The Penguin Guide to the 1000 Finest Classical Recordings: The Must-Have CDs and DVDs by Ivan March, Edward Greenfield
45.00 NZD
Category: Music
We live in a golden age for classical music. Never before has it been possible to access such a staggering array of performances. Through downloads, CDs and DVDs, listeners can access music from the medieval period to the modern, played by groups and individuals from around the world, and recorded at an ...Show more
Guitar Family Trees: History of the World's Most Iconic Guitars by Terry Burrows
50.00 NZD
Category: Music
Guitar Family Trees is a striking visual account of the most prominent guitars in the instrument's illustrious history, from the earliest Renaissance acoustics right up to state-of-the-art 21st century models. This comprehensive book charts the history of the most respected manufacturers and the evoluti ...Show more
40 Years of Queen by Doherty Harry
60.00 NZD
Category: Music
Queen: one of the biggest bands ever. Sell-out tours, chart-topping records and stunning success for 40 years. Hundreds of millions of albums, singles and videos sold all over the world. They have broken records constantly: biggest ever paying crowd, longest number of weeks in the charts, headliners at ...Show more
Why Mahler? How One Man and Ten Symphonies Changed the World by Norman Lebrecht
30.00 NZD
Category: Music
A century after his death, Gustav Mahler is the most important composer of modern times. Displacing Beethoven as a box-office draw, heard in Hollywood films and on state occasions, his music inspires particular devotion. Some believe it helps heal emotional wounds, others find intellectual fascination i ...Show more
The Pocket Guide to Gilbert and Sullivan by Diane Canwell
40.00 NZD
Category: Music
Librettist William S. Gilbert and composer Arthur Sullivan teamed up to make some of the most memorable operettas of all time which still sell out to todays audience at opera houses and theaters around the world and at the cinema. This detailed book explores the themes around each operetta, setting them ...Show more
Music For Life by Marshall Walker
40.00 NZD
Category: Music
'From Mozart to Villa-Lobos and South African pop, Dodd brings out Walker's gift for illumination; best of all, these conversations have you searching out new-found fare as well as hearing familiar and forgotten music anew'. -- William Dart 'A wide-ranging and catholic view of the music-listening experi ...Show more
This Day in Music by Neil Cossar
42.00 NZD
Category: Music
Each page of the book presents a day in a year and lists the momentous musical events that have taken place on that day worldwide in the last 50 years - including births, deaths, marriages, number one singles, arrests, drug busts, famous gigs, awards ceremonies, trivia and much more. Also includes photo ...Show more
Ready to Fly:The Story of NZ Music by David Eggleton
15.00 NZD
30.00 (50% off)
Category: Music
Shortlistd for the 2004 Montana NZ Book Awards Lifestyle and Contemporary Culture section Ready to Fly is a survey and celebration of 50 years of New Zealand popular music. Fifty years of kiwi musicians blamming out the beat - rock 'n' roll, pop, mod, country, folk, heavy metal, soul, punk, new wave, ga ...Show more
The Gig Book : Christmas Songs
29.99 NZD
Category: Music
Perfect for guitarists, keyboard players and all other musicians. SONGS INCLUDE: - All I Want For Christmas Is You - Away In A Manger - Do You Hear What I Hear? - Fairytale Of New York - Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer - Happy Xmas (War Is Over) - Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas ... ...Show more
The Little Black Songbook of Christmas Songs
30.00 NZD
Category: Music
A fantastic pocket-sized collection of Christmas cheer. 84 Christmas songs combining traditional favourites and carols with the big Christmas pop hits by Slade, Wizzard, Bing Crosby+David Bowie, The Darkness, Phil Spector, Mariah Carey, Elvis Presley, Paul McCartney and John Lennon.
The Rough Guide to Classical Music ; An A-Z of Composers, Key Works and Top Recordings by Edited by Joe Staines
45.00 NZD
Category: Music
Now in its fifth edition, The Rough Guide to Classical Music remains the ideal handbook on the subject. Both a CD guide and who's who, it covers a thousand years of music from Georgian chant via Mozart and Schubert to contemporaries such as John Adams and Judith Weir. Contains biographies of over 200 co ...Show more