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Music & Dance
Music & Dance
Music, Dance, Theatre, actors and actresses, ballet dancers and musicians, guitar and piano playing and musical instruments. Biographies and non fiction about eveything musical.
| STEPHEN DAVIS Book Number: 86234 |
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"I contend an abiding sense of irony over all I do" wrote Jim Morrison in 1968. His famous 'Lizard King' persona was a joke, but it was a serious joke. Jim Morrison's serial evocation of the Amer...
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| VICTOR BOCKRIS Book Number: 86277 |
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Entertainment weekly said, "Blending informed biographical narrative with abundant quotes and a dishy conversational style, Bockris captures the many moods - and mood swings - of a true rock and ro...
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| TERRY TEACHOUT Book Number: 86210 |
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Edward Kennedy 'Duke' Ellington was the greatest jazz composer of the 20th century. An impenetrably enigmatic personality, no one not even his closest friends claim to understand him. The grandso...
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| JERRY LEVITAN Book Number: 86235 |
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This extraordinary book includes an audio DVD of a never-before-released interview with John Lennon. On 26th May 1969, 14 year old Jerry Levitan snuck into John and Yoko Ono's Toronto hotel room o...
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| ANNA HARWELL CELENZA Book Number: 86132 |
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Autumn 1737 and Johann Sebastian Bach encourages Count Keyserlingk to take in a talented young orphan named Johann Gottlieb Goldberg. Employed as a servant, he slips down to the music room late at ...
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| ANNA HARWELL CELENZA Book Number: 86133 |
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A companion to Bach's Goldberg Variations, this big picture book for ages eight and up tells the true story behind the creation of Beethoven's Symphony No.3, commonly known as the Eroica (Heroic) S...
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| LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN Book Number: 86183 |
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Beethoven (1770-1827) was a true giant in the history of Western music who looked beyond the boundaries of the 18th century Classical style, ushering in the Romantic movement that would grow throug...
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| LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN Book Number: 86184 |
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Beethoven (1770-1827) was a true giant in the history of Western music who looked beyond the boundaries of the 18th century Classical style, ushering in the Romantic movement that would grow throug...
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| LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN Book Number: 86185 |
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Beethoven (1770-1827) was a true giant in the history of Western music who looked beyond the boundaries of the 18th century Classical style, ushering in the Romantic movement that would grow throug...
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| ALFIE BOE Book Number: 86528 |
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Age 17 as an apprentice mechanic at the TVR factory near Blackpool, Alfie Boe entertained his colleagues by singing opera arias while he polished the cars. One day he was overheard by a client wit...
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| PAUL LENNON Book Number: 86448 |
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You don't need to be able to read music to master these chords. Presented on a spiral binding so that it lies open easily on the keyboard or music stand, here is a compact and colourful dictionary...
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| STEVE ASHWORTH Book Number: 86449 |
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The structured lessons will get you playing even if you have never touched a keyboard before and include the first steps in reading music. Work your way through each section and try out the musica...
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| DAN DELANEY & B. CHOTKOWSKI Book Number: 86605 |
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A companion to Learn to Play Piano beginners guide code 86606, this follow-up to the highly successful introductory course is for those wishing to take their piano skills to the next level. The au...
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| DAN DELANEY & B. CHOTKOWSKI Book Number: 86606 |
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Two volumes are available of these new, US imports of a much applauded and appreciated learning method. Dan Delaney promises 'I will show you how to enjoy yourself and make nice music the first ni...
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| JOHN FORDHAM Book Number: 82548 |
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The jazz paradox - why has an art that has so transformed the world's music in barely 100 years remained so marginalised compared to classical music, opera or pop? The book shines a light on the s...
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| MARK BLAKE Book Number: 86654 |
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Working as a bouncer in London's theatreland, the mountainous and moustachioed Peter Grant was a doorman at the club where Christine Keeler worked as a showgirl, and for a time he strong-armed for ...
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| CAROLINE ROCHFORD Book Number: 86698 |
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A treasury of voices from our maritime past, here are stirring tales of heroism that have been engrained in the annals of the sea since time immemorial. Christopher Columbus's discovery of the New...
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| LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN Book Number: 86725 |
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Beethoven (1770-1827) was a true giant in the history of Western music who looked beyond the boundaries of the 18th century Classical style, ushering in the Romantic movement that would grow throug...
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| DAVID YAFFE Book Number: 86631 |
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A Canadian prairie girl, a free-spirited artist, Joni Mitchell never wanted to be a pop star. So how did the blonde girl from Saskatchewan with the guitar become a superstar of folk music in the 1...
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| PETER GURALNICK Book Number: 86632 |
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Sam Phillips was the owner of the tiny record label Sun Records of Memphis who discovered Howlin' Wolf, Ike Turner, Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash and Elvis Presley among others, and revolutionised t...
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| WOODY WOODMANSEY Book Number: 86635 |
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Michael 'Woody' Woodmansey was the drummer for David Bowie's The Spiders from Mars from 1969 to 1973 on the hit albums The Man Who Sold the World, Hunky Dory, The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust an...
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| THOMAS SCHIPPERGES Book Number: 86513 |
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Specialising in music and politics in the Soviet Union, Thomas Schipperges is a Lecturer in Musicology at the University of Heidelberg. This 2003 first edition English translation is a quality pub...
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| MONICA STEEGMANN Book Number: 86515 |
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Christiane Schumann regarded her youngest son, who was born on 8th June 1810, as her 'golden boy', someone special. She was musical herself and made sure that at the age of seven he was sent to th...
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| WILL FRIEDWALD Book Number: 86481 |
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Each of the 57 albums recorded here capture the artist at a high point and individual cuts are evaluated, the sequencing explained, and the songs and songwriters heralded. Appraising each album, F...
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| RIK CRIDLAND Book Number: 85403 |
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Whistle while you work! Instead of chewing the top of your biro, yank the nib away in this smart golden biro pen and move the tube up and down, blow into the top and whistle! Like a trombone, sli...
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| TOM FLETCHER Book Number: 86822 |
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Meet an elf named Snozzletrump, a nasty piece of work called the Hunter and Brenda Payne, the meanest girl in school (possibly the world). It was a Christmas Eve none of them would ever forget. T...
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| MICHAEL RAEBURN Book Number: 87027 |
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A lavish Thames & Hudson chronology, year-by-year, which encompasses the whole history of opera. With fascinating anecdotes and quotations covering legendary performers and performances, the book ...
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| PETER CARLIN Book Number: 87175 |
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One half of the incredibly popular duo Simon and Garfunkel, here we take a bridge over troubled waters and learn all the backstage detail in a biography about one of these musicians. To sing 'Brid...
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| MITCH ABLOM Book Number: 87179 |
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A very light read with guest appearances from Hank Williams, Elvis Presley, Carole King and even KISS. Frankie Presto is one of the world's brightest stars. At just nine years old he is sent to A...
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| TERRY BURROWS Book Number: 84471 |
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On a spiral binding so it will lie flat easily, learn all the chords, finger picking and single-note techniques, Formby strumming, a flamenco touch, all about the Capo (the clamping device that cli...
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