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Grove's Dictionary Of Music & Musicians (Ten-Volume Set)
$100.00 AUD
Edition: 5th ed.,Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image. Good-Fair. Vols 6 & 9 creased spines. - otherwise good set. Few reference...
A History Of Heavy Metal
$12.00 AUD
Few musical genres have inspired the kind of devotion, controversy, and cultural mythology that heavy metal has — and Andrew O'Neill's A History of Heavy Metal is the definitive account...
Red And Hot: The Fate Of Jazz In The Soviet Union 1917–1980
$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded - no tears. Page Condition: Yellowed - tanning to pages. Markings: No markings. Binding: Intact. When the Bolsheviks seized power in 1917, they inherited...
Béla Bartók's Last Years: The Naked Face Of Genius
$20.00 AUD
Edition: First Ed.Condition remarks: Condition: Fair. Jacket: Chipped, torn with minor damage. Page Condition: Yellowed, tanning, some foxing. Markings: none. Binding condition: Binding intact. Usual shelf-wear. Few accounts of artistic...
Manuel De Falla: And The Spanish Musical Renaissance
$30.00 AUD
Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded - no tears. Page Condition: Yellowed. Markings: Previous owner. Binding condition: Binding intact. At the heart of twentieth-century Spanish music stands Manuel de Falla,...
The New Scriabin: Enigma And Answers
$40.00 AUD
Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded - no tears. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings. Binding condition: Binding intact, no loose pages. Few composers have provoked as much fascination, controversy,...
Joan Sutherland
$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks: Secondhand book: generally 'Very Good' to 'Excellent'. These are books which may have some slight wear and tear or sun fading on the edges. There may be an...
Daddy's Practising Again: An Australian Jazzman Looks Black And Around
$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded - no tears. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings. Usual shelf-wear. Australian jazz has long occupied a fascinating and underappreciated corner of the global...
The Muses Are Heard: An Account Of The Porgy And Bess Visit To Leningrad
$55.00 AUD
Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks: Condition: Fair/poor. Jacket: No dust jacket. Page Condition: Yellowed. Markings: No markings. Binding condition: intact. Significant white scuffing and paint loss across the red cloth boards,...
My Many Years
$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: good, worn/faded (refer to image). Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. Arthur Rubinstein lived one of the most...
The Tongs And The Bones: The Memoirs Of Lord Harewood
$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: good, worn/faded (refer to image). Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. Few memoirs bridge the worlds of royal...
Tribute To Benjamin Britten On His Fiftieth Birthday
$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: No dust jacket. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. Few composers of the twentieth century commanded as much...
Composer To Composer: Conversations About Contemporary Music
$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: worn/faded, chipping and tears but still structural (refer to image). Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. What happens...
The Opera Industry In Italy From Cimarosa To Verdi: The Role Of The Impresario
$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. At the crossroads of art, commerce, and ambition stands the impresario —...
Bernard Heinze: A Biography
$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: good, worn/faded (refer to image). Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. Sir Bernard Heinze was the towering figure...
Sergei Prokofiev: A Soviet Tragedy
$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: good, worn/faded (refer to image). Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. Few artistic lives embody the brutal contradictions...
Late Night Thoughts On Listening To Mahler's Ninth Symphony
$12.00 AUD
Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: good, worn/faded (refer to image). Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. In the small hours of the night,...
Amiscellany: My Life, My Music
$12.00 AUD
Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: wear and tear. Page Condition: Good. A life lived entirely in music is rarely without its extraordinary encounters, and John Amis had more than most....
Evenings In The Orchestra
$12.00 AUD
Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. Few figures in the history of classical music burned with such fierce,...
Sergey Prokofiev Diaries 1924–1933: Prodigal Son
$30.00 AUD
Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: small tear on rear panel, worn edges. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings. Usual shelf-wear. Few documents in the history of classical music offer as...
Unfinished Journey
$12.00 AUD
Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: good, worn/faded. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. Few lives in the history of classical music have been...
Opera Tunes To Remember
$25.00 AUD
Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks: Condition: Fair. Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage, faded colours, wear to corners and edges. Page Condition: Yellowed. Markings: Name penned on fep. Opera...
Interrupted Melody: An Autobiography
$50.00 AUD
Edition: 2nd pr.,Condition remarks: Condition: Fair. Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage, fading to spine and edges. Page Condition: Yellowed with signs of aging. Markings: Name penned on...
Handel And His World
$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: good, worn/faded (refer to image). Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. Few composers have left as indelible a...
Burning Man: Art on Fire
Every August, tens of thousands of participants gather to celebrate artistic expression in Nevada's barren Black Rock Desert. This vastly inhospitable location, called the playa, is the site of Burning...
What is drama?
Why is drama important? Well, drama helps us understand the world around us. We learn how by asking questions such as these: What is drama? Where did drama start? Where...
Ella: A Novel
In the vein of The Paris Wife and The Personal Librarian comes this debut novel, a magnificent work of "biographical fiction" that reimagines the turbulent and triumphant early years of...
Rock Goes to College: The campus music scene that shaped a generation
The hectic, hugely entertaining, and definitive story of the wonderful and entirely amateurish British university gig scene that launched the career of some of the world's most famous bands As...
Grime: Documenting the scene's rise and reign
A special collectors edition packed with never-before-seen archival material, this is the definitive inside story of grime: raw, unfiltered, and impossible to ignore. 'A definitive history of the genre' -...
The Blonds: Glamour, Fashion, Fantasy
If you've seen images of the biggest entertainers-Mariah Carey, Miley Cyrus, Katy Perry, Lil Kim, Britney Spears, Rihanna, J. Lo, or Madonna-on stage in a crystallized costume, you've seen the...
All in the Family: Show that Changed Television, The
All in the Family creator Norman Lear takes fans behind the scenes of the groundbreaking sitcom on the occasion of its 50th anniversary. The face of television was changed forever...
Music Cities: Capitals and Places of Musical Geography
There are cities that have made an indelible mark on music as incubators of genres that changed, and are changing, history. These are their stories. From London told by Blur...
Slivers, Shards and Skerricks: A one-man anthology by one of
This indefinitive collection brings together under one cover the very best comic writing - parody, poetry, prose, plays, philosophy and political treatise - by Australia's greatest living television host. From...
Puppets and Puppet Theatre
Puppets & Puppet Theatre has been essential reading for everyone interested in making and performing puppets for over 25 years. Now in a fully revised and updated new edition, it...
Summer of Love: The inside Story of LSD, Rock & Roll, Free Love, and
$15.00 AUD
The book titled Summer of Love: The inside Story of LSD, Rock & Roll, Free Love, and by the author Joel Selvin. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us...
Popcorn: Fifty Years of Rock 'n' Roll Movies
From Blackboard Jungle to Quadrophenia, from 8 Mile to ABBA: The Movie, no one has seriously looked at the strange phenomenon that is the rock 'n' roll movie. Garry Mulholland...
The Virgin Encyclopedia of Stage & Film Musicals
A guide to the greatest shows and films in the history of the musical, as well as their stars, lyricists and composers. Over 1600 entries provide facts, figures and critical...
Wagner Nights
The book titled Wagner Nights by the author Ernest Newman. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Faces in the Crowd: Players and Writers
$20.00 AUD
Primarily a jazz critic, Gary Giddins is also keenly interested in cinema and modern American literature, and this book brings together over thirty of his most perceptive pieces. There are...
168 Songs of Hatred and Failure: A History of Manic Street Preachers
'A forensic exploration of their compositions and recordings, and everything that has been poured into them . . . completely definitive' MOJO ????? The story of Manic Street Preachers is...
Signifying Rappers
Signifying Rappers is a fun and quirky discovery for any fan of David Foster Wallace or Hip-hop. Signifying Rappers is an old-school classic from David Foster Wallace and his friend...
The Encyclopedia of Jazz and Blues
The book titled The Encyclopedia of Jazz and Blues by the author Keith HSadwick. Please contact us for more information about this title.
In One Ear: Cocteau Twins, Ivor Raymonde and Me
'A wonderful book' ELTON JOHN 'Beautiful, insightful and honest' CILLIAN MURPHY 'A fascinating read' DON LETTS As one-third of seminal band Cocteau Twins, Simon Raymonde helped to create some of...
For the Love of Music: A Conductor's Guide to the Art of Listening
Why do so many of us listen to classical music, and how can you get the most from listening to it? In this unpretentious and instructive book, internationally celebrated conductor...
Viva la Liberta!: Politics in Opera
In this ambitious and wide-ranging book, Anthony Arblaster shows that attempts by many music critics to disregard or disparage opera's politics are at best delusory, at worst a political ploy....
Broadway Musicals
$30.00 AUD
A colorful tribute to the great Broadway shows of our time. 395 illustrations, 112 in full color.
The Right Way to Read Music
This book is a complete approach to musical study, from the first note you read to the beginnings of harmony. It simplifies music theory into easy logical steps, clearly written...