra over almost a century. The discography contains a chronological list of recordings, detailing works performed, conductors, soloists, dates, venues, producers, and matrix information for 78-rpm recordings. Each entry lists all issues of the recordings, including 78- and 45-rpm discs, long-playing records, and compact discs. The discography documents for the first time the recordings made by Columbia on sixteen-inch lacquer discs during the 1940s and '50s. Opening with an overview of the Orchestra's relationships with recording companies and the search for suitable recording venues, chapters cover anonymously and pseudonymously-published recordings, including those of the Robin Hood Dell Orchestra of Philadelphia, the experimental 1931-32 Bell Labs recordings, videos and movies in which the Philadelphia Orchestra performed, live recordings, and recordings of ensembles of the Philadelphia Orchestra. A separate chapter lists live-concert downloads made available directly through the Philadelphia Orchestra Association. Appendixes cross-reference the recordings by composer, conductor, and soloists; a final appendix lists the many Philadelphia Orchestra LP collections published by Columbia and RCA. This book is a valuable resource for collectors, scholars, and anyone interested in recording history and the history of the Philadelphia Orchestra.

The Psalter of the Church - the Septuagint Psalms Compared With the Hebrew, With Various Notes (Hardcover): Francis Woodgate... The Psalter of the Church - the Septuagint Psalms Compared With the Hebrew, With Various Notes (Hardcover)
Francis Woodgate Mozley
R846 Discovery Miles 8 460 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
A Bibliography of Nineteenth-Century American Piano Music - With Location Sources and Composer Biography-Index (Hardcover):... A Bibliography of Nineteenth-Century American Piano Music - With Location Sources and Composer Biography-Index (Hardcover)
John E. Gillespie
R2,472 Discovery Miles 24 720 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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The Black Horn - The Story of Classical French Hornist Robert Lee Watt (Hardcover): Robert Lee Watt The Black Horn - The Story of Classical French Hornist Robert Lee Watt (Hardcover)
Robert Lee Watt
R2,388 Discovery Miles 23 880 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The Black Horn: The Story of Classical French Hornist Robert Lee Watt tells the story of the first African American French Hornist hired by a major symphony in these United States. Today, the number of African Americans who hold chairs in major American symphony orchestras are few and far between, and Watt is the first in many years to write about this uniquely exhilarating and at times painful experience. The Black Horn chronicles the upbringing of a young boy first fascinated by the sound of the French horn. Watt walks readers through the many obstacles presented by the racial climate in the United States both on and off stage in his efforts learn and eventually master an instrument little considered in the African American community, with even the author s own father, who played trumpet, seeking to dissuade the young classical musician in the making. Opposition from within the community--a middle instrument suited only for thin-lipped white boys, Watt s father once chided and from without, Watt document his struggles as a student at an all-white major music conservatory as well as his first job in a major symphony orchestra after his conservatory canceled his scholarship. Watt subsequently chronicles his triumphs and travails as a musician, sometimes alone when confronting the realities of race in America and the world of classical music. This work will surely interest any working classical musician and student, particularly those of color, seeking to grasp firsthand the sometimes troubled history of being the only black horn. "

Nursery Rhyme Nativity (Paperback): Nursery Rhyme Nativity (Paperback)
R517 R464 Discovery Miles 4 640 Save R53 (10%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days
Ukulele For Dummies, 3rd Edition (Paperback, 3rd Edition): A. Wood Ukulele For Dummies, 3rd Edition (Paperback, 3rd Edition)
A. Wood
R668 R479 Discovery Miles 4 790 Save R189 (28%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Strum a tune on your ukulele--no Hawaiian shirt required! Picture it now: the sun sets over the shimmering sea, and, as the beach bar falls quiet, you begin strumming Queen Liliuokalani's "Aloha 'Oe" to a mesmerized crowd. ... Okay, while this doesn't happen every day for ukulele-players, you'll still have a lot of fun learning your favorite tunes on your ukulele. Widely associated with Hawaiian music, the ukulele has exploded in popularity in recent years as kids and adults alike have started their music education with a uke or added it to their collection of instruments. Learning to play this versatile instrument is made easier for the experience and inexperienced alike with this new edition of Ukulele For Dummies. Following its straightforward instructions, you'll pick your way from the basics of purchasing your ukulele and accessories to confidently strumming through simple chord progressions and jamming through various styles and standards, including pop, folk, and those much-loved holiday favorites. Aloha, Santa Claus! Buy the right ukulele for you Perfect your pick and fret Practice with downloadable audio Get the best ukulele apps Whatever you want from your ukulele adventure--strumming on the beach or adding its island style to your distinctive new pop sound--Ukulele For Dummies will have you making a big splash with this tiny instrument in aloha no time at all!

Piano Exam Pieces 2021 & 2022 - Grade 5 + CD (Sheet music): Abrsm Piano Exam Pieces 2021 & 2022 - Grade 5 + CD (Sheet music)
Abrsm
R703 Discovery Miles 7 030 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book contains nine pieces from ABRSM's Grade 5 Piano syllabus for 2021 & 2022, three pieces chosen from each of Lists A, B and C. The pieces have been carefully selected to offer an attractive and varied range of styles, creating a collection that provides an excellent source of repertoire to suit every performer. The book also contains helpful footnotes and, for those preparing for exams, useful syllabus information. The enclosed CD features inspiring recordings of all 30 pieces on the Grade 5 syllabus, performed by Yulia Chaplina, Mei Yi Foo, Nikki Iles, Dinara Klinton, Charles Owen, Robert Thompson and Richard Uttley.

Performance - Delivering Your Own Awesome (Hardcover): Bruce Gandy Performance - Delivering Your Own Awesome (Hardcover)
Bruce Gandy
R861 Discovery Miles 8 610 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Missing Strad - The Story of the World's Greatest Violin Forgery (Hardcover): Gerald Gaul The Missing Strad - The Story of the World's Greatest Violin Forgery (Hardcover)
Gerald Gaul
R764 Discovery Miles 7 640 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Conversations About Physics Volume 1 (Hardcover): Howard Burton Conversations About Physics Volume 1 (Hardcover)
Howard Burton
R860 Discovery Miles 8 600 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Essential Piano Repertoire Prep Level (Sheet music): Keith Snell Essential Piano Repertoire Prep Level (Sheet music)
Keith Snell
R171 Discovery Miles 1 710 Ships in 9 - 15 working days
Modern Electric Bass - Bass Guitar Method or Supplement (Paperback): Jaco Pastorius Modern Electric Bass - Bass Guitar Method or Supplement (Paperback)
Jaco Pastorius
R476 R392 Discovery Miles 3 920 Save R84 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Spectral Analysis of Musical Sounds with Emphasis on the Piano (Hardcover): David M. Koenig Spectral Analysis of Musical Sounds with Emphasis on the Piano (Hardcover)
David M. Koenig; Commentary by Delwin D. Fandrich
R2,272 Discovery Miles 22 720 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book addresses the analysis of musical sounds from the viewpoint of someone at the intersection between physicists, engineers, piano technicians, and musicians. The study is structured into three parts. The reader is introduced to a variety of waves and a variety of ways of presenting, visualizing, and analyzing them in the first part. A tutorial on the tools used throughout the book accompanies this introduction. The mathematics behind the tools is left to the appendices. Part Two provides a graphical survey of the classical areas of acoustics that pertain to musical instruments: vibrating strings, bars, membranes, and plates. Part Three is devoted almost exclusively to the piano. Several two- and three-dimensional graphical tools are introduced to study various characteristics of pianos: individual notes and interactions among them, the missing fundamental, inharmonicity, tuning visualization, the different distribution of harmonic power for the various zones of the piano keyboard, and potential uses for quality control. These techniques are also briefly applied to other musical instruments studied in earlier parts of the book. For physicists and engineers there are appendices to cover the mathematics lurking beneath the numerous graphs and a brief introduction to Matlab (R) which was used to generate these graphs. A website accompanying the book (https://sites.google.com/site/analysisofsoundsandvibrations/) contains: - Matlab (R) scripts - mp3 files of sounds - references to YouTube videos - and up-to-date results of recent studies

Mozart's Chamber Music with Keyboard (Hardcover, New): Martin Harlow Mozart's Chamber Music with Keyboard (Hardcover, New)
Martin Harlow
R2,354 Discovery Miles 23 540 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Internationally renowned scholars and performers present a wide range of new analytical, historical and critical perspectives on some of Mozart's most popular chamber music: his sonatas with violin, keyboard trios and quartets and the quintet with wind instruments. The chapters trace a broad chronology, from the childhood works, to the Mannheim and Paris sonatas with keyboard and violin, and the mature compositions from his Vienna years. Drawing upon the most recent research, this study serves the reader, be they a performer, listener or scholar, with a collection of writings that demonstrate the composer's innovative developments to generic archetypes and which explore and assess Mozart's creative response to the opportunities afforded by new and diverse instrumental combinations. Manners of performance of this music far removed from our own are revealed, with concluding chapters considering historically informed practice and the challenges for modern performers and audiences.

Charlie's Good Tonight - The Authorised Biography of Charlie Watts (Paperback): Paul Sexton Charlie's Good Tonight - The Authorised Biography of Charlie Watts (Paperback)
Paul Sexton
R247 Discovery Miles 2 470 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Orchestral Music (Hardcover, New edition): Irving Kolodin Orchestral Music (Hardcover, New edition)
Irving Kolodin
R2,777 Discovery Miles 27 770 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

A list, with critical notes, of the best recordings of orchestral music.

The Rolling Stones - 50 Songs for 50 Years (Book): The Rolling Stones The Rolling Stones - 50 Songs for 50 Years (Book)
The Rolling Stones
R1,574 R1,240 Discovery Miles 12 400 Save R334 (21%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This 50th anniversary collectible hardcover edition contains full guitar TAB transcriptions for 50 early Stones classics from their ABKCO years. These are all-new arrangements featuring the most accurate transcriptions for all of Keith Richard's, Brian Jones', and Mick Taylor's legendary guitar parts. The book also comes with a section of the most classic Keith riffs. The songs within are selected from 12 x 5, Aftermath, Beggars Banquet, Between the Buttons, Big Hits (High Tide and Green Grass), December's Children (and Everybody's), Flowers, Hot Rocks 1964--1971, Let It Bleed, Metamorphosis, Sticky Fingers, Their Satanic Majesties Request, and more Titles: 19th Nervous Breakdown * 2000 Light Years from Home * As Tears Go By * Back Street Girl * Bitch * Brown Sugar * Can't You Hear Me Knocking * Child of the Moon (rmk) * Country Honk * Dandelion * Dead Flowers * Dear Doctor * Factory Girl * Get Off of My Cloud * Gimme Shelter * Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby, Standing in the Shadow? * Heart of Stone * Honky Tonk Women * I'm Free * It's All Over Now * Jigsaw Puzzle * Jumpin' Jack Flash * Lady Jane * The Last Time * Let It Bleed * Let's Spend the Night Together * Live with Me * Memo from Turner * Midnight Rambler * Monkey Man * Mother's Little Helper * No Expectations * Out of Time * Paint It, Black * Parachute Woman * Play with Fire * Ruby Tuesday * Salt of the Earth * (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction * She's a Rainbow * The Spider and the Fly * Stray Cat Blues * Street Fighting Man * Stupid Girl * Sway * Sympathy for the Devil * Under My Thumb * Wild Horses * You Can't Always Get What You Want * You Got the Silver.

Basic Principles of Pianoforte Playing (Hardcover): Josef Lhevinne Basic Principles of Pianoforte Playing (Hardcover)
Josef Lhevinne
R403 Discovery Miles 4 030 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Freedom in the Air - Song Movements of the Sixties (Hardcover): David B. Dunson Freedom in the Air - Song Movements of the Sixties (Hardcover)
David B. Dunson
R2,172 Discovery Miles 21 720 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The author focuses on two parallel folk trends: the Freedom Songs arising from the civil rights battles in the South and the topical songs composed by Northern writer/singers.

J.S. Bach's Great Eighteen Organ Chorales (Hardcover): Russell Stinson J.S. Bach's Great Eighteen Organ Chorales (Hardcover)
Russell Stinson
R2,248 R2,051 Discovery Miles 20 510 Save R197 (9%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In lucid and engaging style, Stinson explores Bach's 'Great Eighteen' Organ Chorales - among Bach's most celebrated works for organ - from a wide range of historical and analytical perspectives, including the models used by Bach in conceiving the individual pieces, his subsequent compilation of these works into a collection, and his compositional process as preserved by the autograph manuscript. Stinson also considers various issues of performance practice, and provides the first comprehensive examination of the music's reception, its dissemination in manuscript and printed form, and its influence on such composers as Mendelssohn, Schumann, and Brahms.

Piano Specimen Sight-Reading Tests, Grade 5 (Staple bound): Piano Specimen Sight-Reading Tests, Grade 5 (Staple bound)
R251 Discovery Miles 2 510 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

This volume contains valuable practice material for candidates preparing for the ABRSM Grade 5 Piano exams. The book is written in attractive and approachable styles and representative of the technical level expected in the exam.

Lost Pipe Organs of Australia - A Pictorial Record (Hardcover): G. Cox, K. Hastie, J. Maidment Lost Pipe Organs of Australia - A Pictorial Record (Hardcover)
G. Cox, K. Hastie, J. Maidment
R933 Discovery Miles 9 330 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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