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Brand: Lovereading
Description: The Classic FM Family Music Box Hear iconic music from the great composers. Hardback. By Tim Lihoreau, Sam Jackson.
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Merchant: LoveReading
Product ID: 9781781318072
Price: £9.00
Brand: Waterstones
Description: The Classic FM Family Music Boxis the perfect introduction to the world of classical music. Featuring beautiful hand-drawn illustrations and 8 sound-chip buttons that play short bursts of iconic pieces of music, this unique book brings to life some of the greatest composers throughout history. Readers will be introduced to the genius of legendary artists such as Mozart, Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, Elgar, Handel, Verdi, Vivaldi and Strauss, and will experience their lives, inspirations and music as never before. In addition to high-quality sound chips, a unique QR code allows access to a bespoke landing page on Classic FM's website allowing readers to listen to full versions of the music featured in the book.
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ISBN: 9781781318072
Merchant: Waterstones
Product ID: 9781781318072
Price: £18.99
Brand: Zondervan
Description: A unique guide to enhance and enrich your enjoyment of classical music, this book is for music lovers who want to better understand the works of the masters. Zondervan Music of the Great Composers, Memoirs, Paperback, Patrick Kavanaugh - shop the best deal online on thebookbug.co.uk
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Dimensions: 140x216mm
ISBN: 9780310208075
Merchant: Harper Collins
Product ID: 9780310208075
Price: £10.99
Brand: Waterstones
Description: The story of Classical Music in picture, word and sound, from Hildegard of Bingen to Saariaho. Introduces the greatest composers and lets readers hear their most famous works as they read. Shows the instruments and how they are played and combined to make music. Presents a selection of the most well-known operas, symphonies, ballets and concertos. AGES: 8 plus AUTHOR: Richard Bratby is deputy music critic at The Birmingham Post and writes regularly for Gramophone and The Spectator. He is passionate about communicating the joy of classical music to audiences of all ages. Nik Neves is a Brazilian illustrator and graphic artist whose work is widely published in editorial and advertising. SELLING POINTS: Compelling text is full of fun facts and snippets of information on the life and times of great musicians. Features an app with 100 short audio clips and 90 minutes of listening time. Listen to the music as you read. Includes a good selection of women composers & musicians. The perfect gift for young music lovers.
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ISBN: 9781912944347
Merchant: Waterstones
Product ID: 9781912944347
Price: £33.99
Brand: Waterstones
Description: The Game Music Toolbox provides readers with the tools, models, and techniques to create and expand a compositional toolbox, through a collection of 20 iconic case studies taken from different eras of game music. Discover many of the composition and production techniques behind popular music themes from games such as Cyberpunk 2077, Mario Kart 8, The Legend of Zelda, Street Fighter II, Diablo, Shadow of the Tomb Raider, The Last of Us, and many others. The Game Music Toolbox features: Exclusive interviews from industry experts Transcriptions and harmonic analyses 101 music theory introductions for beginners Career development ideas and strategies Copyright and business fundamentals An introduction to audio implementation for composers Practical takeaway tasks to equip readers with techniques for their own game music The Game Music Toolbox is crucial reading for game music composers and audio professionals of all backgrounds, as well as undergraduates looking to forge a career in the video game industry.
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ISBN: 9780367705497
Merchant: Waterstones
Product ID: 9780367705497
Price: £20.00
Brand: Waterstones
Description: This beautifully illustrated reference is a guide to the history of music, instruments of the orchestra and the most influential classical composers. All sections of the orchestra are covered: strings, woodwind and brass, percussion, keyboards and the voice, as well as historical, rare and non-Western instruments. An authoritative guide to over 100 of the most famous classic composers then follows. From Bach to Xenakis all styles of compositions from medieval times to the present day are included. The fascinating lives of the great composers are detailed, the places where they lived and worked, scenes from their ballets or operas, and examples of original scripts. This comprehensively updated new edition is illustrated with over 1000 photographs and illustrations. Waterstones Music, The Encyclopedia of - shop the best deal online on thebookbug.co.uk
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ISBN: 9780754835028
Merchant: Waterstones
Product ID: 9780754835028
Price: £16.99
Brand: Waterstones
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Description: 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 not been influenced by their predecessors. The great composers are here presented as human beings who lived and related to the real world. All of the important figures - Bach, Handel, Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Verdi, Wagner, Mahler, and many others - are included, their lives woven into a fabric rich in detail and anecdote. For this new edition, Schonberg has extended the book's coverage with informative and astute descriptions of later composers. What has not been changed is the character of the book, which remains an object of delight to all music lovers. Waterstones The Lives Of The Great Composers - shop the best deal online on thebookbug.co.uk
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ISBN: 9780349109725
Merchant: Waterstones
Product ID: 9780349109725
Price: £5.99
Brand: Waterstones
Description: Forging our identities, setting our moods and impacting our culture, any music admirer understands there's a sheer breadth of musical tastes. From the classical era to modern day, here you will discover a curation of lines from composers, musicians and writers. You will find out what music means to those who love it most, the classical musicians, composers and the music devotees around the world. Illuminating, accessible and wholly delightful, this will remind you of the might of music and the importance music holds in our lives. Whether you're looking to be inspired to play, listen or simply to explore new music, A Little Book About Music will hit all the right notes and rock your world. Sample Quotes: 'I would rather write 10,000 notes than a single letter of the alphabet.' - Ludwig Van Beethoven' Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music.' - Sergei Rachmaninoff' Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.' - Maya Angelou' If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know.' - Louis Armstrong' One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.' - Bob Marley.
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ISBN: 9781800693272
Merchant: Waterstones
Product ID: 9781800693272
Price: £25.00
Brand: Waterstones
Description: This intricate visual celebration of the world's most celebrated composers tells the fascinating stories of their lives and works. Whether you have an interest in classical music and opera or you are a music student or musician, this book would be great for you. Composers Who Changed History places well-known composers in their historical and cultural context, allowing you to see how they came to influence music. In this edition, you can find: -An overview of the lives and works of around 80 of the world's most important composers - from the Middle Ages to the present-Eight pages of brand-new content with 12 new entries, including Joseph Bologne and Margaret Bonds-Lavishly illustrated with portraits of each composer, alongside photographs of their homes and studios, and original musical scores and personal correspondence Each composer is Introduced with a realistic portrait and biographical entries which trace the friendships, loves, and rivalries that inspired and influenced them. Composers Who Changed History provides revealing insights into what drove each individual to create the musical masterpieces - symphonies, concertos and operatic scores - that changed the direction of classical music. Making the perfect gift for any classical music enthusiast or musician.
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ISBN: 9780241656815
Merchant: Waterstones
Product ID: 9780241656815
Price: £21.99
Brand: Waterstones
Description: In this classic work of music theory Adorno critiques two major composers, Arnold Schoenberg and Igor Stravinsky, who he presents as dialectically opposed to one another in terms of their musical styles, techniques and directions. Adorno's readings, especially of Schoenberg, continue to cause controversy and disagreement among musicians, music lovers and philosophers today. As always with Adorno, a wide range of social cultural, philosophical and political questions are raised in the process of his critique making the reader see the form and function of music in startling new ways. The book also covers other renowned composers including Wagner, Bach and Mozart. This is landmark work of philosophy that has shaped the way we think about music today. Waterstones Philosophy of Modern Music - shop the best deal online on thebookbug.co.uk
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ISBN: 9781474288866
Merchant: Waterstones
Product ID: 9781474288866
Price: £12.99
Brand: Waterstones
Description: In the last few decades, new technologies have brought composers and listeners to the brink of an era of limitless musical possibility. They stand before a vast ocean of creative potential, in which any sounds imaginable can be synthesised and pieced together into radical new styles and forms of music-making. But are musicians taking advantage of this potential? How could we go about creating and listening to new music, and why should we? Bringing the ideas of twentieth-century avant-garde composers Arnold Schoenberg and John Cage to their ultimate conclusion, Infinite Music proposes a system for imagining music based on its capacity for variation, redefining musical modernism and music itself in the process. It reveals the restrictive categories traditionally imposed on music-making, replaces them with a new vocabulary and offers new approaches to organising musical creativity. By detailing not just how music is composed but crucially how it's perceived, Infinite Music maps the future of music and the many paths towards it. Waterstones Infinite Music – Imagining the Next Millennium of Human Music–Making - shop the best deal online on thebookbug.co.uk
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ISBN: 9781846949241
Merchant: Waterstones
Product ID: 9781846949241