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All Shapes and Sizes

All Shapes and Sizes

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MURDEROUS MATHS: All Shapes and Sizes is full of facts, tricks and tips to help children discover why shapes are super and measurements are magic! With a fabulous brand-new cover...
Summer Rain

Summer Rain

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An outback town, Boxing Day, 1945. The dust settles as the populace nurses a Christmas hangover. When Harold Slocum of Slocum's Travelling Tent Show becomes stranded, emotions run high and...
Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens

Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens

$26.35 AUD$10.00 AUD
Musical Book and Lyrics by Bill Russell. Music by Janet Hood. Characters: 20-25 males, 11-16 females (doubling or expanding possible.) Unit set A celebration of lives lost to AIDS told...
Saint-Saëns

Saint-Saëns

$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: Good , ex-libraryJacket: N/APages: Tanning and foxing Markings: Ex-library with usual markingsThis biographical work, Saint-Saëns, chronicles the remarkable life and enduring musical legacy of the celebrated French composer....
Darling Ma: Letters to Her Mother, 1932-44

Darling Ma: Letters to Her Mother, 1932-44

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"Darling Ma" is how Joyce Grenfell began every one of these entertaining, gossipy, revealing letters to her mother in the USA. They cover Joyce's rise from radio critic on "The...
Enchanted Evenings: The Broadway Musical from 'Show Boat' to Sondheim

Enchanted Evenings: The Broadway Musical from 'Show Boat' to Sondheim

$69.95 AUD$15.00 AUD
This new second edition of Enchanted Evenings offers theater lovers an illuminating behind-the-scenes tour of some of America's best loved, most admired, and most enduring musicals. Readers will find such...
The Black Sorrows: Crooked Little Thoughts (SIGNED)

The Black Sorrows: Crooked Little Thoughts (SIGNED)

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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: SignedCondition remarks: CDs included.This literary work offers an intimate look into the creative psyche of a renowned musician. Crooked Little Thoughts...
The Dance Band Era: The Dancing Decades From Ragtime To Swing: 1910-1950

The Dance Band Era: The Dancing Decades From Ragtime To Swing: 1910-1950

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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Good Markings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Protective plastic sleeve over dust jacketThe historical work The Dance Band Era: The Dancing...
The Music Of Man

The Music Of Man

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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: Previous ownerThis compelling non-fiction work chronicles the profound impact of music on human civilization, tracing its evolution from ancient rituals to...
Every Valley: The Desperate Lives and Troubled Times that Made

Every Valley: The Desperate Lives and Troubled Times that Made

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The extraordinary true story of intertwined lives that lies behind Handel's Messiah, the most performed piece of classical music ever written 'A delicious history of music, power, love, genius, royalty...
Music and Culture in the Middle Ages and Beyond: Liturgy, Sources,

Music and Culture in the Middle Ages and Beyond: Liturgy, Sources,

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It has become widely accepted among musicologists that medieval music is most profitably studied from interdisciplinary perspectives that situate it within broad cultural contexts. The origins of this consensus lie...
Patti Smith: Before Easter After

Patti Smith: Before Easter After

$149.00 AUD$126.65 AUD
A new trade publication of Before Easter After , originally published in a limited edition at $1,000. With hundreds of rarely seen images by Lynn Goldsmith, one of the great...
Elements of Music: Melody, Rhythm and Harmony

Elements of Music: Melody, Rhythm and Harmony

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A beautifully illustrated pocket guide to the principles and theories of music. What is the secret code behind so many musical compositions? How do you substitute chords to create greater...
Drums, Tomtoms and Rattles: Primitive Percussion Instruments for

Drums, Tomtoms and Rattles: Primitive Percussion Instruments for

$15.95 AUD$12.00 AUD
An authority on American Indian traditions provides complete, thorough directions for creating dance drums, tomtoms, water drums, and much more. Materials include such everyday items as wooden kegs, flower pots,...
Women and the Piano: A History in 50 Lives

Women and the Piano: A History in 50 Lives

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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...
Music of Exile: The Untold Story of the Composers who Fled Hitler

Music of Exile: The Untold Story of the Composers who Fled Hitler

$51.95 AUD$44.16 AUD
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...
Every Brain Needs Music: The Neuroscience of Making and Listening to

Every Brain Needs Music: The Neuroscience of Making and Listening to

$52.95 AUD$45.01 AUD
Whenever a person engages with music-when a piano student practices a scale, a jazz saxophonist riffs on a melody, a teenager sobs to a sad song, or a wedding guest...
Lady in the Dark: Biography of a Musical

Lady in the Dark: Biography of a Musical

$64.95 AUD$12.00 AUD
When Lady in the Dark opened on January 23, 1941, its many firsts immediately distinguished it as a new and unusual work. The curious directive to playwright Moss Hart to...
Ballet Carnival: A Companion to Ballet

Ballet Carnival: A Companion to Ballet

$30.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Yellowed Markings: No markingsThis book serves as a comprehensive guide to ballet, exploring its history, major figures, and significant performances. It is aimed...
Teach Yourself Music

Teach Yourself Music

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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxing Markings: Previous ownerThis comprehensive instructional guide, Teach Yourself Books: Music, presents a foundational...
A-Z Of Classical Music

A-Z Of Classical Music

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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Very goodPages: Good Markings: No markingsA comprehensive and accessible guide to the vast world of classical music, A-Z Of Classical Music presents an authoritative overview of...
Maria Callas: The Woman Behind The Legend

Maria Callas: The Woman Behind The Legend

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Edition: repr.,Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Good Markings: No markingsThis compelling biography chronicles the tumultuous life of opera icon Maria Callas, moving beyond her celebrated stage presence to...
Unfinished Journey

Unfinished Journey

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Edition: repr.,Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Good , price clippedMarkings: No markingsUnfinished Journey chronicles the extraordinary life of Yehudi Menuhin, presenting an intimate look at his prodigious talent...
Who I Am: My Story

Who I Am: My Story

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Edition: First Edition.Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: No dust jacketPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn Who I Am: My Story, Melanie C chronicles her remarkable journey...
News-Chronicle Music For The Home

News-Chronicle Music For The Home

$30.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: Fair Jacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Yellowed Markings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Worn and frayed spine. Sir Landon Ronald's News-Chronicle Music For The...
The World's Great Ballets: La Fille Mal Gardee to Davidsbundlertanze

The World's Great Ballets: La Fille Mal Gardee to Davidsbundlertanze

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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Good Markings: No markingsThis book showcases the world's greatest ballets, featuring photos from top performances and detailed explanations. It is a beautiful hardcover...
Great Operatic Disasters

Great Operatic Disasters

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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Good Markings: No markingsTo its devotees, opera is the most sublime of arts. It is also one of the most accident-prone, and when...
The Theatres of Japan

The Theatres of Japan

$40.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Good Markings: Previous ownerThis book provides a comprehensive overview of the theatrical traditions in Japan, exploring various forms such as Noh, Kabuki, and...
His Eye Is On The Sparrow: An Autobiography

His Eye Is On The Sparrow: An Autobiography

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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxing Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThis compelling autobiography, His Eye Is On The Sparrow, chronicles the extraordinary...
They Just Seem a Little Weird: How Kiss, Cheap Trick, Aerosmith, and

They Just Seem a Little Weird: How Kiss, Cheap Trick, Aerosmith, and

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A veteran music journalist explores how four legendary rock bands--KISS, Cheap Trick, Aerosmith, and Starz--laid the foundation for two diametrically opposed subgenres: hair metal in the '80s and grunge in...
Illustrated Opera Book: Twenty-six of the World's Best-loved Operas

Illustrated Opera Book: Twenty-six of the World's Best-loved Operas

$65.95 AUD$15.00 AUD
Today more and more people are discovering how satisfying and entertaining opera can be. This book is designed specifically for such newcomers to the delights of opera, who would find...
The Black Bird Oracle: The exhilarating new All Souls novel featuring

The Black Bird Oracle: The exhilarating new All Souls novel featuring

$32.99 AUD$12.00 AUD
'Haunting in every way. A story thick with family secrets, human heartache, and the kind of deep magic only Harkness can conjure. You will be enchanted' LEIGH BARDUGO ' The...
Rumours of My Demise: A Memoir

Rumours of My Demise: A Memoir

$45.00 AUD$38.25 AUD
"Did you hear Evan Dando died last night?" Evan Dando spills the true story of his band's tumultuous history and what it was like to be famous in the pre-internet...
The Encyclopedia Of Country Music

The Encyclopedia Of Country Music

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Author: Arthur ButterfieldBinding: HardbackPublisher: A KOLA BOOK, 1985Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Good Markings: No markingsThis comprehensive reference work, Encyclopedia Of Country Music, chronicles the rich history and...
Icons Of Australian Music: Jimmy Barnes: Chronicling His Music Career Using His Scrapbooks And Memorabilia

Icons Of Australian Music: Jimmy Barnes: Chronicling His Music Career Using His Scrapbooks And Memorabilia

$190.00 AUD
Author: Jimmy BarnesBinding: HardbackPublisher: Roving eye Publishing, 2008Condition remarks:Book: Good , ex-libraryJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Good Markings: Ex-library with usual markingsCondition remarks: Binding is a little...
Leonard Bernstein

Leonard Bernstein

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'You will not find a more devoted, thorough, loving and surprising book on the life of Leonard Bernstein - the most extraordinary man of extraordinary talents. Read it.' Lauren Bacall...
Jehudiana: Reliving The Menuhin Odyssey

Jehudiana: Reliving The Menuhin Odyssey

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Author: Philip BaileyBinding: PaperbackPublisher: Prentice Hall Press, 2010Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: No dust jacketPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageYehudiana: Reliving The Menuhin Odyssey presents a...
Lebanese Cuisine: Past and Present

Lebanese Cuisine: Past and Present

$59.99 AUD$50.99 AUD
**Winner of the Gourmand Cookbook Award** Lebanon offers a unique variety of fragrant and refined dishes, enriched over centuries by new flavours and spices brought by traders from across the...
An Introduction to Music Studies

An Introduction to Music Studies

$44.95 AUD$22.50 AUD
Why study music? How much practical use is it in the modern world? This introduction proves how studying music is of great value both in its own terms and also...
Summer Stage: A Novel

Summer Stage: A Novel

$36.99 AUD$15.00 AUD
"I adored this summer novel! My favorite beach reads are written by Meg Mitchell Moore, and Summer Stage is her brand new smash hit. If you like my books, you'll...
Life and Times of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Life and Times of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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The book titled Life and Times of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart by the author Wendy Thompson. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
How to do Magic Tricks

How to do Magic Tricks

$23.95 AUD$12.00 AUD
How to perform a wide range of amazing magic tricks, from a Magic Circle master.
How To Enjoy Opera Without Really Trying

How To Enjoy Opera Without Really Trying

$15.00 AUD
Author: John CargherBinding: PaperbackPublished: Hill of Content Publishing, 1986Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image'How To Enjoy Opera Without Really Trying'...
The Crystal Bucket

The Crystal Bucket

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'His contribution to the art and enjoyment of TV criticism over the past ten years has been immense. His work is deeply perceptive, often outrageously funny and always compulsively readable'...
The Last House in the Row

The Last House in the Row

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Hayley discovers the importance of giving people a chance in this thought-provoking tale from critically acclaimed author Lesley Parr. Hayley is annoyed that her beloved cat keeps sneaking off to...
Choir

Choir

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Author: Gareth MaloneBinding: HardbackPublished: Collins, 2012Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis inspiring non-fiction work chronicles the transformative power of music and community, detailing Gareth Malone's journey in forming various...
Duets For Descant Recorders: Twenty-Five Practical Lessons For The Beginner

Duets For Descant Recorders: Twenty-Five Practical Lessons For The Beginner

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Author: Imogen HolstBinding: PaperbackPublished: Boosey and Hawkes, 1955Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageDuets For Descant Recorders: Twenty-Five Practical Lessons For The Beginner...
Victoria De Los Angeles

Victoria De Los Angeles

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Author: Peter RobertsBinding: HardbackPublished: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1982Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsVictoria De Los Angeles presents a comprehensive biography of the celebrated Spanish soprano, detailing...