My Dearest Father by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

$3.00 NZD

Category: Music | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics 51 | Reading Level: very good

'They wanted me to give a concert; I wanted them to beg me. And so they did. I gave a concert.' A selection of personal correspondence between Mozart and his most important mentor and supporter, his father. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics ce lebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th-century California and the Russian steppe. Here are stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millions. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791). Mozart's work available in Penguin Classics is Mozart: A Life In Letters. ...Show more

Writing Around Sound Volume 2 - In Whose Tradition? by Jo Burzynska (ed.); Richard B Keys (ed.)

$10.00 NZD

Category: Music | Reading Level: very good

The Cambridge Companion to Richard Strauss by Charles Youmans

$25.00 NZD

Category: Music | Series: Cambridge Companions to Music | Reading Level: very good

Richard Strauss is a composer much loved among audiences throughout the world, both in the opera house and the concert hall. Despite this popularity, Strauss was for many years ignored by scholars, who considered his commercial success and his continued reliance on the tonal system to be liabilities. Ho wever, the past two decades have seen a resurgence of scholarly interest in the composer. This Companion surveys the results, focusing on the principal genres, the social and historical context, and topics perennially controversial over the last century. Chapters cover Strauss's immense operatic output, the electrifying modernism of his tone poems, and his ever-popular Lieder. Controversial topics are explored, including Strauss's relationship to the Third Reich and the sexual dimension of his works. Reintroducing the composer and his music in light of recent research, the volume shows Strauss's artistic personality to be richer and much more complicated than has been previously acknowledged. ...Show more

Verdi With A Vengeance - An energetic guide tio the life and complete works of the king of opera by William Berger

$12.00 NZD

Category: Music | Reading Level: very good

One Hundred Miracles - A Memoir of Music and Survival by Zuzana Ruzicková; Wendy Holden

$18.00 NZD

Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good

The remarkable memoir of Zuzana Ružicková, Holocaust survivor and world-famous harpsichordist. Zuzana Ružicková grew up in 1930s Czechoslovakia dreaming of two things: Johann Sebastian Bach and the piano. But her peaceful, melodic childhood was torn apart when, in 1939, the Nazis invaded. Uprooted from her home, transported from Auschwitz to Hamburg to Bergen-Belsen, bereaved, starved, and afflicted with crippling injuries to her musician's hands, the teenage Zuzana faced a series of devastating losses. Yet with every truck and train ride, a small slip of paper printed with her favourite piece of Bach's music became her talisman. Armed with this 'proof that beauty still existed', Zuzana's fierce bravery and passion ensured her survival of the greatest human atrocities of all time, and would continue to sustain her through the brutalities of post-war Communist rule. Harnessing her talent and dedication, and fortified by the love of her husband, the Czech composer Viktor Kalabis, Zuzana went on to become one of the twentieth century's most renowned musicians and the first harpsichordist to record the entirety of Bach's keyboard works. Zuzana's story, told here in her own words before her death in 2017, is a profound and powerful testimony of the horrors of the Holocaust, and a testament in itself to the importance of amplifying the voices of its survivors today. It is also a joyful celebration of art and resistance that defined the life of the 'first lady of the harpsichord'– a woman who spent her life being ceaselessly reborn through her music. Like the music of her beloved Bach, Zuzana's life is the story of the tragic transmuted through art into the state of the sublime. ...Show more

J S Bach - Brandenburg Concerto No 5 in D by J S Bach; Gordon Jacob (ed.)

$10.00 NZD

Category: Music | Series: Penguin Scores 29 | Reading Level: good-very good

Mozart Symphony No 41 in C - Jupiter by Mozart; F Bonavia; Gordon Jacob

$10.00 NZD

Category: Music | Series: Penguin Scores 10 | Reading Level: good-very good

Yesterday - Photographs of the Beatles by Robert Freeman

$16.00 NZD

Category: Music | Reading Level: good-very good

Don't Try This at Home by Dave Navarro; Neil Strauss

$20.00 NZD

Category: Music | Reading Level: very good

Rock guitarist Dave Nararro opens the doors to his Hollywood Hills home to share a year in his life, through six hundred photographs documenting every aspect of his wild life.

Rock 'n Roll - The Famous Lyrics by Scott Buchanan (Editor)

$12.00 NZD

Category: Music | Reading Level: good

Selected lyrics from memorable rock songs are accompanied by quotations and reminiscences that reflect the attitudes, emotions, and images of the times.

Woodstock - The Oral History by Joel Makower

$14.00 NZD

Category: Music | Reading Level: good

The definitive study of the mega-concert.--Rolling StoneWoodstock comes alive here, even if the music itself seems almost incidental to the backstage dramas. Publishers WeeklyWoodstock: the Oral History is the definitive, electrifying account of the rock festival that shook the world and defined a gener ation.In 1969 four young men had a dream: to produce the greatest rock concert ever held. Little did the group--two budding entrepreneurs who really wanted to write sitcoms, a former head shop proprietor turned rock band manager, and a record company executive who smoked hash in his office--know how enormous a reality their dream would become.Woodstock: The Oral History is the fascinating story of how it all came together--and almost fell apart--told exclusively in the voices of the men and women who made it happen. It's the adventures of a ragtag bunch of businessmen and bohemians, of hippies, hucksters, handymen, and hangers-on, working against all odds to unite a generation for one wild, glorious weekend in August 1969. These pages are replete with vibrantly expressive stories and voices, featuring a wonderfully eccentric cast of characters, from producers and performers, doctors and cops, to journalists, filmmakers, electricians, neighbors--and, of course, thousands of blessed out, rain-soaked flower children. You'll get behind-the-scenes stories from such people as David Crosby, Abbie Hoffman, Miriam Yasgur (who, along with her husband, Max, owned the land on which the festival was held), Richie Havens, Wavy Gravy, Paul Kantner, Chip Monck, and a host of others.Woodstock: The Oral History is the one truly authoritative volume--the definitive oral history of this momentous event. This special 40th anniversary edition features a new introduction by Michael Lang, one of the original producers of Woodstock, as well as updated information on the people who made the music festival happen. ...Show more

The Mojo Collection - The ultimate music companion by Jim Irvin (ed.)

$14.00 NZD

Category: Music | Reading Level: good