Performing Arts

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA masterwork of operatic scholarship, Famous Puccini Operas by Spike Hughes is the definitive...

Sorrow Tears and Blood offers a glimpse into the complicated social, cultural, and political phenomenon that is Nigeria. Though Nigeria is the most populous African country, and sometimes called the...

Named a best book of the year by BookPage and California Review of Books From National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author Sam Quinones, the story of a demanding instrument, the...

Wildfire tells the story of the first decade of The Prodigy from the perspective of original member Leeroy Thornhill, fully illustrated with entirely unseen photography from the earliest raves, to...

The author of the magisterial A Biographical Guide to the Great Jazz and Pop Singers now approaches the great singers and their greatest work in an innovative and revelatory way:...

From the backstreets of Buenos Aires to Parisian high society, this is the extraordinary story of the dance that captivated the world - a tale of politics and passion, immigration...

When Kadiatu Kanneh-Mason's eldest daughter, Isata, made her solo debut at the BBC Proms in 2023, she could not have been prouder. Watching years of hard work transform into a...

'It does what fantasy does best which is show us something beyond our experience... this shows us something a bsolutely new' Susanna Clarke 'A breathless time-travelling classic. Savage, humane, comic,...

The sounds of new wave pop music and the early days of MTV were defined by the work of a handful of iconic musicians, and few stood taller in that...

(Playbill Broadway Yearbook). Many of the people who work on Broadway keep scrapbooks of their experiences: photos, signed posters, ticket stubs, and, of course, Playbills . These are treasured keepsakes,...

"Let's Put on a Musical" is a Backstage favourite, entertaining, indispensable and now revised and updated to include the latest shows and the freshest ideas. It tells you which plays...

From "Gymnopedies" to the scandalous ballet "Relache", Erik Satie's creations are paradoxical and extraordinary, and the mask the composer created for himself was as deliberately ambiguous as his music. This...

Magic enjoyed a vigorous revival in sixteenth-century Europe, attaining a prestige lost for over a millennium and becoming, for some, a kind of universal philosophy. Renaissance music also suggested a...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerFew artistic achievements in Western civilization match the ambition and grandeur of Richard Wagner's monumental opera cycle, and...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingFew books capture the anarchic joy of music-making quite like The Hoffnung Music Festival, a riotous celebration of...

Edition: Twelfth EditionCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the crossroads of aesthetic philosophy and moral inquiry stands Music and Morals, the...

Edition: First Edition ThusCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and corners,Previous ownerFew...

Edition: 7th ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerAt the crossroads of science and art stands one of the most enduring works in acoustics: The Physics of Music,...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerFrom the ancient modes of medieval chant to the sweeping harmonies of the Romantic era, A Concise History...

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Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerFew figures in the history of Western music loom as large or as luminously as Ludwig van Beethoven, and Beethoven: A Documentary Study...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodA monumental achievement in musicological scholarship, The New Oxford Companion to Music stands as the definitive two-volume reference work for anyone serious about...

Edition: First Edition ThusCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: Tanning and foxingFew instruments have commanded the cultural, artistic, and emotional authority of the piano — and The Book of the Piano,...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew performers in the history of Hollywood have achieved the mythic status of Fred Astaire — a man whose name became synonymous with elegance,...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew art forms have shaped the soul of the twentieth century quite like jazz — and The World of Jazz by Rodney Dale stands...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew entertainers have burned as brightly—or as turbulently—as Liza Minnelli, the daughter of Hollywood royalty who carved out...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image; worn edges. A testament to Kylie Minogue's enduring status as a global entertainment phenomenon, this programme illustrates...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew pop icons have demonstrated the kind of resilience and raw theatrical magnetism that Kylie Minogue brought to...

Peter Kay's unerring gift for observing the absurdities and eccentricities of family life has earned himself a widespread, everyman appeal. These vivid observations coupled with a kind of nostalgia that...

For more than 40 years Nana Mouskouri has been a global singing sensation, from her earliest childhood memories of mid-Thirties Greece to her unstoppable rise to the summit of her...

This lavishly illustrated book provides the definitive reference to Western classical music. It travels on a musical journey through time, revealing how composers and performers, priests, princes and patrons, and...

Dan Alexander Audio reveals the origins and history of vintage recording gear, told by the man who coined the term. It discusses the products of 22 manufacturers, illustrated with over...

Liszt once said that Mozart composed more bars than a trained copyist could write in a lifetime. One of the world's most enduringly popular musicians, Mozart had a profound influence...

This concise dictionary has been updated. Based on the 20 volume "New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians", it is designed to meet the needs of a wide readership, from...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodAt the crossroads of sacred tradition and musical artistry stands one of the most comprehensive and authoritative guides to church...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the intersection of poetry and music lies one of Western art's most intimate and searching forms —...

The book titled The Complete Operas of Richard Strauss by the author Charles Osborne. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Follow the misadventures of Ian Moore as he chronicles the charming and chaotic escapades of his family and their eccentric assembly of animals, on their continued search for serenity in...

A Rough Trade Book of the Year 'From lists to experiences and stories, there are no rules. A good song is a good song whoever writes it and however the...

The definitive musical autobiography from internationally acclaimed Australian pianist Roger Woodward. This is the remarkable story of one of the world's leading musicians. In Beyond Black And White , the...

Andre Previn, the internationally renowned conductor and composer talks for the first time about his life: of his family's flight from Nazi Germany and arrival in America, where his once...

In A POCKET FULL OF DREAMS, the first volume of THE definitive Crosby biography, award-winning music critic Gary Giddins chronicles the ascension of Bing's career. From his early days in...

Who were the singers, musicians, composers, instrumentalists, and conductors who made the music of the 20th century? What inspired Benjamin Britten to compose Peter Grimes? How did music save Malcolm...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedIn the golden age of Hollywood, one studio unit stood apart from all others — the Freed Unit at MGM...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAustralia's first rock 'n' roll superstar blazed a trail so incandescent that no biography could afford to ignore...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and cornersCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew voices in the twentieth century cut as...

The first book-length inquiry into the twisted romantic ballad, giving a sense of both its history and contemporary currency. The first book-length inquiry into the twisted romantic ballad, giving a...