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  • A perfect cadence

    by Laurence Rosenthal, Daniel Lima Azevedo ...
    The Man. The Composer. Meet Laurence Rosenthal.In A Perfect Cadence, he discusses his life and career: his musical education in the 1930s and 1940s; his years studying with Nadia Boulanger in Paris; his friendship and professional relationship with Leonard Bernstein in New York; his time on Broadway and in Hollywood, working with actors and directors, from Sophia Loren and Richard Burton to George ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Listen to This

    by Alex Ross ...
    One of The Telegraph's Best Music Books 2011Alex Ross's award-winning international bestseller, The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century, has become a contemporary classic, establishing Ross as one of our most popular and acclaimed cultural historians. Listen to This, which takes its title from a beloved 2004 essay in which Ross describes his late-blooming discovery of pop music, ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD

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  • The Complete Idiot's Guide to Music History

    From Pre-Historic Africa to Classical Europe to American Popular Music

    by Michael Miller ...
    A beautifully composed journey through music history!Music history is a required course for all music students. Unfortunately, the typical music history book is dry and academic, focusing on rote memorization of important composers and works. This leads many to think that the topic is boring, but bestselling author Michael Miller proves that isn’t so. This guide makes music history interesting and ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • 1,000 Recordings to Hear Before You Die

    by Tom Moon ...
    A book of treasure, a book of discovery, a book to open your ears to new worlds of pleasure. Doing for music what Patricia Schultz—author of the phenomenal one,zero Places to See Before You Die —does for travel, Tom Moon recommends one,zero recordings guaranteed to give listeners the joy, the mystery, the revelation, and the sheer fun of great music.This is a book both broad and deep, drawing ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

  • The Life and Death of Classical Music

    Featuring the 100 Best and 20 Worst Recordings Ever Made

    by Norman Lebrecht ...
    In this compulsively readable, fascinating, and provocative guide to classical music, Norman Lebrecht, one of the world’s most widely read cultural commentators tells the story of the rise of the classical recording industry from Caruso’s first notes to the heyday of Bernstein, Glenn Gould, Callas, and von Karajan.Lebrecht compellingly demonstrates that classical recording has reached its end ... Read more

    Was $17.99 CAD Now $8.99 CAD

  • A Natural History of the Piano

    The Instrument, the Music, the Musicians--from Mozart to Modern Jazz and Everything in Between

    by Stuart Isacoff ...
    A beautifully illustrated, totally engrossing celebration of the piano, and the composers and performers who have made it their own.With honed sensitivity and unquestioned expertise, Stuart Isacoff—pianist, critic, teacher, and author of Temperament: How Music Became a Battleground for the Great Minds of Western Civilization—unfolds the ongoing history and evolution of the piano and all its myriad ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Film Music

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Kathryn Kalinak ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Film music is as old as cinema itself. Years before synchronized sound became the norm, projected moving images were shown to musical accompaniment, whether performed by a lone piano player or a hundred-piece orchestra. Today film music has become its own industry, indispensable to the marketability of movies around the world. Film Music: A Very Short Introduction is a compact, lucid, and ... Read more

    $7.19 CAD

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  • Maestros and Their Music

    The Art and Alchemy of Conducting

    by John Mauceri ...
    An exuberant, uniquely accessible, beautifully illustrated look inside the enigmatic art and craft of conducting, from a celebrated conductor whose international career has spanned half a century.John Mauceri brings a lifetime of experience to bear in an unprecedented, hugely informative, consistently entertaining exploration of his profession, rich with anecdotes from decades of working alongside ... Read more

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  • The Leonard Bernstein Letters

    by Leonard Bernstein ...
    "With their intellectual brilliance, humor and wonderful eye for detail, Leonard Bernstein's letters blow all biographies out of the water."— The Economist (2013 Book of the Year)Leonard Bernstein was a charismatic and versatile musician—a brilliant conductor who attained international superstar status, and a gifted composer of Broadway musicals ( West Side Story), symphonies ( Age of Anxiety), ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Dinner with Lenny: The Last Long Interview with Leonard Bernstein

    The Last Long Interview with Leonard Bernstein

    by Jonathan Cott ...
    Leonard Bernstein was arguably the most highly esteemed, influential, and charismatic American classical music personality of the twentieth century. Conductor, composer, pianist, writer, educator, and human rights activist, Bernstein truly led a life of Byronic intensity--passionate, risk-taking, and convention-breaking. In November 1989, just a year before his death, Bernstein invited writer ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • The Way I Was

    by Marvin Hamlisch, Gerald Gardner ...
    The EGOT-winning composer of The Way We Were and A Chorus Line recounts his remarkable life from childhood to Broadway and Hollywood.The son of Jewish Viennese immigrants, six-year-old Marvin Hamlisch's early musical talent and discipline led him to Julliard, where he studied for more than a decade. From there, Hamlisch got his start as a rehearsal pianist for Funny Girl starring Barbra Streisand. ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • George Balanchine

    The Ballet Maker

    by Robert Gottlieb ...
    Series Book 48 - Eminent Lives
    "Gottlieb captures both the divine and human, offering an elegant, sharp, and sophisticated take on the choreographer's life." —Publishers Weekly (starred review)Written by the gifted author, editor, and dance critic Robert Gottlieb, George Balanchine describes the life and art of the celebrated, revolutionary ballet choreographer and founder of The New York City Ballet.The foremost contemporary ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD