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Creator Spirit - For Unison Choir and Organ (Piano), Choral Octavo

Maker of Our Being - Anthem for 4-Part Mixed Choir and Organ, Choral Octavo

Missa Brevis No.2 - For Boys' Choir and Organ, Choral Octavo

Sing to the Lord - For 4-Part Mixed Choir and Organ, Choral Octavo

O Gracious Light (Satb) - Choral Octavo

The Great Day of the Lord - For Mixed Choir and Organ (Piano), Choral Octavo

AD Honoreum Stravinsky - Choral Octavo

Composed in 1981, to a text by Jackson Bryce after John Milton, this short work in honour of Igor Stravinsky is for Choir SATB a cappella...

"We're an Example of Trajectories and Victories" - Hip Hop, Education and Literacies of Reexistence

In this seminal study of hip-hop literacies, Black identity formation and artivism in Brazil, Dr. Ana Lúcia Silva Souza presents the dive...

Labelled with Love - A History of the World in Your Record Collection

A warm-hearted, reflective, musical odyssey through the record labels, bands and music which shaped our lives.

I Wouldn't Say It If It Wasn't True - A Memoir of Life, Music, and the Dream Syndicate

Summer 1984. I've got the back lounge of this tour bus all to myself, partly because I'm the lead singer but more likely because it means...

Chinese Émigré Composers and Divergent Modernisms - Chen Yi and Zhou Long

This Element examines the factors that drove the stylistic heterogeneity of Chen Yi and Zhou Long after the Cultural Revolution. Known as...

Growing Your Choral Program - A Practical Guide for New Directors

Thisis a practical guide for early career choral directors and music educators in search of tangible and simple solutions to problems typ...

Angela Carter and Folk Music - 'Invisible Music', Prose and the Art of Canorography

From her unique standpoint as singer-songwriter-scholar, Polly Paulusma examines the influences of Carter's 1960s folk singing, unknown u...

Listening Devices - Music Media in the Pre-Digital Era

"An overview of record technology and its direct impact on modern listening devices"--

More Than Illustrated Music - Aesthetics of Hybrid Media Between Pop, Art and Video

The genre of the video clip has been established for more than thirty years, mainly served by the sub genres of video art and music video...

Holding the Note - Profiles in Popular Music

NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • The Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and editor of The New Yorker gathers his writing on some of the essent...

BBC Proms 2024

The BBC Proms is the world's biggest and longest-running classical music festival and one of the jewels in the crown for the BBC. Held ev...

Playing the Changes - Jazz at an African University and on the Road

"Playing the Changes is a dual memoir by husband-and-wife team Darius and Catherine Brubeck, focused around their cofounding in 1983 of t...

Gimme All Your Lovin' - The Blues, Boogie, and Beard of ZZ Top's Billy F. Gibbons

Gimme All Your Lovin¿: The Blues, Boogie, and Beard of ZZ Top's Billy F. Gibbons GIMME ALL YOUR LOVIN': THE BLUES, BOOGIE, AND BEARD OF Z...

Fairouz and the Arab Diaspora - Music and Identity in the UK and Qatar

With a discography of over 1000 songs, 20 musicals and three motion pictures, the Lebanese singer and performer, Fairouz, is an artist of...

Shall We Play That One Together? - The Life and Art of Jazz Piano Legend Marian McPartland, with a New Preface

The life of the unparalleled purveyor of the Great American Songbook, Marian McPartland, is celebrated in this engrossing biography From ...

Always Different, Always the Same - Critical Essays on The Fall

The Fall were one of the most influential bands to emerge in the British post-punk scene. This groundbreaking text is a thorough and crit...

The Pastoral in Charles Griffes's Music - Aesthetic of Ambivalence

At the turn of the century, visionary composer Charles Tomlinson Griffes synthesized highly diverse elements from other musical tradition...

The Beatles in Canada - The Evolution 1964-1970 (Blue Book)

The second-entry in Piers Hemmingsen's exhaustive study of the Fab Four's presence and influence in Canada.

Romantic Vienna - Well-Loved Solos Arranged for Piano Trio, Score & Parts

Jazzed-- Classical Favourites

Boy Bands Ultimate Trivia Book - Test Your Superfan Status and Relive the Most Iconic Boy Band Moments

Packed with hundreds of trivia questions, the Boy Bands Ultimate Trivia Book will test the expertise of every superfan.

Fraught Balance - The Embodied Politics of Dabke Dance Music in Syria

"Fraught Balance positions one of Syria's beloved performance traditions, dabke, at the center of the country's political contestations a...

Great Sacred Music - A Resource Book for Mission Through Music

Offers 52 ready-to-use choral music-themed programmes for occasional celebrations in local churches, or as an alternative to evensong. Gr...

Tales from the Symphony - Perspectives from African American Musicians

This book contains conversations with over a dozen African American musicians currently performing-or who have previously performed-in Am...

Kick Out the Jams - Jibes, Barbs, Tributes, and Rallying Cries from 35 Years of Music Writing

Selected writings on three decades of music from one of the most influential critics of his generation.

Choral Treatises and Singing Societies in the Romantic Age

David Friddle explores choral methods and community choral ensembles that originated in the nineteenth century. Using more than one hundr...

Classical Vienna - Well-Loved Solos Arranged for Piano Trio, Score & Parts

Sing Romantic Music Romantically - Nineteenth-Century Choral Performance Practices

This book offers a long-overdue examination of choral performance practices in the 1800s, including expressive devices, pronunciation, in...

Bedroom Rapper - Cadence Weapon on Hip-Hop, Resistance and Surviving the Music Industry

"Tracing his roots from recording beats in his mom's attic in Edmonton to performing with some of the most recognizable names in rap and ...

Tan Ti KI Tò - Choral Octavo

O Nata Lux - For Double Choir, Choral Octavo

O Nata Lux arranged for double SSATB choir by Alexander Campkin.

Silencing the Drum - Religious Racism and Afro-Brazilian Sacred Music

Silencing the Drum explores the role of sacred music in Afro-Brazilian religious traditions and provides detailed accounts of religious i...

Listening to the Music the Machines Make - Inventing Electronic Pop 1978-1983

Listening to the Music the Machines Make is the revolutionary story of electronic pop from 1978 to 1983, a true golden age of music. This...

A Country Fit For Heroes - DIY Punk in Eighties Britain

A COUNTRY FIT FOR HEROES: DIY Punk in Eighties Britain by Ian Glasper PRIMARILY COLLECTING THE STORIES OF OVER 140 UK PUNK BANDS FROM ...

Fusion! - From Alice Coltrane to Moor Mother

The role of blended musical genres and styles across jazz, rock, pop, funk, new wave, hip-hop, techno, and grime. Defined as the coming t...

Sniffin' Glue - And Other Rock N' Roll Habits

The seminal Sniffin' Glue fanzine, collected here in its entirety, is a potent slice of 1967 / 77 punk culture. The book, which reproduce...

Echoes - A Memoir Continued

This book 'Echoes' is the continuing story of my --Will Sergeant, cofounder and guitarist of Echo and the Bunnymen-- journey in our band,...

U2 - Song by Song

U2 formed in 1976 when the drummer posted a note to the school bulletin board. Over forty years later, the band is still producing music ...

Taylor Swift - A New Era

With her deeply personal songwriting, countless hit songs, and genre-bending yet unmistakable sound, Taylor Swift has cemented her status...

Under the Ivy - The Life and Music of Kate Bush

The critically acclaimed definitive biography of Kate Bush, revised and updated for 2024, with a new foreword by Sinéad Gleeson. Detailin...

Background Music Cultures in Finnish Urban Life

This Element focuses on how music is experienced, articulated, and reclaimed in urban commercial environments. Special attention is paid ...

Music Theory for Kids (Hle Edition) - Interactive, Illustrated Guide for Kids

(General Music). Kids can learn what makes music so magical and cool with this new workbook designed just for them! Along the way, they'l...

Peekaboo - I See Miracles: Musings of Musical Memories and Alzheimer's Disease

As an entertainer in memory care communities, it is both Nurse Bob's joy and their job to seek out the triggers that bring forth social a...

The Elton John Activity Book - An Unofficial Celebration of the Rocket Man

Recognising one of the most-honoured performers of all time, The Elton John Activity Book is 2024's window into the life of a musical gre...

Listen - On Music, Sound and Us

A curious book that will change your relationship with the heard world In Listen, Michel Faber's lifelong passion for music culminates in...

Running at the edge of their world - The Suspect Device fanzine story

'Running at the edge of their world: The Suspect Device fanzine story' by Tony and Gaz Suspect is the behind-the-scenes story of one of t...

Chicago House Music - Culture and Community

An inside look at the music born, bred, and perfected in Chicago. Chicago house music originated in the city's Black, gay underground in ...

Tupac Shakur

Tupac Shakur tells the story of the short, tumultuous life of one of rap music's brightest and most controversial stars.

The Silver Snarling Trumpet

Party Lines - Dance Music and the Making of Modern Britain

A brilliantly researched new history of dance music in the UK, exploring its role in social, political and economic change.

Liturgical Music for the Revised Common Lectionary, Year C

A new edition of the comprehensive resource linking hymns and anthems to lectionary readings. The final volume in a three-volume series o...

Dreams - The A to Z of Fleetwood Mac

Sparks 1969 to 1979 On Track - Every Album, Every Song

This long-overdue book charts the career of Sparks from 1969 - 1979. Every album and every song is examined, including some which are sti...

Mozart in Italy - Coming of Age in the Land of Opera

An expertly researched and vividly written account of Mozart's formative trips to Italy, from the author of Mozart's Women and Handel in ...