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The Twelve-Note Music of Anton Webern
Cambridge University Press 1991; US$ 64.00This important new study reassesses the position of Anton Webern in twentieth-century music. more...
Jean Sibelius and His World
Princeton University Press 2011; US$ 35.00Perhaps no twentieth-century composer has provoked a more varied reaction among the music-loving public than Jean Sibelius (1865-1957). Originally hailed as a new Beethoven by much of the Anglo-Saxon world, he was also widely disparaged by critics more receptive to newer trends in music. At the height of his popular appeal, he was revered as the embodiment... more...
Ed Sheeran A+
John Blake 2012; US$ 12.99He's the Suffolk school drop-out who's become Britain's hottest musical property. Ed Sheeran is the double Brit Award-winning singer songwriter with a tiny guitar and a huge talent. But how did a young musician who described himself as a "spotty, chubby, ginger teenager" go from selling CDs from his rucksack to playing in front of Royalty at the Queen's... more...
The Woman I Was Born to Be
Atria Books 2010; US$ 16.00In April 2009, a modest middle-aged woman from a village in Scotland was catapulted to global fame when the YouTube video of her audition for Britain?s Got Talent touched the hearts of millions all over the world. From singing karaoke in local pubs to a live performance with an eighty-piece orchestra in Japan?s legendary Budokan Arena and a record-breaking... more...
U2
ABC-CLIO 2009; US$ 35.00U2: A Musical Biography tells the story of the phenomenally popular Irish rock band whose passionate songs and performances have taken them from their Dublin upbringing to the Rock and Roll Hall of FameÑall with the band's original foursome of Bono, The Edge, Larry Mullen, and Adam Clayton intact.||U2 follows the band from the early talent... more...
Frederick Chopin
Andrews UK 2012; US$ 2.99Frederick Niecks fantastic biography of the famous Polish composer Frédéric François Chopin. more...
Beethoven
The Floating Press 2008; US$ 6.99Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827) is one of the most famous and influential classical musicians of all time. He was particularly instrumental in the transition from the Classic to the Romantic. He was born in Germany but lived from his early twenties in Vienna. There he studied under Haydn and became recognized for his prodigious talents. Though Beethoven... more...
Beethoven, as Revealed in His Own Words
The Floating Press 1904; US$ 6.95The following book consists of brief biographical commentaries about Beethoven, each followed by sections of quotations attributed to the muse. In these quotes, Beethoven demonstrates his intense preoccupation (or obsession) with thinking artistically and intelligently, and with helping to alleviate man's suffering by providing man with musical... more...
No Regrets
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2011; US$ 27.95The iconic French singer comes to life in this enthralling, definitive biography, which captures Edith Piaf?s immense charisma along with the time and place that gave rise to her unprecedented international career. Raised by turns in a brothel, a circus caravan, and a working-class Paris neighborhood, Piaf began singing on the city?s streets, where... more...
Haydn: String Quartets, Op. 50
Cambridge University Press 1992; US$ 29.00The Op. 50 string quartets contain some of the purest writing Haydn ever accomplished. In this first full account of these six quartets Dean Sutcliffe evaluates the Op. 50 in relation to Haydn's more frequently performed quartets and considers their relevance to the composer's wider output. A lucid and accessible discussion of the music emphasises... more...









