The Lives Of The Great Composers: Third Edition by Harold C. Schonberg
40.00 NZD
49.99 (19% off)
Category: Music
In the new edition of this highly successful book, Harold Schonberg traces the consecutive line of composers from Monteverdi to the tonalists of the 1990s through a series of fascinating biographical chapters. Music is a continually evolving art, and there have been no geniuses, however great, who have ...Show more
The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD by Richard Cook
50.00 NZD
69.95 (28% off)
Category: Music
The world's leading guide to recorded jazz, a mine of fascinating information and a source of insightful - often wittily trenchant - criticism.
The Music Instinct: How Music Works and Why We Can't Do without it by Philip Ball
29.99 NZD
Category: Music
This is a pre-read / used book. Fair to Good condition. minor marks & foxing on pages. minor crease at spine. Why have all human cultures - today and throughout history - made music? Why does music excite such rich emotion? And how do we make sense of musical sound? These are questions that have ...Show more
Big Bangs - The story of five discoveries that changed musical history by Howard Goodall
27.95 NZD
29.99 (6% off)
Category: Music
The dramatic story of five key turning points in a thousand years of Western music - discoveries that changed the course of history. Who first invented 'Doh Re Mi...'? What do we mean by "in tune"? Looking back down the corridor of a thousand years, Howard Goodall guides us through the stories of five s ...Show more
The "Times" Opera Notes by Robert Thicknesse
30.00 NZD
Category: Music
The Times Opera Notes is witty and opinionated, to be enjoyed by both opera buffs and those who simply need to bluff themselves through a 'cultured' night out. The Times Opera Notes has full coverage of major works by, among more than thirty others, Verdi, Wagner, Mozart, Puccini, Tchaikovsky, Handel a ...Show more