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Chopin: The Four Ballades
Cambridge University Press 1992; US$ 23.00Chopin's four ballades are widely regarded as being amongst the most significant extended works for solo piano of the nineteenth century. In an illuminating discussion, Jim Samson combines history and analysis to provide the reader with a comprehensive picture of these popular piano works. He begins by investigating the social and musical background... more...
Mozart's Piano Sonatas
Cambridge University Press 1997; US$ 42.00An examination of Mozart's piano sonatas, showing them to be a microcosm of the composer's changing style. more...
Schenker's Interpretive Practice
Cambridge University Press 1997; US$ 35.00This is the first comprehensive study of this century's most influential music theorist, Heinrich Schenker. more...
Chopin: The Piano Concertos
Cambridge University Press 1997; US$ 29.00This Handbook re-evaluates the E minor and F minor Piano Concertos so that their many outstanding qualities can be fully appreciated. more...
Vocal Authority
Cambridge University Press 1998; US$ 40.00A fascinating history of singing styles from the ancient world to the present. more...
Bands, Booze And Broads
Mainstream Publishing 2011; US$ 17.33In this captivating study of one of our most popular music genres, Sheila Tracy goes behind the scenes and talks to over 60 Americans who played with the most famous big bands - and who lived to tell the tale. This was no mean feat: swing music''s huge popularity brought the performers wild adulation and, for many, resorting to drugs and alcohol was... more...
Ween's Chocolate and Cheese
Continuum International Publishing 2011; US$ 10.95Ween now seems like a permanent fixture on the pop-cultural landscape, but when the band first hit MTV in the early ’90s, their longevity wasn’t so secure. Nearly two decades on, though, Aaron “Gene Ween” Freeman and Mickey “Dean Ween” Melchiondo preside over one of the most devoted cult fan bases in American music.... more...
The Rolling Stones' Some Girls
Continuum International Publishing 2011; US$ 50.00It's October 1977, and the Rolling Stones are in a Paris recording studio. They're under siege. Keith Richards' legal troubles after his arrest for heroin possession in Canada threaten the band's future, and the broad consensus among is that the band will never again reach the heights of Exile on Main Street.But Mick Jagger is writing lyrics inspired... more...
A Provincial Organ Builder in Victorian England
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2011; US$ 124.95William Sweetland was a Bath organ builder who flourished from c.1847 to 1902 during which time he built about 300 organs. Gordon Curtis places this work of a provincial organ builder in the wider context of English musical life in the latter half of the nineteenth century. He relates the biographical details of Sweetland's family, surveys Sweetland's... more...









