The Rest is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century by Alex Ross
41.00 NZD
Category: Music
The scandal over modern music has not died down. While modern paintings by Picasso and Pollock sell for a hundred million or more, shocking musical works from Stravinsky's Rite of Spring onward still send ripples of unease through audiences; yet the influence of modern sound can be felt everywhere. Alex ...Show more
Enchantress of Nations : Pauline Viardot - soprano, muse and lover by Michael Steen
65.00 NZD
Category: Music
This is a picturesque but painstakingly researched biography of the life - and the times - of the nineteenth century's Maria Callas. She was among 'the most brilliant dramatic stars of our time', according to Franz Liszt, and billed as 'the most talked of opera singer in Europe'. Dickens - reduced to te ...Show more
The Lives and Times of the Great Composers by Michael Steen
55.00 NZD
Category: Music
Comprehensive and meticulously researched, Lives and Times of the Great Composers is a lovingly constructed biographical history of the giants of classical music.Each self-contained chapter narrates the life and background of one or more composers.It tells the story of Bach, the respectable burgher whos ...Show more
The Cello Suites: J.S. Bach, Pablo Casals and the Search for a Baroque Masterpiece by Eric Siblin
35.00 NZD
Category: Music
The Cello Suites is an incomparable, beautifully written, true-life journey of discovery, fuelled by the transcendent power of a musical masterpiece. One autumn evening, Eric Siblin attended a recital of Johann Sebastian Bach's Cello Suites. There, in a spine-tingling moment, something unlikely happene ...Show more
10 Songs That Changed the World by June Skinner Sawyers
45.00 NZD
Category: Music
The effect that a simple song can have on the world is real and tangible. The power of words, whether sung of spoken, can change minds and can move people into action.
Together Alone : The story of the Finn brothers by Jeff Apter
20.00 NZD
Category: Music
To rattle off the hits of Neil and Tim Finn reads like a checklist of recent pop history. And to think it all began in sleepy rural Te Awamutu - a town whose name had a 'truly sacred ring', as Neil would famously recount - where Brian Timothy Finn fell in love with the Beatles, an obsession that would a ...Show more
Andre Rieu: My Music, My Life by Marjorie Rieu
45.00 NZD
Category: Music
This is the story of violinist and conductor, Andre Rieu. The CD will feature the music that he performed in his earlier years, especially the music that became turning points in his career.
1001 Songs (new edition - orange cover) by Toby Creswell
45.00 NZD
Category: Music
Tells the stories behind the best and most popular songs of the last century, revealing background facts that will fascinate and intrigue, biographical indormation on each performer, and also boasts a guide to the definitive and oddball covers of songs.
Star Guitars: 101 Guitars That Rocked the World by Dave Hunter
75.00 NZD
79.99 (6% off)
Category: Music
These are the guitars so famous that their names are often household words: B. B. King's Lucille, Eric Clapton's Blackie, Stevie Ray Vaughan's First Wife, Billy F Gibbons' Pearly Gates, Neil Young's Old Black, and many more. Here's the first ever illustrated history of the actual guitars of the stars th ...Show more
The Who - anyway anyhow anywhere by andy Niell and Matt Kent
28.00 NZD
37.99 (26% off)
Category: Music
Condition: **NEW** A dynamic day-to-day chronicle of the band. Organised by year, each chapter of the book gives an overview of the band's fortunes and presents in diary fashion exactly what the boys were doing including detailed information about concert tours, radio and television gigs, recording ...Show more
Popcorn: Fifty Years of Rock 'n' Roll Movies by Garry Mulholland
15.00 NZD
Category: Music
From Blackboard Jungle to Quadrophenia, from 8 Mile to Abba: the Movie, no one has seriously looked at the strange phenomenon that is the rock 'n' roll movie. Garry Mulholland, critically acclaimed author of This Is Uncool and Fear of Music, turns his focus away from classic records to the best, the wor ...Show more
Retromania : Pop Culture's Addiction to Its Own Past by Simon Reynolds
40.00 NZD
Category: Music
We live in a pop age gone loco for retro and crazy for commemoration. Band re-formations and reunion tours, expanded reissues of classic albums and outtake-crammed box sets, remakes and sequels, tribute albums and mash-ups ...But what happens when we run out of past? Are we heading toward a sort of cult ...Show more