Rolling Stones 50 by Mick Jagger & Keith Richards & Charlie Watts & Ronnie Wood
$33.00 AUD
Category: Music
"This is our story of fifty fantastic years. We started out as a blues band playing the clubs and more recently we've filled the largest stadiums in the world with the kind of show that none of us could have imagined all those years ago. Curated by us, it features the very best photographs and ephemera ...Show more
It's Another World Record: Album Cover Art 1958-1976 by Geoff Hocking
$79.95 AUD
Category: Music
A graduate of Bendigo Technical College in 1965, graphic designer and illustrator Hocking worked in the studio of World Record Club for two years from 1966 to 1967. Like many other young WRC designers it was his first job after art school and a great opportunity to be a part of the exciting milieu of ar ...Show more
Abbey Road: The Best Studio in the World by Alistair Lawrence
$79.99 AUD
Category: Music
The first photographic celebration of the most famous recording studio in the world, publishing in its 80th year. Unprecedented access to the Abbey Road archive - from Edward Elgar to the Beatles, Kate Bush to Elbow the most famous artists in the world have recorded here. This gorgeous book includes mat ...Show more
Music as Alchemy: Journeys with Great Conductors and Their Orchestras by Tom Service
$40.00 AUD
Category: Music
How are conductors' silent gestures magicked into sound by a group of more than a hundred brilliant but belligerent musicians? The mute choreography of great conductors has fascinated and frustrated musicians and music-lovers for centuries, from Toscanini to Karajan, from Carlos Kleiber to Gustavo Dudam ...Show more
L'Esprit Manouche Book/CD Set by Romane
$49.95 AUD
Category: Music
This massive book offers a comprehensive study of the Gypsy jazz or Manouche guitar style as perceived by French guitarists Derek Sebastian and Romane, two of the finest modern day practitioners of the Django Reinhardt style.
Practicing: A Musician's Return to Music by Glenn Kurtz
$21.95 AUD
Category: Music
In a remarkable memoir written with insight and humor, Glenn Kurtz takes us from his first lessons at the age of eight to his acceptance at the elite New England Conservatory of Music. After graduation, he attempts a solo career in Vienna but soon realizes that he has neither the ego nor the talent requ ...Show more
Verdi's Shakespeare: Men of the Theater by Garry Wills
$29.95 AUD
Category: Music
A dazzling study of the operas Verdi adapted from Shakespeare- and a spellbinding account of their creation. In "Verdi's Shakespeare, " Pulitzer Prize winner and lifelong opera devotee Garry Wills explores the writing and staging of Verdi's three triumphant Shakespearian operas: "Macbeth, Othello, " an ...Show more
Verdi and/or Wagner: Two Men, Two Worlds, Two Centuries by Peter Conrad
$49.95 AUD
Category: Music
Giuseppe Verdi and Richard Wagner, the two greatest operatic composers of their time, had everything and nothing in common. Their achievements were comparable, but their personalities, their approaches to music and drama, and their complex legacies made them incompatible. Verdi thought of art as a comfo ...Show more
The Rivered Earth by Vikram Seth
$29.95 AUD
Category: Music
"The Rivered Earth" consists of four libretti written to accompany music by Alec Roth - together with an account of the pleasures and pains of working with a composer and a musician. Entitled "Songs in Time of War", "Shared Ground", "The Traveller" and "Seven Elements", the libretti take us all over the ...Show more
Ravel by Roger Nichols
$54.95 AUD
Category: Music
A biography of Maurice Ravel (1875-1937). As well as describing the circumstances in which Ravel composed, it explores new evidence to present radical views of the composer's background and upbringing, his notorious failure in the Prix de Rome, his incisive and often combative character, his sexual pref ...Show more
Weep, Shudder, Die : A Guide to Loving Opera by Robert Levine
$39.99 AUD
Category: Music
What, really, is opera? At the turn of the 20th century - and for the previous 260 years - opera houses all over the world were filled with all classes of people; Venice had a dozen filled houses in the mid-1700s. Opera was the movie business of its day-houses were abundant, prices went from high down t ...Show more
The Rolling Stone Years by Baron Wolman
$49.95 AUD
Category: Music
Featuring the work of Baron Wolman, the first photographer to work for America's legendary "Rolling Stone" magazine, many of whose images from the late sixties and early seventies have become iconic shots from rock's most fertile era. Alongside scores of classic photos is Baron's first-hand account of t ...Show more