The Rolling Stones All the Songs: The Story Behind Every Track by Philippe Margotin
$80.00 NZD
Category: Music | Series: All the Songs Ser.
Since 1963, The Rolling Stones have been recording and touring, selling more than 200 million records worldwide. While much is known about this iconic group, few books provide a comprehensive history of their time in the studio. In The Rolling Stones All the Songs, authors Margotin and Guesdon describe ...Show more
The Rolling Stones: On Camera, Off Guard by Mark Hayward
$60.00 NZD
Category: Music | Reading Level: good
For more than 40 years, the Rolling Stones have proved themselves as one of history's greatest rock bands. This nostalgic anthology takes a pictorial journey back to the roots of the group's rock stardom and captures a long-lost age of music industry innocence. Featuring an extensive selection of extrem ...Show more
The Rough Guide to the Best Music You've Never Heard by Nigel Williamson
$35.00 NZD
Category: Music
"The Rough Guide to the Best Music You've Never Heard" is a winning collection of amazing stories of tragic mavericks and unlucky contenders, with hundreds of lost classics and hidden gems. The guide traces the musicians that fell by the wayside from the bands that could have been The Beatles to the act ...Show more
The Science of Music: How Technology Has Shaped the Evolution of an Art Form by Andrew May
$25.00 NZD
Category: Music | Series: Hot Science Ser.
Music is shaped by the science of sound. How can music - an artform - have anything to do with science? Yet there are myriad ways in which the two are intertwined, from the basics of music theory and the design of instruments to hi-fi systems and how the brain processes music. Science writer Andrew May ...Show more
The Silent Musician: Why Conducting Matters by Mark Wigglesworth
$33.00 NZD
Category: Music
A conductor is one of classical music's most recognizable figures. Many people who have never actually been to an orchestral concert have an image of what one looks like. But rarely does such a well-known profession attract so many questions: 'Surely orchestras can play perfectly well without you? Do yo ...Show more
The Singing Neanderthals - The Origins of Music, Language, Mind and Body by Steven Mithen
$33.00 NZD
Category: Music | Reading Level: very good
A fascinating and incisive examination of our language instinct. Along with the concepts of consciousness and intelligence, our capacity for language sits right at the core of what makes us human. But while the evolutionary origins of language have provoked speculation and impassioned debate, music ...Show more
The Sound of Being Human - How Music Shapes Our Lives by Jude Rogers
$60.00 NZD
Category: Music
'Too often we treat popular music as wallpaper surrounding us as we live our lives. Jude Rogers shows the emotional and cerebral heft such music can have. It's a personal journey which becomes universal. Fascinating' Ian Rankin 'Moving and absorbing, The Sound of Being Human mixes memoir, analysis, ane ...Show more
The Sound of Pictures: Listening to the Movies, from Hitchcock to High Fidelity by Andrew Ford
$40.00 NZD
Category: Music
The Sound of Pictures is an illuminating journey through the soundtracks of more than 400 movies. How do filmmakers play with sound? And how does that affect the way we watch their films? Whether pop or classical, sweeping or sparse, soundtracks play a crucial role in how we experience cinema. Andrew Fo ...Show more
The Story of "AC/DC": Let There be Rock by Susan Masino
$50.00 NZD
Category: Music
Presents the history of the AC/DC band from their beginnings in Sydney to trail-blazing the US mainstream to the devastating death of lead singer Bon Scott in 1980.
The Story of Music by Howard Goodall
$37.00 NZD
Category: Music | Reading Level: very good
This accompanies BBC2's major new TV series and The Story of Music in 50 Pieces on Radio 3. In his dynamic tour through 40,000 years of music, from prehistoric instruments to modern-day pop, Howard Goodall leads us through the story of music as it happened, idea by idea, so that each musical innovation ...Show more
The Story of Opera by Richard Somerset-Ward
$60.00 NZD
Category: Music
Celebrates the 400-year history of opera. This book tells the stories of composers, librettists, impresarios, singers, conductors, and audiences. Illustrated with historical images and photographs, this book offers both an introduction to the general reader and fresh insights for longtime buffs.
The Tastemaker: My Life with the Legends and Geniuses of Rock Music by Tony King
$45.00 NZD
Category: Music
The Tastemaker charts the singular life of a man who has been at the beating heart of music's most iconic moments for over sixty years. 'This is a brilliant book by a brilliant man. A magician with perfect taste. Thank God I met him. He is gold dust!' ELTON JOHN Leaving school at the age of sixteen to s ...Show more