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Rainbow Connection Easy Piano

By: N/A

Price: $2.00

Publisher: HL:

Seller ID: 9780793505319

ISBN: 0793505313

Binding: Pamphlet

Condition: GOOD

"A Dozen a Day Preparatory Book, Technical Exercises for Piano"

By: N/A

Price: $2.00

Publisher: Willis Music Company:

Seller ID: 9780877180241

ISBN: 0877180245

Binding: Oversize Paperback

Condition: GOOD

(Willis). The Dozen a Day books are universally recognized as one of the most remarkable technique series on the market for all ages Each book in this series contains short warm-up exercises to be played at the beginning of each practice session, providing excellent day-to-day training for the student.
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Fireside Song Book of Birds and Beasts

By: N/A

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Simon & Schuster:

Seller ID: 9780671665401

ISBN: 0671665405

Binding: Library Binding

Condition: GOOD

She Loves Me-Vocal Selections: Broadway Revival Edition

By: N/A

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Warner Bros Pubns:

Seller ID: 9780897241571

ISBN: 0897241576

Binding: Paperback

Condition: GOOD

Fiddlers in Fiction

By: N/A

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Tfh Pubns Inc:

Seller ID: 9780876666166

ISBN: 0876666160

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: GOOD

The Jazz Cadence of American Culture (Film and Culture)

By: N/A

Price: $9.75

Publisher: Columbia University Press:

Seller ID: 9780231104494

ISBN: 0231104499

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: GOOD

Taking to heart Ralph Ellison's remark that much in American life is "jazz-shaped," The Jazz Cadence of American Culture offers a wide range of eloquent statements about the influence of this art form. Robert G. O'Meally has gathered a comprehensive collection of important essays, speeches, and interviews on the impact of jazz on other arts, on politics, and on the rhythm of everyday life. Focusing mainly on American artistic expression from 1920 to 1970, O'Meally confronts a long era of political and artistic turbulence and change in which American art forms influenced one another in u...
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Rent: Vocal Selections

By: N/A

Price: $9.95

Publisher: Hal Leonard:

Seller ID: 9780793572298

ISBN: 0793572290

Binding: Oversize Paperback

Condition: GOOD

(Vocal Selections). 12 vocal selections from this Broadway smash complete with souvenir photos from the production. Songs include: Another Day * I'll Cover You * Out Tonight * Rent * Seasons of Love * What You Own * Your Eyes * and more.
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Jazz Among the Discourses

By: N/A

Price: $13.95

Publisher: Duke University Press Books:

Seller ID: 9780822315964

ISBN: 0822315963

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: GOOD

The study of jazz comes of age with this anthology. One of the first books to consider jazz outside of established critical modes, Jazz Among the Discourses brings together scholars from an array of disciplines to question and revise conventional methods of writing and thinking about jazz.
Challenging "official jazz histories," the contributors to this volume view jazz through the lenses of comparative literature; African American studies; music, film, and communication theory; English literature; American studies; history; and philosophy. With uncommon rigor and imagination, their e...
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"The Fitzwilliam Virginal Book, Vol. 2"

By: N/A

Price: $17.50

Publisher: Dover Publications:

Seller ID: 9780486210698

ISBN: 0486210693

Binding: Oversize Paperback

Condition: GOOD

The Fitzwilliam Virginal Book is "the most remarkable, and in many respects the most valuable collection of Elizabethan keyboard music," according to Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians. Of unknown origins, the previously scarce collector's item is now available at popular prices for the first time. The pieces herein, while composed for the virginal, can be played without difficulty on piano or any other keyboard instrument.
The nearly 300 airs, variations, fantasies, toccatas, pavanes, galliards, allemandes, and courantes in these two volumes include some of the fine...
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Deutsche Wiegenlieder: In Wort and Weife ausgewahlt von hans fraungruber Schrift and Bilder von R. Daenert

By: N/A

Price: $94.95

Publisher: "Vienna, Austria", Verlag Gerlach und Weidling: Undated

Seller ID: 72M001

Binding: Hardbound

Condition: NEAR FINE

"Small, square (5-7/8"") with dark blue leather spine with gilt lettering. Covers appear to be blue-green flocked paper or silk with intaglio figures in 3 rows of knights, saints, etc. with Gilt title. Interior is red musical staffs with black lettering and occasional blue and/or yellow added to illumination. Rubbed corners. 96 pages of melody and words in the style of illuminated manuscripts. Folksongs interspersed with pieces by famous composers. 5-3/4x5/78"" (15x13.8cm). Text in German."
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"Hear My Sad Story : The True Tales That Inspired Stagolee, John Henry, and Other Traditional American Folk Songs"

By: N/A

Price: $14.95

Publisher: "Ithaca, NY", Cornell University Press: 2015

Seller ID: 8-2H003

ISBN: 1501700022

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: FINE

"As new - gift quality! ""by giving equal weight to historical events and their reinvention as musical myths…creates a rich and colorful tapestry of fact and fable…provides useful and illuminating background stories for a host of important American songs…"" 293 indexed pages"
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Ten Bad Dates with De Niro: A Book of Alternative Movie Lists

By: N/A

Price: $8.95

Publisher: Overlook TP:

Seller ID: 9781585679713

ISBN: 1585679712

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: GOOD

It's been a long time since I've come across a set of lists quite so piquant and entertaining as Ten Bad Dates With De Niro.-Louis Bayard, Salon (CriticAs Pick)
What are the Top Ten movies for making cigarettes look cool? Do good films ever win the Oscar? What is film's most tragic farewell, greatest opening-credit sequence, grisliest murder, loosest screen adaptation, most gratuitous use of sex and violence? How do you make a great movie without a movie camera? And why do Robert De Niro's characters behave so badly to women? Born of the cinephile's well-known love of lists, Ten Bad Dates...
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Directors Close Up: Interviews with Directors Nominated for Best Film by the Directors Guild of America

By: N/A

Price: $14.95

Publisher: Scarecrow Press:

Seller ID: 9780810857124

ISBN: 081085712X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: GOOD

Since 1992, The Directors Guild of America has hosted annual seminars featuring its nominees for outstanding feature film directing. Since its inception, film and television director Jeremy Kagan has moderated these sessions in which the finest contemporary directors weigh in on every aspect of the filmmaking process. In this book, Kagan has culled the most insightful and entertaining responses from these acclaimed directors. From script development through pre-production to production and post-production, they offer personal insights into every step of the creative process. They also reveal t...
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"Offstage Voices: Stories from the Guthrie Theater (Volume 1, Issue 1): 1963 - 1970: Planting the Oak, April 2003"

By: N/A

Price: $24.95

Publisher: "Minneapolis, MN", Guthrie Theater: 2003

Seller ID: 8NY025

Binding: Oversize Paperback

Condition: VERY GOOD+

"Tight, bright, clean. Faint flare. 1 creased corner and light chipping to edges. ""These are the stories that Guthrie people tell each other, laughing or shaking their heads, and that audiences remember from their time in the multi-colored seats."" 41 pages, staple-bound (8.5 x 11""), illustrated throughout with color and black and white photos."
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The Larousse Encyclopedia Of Music

By: "(EDITOR), GEOFFREY HINDLEY"

Price: $10.00

Publisher: HAMLYN:

Seller ID: 9780600354918

ISBN: 0600354911

Binding: Oversize Paperback

Condition: GOOD

Genii: The Conjurors' Magazine. Volume 65. Number 5. May 2009 - Germain: The Wizard

By: "(Richard Kaufman, ed.)"

Price: $8.95

Publisher: "Washington, DC", The Genii Corporation: 2002

Seller ID: 8-0Y007

Binding: Magazine

Condition: GOOD

"READING COPY. Tight, bright, clean and square. Covers pulling loose at staples, front top corner creased, rubbed edges. Focus of articles on Germain - The Wizard (1878-1959). 92 pages full of illustrations. 8.5x10.8x.25"" (21.8x27.4x0.5cm)"
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Michael Aaron Piano Course / Lesson / Primer

By: "Aaron, Michael"

Price: $3.00

Publisher: "Alfred Publishing Co., Inc.":

Seller ID: 9780898988512

ISBN: 0898988519

Binding: Paperback

Condition: GOOD

The Michael Aaron Piano Course Lesson books have been completely re-engraved, expanded (adding more definitions of musical terms and more musical pieces), updated (with modernized artwork), and re-edited (with less emphasis on fingerings and more on note-
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Irish Music & Musicians (the Irish Heritage Series #15)

By: "Acton, Charles"

Price: $89.95

Publisher: "Dublin, Ireland", Eason & Son: c1978

Seller ID: 0DT007

ISBN: 0900346221

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: NEAR FINE

"As new except for a few faint surface creases on edges. 29 pages, staple-bound pamphlet with art-quality prints on heavy, glossy paper. Fold-over front cover is illustrated with James Christopher Timbrell's Carolan. Scholarly review of Irish music through the ages with full color illustrations."
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"Piano Lessons: Music, Love, True Adventures"

By: "Adams, Noah"

Price: $10.45

Publisher: Delacorte Press:

Seller ID: 9780385314046

ISBN: 0385314043

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: GOOD

Learning to Sing: Hearing the Music in Your Life

By: "Aiken, Clay, Glock, Allison"

Price: $10.95

Publisher: Random House:

Seller ID: 9781400063925

ISBN: 1400063922

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: very good

My mother prophesied years ago that my voice would take me places. She was certain that there was a reason I was able to sing. I am still discovering what that reason is, what it is that God wants to happen.
-CLAY AIKEN, from Learning to Sing
When he was a kid singing in his church choir, Clay Aiken never dreamed of becoming a pop music star. His ambition was to be a teacher, maybe even a high school principal. But Clay's mother was right, and the music that was Clay's joy in life was destined to lead him to unexpected triumphs.
In Learning to Sing, Clay details what his astonishing...
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