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  • Music and Sentiment

    by Charles Rosen ...

    S$ 16.99 SGD

  • A Short History of Opera

    by Donald Grout, Hermine Weigel Williams ...
    When first published in 1947, A Short History of Opera immediately achieved international status as a classic in the field. Now, more than five decades later, this thoroughly revised and expanded fourth edition informs and entertains opera lovers just as its predecessors have.The fourth edition incorporates new scholarship that traces the most important developments in the evolution of musical ... Read more

    S$ 74.33 SGD

  • Delphi Masterworks of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Illustrated)

    by Delphi Classics, Peter Russell ...
    Series Book 1 - Delphi Great Composers
    The world’s most famous composer, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart produced masterpieces in every musical genre of his day, having a profound influence on the course of Western music. Famed for his enchanting melodies and unique range of expression, he is the most universal of all composers. Delphi’s Great Composers Series offers concise illustrated guides to the life and works of our greatest composers. ... Read more

    S$ 4.34 SGD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Not Another Love Song

    by Julie Soto ...
    An instant USA Today bestseller! 'I'll never look at a cello quite the same way…' Jodi Picoult #1 New York Times bestseller 'Sexual tension so palpable, it'll snag you by the chin and call you a good girl' Ashley Posten, The Dead RomanticsGwen Jackson is a musical prodigy – but she fought hard for everything she now has.Xander Thorne comes from musical royalty. He’s a genius – but it all f... ... Read more

    S$ 12.20 SGD

  • Absolutely on Music

    Conversations

    by Haruki Murakami, Seiji Ozawa ...
    Translated by Jay Rubin ...
    A deeply personal, intimate conversation about music and writing between the internationally acclaimed, best-selling author and the former conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra.In Absolutely on Music, internationally Haruki Murakami sits down with his friend Seiji Ozawa, the revered former conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, for a series of conversations on their shared passion: music ... Read more

    S$ 10.24 SGD

  • Mozart

    The Reign of Love

    by Jan Swafford ...
    From the acclaimed composer and biographer Jan Swafford comes the definitive biography of one of the most lauded musical geniuses in history, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.At the earliest ages it was apparent that Wolfgang Mozart’s singular imagination was at work in every direction. He hated to be bored and hated to be idle, and through his life he responded to these threats with a repertoire of ... Read more

    S$ 19.50 SGD

  • Fryderyk Chopin

    A Life and Times

    by Dr. Alan Walker ...
    **A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice. The Sunday Times (UK) Classical Music Book of 2018 and one of The Economist’s Best Books of 2018.**“A magisterial portrait.” —**Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim, The New York Times Book ReviewA landmark biography of the Polish composer by a leading authority on Chopin and his timeBased on ten years of research and a vast cache of primary sources ... ... Read more

    S$ 22.88 SGD

  • Every Good Boy Does Fine

    A Love Story, in Music Lessons

    by Jeremy Denk ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A beautifully written, witty memoir that is also an immersive exploration of classical music—its power, its meanings, and what it can teach us about ourselves—from the MacArthur “Genius” Grant–winning pianistLONGLISTED FOR THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL • “Jeremy Denk has written a love letter to the music, and especially to the music teachers, in his life.”—Conrad Tao, ... Read more

    S$ 16.23 SGD

  • Speaking of Pianists

    by Abram Chasins ...
    The pianist, composer, music director of WOXR, contributor to the Saturday Review collects his reminiscences- and reactions stimulated by piano playing and piano music. So that his clavichord is well-tempered not only by his knowledge and feeling for its music, but also by his own association with many performers. He re-establishes Josef Hofmann as a great pianist and a greatly loved teacher; ... Read more

    S$ 5.17 SGD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Walk on the Wild Side

    by Earl Wild ...
    This is a Memoir by the distinguished American Classical Concert Pianist Earl Wild. Mr. Wild passed in January 2010 at the age of 94. He spent 30 years working on this book with Michael Rolland Davis.When Earl Wild passed, Michael completed and released the book in 2011 in a hardbound version with 900 pages and multiple photos. In 2023 this Memoir was re-edited and released as an epub version as ... Read more

    S$ 49.21 SGD

  • The Joy of Playing, the Joy of Thinking

    Conversations about Art and Performance

    by Charles Rosen, Catherine Temerson ...
    Translated by Catherine Zerner ...
    Brilliant, practical, and humorous conversations with one of the twentieth-century’s greatest musicologists on art, culture, and the physical pain of playing a difficult passage until one attains its rewards.Throughout his life, Charles Rosen combined formidable intelligence with immense skill as a concert pianist. He began studying at Juilliard at age seven and went on to inspire a generation of ... Read more

    S$ 21.79 SGD

  • CELLO NOTES

    Music and the Urgency of Time

    by Mavis Himes, Daniel Crack ...
    When Mavis Himes, a psychoanalyst with an established practice of over forty years, began to contemplate retirement, she decided to learn to play the cello.From meeting her teacher in an overcrowded café, through the demanding task of cello practice with its persistent strains and stresses on the body, Himes found a growing appreciation of music's power on her own well-being. An unfortunate ... Read more

    S$ 8.24 SGD

  • The Bach Cello Suites

    A Companion

    by Steven Isserlis ...
    A unique Companion to J S Bach's iconic Cello Suites from internationally-renowned cellist Steven Isserlis.'Isserlis is the master of the material, yet always able to make it accessible . . . It is an absolute treat to be led to this sublime music by such an ethusiastic expert.'MICHAEL PALIN'The book I've always wanted: an accessible, eloquent guide to the world's greatest - and maybe most elusive ... Read more

    S$ 13.51 SGD

  • Music Comes Out of Silence

    A Memoir

    by Andras Schiff ...
    Andras Schiff is one of the most important pianists of our time. This stimulating account of his life and work, told in two parts, takes readers on an intimate journey from Schiff's childhood in Hungary through to the present day.In conversationw with Martin Meyer, Schiff discusses a diverse range of topics from his experiences with anti-Semitism and communist rule to his musical training with ... Read more

    S$ 21.46 SGD

  • Daria Klimentova - The Agony and the Ecstasy

    by Daria Klimentova ...
    Daria Klimentová's sizzling chemistry with Russian dancer Vadim Muntagirov, who is nearly 20 years her junior, has reignited the prima ballerina's career - and marks a metamorphosis after her Black Swan-style torments depicted in BBC Four's Agony and Ecstasy, the gripping documentary series aired last year. There has been a metamorphosis since the 'old ballerina' allowed herself to be browbeaten ... Read more

    S$ 8.49 SGD

  • Mozart

    A Life

    by Peter Gay ...
    A biography of the greatest musical mind in Western historyMozart's unshakable hold on the public's consciousness can only be strengthened by historian and biographer Peter Gay's concise and deft look at the genius's life. Mozart traces the development of the man whose life was a whirlwind of achievement, and the composer who pushed every instrument to its limit and every genre of classical music ... Read more

    S$ 7.29 SGD

  • The Cello Suites

    J. S. Bach, Pablo Casals, and the Search for a Baroque Masterpiece

    by Eric Siblin ...
    An award-winning journey through Johann Sebastian Bach's six cello suites and the brilliant musician who revealed their lasting genius.One fateful evening, journalist and pop-music critic Eric Siblin attended a recital of Johann Sebastian Bach's Cello Suites—an experience that set him on an epic quest to uncover the mysterious history of the entrancing compositions and their miraculous reemergence ... Read more

    S$ 17.87 SGD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Romantic Generation

    by Charles Rosen ...
    Series Book 46 - The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures
    “A magnum opus.”—George Steiner, New Yorker“Grippingly, even excitingly, readable.”—Edward Said, London Review of BooksWhat Charles Rosen’s National Book Award–winning The Classical Style did for the music of the Classical period, this volume brilliantly does for the Romantic Era. An exhilarating exploration of the musical language, forms, and styles of the Romantic period, it captures the spirit ... Read more

    S$ 38.36 SGD

  • Serving Genius

    Carlo Maria Giulini

    by Thomas D Saler ...
    Serving Genius tells the life story of Carlo Maria Giulini, one of the most renowned and beloved conductors of the twentieth century. Detailing Giulini's extraordinary professional career, Thomas D. Saler also chronicles Giulini's personal life, including his musical awakening while growing up amid the spectacular beauty of the Dolomite mountains, his years as a student in Rome's Academy of St. ... Read more

    S$ 15.90 SGD

  • Berlioz: Romantic and Classic

    by Ernest Newman ...
    It is fairly safe to say that there is no musician about whom people differ so strongly as about Berlioz. His case is, indeed, unique. We are pretty well agreed as to the relative positions of the other men; roughly speaking, all cultivated musicians would put Wagner and Brahms and Beethoven in the first rank of composers, and Mendelssohn, Grieg, and Dvořàk in the second or third. Even in the case ... Read more

    S$ 6.87 SGD

  • Rayonnement - Tome 2

    Comme le cèdre du Liban

    by Pierre Loiret ...
    Series Book 2 - Ad Caelum
    Parler du chant grégorien, c’est parler de plus dix siècles de musique, même si le « vieux fonds » a été fixé dans les grandes lignes à la fin du VIIIe siècle dans la région de Metz (voir volume 1). Certains grands chefs-d’oeuvre gallicans demeureront, tel le répons Tenebrae factae sunt du Vendredi-Saint, interprété ici par le Deller Consort.Le rayonnement du chant grégorien se mesure par la ... Read more

    S$ 17.21 SGD

  • Travellers' Songs from England and Scotland

    by Ewan Maccoll, Peggy Seeger ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Folk Music
    Originally published in 1977. The Travellers, from those living in bow-tents and horse-drawn caravans to those dwelling in motor caravans and permanent homes, are an important source of traditional music. Their society means that songs that have died out in more settled communities are preserved among them. Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger, widely known as two of the founding singers of the British ... Read more

    S$ 66.00 SGD

  • William L. Dawson

    by Gwynne Kuhner Brown ...
    Series series American Composers
    William L. Dawson is recognized for his genre-defining choral spirituals and for his Negro Folk Symphony, a masterpiece enjoying a twenty-first-century renaissance. Gwynne Kuhner Brown’s engaging and tirelessly researched biography reintroduces a musical leader whose legacy is more important today than ever.Born in 1899, Dawson studied at the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama. He worked as a church, ... Read more

    S$ 15.90 SGD

  • La flauta mágica

    Ópera

    by Alejandra Schmidt, Carolina Durán ...
    La gran ópera de Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart es un verdadero canto al amor. A través de las ilustraciones, Tamino y Pamina, Papageno y Papagena le dan la bienvenida a los niños a una ópera llena de simbolismos. El testimonio de Christian Boesch, cantante lírico austriaco, nos enseña cómo conoció y entendió a Papageno, el personaje que ha interpretado en varias oportunidades. ... Read more

    S$ 13.98 SGD or Free with Kobo Plus